It's interesting what they're shoving in cameras these days. Sony's also getting ready to release a digital camcorder that also takes and prints still photos via a built in dye-sub printer. Pretty nifty if you ask me. How about a camera with some sort of wireless internet access? It'd be pretty nifty to have any pictures you take automatically uploaded to a website somewhere, or at least sent to a nice big chunk of storage back home.
Wow, so once I get this, will I be able to crank my monitor resolution up to 15000 x 12000 and still read the text? Ahhhh......imagine the desktop space.
Despite the masses of unintelligeble record keeping, and seemingly random undecipherable storage methods, the data is still stolen. Once again proving that security by obscurity does not work. I'm not really sure throwing all the nuclear secrets out in the open would be anywhere near a better solution in this case though;)
Have you ever put your hand over the top of an imac, That thing releases a ton of energy. Apple should start shipping them with generators built on top, and it'll be a self powering computer. Or maybe not, but the imacs are overdue for a product refresh anyways, and I'm just trying to help
After two years in college, I'm pretty convinced that my school is basically a business, more interested in screwing me out of as much money as possible, and educating me second. Now, most of the teachers I have are actually genuinely interested in my education, despite the fact that they're underpaid and run by incompetent administration that will do anything to squeeze another dollar out of me.
Tulane University, where I go, is located in the middle of new orleans, so the campus is pretty pressed for space. One of the results of this is that there's only room for one book store on the entire campus. This book store has a pretty significant monopoly on the books and supplies that I need to go through my classes. (The online bookstores help some, but I go through a lot of other supplies, and don't have time to wait for shipping.) The markup in this bookstore ranges from suprising, to extremely upsetting. But more than I'm upset at the bookstore for this, I'm even more angry with Tulane for allowing its students to get screwed over like this. The same thing goes with the absurdly priced meal plan, which all freshmen are required to have, the $75 charge if you misplace your room key and have to borrow a loaner (3 times and they recore your door and send you a bill, even if you find your key and show it to them).
It's pretty sucky how the school treats us more like customers, and less like students. The fact that a school would bend at the will of coporation like intel doesn't suprise me in the least.
About the only worthwhile insight in that silly little essay is that Mac OS X for Intel might be viable. Though unless Apple starts selling Intel hardware themselves, it's not likely to see the light of day, since Apple appears to be focused on making its money from hardware, not software: note the low price points for MacOS, AppleShare IP Server and now WebObjects. Netting $25 per copy for the sale of a boxed MacOS is a drop in the bucket once you factor in the cost of providing support.
Yeah...there's no gold in OS sales. Microsoft didn't make anywhere close to a majority of their money directly from selling windows. The real OS profit comes from leverging the monopoly you've formed to push along your other software while simultaneously crushing your competition with unfair practices.
Regardless of how the microsoft split works out, or how great OS X is, Apple won't ever have that kind of monopoly. Neither will linux. The only monopoly we have to look forwards to is Windows, and probably for quite a while too.
But you pay for the closed software, often an extremely large amount of money. Why shouldn't some liability be involved in that? You can't expect too much liability for a product that you didn't pay for, and which isn't even made by a single entity.
Although, imagine if it were different, and say, legally, microsoft was accountable for the reliability and stability of their software. Either they'd have been sued out of existance long ago because the consumer would have the power to stand up to the crap MS dishes out; or Microsoft would have to make significantly better software. If that were the case, I'd imagine OSS alternatives like linux would not be anywhere near gaining acceptance and corporate market share like they are, because until recently, the companies selling it really didn't have any financial resources to support liability, and the ones that did ipo wouldn't have gotten the boost that they got. I think in an odd sort of way, the big closed companies' practice of removing liability is actually leveling the playing field a little for alternate OS'.
on a just barely related note, a doctor recently bugged me about how I never wear sunglasses, when you always should outside, due to how bad the sun is for your eyes. It got me to wondering why 3 or so billion years of evolution didn't result in eyes that are better protected from the sun. Perhaps the sun is something newer than we thought and we just haven't adapted yet?
Umm...one of the main reasons NASA spends lots of money throwing stuff into outer space is to further the pursuit of science. I'd imagine quite a few "nerds" (I dunno, even when happily self afflicted, that word still seems to carry a negative annotation to me. Geek is ok though.) find space exploration, and most anything pertaining to it rather interesting. If nothing else, it has provoked some fairly interesting discussion in the threads. Stop whining.
I'm pretty sure they have a piece that survived reentry on display somewhere. I think I remembevr seeing it. Maybe in the Air and Space museum in DC. if I remember correctly, it looked sort of like a mutilated bale of hay. That doesn't really make sense, but it's what comes to mind.
Aw, don't be naive. You don't make money in the software industry by writing bug free software. You make it by shipping product as soon as possible. That's why you use fresh out of school workers, they haven't realized what a piece of crap their company is having them create, so they happily crank out code, without complaining
As for hiring people your age, I think more important than the skills would be the more vague social aspects that a job requires. I can't speak for you personally of course, but I'm only 20, and I'm sure I wouldn't want to work with most 15 year olds, not because they wouldn't know how to do their job, but because they're usually not socially/mentally at a level where they can work under the stresses and such of a fulltime serioius job. There are also those child labor laws which would conflict pretty harshly with the hours a lot of computer people have to put in.
And hey, you're 15, don't get a job, you've got your whole life to work.
I don't think they mean highways as in, hey wow, look how many lanes this road has, but more as the infrustructure that have been built with them. For all the high speed delivery services and jets that we've got now, the majority of the stuff you can buy in a store has been moved by people driving big trucks over the extensive networks of highways that crisscross developed countries. Without them, our econonmies couldn't function anywhere near as efficently as they do now.
It's easy enough to ignore here, but where this sorta thing has happened and gotten really annoying is in dvd's. I got a nice new powerbook with dvd, and naturally had to spend even more money on some movies. My collectors edition of The Sixth Sense contains like 8 previews between the FBI warning and the actual movie that I can't seem to skip over. Even when fast forwarding through it at 8x I still haveta wait a few minutes, and be subjected to that Mission to Mars travesty yet again. When these ads start changing to stuff not even a little movie related, then I'm gonna get really upset.
Well, I guess I'm giving them the benifit of the doubt, and considering that the illegal use of the code was a mistake. That might be a little naive, but it's not fair to assume they're lying without concrete evidence, which I personally don't have.
If truth surfaces showing that they definately did this intentionally in an attempt to profit off of other's work unfairly, or they get caught doing it again, or don't fix this mistake, yeah, bring the axe down on them.
If it was an honest mistake, and they promptly fix it like they said they will, then suing them and wasting everyone's money in the courts seems a little childish.
Yeah, but who would buy a binary open version of linux. Wouldn't that sort of take away one of linux's biggest advantages?
There's a big difference between doing what you suggest and copying a few lines for a driver and promising to fix it in a couple weeks when the problem is pointed out.
Yeah, what they did was wrong. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn't, either way, handling it with polite and productive discussion is definately the best way.
There needs to be a distinction made between America, and Americans. The average run of the mill american doesn't want this site shut down. The average american doesn't care. America, however, is not run by the average american, nor by people who truely represent the average american. If this site gets shut down, it will be because of the big corporations who have far more control over the government than they should.
Now who's fault is it that the government is influenced so completely by the government? It would seem to fall onto the average american, but that's not really fair, because, quite honestly, the average american isn't smart enough to have seen this Corporatism coming. As wealthy and well off as this country likes to present itself, the majority of its population is too busy working hard to make a living to worry about their culture's influence on other countries.
The ones who have all the wealth have gotten it because of this culture and corporatism, and for the most part are quite happy with it, as long as it keeps the excessive paychecks flowing.
Yeah, it's a lack of global morals and ethics, yeah it's not fair, yeah, it's a bad thing. I don't like it, and I'm not defending it. But when you say you're angry at a lot of Americans, i'm curious as to who exactly it is.
I think that "jounalism", as it exists in our culture (at least in the US), isn't really all that much closer to the ideals of journalism as I imagine you're seeing them.
Almost all of the media we're exposed to nowadays is in a pretty sorry state. At least/. is running its corrections up on the front page, where everyone can see them, instead of in a tiny little box tucked away behind more interesting, yet often not as important stuff.
Slashdot is a new kind of journalism, maybe it's better, maybe it isn't. Maybe it fits your definition of professionalism, maybe it doesn't. Either way, seeing them make an effort to correct mistakes is a good thing.
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It's interesting what they're shoving in cameras these days. Sony's also getting ready to release a digital camcorder that also takes and prints still photos via a built in dye-sub printer. Pretty nifty if you ask me. How about a camera with some sort of wireless internet access? It'd be pretty nifty to have any pictures you take automatically uploaded to a website somewhere, or at least sent to a nice big chunk of storage back home.
I could lego brick up my door and windows, and then complete my computer induced isolation.
Wow, so once I get this, will I be able to crank my monitor resolution up to 15000 x 12000 and still read the text? Ahhhh......imagine the desktop space.
Despite the masses of unintelligeble record keeping, and seemingly random undecipherable storage methods, the data is still stolen. Once again proving that security by obscurity does not work. I'm not really sure throwing all the nuclear secrets out in the open would be anywhere near a better solution in this case though ;)
Have you ever put your hand over the top of an imac, That thing releases a ton of energy. Apple should start shipping them with generators built on top, and it'll be a self powering computer. Or maybe not, but the imacs are overdue for a product refresh anyways, and I'm just trying to help
Tulane University, where I go, is located in the middle of new orleans, so the campus is pretty pressed for space. One of the results of this is that there's only room for one book store on the entire campus. This book store has a pretty significant monopoly on the books and supplies that I need to go through my classes. (The online bookstores help some, but I go through a lot of other supplies, and don't have time to wait for shipping.) The markup in this bookstore ranges from suprising, to extremely upsetting. But more than I'm upset at the bookstore for this, I'm even more angry with Tulane for allowing its students to get screwed over like this. The same thing goes with the absurdly priced meal plan, which all freshmen are required to have, the $75 charge if you misplace your room key and have to borrow a loaner (3 times and they recore your door and send you a bill, even if you find your key and show it to them).
It's pretty sucky how the school treats us more like customers, and less like students. The fact that a school would bend at the will of coporation like intel doesn't suprise me in the least.
Yeah...there's no gold in OS sales. Microsoft didn't make anywhere close to a majority of their money directly from selling windows. The real OS profit comes from leverging the monopoly you've formed to push along your other software while simultaneously crushing your competition with unfair practices.
Regardless of how the microsoft split works out, or how great OS X is, Apple won't ever have that kind of monopoly. Neither will linux. The only monopoly we have to look forwards to is Windows, and probably for quite a while too.
Although, imagine if it were different, and say, legally, microsoft was accountable for the reliability and stability of their software. Either they'd have been sued out of existance long ago because the consumer would have the power to stand up to the crap MS dishes out; or Microsoft would have to make significantly better software. If that were the case, I'd imagine OSS alternatives like linux would not be anywhere near gaining acceptance and corporate market share like they are, because until recently, the companies selling it really didn't have any financial resources to support liability, and the ones that did ipo wouldn't have gotten the boost that they got. I think in an odd sort of way, the big closed companies' practice of removing liability is actually leveling the playing field a little for alternate OS'.
on a just barely related note, a doctor recently bugged me about how I never wear sunglasses, when you always should outside, due to how bad the sun is for your eyes. It got me to wondering why 3 or so billion years of evolution didn't result in eyes that are better protected from the sun. Perhaps the sun is something newer than we thought and we just haven't adapted yet?
Umm...one of the main reasons NASA spends lots of money throwing stuff into outer space is to further the pursuit of science. I'd imagine quite a few "nerds" (I dunno, even when happily self afflicted, that word still seems to carry a negative annotation to me. Geek is ok though.) find space exploration, and most anything pertaining to it rather interesting. If nothing else, it has provoked some fairly interesting discussion in the threads. Stop whining.
I'm pretty sure they have a piece that survived reentry on display somewhere. I think I remembevr seeing it. Maybe in the Air and Space museum in DC. if I remember correctly, it looked sort of like a mutilated bale of hay. That doesn't really make sense, but it's what comes to mind.
Aw, don't be naive. You don't make money in the software industry by writing bug free software. You make it by shipping product as soon as possible. That's why you use fresh out of school workers, they haven't realized what a piece of crap their company is having them create, so they happily crank out code, without complaining
And hey, you're 15, don't get a job, you've got your whole life to work.
At least you don't become obsolete as fast as the hardware you work on. Now that would be scary.
after some of the crap MOSR has said before, I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed the new machines were capable of flight ;)
It's official...that's the dumbest forced acronym name I've ever seen in my life.
That animation was the most boring space movie I've ever seen. At least Starship troopers had guns and stuff.
*sigh* isn't that depressing...
I don't think they mean highways as in, hey wow, look how many lanes this road has, but more as the infrustructure that have been built with them. For all the high speed delivery services and jets that we've got now, the majority of the stuff you can buy in a store has been moved by people driving big trucks over the extensive networks of highways that crisscross developed countries. Without them, our econonmies couldn't function anywhere near as efficently as they do now.
It's easy enough to ignore here, but where this sorta thing has happened and gotten really annoying is in dvd's. I got a nice new powerbook with dvd, and naturally had to spend even more money on some movies. My collectors edition of The Sixth Sense contains like 8 previews between the FBI warning and the actual movie that I can't seem to skip over. Even when fast forwarding through it at 8x I still haveta wait a few minutes, and be subjected to that Mission to Mars travesty yet again. When these ads start changing to stuff not even a little movie related, then I'm gonna get really upset.
If truth surfaces showing that they definately did this intentionally in an attempt to profit off of other's work unfairly, or they get caught doing it again, or don't fix this mistake, yeah, bring the axe down on them.
If it was an honest mistake, and they promptly fix it like they said they will, then suing them and wasting everyone's money in the courts seems a little childish.
There's a big difference between doing what you suggest and copying a few lines for a driver and promising to fix it in a couple weeks when the problem is pointed out.
Yeah, what they did was wrong. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn't, either way, handling it with polite and productive discussion is definately the best way.
Now who's fault is it that the government is influenced so completely by the government? It would seem to fall onto the average american, but that's not really fair, because, quite honestly, the average american isn't smart enough to have seen this Corporatism coming. As wealthy and well off as this country likes to present itself, the majority of its population is too busy working hard to make a living to worry about their culture's influence on other countries.
The ones who have all the wealth have gotten it because of this culture and corporatism, and for the most part are quite happy with it, as long as it keeps the excessive paychecks flowing.
Yeah, it's a lack of global morals and ethics, yeah it's not fair, yeah, it's a bad thing. I don't like it, and I'm not defending it. But when you say you're angry at a lot of Americans, i'm curious as to who exactly it is.
It worked for me...just took a little time.
Almost all of the media we're exposed to nowadays is in a pretty sorry state. At least /. is running its corrections up on the front page, where everyone can see them, instead of in a tiny little box tucked away behind more interesting, yet often not as important stuff.
Slashdot is a new kind of journalism, maybe it's better, maybe it isn't. Maybe it fits your definition of professionalism, maybe it doesn't. Either way, seeing them make an effort to correct mistakes is a good thing.