Anyone else hear of 'Generation Cox?' I was out in Southern California for some work and there were constant commercials for new Cox Cable technology that would transform the way people would watch tv.
It is basically a completely on demand infrastructure with customizable viewing recommendations. Someone in the industry also suggested that work is being done on moderation technology for people who wanted to join 'viewing groups,' or groups of people united by philosophical or moral similarities who wanted to cull desirable programming from all the chaff.
Sounds like a hybrid to me. Not entirely web, not entirely tv.
On a purely philosophical point... what is the use of having an international standard if the said standard changes based on the whims of a single corporation?
I get your point, and you may have a more real-world-ready opinion than some of us, but I am not ready to concede anything to MS in this regard.
There are other ways MS could address this issue rather than continuing their embrace extend destroy strategies. There is no reason IE specific tags should be required to make a page display according to an international standard.
If anything, broken pages should require tags to inform the browser that they do not conform to standards, and thus require special attention - not the other way around.
The free speech areas actually make me somewhat optimistic.
The reputation for activism that American universities received as a result of the Vietnam War has largely faded. Corporations have invaded the collegiate research department decision making process en-masse. The Federal Government has used the threat of widespread disqualification for Federal funding to coerce administrators into making certain changes (FBI record access w/o warrant springs to mind).
Top this all off with the ever increasing trend of American apathy at the ballot boxes and you have a pretty dismal picture of tomorrow's leaders.
Let's see what the leaders of tomorrow do about highly visible restrictions on their freedoms on campus. Let's see what they have to say about all this. For all we know we these measures could put us on the verge of a major revitalization of the activist spirit of the American Student.
Hell, various European nation student bodies have maintained significant political clout over the years... Why not ours?
My district moved away from C/C++ because of the scarcity of properly educated teachers.
It is easy to write horrible code in any language, but I was taught Pascal because there was a perception that it was more within the grasp of the instructors in the local employment pool.
While this point may be valid, it's not like CS degrees were assurances of any level of competence anytime in my recent memory (I've spent about 15 years in IT).
About all I can suggest is that students who are inclined to supplement their educations through their own creative pursuits will continue to surpass those who treat CS simply as a profitable skill set. If anything, simplifying CS courses will assist potential employers in identifying those who aspire to excellence in the field and those who are merely pursuing a career.
While living in the southwestern U.S. tech did nothing to physically connect me with anyone because it was too damn hard to overcome the vast distances of the region on a regular basis.
After leaving NYC in '01 I moved to New England. Up here the story is exactly the opposite. Every county up here is its own little microcosm and networking through tech has put me in touch with all sorts of people who are easily accesible.
I am fairly certain that it is not merely the geographical isolation of southwest vs northeast, but perhaps the psychological difference of growing up in these disparate environments that alters the way tech networking impacts your life.
BTW, online networking in NYC was only a fraction as effective as actually going out. You can meet any type of person in the course of a given night with only moderate social skills/social engineering abilities.
The fact that it is not a surprise is what makes it so heinous.
The initial reaction of outrage that a populace has after finding out something rotten about their gov is one of the strongest tools of a citizenry to police their representatives. See, if there is this sudden burst of emotional outcry politicians have to get all hands on deck to control the situation... not knowing how far or deep the populace is willing to pursue the issue they must fear the worst. Knowing the populace is acting on emotions causes those who want to keep their power to make wide sweeping and highly visible adjustments to the system to calm the emotional response.
Once that initial outrage is gone, the citizenry are reduced to working through channels controlled by the very people who are acting against their best interests.
A mental high-5 to anyone who can remind me of the name of the golden era sci-fi story that described a metaphysical ring of salt that prevented any human from progressing too quickly beyond his peers.
The researchers who progressed too far too fast inevitably self-destructed due to a metaphysical writhing related to passing the ring of salt.
I feel your optimism, and support this idea, but the cynical side of me must speak out.
Isn't this information more likely to be capitalized upon by those who already dominate the commercialization of research?
Yes, noobs would have enormous amounts of raw material at their disposal, but wouldn't they find applications derived from this data already covered by patents that were distilled from the data sets through analysis performed by labs full of trained corporate monkeys before they can get their own foot in the door of innovation?
I would love to awaken one day and find that I am just being a jaded fool, but I believe developments like this will help the commercialized overlords more than anyone else as they are the ones with sufficient resources to throw at privatizing the results of scientific research.
The first game that I actually cared about was FoodFight - the old BBS dial in game. The game itself sucked in retrospect, but it was the first thing that put me in touch with other young hackers. I never really cared about video games, caring more about not making typos in the code I was transcribing from the old programming mags, but comparing my scores in foodfight against the scores of other people ended up connecting me with the other humans... something pong couldn't achieve. And I second the thought left elsewhere in this thread about tabletop D&D experiences... I never fit in with those people even though I loved the concept of the game.
Privilege escalation is simple on Windows machines because it is so simple to authorize ANY process to run with increased rights. Simple precautions are not enough in any OS environment... even in the *nix world.
Here is something that was taught to me and so I will pass it on:
The best admin is not someone who has researched every eventuality and prepared for it, thus sleeping safely at night. The best admin is the one who has researched every eventuality, prepared for it, and sleeps in the rack room, wearing fatigues, is locked and loaded, and is just waiting for all hell to break loose.
If your most valuable machine is only used to play ripped dvds this advice holds little value for you... but it has helped me in securing positions administrating boxes with some more value than that.
Please remember that it is important not to lead people to false sense of security. Suggesting that any O.S. can be secured without proper counter-measure safeguards is just plain irresponsible.
Nothing you have said even begins to address the fact that there were peaceful people decimated by the indiscriminate bombs of the U.S.
I don't understand. It is like you are trying to blame all Japanese for the wrongs of the ruling coalition. If you seriously believe this BS... I don't even know.
From your posts, though, I do know that your family is either stationed at Clark or Subic... So... which is it?
If you don't know what I am talking about then you should rethink your tag that associates you with an ethnic group. There are many many people out here who care deeply about both WWII and what has followed.
Please forgive me, because you have made a very good post... but you are using only excerpts. Stimson was horribly conflicted about the bombing. Truman had serious reservations specifically related to the civilian toll. If you go to the library and find the complete documents this is what you will see.
The Japanese had exactly one stipulation for their surrender (and yes, it was a stupid fucking stipulation). They wanted only for the Emperor to remain. This is apparently the thing that caused the American politicians to refuse. We both know what happened next.
Senseless is the only word for it. Please do not read only excerpts. I have studied this issue and believe that you will find a different reality if you delve deeper.
Sure. The Japanese could have made it easier for the U.S.A. to accept their surrender, but nothing justified what happened next.
The real history is very simple. A bunch of assholes started a war.. and after it was *over* - as in the other (admittedly guilty) side was begging for terms of surrender - the winners dropped A-bombs on innocent people to set up their posture for the next war... the cold war.
There is nothing complex here. The Japs and Germans (and Italians) were wrong - Lots of people died who should not have died - the war ended - then America decided that Japanese who had never joined the army or government should die so that they could intimidate the Russians.
The war was already over. There are people still living with the reality of this horror.
I have no defense for what the assholes who thought the emperor was god did... but I know that Japan was trying desperately to negotiate surrender when Hiroshima was bombed. Your history book may not teach it, but it is true. There was no reason for what happened there, or at Nagasaki. Those bombings were among the greatest outrages of the modern age.
Yes. The American crime was worse than the Japanese crimes.
The war was over - as in *motherfucking* over. And then they dropped the bombs. Go read Truman's diary. It was made public years ago. The following words appear days before the first bombing: "Jap plea for surrender." As in they were begging. Read it for yourself.
Bullshit. Your own president admitted that Japan was 'begging' for surrender. Actually study this and you will see. Go to the fucking library. It is in your own president's diary.
This conversation is so stupid that I cannot continue it. What I have said is true and if you cannot go to the library to prove it for yourself you are too stupid to be helped.
I really don't know why we are against each other...
Or maybe you did not have family who was involved with what happened?
I don't know, but to hear a Philippine against a Japanese when I am saying that the the whole end to the WWII was senseless is absolutley insane./..?..
The whole beginning was senseless. You will please notice that I capitalized your country name.
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Anyone else hear of 'Generation Cox?' I was out in Southern California for some work and there were constant commercials for new Cox Cable technology that would transform the way people would watch tv.
It is basically a completely on demand infrastructure with customizable viewing recommendations. Someone in the industry also suggested that work is being done on moderation technology for people who wanted to join 'viewing groups,' or groups of people united by philosophical or moral similarities who wanted to cull desirable programming from all the chaff.
Sounds like a hybrid to me. Not entirely web, not entirely tv.
On a purely philosophical point... what is the use of having an international standard if the said standard changes based on the whims of a single corporation?
I get your point, and you may have a more real-world-ready opinion than some of us, but I am not ready to concede anything to MS in this regard.
There are other ways MS could address this issue rather than continuing their embrace extend destroy strategies. There is no reason IE specific tags should be required to make a page display according to an international standard.
If anything, broken pages should require tags to inform the browser that they do not conform to standards, and thus require special attention - not the other way around.
The free speech areas actually make me somewhat optimistic.
The reputation for activism that American universities received as a result of the Vietnam War has largely faded. Corporations have invaded the collegiate research department decision making process en-masse. The Federal Government has used the threat of widespread disqualification for Federal funding to coerce administrators into making certain changes (FBI record access w/o warrant springs to mind).
Top this all off with the ever increasing trend of American apathy at the ballot boxes and you have a pretty dismal picture of tomorrow's leaders.
Let's see what the leaders of tomorrow do about highly visible restrictions on their freedoms on campus. Let's see what they have to say about all this. For all we know we these measures could put us on the verge of a major revitalization of the activist spirit of the American Student.
Hell, various European nation student bodies have maintained significant political clout over the years... Why not ours?
My district moved away from C/C++ because of the scarcity of properly educated teachers.
It is easy to write horrible code in any language, but I was taught Pascal because there was a perception that it was more within the grasp of the instructors in the local employment pool.
While this point may be valid, it's not like CS degrees were assurances of any level of competence anytime in my recent memory (I've spent about 15 years in IT).
About all I can suggest is that students who are inclined to supplement their educations through their own creative pursuits will continue to surpass those who treat CS simply as a profitable skill set. If anything, simplifying CS courses will assist potential employers in identifying those who aspire to excellence in the field and those who are merely pursuing a career.
While living in the southwestern U.S. tech did nothing to physically connect me with anyone because it was too damn hard to overcome the vast distances of the region on a regular basis.
After leaving NYC in '01 I moved to New England. Up here the story is exactly the opposite. Every county up here is its own little microcosm and networking through tech has put me in touch with all sorts of people who are easily accesible.
I am fairly certain that it is not merely the geographical isolation of southwest vs northeast, but perhaps the psychological difference of growing up in these disparate environments that alters the way tech networking impacts your life.
BTW, online networking in NYC was only a fraction as effective as actually going out. You can meet any type of person in the course of a given night with only moderate social skills/social engineering abilities.
The fact that it is not a surprise is what makes it so heinous.
The initial reaction of outrage that a populace has after finding out something rotten about their gov is one of the strongest tools of a citizenry to police their representatives. See, if there is this sudden burst of emotional outcry politicians have to get all hands on deck to control the situation... not knowing how far or deep the populace is willing to pursue the issue they must fear the worst. Knowing the populace is acting on emotions causes those who want to keep their power to make wide sweeping and highly visible adjustments to the system to calm the emotional response.
Once that initial outrage is gone, the citizenry are reduced to working through channels controlled by the very people who are acting against their best interests.
Just a thought.
That's the one! Thanks... Gonna go re-read that.
Maybe not skynet...
A mental high-5 to anyone who can remind me of the name of the golden era sci-fi story that described a metaphysical ring of salt that prevented any human from progressing too quickly beyond his peers.
The researchers who progressed too far too fast inevitably self-destructed due to a metaphysical writhing related to passing the ring of salt.
I feel your optimism, and support this idea, but the cynical side of me must speak out.
Isn't this information more likely to be capitalized upon by those who already dominate the commercialization of research?
Yes, noobs would have enormous amounts of raw material at their disposal, but wouldn't they find applications derived from this data already covered by patents that were distilled from the data sets through analysis performed by labs full of trained corporate monkeys before they can get their own foot in the door of innovation?
I would love to awaken one day and find that I am just being a jaded fool, but I believe developments like this will help the commercialized overlords more than anyone else as they are the ones with sufficient resources to throw at privatizing the results of scientific research.
The first game that I actually cared about was FoodFight - the old BBS dial in game. The game itself sucked in retrospect, but it was the first thing that put me in touch with other young hackers. I never really cared about video games, caring more about not making typos in the code I was transcribing from the old programming mags, but comparing my scores in foodfight against the scores of other people ended up connecting me with the other humans... something pong couldn't achieve. And I second the thought left elsewhere in this thread about tabletop D&D experiences... I never fit in with those people even though I loved the concept of the game.
Privilege escalation is simple on Windows machines because it is so simple to authorize ANY process to run with increased rights. Simple precautions are not enough in any OS environment... even in the *nix world.
Here is something that was taught to me and so I will pass it on:
The best admin is not someone who has researched every eventuality and prepared for it, thus sleeping safely at night. The best admin is the one who has researched every eventuality, prepared for it, and sleeps in the rack room, wearing fatigues, is locked and loaded, and is just waiting for all hell to break loose.
If your most valuable machine is only used to play ripped dvds this advice holds little value for you... but it has helped me in securing positions administrating boxes with some more value than that.
Please remember that it is important not to lead people to false sense of security. Suggesting that any O.S. can be secured without proper counter-measure safeguards is just plain irresponsible.
And one step further, flying in with the star at his back is using a technique of outlaws... there is a reason legit gunfights were held at high noon.
Nothing you have said even begins to address the fact that there were peaceful people decimated by the indiscriminate bombs of the U.S.
I don't understand. It is like you are trying to blame all Japanese for the wrongs of the ruling coalition. If you seriously believe this BS... I don't even know.
From your posts, though, I do know that your family is either stationed at Clark or Subic... So... which is it?
If you don't know what I am talking about then you should rethink your tag that associates you with an ethnic group. There are many many people out here who care deeply about both WWII and what has followed.
Please forgive me, because you have made a very good post... but you are using only excerpts. Stimson was horribly conflicted about the bombing. Truman had serious reservations specifically related to the civilian toll. If you go to the library and find the complete documents this is what you will see.
The Japanese had exactly one stipulation for their surrender (and yes, it was a stupid fucking stipulation). They wanted only for the Emperor to remain. This is apparently the thing that caused the American politicians to refuse. We both know what happened next.
Senseless is the only word for it. Please do not read only excerpts. I have studied this issue and believe that you will find a different reality if you delve deeper.
Sure. The Japanese could have made it easier for the U.S.A. to accept their surrender, but nothing justified what happened next.
The real history is very simple. A bunch of assholes started a war.. and after it was *over* - as in the other (admittedly guilty) side was begging for terms of surrender - the winners dropped A-bombs on innocent people to set up their posture for the next war... the cold war.
There is nothing complex here. The Japs and Germans (and Italians) were wrong - Lots of people died who should not have died - the war ended - then America decided that Japanese who had never joined the army or government should die so that they could intimidate the Russians.
The war was already over. There are people still living with the reality of this horror.
The funniest thing is that you just challenged a professed pacifist.
I'm just saying.
That's funny.
Challenging a guy who is pissed about civilian casualties... civilians who didn't want to fight.
That's just... uh... funny.
I have no defense for what the assholes who thought the emperor was god did... but I know that Japan was trying desperately to negotiate surrender when Hiroshima was bombed. Your history book may not teach it, but it is true. There was no reason for what happened there, or at Nagasaki. Those bombings were among the greatest outrages of the modern age. Yes. The American crime was worse than the Japanese crimes. The war was over - as in *motherfucking* over. And then they dropped the bombs. Go read Truman's diary. It was made public years ago. The following words appear days before the first bombing: "Jap plea for surrender." As in they were begging. Read it for yourself.
Killing civilians indiscriminately will never be right. Never.
I strongly suggest that before you post again you forget what history books have taught you. It is sad. Really, very sad.
Signed. Buddhist in Vermont.
Bullshit. Your own president admitted that Japan was 'begging' for surrender. Actually study this and you will see. Go to the fucking library. It is in your own president's diary.
This conversation is so stupid that I cannot continue it. What I have said is true and if you cannot go to the library to prove it for yourself you are too stupid to be helped.
Heh... shh... real secret thing here... My family was Buddhist.
Yeah, I know... who ever heard of Japs being Buddhists and believing in peace?
Crazy idea, right? Nuke dropped on their head?! They must have been as guilty as poor people in America of dragging their country down.
I really don't know why we are against each other...
Or maybe you did not have family who was involved with what happened?
I don't know, but to hear a Philippine against a Japanese when I am saying that the the whole end to the WWII was senseless is absolutley insane./..?..
The whole beginning was senseless. You will please notice that I capitalized your country name.
oddly enough... oh.. never mind!
And you know what... This should be common knowledge.
So I have already posted this once, but here it is once again. FUCK YOU. Seriously. The USA kills cities full of civilians and no one is crying foul?
Fuck You. Your own candidates were crying over this.