No college/univerity, but been architecting Investment Bank trading systems for the last few years - and yes, we are making money...
Pick something fun to study at university (or "major in" if you're in America), then pick something that pays well when you graduate. Don't ever expect your degree to be relevant to your job. FWIW, we routinely hire engineering/science grads over CS for both s/w development and junior trading jobs.
"Business majors" generally end up working for HR...
I'd buy this like a shot (if you could buy one at all right now, natch) if it, instead of having a wall-wart for volts, had volts over CAT5 (including volts for an amp) just like the 3com 4-port face-plate on/. last week, or the Cisco W-LAN AP's. I'd even pay $50 on top of the asking price (converted into GBP)...
That way I can just flood-wire my house with CAT5 - as every good geek should - and plug this sucker in most anywhere along with a pair of passive speakers to get sounds...
I wonder if they're going to offer it in kit form? It'd be cool to do a battery version with a W-LAN card...
The purpose is to prevent the consumer from intercepting the signal between the "set-top-box" and the TV, and doing something useful with it like making a digitally perfect copy of the material.
Ensuring payment by the consumer is a mechanism already in place - i mean, you've got the set-top-box, haven't you?
This whole thing is about politics.
And politics is all about money...
I'd love to see a real breakdown of "campaign contribution" sources on both sides of the arguement.
By denying sale in the state, they effectively circumvent the local legislators - and by encouraging out-of-state vendors to sell to people in MA they "prove" the market demands their products... very much a win-win if they can pull it off...
Not that I'm saying this would be a good thing, of course...
As a sort of related issue, we're going to see many more implementations of W2K/DC & MS-SQL, as Sybase have decided to "update" their licensing model and fuck their customers in the arse.
Originally, it was:
Is your Sybase database accessed outside your company? Yes? More money please!
Now its:
Is the data in your Sybase database accessed outside your company? Yes? More money please!
Nte the subtle difference. We've got many front end applications in a DMZ talking to Sybase in our datacentre - the users never see Sybase, nor even know where the data comes from - but now Sybsae want more money...
So our CIO has done a deal with the Great Satan of Software, and we're going to
1. Sell all our Sun kit we use for hosting Sybase
2. Buy shit-loads of cheap x86 servers
3. Have MS "consulting services" port all the DBs and integrate them with our existing applications.
Absolutely right. I was really fired up to go and buy a copy tomorrow just so I could return it - with the possibility of a _really_ entertaining loud argument with the store manager during a busy lunchtime as a bonus. Seriously - I really want to do my bit to prevent this satan-sucking abuse of our rights.
Then I read that the the UK edition is not copy-protected - just the US edition.
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Two reasons. Non-CS grads:
1. Are more used to solving real-world rather than virtual problems;
2. See the computer as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
I'd cross a bridge built by a physics grad. I wouldn't breathe on one built by a CS...
And yes, I've just realised I spelled "university" without an "s" - that 5th screwdriver was probably a mistake...
No college/univerity, but been architecting Investment Bank trading systems for the last few years - and yes, we are making money...
Pick something fun to study at university (or "major in" if you're in America), then pick something that pays well when you graduate. Don't ever expect your degree to be relevant to your job. FWIW, we routinely hire engineering/science grads over CS for both s/w development and junior trading jobs.
"Business majors" generally end up working for HR...
The majority gets what the majority wants.
That should read "everybody gets what the majority wants."
And in America (but spreading) majority==most money. Still, the good old days when majority==most armaments can be found here and there...
PoIP (power over IP) is possible - assorted kit already does it.
I'd buy this like a shot (if you could buy one at all right now, natch) if it, instead of having a wall-wart for volts, had volts over CAT5 (including volts for an amp) just like the 3com 4-port face-plate on /. last week, or the Cisco W-LAN AP's. I'd even pay $50 on top of the asking price (converted into GBP)...
That way I can just flood-wire my house with CAT5 - as every good geek should - and plug this sucker in most anywhere along with a pair of passive speakers to get sounds...
I wonder if they're going to offer it in kit form? It'd be cool to do a battery version with a W-LAN card...
Anyone who wants to use 12 drives on one (dual channel) controller card, and still get decent throughput.
80 IDE drives means 80 channels of IDE - or 40 channels of IDE and only 40 drives working at a time...
Whether "right" or "wrong", the Saudi government is free to do what it likes to it's citizens, no matter what we think.
On the other hand, contracting a publically-quoted American company to engineer the repression of a people could have some interesting consequences.
How about everyone buy a share in them, go to the next AGM and demand a vote of "no confidence" in the board for bidding for the contract?
This is not quite what it's about.
The purpose is to prevent the consumer from intercepting the signal between the "set-top-box" and the TV, and doing something useful with it like making a digitally perfect copy of the material.
Ensuring payment by the consumer is a mechanism already in place - i mean, you've got the set-top-box, haven't you?
If Disney hold on to this domain to prevent it's use for "fair comment" criticism, can we take it from them citing "bad faith"?
I think it's time for...
vivendiuniversalreallysucks.com
and maybe even
wiposucks.com
Really? Do you have a link, as it doesn't mention either in the specifications on the web site...
Given they make such a point of internet-donwloadable upgrades, why didn't they release early, and upgrade when ready?
They didn't _need_ WM* support out-of-the-box...
How can a contemporary DVD player ship without some form of 5.1 - either Dolby or DTS?
And you can't play MP3s from your network - only from the box itself...
No Tivo-like functionality either...
And for how much??? I don't think so...
Dunno who told you this, but they were talking bollocks.
We at DrKW (Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein) do not use Linux of any flavour for our database servers.
There were selling something which was like Java
Just a minot quibble, but the were not selling it, they were giving it away...
I'm not saying this was right, just pursuing accuracy...
This whole thing is about politics. And politics is all about money... I'd love to see a real breakdown of "campaign contribution" sources on both sides of the arguement.
Not "not for use" but "not for sale"...
By denying sale in the state, they effectively circumvent the local legislators - and by encouraging out-of-state vendors to sell to people in MA they "prove" the market demands their products... very much a win-win if they can pull it off...
Not that I'm saying this would be a good thing, of course...
Either has a pair, or looking to see who is good for the largest "campaign contribution"... seems like the Oracle/Sun alliance is winning for now.
I wonder how quickly MS could enforce a "this product not for sale in MA" rule on their distributors & retailers...
...and I wonder how quickly said legislators would U-turn after having irate retailers and/or citizens pester them...
These cards have TWO NICs, one that talks across the PCI bus and one physical RJ45 10/100...
I'm only go to say this once, but I could copy/paste the same response to 20 or 30 posts on here...
Except that he thinks/implies Asimov wrote "Ender's Game"...
What a dick.
As a sort of related issue, we're going to see many more implementations of W2K/DC & MS-SQL, as Sybase have decided to "update" their licensing model and fuck their customers in the arse.
Originally, it was:
Is your Sybase database accessed outside your company? Yes? More money please!
Now its:
Is the data in your Sybase database accessed outside your company? Yes? More money please!
Nte the subtle difference. We've got many front end applications in a DMZ talking to Sybase in our datacentre - the users never see Sybase, nor even know where the data comes from - but now Sybsae want more money...
So our CIO has done a deal with the Great Satan of Software, and we're going to
1. Sell all our Sun kit we use for hosting Sybase
2. Buy shit-loads of cheap x86 servers
3. Have MS "consulting services" port all the DBs and integrate them with our existing applications.
Absolutely right. I was really fired up to go and buy a copy tomorrow just so I could return it - with the possibility of a _really_ entertaining loud argument with the store manager during a busy lunchtime as a bonus. Seriously - I really want to do my bit to prevent this satan-sucking abuse of our rights.
Then I read that the the UK edition is not copy-protected - just the US edition.
So, it must really suck to be American, huh?
It just a shame that this feature has been implimented on an otherwise not particularly good device.