You're supposed to come out with the slow chipset first, let people get used to that. Then come out with a fast mobo so that people feel like they're getting more for their money by getting the "super" mobo.
Instead now the fast mobo is the norm, and pushing people into the mindset of paying less for the "wimpy" mobo.
I believe when they mention semi that they're talking about the actual truck section, without the trailer. It is a semi, half truck, half trailer. But then I could be wrong.
It happened to me. When I was in the 2nd grade, and Castlevania 2: Simon's Revenge (I believe) came out, I had memorized the code to put you at the very end, with all items. OYZYUQAU R12SSMIA
How the hell can anyone remember that? I don't know. That was 13 years ago, and I still know it by heart, it's kinda scary. But one good thing, it's a great code to use for passwords. Something that no one could ever guess, but you know by heart.
Donna Unterreiner, a library media specialist for the Margaret Buerkle Junior High School in St. Louis, said that the ZapMe lab had been "a godsend for us," since the school district had not been able to pass bond issues that would have otherwise paid for Internet access. The advertising, she said, did not bother her or her students. "Can you turn on a computer anywhere, and they don't have ads on them?" she asked.
I can not believe this. Now the whole computer industry is so tainted and jaded in the eyes of everyday people that they see no problem in advertisements all over their machine. Since when does using a computer entitle you to having to watch dozens of ads sucking up your bandwidth. But it's now a common conception in our minds that that is what has to happen. If we want a computer, we get ads. If we want internet, we have to watch ads on every page. If we want to play games, we have to watch ads.
But there are many places still like that, and not just in the South. Even here, outside Baltimore/Washington DC, things are so dumbed down. When people get around to talking about politics and the election, it's not about issues, it's not about what each candidate wants to do to our government, it's all about how one looks better than the other, one talks more clearly, this one is rude, that one is annoying, and God forbid that the debates cut into 'Who wants to be a millionaire', or else we'll have a revolt on our hands.
Without the internet, people end up being hillbillies in their own right. They entertain themselves with common activities, that everyone else in the area enjoys, and hold themselves happy with just that. About the only time they sit and ponder is the 10 minutes they read the morning paper, or when Li'l Susie needs help on her US History homework.
Everyone at work talks about the big game, or this teams defense/offense, and that fills up the lunch hour/breaks. But what about then the paper prints about how taxes are rising? Some people just sit at the table, and grumble to themselves, or with their spouse (who just nods and agrees). They can't discuss it at work, cause then they'd be looked down on for being a 'nerd'. They don't experience the fun of finding a website or discussion where they can find other people to discuss the issue with, and maybe learn both sides of the issue, broadening their awareness.
But, alas, too many people will just sit in closemindedness, scoff at foreigners and their cultures, and make fun of anyone that they perceive to have an education or understanding.
Why? Because I met my wife on the internet. That has always been a big issue amongst my family. They're all small-town people, farm workers, with no use for a computer, and here their family member got swept up and married to someone he didn't even know. NOT!
The internet supplements your life. It allowed me to find friends that weren't just about drinking, smoking, and football. It allowed me to spend my days hanging with the guys, then go home in the evening and have meaningful discussions about topics that I enjoy.
And that's how I met my wife, as a friend on irc. Then we just decided to meet (2 hours apart), as friends, after talking for over a year. Then we continued meeting as friends every weekend til we began meeting as a couple. Then a year after that, we got married.
Just because a majority of my friends that I enjoy are on the internet doesn't mean that I shut out everyone around me (which my family now believes). They just can't understand that when I go to family reunions, I don't want to talk about deer hunting, or college football, or how Michelle drove the tractor for the first time. I want to talk about life, psychology, why we do the things we do, where we are all going, and how to root a solaris box.
Too many lazy moderators, etc. Once a post is up to Score 5, everyone will go home, and read the next story, ignoring the 200+ other submissions. My vote that the sid #4 post will win, just because it's so high on the list.:)
I intend to patent the process by which any aerobic living organism, possessing a willful soul, is purposely transposed from the state of functionality to an inanimate state, by that organisms soleful wish and execution, or suicide in layman's terms. Any animate being that that sucessfully executes a plan of events that forfeits that being's life shall relinquish their entire estate of assets, body, and soul to my corporation.
Such steps include:
* Any use of firearms, legal or illegal
* Any use of a motor vehicle, regardless of subject being inside or outside the vehicle
* Any use of medicinal aids or controlled substances, especially in combination with alcohol
* Any use of legal goods that are socially acceptable, but still cause bodily harm
* Any use of personal sexual items upon any cavity found on the subject's being
* Any use of computer hardware being bashed over the subject's head or posterior
* Any use of farm animals falling from the top of large (being at least 20' high) barns onto the subject's head or posterior
* Any use of the combination of duct tape, vodka, and pressurized air on the subject's anal cavity
* Any use of an elderly (being of at least 50 years of age) person as a weapon in club-like fashion
* Any other uses not covered herewithin would still forfeit your posessions to my corporation
The company uses all Microsoft applications. I used to work at the above company that hosts nasdaq/amex/nasdaq-amex/americanstocks/etc... Financial Insight Systems. They were a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider, and trying hard to become an MS Partner. Nasdaq had a good dozen-plus IIS Webservers, and we were discouraged from using anything BUT Microsoft software, because of the company's position with MS.
Had it not been for the fact that we were trying so hard to become an MS Partner (by getting all employees certified at least to MCP, and getting sponsors), maybe there would have been some choice as to what software to install on what boxes. But there wasn't, so it was Microsoft all the way.
Right before I left the company, they had just hired on a security specialist, at an exhorbant salary, who had no clue how to install NT, or how to install patches. But the fact that the IT team was less than 10 people, we were all overworked, and any extra person was a working person. That plus the fact that the company hired many low-salary low-experience techies to replace high-salary high-experience techies didn't help, but that is too much of a common business practice now to complain.
The two guys in charge of the servers, getting the big bucks, were being worked to the bone, and I admire them for that. But there's only so far you can go before the IT staff has no say in the matter, and the company pushes them into roll-outs and upgrades that are beyond common sense. Then you end up with a lot of burn-outs, stuck in a job they hate, but have some unknown loyalty to.
I can't see how Microsoft is a monopoly. There are plenty of other operating systems, word processors, e-mail programs. Hell, they don't even have an instant messenger monopoly!
First of all, it is a monopoly. Everyone knows that, everyone knew it, and everyone's fine with it. You're allowed to have monopolies in this country. The law allows it. What the law doesn't allow for (which the entire case is about, if you were following along?) is using your monopoly in one field to create a monopoly in another field. In Microsoft's case, they were using their Operating System monopoly (which is fine and good) to create a web browser monopoly.
Now, if they created a web browser monopoly through fair business practices, there would be no problem. If they just bided their time, and let Netscape vs. IE war on, until one was the winner, that'd be no problem. But once you start pushing your product to people, and not give them a choice, is when the DOJ steps in, and we have what we had here today (which is the way He wants it... and well, He gets it!)
Well, that's what he says:) For now at least, but I think that they do have an alterior motive. But you are right, they should be pushed underwater for crap like this.
If all you want to track is whether a Cat came from Forbes/Wired/RadioShaft then you don't need a unique ID for each Cat. A simple (Forbes = 1 : Wired = 2 : RS = 3) ID is all that is necessary. All Forbes users would have an ID of 1, etc., and now there are no privacy concerns.
I don't think so. Yes, that would tell them which distributor that the user received theirs from, but nothing more. It doesn't tell them how many total users are using their CueCats. If 300k units were sent through Wired, how would they know who kept them, and who threw them away?
They would see, on their side, that 40k scans with Wired CueCats were made today. Is that 40k people, or one person scanning 40k items?
After the day-long error of the itolympics.org link, I place a bet of $10 that the IBM->Cisco won't be fixed before noon EST. Another $5 that it won't be fixed by 5PM!
Oh geez, come on Slashdot
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IT Olympics
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It's been nearly an hour and the wrong url is still being displayed on the article. Do the editors just post a story and walk away, forgetting it was even there. Does any member of Slashdot even read the page anymore, or the comments? At least they got the url right on the submitter's email, just not the web page.
Is this the same? I've noticed that when I connect up, and go to the first site, it'll go to microsoft.com, check to see if I have the latest version of IE, then go to the site designated.
What is it with this new fad? The Real World was interesting, at least the first two seasons. After that, everyone became used to it, and the novelty wore off, no matter how many extreme stereotypes they put into one room.
Big Brother was the exact same. You stick extreme people from every side of the track into a house, and watch them.
What's this supposed to prove, that your family isn't the only dysfunctional household on the street?
Survivor was interesting. It was a novel approach, where people weren't tested on their ability to handle Suzie talking for 6 hours straight on the phone. They were tested for physical and mental endurance, and the cash prizes didn't hurt.
And now, Destination Mir, along the same lines of Survivor. I pray that this will be the LAST of this new fad. This show will only have two good episodes, guaranteed: the first, to get to know who all is there, and the last, to know who wins. The rest is just filler. And the fact that the space staff votes contestants off takes out the human factor of friendships/enemies.
IMO, it'll be hardly interesting. If you want to see what goes on when various people are put through training to get into physical shape, then join the Army. I really can't see a difference.
Just stop using IE. That's as simple as it can get. Besides all the security flaws that come out every hour, it's a nightmare for users.
I work with a government forensics lab, and you wouldn't believe how easy it is to find out exactly where you've been, locally. IE stores everything you do in index.dat/user.dat/temporary internet files/cookies/application data, and a dozen more places in un-readable locked files, and in the registry.
You would think, if it's THIS easy to grab from the local side, how many places are left open for the outside world to read?
Just drop IE. Use opera, then you just have to erase your vlink4/cache4, and a few other things to clear up most of your activities.
That's not because of people not caring about AOL.
The next topic, about Campus Pipeline, was posted at 11:03AM. Quite a few posts were made to it before Slashdot pulled the story, and reposted it an hour later. So it had more time to build up replies.
Right, a Word Processor does need all the extras for it's varying users, but they should be least be optional. If I want a simple processor, I can disable most everything, and have a small install. If I need a spell checker, I'll go through the Office setup and install it. If I need etc.etc. I should be able to install them seperately from the main client.
On the topic of Word: How hard is it to just have a simple word processor package?
WTF does Microsoft have to insist on throwing every single bell and whistle that the 1%'ers want into the mix. People want a small, reliable processor to type up homework and reports.
They went on the right track with their installation process, which splits up Word into it's vital components, and lets you choose which to install. But what good is that if it still installs components that you don't want, and don't trust on your machine (such as the topic)?
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You're supposed to come out with the slow chipset first, let people get used to that. Then come out with a fast mobo so that people feel like they're getting more for their money by getting the "super" mobo.
Instead now the fast mobo is the norm, and pushing people into the mindset of paying less for the "wimpy" mobo.
I believe when they mention semi that they're talking about the actual truck section, without the trailer. It is a semi, half truck, half trailer. But then I could be wrong.
Since I can't even remember my passwords half the time :) All those damn video games killing brain cells and .. ooh look, a flying thing!
It happened to me. When I was in the 2nd grade, and Castlevania 2: Simon's Revenge (I believe) came out, I had memorized the code to put you at the very end, with all items. OYZYUQAU R12SSMIA
:)
How the hell can anyone remember that? I don't know. That was 13 years ago, and I still know it by heart, it's kinda scary. But one good thing, it's a great code to use for passwords. Something that no one could ever guess, but you know by heart.
UUDDLRLRBAS is a good password, huh?
Donna Unterreiner, a library media specialist for the Margaret Buerkle Junior High School in St. Louis, said that the ZapMe lab had been "a godsend for us," since the school district had not been able to pass bond issues that would have otherwise paid for Internet access. The advertising, she said, did not bother her or her students. "Can you turn on a computer anywhere, and they don't have ads on them?" she asked.
I can not believe this. Now the whole computer industry is so tainted and jaded in the eyes of everyday people that they see no problem in advertisements all over their machine. Since when does using a computer entitle you to having to watch dozens of ads sucking up your bandwidth. But it's now a common conception in our minds that that is what has to happen. If we want a computer, we get ads. If we want internet, we have to watch ads on every page. If we want to play games, we have to watch ads.
But there are many places still like that, and not just in the South. Even here, outside Baltimore/Washington DC, things are so dumbed down. When people get around to talking about politics and the election, it's not about issues, it's not about what each candidate wants to do to our government, it's all about how one looks better than the other, one talks more clearly, this one is rude, that one is annoying, and God forbid that the debates cut into 'Who wants to be a millionaire', or else we'll have a revolt on our hands.
Without the internet, people end up being hillbillies in their own right. They entertain themselves with common activities, that everyone else in the area enjoys, and hold themselves happy with just that. About the only time they sit and ponder is the 10 minutes they read the morning paper, or when Li'l Susie needs help on her US History homework.
Everyone at work talks about the big game, or this teams defense/offense, and that fills up the lunch hour/breaks. But what about then the paper prints about how taxes are rising? Some people just sit at the table, and grumble to themselves, or with their spouse (who just nods and agrees). They can't discuss it at work, cause then they'd be looked down on for being a 'nerd'. They don't experience the fun of finding a website or discussion where they can find other people to discuss the issue with, and maybe learn both sides of the issue, broadening their awareness.
But, alas, too many people will just sit in closemindedness, scoff at foreigners and their cultures, and make fun of anyone that they perceive to have an education or understanding.
Why? Because I met my wife on the internet. That has always been a big issue amongst my family. They're all small-town people, farm workers, with no use for a computer, and here their family member got swept up and married to someone he didn't even know. NOT!
The internet supplements your life. It allowed me to find friends that weren't just about drinking, smoking, and football. It allowed me to spend my days hanging with the guys, then go home in the evening and have meaningful discussions about topics that I enjoy.
And that's how I met my wife, as a friend on irc. Then we just decided to meet (2 hours apart), as friends, after talking for over a year. Then we continued meeting as friends every weekend til we began meeting as a couple. Then a year after that, we got married.
Just because a majority of my friends that I enjoy are on the internet doesn't mean that I shut out everyone around me (which my family now believes). They just can't understand that when I go to family reunions, I don't want to talk about deer hunting, or college football, or how Michelle drove the tractor for the first time. I want to talk about life, psychology, why we do the things we do, where we are all going, and how to root a solaris box.
Too many lazy moderators, etc. Once a post is up to Score 5, everyone will go home, and read the next story, ignoring the 200+ other submissions. My vote that the sid #4 post will win, just because it's so high on the list. :)
I intend to patent the process by which any aerobic living organism, possessing a willful soul, is purposely transposed from the state of functionality to an inanimate state, by that organisms soleful wish and execution, or suicide in layman's terms. Any animate being that that sucessfully executes a plan of events that forfeits that being's life shall relinquish their entire estate of assets, body, and soul to my corporation. Such steps include:
* Any use of firearms, legal or illegal
* Any use of a motor vehicle, regardless of subject being inside or outside the vehicle
* Any use of medicinal aids or controlled substances, especially in combination with alcohol
* Any use of legal goods that are socially acceptable, but still cause bodily harm
* Any use of personal sexual items upon any cavity found on the subject's being
* Any use of computer hardware being bashed over the subject's head or posterior
* Any use of farm animals falling from the top of large (being at least 20' high) barns onto the subject's head or posterior
* Any use of the combination of duct tape, vodka, and pressurized air on the subject's anal cavity
* Any use of an elderly (being of at least 50 years of age) person as a weapon in club-like fashion
* Any other uses not covered herewithin would still forfeit your posessions to my corporation
The company uses all Microsoft applications. I used to work at the above company that hosts nasdaq/amex/nasdaq-amex/americanstocks/etc... Financial Insight Systems. They were a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider, and trying hard to become an MS Partner. Nasdaq had a good dozen-plus IIS Webservers, and we were discouraged from using anything BUT Microsoft software, because of the company's position with MS.
Had it not been for the fact that we were trying so hard to become an MS Partner (by getting all employees certified at least to MCP, and getting sponsors), maybe there would have been some choice as to what software to install on what boxes. But there wasn't, so it was Microsoft all the way.
Right before I left the company, they had just hired on a security specialist, at an exhorbant salary, who had no clue how to install NT, or how to install patches. But the fact that the IT team was less than 10 people, we were all overworked, and any extra person was a working person. That plus the fact that the company hired many low-salary low-experience techies to replace high-salary high-experience techies didn't help, but that is too much of a common business practice now to complain.
The two guys in charge of the servers, getting the big bucks, were being worked to the bone, and I admire them for that. But there's only so far you can go before the IT staff has no say in the matter, and the company pushes them into roll-outs and upgrades that are beyond common sense. Then you end up with a lot of burn-outs, stuck in a job they hate, but have some unknown loyalty to.
I know this is an obvious troll, but I'm bored.
... and well, He gets it!)
I can't see how Microsoft is a monopoly. There are plenty of other operating systems, word processors, e-mail programs. Hell, they don't even have an instant messenger monopoly!
First of all, it is a monopoly. Everyone knows that, everyone knew it, and everyone's fine with it. You're allowed to have monopolies in this country. The law allows it. What the law doesn't allow for (which the entire case is about, if you were following along?) is using your monopoly in one field to create a monopoly in another field. In Microsoft's case, they were using their Operating System monopoly (which is fine and good) to create a web browser monopoly.
Now, if they created a web browser monopoly through fair business practices, there would be no problem. If they just bided their time, and let Netscape vs. IE war on, until one was the winner, that'd be no problem. But once you start pushing your product to people, and not give them a choice, is when the DOJ steps in, and we have what we had here today (which is the way He wants it
Well, that's what he says :) For now at least, but I think that they do have an alterior motive. But you are right, they should be pushed underwater for crap like this.
If all you want to track is whether a Cat came from Forbes/Wired/RadioShaft then you don't need a unique ID for each Cat. A simple (Forbes = 1 : Wired = 2 : RS = 3) ID is all that is necessary. All Forbes users would have an ID of 1, etc., and now there are no privacy concerns.
I don't think so. Yes, that would tell them which distributor that the user received theirs from, but nothing more. It doesn't tell them how many total users are using their CueCats. If 300k units were sent through Wired, how would they know who kept them, and who threw them away?
They would see, on their side, that 40k scans with Wired CueCats were made today. Is that 40k people, or one person scanning 40k items?
Extremely anal moderators on the loose.
:P
At least when I mod, I try to do a good job at it
After the day-long error of the itolympics.org link, I place a bet of $10 that the IBM->Cisco won't be fixed before noon EST. Another $5 that it won't be fixed by 5PM!
It's been nearly an hour and the wrong url is still being displayed on the article. Do the editors just post a story and walk away, forgetting it was even there. Does any member of Slashdot even read the page anymore, or the comments? At least they got the url right on the submitter's email, just not the web page.
Is this the same? I've noticed that when I connect up, and go to the first site, it'll go to microsoft.com, check to see if I have the latest version of IE, then go to the site designated.
Maybe someone's just a bit paranoid?
Just had to comment, check out this. Pizza Hut comments are valid :)
What is it with this new fad? The Real World was interesting, at least the first two seasons. After that, everyone became used to it, and the novelty wore off, no matter how many extreme stereotypes they put into one room. Big Brother was the exact same. You stick extreme people from every side of the track into a house, and watch them.
What's this supposed to prove, that your family isn't the only dysfunctional household on the street?
Survivor was interesting. It was a novel approach, where people weren't tested on their ability to handle Suzie talking for 6 hours straight on the phone. They were tested for physical and mental endurance, and the cash prizes didn't hurt.
And now, Destination Mir, along the same lines of Survivor. I pray that this will be the LAST of this new fad. This show will only have two good episodes, guaranteed: the first, to get to know who all is there, and the last, to know who wins. The rest is just filler. And the fact that the space staff votes contestants off takes out the human factor of friendships/enemies.
IMO, it'll be hardly interesting. If you want to see what goes on when various people are put through training to get into physical shape, then join the Army. I really can't see a difference.
Just stop using IE. That's as simple as it can get. Besides all the security flaws that come out every hour, it's a nightmare for users.
I work with a government forensics lab, and you wouldn't believe how easy it is to find out exactly where you've been, locally. IE stores everything you do in index.dat/user.dat/temporary internet files/cookies/application data, and a dozen more places in un-readable locked files, and in the registry.
You would think, if it's THIS easy to grab from the local side, how many places are left open for the outside world to read?
Just drop IE. Use opera, then you just have to erase your vlink4/cache4, and a few other things to clear up most of your activities.
That's not because of people not caring about AOL.
The next topic, about Campus Pipeline, was posted at 11:03AM. Quite a few posts were made to it before Slashdot pulled the story, and reposted it an hour later. So it had more time to build up replies.
Right, a Word Processor does need all the extras for it's varying users, but they should be least be optional. If I want a simple processor, I can disable most everything, and have a small install. If I need a spell checker, I'll go through the Office setup and install it. If I need etc.etc. I should be able to install them seperately from the main client.
On the topic of Word: How hard is it to just have a simple word processor package?
WTF does Microsoft have to insist on throwing every single bell and whistle that the 1%'ers want into the mix. People want a small, reliable processor to type up homework and reports.
They went on the right track with their installation process, which splits up Word into it's vital components, and lets you choose which to install. But what good is that if it still installs components that you don't want, and don't trust on your machine (such as the topic)?