The same goes for music except you dont have to edit the songs unless you want to for some odd reason
Absolutely. In which case, Napster is still screwed. If people can do that for free, why would they bother downloading them from their phone through Napster?
Having said that... I came across this - http://www.wonderquest.com/extinctions-safetyglass-magnetslasers.htm (Scroll down for pertinent info). Apparently "electromagnetic waves can bend light through an indirect, quantum effect--but to such a tiny degree that we cannot measure it." So, maybe bigger magnet = more bending = measurable?
The guys at Napster must be high outta their minds if they think the wireless providers are going to let THEM make money off selling music on THEIR networks. If there's one thing the big cell companies have shown it's that they're all about being the only ones to make money off people on their networks and they want to make as much as possible. Phones don't even come with ring tones anymore. You get a phone from a carrier and it comes with 1 default tone. If you want anything else, you can pay 2-4 bucks. That's insane. You think music will be any different? It'll be even worse. Between RIAA and the cell companies you're screwed. Any outside company that thinks they can shoehorn themselves into that market is fooling themselves. At best, they'll be operating on razor-thin margins getting a couple cents off of every sale while the wireless guys get a dollar.
I, too, am thankful to see a group of people doing something other than just bending over and waiting. The irony of relatively liberal universities allowing themselves to be walked all over by RIAA was brutal.
I don't think have have a pre-vet program. OSU (Oregon State) does though, they also have a graduate program. You have a better chance of getting into the grad program if you've been a part of the pre-vet program as an undergrad. I wouldn't be surprised to see OSU take a similar stance to U of O's if they're successful.
I second this plea. I'm stuck with Verizon as well (my work uses it)... but if I schmooze enough, come next summer, I should be able to schmooze my way to a free Google phone! Woohoo!
I agree, I remember when WHOIS was actually useful... Now it's just an easy way for spammers to send you BOATLOADS of unwanted e-mail, credit card apps, all kinds of garbage. It needs to be done away with. The last time I registered a domain it took me 2 months just to get the junk mail flow stopped.
I knew slashdot was full of nerds... but this is ridiculous. Can we at least get some Apple / MSFT, Linux / Windows, XBOX / PS, bashing in here to spice things up?
As an IT guy, I always see this junk coming. I'm not the one that doesn't know until it's too late - it's the frickin' management. They implement these systems with very little understanding about how they actually work (versus how they've been sold on it working) and very little understanding about how these new systems will integrate with existing systems. Then crap starts breaking, they've wasted a ton of money on some garbage that doesn't even do what we want it to, but we have to keep it so that manager X can save face.
The real problem is management failing to understand that they really know nothing about IT and they need to be relying on a trustworthy IT person to tell them whether something is good for their business. Don't get me wrong, if you're IT, and you work like crap and treat people like crap, by all means, you should get canned and replaced with another guy. However, businesses need to realize that IT isn't just overhead. If you don't believe me... think back to the last time your network went down, or your production system crashed, and tell me how much work got done! Alternatively, think about the latest and greatest time-saving scheme IT came up with, maybe they installed a better printer, gave you a faster computer, gave you a bigger monitor, wrote a script for you, etc etc. Good internal IT will always be leaps and bounds better than outsourced IT.
It's bad enough that these guys are buying politicians in Washington D.C. (any company big enough to, does.) but hardware reviews!? Those are sacred! How are we supposed to know whether to be AMD or Intel fanboys? ATI or Nvidia? Without accurate information, there's no way for fanboys to make fun of the other fanboys! (ok, there is, but let's not go there!) What's the world coming to when nerds betray nerds for corporate swag?
Uhhmmm do you really think it's any different within the scientific community? You're kidding yourself if you do. Scientists are no less fallible than anyone else. They're just as likely to use their pre-conceived notions of truth to bang their results into matching the theory they're trying to prove as anyone else. I've seen it happen, I have friends that work in well respected labs that have seen it happen. It's completely idiotic to assume that just because an individual is a scientist he or she lacks all external motivations outside of the pure quest for knowledge.
I love steam, and I like Valve. I've always gotten great support from Valve. I'm sure that if you contacted them and explained your situation they'd help you out. Deliberately cheating them out of money and just moving from county to country are two different things. They know the difference and they'll treat you accordingly. Contact them before-hand if you like.
What're you talking about? Haven't you ever seen Dave Chappelle or Carlos Mencia or any other comedian that points out racial differences? While I believe that being racist is wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with racial comedy. Saying that we're all identical is blindly denying the obvious truth that we're not.
I wouldn't call that beefy by server standards. That's probably equivalent to the slowest machine in our racks. Sure that makes a great desktop, but if your server is just a desktop with a server OS on it... you can't complain when it doesn't run so hot.
I initially wrote it off as cheesy, but an ex-girlfriend owned it and I got roped into playing. I must admit, it was quite fun. It also had the advantage of being simple enough for a whole group of people to play.
Sadly, I ran into the same sort of thing as I was getting my CS degree back in the day. I'd get stuck on projects with people during Senior year that didn't know what a stack was, or how recursion worked, or that an array was 0 based in C++... I still don't understand how they made it that far into the program without having somehow absorbed such simple concepts.
As far as a lack of hardware knowledge is concerned... that's truly just laziness on their part. I recognize that it's not a part of the degree program, and I don't really think that it should be. That's the kind of thing I just taught myself when I was a kid. You'd read a book, talk to someone else that knows more than you... If you're serious about making a living doing it you should be learning about it on your own before you even sign up for a CS / IT / IS degree. Ever hear of an Art major that started out not even knowing what a paintbrush is? Exactly.
Yeah, people talk about "weed out" classes in CS, but really everything up until you're a Junior is a weed out class. My sophomore year I literally had to make all new friends. The 10 people I hung out with the most all dropped out of CS. Every class I took between Freshman and Junior year halved in size over the course of the term. People dropped like flies. They moved over to become biz majors and the like. Undoubtedly, they were hailed as "computer geniuses" in their new major because they knew HTML.
What're you talking about? I've played countless DVD's on my Vista box, all of them commercial movies. I'm not running any special software, I'm just using Windows Media Player.
One of the things that you learn if you ever take a statistics course is that, regardless of your actual population, you just don't get much better results when your sample size increases beyond a few hundred.
My understanding is that this statistical quirk holds true for women as well.
Well, at least we know that Generation Y isn't responsible for any of this! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/24/143247 They're far to "technological fluent". They can't help but use the Internet!
I work with Generation Y'ers and they aren't so "fluent with technology" that they don't need to get a CS education. Most of them still don't know the difference between RAM and a HD. They don't even know the units used to calculate the amount of RAM or the speed of a computer. Obviously, there are exceptions, but it's been my experience in a middle-class community of Gen Y kids that they don't know jack about a computer. Can they use an IPod? sure... but so can my 60 year old mom, big deal. That's like saying my Grandma used to be "fluent with technology" because she could use a typewriter back in the day. Having the ability to use it and having the ability to make it are two totally different things.
Greenpeace is painfully hypocritical and full of liars? Big Surprise. These organizations full of self-righteous crusaders always are... Peta is a good example - http://www.peta-sucks.com/main.htm This isn't trolling, this is obvious truth to anyone but the Pamela Anderson's of the world...
This is as bad as posting an article saying "Windows has only gotten worse since it was first released". The only reason the comment section hasn't turned into a bloody flame war is because right now it's a portal love fest.
"Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'good bye' and you were like 'no way' and then I was all 'we pretended we were going to murder you.' That was great."
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disclaimer - I'm not a physicist.
Having said that... I came across this - http://www.wonderquest.com/extinctions-safetyglass-magnetslasers.htm (Scroll down for pertinent info). Apparently "electromagnetic waves can bend light through an indirect, quantum effect--but to such a tiny degree that we cannot measure it." So, maybe bigger magnet = more bending = measurable?
The guys at Napster must be high outta their minds if they think the wireless providers are going to let THEM make money off selling music on THEIR networks. If there's one thing the big cell companies have shown it's that they're all about being the only ones to make money off people on their networks and they want to make as much as possible. Phones don't even come with ring tones anymore. You get a phone from a carrier and it comes with 1 default tone. If you want anything else, you can pay 2-4 bucks. That's insane. You think music will be any different? It'll be even worse. Between RIAA and the cell companies you're screwed. Any outside company that thinks they can shoehorn themselves into that market is fooling themselves. At best, they'll be operating on razor-thin margins getting a couple cents off of every sale while the wireless guys get a dollar.
I, too, am thankful to see a group of people doing something other than just bending over and waiting. The irony of relatively liberal universities allowing themselves to be walked all over by RIAA was brutal.
I don't think have have a pre-vet program. OSU (Oregon State) does though, they also have a graduate program. You have a better chance of getting into the grad program if you've been a part of the pre-vet program as an undergrad. I wouldn't be surprised to see OSU take a similar stance to U of O's if they're successful.
[obligatory] Go Beavers.
I second this plea. I'm stuck with Verizon as well (my work uses it)... but if I schmooze enough, come next summer, I should be able to schmooze my way to a free Google phone! Woohoo!
Seriously though, he's right. People in both camps should realize that no matter how great you think your software is, it's not perfect.
I agree, I remember when WHOIS was actually useful... Now it's just an easy way for spammers to send you BOATLOADS of unwanted e-mail, credit card apps, all kinds of garbage. It needs to be done away with. The last time I registered a domain it took me 2 months just to get the junk mail flow stopped.
I knew slashdot was full of nerds... but this is ridiculous. Can we at least get some Apple / MSFT, Linux / Windows, XBOX / PS, bashing in here to spice things up?
As an IT guy, I always see this junk coming. I'm not the one that doesn't know until it's too late - it's the frickin' management. They implement these systems with very little understanding about how they actually work (versus how they've been sold on it working) and very little understanding about how these new systems will integrate with existing systems. Then crap starts breaking, they've wasted a ton of money on some garbage that doesn't even do what we want it to, but we have to keep it so that manager X can save face.
The real problem is management failing to understand that they really know nothing about IT and they need to be relying on a trustworthy IT person to tell them whether something is good for their business. Don't get me wrong, if you're IT, and you work like crap and treat people like crap, by all means, you should get canned and replaced with another guy. However, businesses need to realize that IT isn't just overhead. If you don't believe me... think back to the last time your network went down, or your production system crashed, and tell me how much work got done! Alternatively, think about the latest and greatest time-saving scheme IT came up with, maybe they installed a better printer, gave you a faster computer, gave you a bigger monitor, wrote a script for you, etc etc. Good internal IT will always be leaps and bounds better than outsourced IT.
It's bad enough that these guys are buying politicians in Washington D.C. (any company big enough to, does.) but hardware reviews!? Those are sacred! How are we supposed to know whether to be AMD or Intel fanboys? ATI or Nvidia? Without accurate information, there's no way for fanboys to make fun of the other fanboys! (ok, there is, but let's not go there!) What's the world coming to when nerds betray nerds for corporate swag?
Don't be sad... On the bright side, it'll keep you warm at night!
Uhhmmm do you really think it's any different within the scientific community? You're kidding yourself if you do. Scientists are no less fallible than anyone else. They're just as likely to use their pre-conceived notions of truth to bang their results into matching the theory they're trying to prove as anyone else. I've seen it happen, I have friends that work in well respected labs that have seen it happen. It's completely idiotic to assume that just because an individual is a scientist he or she lacks all external motivations outside of the pure quest for knowledge.
I love steam, and I like Valve. I've always gotten great support from Valve. I'm sure that if you contacted them and explained your situation they'd help you out. Deliberately cheating them out of money and just moving from county to country are two different things. They know the difference and they'll treat you accordingly. Contact them before-hand if you like.
"I've always wanted to say this, 'fo shizzle'."
What're you talking about? Haven't you ever seen Dave Chappelle or Carlos Mencia or any other comedian that points out racial differences? While I believe that being racist is wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with racial comedy. Saying that we're all identical is blindly denying the obvious truth that we're not.
I wouldn't call that beefy by server standards. That's probably equivalent to the slowest machine in our racks. Sure that makes a great desktop, but if your server is just a desktop with a server OS on it... you can't complain when it doesn't run so hot.
I initially wrote it off as cheesy, but an ex-girlfriend owned it and I got roped into playing. I must admit, it was quite fun. It also had the advantage of being simple enough for a whole group of people to play.
Sadly, I ran into the same sort of thing as I was getting my CS degree back in the day. I'd get stuck on projects with people during Senior year that didn't know what a stack was, or how recursion worked, or that an array was 0 based in C++... I still don't understand how they made it that far into the program without having somehow absorbed such simple concepts.
As far as a lack of hardware knowledge is concerned... that's truly just laziness on their part. I recognize that it's not a part of the degree program, and I don't really think that it should be. That's the kind of thing I just taught myself when I was a kid. You'd read a book, talk to someone else that knows more than you... If you're serious about making a living doing it you should be learning about it on your own before you even sign up for a CS / IT / IS degree. Ever hear of an Art major that started out not even knowing what a paintbrush is? Exactly.
Yeah, people talk about "weed out" classes in CS, but really everything up until you're a Junior is a weed out class. My sophomore year I literally had to make all new friends. The 10 people I hung out with the most all dropped out of CS. Every class I took between Freshman and Junior year halved in size over the course of the term. People dropped like flies. They moved over to become biz majors and the like. Undoubtedly, they were hailed as "computer geniuses" in their new major because they knew HTML.
What're you talking about? I've played countless DVD's on my Vista box, all of them commercial movies. I'm not running any special software, I'm just using Windows Media Player.
Well, at least we know that Generation Y isn't responsible for any of this! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/24/143247 They're far to "technological fluent". They can't help but use the Internet!
I work with Generation Y'ers and they aren't so "fluent with technology" that they don't need to get a CS education. Most of them still don't know the difference between RAM and a HD. They don't even know the units used to calculate the amount of RAM or the speed of a computer. Obviously, there are exceptions, but it's been my experience in a middle-class community of Gen Y kids that they don't know jack about a computer. Can they use an IPod? sure... but so can my 60 year old mom, big deal. That's like saying my Grandma used to be "fluent with technology" because she could use a typewriter back in the day. Having the ability to use it and having the ability to make it are two totally different things.
Greenpeace is painfully hypocritical and full of liars? Big Surprise. These organizations full of self-righteous crusaders always are... Peta is a good example - http://www.peta-sucks.com/main.htm This isn't trolling, this is obvious truth to anyone but the Pamela Anderson's of the world...
This is as bad as posting an article saying "Windows has only gotten worse since it was first released". The only reason the comment section hasn't turned into a bloody flame war is because right now it's a portal love fest.
"Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'good bye' and you were like 'no way' and then I was all 'we pretended we were going to murder you.' That was great."
They're warning you about the fanboy fight that's coming in 3... 2... 1... go! oh, that was ugly... guess you didn't get the warning in time...