When CEOs say "good for the economy" they don't mean "good for the average Joe"
they mean "good for our shareholders"
It's easy for these CEOs to sit in their ivory towers and tell the
people that various things are good for the economy, they aren't the
ones facing unemployment or living cheque to cheque. What
matters to these people is making the shareholders happy, the
workers are expendable cogs in their money-machine.
Imagine,
for just a moment, that Craig Barrett were to say "Intel investors, I
have a great plan. We'll stop outsourcing and start hiring
domestically. Yeah, it'll cost more money and there will be a profit
hit for a while but it will keep our people working and spending
their paycheques domestically." Something like that is truly
good for the economy as a whole, but how long would be be CEO for? The
security guards would be showing him to the door in minutes.
I use OpenBSD on my desktop at work. There's a FreeBSD and Linux (among others) binary compatibility option which work great for me. I use the Linux Citrix client binary to connect to a Citrix server across the country just fine. I don't think I've ever run a FreeBSD binary but I install from ports usually so the port-meister of that particular software takes care of issues.
OpenBSD supports a load of different architectures, far more than FreeBSD. However I think you're really asking about supported hardware on i386. In that area FreeBSD is ahead but most stock hardware runs OpenBSD just fine.
Then I thought of all the censorship software that China has employed in the past and the net nanny software installed in American libraries. People have always found a way around it.
Bit of a difference: bypassing NetNanny at a US library may get you tossed out of the building. In China you may well be imprisoned for your subversive behaviour.
Consider that China has far worse human rights violations than Cuba yet Cuba suffers through US embargos while diplomats fly to China to kiss ass for trade favours.
My understanding was that any connection between 2 schools that were on Internet2 would automatically use the faster other pipe.
That's how it should be.
In.CA we have Canarie (CA*net4) which is a high speed fiber optic network for research and education. Much like the US' Internet2 which it ties to. At our workplace (biomedical reseach) we have a gigabit fiber line coming to us, our upstream provider does the BGP split. When getting stuff from universities and other researchers it screams. (I've burned a CD from an NFS mount half the continent away as a test/joke/whim)
Most "modern" BASICs don't require line numbers. They support user-defined functions, etc.(that's based on Microsoft PDS (Professional Development System aka BASIC back in the early 90's.) I haven't touched a BASIC since but it was suprisingly grown up from the old 10 REM style of coding. Ah yeah it was compiled too. I'd guess that was the precursor to VB.
One of the great promises of nanotech are mini-attack bots which
can eliminate cancer cells, viruses, germs, etc etc. What, though,
will happen when someone comes up with a way to attack cells based
on the DNA within? Racial cleansing, removal of unworthies from the
pool. It may not happen but it very well could if they don't come up
with global policies and laws. (even then...)
Yeah, that's likely far in the future but 50 years ago a desktop computer was impossible.
1 - They may be able to shave a few megs off, sure, but with MS' fatal infection of creeping featuritis that would be offset in no time.
2 - They're the 800 lb gorilla, "it's up to the other companies/projects to figure out and support the.DOC format."
3 - Protecting their bottom line and investors' cash is their job, they can't help it.
4 - Invented outside of MS? C'mon Tom, you should know better!:)
Practical or somebody's thesis?
on
Robocones
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
"Deploying and retrieving highway markers on open roads is
hazardous so the robots will reduce risks for workmen," researcher
Shane Farritor said."
Are there statistics anywhere on how
many workers are killed or injured while moving cones every year? The
article mentions risk without refering to hard data so it
seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'm not saying
it's a bad idea, I just want to know how they qualify the risk they
mention or if it's a neat university project solely for the sake of
being a neat university project.
Scary, but that's what he wants. Most/.'ers probably weren't alive (or were old enough to care at the time) but in the early 80's Universal Studios (with the blessings of the MPAA and their hired legal thugs) came close to squashing your right to tape and re-watch television shows. If Universal had won the case, people with VCRs could be considered criminals.
There's a command line option in the installer "-lgforcent" or something like that. Google for it, SS2 (and Thief/Thief2) need it to install IIRC. The games run perfectly.
Well, I use my PC as a game box with some browsing only (with SSH if I need to access one of the unixish machines) so here's my stuff:
10:Spybot Search
& Destroy (Excellent spyware killer) 9:Spyware
Blaster (Recommended by Spybot author to run concurrently) 8: Some form of browser. 7:PuTTY
(SSH client w/ tunnelling) 6:Thief (awesome game) 5:Thief 2
(more Thief!) 4:Darkloader
(allows one to run custom fan missions in the Thief games) 3:System Shock 2
(creepy sci-fi rp/fps) 2: For those days I feel like a slug-fest?
Doomsday and the ol' Doom games. (adds real 3D and all the video card eye candy to
Doom/Heretic/etc. A MUST HAVE!) 1:Half
Life You know it! (still has one of the best stories of any game
around)
Or would you blame the workman who cuts off his arm with the buzz saw's totally unprotected blade?
I'd blame natural selection. What if his arm had titanium bones and kevlar skin which broke the blade? He'd pass on those mighty arm genes to his children and so forth. In a few generations we would have an army of super-carpenters, unafraid of smashing thumbnails or severing of limbs.
What a wonderful world it would be.
Re:Ask the girl out on a date!
on
D&D Is 30
·
· Score: 2, Funny
No, she took that too. A nice LaserJet 5 series.
Re:Ask the girl out on a date!
on
D&D Is 30
·
· Score: 5, Funny
I'm sorry, the girl makes a saving throw against your 1st level charm spell
My ex-wife fell for my 1st level charm spell but it turns out she was Chaotic-Evil and when we split up she took all my GP.
No, they're building a massive, wide area distributed email system with vast amounts of storage. I doubt they'd want to tarnish their name, especially with an IPO pending, by going live with a buggy system. If you can shave a few months off that, I'm sure you could have a good career at Google.
Steve Gillmor: Hi Sergey, thanks for taking the time to
do this interview.
Sergey Brin: My pleasure, Steve.
Gillmor: So why gmail? It sounds like an expensive
endeavor.
Brin: Yes, it really is. We have to weigh the curve of
user data and disk space then constantly keep ahead of the users'
requirements.
Gillmor: Can you give us a ballpark figure as to cost?
Brin: No, not really. It's being paid for by the NSA,
actually.
Gillmor: The NSA? Why?
Brin: They've realized that they have to put on a
"friendlier face" to the public. Being that Google already has a huge
infrastructure, it only made sense that they use it. They approached
us over a year ago with this idea.
Gillmor: The NSA wants to manage the email of literally
hundreds of millions of net users? Don't the privacy implications
concern you?
Brin: No. The NSA have told me, in fact our contact wrote
it on a cocktail napkin, that they wouldn't snoop user mail. They are
really nice people. Think about it, who would you rather trust with
your personal email, Hotmail & Microsoft or Google & the NSA? I think
the answer is obvious.
Gillmor: In all honesty, I don't think the answer is
clear.
Brin: Sure it is, if Hotmail "fills up" you're out of
luck, with gmail the NSA have gratiously offered to let us use some
of their disk storage on their Cray and SGI SANs. Like I said, really
nice people.
Gillmor: Can you give is the name of your contact?
Brin: [answers cell call, hangs up] This interview is over.
Slashdot Mirror
When CEOs say "good for the economy" they don't mean "good for the average Joe" they mean "good for our shareholders"
It's easy for these CEOs to sit in their ivory towers and tell the people that various things are good for the economy, they aren't the ones facing unemployment or living cheque to cheque. What matters to these people is making the shareholders happy, the workers are expendable cogs in their money-machine.
Imagine, for just a moment, that Craig Barrett were to say "Intel investors, I have a great plan. We'll stop outsourcing and start hiring domestically. Yeah, it'll cost more money and there will be a profit hit for a while but it will keep our people working and spending their paycheques domestically." Something like that is truly good for the economy as a whole, but how long would be be CEO for? The security guards would be showing him to the door in minutes.
I use OpenBSD on my desktop at work. There's a FreeBSD and Linux (among others) binary compatibility option which work great for me. I use the Linux Citrix client binary to connect to a Citrix server across the country just fine. I don't think I've ever run a FreeBSD binary but I install from ports usually so the port-meister of that particular software takes care of issues.
OpenBSD supports a load of different architectures, far more than FreeBSD. However I think you're really asking about supported hardware on i386. In that area FreeBSD is ahead but most stock hardware runs OpenBSD just fine.
Jump in, the water's fine!
People just LOVE to make fun of OpenBSD when it gets a remote hole
Also note that if/when there is a remote OpenBSD hole, it's news, not just "oops, patch, business as usual". They take these things very seriously.
Then I thought of all the censorship software that China has employed in the past and the net nanny software installed in American libraries. People have always found a way around it.
Bit of a difference: bypassing NetNanny at a US library may get you tossed out of the building. In China you may well be imprisoned for your subversive behaviour.
Because business dictates foreign policy.
Consider that China has far worse human rights violations than Cuba yet Cuba suffers through US embargos while diplomats fly to China to kiss ass for trade favours.
I for one am going to miss your posts.
Am I going somewhere? Ashcroft taking a visit to
Scott Richter's 32-employee firm [...]
Just out of curiosity, do Uzis jam or would one be better off reloading a trusty ol' six-shooter 5 times?
lighten up, it's a joke
My understanding was that any connection between 2 schools that were on Internet2 would automatically use the faster other pipe.
That's how it should be.
In
The only computer game that makes me think of politics and politicians is Thief. Not because of the gameplay...
Most "modern" BASICs don't require line numbers. They support user-defined functions, etc.(that's based on Microsoft PDS (Professional Development System aka BASIC back in the early 90's.) I haven't touched a BASIC since but it was suprisingly grown up from the old 10 REM style of coding. Ah yeah it was compiled too. I'd guess that was the precursor to VB.
One of the great promises of nanotech are mini-attack bots which can eliminate cancer cells, viruses, germs, etc etc. What, though, will happen when someone comes up with a way to attack cells based on the DNA within? Racial cleansing, removal of unworthies from the pool. It may not happen but it very well could if they don't come up with global policies and laws. (even then...)
Yeah, that's likely far in the future but 50 years ago a desktop computer was impossible.
LaTeX looks like some complicated programming language
Look at Postscript sometime. WYSIWYG programs are just Postscript abstraction layers.
Nice in theory but it will never happen.
1 - They may be able to shave a few megs off, sure, but with MS' fatal infection of creeping featuritis that would be offset in no time.
2 - They're the 800 lb gorilla, "it's up to the other companies/projects to figure out and support the
3 - Protecting their bottom line and investors' cash is their job, they can't help it.
4 - Invented outside of MS? C'mon Tom, you should know better!
"Deploying and retrieving highway markers on open roads is hazardous so the robots will reduce risks for workmen," researcher Shane Farritor said."
Are there statistics anywhere on how many workers are killed or injured while moving cones every year?
The article mentions risk without refering to hard data so it seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I just want to know how they qualify the risk they mention or if it's a neat university project solely for the sake of being a neat university project.
All your DVD belong to JACK.
Scary, but that's what he wants. Most
There's a command line option in the installer "-lgforcent" or something like that. Google for it, SS2 (and Thief/Thief2) need it to install IIRC. The games run perfectly.
heheheh... I like it for destroying evil that sneaks through Firefox (my preference).
Well, I use my PC as a game box with some browsing only (with SSH if I need to access one of the unixish machines) so here's my stuff:
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Or would you blame the workman who cuts off his arm with the buzz saw's totally unprotected blade?
I'd blame natural selection. What if his arm had titanium bones and kevlar skin which broke the blade? He'd pass on those mighty arm genes to his children and so forth. In a few generations we would have an army of super-carpenters, unafraid of smashing thumbnails or severing of limbs.
What a wonderful world it would be.
No, she took that too. A nice LaserJet 5 series.
I'm sorry, the girl makes a saving throw against your 1st level charm spell
My ex-wife fell for my 1st level charm spell but it turns out she was Chaotic-Evil and when we split up she took all my GP.
What are they building a space shuttle?
No, they're building a massive, wide area distributed email system with vast amounts of storage. I doubt they'd want to tarnish their name, especially with an IPO pending, by going live with a buggy system. If you can shave a few months off that, I'm sure you could have a good career at Google.
already slashdotted, here's the text:
Steve Gillmor
Sergey Brin
Gillmor
Brin
Gillmor
Brin
Gillmor
Brin
Gillmor
Brin
Gillmor
Brin
Gillmor
Brin
When trolling is criminalized, only criminals will troll!
Limiting posts to 1 a day should be a "YRO" story.