The thing is, nearly the entire audience for Star Wars and Indiana Jones were too young to remember the "Saturday Serials" movie genre that Lucas was paying homage. I remember watching Flash Gordon serials on late night TV, but that was probably after Star Wars became a big hit and inspired a bit of a comeback.
Good point about the dialog, but the major complaint about the second trilogy is more the pacing.
Also, there was almost no science fiction on the market at the time of the original Star Wars (other than Star Trek reruns). But since then scifi/fantasy/comicbook movies have become Hollywood's bread-and-butter. A big reason the second trilogy is not well considered is that we now have so many other choices in that vein.
I think the unstated point of the article is that Google or Amazon is solid gold on a resume, so these respected companies can get away with having poor working conditions for "temps" or CSR people even while they brag to the MSM about how many chefs and masseuses they have around.
Of course there are many far worse jobs in Silicon Valley -- Plenty of places where you can get paid like crap at a doomed no-name "startup".
Also its kinda ironic that this "worst job" article came out just as the Silicon Valley Janitors Union is going on strike. Um, there's a worse job.
I'm just saying you couldn't hand a PDF to a IT techie and expect them to "intuitively" redact something completely without some really specific domain knowledge. (PDFs have multiple layers, and those layers have layers.)
And in most organizations, that domain knowledge doesn't necessarily rest in IT. (Your accountants probably know as much about "AccPac" as anyone, for example.) In my case, I was working directly with the guys writing the imaging/PDF software. But it's not like even the company's own sysadmins understood this stuff.
Well, that's true, IT can do general troubleshooting.
But, having worked for a company that did a lot of document processing, the PDF (and TIFF) formats are very complex and the subtleties wouldn't be necessarily be obvious to someone with a general "IT" skill set.
Seriously, IT people spend all day programming or monkeywrenching Windows. They generally don't have any in-depth knowledge about application software (such as Acrobat) because they never use it.
Right I think a lot of people misunderstand this -- this is more like Intel's "Centrino" branding than the end-all of gaming branding. The point of "Centrino" was to allow consumers to differentiate good Pentium-M laptops from cheapass desktop chip-based laptops. And it was hugely successful.
The point of AMD GAME is so that consumers can differentiate systems with 'business graphics' (integrated) versus PCs that can game. Since AMD/ATI sells the whole package this should make it easier for them to upsell.
With all the video cards on the market, PC gaming badly needs better performance branding. But that's going to have to come from an industry consortiom. This ain't it, nor does it pretend to be.
Windows Experience Index only tells you about your expected Windows experience. It wasn't designed for games and doesn't produce useful scores for such.
I don't think you are contradicting him, because you're talking about initial cost, and he's talking about TCO. Maybe the grass just looks greener over there.
RedHat does work on all levels of the GNU/Linux stack - kernel, compiler, c-library, gui libraries, apps. That means that if RedHat wants a feature (say SELinux) they can coordinate across projects rather than waiting for the right stuff to show up in repositories.
And don't kid yourselves, this is a huge competitive advantage that Ubuntu doesn't have.
I used to something like this -- we had a Parallel - Ethernet dongle that came with a DOS "LANMAN" driver.
You configure a LANMAN bootdisk and then use the NET USE command to map a drive on a regular WinNT-based server. If you google around, you can find pre-made LANMAN disk images so you don't need to dig through MS's FTP site and do it by hand.
IIRC, if you do not enable file sharing, Windows 98 has no exposed ports listening and is network safe. It's much better than W2K in this regard. Then remove the IE icon (TweakUI) and use Firefox.
The main problem with Win98 is that the "ActiveDesktop" is full of old exploitable IE components. Which means that you are even at danger from malformed image files. Get a good virus checker.
Windows XP actually will run on some surprisingly low-end boxes (586s etc). But driver availability on laptops might be poor.
Hey, I consider myself a code junky (and yes, even consider the issue of the BKL somewhat interesting), but I realize that this topic has about as much appeal to the average Slashdotter as mowing the lawn. This topic is probably mainly of historical interest. (BKL used to be one of those bread-n-butter slashdot stories in the early days)
The funny thing is that the reply quality here is quite high for technical topics, but over time slashdot management has found that retarded political threads are much more popular.
The porn industry is actually in decline -- DVD sales are way down and that's their primary source of income. (The raincoat crowd is now fully acquainted with the internet.)
Like other forms of traditional publishers (newspapers, RIAA, etc), they don't have a clue either.
However, Lori did misrepresent herself when she signed up for the account in such a way that she essentially defrauded both Myspace and the girl into believing she was someone who she was not.
While that might be technically true, in order for the "hacking" crime to stick, MySpace has to show actual financial damages from this fraud.
Since Myspace is full of fake profiles and no money was stolen, and no systems were damaged, this will be an interesting feat.
I think people here might be missing the logic behind this.
The "victim" for the computer trespass crime is MySpace, not the girl or her family.
MySpace suffered no financial losses because of this, so this is a highly dubious criminal charge. The family, on the other hand, has a legitimate case which they should take to the civil courts.
(Obviously the base instinct is "get 'em!", but Slashdot should be more perspective about computer crimes.)
Nope, because the criminal code has a damage restriction of some amount (I think it's $5000+).
In most cases a fake TOS-violating profile won't cost the service provider anything. It will be interesting to hear how this woman's fake profile somehow "stole" at least $5K from MySpace.
It's a terrible story, but it still should be treated a civil case. A criminal prosecution because someone put up a fake myspace profile is ridiculous. You could indite half of slashdot with that precedent.
That's what I was implying - Office 6 was bloated and buggy (partially due to the 'portable' pcode stuff), and the Windows-ish dialog boxes were less of a problem than Mac users imagined.
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Good point about the dialog, but the major complaint about the second trilogy is more the pacing.
Also, there was almost no science fiction on the market at the time of the original Star Wars (other than Star Trek reruns). But since then scifi/fantasy/comicbook movies have become Hollywood's bread-and-butter. A big reason the second trilogy is not well considered is that we now have so many other choices in that vein.
I think the unstated point of the article is that Google or Amazon is solid gold on a resume, so these respected companies can get away with having poor working conditions for "temps" or CSR people even while they brag to the MSM about how many chefs and masseuses they have around.
Of course there are many far worse jobs in Silicon Valley -- Plenty of places where you can get paid like crap at a doomed no-name "startup".
Also its kinda ironic that this "worst job" article came out just as the Silicon Valley Janitors Union is going on strike. Um, there's a worse job.
Sure, you'd grok the training just fine.
I'm just saying you couldn't hand a PDF to a IT techie and expect them to "intuitively" redact something completely without some really specific domain knowledge. (PDFs have multiple layers, and those layers have layers.)
And in most organizations, that domain knowledge doesn't necessarily rest in IT. (Your accountants probably know as much about "AccPac" as anyone, for example.) In my case, I was working directly with the guys writing the imaging/PDF software. But it's not like even the company's own sysadmins understood this stuff.
Well, that's true, IT can do general troubleshooting.
But, having worked for a company that did a lot of document processing, the PDF (and TIFF) formats are very complex and the subtleties wouldn't be necessarily be obvious to someone with a general "IT" skill set.
Probably depends how the boxes were made. They might have done something more complicated than just draw rectangles over the text.
PDFs have an "OCR" text layer that has no formatting information except position, but can be copied.
As if "IT professionals" have a clue?
Seriously, IT people spend all day programming or monkeywrenching Windows. They generally don't have any in-depth knowledge about application software (such as Acrobat) because they never use it.
Right I think a lot of people misunderstand this -- this is more like Intel's "Centrino" branding than the end-all of gaming branding. The point of "Centrino" was to allow consumers to differentiate good Pentium-M laptops from cheapass desktop chip-based laptops. And it was hugely successful.
The point of AMD GAME is so that consumers can differentiate systems with 'business graphics' (integrated) versus PCs that can game. Since AMD/ATI sells the whole package this should make it easier for them to upsell.
With all the video cards on the market, PC gaming badly needs better performance branding. But that's going to have to come from an industry consortiom. This ain't it, nor does it pretend to be.
Windows Experience Index only tells you about your expected Windows experience. It wasn't designed for games and doesn't produce useful scores for such.
I don't think you are contradicting him, because you're talking about initial cost, and he's talking about TCO. Maybe the grass just looks greener over there.
It's not just the code, it's the roadmap.
RedHat does work on all levels of the GNU/Linux stack - kernel, compiler, c-library, gui libraries, apps. That means that if RedHat wants a feature (say SELinux) they can coordinate across projects rather than waiting for the right stuff to show up in repositories.
And don't kid yourselves, this is a huge competitive advantage that Ubuntu doesn't have.
I used to something like this -- we had a Parallel - Ethernet dongle that came with a DOS "LANMAN" driver.
You configure a LANMAN bootdisk and then use the NET USE command to map a drive on a regular WinNT-based server. If you google around, you can find pre-made LANMAN disk images so you don't need to dig through MS's FTP site and do it by hand.
IIRC, if you do not enable file sharing, Windows 98 has no exposed ports listening and is network safe. It's much better than W2K in this regard. Then remove the IE icon (TweakUI) and use Firefox.
The main problem with Win98 is that the "ActiveDesktop" is full of old exploitable IE components. Which means that you are even at danger from malformed image files. Get a good virus checker.
Windows XP actually will run on some surprisingly low-end boxes (586s etc). But driver availability on laptops might be poor.
but I realize that this topic has about as much appeal to the average Slashdotter as mowing the lawn. This topic is probably mainly of historical interest. (BKL used to be one of those bread-n-butter slashdot stories in the early days)
The funny thing is that the reply quality here is quite high for technical topics, but over time slashdot management has found that retarded political threads are much more popular.
Interestingly, the latest political chainmail tactic is to include a link to Snopes.
Snopes, of course, says just the opposite of what the letter implies, but apparently most people will take the link alone at face value
The porn industry is actually in decline -- DVD sales are way down and that's their primary source of income. (The raincoat crowd is now fully acquainted with the internet.)
Like other forms of traditional publishers (newspapers, RIAA, etc), they don't have a clue either.
http://www.kxmc.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=237929
Right - tons of phishing and hacking scams are run from MySpace pages.
Its almost the last place on the web you should be "ratcheting down" IE's security settings.
Loss of reputation != actual financial damages.
Myspace should sue the woman in civil court rather than relying on the law to throw her in jail.
However, Lori did misrepresent herself when she signed up for the account in such a way that she essentially defrauded both Myspace and the girl into believing she was someone who she was not.
While that might be technically true, in order for the "hacking" crime to stick, MySpace has to show actual financial damages from this fraud.Since Myspace is full of fake profiles and no money was stolen, and no systems were damaged, this will be an interesting feat.
I think people here might be missing the logic behind this.
The "victim" for the computer trespass crime is MySpace, not the girl or her family.
MySpace suffered no financial losses because of this, so this is a highly dubious criminal charge. The family, on the other hand, has a legitimate case which they should take to the civil courts.
(Obviously the base instinct is "get 'em!", but Slashdot should be more perspective about computer crimes.)
Nope, because the criminal code has a damage restriction of some amount (I think it's $5000+).
In most cases a fake TOS-violating profile won't cost the service provider anything. It will be interesting to hear how this woman's fake profile somehow "stole" at least $5K from MySpace.
It's a terrible story, but it still should be treated a civil case. A criminal prosecution because someone put up a fake myspace profile is ridiculous. You could indite half of slashdot with that precedent.
Yeah, .NET was supposed to be a 'clean-break', but the downside of that it that it couldn't directly replace the legacy stuff like VBA.
That's what I was implying - Office 6 was bloated and buggy (partially due to the 'portable' pcode stuff), and the Windows-ish dialog boxes were less of a problem than Mac users imagined.
The Xeon box he quoted is a precision workstation, for business not gaming.
Apple does indeed have very good prices if you need an 8 core desktop, but they've got nothing underneath that.
FW800 is pretty much only used for disk drives, and there its slower and more expensive and harder to buy than eSATA.
Basically FW800 sucks and there's no reason to use it unless you have legacy mac stuff.