In the end everyone gets paid (roughly) the same regardless of job content and performance Funny, isn't this one of the major reasons why communism failed?
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Why do we always insist on crashing things into our planet? Isn't the one of the biggest cost of putting things in space the cost of fuel to fight gravity. Since we got them up that high, why not just point them at the sun and send them away? It would be like throwing toothpics on a forrest fire!!
Can it really be that hard to target the biggest freakin object in our solar system?? Seems alot more ecologically safe to me. Then we don't have to worry about mutant space fungi!!!
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Seriously what good is 100Mb (unshared) gonna give you when the rest of the internet is bottle-necked in the first place?
This sounds alot like the argument that people used when DSL lines were brand new! The fact is, if enough people get faster connections, then the major backbones are going to have to work harder(and R&D alot more) to develop faster routing.. if you build it, they will come!!
Look at it from an apartment building's perspective. One 100MB connection is awfully fast, and if you give each tennant >=T1 speeds from their apartment, you could make quite a profit off of it.. Who wouldn't mind paying $35 a month for their share of one of these lines...
If this was in my neighborhood, I know many other college students living near me would subscribe. Screw the rest of the internet, I don't care if pages load in.005 seconds, as opposed to.006 seconds, but if me and my friends were all in the same area, all connected to the 100MB fibers, Gaming would really kick ass. And then we wouldn't have to worry about trying to string cat5 all over the neighborhood very discreetly!!!
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The CEO of the RIAA flat out says in this article that swapping CD's with a friend is not wrong, however, with SDMI, that will no longer be an option, much less swapping between your old Audio Player and your new one (say it breaks and you buy a new one), or the CD player in your car..
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An MP3 player is like a gun, it is only as good or as bad as the person using it. It is silly to ban devices that can play an established, very widely used protocol, simply because some of the users choose to use it in ileagal ways.. Wired uses Mp3's in many of its audio only interviews, perhaps they should be dragged out onto the street and beaten for using a "Bad" protocol, I mean, if its in MP3 format, then i guess it should automatically be made illeagal right?
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I have a feeling that many people are like me, in that they don't always want to be found.. I don't want my work calling me at 10pm, after i've worked 10 hours, and am out on a relaxing walk with my girlfriend..
I am a computer geek, check my email every 3 minutes, cary a palm, etc. but I like to "disapear" sometimes..
Last week, my friend got a call at 2am in the middle of the forest while camping, one of his companies servers needed rebooted and the tech didn't know the command!! I don't want that..
Am i the only one who is offended by the idea of new mobile phones with GPS and blue-tooth in them being able to send you digital cupons as you walk by the store?
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Are universities being co-opted to provide MS based programming tools instead of other alternatives? Eg. Linux/Gcc/as/Qt/Gnome?
I do not think that this is so. I work for my colleges Computer Department, and we use M$ Visual Studio 6 for two reasons. 1. Its donated to us by Microsoft. (yes, we know that gcc is free!) 2. It is very easy to use. Keep in mind that this is an introductory C++ class.
Do you really want to have to sit down and explain to students all the intracacies of vi or emacs? Do you want to take the time to teach them exactly how to use the debbugger, or would you rather teach with an easier to use/more intuitive UI and stick to teaching the course.. Lets face it, from a beginners perspective, it is much easier to use VS6. It really is a decent UI for a beginner. After they get experience, then they can deal with learning other systems, portability, etc.
Also, the prof's here are really supportive of students that have the will to develop on other systems..
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Sure, its alright in the eyes of the slashdot community for groups like napster to enable people to download MP3's. Apparently, copyright protection is viewed on slashdot as only for the small man, if it belongs to a big, profitable company, it is okay.
I know that there are some major differences, like selling the copyrighted material as opposed to distributing it for free, but when you boil it down, there both stealing. How can you complain if your hard work is being pirated if you run napster and gnutella?
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but everyone seems to be so pro-napster, and the general vibe is: "screw the big rich music companies." However, when others do similar activities, there is a cry for help.
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
How about setting it up so that if you recieve too many troll or offtopic points in a specified period of time, you get your ability to post yanked for a period of time. And say maybe that for every comment that gets 2 points, it erases a troll point, if it gets 4 points, it erases 2 troll points.. etc. this would help keep the ratio somewhat in check, allowing the people that have the most interesting comments more leeway on OT and funny stuff. maybe even ban the IP.. that would make it more tricky for them to post as AC too!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Let the students decide on a project that they would like to do, and then have them work in a group to accomplish this. In school, programming classes emphasize too much on the individual programmer. In industry, team work is a requirement. Get them to work together, plan and design, then implement it. This way, they will be more prepared for a proffesional career in programming
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
So, the 400 pound gorilla is thumping its chest and demanding that the group travel west... But what about the two leaders of the gorilla tribe, the two married, 800 pound gorillas that want to lead the tribe east.. hmm, which way does the tribe end up going? I think east.. who will follow the one smaller gorilla, when you could follow and be protected by the two, much bigger ones...
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So is microsoft going to start going after companies that make those clear things in walls we see out of? Everyone knows that Microsoft owns windows.. Perhaps slashdot could remove anybody that uses a slash and a dot in their domain name.... hmm, i'm seeing all sorts of usefull ideas here...
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You build a car, call it a cavelier, you upgrade it a little the next year, give it a few new options: sport package, different paint colors, moon roof, make it about 10% more expensive, its still a camaro, next year, you add a more effiecient engine. still a camaro. Then, you drastically redesign from ground up, double the engine size, market it to a totaly different audience, change every little detail. You call it a Corvette, not a camaro. not realistically/historically accurate, but i hope you see my point...
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but just because a product meets a trusted specification, and passes a product test, it can still have bugs that were not tested for. With open source, if a product was designed this way, it would be easier to find other potential bugs that could endager the security of the tested system.
Things such as accidental back-doors and such that might not be tested in a formal test, would have the chance to be noticed by hackers the world over. closed source does not mean no bugs, or potential security breaches, just none that the group of developers have thought of.
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Hmm, i can just imagine it. An MP3/cracked DVD server running in space, no sort of copyright restrictions.. charge $1 to download a full DVD movie off of it.. fund the station for damn near ever...
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3. Make certain that the inovations ruin interoperability.
4. Call it the same name as the stadardized protocol, kerbos.
5. Hire intern to refresh slashdots web page every 25 seconds and ensure that nobody published the documentation for your innovation into an open standard.
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Hmm, if only we knew of a site that had thousands of readers that get very charged up about politics (like CDA, censorship, etc.), but have no real feeling of a voice. Imagine if they united. Put up a website stating candidates exact ideas and proposals, rather than the 15 seconds you hear about it on the biased networks. Have the voters be able to post comments on what the candidates are doing. Allow actual discussion to take place on a national scale, instead of the small discussions about politics at backyard barbeques between a few friends. Wait a minute. This sounds an awful lot like a political version of slashdot. Hmm. who do we know that probably recites slashcode in his sleep.. who has lots of bandwith, some nice servers, the knowledge and experience to lead such a project. Who has the balls to stand up to giants (like micro$oft) and not even blink. Cmd. Taco, Lead us..
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All of the grocery chains in my town have the little "club" card. A few months ago, they even showed how much you've spent total at that chain. And your name appears on the reciept. kinda creepy if you ask me.. i stopped using them. every time i see someone signing up for them, i tell them about the ramifications of it(tracking you, snail mail spam, etc) its amazing how once you explain this to people they don't want the card anymore..
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invent a light bulb, get a museum and lots of credit, (even though other kinds of street lights were used before) Develop a small, cheap method of transportation, which has caused sprawl, pollution, gridlock, drunk driving deaths, and a small feeling of personal freedom, go down in the annals of history. Kill 6 million people on the basis of their religion, and everyone knows your name. Invent the basis of the future, the foundation from which business, commerce, and information can freely pass, a basis from which undoubtedly every is touched, directly or indirectly, and people say "who?"
I'll bet 95% of the people who read this will know exactly who the first 3 are, but until this article, didn't even know that the fourth person existed.
Such a sad, over sensationalized world we live in!
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Actually, the other huge use of oxygen on an eventual mars trip would be to power the engines. Oxygen is used very much in rocket fuel, and it is difficult to bring along a big enough gas tank for all that fuel.
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
My DSL line is provided by a small ISP in my town. USWurst(USWest) does not yet provide DSL to my town, and probably never will, so I lease a latta circuit directly to the ISP. It works great, but last time something went wrong, it took USWurst a week to figure out who technically owned/controlled the line. (them or my ISP) having a fast connection, then having it go dead for a week really sucks. As soon as my contract is up, i'm thinking of going with a wireless connection.. I hate dealing with USWurst
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My university, Oregon Institute of Technology, is well known in the northwest, because students come out of college, ready to work. No retraining is necessary. This is becuase all of our professors have lots of industry experience, they do not come straight out of school. They teach us how to work in business. Very little theory, lots of hands on work. Junior and Senior projects that are treated just like a business would. If we had proffessors that were just out of school, we wouldn't get that kind of education. It is absolutely priceless. Also, the town of Klamath Falls, OR (in South Central Oregon, 45 Min north of Weed, CA) has such a low cost of living that the prof's don't have to be on welfare here!!
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Now everybody, even those without a computer, can print out and post pics in their cubicle next time a certain monopolist multi-bilionare gets a pie in the face, Or, we could decorate the office with pictures of starving, war ravaged refugees from CNN.. What a way to spruce up the workplace! Just what I've been needing..
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Slashdot Mirror
In the end everyone gets paid (roughly) the same regardless of job content and performance
Funny, isn't this one of the major reasons why communism failed?
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Can it really be that hard to target the biggest freakin object in our solar system?? Seems alot more ecologically safe to me. Then we don't have to worry about mutant space fungi!!!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
This sounds alot like the argument that people used when DSL lines were brand new! The fact is, if enough people get faster connections, then the major backbones are going to have to work harder(and R&D alot more) to develop faster routing.. if you build it, they will come!!
Look at it from an apartment building's perspective. One 100MB connection is awfully fast, and if you give each tennant >=T1 speeds from their apartment, you could make quite a profit off of it.. Who wouldn't mind paying $35 a month for their share of one of these lines...
If this was in my neighborhood, I know many other college students living near me would subscribe. Screw the rest of the internet, I don't care if pages load in .005 seconds, as opposed to .006 seconds, but if me and my friends were all in the same area, all connected to the 100MB fibers, Gaming would really kick ass. And then we wouldn't have to worry about trying to string cat5 all over the neighborhood very discreetly!!!
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
The CEO of the RIAA flat out says in this article that swapping CD's with a friend is not wrong, however, with SDMI, that will no longer be an option, much less swapping between your old Audio Player and your new one (say it breaks and you buy a new one), or the CD player in your car..
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
An MP3 player is like a gun, it is only as good or as bad as the person using it. It is silly to ban devices that can play an established, very widely used protocol, simply because some of the users choose to use it in ileagal ways.. Wired uses Mp3's in many of its audio only interviews, perhaps they should be dragged out onto the street and beaten for using a "Bad" protocol, I mean, if its in MP3 format, then i guess it should automatically be made illeagal right?
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I am a computer geek, check my email every 3 minutes, cary a palm, etc. but I like to "disapear" sometimes..
Last week, my friend got a call at 2am in the middle of the forest while camping, one of his companies servers needed rebooted and the tech didn't know the command!! I don't want that..
Am i the only one who is offended by the idea of new mobile phones with GPS and blue-tooth in them being able to send you digital cupons as you walk by the store?
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I do not think that this is so. I work for my colleges Computer Department, and we use M$ Visual Studio 6 for two reasons. 1. Its donated to us by Microsoft. (yes, we know that gcc is free!) 2. It is very easy to use. Keep in mind that this is an introductory C++ class.
Do you really want to have to sit down and explain to students all the intracacies of vi or emacs? Do you want to take the time to teach them exactly how to use the debbugger, or would you rather teach with an easier to use/more intuitive UI and stick to teaching the course.. Lets face it, from a beginners perspective, it is much easier to use VS6. It really is a decent UI for a beginner. After they get experience, then they can deal with learning other systems, portability, etc.
Also, the prof's here are really supportive of students that have the will to develop on other systems..
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I know that there are some major differences, like selling the copyrighted material as opposed to distributing it for free, but when you boil it down, there both stealing. How can you complain if your hard work is being pirated if you run napster and gnutella?
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but everyone seems to be so pro-napster, and the general vibe is: "screw the big rich music companies." However, when others do similar activities, there is a cry for help.
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
How about setting it up so that if you recieve too many troll or offtopic points in a specified period of time, you get your ability to post yanked for a period of time. And say maybe that for every comment that gets 2 points, it erases a troll point, if it gets 4 points, it erases 2 troll points.. etc. this would help keep the ratio somewhat in check, allowing the people that have the most interesting comments more leeway on OT and funny stuff. maybe even ban the IP.. that would make it more tricky for them to post as AC too!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Let the students decide on a project that they would like to do, and then have them work in a group to accomplish this. In school, programming classes emphasize too much on the individual programmer. In industry, team work is a requirement. Get them to work together, plan and design, then implement it. This way, they will be more prepared for a proffesional career in programming
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
So, the 400 pound gorilla is thumping its chest and demanding that the group travel west... But what about the two leaders of the gorilla tribe, the two married, 800 pound gorillas that want to lead the tribe east.. hmm, which way does the tribe end up going? I think east.. who will follow the one smaller gorilla, when you could follow and be protected by the two, much bigger ones...
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
So is microsoft going to start going after companies that make those clear things in walls we see out of? Everyone knows that Microsoft owns windows.. Perhaps slashdot could remove anybody that uses a slash and a dot in their domain name.... hmm, i'm seeing all sorts of usefull ideas here...
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I thought that Slashdot contained the worlds largest concentration of conspiracy theorist when it came to Microsoft, Apparently, I was wrong.
This is especially funny in that the country that is the world leader in "big brother is watching you" is scared about "big brother watching them"
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You build a car, call it a cavelier, you upgrade it a little the next year, give it a few new options: sport package, different paint colors, moon roof, make it about 10% more expensive, its still a camaro, next year, you add a more effiecient engine. still a camaro. Then, you drastically redesign from ground up, double the engine size, market it to a totaly different audience, change every little detail. You call it a Corvette, not a camaro. not realistically/historically accurate, but i hope you see my point...
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Things such as accidental back-doors and such that might not be tested in a formal test, would have the chance to be noticed by hackers the world over. closed source does not mean no bugs, or potential security breaches, just none that the group of developers have thought of.
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Hmm, i can just imagine it. An MP3/cracked DVD server running in space, no sort of copyright restrictions.. charge $1 to download a full DVD movie off of it.. fund the station for damn near ever...
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I believe there is a version of IE for HP-UX, at least there was a port of 4.....
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1. Find an system that works well, such as kerbos
2. Innovate to add new features to the protocol.
3. Make certain that the inovations ruin interoperability.
4. Call it the same name as the stadardized protocol, kerbos.
5. Hire intern to refresh slashdots web page every 25 seconds and ensure that nobody published the documentation for your innovation into an open standard.
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Hmm, if only we knew of a site that had thousands of readers that get very charged up about politics (like CDA, censorship, etc.), but have no real feeling of a voice. Imagine if they united. Put up a website stating candidates exact ideas and proposals, rather than the 15 seconds you hear about it on the biased networks. Have the voters be able to post comments on what the candidates are doing. Allow actual discussion to take place on a national scale, instead of the small discussions about politics at backyard barbeques between a few friends. Wait a minute. This sounds an awful lot like a political version of slashdot. Hmm. who do we know that probably recites slashcode in his sleep.. who has lots of bandwith, some nice servers, the knowledge and experience to lead such a project. Who has the balls to stand up to giants (like micro$oft) and not even blink. Cmd. Taco, Lead us..
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
All of the grocery chains in my town have the little "club" card. A few months ago, they even showed how much you've spent total at that chain. And your name appears on the reciept. kinda creepy if you ask me.. i stopped using them. every time i see someone signing up for them, i tell them about the ramifications of it(tracking you, snail mail spam, etc) its amazing how once you explain this to people they don't want the card anymore..
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I'll bet 95% of the people who read this will know exactly who the first 3 are, but until this article, didn't even know that the fourth person existed.
Such a sad, over sensationalized world we live in!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Actually, the other huge use of oxygen on an eventual mars trip would be to power the engines. Oxygen is used very much in rocket fuel, and it is difficult to bring along a big enough gas tank for all that fuel.
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
My DSL line is provided by a small ISP in my town. USWurst(USWest) does not yet provide DSL to my town, and probably never will, so I lease a latta circuit directly to the ISP. It works great, but last time something went wrong, it took USWurst a week to figure out who technically owned/controlled the line. (them or my ISP) having a fast connection, then having it go dead for a week really sucks. As soon as my contract is up, i'm thinking of going with a wireless connection.. I hate dealing with USWurst
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
My university, Oregon Institute of Technology, is well known in the northwest, because students come out of college, ready to work. No retraining is necessary. This is becuase all of our professors have lots of industry experience, they do not come straight out of school. They teach us how to work in business. Very little theory, lots of hands on work. Junior and Senior projects that are treated just like a business would. If we had proffessors that were just out of school, we wouldn't get that kind of education. It is absolutely priceless. Also, the town of Klamath Falls, OR (in South Central Oregon, 45 Min north of Weed, CA) has such a low cost of living that the prof's don't have to be on welfare here!!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Now everybody, even those without a computer, can print out and post pics in their cubicle next time a certain monopolist multi-bilionare gets a pie in the face, Or, we could decorate the office with pictures of starving, war ravaged refugees from CNN.. What a way to spruce up the workplace! Just what I've been needing..
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???