Wow... I am amazed at how quick the users of slashdot these days are to try and get a dig at Microsoft. Well mabey Apple did release a product that erases everyting you have on your computer, but remember that time when Microsoft put out a product that had a security hole and it took them at least 2 days to fix it. I am sorry but I feel as if you are using the Chewbacca defense here.
I am not trying to say I agree with everything Microsoft does and that they are perfect, because they are not. But I can't remember the last time I installed a Microsoft product that removed all the contents of my hard drive. Mabey we should be discussing how this could be avoided in the future. Like a sandbox for installers so they have to ask for permission to do things and if they seem loopy to the sandbox it asks you for permission for them.
I had a 60 gig 75gxp do the exact same thing to me... Start clicking a little bit and gradually start doing it more often and for longer periods of time.
I now know what is wrong with my old Fisher DVD Player. I have a couple of dvd's that put up a wierd message and say sorry your dvd player isn't of the region this DVD. And the DVD player is a run of the mill DVD player with no modifications at all. I guess I can understand them wanting to make it more secure, but mabey they should check existing DVD players before doing so! That is the only DVD player I have looked at that doesn't skip at layer change.
So now the "real world" is defined as random, cool... What makes compiling the kernel not a real world test. If you look at the bandwidth meter on www.kernel.org whenever there is a release, the bandwidth utilization would lead me to believe that quite a few people in the real world compile the kernel. Aside from that I am sure there are at least a couple of "real world" c/c++ development servers out there in the world running linux. Since when is compiling code not a good benchmark for that type of box? I am sorry but I think you might want to reconsider your view of the real world.
How can we assume it is the platform's fault, it could have been the programming of the actual game. And if you think about it what should the game console do if the actual game that is running freaks out and causes some kind of unrecoverable error... Being that it is a gaming console, I guess reboot would be the best action as it has nothing else to do.
it's a damn good thing I never watch news on the television... oh wait thats right I don't have cable or an antenna for that matter. I will stick to my dvd collection, there is plenty of truth about the world in there. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Terminator 2, Meet Joe Black, what more reality stories could you possibly need.
At the rate people are signing onto the Internet for the first time every day news via television will be less and less important. On the net you don't have to wait around till the TV station has scheduled the news to be on. Just hit the news site(s) you like the most and get some news.
Sure you don't have the guarantee that the news is right, but there seems to be a much better chance of it. Especially when you start going to sites that have public discussion forums. You get enough people discussing a topic and the "truth" is bound to come out. You also have the ability to check the story against other sites, see what they have to say about it.
The argument of being reachable at any time is crap... if you can sit there and ignore your phone ringing at home, whats to stop you when it's vibrating/ringing in your pocket? That is what they made caller id for, and man is it handy sometimes... oh look ex-girlfriend, I think i will let my handy voicemail catch that one. And I may be mistaken and if so somebody berate me, but, I think you can get a package that is only for outgoing calls.
Hell, you can even setup groups on most cellphones now so you wouldn't even know somebody was calling unless you told it to ring for that person. I am sorry but sitting in my car in a parking lot in the middle of winter making a call is much more comfortable than standing in a phone booth looking at my nice warm car waiting for the call to be over.
I looked for a few hours after I got out of the theatre for that kick ass dolly he used to cart that guy up the stairs and throw him off the balcony... That thing ROCKED! If anybody has a link to that thing PLEASE let me know! I found some similar that had treads but no 3 wheel arrangement like that thing had...
I had a similar when I was driving around town earlier, I probably should have been paying attention to the road.... bah! I was trying to figure out how such a system would be implemented and there are several hurdles. When the system is small is when it would be it's weakest, as the large (high bandwidth, high uptime) nodes would have to keep track of quite a bit of small nodes. As time went on and the technology got more popular the load would be distributed quite a bit more. But where to store all the data? In ram, no... too much of a burden on the large node, in dbms?, a database, I guess you could require the user to install MySQL or something like that to use the service, but that is kinda bulky.
As far as keeping traffic down, you only let large nodes talk to large nodes, passing along search requests if they don't have matches for the material being requested. I figure do a first pass search that returns info on the large node right above a small node if found and allow the small node to re-request the search be run past the large node if it isn't happy with the results. Then have the large node pass on the request to other large nodes it knows of.
I duno, there are quite a few things that need to be figured out for that to work but I belive that it is a much better model. If anybody is interested in throwing ideas back and forth please feel free to e-mail me! I would love to discuss the idea and mabey do some implementing.
The whole non compete thing is bullshit where I live.. Tennessee is a right to work state, no employer can make you sign something that will stick that keeps you from earning money.
Well... in my oppinion if you are unwilling to give the work to them the only thing you can do is tell them the truth. If you don't do the work you won't have a job. If they say we will own it if you finish it here, you won't be staying. It sounds like you have already made your mind up no matter what they say, so just break it to them. If they don't like the idea HOPEFULLY you have been saving money for a rainy day and can hold out the 50 hours it will take to finish the product, which you could easily do in a week if you quit. If not... well, time to go back to college eating practices for awhile;) MMMM... ramen.
But seriously were it me I would ask them, if they say no, turn in notice and start working on the project yourself. If they need the client bad enough they will pay you for a licence to the software and you make out even better. Mabey make them aware of how long you spent doing it yourself and tell them it will take that long again if you do it for them and offer them a licence of the one you have created. Without being in your shoes thats the best advice I can give.
I don't actually spend the entire quarter in the bathroom, I just usually find the commercials more interesting so I use the restroom durring the game so I don't miss them;)
Turns out most of the moronic venture capital firms have either given up on retarded online business models or closed their own doors.... Too bad, I was looking forward to watching the commercials and taking bathroom breaks durring the game... oh well.
Studies can show anything you want them too if you try hard enough when it comes to people's reactions to situations. In my oppinion if I want to draw pictures and put them on my website of cartoon characters doing whatever I happen to have in my mind, I think I should be allowed. You don't have to look at them! If I push them in your face or post them all over town, then we will talk.... But last time I checked people were not canvasing cities with printouts of virtual girls in compromising positions.
And as far as the "Studies showing" depictions of illegal acts provoking reactions from those with a "fetish", "illness", whatever you want to call it is bullshit. If somebody is going to commit a crime, in most cases they are going to commit the crime. For us to start changing the definition of freedom of speech to try and reduce such acts is retarded. Has anybody stopped to think that it might be good to allow such material to exist.
Have you ever come home from a hard day at work and been full of rage? As an experiment next time you have a horrible day at work and feel as if you are on the edge of snapping and taking out your neighborhood with some kind of deadly force, pop in "Falling Down" or "Office Space" and tell me how you feel by the end of the movie? From those I have talked to they feel as if watching that movie is an EXCELENT way to relax after such a day.
And the funniest part, which still kills me when I think about it, is no matter how much I make per hour. I get more excited over dinky free hardware than I do a paycheck that could have purchased many times over what was given to me in hardware.
The woman that did the certifications and handover of the 25 electoral votes is just a talking head that means nothing.... UNFORTUNATELY it is now up to the courts as Gore and everybody else is suing and pressing charges and blah blah blah! I just wish one of the 2 , main party, candidates would give up and let the other in office, whoever makes it in isn't going to last more than 4 years anyway.
You can currently do that with intel boards. A friend of mine tried it on a BP6 using a 500 Mhz celeron and a 400 Mhz celeron. As for OS support to intelligently schedule jobs that take more time it could be done. As far as I know no OS has logic for differently clocked chips. It is something that could be added but would it be worth the trouble. How many people are really gonna buy several different speeds for a box.
I don't understand you people... companies have to make money. I want to know what fairy land you are living in that people the size of Google can just survive without income. Have you read what kind of hardware they have backing up their search engine? Eventually the bill has to be footed somehow and how dare them try to do it by pulling in revenue!
I don't agree with that being a reason... Women have run across that mentalitly in quite a few fields. There is a typical "Good Old Boys Network" mentality that people have to get out of and if it wasn't for strong women getting into the problematic fields and showing people they are just as capable of doing the jobs the problem would still exist everywhere. Granted that is a problem in computer science from my experience. But not one that should stop women from entering the field. There are way too many strong women in the world for that to be a reason.
And no there is no girl looking over my shoulder as I write this...:) I REALLY do believe that!
What does routing priority have to do with Linux? this will affect all users equally.... Windows, Linux, Mac, BeOS, etc... Think before you set of your "Somebody is trying to take down linux" alarm. Just incase you didn't notice there isn't some big router conspiracy to disallow packets that have been fingerprinted as coming from a linux tcp/ip stack.... calm down
With any new toy the first rollout is always expensive as hell... the prices will start dropping when the other manufactures that were on that list start making them:
Companies that have announced their support for the DVD-RW concept: Kenwood Corporation, Sharp Corporation, TDK Corporation, Victor Company of Japan Ltd., Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation,Ricoh Co. Ltd., Pioneer Video Corporation
With that many people producing the writers prices are bound to drop.
Nobody said its too late for them to do it.. this is a press release that says they will be offering the product sometime around gift giving time... There are plenty of details to be worked out... write them an e-mail if you feel strongly about it. If enough people write them and suggest such a feature they may include it.
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Wow... I am amazed at how quick the users of slashdot these days are to try and get a dig at Microsoft. Well mabey Apple did release a product that erases everyting you have on your computer, but remember that time when Microsoft put out a product that had a security hole and it took them at least 2 days to fix it. I am sorry but I feel as if you are using the Chewbacca defense here.
I am not trying to say I agree with everything Microsoft does and that they are perfect, because they are not. But I can't remember the last time I installed a Microsoft product that removed all the contents of my hard drive. Mabey we should be discussing how this could be avoided in the future. Like a sandbox for installers so they have to ask for permission to do things and if they seem loopy to the sandbox it asks you for permission for them.
I had a 60 gig 75gxp do the exact same thing to me... Start clicking a little bit and gradually start doing it more often and for longer periods of time.
I now know what is wrong with my old Fisher DVD Player. I have a couple of dvd's that put up a wierd message and say sorry your dvd player isn't of the region this DVD. And the DVD player is a run of the mill DVD player with no modifications at all. I guess I can understand them wanting to make it more secure, but mabey they should check existing DVD players before doing so! That is the only DVD player I have looked at that doesn't skip at layer change.
So now the "real world" is defined as random, cool... What makes compiling the kernel not a real world test. If you look at the bandwidth meter on www.kernel.org whenever there is a release, the bandwidth utilization would lead me to believe that quite a few people in the real world compile the kernel. Aside from that I am sure there are at least a couple of "real world" c/c++ development servers out there in the world running linux. Since when is compiling code not a good benchmark for that type of box? I am sorry but I think you might want to reconsider your view of the real world.
How can we assume it is the platform's fault, it could have been the programming of the actual game. And if you think about it what should the game console do if the actual game that is running freaks out and causes some kind of unrecoverable error... Being that it is a gaming console, I guess reboot would be the best action as it has nothing else to do.
it's a damn good thing I never watch news on the television... oh wait thats right I don't have cable or an antenna for that matter. I will stick to my dvd collection, there is plenty of truth about the world in there. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Terminator 2, Meet Joe Black, what more reality stories could you possibly need.
At the rate people are signing onto the Internet for the first time every day news via television will be less and less important. On the net you don't have to wait around till the TV station has scheduled the news to be on. Just hit the news site(s) you like the most and get some news.
Sure you don't have the guarantee that the news is right, but there seems to be a much better chance of it. Especially when you start going to sites that have public discussion forums. You get enough people discussing a topic and the "truth" is bound to come out. You also have the ability to check the story against other sites, see what they have to say about it.
The argument of being reachable at any time is crap... if you can sit there and ignore your phone ringing at home, whats to stop you when it's vibrating/ringing in your pocket? That is what they made caller id for, and man is it handy sometimes... oh look ex-girlfriend, I think i will let my handy voicemail catch that one. And I may be mistaken and if so somebody berate me, but, I think you can get a package that is only for outgoing calls.
Hell, you can even setup groups on most cellphones now so you wouldn't even know somebody was calling unless you told it to ring for that person. I am sorry but sitting in my car in a parking lot in the middle of winter making a call is much more comfortable than standing in a phone booth looking at my nice warm car waiting for the call to be over.
I looked for a few hours after I got out of the theatre for that kick ass dolly he used to cart that guy up the stairs and throw him off the balcony... That thing ROCKED! If anybody has a link to that thing PLEASE let me know! I found some similar that had treads but no 3 wheel arrangement like that thing had...
Slow news day I guess.... this is just pathetic. Isn't there SOMETHING else going on in the computer world right now?
I had a similar when I was driving around town earlier, I probably should have been paying attention to the road.... bah! I was trying to figure out how such a system would be implemented and there are several hurdles. When the system is small is when it would be it's weakest, as the large (high bandwidth, high uptime) nodes would have to keep track of quite a bit of small nodes. As time went on and the technology got more popular the load would be distributed quite a bit more. But where to store all the data? In ram, no... too much of a burden on the large node, in dbms?, a database, I guess you could require the user to install MySQL or something like that to use the service, but that is kinda bulky.
As far as keeping traffic down, you only let large nodes talk to large nodes, passing along search requests if they don't have matches for the material being requested. I figure do a first pass search that returns info on the large node right above a small node if found and allow the small node to re-request the search be run past the large node if it isn't happy with the results. Then have the large node pass on the request to other large nodes it knows of.
I duno, there are quite a few things that need to be figured out for that to work but I belive that it is a much better model. If anybody is interested in throwing ideas back and forth please feel free to e-mail me! I would love to discuss the idea and mabey do some implementing.
I don't make up the terminology..... Take a look at this:
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The whole non compete thing is bullshit where I live.. Tennessee is a right to work state, no employer can make you sign something that will stick that keeps you from earning money.
Well... in my oppinion if you are unwilling to give the work to them the only thing you can do is tell them the truth. If you don't do the work you won't have a job. If they say we will own it if you finish it here, you won't be staying. It sounds like you have already made your mind up no matter what they say, so just break it to them. If they don't like the idea HOPEFULLY you have been saving money for a rainy day and can hold out the 50 hours it will take to finish the product, which you could easily do in a week if you quit. If not... well, time to go back to college eating practices for awhile ;) MMMM... ramen.
But seriously were it me I would ask them, if they say no, turn in notice and start working on the project yourself. If they need the client bad enough they will pay you for a licence to the software and you make out even better. Mabey make them aware of how long you spent doing it yourself and tell them it will take that long again if you do it for them and offer them a licence of the one you have created. Without being in your shoes thats the best advice I can give.
I don't actually spend the entire quarter in the bathroom, I just usually find the commercials more interesting so I use the restroom durring the game so I don't miss them ;)
Turns out most of the moronic venture capital firms have either given up on retarded online business models or closed their own doors.... Too bad, I was looking forward to watching the commercials and taking bathroom breaks durring the game... oh well.
Studies can show anything you want them too if you try hard enough when it comes to people's reactions to situations. In my oppinion if I want to draw pictures and put them on my website of cartoon characters doing whatever I happen to have in my mind, I think I should be allowed. You don't have to look at them! If I push them in your face or post them all over town, then we will talk.... But last time I checked people were not canvasing cities with printouts of virtual girls in compromising positions.
And as far as the "Studies showing" depictions of illegal acts provoking reactions from those with a "fetish", "illness", whatever you want to call it is bullshit. If somebody is going to commit a crime, in most cases they are going to commit the crime. For us to start changing the definition of freedom of speech to try and reduce such acts is retarded. Has anybody stopped to think that it might be good to allow such material to exist.
Have you ever come home from a hard day at work and been full of rage? As an experiment next time you have a horrible day at work and feel as if you are on the edge of snapping and taking out your neighborhood with some kind of deadly force, pop in "Falling Down" or "Office Space" and tell me how you feel by the end of the movie? From those I have talked to they feel as if watching that movie is an EXCELENT way to relax after such a day.
And the funniest part, which still kills me when I think about it, is no matter how much I make per hour. I get more excited over dinky free hardware than I do a paycheck that could have purchased many times over what was given to me in hardware.
The woman that did the certifications and handover of the 25 electoral votes is just a talking head that means nothing.... UNFORTUNATELY it is now up to the courts as Gore and everybody else is suing and pressing charges and blah blah blah! I just wish one of the 2 , main party, candidates would give up and let the other in office, whoever makes it in isn't going to last more than 4 years anyway.
You can currently do that with intel boards. A friend of mine tried it on a BP6 using a 500 Mhz celeron and a 400 Mhz celeron. As for OS support to intelligently schedule jobs that take more time it could be done. As far as I know no OS has logic for differently clocked chips. It is something that could be added but would it be worth the trouble. How many people are really gonna buy several different speeds for a box.
I don't understand you people... companies have to make money. I want to know what fairy land you are living in that people the size of Google can just survive without income. Have you read what kind of hardware they have backing up their search engine? Eventually the bill has to be footed somehow and how dare them try to do it by pulling in revenue!
I don't agree with that being a reason... Women have run across that mentalitly in quite a few fields. There is a typical "Good Old Boys Network" mentality that people have to get out of and if it wasn't for strong women getting into the problematic fields and showing people they are just as capable of doing the jobs the problem would still exist everywhere. Granted that is a problem in computer science from my experience. But not one that should stop women from entering the field. There are way too many strong women in the world for that to be a reason.
:) I REALLY do believe that!
And no there is no girl looking over my shoulder as I write this...
What does routing priority have to do with Linux? this will affect all users equally.... Windows, Linux, Mac, BeOS, etc... Think before you set of your "Somebody is trying to take down linux" alarm. Just incase you didn't notice there isn't some big router conspiracy to disallow packets that have been fingerprinted as coming from a linux tcp/ip stack.... calm down
With any new toy the first rollout is always expensive as hell... the prices will start dropping when the other manufactures that were on that list start making them:
Companies that have announced their support for the DVD-RW concept: Kenwood Corporation, Sharp Corporation, TDK Corporation, Victor Company of Japan Ltd., Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation,Ricoh Co. Ltd., Pioneer Video Corporation
With that many people producing the writers prices are bound to drop.
Nobody said its too late for them to do it.. this is a press release that says they will be offering the product sometime around gift giving time... There are plenty of details to be worked out... write them an e-mail if you feel strongly about it. If enough people write them and suggest such a feature they may include it.
It seems as though their database server has kicked the bucket :( They must have had plenty of hits... I have never been able to kill a MySQL server.