Nah since I was the 'most likely' candidate I got blamed for one particular event. One incidentally I had nothing to do with. Oh yeah this "company" also was so security minded that everyone's password was their login ID and you were not allowed to change it. I think it is still like that (I have friends whom still work there).
Not only because I'm in Manitoba but because I can't believe people do not know that their employers act in such a fashion.
I was fired from a tech job on a trumped up security violation (i was continually show'ing the system's guys how stupid they were and was too young to realize the position I put myself in). Was escorted out of building and fought the dismissal. After a nice long meeting with a manager and an explanation to said manager on how NT profiles work, my status was changed to "quit" and I told them where they could shove their apology. But from the recent stories I've been encountering (including this one) it looks like I got the Royal Treatment! (Of course that was at least 5 years ago).
While your points are valid; it must be asserted that the point of shrink wrap apps is accountability and liability. If you sell CanduOS to Candu reactor users and an OS exploit causes a meltdown then you as the vender are held responsible.
Just like engineers who build faulty bridges are responsible should the bridge break and kill people. Free software is good but lacks the liability and accountability that governments and enterprise depends on.
Yup; for once ZDNet has it right. Linux distro's are WAY too big. I stopped using Linux in favor of the BSD camp for this exact reason. Though the rampant clueless evangelising of Linux did help that too. Of course unlike most of you Linux cultists I still use Windows too (though my main work is in *nix Windows still kills it for usability and entertainment).
Things like complete documentation, the ports trees and a user base whose knowledge base ratio is much higher than the blind following of the "linux camp" base *BSD a much better choice for users that don't wish to be sheep.
What!!! I'm not paying that!!! Common K-Tel Gigabit TokenRing for $49.95 is where it's at!
Seriously what good is 100Mb (unshared) gonna give you when the rest of the internet is bottle-necked in the first place? If you have good evidence against this statement please let me know.
55k US is quite a bit.... wait I only make 14k CAN... doh! Then again I spend all my time studying and pissing off people that call me for help... what do they think I am tech support??? oh wait... I am... still... what do you expect for what I'm making (University sucks... you pay to go and you have to pay to live....dammit mc'donalds is expensive at my wage!):P
U of Winnipeg? Since when did they offer BS:CS?
I was under the impression that they didn't offer science degrees... Though the U of Manitoba is no better and getting into CS courses makes brain surgery look easy. It's just sad the department of CS is using it's students to get better funding. (3 years of students have been screwed with many more to come!)
These images are great! Does anyone know where there are images of the entire earth in nice high res??? The only one's I've found online where quite bad (blurry, blocky or down right crap).
It would be great to have search engines which specialize in a specific topic. Like medicine or economics or what ever topic they feel necessary. This way you can apply strict rules to everything that doesn't fit your topic criteria... of course this is very niche based but the countless hours I've searched for explainations of alogrithims only to get shareware sites is mind numbing. Try searching for "Berkley mbox lex grammer".... and end up with nothing useful. (disclaimer: lex parses better than i do so let it do the work)
If your trying to make a search engine that isn't easily exploitable how about identifying how current engines are exploited and design around that....
One way is to include the keyword many many times in a comment tag. A possible solution is to grade the keywords via their entropy with the words surrounding it. Such as testing for repeating patterns in a comment tag. Hell use the HTML tags to help you out by not grading anything in HTML comments. Another way is to do some syntactic analysis on the content of tags like and if they are not unique then they are only counted once. Certainly people with bad grammer skills and languages other than the language intended will suffer but you can add verification critera for each language you want to index. Before the trolls hunt me down and say this method is censorship (americans love to say anything is censorship) then you should just stick to the simple useless search engines we have now. Plus one can always implement this as a searching option to an existing broken wheel.
This isn't really that hard it just requires a bit cleverness and lots of prepratory work.
He may act like it but I'm sure he isn't. With all this "granting of forgivness" all I can say is. Who the F*** cares!? It isn't the lack of GPL'ness that will Kill KDE it is the megolithic resources it requires to run.
This problem will be approached the same way other "control" attempts have been. If email is gonna be sniffed it will be madly encrypted or hell not used through US pipes. Hell if this gets to be a problem and those whom wish to remain anonymous then what's stopping them from developing their own protocol for messaging. Hell pop and smtp are getting old and are insecure (apop is a nice attempt but the majority of people out there are still using plain text passwords with pop).
When you walk down the street you can find the/. trolls by the people waving like idiots at their virtual keyboards as they troll down the street.
Seriously if you want a good look at a reasonable future watch a few episodes of Earth: Final Conflict. (But ignore the cheap aliens) The ID shuttle for example uses an optical/visual interface thingy and the internet in the show is not too far away (as long as Micro$oft doesn't screw it up first).
Basically this was a puff-piece to blur the lines between what a computer needs and what you need your computer to have.
Kernel Klink: Kapitalist Pig! My source is beingk open!
Stallman: No it isn't it's name doesn't include GNU!
Kernel Klink: I am not caringk about vat you be doingk with yer animals!
Maybe I speaking too soon but what possible reason could some individual have for a 75Gb hard drive? More swap space for windows? I've been bitching about this since I had my 40mb drive and upgraded to 1.0 gb.... I have a few large drives and use less than 13% of them. Hell i have about 45-50gbs of aggregate space in my house and I'm only using no more than 10 (being very generous) between all 5 machines.... Just wait windows 200X will come on a double sided double layered DVD. "Chalk full of Blue Screen goodness!" (TM):P
From my personal experience KDE is a bloated pig. Now of course there is objection (and rightly so) to this statement but that's not the only reason why I'm not a fan. The other reason is that KDE is trying it's hardest to look/feel/and act like Window$. This is definately not the way to go.
Eazel is not exactly helping gnome go in the right direction either.....
I don't really have kick ass hardware just barely enough to do what I need. On my P133 laptop with 32 MBs o'ram. Linux running blackbox & gnome take approximately 30-1min to start up. If I run KDE on this same machine it takes 3-4 minutes and is very sluggish. If KDE went on slim-fast then I would give it another look but until then blackbox & gnome are my way of choice.
And you don't seem to understand,
You seem more like a troll than man.
And all those posts you hold so dear
Should be crammed in your ear.
And you know I mean to beat on you,
But you don't really mean very much.......
Heheh now all you Lain fans will have the intro tune stuck in your head for hours! muaahahahah...
Anime is great and just because the simplton trolls cannot think about what they watch it doesn't mean it sucks. Come on you trolls would rather criticize a movie's credits' font than actually enjoy the movie itself!
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Nah since I was the 'most likely' candidate I got blamed for one particular event. One incidentally I had nothing to do with. Oh yeah this "company" also was so security minded that everyone's password was their login ID and you were not allowed to change it. I think it is still like that (I have friends whom still work there).
Not only because I'm in Manitoba but because I can't believe people do not know that their employers act in such a fashion.
I was fired from a tech job on a trumped up security violation (i was continually show'ing the system's guys how stupid they were and was too young to realize the position I put myself in). Was escorted out of building and fought the dismissal. After a nice long meeting with a manager and an explanation to said manager on how NT profiles work, my status was changed to "quit" and I told them where they could shove their apology. But from the recent stories I've been encountering (including this one) it looks like I got the Royal Treatment! (Of course that was at least 5 years ago).
While your points are valid; it must be asserted that the point of shrink wrap apps is accountability and liability. If you sell CanduOS to Candu reactor users and an OS exploit causes a meltdown then you as the vender are held responsible.
Just like engineers who build faulty bridges are responsible should the bridge break and kill people. Free software is good but lacks the liability and accountability that governments and enterprise depends on.
Yup; for once ZDNet has it right. Linux distro's are WAY too big. I stopped using Linux in favor of the BSD camp for this exact reason. Though the rampant clueless evangelising of Linux did help that too. Of course unlike most of you Linux cultists I still use Windows too (though my main work is in *nix Windows still kills it for usability and entertainment).
Things like complete documentation, the ports trees and a user base whose knowledge base ratio is much higher than the blind following of the "linux camp" base *BSD a much better choice for users that don't wish to be sheep.
I hearby proclaim this story as BANNER BAIT!
werd g'.
don't forget to mention kde's addiction to ram and processor time. i've seen fork bombs which took less resources!
What!!! I'm not paying that!!! Common K-Tel Gigabit TokenRing for $49.95 is where it's at!
Seriously what good is 100Mb (unshared) gonna give you when the rest of the internet is bottle-necked in the first place? If you have good evidence against this statement please let me know.
55k US is quite a bit.... wait I only make 14k CAN... doh! Then again I spend all my time studying and pissing off people that call me for help... what do they think I am tech support??? oh wait... I am ... still... what do you expect for what I'm making (University sucks... you pay to go and you have to pay to live....dammit mc'donalds is expensive at my wage!) :P
Never seen the show (too busy for tv) but one thing stands out..... EMP and a sledgehammer like mousetrap...... Mauler is just junk after that....
U of Winnipeg? Since when did they offer BS:CS? I was under the impression that they didn't offer science degrees... Though the U of Manitoba is no better and getting into CS courses makes brain surgery look easy. It's just sad the department of CS is using it's students to get better funding. (3 years of students have been screwed with many more to come!)
These images are great! Does anyone know where there are images of the entire earth in nice high res??? The only one's I've found online where quite bad (blurry, blocky or down right crap).
An interesting idea.
It would be great to have search engines which specialize in a specific topic. Like medicine or economics or what ever topic they feel necessary. This way you can apply strict rules to everything that doesn't fit your topic criteria... of course this is very niche based but the countless hours I've searched for explainations of alogrithims only to get shareware sites is mind numbing. Try searching for "Berkley mbox lex grammer" .... and end up with nothing useful. (disclaimer: lex parses better than i do so let it do the work)
If your trying to make a search engine that isn't easily exploitable how about identifying how current engines are exploited and design around that....
One way is to include the keyword many many times in a comment tag. A possible solution is to grade the keywords via their entropy with the words surrounding it. Such as testing for repeating patterns in a comment tag. Hell use the HTML tags to help you out by not grading anything in HTML comments. Another way is to do some syntactic analysis on the content of tags like and if they are not unique then they are only counted once. Certainly people with bad grammer skills and languages other than the language intended will suffer but you can add verification critera for each language you want to index. Before the trolls hunt me down and say this method is censorship (americans love to say anything is censorship) then you should just stick to the simple useless search engines we have now. Plus one can always implement this as a searching option to an existing broken wheel.
This isn't really that hard it just requires a bit cleverness and lots of prepratory work.
Or maybe I'm just on glue. :P
He may act like it but I'm sure he isn't. With all this "granting of forgivness" all I can say is. Who the F*** cares!? It isn't the lack of GPL'ness that will Kill KDE it is the megolithic resources it requires to run.
X+GNOME1.2+gpilotd+Blackbox runs with
This problem will be approached the same way other "control" attempts have been. If email is gonna be sniffed it will be madly encrypted or hell not used through US pipes. Hell if this gets to be a problem and those whom wish to remain anonymous then what's stopping them from developing their own protocol for messaging. Hell pop and smtp are getting old and are insecure (apop is a nice attempt but the majority of people out there are still using plain text passwords with pop).
encrypt mykey thierkey < mymessage | genericserverWhen you walk down the street you can find the /. trolls by the people waving like idiots at their virtual keyboards as they troll down the street.
Seriously if you want a good look at a reasonable future watch a few episodes of Earth: Final Conflict. (But ignore the cheap aliens) The ID shuttle for example uses an optical/visual interface thingy and the internet in the show is not too far away (as long as Micro$oft doesn't screw it up first).
WorkStation != Desktop != UI != OS
Any questions?
Basically this was a puff-piece to blur the lines between what a computer needs and what you need your computer to have.
Kernel Klink: Kapitalist Pig! My source is beingk open!
Stallman: No it isn't it's name doesn't include GNU!
Kernel Klink: I am not caringk about vat you be doingk with yer animals!
Maybe I speaking too soon but what possible reason could some individual have for a 75Gb hard drive? More swap space for windows? I've been bitching about this since I had my 40mb drive and upgraded to 1.0 gb.... I have a few large drives and use less than 13% of them. Hell i have about 45-50gbs of aggregate space in my house and I'm only using no more than 10 (being very generous) between all 5 machines.... Just wait windows 200X will come on a double sided double layered DVD. "Chalk full of Blue Screen goodness!" (TM) :P
From my personal experience KDE is a bloated pig. Now of course there is objection (and rightly so) to this statement but that's not the only reason why I'm not a fan. The other reason is that KDE is trying it's hardest to look/feel/and act like Window$. This is definately not the way to go. Eazel is not exactly helping gnome go in the right direction either.....
I don't really have kick ass hardware just barely enough to do what I need. On my P133 laptop with 32 MBs o'ram. Linux running blackbox & gnome take approximately 30-1min to start up. If I run KDE on this same machine it takes 3-4 minutes and is very sluggish. If KDE went on slim-fast then I would give it another look but until then blackbox & gnome are my way of choice.
You seem more like a troll than man.
And all those posts you hold so dear
Should be crammed in your ear.
And you know I mean to beat on you,
But you don't really mean very much.......
Heheh now all you Lain fans will have the intro tune stuck in your head for hours! muaahahahah... Anime is great and just because the simplton trolls cannot think about what they watch it doesn't mean it sucks. Come on you trolls would rather criticize a movie's credits' font than actually enjoy the movie itself!
What do trolls eat?????