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Point of parliment...
First I concur that the south did in fact lose. A real trajedy.
You were taught in school that the civil war was about slavery and that was in fact one of the issues however there were many others. The folks in DC like usual had no clue what the rest of the US (spelled the south) needed. I dont think much has changed since then. With things like the DMCA and such coming down the pipe constantly they are proving they still dont.
The south wanted to leave the united states. They should have been allowed to. It should have never went to war. Greedy DCites were the problem then. There the problem now. During the Civil war the lines of battle, the north and the south were fairly clear. We've entered a time when the lines are much less clear and the first shot hasnt really been fired yet. It will happen and it will happen soon.
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> Well, if the British can come up with a cat detector van, there's no reason an Al Qaeda detector van can't be created. Where the web page for the Ministry of Housinge?
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"First they came for the unions, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't union. Then they came for the communists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up because I was Protestant. And then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up." - Reverend Martin Niemoller German Lutheran monk arrested by the Gestapo in 1937
When I first started 15 years ago 16 hour work days werent that unusual. There just werent enough people who could find the power switch on the computer to staff the jobs.
Fast forward to now. Employers wanting 15 hour days? 8 is standard. Ask them if they want to pay hourly plus overtime. The answer is no. If they want 15 (16 actually) they need to hire another worker. When i started that wasnt gonna happen but now out of work tech workers are easy to find and hire.
Your company is being cheap. If they want more productivity hire more staff.
If you can get a smart bits and want to test a point to point connection its the best way. You can probably rent one from GE Capitol. They cost around 40k to buy so there not trivial but they are the best method of testing. It however requires access to both sides of the network to do properly.
This kinda crap makes me sick. I remember walking off a job because someone asked me to violate some one elses email. This "it belongs to the corperation" bullshit has to go. If I typed it its mine, If I sent it to another person its also theres.
IMHO This is akin to the your mailman opening your personal email. Its really sad that idiots who subscribe to the corperate mentality of company first would do this.
Sysadmin ethics seem to be gone forever and people wonder why the computer industry fell apart? Next you'll be wearing a tie to work. Glad I am retired cause I couldnt work with the type of asshole that would install this form of spyware.
My machines all have publicly available through a webbrowser a software vendor license agreement that supercedes any other licenseing. I am yet to be notified via registered letter that a company argues with my agreement as well.
Besides. this new system will give the pirates something to do for an hour or two. Why bother trying? There better then you (the pirates that is).
If you ban having viruses, and I dont mean getting them cause your stupid or careless but I mean collecting them how can companies like Mcaffee or Symantec survive.
They only find new viruses cause people send them to them when suspected. If people cant keep them to do this how will they find them, unless they write them themselves.
Nasa does not have tha ability to read minds. If you still believe they do please come down to houstan where our telepat....err...staff will help reprogra.....err I mean educate you about what we do.
Disclaimer: I dont now nor have I ever worked for NASA but I do like there freezed dried ice cream however it always seems to get crushed before I open the packet *sigh*
Games have always drove the pc market. You never needed Qemm to run windows in the 386 days, you used the it to get that little bit of extra memory to run wing commander. You need at least 611K free to launch this game was a common message and its how alot of us learned about memory management.
They will continue to drive it. Office on a p2K is about the same speed as office on a p333. Sure it launches a little faster on the 2k but in reality it doesnt do much.
Microsoft even recongized the drive and created the game SDK to help drive the hardware up. Now called DirectX its purpose is to give the software vendors new features to exploit in emulation so the hardware vendors will create hardware to do the same requireing more horsepower so they can sell you there next even more bloated OS.
Yes, 1% of the market drives it for the rest of them. Ok, Perhaps Neon glowing cases are a waste of time and money, but the hardware inside is a real issue. My box boots faster then my wifes because I have faster disks, a faster bus, and faster memory. Not because I have faster cpu. Change the components and you change the machine. Thats whats important. Ok. Having a WW2 Army truck case might be a bit cool if you want to drag your machine to a show but it doesnt make the system run faster.
There will always be a niche market for high end anything. Falcon succeeds not only because they build decent system but because of there marketing. Microsoft has survived to what it is today through there Marketing. If you market right you survive and sell. I bought 3 different copies of on of the eq expansions and each one had a Falcon ad in it. If you get just a.1% return on those cards yours still raking in the cash.
> The porn business really took off around 30 - 40 years ago after several court decisions made most porn legal (in the US.) With the advent of the VCR, porn exploded. It has NOT "always been so."
I ponder this, Printed porn perhaps? Modern Latex Sex toys perhaps? The miricles of penis englargement pills for only 57.99 defintly. But The oldest profession in the world is not sushi chef.
Ok, So 30-40 years ago alot was made legal. The VCR helped make it even more viable as a legitate buisness. But in reality sex in various forms and pornography has been around for thousands of years. Legality of course is another issue. If you limit porn to pictures perhaps, but in reality porn covers alot more then pictures. Theres toys, prostitutes, strippers and more. In the last 30 or 40 years in the united states porn has become more mainstream however its always been around.
If they made it illegal today it would still be around. Its hear to stay, and as long as people have money they will pay for it.
Now were adding an ACL for this site to the routers. This of course puts load on the cpu, uses memory, and slows down packet traffic. Core routers doesnt usually have ACLs for just that reason.
So ones not so bad. 5 or 10 on a large router isnt so bad. 20 starts to hit the speed. 100 and the router gets congested.
Technically if this is won, and the precendence is there. The Internet is over. Not that it isnt getting there on its own.
Actually no it wasnt, Benjamin Franklin was a quacker. He was also known for being generally freespoken to the point of pissing people off. Read up, I think I would have liked the guy and he'd probably have a regular column on slashdot if he were alive today.
Look, if you have ever been to club med before and gotten the little cards with the chip built in you will notice they are destroyed by the smallest ammount of water. Spilled drink, rain, diving the pool with it. So Im gonna have to carry an id card and cant get wet when I carry it? Not gonna happen, Ill probably shower with mine every day.
Well here in lies the problem. When its time to justify cost the geoscientists are the ones that found it. Not the software. They may have used the software but in a budget fight people beat computers unfortantly.
Corperations will spend less and less over time on systems. The Important thing however is were over what appears to be the major hurdle. When I started out it took forever to get a company to upgrade machines. I remember shorting out the presidents PC so he could get a new one because we couldnt upgrade his because of the CFO's policies. (Back when CFO's were the top of the IT chain).
The salarys were high and so we got an influx of people, both bad and good. Some will fade. I gave up on the industry and hopeless and moved on but I was there before there was a web. I got sick of the underskilled people and lack of real knowledge. When i started it was find a forward thinking company who needs a visionary. Remember that buzzword? It might have been the first. People who could guide there network through the confusing world of it. Unfortunatly all the certifications out there have made most IT people think "There is the XXXX company name way to do it, it says it in the book, and thats the way it should be done." Theres a certification for everything too, Compaq ACE? Good god, if you need a certification for PC hardware might I suggest you seek employment at a 7-11?
Im used to the oppisite. Where vendors say "This is the way you have to do it" and we say "but that didnt work so we did this.", and they say wow and add it to the there release notes as a feature. I personaly miss the days of old where you kludged through everything. Mondays were about bandaids and by friday you had everything ready to break again.
The best thing that can be said is people did upgrade. In the olden days of using defibulators to keep pcs alive rather then getting a new one people stagnated with slow machines. Everyone (with the expection of bank employees who never get upgrades ever) has a resonable speed machine on there desk now. The Original rule said you should upgrade every 3 years. Companys shot for 5 or 6, the "Dot com" boom shot that up to 1 year to 18 months. Was a ridiculous expenditure. If we can settle back to every 3 years and keep it there we should be able to keep people going. Microsoft will have to go back to upgrades every few years but thats a sacrafice im willing to make:).
I do think that the industry will stabalize again but it will never be what it was. If your looking to justify the existance of an IT department do what we did when our CFO complained in the early 90's. We billed departments for time spent repairing machines in them. The CFO stopped asking cause all the other VP's stepped on him to get it to stop.
The bottom line is the IT department will really never make a company any money. Were good at spending it, lord knows Ive spent my share. Companies will try and cut back as much as they can till it starts to fall apart and then hold there. Unfortunatlly its usually a bit short of where it should be. But thats why we get paid the big (or what used to be big) bucks. That and the 16 hour work days. You remember those?
Apoligies if my mind is a bit incoherant at times, Im on a 5 minute break from packing to hit the road for a year.
Well, Im one of those people however i am about to choke the next person who says dotcomer. I gave up on the tech industry about a year ago (after 15 years) and spent a bit of time trying to figure out what to do next. About to take the wife and kids out for a year in an RV and see what there might be to do next.
Unfortunatly there was a wave of idiocy that swept through the tech industry where people started using nasty words like professionalism which of course has no place in computers. It became a giant mess of beuracracy and fell apart shortly after as a result of stifled curiosity.
Presently the wife and I are thinking about purchasing a campground or some other buisness which might be a bit more fun to do for the rest of our lives. Maybe we'll buy a buy a bowling alley. Were not real sure. Time to wander and find out.
House goes on the market in 3 days. The RV is loaded. should be intresting.
Alot of people are using these clients to download music. Ive done it. Ill continue to do it for now. I buy the occasional CD as a result. I buy about 1 every 3 or 4 months. I probably wouldnt buy that many if I couldnt hear the music first. Im not gonna stand around in a store with headphones on to hear it either and the radio? How many times do they forget to tell you the name of the song.
I personal wont pay 17 bucks for a CD with 1 or 2 songs I like on it. Its not worth it to me. If they were to make it so I could buy just the tracks I like in a format simliar to MP3 Id probably send a buck or two a song but I have way to many cds i bought long ago with just one good song on them. Not worth the money.
One of the major problems with the "piracy" however is rather vague. I dont have a problem with the music networks or even the software networks. Where piracy becomes evil is when someone tries to profit from it. Selling cds or cdroms is wrong. That is trying to profit off others works and thats a problem.
I used to pirate software all the time in the glory days of computers (Well before the Web) and I can say when I started I didnt have the money to buy it. I was a kid, but what I did was learn it. Ok, pirating games never gave anyone but myself enjoyment but the apps I pirated tought me about the Apps. Enabled me to get my first job and enabled me to do 15 years in office enviroments making recommendations to corperations on what to buy. If I pirated a copy of Word and then had the company I worked for buy 250 copys for peoples desktop the only people hurt by this were wordperfect(showing my age).
Piracy is ok in my opinion provided its a learning experiance. Others may argue, and there will always be abusers, but look at the ages of those that never buy CDs, Look at there incomes. They probably would have never bought the cd anyway.
The real threat is those trying to profit from piracy, What they really need is a different name to describe one or the others.
Again I think this whole thing is a seriously low priority in light of all the other problems our country has but I dont have the money to buy my own polotician and probably wont in the future.
I think the real problem however is that people can pay for poloticians, We need to get some laws against people buying them. This legalized corruption needs to go.
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Point of parliment...
First I concur that the south did in fact lose. A real trajedy.
You were taught in school that the civil war was about slavery and that was in fact one of the issues however there were many others. The folks in DC like usual had no clue what the rest of the US (spelled the south) needed. I dont think much has changed since then. With things like the DMCA and such coming down the pipe constantly they are proving they still dont.
The south wanted to leave the united states. They should have been allowed to. It should have never went to war. Greedy DCites were the problem then. There the problem now. During the Civil war the lines of battle, the north and the south were fairly clear. We've entered a time when the lines are much less clear and the first shot hasnt really been fired yet. It will happen and it will happen soon.
> Well, if the British can come up with a cat detector van, there's no reason an Al Qaeda detector van can't be created. Where the web page for the Ministry of Housinge?
I need a license for my pet Bee
"First they came for the unions, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't union.
Then they came for the communists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up because I was Protestant.
And then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up."
- Reverend Martin Niemoller
German Lutheran monk arrested by the Gestapo in 1937
When I first started 15 years ago 16 hour work days werent that unusual. There just werent enough people who could find the power switch on the computer to staff the jobs.
Fast forward to now. Employers wanting 15 hour days? 8 is standard. Ask them if they want to pay hourly plus overtime. The answer is no. If they want 15 (16 actually) they need to hire another worker. When i started that wasnt gonna happen but now out of work tech workers are easy to find and hire.
Your company is being cheap. If they want more productivity hire more staff.
If you can get a smart bits and want to test a point to point connection its the best way. You can probably rent one from GE Capitol. They cost around 40k to buy so there not trivial but they are the best method of testing. It however requires access to both sides of the network to do properly.
http://smartbits.spirentcom.com/
God, with all there ranting about how different they are one would think they would act a little different then other companies.
If I actually bought apple products Id stop. Last apple sales guy told me how well the monitor swivels when I asked about expandability.
This kinda crap makes me sick. I remember walking off a job because someone asked me to violate some one elses email. This "it belongs to the corperation" bullshit has to go. If I typed it its mine, If I sent it to another person its also theres.
IMHO This is akin to the your mailman opening your personal email. Its really sad that idiots who subscribe to the corperate mentality of company first would do this.
Sysadmin ethics seem to be gone forever and people wonder why the computer industry fell apart? Next you'll be wearing a tie to work. Glad I am retired cause I couldnt work with the type of asshole that would install this form of spyware.
My machines all have publicly available through a webbrowser a software vendor license agreement that supercedes any other licenseing. I am yet to be notified via registered letter that a company argues with my agreement as well.
Besides. this new system will give the pirates something to do for an hour or two. Why bother trying? There better then you (the pirates that is).
Its time for war...
If you ban having viruses, and I dont mean getting them cause your stupid or careless but I mean collecting them how can companies like Mcaffee or Symantec survive.
They only find new viruses cause people send them to them when suspected. If people cant keep them to do this how will they find them, unless they write them themselves.
Nasa does not have tha ability to read minds. If you still believe they do please come down to houstan where our telepat....err...staff will help reprogra.....err I mean educate you about what we do.
Disclaimer: I dont now nor have I ever worked for NASA but I do like there freezed dried ice cream however it always seems to get crushed before I open the packet *sigh*
Games have always drove the pc market. You never needed Qemm to run windows in the 386 days, you used the it to get that little bit of extra memory to run wing commander. You need at least 611K free to launch this game was a common message and its how alot of us learned about memory management.
.1% return on those cards yours still raking in the cash.
They will continue to drive it. Office on a p2K is about the same speed as office on a p333. Sure it launches a little faster on the 2k but in reality it doesnt do much.
Microsoft even recongized the drive and created the game SDK to help drive the hardware up. Now called DirectX its purpose is to give the software vendors new features to exploit in emulation so the hardware vendors will create hardware to do the same requireing more horsepower so they can sell you there next even more bloated OS.
Yes, 1% of the market drives it for the rest of them. Ok, Perhaps Neon glowing cases are a waste of time and money, but the hardware inside is a real issue. My box boots faster then my wifes because I have faster disks, a faster bus, and faster memory. Not because I have faster cpu. Change the components and you change the machine. Thats whats important. Ok. Having a WW2 Army truck case might be a bit cool if you want to drag your machine to a show but it doesnt make the system run faster.
There will always be a niche market for high end anything. Falcon succeeds not only because they build decent system but because of there marketing. Microsoft has survived to what it is today through there Marketing. If you market right you survive and sell. I bought 3 different copies of on of the eq expansions and each one had a Falcon ad in it. If you get just a
> The porn business really took off around 30 - 40 years ago after several court decisions made most porn legal (in the US.) With the advent of the VCR, porn exploded. It has NOT "always been so."
I ponder this, Printed porn perhaps? Modern Latex Sex toys perhaps? The miricles of penis englargement pills for only 57.99 defintly. But The oldest profession in the world is not sushi chef.
Ok, So 30-40 years ago alot was made legal. The VCR helped make it even more viable as a legitate buisness. But in reality sex in various forms and pornography has been around for thousands of years. Legality of course is another issue. If you limit porn to pictures perhaps, but in reality porn covers alot more then pictures. Theres toys, prostitutes, strippers and more. In the last 30 or 40 years in the united states porn has become more mainstream however its always been around.
If they made it illegal today it would still be around. Its hear to stay, and as long as people have money they will pay for it.
> bigger question, though, is why do we have to "save the Internet?"
I second that vote partially. I was happy with gopher, ftp, telnet, and nntp. Screw the web!
Actually with both UO and EQ there were oodles of people selling stuff on ebay. I know several people who made thousands a month doing just that.
So if you mean professional as in a career it has kinda happened already.
> "On Donahue, activists are moms and intellectuals are presumed to be childless."
Heh, wish Id thought about it a bit more before I had children. The process wasnt really intellectual.
On the flip side, I like violent video games, Where else can you kill your children with no repercussions.
PS: I like my kids, There just alot of work, and they like the games too and even occasionally they like me.
Ok. Lets say the pinko bastards at the RIAA win.
Now were adding an ACL for this site to the routers. This of course puts load on the cpu, uses memory, and slows down packet traffic. Core routers doesnt usually have ACLs for just that reason.
So ones not so bad. 5 or 10 on a large router isnt so bad. 20 starts to hit the speed. 100 and the router gets congested.
Technically if this is won, and the precendence is there. The Internet is over. Not that it isnt getting there on its own.
Actually no it wasnt, Benjamin Franklin was a quacker. He was also known for being generally freespoken to the point of pissing people off. Read up, I think I would have liked the guy and he'd probably have a regular column on slashdot if he were alive today.
The Constitution and Christianity have alot in common. Some day someone should try one.
- Benjamin Franklin
Not to be religious because im not but doesnt a national ID kinda make you think of the whole christian revelations mark of the Beast thing?
Now we can just move it to a chip in the persons hand were set.
Can I store my porn collection on my national ID card? Ill take one if I can.
Look, if you have ever been to club med before and gotten the little cards with the chip built in you will notice they are destroyed by the smallest ammount of water. Spilled drink, rain, diving the pool with it. So Im gonna have to carry an id card and cant get wet when I carry it? Not gonna happen, Ill probably shower with mine every day.
Well here in lies the problem. When its time to justify cost the geoscientists are the ones that found it. Not the software. They may have used the software but in a budget fight people beat computers unfortantly.
Corperations will spend less and less over time on systems. The Important thing however is were over what appears to be the major hurdle. When I started out it took forever to get a company to upgrade machines. I remember shorting out the presidents PC so he could get a new one because we couldnt upgrade his because of the CFO's policies. (Back when CFO's were the top of the IT chain).
:).
The salarys were high and so we got an influx of people, both bad and good. Some will fade. I gave up on the industry and hopeless and moved on but I was there before there was a web. I got sick of the underskilled people and lack of real knowledge. When i started it was find a forward thinking company who needs a visionary. Remember that buzzword? It might have been the first. People who could guide there network through the confusing world of it. Unfortunatly all the certifications out there have made most IT people think "There is the XXXX company name way to do it, it says it in the book, and thats the way it should be done." Theres a certification for everything too, Compaq ACE? Good god, if you need a certification for PC hardware might I suggest you seek employment at a 7-11?
Im used to the oppisite. Where vendors say "This is the way you have to do it" and we say "but that didnt work so we did this.", and they say wow and add it to the there release notes as a feature. I personaly miss the days of old where you kludged through everything. Mondays were about bandaids and by friday you had everything ready to break again.
The best thing that can be said is people did upgrade. In the olden days of using defibulators to keep pcs alive rather then getting a new one people stagnated with slow machines. Everyone (with the expection of bank employees who never get upgrades ever) has a resonable speed machine on there desk now. The Original rule said you should upgrade every 3 years. Companys shot for 5 or 6, the "Dot com" boom shot that up to 1 year to 18 months. Was a ridiculous expenditure. If we can settle back to every 3 years and keep it there we should be able to keep people going. Microsoft will have to go back to upgrades every few years but thats a sacrafice im willing to make
I do think that the industry will stabalize again but it will never be what it was. If your looking to justify the existance of an IT department do what we did when our CFO complained in the early 90's. We billed departments for time spent repairing machines in them. The CFO stopped asking cause all the other VP's stepped on him to get it to stop.
The bottom line is the IT department will really never make a company any money. Were good at spending it, lord knows Ive spent my share. Companies will try and cut back as much as they can till it starts to fall apart and then hold there. Unfortunatlly its usually a bit short of where it should be. But thats why we get paid the big (or what used to be big) bucks. That and the 16 hour work days. You remember those?
Apoligies if my mind is a bit incoherant at times, Im on a 5 minute break from packing to hit the road for a year.
Well, Im one of those people however i am about to choke the next person who says dotcomer. I gave up on the tech industry about a year ago (after 15 years) and spent a bit of time trying to figure out what to do next. About to take the wife and kids out for a year in an RV and see what there might be to do next.
Unfortunatly there was a wave of idiocy that swept through the tech industry where people started using nasty words like professionalism which of course has no place in computers. It became a giant mess of beuracracy and fell apart shortly after as a result of stifled curiosity.
Presently the wife and I are thinking about purchasing a campground or some other buisness which might be a bit more fun to do for the rest of our lives. Maybe we'll buy a buy a bowling alley. Were not real sure. Time to wander and find out.
House goes on the market in 3 days. The RV is loaded. should be intresting.
Alot of people are using these clients to download music. Ive done it. Ill continue to do it for now. I buy the occasional CD as a result. I buy about 1 every 3 or 4 months. I probably wouldnt buy that many if I couldnt hear the music first. Im not gonna stand around in a store with headphones on to hear it either and the radio? How many times do they forget to tell you the name of the song.
I personal wont pay 17 bucks for a CD with 1 or 2 songs I like on it. Its not worth it to me. If they were to make it so I could buy just the tracks I like in a format simliar to MP3 Id probably send a buck or two a song but I have way to many cds i bought long ago with just one good song on them. Not worth the money.
One of the major problems with the "piracy" however is rather vague. I dont have a problem with the music networks or even the software networks. Where piracy becomes evil is when someone tries to profit from it. Selling cds or cdroms is wrong. That is trying to profit off others works and thats a problem.
I used to pirate software all the time in the glory days of computers (Well before the Web) and I can say when I started I didnt have the money to buy it. I was a kid, but what I did was learn it. Ok, pirating games never gave anyone but myself enjoyment but the apps I pirated tought me about the Apps. Enabled me to get my first job and enabled me to do 15 years in office enviroments making recommendations to corperations on what to buy. If I pirated a copy of Word and then had the company I worked for buy 250 copys for peoples desktop the only people hurt by this were wordperfect(showing my age).
Piracy is ok in my opinion provided its a learning experiance. Others may argue, and there will always be abusers, but look at the ages of those that never buy CDs, Look at there incomes. They probably would have never bought the cd anyway.
The real threat is those trying to profit from piracy, What they really need is a different name to describe one or the others.
Again I think this whole thing is a seriously low priority in light of all the other problems our country has but I dont have the money to buy my own polotician and probably wont in the future.
I think the real problem however is that people can pay for poloticians, We need to get some laws against people buying them. This legalized corruption needs to go.