I know this is offtopic, but you mentioned the Wega Sony TV's. I just wanted to say that I bought the 36 inch Wega XBR about 2 weeks ago, and it's awesome. The flat screen is great. These TV's are way overpriced though. The only reason I bought one is because my friend and I were able to talk the salesman down quite a bit because we were buying two of them. I also spent the money on the 36 instead of the 32 becuase I read in 2 different catalog's (Crutchfield and I don't remember the other) that the 36 inch gives you 25% more viewing area than the 32.
It has nothing to do with wanting to be unique. It has to do with haveing a scapegoat. Nobody likes to admit that they did something stupid, or are not capable of doing something. So, it's much easier to balme it on some sort of disorder so that people will overlook it or even feel sorry for them. It's also a way for people to not have to take responsibility for their own actions (a growing trend unfortunately). Somebody does something bad, or stupid, and when they are arrested or look bad they just say, "I couldn't help it, I have ".
Everybody wants to blame their problems on an illness so that they won't have to deal with them.
I agree. I own a Fujitsu E330 notebook and have used linux on it ever since I purchased it (recently upgraded to Mandrake 6.1 for those interested). It works great, but of course, it has a winmodem. Even if they don't want to pre-install linux for me, they should at least make their notebooks out of hardware I can use with any OS.
I actually wrote them a nice letter informing them that there are people who would like to use Linux on their notebooks. I explained that people using non-MS OS's aren't able to take full advantage of the laptop's features and that I hope they will take things like the this into consideration when picking modems and other hardware for future models. They never responded to me though.
Quote from the article: "Puri is real," gushed an employee on the company's bangkok office. "Hi is a smart kid. For a moment I envied him that he could do all that an older executive could,"...
So that explains it! Microsoft execs have only recently mastered sending blank email, the alphabet and Ba Ba Black Sheep!
I think this whole thing stems down to fear and prejudice. The people who just don't understand geeks,gamers,goths, and technology are afraid of change. They are afraid of the way society is changing and that people have more outlets to express themselves. They are scared that youths now have access to a wealth of information and that the youths may use this information to think for themselves instead of thinking and saying what their teachers and parents want them to. This fear is causing them to hunt the geeks down. Once they are found, they will be given counseling or blacklisted. It reminds me of the the witch hunts in Salem, and sometimes more like McCarthyism. I thought we were supposed to learn from history so that we didn't repeat the same mistakes.
I'm seriously considering moving out of the US before I have children.
I work for a financial firm in NYC as a software developer. My manager divides the work up pretty evenly among the members of the group. I finish my projects on schedule, and they tend to be stable and not have many problems. Some of my co-workers have to work 10-12 to finish their projects on time. Sometimes they have to stay at work for 16 hours or so to fix a major bug that turned up in some of their code. If we were paid hourly, these co-workers would be making significantly more than me for taking a really long time to produce low quality programs.
By writing a virus you could also be exposing how an OS could be compromised or infected. The code could then be examined by people, and fixes could be made so that a virus of that type could no longer compromise or infect the OS. Just because someone has code to a virus doesn't mean they have to use it for harm.
I just patented a technique for allocating a sequence of bytes in a computers memory for the purpose of storing a date. Would write more, but I have to go sue McDonnell-Douglas for storing dates in their computers memory...
I can't believe somebody actually tried to patent this, and I find it pathetic that the patent was approved. Who in the government do you write to about this kind of stuff? Your congressman?
If anybody needs prior art, I have code here where I work from the early 80's that uses this technique. I'm sure other companies do too. This doesn't have a chance in court IMHO.
OH yeah, a little for info. I watched during one of my friends had the operation. You sit in a chair where they clamp your eyes open. They then apply local anastetic(sp?). A small blade then comes across the bottom of your eye to make an incision. The incision is spread open and the tip of the laser is placed by it. The laser then shoots through the incision to shape the back of the eye. You can hear steam every time they shoot the laser. When the doctor is done shaping the eye, they remove the laser, and let the incision in your eye close up. After the surgery, you can see fine, but they tell you not to try and focus on anything too far away for a couple of weeks because it strains the eye and then the incision may take longer to heal. You also are not supposed to drive for a couple of weeks. The surgery took about 10 minutes to do both eyes.
I recently scheduled myself for the surgery. I know 3 people who have had it done already, and they love it. One person had it done over a year ago and their vision is still perfect. Where I'm going it costs $2500 an eye, but that covers lifetime correction. If my eyes change again, they do the surgery to recorrect my eyes for free.
I don't see anything on the website stating that this is a novelty only. Everything I read says that they have a legal right to sell moon property because the owner of the company filed a declaration of ownership of the moon with the US gov. in 1980.
Now, if it says for novelty only on the deed when you get it, couldn't you sue for false advertising ? The web site insists over and over again that it isn't a joke and it's legal.
If it does say that this is a novelty only on the website, I missed it and I would greatly appreciate you letting me know where on the site it says this.
Do you have a link to an article about this, because I don't buy it.
When I wanted to change my PIN number on my ATM card, I just went to my bank, and told them I wanted to change it. They brought out a small box connected to their computer with a keypad. I swiped my card and then put it back in my wallet. I then punched in my current pin. When I was verified I punched in the new pin I wanted twice, the second time to verify the first incase I made a typo. They then told me the pin would be changed overnight, so tomorrow I could start using my new pin. They never sent me a new card, and since my card wasn't swiped there after I changed it, there is no way they could have changed the info on my card. When I wanted a PIN for my credit card, I filled out what PIN I wanted on a little form that came with my bill. Again, I never got a new card. I did get a letter saying that my PIN was now active though.
If your bank does it the way you say (everything unecrypted on the card), I suggest you change banks quickly...
I think that the story only made slashdot cause it got ported. You mean that the story only made it because it got ported to Linux. I submited a story about an announcement by Be Inc. that Shogo: Mobile Armor Division was being ported to BeOS. The port is even being done by the same company who makes the windows version. I figured this was a major step for the game industry because it showed a game company (Other than Id) that is going to make it's game for windows and an alternate OS in house instead of outsourcing it. But since the game was being ported to BeOS, and not to Linux, it wasn't good enought to be Slashdot material...
PS: This will probably be moderated down as a Flamebait
But, if you read this more closely, these ratings will be used for more than just helping YOU make choices. It will let the government tell ISP's that they must filter content with certain ratings. A good example could be if you lived in Australia. Even if you wanted to look at an adult site you wouldn't be able to because the government told all ISP's that they must filter sites with the adult rating. Ratings used like this are not just there to help you make veiwing choices, it's there to let other people make the choices for you. This is bad, very bad. I'm an adult and would like to be able to make my own decisions on what I want to see and hear; I don't want some stuffy conservative government doing it for me.
OH NO!! News Flash!!! Internet trading companies are in a panic! Red Hat Inc. (RHAT) stock is quickly approaching the dreaded 128, which many programmers fear will cause catastrophic system failures. These failures will be caused because Pascal programmers commonly use signed bytes to hold numeric values. These variables can only contain values from -128 to 127. If the value of RHAT increases to 128 stock market systems will fail and the U.S. economy will be thrown into a state of chaos.
I've been running linux on a Fujitsu Lifebook E330 ever since I got it. I installed RH5.2 and then 6.0 on it without a problem. There was some problems when I needed to use the RH rescue disk to redo lilo when I upgraded my mini win98 partition (need this partition for the winmodem). The laptop did not want to boot the RH rescue disk. I had to use a slackware boot disk to get back into my linux partition. Other than that everything worked great. Got X and the soundcard working on the first shot. The only problem is that I can't use the winmodem and the IR.
I can see why some people would be turned off to using linux on a latop if they can't use all of the hardware (winmodem/IR/etc.). If somebody spends the money for a laptop, they are going to want to be able to use all of it's features. Also no company seems to make sure their linux disto works on a laptop. I've heard stories from people who couldn't even get their laptops to boot the install disks.
Also in Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (third book in the Neuromancer books) The Fin, who was killed in Count Zero (the second book) turns up as a "Personality Construct" that people go to get advice and stuff. The "Personality Construct" is ppretty much a more advanced version of what this guy patented. This is definitely another example of prior art.
Ok, people have mentioned cloning a headless body, but then the head, after being moved to the new body would look too old for it. Why not clone a body without a brain and spinal column, and then move just your brain and spinal cord to the new body, this way you will have your face matching the age of the cloned body.
Also, if you went bald in your old body, you could have your hair back for a while...
I know this design process very well! In the company I work at it is exactly the same. This leads to serious problems. My situation is a perfect example. One of the developers in my group left the company and I inherited one of his programs that was just released into "beta". Needless to say, it is full of bugs. So I'm stuck fixing a program with approx. 60K lines of code, no documentation on how it is supposed to work, and no comments in the code either. Obviously the bugs aren't getting fixed as fast as my manager would like and the program is now behind schedule. Management of course see's this as my fault.
Ironically, my company sent me to a software design class two months earlier where I learned about specifications, design documents, etc. When I came back from the class I told my manager we should implement something similar to what I learned in the class THEY SENT ME TOO. He promptly stated that all of that stuff was a waste of time. So instead I'm wasting time trying to figure out how in the hell this damn program is supposed to work!
Oh yeah, I'm also a Java & C/C++ Solaris developer and looking to get out of here.
Thank you for the advice. I went to a bunch of salary calculators on the web. The kind where you enter your knowledge and experience and it tells you how much you're worth. Almost all said that for NYC I'm slightly underpaid, but I like the people I work with and I'm getting good experience so I'm not worried anymore. It's just that reading about people coming to work in the US with little to no experience and making 60K kind of made me feel like I was getting shafted.
That was weird, I clicked on the reply to the H-1B article. I then waited half an hour, entered my message and submit it, and it was attached to an article that didn't even exist when I first hit the reply button. Strange...
After reading all this, I feel underpaid. I'm was born in the US and work in NYC for a brokerage firm. I write programs for Solaris using C and Motif (this is company standard). I also maintain an intranet web site which contains a suite of reporting applications I wrote in Java. I graduated from a well known university with a Comp. Sci. degree and good GPA. I now have just over one year of experience and I make just under 50K a year. How underpaid am I?
I could go for some freeLSD. Wow, look at all the pretty colors! Imagine what the code would look like...
I don't see why BSD and Linux users flame each other. Everybody keeps saying that a big part of the free software (in the sense that it doesn't cost anything) movement is about freedom of choice. Then everybody spends time and energy flaming each other for making different choices (*BSD,*nix, etc.). Is it just me or does this seem amazingly hypocritical?
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I know this is offtopic, but you mentioned the Wega Sony TV's. I just wanted to say that I bought the 36 inch Wega XBR about 2 weeks ago, and it's awesome. The flat screen is great. These TV's are way overpriced though. The only reason I bought one is because my friend and I were able to talk the salesman down quite a bit because we were buying two of them. I also spent the money on the 36 instead of the 32 becuase I read in 2 different catalog's (Crutchfield and I don't remember the other) that the 36 inch gives you 25% more viewing area than the 32.
It has nothing to do with wanting to be unique. It has to do with haveing a scapegoat. Nobody likes to admit that they did something stupid, or are not capable of doing something. So, it's much easier to balme it on some sort of disorder so that people will overlook it or even feel sorry for them. It's also a way for people to not have to take responsibility for their own actions (a growing trend unfortunately). Somebody does something bad, or stupid, and when they are arrested or look bad they just say, "I couldn't help it, I have ".
Everybody wants to blame their problems on an illness so that they won't have to deal with them.
I agree. I own a Fujitsu E330 notebook and have used linux on it ever since I purchased it (recently upgraded to Mandrake 6.1 for those interested). It works great, but of course, it has a winmodem. Even if they don't want to pre-install linux for me, they should at least make their notebooks out of hardware I can use with any OS.
I actually wrote them a nice letter informing them that there are people who would like to use Linux on their notebooks. I explained that people using non-MS OS's aren't able to take full advantage of the laptop's features and that I hope they will take things like the this into consideration when picking modems and other hardware for future models. They never responded to me though.
Quote from the article:
"Puri is real," gushed an employee on the company's bangkok office. "Hi is a smart kid. For a moment I envied him that he could do all that an older executive could,"...
So that explains it! Microsoft execs have only recently mastered sending blank email, the alphabet and Ba Ba Black Sheep!
I think this whole thing stems down to fear and prejudice. The people who just don't understand geeks,gamers,goths, and technology are afraid of change. They are afraid of the way society is changing and that people have more outlets to express themselves. They are scared that youths now have access to a wealth of information and that the youths may use this information to think for themselves instead of thinking and saying what their teachers and parents want them to.
This fear is causing them to hunt the geeks down. Once they are found, they will be given counseling or blacklisted. It reminds me of the the witch hunts in Salem, and sometimes more like McCarthyism. I thought we were supposed to learn from history so that we didn't repeat the same mistakes.
I'm seriously considering moving out of the US before I have children.
I work for a financial firm in NYC as a software developer. My manager divides the work up pretty evenly among the members of the group. I finish my projects on schedule, and they tend to be stable and not have many problems. Some of my co-workers have to work 10-12 to finish their projects on time. Sometimes they have to stay at work for 16 hours or so to fix a major bug that turned up in some of their code. If we were paid hourly, these co-workers would be making significantly more than me for taking a really long time to produce low quality programs.
Secondly, the smoker has the choice whether to kill himself through nicotine,
But I don't have a choice when it comes to breathing in second hand smoke when everbody around me is smoking.
By writing a virus you could also be exposing how an OS could be compromised or infected. The code could then be examined by people, and fixes could be made so that a virus of that type could no longer compromise or infect the OS. Just because someone has code to a virus doesn't mean they have to use it for harm.
I just patented a technique for allocating a sequence of bytes in a computers memory for the purpose of storing a date. Would write more, but I have to go sue McDonnell-Douglas for storing dates in their computers memory...
I can't believe somebody actually tried to patent this, and I find it pathetic that the patent was approved. Who in the government do you write to about this kind of stuff? Your congressman?
If anybody needs prior art, I have code here where I work from the early 80's that uses this technique. I'm sure other companies do too. This doesn't have a chance in court IMHO.
OH yeah, a little for info. I watched during one of my friends had the operation. You sit in a chair where they clamp your eyes open. They then apply local anastetic(sp?). A small blade then comes across the bottom of your eye to make an incision. The incision is spread open and the tip of the laser is placed by it. The laser then shoots through the incision to shape the back of the eye. You can hear steam every time they shoot the laser. When the doctor is done shaping the eye, they remove the laser, and let the incision in your eye close up. After the surgery, you can see fine, but they tell you not to try and focus on anything too far away for a couple of weeks because it strains the eye and then the incision may take longer to heal. You also are not supposed to drive for a couple of weeks. The surgery took about 10 minutes to do both eyes.
I recently scheduled myself for the surgery. I know 3 people who have had it done already, and they love it. One person had it done over a year ago and their vision is still perfect. Where I'm going it costs $2500 an eye, but that covers lifetime correction. If my eyes change again, they do the surgery to recorrect my eyes for free.
I don't see anything on the website stating that this is a novelty only. Everything I read says that they have a legal right to sell moon property because the owner of the company filed a declaration of ownership of the moon with the US gov. in 1980.
Now, if it says for novelty only on the deed when you get it, couldn't you sue for false advertising ? The web site insists over and over again that it isn't a joke and it's legal.
If it does say that this is a novelty only on the website, I missed it and I would greatly appreciate you letting me know where on the site it says this.
Do you have a link to an article about this, because I don't buy it.
When I wanted to change my PIN number on my ATM card, I just went to my bank, and told them I wanted to change it. They brought out a small box connected to their computer with a keypad. I swiped my card and then put it back in my wallet. I then punched in my current pin. When I was verified I punched in the new pin I wanted twice, the second time to verify the first incase I made a typo. They then told me the pin would be changed overnight, so tomorrow I could start using my new pin. They never sent me a new card, and since my card wasn't swiped there after I changed it, there is no way they could have changed the info on my card.
When I wanted a PIN for my credit card, I filled out what PIN I wanted on a little form that came with my bill. Again, I never got a new card. I did get a letter saying that my PIN was now active though.
If your bank does it the way you say (everything unecrypted on the card), I suggest you change banks quickly...
I think that the story only made slashdot cause it got ported.
You mean that the story only made it because it got ported to Linux. I submited a story about an announcement by Be Inc. that Shogo: Mobile Armor Division was being ported to BeOS. The port is even being done by the same company who makes the windows version. I figured this was a major step for the game industry because it showed a game company (Other than Id) that is going to make it's game for windows and an alternate OS in house instead of outsourcing it. But since the game was being ported to BeOS, and not to Linux, it wasn't good enought to be Slashdot material...
PS: This will probably be moderated down as a Flamebait
But, if you read this more closely, these ratings will be used for more than just helping YOU make choices. It will let the government tell ISP's that they must filter content with certain ratings. A good example could be if you lived in Australia. Even if you wanted to look at an adult site you wouldn't be able to because the government told all ISP's that they must filter sites with the adult rating. Ratings used like this are not just there to help you make veiwing choices, it's there to let other people make the choices for you. This is bad, very bad. I'm an adult and would like to be able to make my own decisions on what I want to see and hear; I don't want some stuffy conservative government doing it for me.
OH NO!!
News Flash!!!
Internet trading companies are in a panic! Red Hat Inc. (RHAT) stock is quickly approaching the dreaded 128, which many programmers fear will cause catastrophic system failures. These failures will be caused because Pascal programmers commonly use signed bytes to hold numeric values. These variables can only contain values from -128 to 127. If the value of RHAT increases to 128 stock market systems will fail and the U.S. economy will be thrown into a state of chaos.
I've been running linux on a Fujitsu Lifebook E330 ever since I got it. I installed RH5.2 and then 6.0 on it without a problem. There was some problems when I needed to use the RH rescue disk to redo lilo when I upgraded my mini win98 partition (need this partition for the winmodem). The laptop did not want to boot the RH rescue disk. I had to use a slackware boot disk to get back into my linux partition. Other than that everything worked great. Got X and the soundcard working on the first shot. The only problem is that I can't use the winmodem and the IR.
I can see why some people would be turned off to using linux on a latop if they can't use all of the hardware (winmodem/IR/etc.). If somebody spends the money for a laptop, they are going to want to be able to use all of it's features. Also no company seems to make sure their linux disto works on a laptop. I've heard stories from people who couldn't even get their laptops to boot the install disks.
There is a Linux Laptop Volunteer Support Database and a Linux on Laptops that contain large amounts of info on getting linux up and going on a laptop.
Also in Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (third book in the Neuromancer books) The Fin, who was killed in Count Zero (the second book) turns up as a "Personality Construct" that people go to get advice and stuff. The "Personality Construct" is ppretty much a more advanced version of what this guy patented. This is definitely another example of prior art.
Ok, people have mentioned cloning a headless body, but then the head, after being moved to the new body would look too old for it. Why not clone a body without a brain and spinal column, and then move just your brain and spinal cord to the new body, this way you will have your face matching the age of the cloned body.
Also, if you went bald in your old body, you could have your hair back for a while...
I know this design process very well! In the company I work at it is exactly the same. This leads to serious problems. My situation is a perfect example. One of the developers in my group left the company and I inherited one of his programs that was just released into "beta". Needless to say, it is full of bugs. So I'm stuck fixing a program with approx. 60K lines of code, no documentation on how it is supposed to work, and no comments in the code either. Obviously the bugs aren't getting fixed as fast as my manager would like and the program is now behind schedule. Management of course see's this as my fault.
Ironically, my company sent me to a software design class two months earlier where I learned about specifications, design documents, etc. When I came back from the class I told my manager we should implement something similar to what I learned in the class THEY SENT ME TOO. He promptly stated that all of that stuff was a waste of time. So instead I'm wasting time trying to figure out how in the hell this damn program is supposed to work!
Oh yeah, I'm also a Java & C/C++ Solaris developer and looking to get out of here.
Thank you for the advice. I went to a bunch of salary calculators on the web. The kind where you enter your knowledge and experience and it tells you how much you're worth. Almost all said that for NYC I'm slightly underpaid, but I like the people I work with and I'm getting good experience so I'm not worried anymore. It's just that reading about people coming to work in the US with little to no experience and making 60K kind of made me feel like I was getting shafted.
That was weird, I clicked on the reply to the H-1B article. I then waited half an hour, entered my message and submit it, and it was attached to an article that didn't even exist when I first hit the reply button. Strange...
After reading all this, I feel underpaid. I'm was born in the US and work in NYC for a brokerage firm. I write programs for Solaris using C and Motif (this is company standard). I also maintain an intranet web site which contains a suite of reporting applications I wrote in Java. I graduated from a well known university with a Comp. Sci. degree and good GPA. I now have just over one year of experience and I make just under 50K a year. How underpaid am I?
I could go for some freeLSD.
Wow, look at all the pretty colors!
Imagine what the code would look like...
I don't see why BSD and Linux users flame each other. Everybody keeps saying that a big part of the free software (in the sense that it doesn't cost anything) movement is about freedom of choice. Then everybody spends time and energy flaming each other for making different choices (*BSD,*nix, etc.). Is it just me or does this seem amazingly hypocritical?