did anyone else get an ad of OfficeXP for this article? I took a screen shot of mine: "For Identities, One Password." Maybe it's just the lack of sleep but I find this very amusing:) -----
that's funny, i thought that EDIT.com went away with all the others in that huge.com crash... who needs an online word-processor, anyway?... oh, my bad; that's edit.NET -----
kind of funny that MS is even paying off a company that makes its living buying out smaller tech companies... at least xbox tech. is up-front about it:) -----
if you're looking to get a technical MBA, come check out Northeastern. i'm an undergrad CS major there, and the program is really strong... our tech MBA program (collaboration btw. college of computer science and college of business) has been rated the best in the country a couple times... besides, boston's a fun city... -----
i tried going with verizon (then bell atlantic) for my dsl service when i first came to boston last year... between myself and my roommate (both computer professionals) 3 computers and 5 OS flavors/versions, we couldn't get the stupid thing to work... ever... i'm sure you're wondering, "maybe your building's wiring was borked" or something... well, we called up Speakeasy and *poof*, we had DSL. The covad rep helped us get our hardware wired in, and we were up and running in no time... when i moved to my new apt, we got speakeasy/covad there too, without a hitch... we're even hosting Aravir.net out of our apartment, thanks to 10 global static IPs, using a real ethernet bridge (no PPPoE)... not that i really wish a corporate-level DoS on anyone, but if i did, i'd definitely vote for verizon... they suck so much, i believe that the next black hole will form centered on their corporate HQ...
i dunno, but he does seem to put his own personal views and agenda into slashdot articles more often than not... for example, take his 'story' about the canadian government's response to the soldier of fortune video game (was going to disallow stores to sell it)... while it makes sense to talk about censorship, or violence in media, or even corporate response to society's pressures, he turned the article into a huge rant about vegitarianism/veganism, and why eating animals is so bad, and why vegans rock, etc... now, i can't pretend to really know where he's coming from as i find animals rather tasty (and i happen to be very much in love with my girl), but i think he needs to show a little more journalistic integrity at times...
ok, i'm done ranting... this isn't a personal sleight, just an observation... -----
it's amazing to see just how many webcomics are really out there.
a little while ago i helped start up a new comic with an artist friend of mine: Better Living Through Mind Control (the mainstay of Mad Ink). While it took a good bit of work to get the site up and running (learning php from scratch for one thing), it was more effort to keep it going... the comic is on hiatus at the moment, because zac (the artist/actual-talent) is currently being tossed around by the US Marine Corps... not to mention the fact that since he's without computer at the moment, and the last set of artwork seems to have been lost in the mail or something... (obligatory plug: you can still read through the archives!)
i'd like to applaud the ever-venerable Penny Arcade for their efforts of exposing the world to otherwise unknown comics. the page mentioned in the article doesn't really count any of the *big* sites out there (at least that i noticed), but it's good to see the odd little sites get mention.
Viva Underground! (or something) -----
i've been noticing in this forum a lot of "i feel your pain" and "it's just that way, deal with it" kind of comments. for background, i'm a 19-year-old co-op (kind of an intern thing, and the differences don't matter for this discussion) at MITRE, a company that's been around for some time. i mean, our department secratary was hired the same year my mother was born. yeesh.
well anyway, i'd like to add that it really is a personal thing. some people have it ingrained in their heads that young whipper-snappers don't know anything. unfortunately we young whipper-snappers often don't respect the vast experience of those older than us, just because we may know some new technologies and tricks and such.
i came into my company with the respect of some of my colleagues because they had seen the work i had done on a project. management tends to be a bit harder to win over. many are under the impression that people as young as myself are expendable and unreliable. there is also a prevailing opinion that we're just workmonkeys and the *real* hard stuff should go to those with a few more years under their belts. this does change, unfortunately with time. i fear that the atmosphere is still one in which one has to prove himself consistently before people wake up and think "hey, this guy doesn't suck". after nearly a year with this company, i still get my ideas nixed simply because someone "higher up" wanted it done another way
so what is the point of this comment? i'm not sure. but give people- all people- the respect they deserve. and don't be a know-it-all-31337-h4x0r-dewd, either. let people know that you know how to do things, and do them well, but don't be surprised or offended when there are conflicting views.
finally, as you go through your technical career, treat those younger than you with the respect you ask for now. nothing at all against the current generation of programmers, but perhaps technical culture can be changed. -----
not as i understand it... this was fairly early software, done on a pc with a standard (ie non-headset) microphone... so its recognition was still primitive, and didn't have fancy noise filtration built into it... and you might realize that "SHUTDOWN" isn't a valid DOS command... at least, not in any version that i've used -----
This may just be legend, but from what I understand it, a while ago, a company (i believe it was dragon, not sure) was giving a demo of their voice-recognition software for the PC at a conference. At one point, the demonstrator dropped into a DOS shell to show how it worked with command-line interfaces. Unfortunately, someone in the audience yelled out "FORMAT C COLON ENTER"... someone else yelled out "YES ENTER"... and thus ended the demo...
can anyone confirm this? even if it's not true though, it makes for a fun story:) -----
all i'm saying is that i was wondering *why* my own review didn't get posted here one week prior to now... it just seems sketchy that slashdot wouldn't post a reader-submitted story before one of their own staff had a whack at it... i fully realize you're not the first person to review this movie... i was referring to this site alone... and btw, it's spelled "enough"...
pax
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well, now this makes more sense...
i got to go see a pre-screening of antitrust about a week ago... a good movie btw, and i'd reccommend it... anyway, as soon as i got home i wrote up a no-spoilers review of it and submitted it to/..... i was kind of surprised that it was rejected, but now i think i know why: katz wanted to be the first to have a shot at reviewing this film... not that i'm bitter or anything, or that i really know this for sure, but it *does* seem a bit suspect... in case anyone's interested, i did post a slightly shortened version of the review on Mad Ink the next morning... -----
i've been using EditPlus 2 for a while now, putting together scripting for an online comic at http://www.mad-ink.com/... it has great syntax highlighting, and allows you to edit files remotely via FTP... you just hit "Open Remote" and go to your favorite FTP site... then when you hit "Save" the program will automatically upload the new file for you... very slick... unfortunately, it's Windows only... but i'd definitely recommend it...
People still like to have something tangible. I personally own many CDs in addition to my growing MP3 collection. The mere presence of a new distribution medium does not negate the benefits of older, more established ones. Just because I could scour Napster and download an album doesn't mean that I won't spend $12 for a CD. I agree that $19 for a disc is a bit much to ask (I've worked at a CD factory, and I know how rediculously little the chunks of plasic cost to make), but I don't mind shelling out a couple bucks for a high-quality, very portable (in the physical sense: I can just grab a CD and bring it with me), and pretty durable collection of music. Also being a radio DJ, I don't as of yet have the ability to play MP3s on-air, so having a CD allows me to play a song I like over the air, or in my computer, or in my discman, or in a car, or... any number of other places where the now-ubiquitous CD-player has found a home. I can also personally attest to this trend as I've bought a disc as the result of hearing a song from an MP3 I'd downloaded (with the band's permission from their own site). All in all, record companies are making more money now than ever before. They need to stop whining, but then again, RIAA is a professional whining board (it's in their charter, as far as I can tell).
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did anyone else get an ad of OfficeXP for this article? I took a screen shot of mine: "For Identities, One Password." Maybe it's just the lack of sleep but I find this very amusing :)
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that's funny, i thought that EDIT.com went away with all the others in that huge .com crash... who needs an online word-processor, anyway? ... oh, my bad; that's edit.NET
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i think you're looking for the l0pht.. i mean, @stake :)
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kind of funny that MS is even paying off a company that makes its living buying out smaller tech companies... at least xbox tech. is up-front about it :)
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if you're looking to get a technical MBA, come check out Northeastern. i'm an undergrad CS major there, and the program is really strong... our tech MBA program (collaboration btw. college of computer science and college of business) has been rated the best in the country a couple times... besides, boston's a fun city...
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pax
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it's websurFers... they even show someone browsing a page later on
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ok, i'm done ranting... this isn't a personal sleight, just an observation...
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it's amazing to see just how many webcomics are really out there.
a little while ago i helped start up a new comic with an artist friend of mine: Better Living Through Mind Control (the mainstay of Mad Ink). While it took a good bit of work to get the site up and running (learning php from scratch for one thing), it was more effort to keep it going... the comic is on hiatus at the moment, because zac (the artist/actual-talent) is currently being tossed around by the US Marine Corps... not to mention the fact that since he's without computer at the moment, and the last set of artwork seems to have been lost in the mail or something... (obligatory plug: you can still read through the archives!)
i'd like to applaud the ever-venerable Penny Arcade for their efforts of exposing the world to otherwise unknown comics. the page mentioned in the article doesn't really count any of the *big* sites out there (at least that i noticed), but it's good to see the odd little sites get mention.
Viva Underground! (or something)
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i've been noticing in this forum a lot of "i feel your pain" and "it's just that way, deal with it" kind of comments. for background, i'm a 19-year-old co-op (kind of an intern thing, and the differences don't matter for this discussion) at MITRE, a company that's been around for some time. i mean, our department secratary was hired the same year my mother was born. yeesh.
well anyway, i'd like to add that it really is a personal thing. some people have it ingrained in their heads that young whipper-snappers don't know anything. unfortunately we young whipper-snappers often don't respect the vast experience of those older than us, just because we may know some new technologies and tricks and such.
i came into my company with the respect of some of my colleagues because they had seen the work i had done on a project. management tends to be a bit harder to win over. many are under the impression that people as young as myself are expendable and unreliable. there is also a prevailing opinion that we're just workmonkeys and the *real* hard stuff should go to those with a few more years under their belts. this does change, unfortunately with time. i fear that the atmosphere is still one in which one has to prove himself consistently before people wake up and think "hey, this guy doesn't suck". after nearly a year with this company, i still get my ideas nixed simply because someone "higher up" wanted it done another way
so what is the point of this comment? i'm not sure. but give people- all people- the respect they deserve. and don't be a know-it-all-31337-h4x0r-dewd, either. let people know that you know how to do things, and do them well, but don't be surprised or offended when there are conflicting views.
finally, as you go through your technical career, treat those younger than you with the respect you ask for now. nothing at all against the current generation of programmers, but perhaps technical culture can be changed.
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not as i understand it... this was fairly early software, done on a pc with a standard (ie non-headset) microphone... so its recognition was still primitive, and didn't have fancy noise filtration built into it... and you might realize that "SHUTDOWN" isn't a valid DOS command... at least, not in any version that i've used
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just wondering
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can anyone confirm this? even if it's not true though, it makes for a fun story :)
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all i'm saying is that i was wondering *why* my own review didn't get posted here one week prior to now... it just seems sketchy that slashdot wouldn't post a reader-submitted story before one of their own staff had a whack at it... i fully realize you're not the first person to review this movie... i was referring to this site alone... and btw, it's spelled "enough"... pax -09
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well, now this makes more sense... /. .... i was kind of surprised that it was rejected, but now i think i know why: katz wanted to be the first to have a shot at reviewing this film... not that i'm bitter or anything, or that i really know this for sure, but it *does* seem a bit suspect... in case anyone's interested, i did post a slightly shortened version of the review on Mad Ink the next morning...
i got to go see a pre-screening of antitrust about a week ago... a good movie btw, and i'd reccommend it... anyway, as soon as i got home i wrote up a no-spoilers review of it and submitted it to
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of course, with inflation and such, orange juice will cost about $1,000 too...
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It's full of the monkeys!
People still like to have something tangible. I personally own many CDs in addition to my growing MP3 collection. The mere presence of a new distribution medium does not negate the benefits of older, more established ones. Just because I could scour Napster and download an album doesn't mean that I won't spend $12 for a CD. I agree that $19 for a disc is a bit much to ask (I've worked at a CD factory, and I know how rediculously little the chunks of plasic cost to make), but I don't mind shelling out a couple bucks for a high-quality, very portable (in the physical sense: I can just grab a CD and bring it with me), and pretty durable collection of music. Also being a radio DJ, I don't as of yet have the ability to play MP3s on-air, so having a CD allows me to play a song I like over the air, or in my computer, or in my discman, or in a car, or ... any number of other places where the now-ubiquitous CD-player has found a home. I can also personally attest to this trend as I've bought a disc as the result of hearing a song from an MP3 I'd downloaded (with the band's permission from their own site). All in all, record companies are making more money now than ever before. They need to stop whining, but then again, RIAA is a professional whining board (it's in their charter, as far as I can tell).