The MBA gives the same creds that techie certifications. It mains you knew enough to take and pass tests, but is not proof that you will cut it in the real stuff.
I don't want to start a certification/degree vs. experience debate here. But, an MBA from a top tier business school actually gives you hands on experience to help you make the cut. Sure, some people will slip though, but an MBA is much better than just taking a few tests. It is like a two year long hands-on project course.
You forgot people using X based workstations over some form of broadband connection, whether it is a xDSL, ISDN, cable, satellite, etc. Back when I lived in a neighborhood with DSL, I found it very useful to run X apps from work remotely. At the time I used SSH connection forwarding and its compression, but at times that was still too unresponsive to keep me happy. Since LBX is optimized compression for X (ssh uses gzip I belive for its compression), I'm sure it would use the resources better. Now that I'm down to 33.6Kbps PPP at home, I'm not sure that even LBX will be enough to make it bearable. And I doubt LBX will do much for rendering graphics like you mention.
The commentary says the fast food industry widens the distance between poor and rich. It says that the jobs created prevent people from advancing. Come on. The people who work at McDonalds are lucky to have a job. They either speak little English, or just got parole release. They are being rehabilitated into society and working hard for a living. This would be no different if we did not have fast food. There will ALWAYS be low wage jobs - construction, most manufacturing, agriculture, mining etc. In other words, as long as people are living and consuming there will be jobs that teach little portable skill with little hope for rapid advancement.
Sourceforge is probably not withholding information because they don't want people to try it again. Whenever there is a complicated compromise, it can take weeks to figure out what has been compromised and how. Generally the priority is to get the system running again, which typically requires a completely fresh start for the operating system. When a system is compromised, it is easy to tell for some thing what probably has been compromised (such as the password files in this case). But most hackers hide their presence from logs as much as possible - even script kiddies do that. Otherwise they would be detected before they got very far, and it would be easier for the victims to figure out how they were compromised.
I don't know about AOL 6.0, but in AOL 4.0 and earlier, there were files (main.idx or something like that) that stored the graphics for buttons, etc. on keyword menus. When you installed from the CD, it came with about 20MB of these graphics for the 3.0 version. But if you downloaded it, you had the option of either downloading a 5MB file that contained many of the popular pages' graphics or just downloading them as you view them the first time. I'd imagine that a big chunk of that size accounts for graphics still. I do agree though that 84MB is a bit large.
If you are security conscious and bought a wireless keyboard, you deserve to have your head examined. If it didn't say "Strong Encryption" or mention some other form of security on the box, you didn't honestly think it was secure did you? Even IR keyboards can be "sniffed", although not nearly as easily.
Those of us with experience with Iomega products will disagree. Any portable storage is good portable storage if it doesn't lose its data every few months. And when the drives day a few weeks after the warranty is over, it sucks too.
Oh damn. Now the company will have to pay $50 for a copy of a game if they want to review it. That is a drop in the bucket for most publications. As for the advertising revenue, while that is a legitimate concern, it is unlikely that the company will be able to talk competitors into not advertising, epecially if the competitors agree that the game sucked.
P.S. I've seen plenty of 2 points and lower reviews, often adjacent to other reviews (often higher) of games from the same company. I guess the solution is that a 0 rating is a little extreme, but a 1 or 2 is just going to wake up the development team.
SETI is less worried about punishing cheaters, and more worried about getting accurate results back from the clients. Without control over the data, the entire dataset would be skewed and would have a huge impact on its scientific value.
I recall in high school a group of friends who represented Canada in Model UN. They pitched for pro global warming accords. Among the benefits they included - extending the warmth north would introduce low cost beach resorts and other great economic benefits to Canada.
While the plugins for Photoshop are great and very powerful, there is one problem. How many plugins have you seen that fail (crash or fail to complete the operation) when you try them on a large image? I think it will be very hard for enough high quality, stable, trustworthy plugins to be available. I'm sure compression, encryption, and a few other basics will be great. But will they do the same as for Photoshop? I doubt it. No one wants to take a risk of widespread data corruption or data loss.
You beat me to it. I agree that we have to give kids responsibility if we want them to ever have any. If they've been watched their whole K-12 years, what are they going to do when they are faced with the sudden HUGE increase of freedom after high school?
I always could tell the kids who were given little responsibility for their own decisions before college. Once they reached college, not only did they take little responsibility for their actions, but the took far more risks.
Don't speak if you don't know what you're talking about. Most LCD's made in the past 5 years have intelligent expansion rather than expanding only some of the pixels. Some even add a rounding (antialiasing) effect to approximate a CRT's masking.
Considering that they wanted $499 for a 17" CRT, it would not be surprising if they had trouble selling sufficient volumes of CRT's. A lot of die hard Macheads I know thought their CRT's were ugly (and most everyone else agreed). Considering $499 buys a 15" LCD these days, why should anyone want one of their overpriced bulging CRT's?
Ahh yes, that is the other thing I should have mentioned. Turning the thermostat down to 125 or lower (mine goes down to 100 I think) helps a lot, especially if you do need to leave it on all day.
I think cheating is lame, but people will always try to do it. The good thing about making it a little harder with the drivers is that it will eliminate the ease with which everyone can try. It's the AOL/Napster factor. Many MP3's were around and actively traded before Napster came out, but Napster made it so easy that even my grandfather could pirate entire albums. If it is easy for anyone to cheat, then game servers will have such a high noise to signal ratio that it will be no fun for the noncheaters to play anymore.
While water heaters represent a good portion of your electric bill, if it is 1/4 then it is too high. If your home is unoccupied for a large portion of the day, or you don't need hot water all night, then you might consider turning it of for those periods of time. Timer are also available to help you with this. If your water heater was built before 1990 (maybe it was a little later) you can put a blanket or other insulation over it to help. Also exposed hot water pipes (interior and exterior) can be insulated for about $0.69 per meter, which will help some (may also help with your AC since you're in Phoenix).
There is a really good web page at http://hit.lbl.gov/ with more information about reducing your utility bills.
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Some of us have to use the FB Xserver. Since framebuffer support is already less than fast, any speed improvments are quite welcome.
The MBA gives the same creds that techie certifications. It mains you knew enough to take and pass tests, but is not proof that you will cut it in the real stuff.
I don't want to start a certification/degree vs. experience debate here. But, an MBA from a top tier business school actually gives you hands on experience to help you make the cut. Sure, some people will slip though, but an MBA is much better than just taking a few tests. It is like a two year long hands-on project course.
You forgot people using X based workstations over some form of broadband connection, whether it is a xDSL, ISDN, cable, satellite, etc. Back when I lived in a neighborhood with DSL, I found it very useful to run X apps from work remotely. At the time I used SSH connection forwarding and its compression, but at times that was still too unresponsive to keep me happy. Since LBX is optimized compression for X (ssh uses gzip I belive for its compression), I'm sure it would use the resources better. Now that I'm down to 33.6Kbps PPP at home, I'm not sure that even LBX will be enough to make it bearable. And I doubt LBX will do much for rendering graphics like you mention.
Some of us care about ourselves and our friends acheiveing goals other than top fragger in Quake III.
The commentary says the fast food industry widens the distance between poor and rich. It says that the jobs created prevent people from advancing. Come on. The people who work at McDonalds are lucky to have a job. They either speak little English, or just got parole release. They are being rehabilitated into society and working hard for a living. This would be no different if we did not have fast food. There will ALWAYS be low wage jobs - construction, most manufacturing, agriculture, mining etc. In other words, as long as people are living and consuming there will be jobs that teach little portable skill with little hope for rapid advancement.
Sourceforge is probably not withholding information because they don't want people to try it again. Whenever there is a complicated compromise, it can take weeks to figure out what has been compromised and how. Generally the priority is to get the system running again, which typically requires a completely fresh start for the operating system. When a system is compromised, it is easy to tell for some thing what probably has been compromised (such as the password files in this case). But most hackers hide their presence from logs as much as possible - even script kiddies do that. Otherwise they would be detected before they got very far, and it would be easier for the victims to figure out how they were compromised.
I don't know about AOL 6.0, but in AOL 4.0 and earlier, there were files (main.idx or something like that) that stored the graphics for buttons, etc. on keyword menus. When you installed from the CD, it came with about 20MB of these graphics for the 3.0 version. But if you downloaded it, you had the option of either downloading a 5MB file that contained many of the popular pages' graphics or just downloading them as you view them the first time. I'd imagine that a big chunk of that size accounts for graphics still. I do agree though that 84MB is a bit large.
Actually, they are used for presentations frequently (so you don't have to stay at the podium).
If you are security conscious and bought a wireless keyboard, you deserve to have your head examined. If it didn't say "Strong Encryption" or mention some other form of security on the box, you didn't honestly think it was secure did you? Even IR keyboards can be "sniffed", although not nearly as easily.
Those of us with experience with Iomega products will disagree. Any portable storage is good portable storage if it doesn't lose its data every few months. And when the drives day a few weeks after the warranty is over, it sucks too.
Oh damn. Now the company will have to pay $50 for a copy of a game if they want to review it. That is a drop in the bucket for most publications. As for the advertising revenue, while that is a legitimate concern, it is unlikely that the company will be able to talk competitors into not advertising, epecially if the competitors agree that the game sucked.
P.S. I've seen plenty of 2 points and lower reviews, often adjacent to other reviews (often higher) of games from the same company. I guess the solution is that a 0 rating is a little extreme, but a 1 or 2 is just going to wake up the development team.
Bragging rights. Those with weak confidence attempt to validate themselves through cheating and the belittling of others.
See also: antisocial behavior
Or just some really spoiled kids with some massive Alphas.
SETI is less worried about punishing cheaters, and more worried about getting accurate results back from the clients. Without control over the data, the entire dataset would be skewed and would have a huge impact on its scientific value.
I recall in high school a group of friends who represented Canada in Model UN. They pitched for pro global warming accords. Among the benefits they included - extending the warmth north would introduce low cost beach resorts and other great economic benefits to Canada.
Is it just me or is a 533MHz Celeron WAY overkill for an MP3 player? I'm glad they are considering more integrated chips from TI and Cirrus.
You've obviously never seen the Linux zealots running the -dev releases of Debian. Sheesh! Talk about trashing a system sometimes... ;)
I thought about mentioning the bleeding edge types. But they are so used to bugs, they don't mind them. =)
Yes, the crashing of the plugins is because of bad programming. Exactly my point.
While the plugins for Photoshop are great and very powerful, there is one problem. How many plugins have you seen that fail (crash or fail to complete the operation) when you try them on a large image? I think it will be very hard for enough high quality, stable, trustworthy plugins to be available. I'm sure compression, encryption, and a few other basics will be great. But will they do the same as for Photoshop? I doubt it. No one wants to take a risk of widespread data corruption or data loss.
You beat me to it. I agree that we have to give kids responsibility if we want them to ever have any. If they've been watched their whole K-12 years, what are they going to do when they are faced with the sudden HUGE increase of freedom after high school?
I always could tell the kids who were given little responsibility for their own decisions before college. Once they reached college, not only did they take little responsibility for their actions, but the took far more risks.
Don't speak if you don't know what you're talking about. Most LCD's made in the past 5 years have intelligent expansion rather than expanding only some of the pixels. Some even add a rounding (antialiasing) effect to approximate a CRT's masking.
Considering that they wanted $499 for a 17" CRT, it would not be surprising if they had trouble selling sufficient volumes of CRT's. A lot of die hard Macheads I know thought their CRT's were ugly (and most everyone else agreed). Considering $499 buys a 15" LCD these days, why should anyone want one of their overpriced bulging CRT's?
Ahh yes, that is the other thing I should have mentioned. Turning the thermostat down to 125 or lower (mine goes down to 100 I think) helps a lot, especially if you do need to leave it on all day.
I think cheating is lame, but people will always try to do it. The good thing about making it a little harder with the drivers is that it will eliminate the ease with which everyone can try. It's the AOL/Napster factor. Many MP3's were around and actively traded before Napster came out, but Napster made it so easy that even my grandfather could pirate entire albums. If it is easy for anyone to cheat, then game servers will have such a high noise to signal ratio that it will be no fun for the noncheaters to play anymore.
There is a really good web page at http://hit.lbl.gov/ with more information about reducing your utility bills.