Sure, SETI is really kind of a lost cause, it will behighly unlikely for it to find any ET. But you can probably trust Berkley and SETI to keep it clean. As for the extra 25 a month - look at the EnergyStar website for ways to make your home more energy efficient, and you'll save more than enough to make up for it. Hell, turning your monitor off when not in use should save you more than that.
I wouldn't go so far as to say this is philanthropy in the digital age. In fact, UD is merely abusing the idea of philanthropy to promote itself and make a profit. It is not like this type of thing never happened before the digital age (say, donate your used car to "charity" when only 10% of the proceeds go to charity, and give "to the Lord" by calling a televangalist). We can't let one greedy, cash starved startup give it a bad name.
To me, philanthropy in the digital age is that I can give to many institutions by going to their website and donating with my credit card online.
I should add that other schools may have positions too- when we lost a developer to a study abroad program, we hired a student who lived in the area but went to school thousands of miles away. You might be able to find a school near your home that can provide good experience.
When I was an undergraduate CS student, I found that some of the best experience boosting jobs were right there at the University. Sure, some people got to go to big defense/aerospace companies hoping to build airplanes, but most of them ended up doing small work. But I got to work for the University's computing department. Although it didn't sound a glorious, it allowed me a very flexible schedule, fexible wardrobe, and gave me great experience. The project I worked on most of the time was used by the entire University, and gave me very valuable experience. Students were allowed to design and implement virtually everything, with administrative support from the University. We were given a budget, deadlines, and basic guidlines (all of which we provided major input for), and then set out to make something we would be proud of having our name on (especially since it was distributed among our peers and the people who gave us grades). It was fun to work among friends as a plus.
Others I knew found great postions working with professors, developing software to aid their research or curiculum. Those projects were treated similarly, with budgets, timelines, etc. And all of the projects proved to be very valuable experience and looked great on a resume.
Ask some professors, or look around on the bulletin boards for summer help wanted signs. Check various departmental web pages. It doesn't have to be the CS department you work with, and I even had friends who worked with the Free Electron Laser project and the University Medical Center too.
It's not an obsession - it is the default with a RedHat install. Once these users get used to it, it's often hard for them to like the other window managers.
You're probably correct. The reason Apple chose the minisocket is because they are the only manufacturers of Apple motherboards, and therefore compatability, they only have to accomodate one design, that doesn't need to be compatable with multiple cases, motherboards, designs, etc. In turn they can bolt the assembly to the motherboard and still not sacrafice much motherboad space. And of course apple has never been known for cost effective designs.
It sounds like these lawyers are bored, and need to increase their billable hours. How should they do that? Surf the web all day looking for anything matching the patters Open* and ?L or *GL* . Then, send a bunch of mean letters, and hope one of them tries to sue, so they can get even more billable hours. Then, perhaps offer to "settle" and keep a nice hunk of the settlement as a prize. If they were good lawyers, they would know that they couldn't get away with this, and their case would almost certainly be lost.
Although I agree to some extent, there is a difference. The Amiga's hardware and the PC's hardware are hardly comparable. If those were SCSI drives you were using, I think you would find that the GUI remains responsive and smooth, and CPU utilization remains low. Even if you were copying from an IDE CDROM to a SCSI hard disk, you would see similar results. While copying from an IDE device to another IDE device, each read and write effectively interupts any other IDE read or write for a quantum. Additionally, IDE requires the use of the CPU to issue instructions to the drives for IO. So while copying, the OS must tell the GUI to hold on for a small amount of time to allow a block of data to be read, then written.
Actually Apple has found a way around using a slot. Take a look at the inside of an Apple G4 minitower - the CPU is mounted to a PCB, along with the L2 cache. That PCB then has pins to fit in a socket on the motherboard. It isn't a socket like a Socket 370, but a more compact socket about 5cm long by 1.5cm wide.
Thank you! I'm so glad it's over. Ever time I came to slashdot on 4/1 I felt like I was in 5th grade again - horrible corney jokes that not even the dumbest readers could completely believe.
I work for a small publishing company, and we specialize in custom publishing. For most of our long-term clients, we have online versions of the custom publications. Most of the writing is done by freelance writers. The editors will usually specify up-front that they may put the writing online for the online version of the publication. For the most part, the witers agree, since it gets them more publicity. There are a few who charge a token amount, much less than the fee for the original piece, to have their work posted online.
It works similarly for the free-lance photography we use to accompany the stories. Most photographers have a clause in their contract to allow for unlimited online use for a small fee, and a few allow it free. Occaisionally a photographer will try to charge twice the original amount if we ask for the rights to use their work online, and we usually refuse and find a substition.
Because some of us have friends who use Windows or Mac OS and are somewhat loyal to AIM because it is what their friends use. I'd like to see you try to get that many people (especially the Windows and Mac users) to use your protocol, abandoning AIM completely.
I forsee the RIAA taking control over it like Microsoft over what software PC's ship with. If you want your music to pass the opt-in filter, you have to sign a deal with us (the RIAA) so that we can get "protect your royalties" in our personal checking and brokrage accounts. I completely agree that the opt-out system does not work well to protect copyrights. But the RIAA will do everything they can to make sure they have complete control over the distrobution of music.
Who's the troll? I wasn't trolling. Did you even read my post? I said that there is a type of multitasking that has always worked well enough. Well enough for Mac users. I never said it doesn't do multitasking at all. I said it doesn't do PRE-EMPTIVE multitasking. Click on the scroll bar of a browser or text box on your Mac while playing an MP3, and hold it down. The MP3 player cannot pre-emptively regain control of the CPU. Try bruning a CD and switching applications (even with an all SCSI system). Load a page with a large number of tables and embedded tables in Netscape 4.x, and watch as it takes complete control of the CPU while it renders. True, it sucks that Netscape 4.x is slow at rendering, but the OS should at least give one or two CPU cycles to you to let you switch to another application during this period. But most Mac users don't really notice these issues.
This is all fine and dandy, assuming that you can personally be sure that all of the physical and transport layer connections between you and that host name, as well as the system which resolved the hostname are completely secure and trusted. Otherwise someone could see that you are downloading packets from host X and poof as host X, sending you packets that you now trust based on the host name only. After all, Microsoft has forgotten to renew a domain once before, who's to say they won't do it again? Only this time it might not be a white hat that fixes the problem.
I agree that the delays have been bad. But you have to give them credit. Apple is committed to their customers. For the most part, their customers do not notice the difference between a BSD based operating system and one lacking preemptive multitasking and protected memory. They use one application at a time, even if several are loaded (e.g. user preempting like Windows 3.x), they very rarely use their Mac as a server, and they want to be able to use the applications they've been using for years, and most of all, they want it to be easy. For Apple to accommodate that, they had to perfect the Classic layer to work in OS X. Apple has worked hard to make sure the user experiences little or no transition pain, and ensure that everything works. All too often features take importance over quality. Apple deserves some credit for not prematurely releasing
the product. Product delays create bad publicity, but defective or poorly aimed products create worse publicity.
TurboLinux makes their money selling their cluster server and high availability cluster servers to everything from big businesses to research institutions.
Their 2-node clustering solution sells for $995 and the 10-node version for $1995. They also offer data server products optimized for DB2 and Oracle 8i, which costs $2,500. These products are aimed at businesses that those prices as a small price with high returns. Combined with support and consulting, TurboLinux is able to make some revenue.
I think there is a cost obstacle. Most big corporations spend of dollars, sometimes beyond $1,000,000 for CRM solutions. It would take a custom solution for congress because of the number of mail boxes (e.g. not just one "service@domain.com"). It's hard to find money for that kind of project when you have to fill in the pork projects first. But if a senator has a friend he/she owes a favor in a CRM company, then it might happen.
Sure, a letter (hard copy, typed or hand written) to slashdot may not get taken as seriously. But in virtually all other sectors of the world, a real letter will get taken more seriously. For one, it takes more effort, and therefor is taken as more genuine. Also, email has generally taken on a casual tone, and that tone does not always work well with serious matters. No one should expected their congressperson to treat an email the same as a letter.
Similarly, I wrote a thank you note to a major printer manufacturer, who offered a replacement part. If I had sent just an email it would have been read by some intern, and mostly ignored. But the letter was read, and someone called to thank me (they had to look hard to find my phone number even), and sent me a freebie. Of course, actual results may vary...
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Sure, SETI is really kind of a lost cause, it will behighly unlikely for it to find any ET. But you can probably trust Berkley and SETI to keep it clean. As for the extra 25 a month - look at the EnergyStar website for ways to make your home more energy efficient, and you'll save more than enough to make up for it. Hell, turning your monitor off when not in use should save you more than that.
I wouldn't go so far as to say this is philanthropy in the digital age. In fact, UD is merely abusing the idea of philanthropy to promote itself and make a profit. It is not like this type of thing never happened before the digital age (say, donate your used car to "charity" when only 10% of the proceeds go to charity, and give "to the Lord" by calling a televangalist). We can't let one greedy, cash starved startup give it a bad name.
To me, philanthropy in the digital age is that I can give to many institutions by going to their website and donating with my credit card online.
I should add that other schools may have positions too- when we lost a developer to a study abroad program, we hired a student who lived in the area but went to school thousands of miles away. You might be able to find a school near your home that can provide good experience.
When I was an undergraduate CS student, I found that some of the best experience boosting jobs were right there at the University. Sure, some people got to go to big defense/aerospace companies hoping to build airplanes, but most of them ended up doing small work. But I got to work for the University's computing department. Although it didn't sound a glorious, it allowed me a very flexible schedule, fexible wardrobe, and gave me great experience. The project I worked on most of the time was used by the entire University, and gave me very valuable experience. Students were allowed to design and implement virtually everything, with administrative support from the University. We were given a budget, deadlines, and basic guidlines (all of which we provided major input for), and then set out to make something we would be proud of having our name on (especially since it was distributed among our peers and the people who gave us grades). It was fun to work among friends as a plus.
Others I knew found great postions working with professors, developing software to aid their research or curiculum. Those projects were treated similarly, with budgets, timelines, etc. And all of the projects proved to be very valuable experience and looked great on a resume.
Ask some professors, or look around on the bulletin boards for summer help wanted signs. Check various departmental web pages. It doesn't have to be the CS department you work with, and I even had friends who worked with the Free Electron Laser project and the University Medical Center too.
It's not an obsession - it is the default with a RedHat install. Once these users get used to it, it's often hard for them to like the other window managers.
I sure hope you settled out of court. =)
You're probably correct. The reason Apple chose the minisocket is because they are the only manufacturers of Apple motherboards, and therefore compatability, they only have to accomodate one design, that doesn't need to be compatable with multiple cases, motherboards, designs, etc. In turn they can bolt the assembly to the motherboard and still not sacrafice much motherboad space. And of course apple has never been known for cost effective designs.
It sounds like these lawyers are bored, and need to increase their billable hours. How should they do that? Surf the web all day looking for anything matching the patters Open* and ?L or *GL* . Then, send a bunch of mean letters, and hope one of them tries to sue, so they can get even more billable hours. Then, perhaps offer to "settle" and keep a nice hunk of the settlement as a prize. If they were good lawyers, they would know that they couldn't get away with this, and their case would almost certainly be lost.
Although I agree to some extent, there is a difference. The Amiga's hardware and the PC's hardware are hardly comparable. If those were SCSI drives you were using, I think you would find that the GUI remains responsive and smooth, and CPU utilization remains low. Even if you were copying from an IDE CDROM to a SCSI hard disk, you would see similar results. While copying from an IDE device to another IDE device, each read and write effectively interupts any other IDE read or write for a quantum. Additionally, IDE requires the use of the CPU to issue instructions to the drives for IO. So while copying, the OS must tell the GUI to hold on for a small amount of time to allow a block of data to be read, then written.
Actually Apple has found a way around using a slot. Take a look at the inside of an Apple G4 minitower - the CPU is mounted to a PCB, along with the L2 cache. That PCB then has pins to fit in a socket on the motherboard. It isn't a socket like a Socket 370, but a more compact socket about 5cm long by 1.5cm wide.
Thank you! I'm so glad it's over. Ever time I came to slashdot on 4/1 I felt like I was in 5th grade again - horrible corney jokes that not even the dumbest readers could completely believe.
I work for a small publishing company, and we specialize in custom publishing. For most of our long-term clients, we have online versions of the custom publications. Most of the writing is done by freelance writers. The editors will usually specify up-front that they may put the writing online for the online version of the publication. For the most part, the witers agree, since it gets them more publicity. There are a few who charge a token amount, much less than the fee for the original piece, to have their work posted online. It works similarly for the free-lance photography we use to accompany the stories. Most photographers have a clause in their contract to allow for unlimited online use for a small fee, and a few allow it free. Occaisionally a photographer will try to charge twice the original amount if we ask for the rights to use their work online, and we usually refuse and find a substition.
Because some of us have friends who use Windows or Mac OS and are somewhat loyal to AIM because it is what their friends use. I'd like to see you try to get that many people (especially the Windows and Mac users) to use your protocol, abandoning AIM completely.
I forsee the RIAA taking control over it like Microsoft over what software PC's ship with. If you want your music to pass the opt-in filter, you have to sign a deal with us (the RIAA) so that we can get "protect your royalties" in our personal checking and brokrage accounts. I completely agree that the opt-out system does not work well to protect copyrights. But the RIAA will do everything they can to make sure they have complete control over the distrobution of music.
Brings back memories of the old sector-based copy protection schemes on floppy games.
Who's the troll? I wasn't trolling. Did you even read my post? I said that there is a type of multitasking that has always worked well enough. Well enough for Mac users. I never said it doesn't do multitasking at all. I said it doesn't do PRE-EMPTIVE multitasking. Click on the scroll bar of a browser or text box on your Mac while playing an MP3, and hold it down. The MP3 player cannot pre-emptively regain control of the CPU. Try bruning a CD and switching applications (even with an all SCSI system). Load a page with a large number of tables and embedded tables in Netscape 4.x, and watch as it takes complete control of the CPU while it renders. True, it sucks that Netscape 4.x is slow at rendering, but the OS should at least give one or two CPU cycles to you to let you switch to another application during this period. But most Mac users don't really notice these issues.
This is all fine and dandy, assuming that you can personally be sure that all of the physical and transport layer connections between you and that host name, as well as the system which resolved the hostname are completely secure and trusted. Otherwise someone could see that you are downloading packets from host X and poof as host X, sending you packets that you now trust based on the host name only. After all, Microsoft has forgotten to renew a domain once before, who's to say they won't do it again? Only this time it might not be a white hat that fixes the problem.
I agree that the delays have been bad. But you have to give them credit. Apple is committed to their customers. For the most part, their customers do not notice the difference between a BSD based operating system and one lacking preemptive multitasking and protected memory. They use one application at a time, even if several are loaded (e.g. user preempting like Windows 3.x), they very rarely use their Mac as a server, and they want to be able to use the applications they've been using for years, and most of all, they want it to be easy. For Apple to accommodate that, they had to perfect the Classic layer to work in OS X. Apple has worked hard to make sure the user experiences little or no transition pain, and ensure that everything works. All too often features take importance over quality. Apple deserves some credit for not prematurely releasing the product. Product delays create bad publicity, but defective or poorly aimed products create worse publicity.
I bet there is nothing like sysadmining or coding on a tiny 25 column screen, using graffiti for input.
TurboLinux makes their money selling their cluster server and high availability cluster servers to everything from big businesses to research institutions.
Their 2-node clustering solution sells for $995 and the 10-node version for $1995. They also offer data server products optimized for DB2 and Oracle 8i, which costs $2,500. These products are aimed at businesses that those prices as a small price with high returns. Combined with support and consulting, TurboLinux is able to make some revenue.
Also, some companies are starting to use Akamai's servers for their ads.
Nothing seems to slow down web surfing more than using Akamai servers for ads.
AllAdvantage tried this idea. We can see how well that worked out.
At least they are sufficiently concerned about our privacy so as to encrypt the information. That should keep it from snoopers!
Oh wait...
I think there is a cost obstacle. Most big corporations spend of dollars, sometimes beyond $1,000,000 for CRM solutions. It would take a custom solution for congress because of the number of mail boxes (e.g. not just one "service@domain.com"). It's hard to find money for that kind of project when you have to fill in the pork projects first. But if a senator has a friend he/she owes a favor in a CRM company, then it might happen.
Sure, a letter (hard copy, typed or hand written) to slashdot may not get taken as seriously. But in virtually all other sectors of the world, a real letter will get taken more seriously. For one, it takes more effort, and therefor is taken as more genuine. Also, email has generally taken on a casual tone, and that tone does not always work well with serious matters. No one should expected their congressperson to treat an email the same as a letter.
Similarly, I wrote a thank you note to a major printer manufacturer, who offered a replacement part. If I had sent just an email it would have been read by some intern, and mostly ignored. But the letter was read, and someone called to thank me (they had to look hard to find my phone number even), and sent me a freebie. Of course, actual results may vary...