It's because they don't want to overload their CS department with crapon-in-a-hat-nimrods. I'll give you points for your conspiracy theory, but it's bunk.
If they were worried about money, they would let anybody go into higher CS. If you'll note, it's just the Intro to CS class. Because they want people that can learn on their own. I don't blame them, and think more colleges should do this for every major. If you can't get through the intro course with just the instructors help, you don't belong in that major.
A great point, and I think that freeDB is doing a fantastic job.
I'm thinking that if someone took the freeDB model and translated it to handle books or movies, or whatever, it would be a very good thing. One thing that I have wanted for ever is similar to MoodLogic, to categorize and index MP3s. Having that open source, coupling with a database would rock. Even with books, it's very useful.
Soon as my life calms down with work (Oh in say 3 years) that will be the first open source project I start if there isn't already one. Something to manage movies, mp3s, cds, and books. My goal is to have it tie into robotics so it links to a DVD changer to play the song, or loads the mp3 on the computer, or pulls the book out of a bookshelf and monitors whats out on loan, etc.
Just my little perfect world.. i'm also building a router in a tree pot so take my suggestions with a large grain of salt:)
The oil industry is one of those great industries where the profit margin fluctuates quite widely. The "Bush oil administration" understands that we need oil right now. So fuck it, till something better comes along, lets get it while we can.
There is this guy, on the back of his bike, who has a sign "Oil Greed Causes War, Get a Bike!" -- Sorry, but some of us don't have that choice. I'm not going to ride my bike 35 miles to the office while it's dumping rain down. Mass transit? May use less, but not enough for me to sacrifice myself to sitting next to a drunk smelly man mumbling about the inner workings of the seventh church of satan.
The oil companies do research into other power sources. They are not stupid. They, in fact, are collectively much more intelligent than you. They know there is money in other sources. They just want to control it. You know what? They are going to. Same way Microsoft controls the software market. Don't like it? Fine, build a solar powered car. Or ethanol, or whatever. Make your own hydrogen fuel cell with all this extra hydrogen.
Isn't that why people run Linux? The only difference, is the oil companies have a natural hold on our society because we refuse to give ourselves an alternative that is convenient. If someone found a way for me to cruise at 80mph for 6 hours without stopping, at the same cost or lower than gas I would do it. Till then, I'll put up with their "greed" because I have yet to see them doing something that is wrong. Don't quote "Company X does business in country Y where people are raped and killed and company X helps fund that" because it's bunk. Complete bunk. It's called economics, and Exxon-Mobile is gonna be there to hop on the hydrogen train when it proves profitable. Till then, that train isn't going anywhere.
Having said all that, I do hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.
They've sold me. Next hardware I get will probably be a G4. I'm planning on getting my graphic designer a new TiBook and I'll probably get one as well. They have the best screens, nice keyboards, and it runs Unix.
I cannot ask for anything more. All I really care about doing is running gcc, nedit or a comporable editor, gdb and having a standard tcp stack. Anything else is optional. It wasn't because of their advertising or soliciting. It's because Apple is starting to kick major ass.
If I couldn't buy one, I would give my left nut for one of their cinema displays.
Because people think that energy companies are some mysterious mafia-style organization in cahoots with the government that is hell bent on maintaining oil at the cost of logic and economics.
Well, only when what's being drawn. This really isn't a bad thing. The 3d channels have been opened up much more than 2d acceleration has.
The thing is, everything will be drawn as a 3d object. Think of an OpenGL based window manager. With proper hardware acceleration this will really kick ass. Of course, us on the Unix side of the fence have already done this and M$ will claim it's innovation.
Here's my point: There is a critical segfault-type bug in code.
Someone reports it. You sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices? Yeah, that really speaks highly of the quality. I will never run software on a box I myself write code and do other important things on when the developers do that when a bug happens. That's worse than most company's "Well, it doesn't do that for me." stance.
People yell at M$ when things don't work and M$ denies or ignores the problem. But it's ok for KDE to do it? Sorry.. why aren't you running Windows again?
I had a problem building kdelibs from cvs and from the 3.0 tarballs. This problem is KDE's fault. They have an application (kimage_concat) that is segfaulting. I'm not about to dig through the kde code, I've never looked at it before and that's not a good way to debug.
I posted a bug report, and the guy closed the bug report without any change notes or anything. The day after I posted it. It doesn't even look like they checked into the problem. There is also another problem building kdebase which is a QT problem. They are passing a KDE object into a QT function and QT doesn't have a handler for that. I'm also utilizing their qt-copy from CVS.
My stance on it is, KDE-3.0 sucks ass clowns. I would probably be a lot more happy about it if they actually looked into the bug report I submitted without closing it instantly.
Well, not to sound doomy and gloomy but Eazel never had a market to work with. Every single linux user I know that nautilus was a piece of shit. I thought their business model was absolutely stupid, and asking the community to support them wouldn't work.
You have to offer a product people really want, Loki may have been able to do this. I doubt Eazel would have managed to survive more than a month with donations, not enough people wanted what they had to offer.
The reason why this model works with Mandrake is a lot of people want mandrake and want it to stick around.
No, not really. In that case, I should be living my life like I'm gonna be in the 3%, not the 97%, so the information does me little good. If you need a cancer scare to appreciate the beauty of mortality I pity you.
Also, mortality rates for diseases are pretty simple. What percentage of people who have condition X die? Those are demographics, and most people are glad when they ask their doctor what the chances are to hear the number.
I had surgery a few years back, and the doctor said "This procedure has an 80% success rate." I was pretty happy with those odds and went for it. Glad I did, even though it wasn't a full success, I'm a lot better than I was.
Only when this mindset is abandoned will we see an end to attention grabbing and demographic gathering.
Just to play devils advocate about the demographic gathering (Because I support demographic information gathering)
You have just been diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor says you have a 97% chance of survival. Aren't you glad they gathered that demographic data to know that? Or would you prefer they had no idea what the average survival rate is?
Granted, this is an extreme example -- but it still remains that you do not lose anything at all by allowing people to establish demographic data and correlative data. Also, I firmly believe that there should be stated ethics and the easy ability to opt out of any information gathering entity.
However, I also have some knowledge for the Gator popup, where if you select "No" gator should not popup again -- assuming you leave the cookie alone. They keep track of people who don't want it, and leave them alone in the easiest manner possible.
As a disclaimer, I have relatives who work for gator -- but that doesn't mean I agree with everything they do.
The horrible thing about this, I saw that proof and looked at it. The first thought that popped into my head was, "No.. that can only be true if it's an illegal divison by zero and then it would crash."
Life as a programmer is fun, especially when your mind fails to seperate out normal things that don't crash. Like paper for instance.
Sony is like Microsoft, they use their money and hype to sell stuff, They bribe magazines to enhance their hype, Remember the 60 million polygons per second, hell magazines were saying DC was dead ever since PS2 was announced, you act like money cant bribe people and buy marketing? Wrong.
Sony produces fairly high quality units, with a great array of games and a strategic and well targeted marketing campaign. Sega never did that. Ever. Sega is out of the market because Sega sucked as a marketing company, end of story. The dream cast was dead before the PS2 came out. I got my DC (before the PS2) and 4 games for $150 on clearance -- that is a dead console.
PS2 does have some great games to it, if you are just plain ass too stubborn to admit that it's your own loss. Sony won the market by making great consoles that had great games on it.
I would suggest using a web anonymizer/proxy system to utilize google if you want to still be able to acccess google. Also, call customer support and bitch your head off. Comcast should sure as hell get their act together to fix this.
The beautiful apart about that message is that they direct you to the terms of service, but are blocking your network traffic.
I'm hoping they just turned off your netblock for searching, and not for all of Google. If so, I think I would lose some respect for Google just based on the stupid-factor.
If it isn't too much trouble could you clarify or research that point? Thanks
You set your cruise control for, lets say, 60/h on the motorway. You start a stop watch.
See how much time elapsed since you started the speedo check, till when you ended.
It should be close to 5 minutes. Deviation shows that you have an improperly calibrated speedometer. You can also divide this down so that you make the trip comfortable for traffic conditions. Travel for 30km/h for a time of 10 minutes, or 120 km/h for 2.5 minutes. It works out quite well, that no matter how fast you are actually going through the speedo checkpoints that you can figure out how fucked your speedo is. I suppose that when they put those signs up people actually knew about math. And those were the good ol' days.
Amen to your vision of heaven. The way I figure it, even if I lose the suit, it's an experience and I've learned. I trusted someone in a profession known for lying, and I got burned.
I'll still trust, but I'll be much more apt to cover my bases in the future.
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Uh, no.
It's because they don't want to overload their CS department with crapon-in-a-hat-nimrods. I'll give you points for your conspiracy theory, but it's bunk.
If they were worried about money, they would let anybody go into higher CS. If you'll note, it's just the Intro to CS class. Because they want people that can learn on their own. I don't blame them, and think more colleges should do this for every major. If you can't get through the intro course with just the instructors help, you don't belong in that major.
A great point, and I think that freeDB is doing a fantastic job.
:)
I'm thinking that if someone took the freeDB model and translated it to handle books or movies, or whatever, it would be a very good thing. One thing that I have wanted for ever is similar to MoodLogic, to categorize and index MP3s. Having that open source, coupling with a database would rock. Even with books, it's very useful.
Soon as my life calms down with work (Oh in say 3 years) that will be the first open source project I start if there isn't already one. Something to manage movies, mp3s, cds, and books. My goal is to have it tie into robotics so it links to a DVD changer to play the song, or loads the mp3 on the computer, or pulls the book out of a bookshelf and monitors whats out on loan, etc.
Just my little perfect world.. i'm also building a router in a tree pot so take my suggestions with a large grain of salt
The first clause negates the second. Sorry, man. :)
The oil industry is one of those great industries where the profit margin fluctuates quite widely. The "Bush oil administration" understands that we need oil right now.
So fuck it, till something better comes along, lets get it while we can.
There is this guy, on the back of his bike, who has a sign "Oil Greed Causes War, Get a Bike!" -- Sorry, but some of us don't have that choice. I'm not going to ride my bike 35 miles to the office while it's dumping rain down. Mass transit? May use less, but not enough for me to sacrifice myself to sitting next to a drunk smelly man mumbling about the inner workings of the seventh church of satan.
The oil companies do research into other power sources. They are not stupid. They, in fact, are collectively much more intelligent than you. They know there is money in other sources. They just want to control it. You know what? They are going to. Same way Microsoft controls the software market. Don't like it? Fine, build a solar powered car. Or ethanol, or whatever. Make your own hydrogen fuel cell with all this extra hydrogen.
Isn't that why people run Linux? The only difference, is the oil companies have a natural hold on our society because we refuse to give ourselves an alternative that is convenient. If someone found a way for me to cruise at 80mph for 6 hours without stopping, at the same cost or lower than gas I would do it. Till then, I'll put up with their "greed" because I have yet to see them doing something that is wrong. Don't quote "Company X does business in country Y where people are raped and killed and company X helps fund that" because it's bunk. Complete bunk. It's called economics, and Exxon-Mobile is gonna be there to hop on the hydrogen train when it proves profitable. Till then, that train isn't going anywhere.
Having said all that, I do hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.
They've sold me. Next hardware I get will probably be a G4. I'm planning on getting my graphic designer a new TiBook and I'll probably get one as well. They have the best screens, nice keyboards, and it runs Unix.
I cannot ask for anything more. All I really care about doing is running gcc, nedit or a comporable editor, gdb and having a standard tcp stack. Anything else is optional. It wasn't because of their advertising or soliciting. It's because Apple is starting to kick major ass.
If I couldn't buy one, I would give my left nut for one of their cinema displays.
I think it's much worse the other direction.
Because people think that energy companies are some mysterious mafia-style organization in cahoots with the government that is hell bent on maintaining oil at the cost of logic and economics.
Hmm.. so that's where Longhorn is coming from.
But linux can't be that big, even with M$ messing with it!
Well, only when what's being drawn. This really isn't a bad thing. The 3d channels have been opened up much more than 2d acceleration has.
The thing is, everything will be drawn as a 3d object. Think of an OpenGL based window manager. With proper hardware acceleration this will really kick ass. Of course, us on the Unix side of the fence have already done this and M$ will claim it's innovation.
Here's my point: There is a critical segfault-type bug in code.
Someone reports it. You sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices? Yeah, that really speaks highly of the quality. I will never run software on a box I myself write code and do other important things on when the developers do that when a bug happens. That's worse than most company's "Well, it doesn't do that for me." stance.
People yell at M$ when things don't work and M$ denies or ignores the problem. But it's ok for KDE to do it? Sorry.. why aren't you running Windows again?
I had a problem building kdelibs from cvs and from the 3.0 tarballs. This problem is KDE's fault. They have an application (kimage_concat) that is segfaulting. I'm not about to dig through the kde code, I've never looked at it before and that's not a good way to debug.
I posted a bug report, and the guy closed the bug report without any change notes or anything. The day after I posted it. It doesn't even look like they checked into the problem. There is also another problem building kdebase which is a QT problem. They are passing a KDE object into a QT function and QT doesn't have a handler for that. I'm also utilizing their qt-copy from CVS.
My stance on it is, KDE-3.0 sucks ass clowns. I would probably be a lot more happy about it if they actually looked into the bug report I submitted without closing it instantly.
Well, not to sound doomy and gloomy but Eazel never had a market to work with. Every single linux user I know that nautilus was a piece of shit. I thought their business model was absolutely stupid, and asking the community to support them wouldn't work.
You have to offer a product people really want, Loki may have been able to do this. I doubt Eazel would have managed to survive more than a month with donations, not enough people wanted what they had to offer.
The reason why this model works with Mandrake is a lot of people want mandrake and want it to stick around.
No, not really. In that case, I should be living my life like I'm gonna be in the 3%, not the 97%, so the information does me little good.
If you need a cancer scare to appreciate the beauty of mortality I pity you.
Also, mortality rates for diseases are pretty simple. What percentage of people who have condition X die? Those are demographics, and most people are glad when they ask their doctor what the chances are to hear the number.
I had surgery a few years back, and the doctor said "This procedure has an 80% success rate." I was pretty happy with those odds and went for it. Glad I did, even though it wasn't a full success, I'm a lot better than I was.
Only when this mindset is abandoned will we see an end to attention grabbing and demographic gathering.
Just to play devils advocate about the demographic gathering (Because I support demographic information gathering)
You have just been diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor says you have a 97% chance of survival. Aren't you glad they gathered that demographic data to know that? Or would you prefer they had no idea what the average survival rate is?
Granted, this is an extreme example -- but it still remains that you do not lose anything at all by allowing people to establish demographic data and correlative data. Also, I firmly believe that there should be stated ethics and the easy ability to opt out of any information gathering entity.
However, I also have some knowledge for the Gator popup, where if you select "No" gator should not popup again -- assuming you leave the cookie alone. They keep track of people who don't want it, and leave them alone in the easiest manner possible.
As a disclaimer, I have relatives who work for gator -- but that doesn't mean I agree with everything they do.
The horrible thing about this, I saw that proof and looked at it. The first thought that popped into my head was, "No.. that can only be true if it's an illegal divison by zero and then it would crash."
Life as a programmer is fun, especially when your mind fails to seperate out normal things that don't crash. Like paper for instance.
Ohh, no, I'm not beign sued by them -- someone else. I really don't mind getting sued again, was my point :)
*blink* I don't think we are following the same thread.
Sony is like Microsoft, they use their money and hype to sell stuff, They bribe magazines to enhance their hype, Remember the 60 million polygons per second, hell magazines were saying DC was dead ever since PS2 was announced, you act like money cant bribe people and buy marketing?
Wrong.
Sony produces fairly high quality units, with a great array of games and a strategic and well targeted marketing campaign. Sega never did that. Ever. Sega is out of the market because Sega sucked as a marketing company, end of story. The dream cast was dead before the PS2 came out. I got my DC (before the PS2) and 4 games for $150 on clearance -- that is a dead console.
PS2 does have some great games to it, if you are just plain ass too stubborn to admit that it's your own loss. Sony won the market by making great consoles that had great games on it.
You are just a troll.
These are actually most well known as speedometer test sections, and are quite common around the world.
I would suggest using a web anonymizer/proxy system to utilize google if you want to still be able to acccess google. Also, call customer support and bitch your head off. Comcast should sure as hell get their act together to fix this.
The beautiful apart about that message is that they direct you to the terms of service, but are blocking your network traffic.
I'm hoping they just turned off your netblock for searching, and not for all of Google. If so, I think I would lose some respect for Google just based on the stupid-factor.
If it isn't too much trouble could you clarify or research that point? Thanks
Here's a great system. It's really not difficult.
You set your cruise control for, lets say, 60/h on the motorway. You start a stop watch.
See how much time elapsed since you started the speedo check, till when you ended.
It should be close to 5 minutes. Deviation shows that you have an improperly calibrated speedometer. You can also divide this down so that you make the trip comfortable for traffic conditions. Travel for 30km/h for a time of 10 minutes, or 120 km/h for 2.5 minutes. It works out quite well, that no matter how fast you are actually going through the speedo checkpoints that you can figure out how fucked your speedo is. I suppose that when they put those signs up people actually knew about math. And those were the good ol' days.
If I cared as much as I probably should, you may have a point. I seriously doubt that their lawyer browses slashdot, but if he does, Hey!
Good idea with your Pontiac :)
Amen to your vision of heaven. The way I figure it, even if I lose the suit, it's an experience and I've learned. I trusted someone in a profession known for lying, and I got burned.
I'll still trust, but I'll be much more apt to cover my bases in the future.