Unfortunatly service providers probably don't care, they would probably rather have the $29.99/mo customer rather then shutting them down until it's fixed.
1). Gain control of botnet. 2). Look up support@ email addresses of all major ISPs. 3). Write code to lookup a user's ISP (based on IP address, whois, traceroute, etc), and return the ISP's own email address(es). 4). Push code out to botnet. Have botnet run code. 5). Order botnet to begin spamming ISPs responsible for botnet, as hard and fast as possible. 6). Hide. There will be fallout. But ISPs will get the clue that they need to keep their subscribers under control.
There's no money to go to the moon or anywhere else.
The Fed sets the tax rates, and prints the money. In short, the bank never goes bankrupt, and there's always enough money, we just have to be willing to endure the pain for the cause.
And what's more, economics says that such spending will reesult is about twice as much growth in the economy, so it's not just a vanity project, and an economic slowdown is a good reason to GO DO IT, not to avoid it.
They have to set a price, and there will always be people who will consider it reasonable, and those who don't. That doesn't mean their business model is broken, and doesn't mean the person who isn't willing to pay is broken either.
Checking the Android App store, I see it's available for $2.99USD, or about £1.90. But since you're using that funny-money, that probably means you're in one of those OTHER countries, where studios get horribly poor royalty rates, and so charge considerably more in general. I hardly care, but there's probably some regulation issue that would need to be addressed to get the UK price lower, and in-line with the US pricing.
But, I certainly don't understand the mindset of "I'm not a fan of buying movies to keep", so maybe you are broken.
Well no, actually they didn't. You needed to know what you were doing, and have some skill at refining searches and so on, but altavista was a pretty fucking amazing innovation.
Absolutely not. OP is 100% correct. Search engines were steaming piles of crap before Google. The only way you were sure to find what you wanted with Altavista or any of the other search engines around at the time, was to know EXACTLY what you wanted, and do a search so specific that you get exactly 1 page returned... End of story.
It was the culture at the time, everybody on the internet before 2000 knew it. Doing a book report on Hippos? The first search result is going to have a decent name and blurb, and when you click-through you'll find it's actually a hard-core porn site. Domain name squatting wasn't the nickel and dime industry that it is now... Companies were paying MILLIONS to get the shortest domain names (why do you think Disney uses "go.com"?), and their namesake domain names, because YOU COULD SEARCH FOR THE COMPANY BY NAME, AND NEVER FIND THEM IN ANY SEARCH RESULTS. That was the internet. The internet was at the mercy of incredibly crappy search engines. We had sites like dogpile that queried multiple search engines just because, the results from each of them were a crapshoot, and it was hoped that one of the 5 you compared might have one hit on what you wanted in the first page of results... It didn't work, but people were that desperate.
A couple years ago I was debating the same thing here on/. So I went over to AllTheWeb.com (which was one of the last throwbacks) and demonstrated the problem. Search for "Slashdot" and hit #3 is Goatse.cx. That was the caliber of search engines in the good old days.
It is disingenuous to claim US does not have the ordinance to destroy Iranian underground facilities
The US has the ordinance to destroy everyone and everything on the whole planet. That doesn't mean they don't need more targeted weapons better suited to their purpose.
In particular, it would be rather perverse to use tactical nukes to attack Iran, ostensibly in an attempt to stop their nuclear ambitions. That little ironic twist could quite possibly spur the development of nukes by various nations around the world.
In our household, we have one landline and two dumbphones, each on a $7/mo occasional-use plan. How much would it cost to replace these with a dumbphone for her and a smartphone for me on a family plan with ample minutes?
There's always a broad range of factors involved.
For someone who's going to make a small number of calls, Virgin Mobile's $35 plan is awesome. But I'm an even bigger fan of Boost Mobile's "shrinkage" which gives you unlimited everything for $55, then drops the price by $5 every 6 months, bottoming out at $40... You'll have to consider the latter an investment, but worth it.
That puts the monthly bill for 2 people at, say $75 / month (that INCLUDES all taxes, fees, etc., etc.) That may be double what you're paying now, but once you get used to being connected to the Internet full-time, you'll never be willing to switch back again. In addition there are non-trivial one-time charges, but they are dwarfed by the monthly fees.
Any smartphone will do, but you'll be much happier if you check out every single spec of a device before buying, and assume it's missing if not listed. No matter how expensive the smartphone, they like to cut-corners. Transform Ultra is pretty close to a decent phone, but critically needs a rubber case, and worse I exchanged two with twitchy and unusable touch-screens before I gave up in disgust. Optimus Slider has a nice keyboard and better screen, but doesn't have automatic brightness adjustment (a real annoyance) and has an ARMv6 CPU which has the afore mentioned problems. The Insight has similar corner-cutting issues... The Replenish is interesting, but also ARMv6.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all that's out there. I learned more than a decade ago that a PDA without a keyboard is a useless toy, while ones with a keyboard are often imminently useful. Friends and cow-orkers swear on-screen keyboards are perfect (Swype is tolerable, but insufficient) but look longingly as I slide out the keyboard and SSH into the nearest server, or play an emulator without swearing at the horrible on-screen controls... Two-fingered typing isn't ideal, works surprisingly well.
Cable Internet also has a substantial dry-loop charge for people who don't subscribe to cable TV
Not true with DSL nor Cable in most of SoCal (wher I've looked). I'm sure the rest of the country will catch up eventually.
Very few fields have such a constant learning curve.
An IT job is all about brain power. You should be there because you WANT to learn. However, it's very different from other fields, in that you don't need to go get lectures, and retraining... You just start branching off into new territory, until you're working in entirely different areas than where you started.
There's always the trendy jobs... language of the week, and if that's what you're chasing, you've indeed got your work cut out for you. But that's really not what you should be doing.
My own resume could be a decade older and no-one would know. Oracle & Solaris. PostgreSQL & Linux. Cisco and APC. This stuff has been around quite a while, and has fairly slowly changes.
Saying that the solution to unemployment woes is for most people to enter a field that is already hurt (just less hurting than most), is a poor solution.
I don't buy the premise that IT is "hurt". It's done better than just about any other field withstanding recession (though salaries seem to have eroded), just kicking off those who were dead-weight and only had a job due to the severe personnel shortages.
That fields that are seen as the future seldom turn out to in fact be that future proof industry.
Nothing lasts forever, and eventually the future becomes the past, but basic the decision of when an industry is going to decline on superstition about who said what about it, is utterly ridiculous. You've got a bright future losing money in the stock market with that mindset...
Notably, eighth generation Archos products don't come with Android Market, and my bank doesn't offer its check deposit application on alternative markets or as a direct APK download.
I don't see what this has to do with my point at all, but anyhow, this isn't a difficult problem... Borrow a device that has Android market, install the app, "backup" the app (creating an APK from it) and transfer the APK to your Archos. I'm sure you can find hacked Android Market installers out there, too.
? Can I get to the home screen of a Samsung Intercept without activating it on a cellular network?
Of course you can. Never tried an Intercept specifically, but I've had others. Note: Pay attention to processor. Cheap Android devices are often ARMv6, which won't run Flash Player, some multimedia apps, and a number of high-end games (unless you can find reverse-engineered versions on xda forums or such, and don't assume you will).
I currently have the privilege of being able to delay most of my calls until I'm at a land line with unlimited local minutes.
And instead of a landline, I've got unlimited and long distance calling on my cell, plus data, for just slightlly more than a basic landline or most VoIP service costs. I suppose if you're forced to use DSL the dry-loop charge (non-existant around here, these days) would make a bigger difference, but cable is simply superior across the board if you can get it.
PowerAMP is a great player.. I think it's 5 or 10 bucks.. it plays everything I've thrown at it
Took me a minute... I know it as Neutron Player. It's a good app that sounds great and plays everything, but the UI is made to look "cool" rather than be functional. I'll be on my second track in Winamp while you're still adding songs to your playlist, and scrolling through... It's not terrible, but it needs work.
But at this point I don't yet want to pay "more than $30" per month for my phone
I didn't say "per month". Ever heard of an MP3 player with a monthly service fee? Low-end android devices are pretty cheap. eg. $75 for an Archos28. $99 for a Samsung Intercept or Replenish. I know there's even cheaper options out there if you look around for a bit.
I pay a fifth of that for my dumbphone.
Only if you never, ever use it. I had Boost paygo, and I never got through a month without using $30 (300min).
And BTW, you aren't entirely stuck... You just need an iDEN Smartphone. Only one I know of is the Motorola 1i. Go through the procedure for switching your phone, and you've got the same plan on a smartphone... Two big problems being that A) The i1 is ancient, so it's pretty crippled, and B) iDEN may be slow, but no internet access (because you're being cheap) really takes the teeth out of having a smartphone... You don't know you want it until you've tried it for a while... Feeling right at home in any strange location (maps & navigation), never need to print out anything, ever again (e-mail, files & internet access is with you at all time), music and radio always with you, and much more. $35/mo is well worth it. Boost's $40/mo (after a couple years) for data and unlimited talk is even better.
Poor, badly implemented playback with small storage and a lousy interface. Want Ogg? Flac? Decent Headphones? Good organization via tags?
What a crazy list... Do you even HAVE a phone (that cost more than $30)? Those are all quite easy to get with even the cheapest Android phone. They all accept 32GB microSDHC cards, which can be swapped-out as desired for unlimited storage. Plug in any headphones you want.
Playback, format, interface, and organization are all a matter of software... Winamp does pretty well, and it's mostly just a clone of DoubleTwist, which is also quite good, and both free. But if you want a few more features, spending a whopping $5 is no big hardship, and gives you access to some top-rate apps. Hell, not only can you PLAY MIDI, you can COMPOSE MIDI on the thing.
And as an added bonus, you get full-featured video playback for free.
You can do all this even if you don't use it as your actual phone... But more importantly, if it IS your phone, then you have it with you at all times, anyhow, wherever you go. It's extremely difficult to justify buying a stand-alone MP3 player these days.
It sounds like your "geek cred" is about a decade out-of-date.
I expect the IT industry to soon follow the same slope...
Umm... it already does. I had a bitch of a time breaking-into the industry, out of college. Those who think any industry is a panacea and employers will come breaking down your door are in for a rude awakening. There are always ways to break-in, though. The best nursing programs aren't just schooling, they partner with hospitals and require months doing real work in a real hospital as a prereq to graduation. IT programs should do more of that.
Besides internships, seeking entry-level jobs outside of your area, and working part time, for lowsy wages will get you in the door, getting the on-the-job training new graduates don't know exists or believe they're so good that they don't neeed it, and put those years of experience on your resume, not to mention professional references, which are very important once you reach the interview stage.
The upside to those years of experience requirements are that every year you work somewhere, you'ree eligable for more and higher-paying jobs, like clockwork. Think of it as job security, since once you're in, you get less and less competition, and don't have to worry about being undercut by upstarts. In addition, I know full well that "years of experience" is just a ballpark, and all too often an arbitrary yardstick used to reduce the flood of incoming resumes to just the biggest liars, and the great people who wouldn't dream of working for what the company is paying... I consider it self-regulating that way, in the long-term. I noticed the last job I left put out a job listing to replace me, with all kinds of requirements I couldn't possibly meet, and wouldn't have applied for at the time.
There was a time that being a butcher was an excllent local career choice. Until suddenly, no one went to the local butcher as the big grocery store became the supplier (this mainly due to the advent of the automobile which made such travel inconsequential).
There's no question different industries have their ups and downs. But your assumption that they're all short-lived and some sort of superstition that once they're mainstream/popular their demise is imminent is ridiculous. Maybe IT will start drying up, or maybe it's just starting to take off.
Apple built a very successful business out of selling digital music players that could potentially cost tens of thousands of dollars to use if people were paying for digital music downloads. The number of people that could afford to do this is very small
Your statement is utterly idiotic, seeemingly an attempt to justify your own copyright infringment by insisting that everyone else MUST be doing it.
Your numbers seem intentional bullshit, using the completely wrong metric for everything. You can't say how many songs an iPod can store, because a song isn't a given length or data size. Now MINUTES is a much better metric... you can say how many MINUTES of music at 192kbps can fit on an iPod. And as for buying it, $1/song is the WORST CASE SCENARIO. Buying full albums on iTunes for $10 will give you more than 10 songs. None of this is relevant, though, because again, "song" isn't a measure of anything, it's just more nonsensical bullshit. If you want to measure something, $X per CD is something to go on... CDs are up to 80 minutes, and rarely under half that length for a commercial album.
So now we have something to work with...
If you consider someone encoding at 192kbps, buying full albums for $5 (whether old albums at bargain prices, used CDs, or overstock CDs from amazon marketplace and whatnot) with nearly 80 minutes of music on each one (some artists do exactly that) you've filled up your 20GByte iPod with just a couple thousand dollars of music. The music is much, much cheaper still if you consider people who insist on lossless formats, whether for sane or insane reasons. And it's considerably cheaper still if you have a penchant for (public domain) clasical or operatic music, unknown (garage) bands, or similar. Lots of other ways you can get up to 20GBytes, too, like using if for file storage, or hey, perhaps you're not insane and you only have enough music to get it half-full, but want room for expansion... Now we're down to $1K.
And what's worse is your implication that people just up and buy all their music one days with a big check. In fact I've been buying $10 CDs every couple months (on average) since I was a young kid. Yeah, after a lot of years of that, it can most certainly total several thousand dollars, but you can do it on minimum wage, or an allowance with no hardship... no interest payments, no forced buying schedule, etc.
Your implication that everyone is illegally aquiring all their music is nonsense. Just because the internet hasn't been popular very long, and not everyone has had high-speed connections for much of that time, I'd bet the MAJORITY of music going onto iPods is physical CDs ripped to MP3s. Let's go a bit further, and ask, if everyone is downloading their music for free, why is iTMS making tons of money? Why does Amazon have a competing service? Why have them if nobody's using them, and if everyone is breaking the law, there's no reason for anyone to pay to use either service...
That is unless your name is Keanu, in which case being stiff as a board is an absolute boon.
I don't see why Keanu gets singled out with a meme of his own, when other actors like Tom Cruise are considerably worse in every regard, and more notable.
If you can work from home, you can work from Bangalore. And people working from Bangalore are cheaper.
That's incorrect for anything where the language barrier might be an issue, the hours might be a problem, or there are any security restrictions around the data at all.
The best bet is probably non-technical. I've seen work at home jobs for secretaries, and call-center type work that anyone can do, wouldn't take full-day effort, and is not outsourcable. Of course if you're looking for decent wages, working from home, without any particular skills, and while picking your own, flexible hours, you're screwed.
A super nerd explains why super wifi isn't wifi. General population doesn't give a fuck, as wifi means "wireless internet" to them.
That's not the point at all. The point is that they've started using a trademarked term in a very official way (not just informally saying "It's like super wifi.") such as in trade show names. This is public notice, a prelude to a big trademark infringement lawsuit over the misuse of the term WiFi.
Imagine if DisplayPort was not named DisplayPort, but instead was listed everywhere as "Super HDMI". It doesn't matter if that name helps you understand what it is... you're using someone else's trademark as a semi-offical name for your product. You're massively in the wrong, and should expect the mother of all trademark lawsuits to land on your head in short order, and you won't have a leg to stand on.
If someone is in a position to run a local exploit, aren't you pretty much fucked anyways?
No. "Multiuser system" indicates users are secure from one another. Linux is not ms-dos. I'm sure vmware would like you to believe otherwise.
Network services use multiuser system access controls to good effect. Bind, ntp, etc., will chroot themselves into a nearly empty dir, and then drop privledges. This means an exploit in, say, bind results in attackers only getting a non-privledged account access on the target system. Since those chroot'd users can't access/proc, or any other suid programs, network services are still pretty safe.
There are services out there which provide shell accounts
Sometimes it is better to store a bunch of data in memory just for quick reference then having to calculate it over and over again
That's usually exact opposite of reality, and yet far too many people believe it.
cache misses are extremely slow, and often it is faster to recompute values than to retrieve them from memory. Programmers often have wrong assumptions.
When CP was flagged the file is removed because CP is always CP.
That's not true. The age of consent is massively different between countries. What's CP in the US (18) is perfectly legal in Spain (13). I point this out because the US has most definitely prosecuted 16/17 year-olds for CP, for distributing nude pictures of themselves.
The first three seem to have gotten nowhere so far,
That's exactly what happens when YOU put absolutely no effort in.
Tell you what, you're good at making big noise on the internet... why don't you lead up the revolution? Grab your gun. We'll all be right behind you, I swear...
"work differently" is so vague as to be meaningless. You said we could not leverage our taxes to accomplish the same things, which really has no basis.
But as I understand it, in order to get cash or checks into Ally, you have to deposit them into a bank with a local branch and then ACH the money to Ally.
Completely untrue. With any online banks, you can endorse and mail checks directly to them. Many even send you prepaid envelopes.
If you really have to deal with cash, you could go to the nearest gas station and turn it into a money order for a $1 fee.
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1). Gain control of botnet.
2). Look up support@ email addresses of all major ISPs.
3). Write code to lookup a user's ISP (based on IP address, whois, traceroute, etc), and return the ISP's own email address(es).
4). Push code out to botnet. Have botnet run code.
5). Order botnet to begin spamming ISPs responsible for botnet, as hard and fast as possible.
6). Hide. There will be fallout. But ISPs will get the clue that they need to keep their subscribers under control.
In summary, the flavor of the month is different this month than last month... If you care, you've already failed.
Specialization is falling out of favor a bit... Except where it isn't...
And there's more jobs available this year than last year.
The Fed sets the tax rates, and prints the money. In short, the bank never goes bankrupt, and there's always enough money, we just have to be willing to endure the pain for the cause.
And what's more, economics says that such spending will reesult is about twice as much growth in the economy, so it's not just a vanity project, and an economic slowdown is a good reason to GO DO IT, not to avoid it.
They have to set a price, and there will always be people who will consider it reasonable, and those who don't. That doesn't mean their business model is broken, and doesn't mean the person who isn't willing to pay is broken either.
Checking the Android App store, I see it's available for $2.99USD, or about £1.90. But since you're using that funny-money, that probably means you're in one of those OTHER countries, where studios get horribly poor royalty rates, and so charge considerably more in general. I hardly care, but there's probably some regulation issue that would need to be addressed to get the UK price lower, and in-line with the US pricing.
But, I certainly don't understand the mindset of "I'm not a fan of buying movies to keep", so maybe you are broken.
Absolutely not. OP is 100% correct. Search engines were steaming piles of crap before Google. The only way you were sure to find what you wanted with Altavista or any of the other search engines around at the time, was to know EXACTLY what you wanted, and do a search so specific that you get exactly 1 page returned... End of story.
It was the culture at the time, everybody on the internet before 2000 knew it. Doing a book report on Hippos? The first search result is going to have a decent name and blurb, and when you click-through you'll find it's actually a hard-core porn site. Domain name squatting wasn't the nickel and dime industry that it is now... Companies were paying MILLIONS to get the shortest domain names (why do you think Disney uses "go.com"?), and their namesake domain names, because YOU COULD SEARCH FOR THE COMPANY BY NAME, AND NEVER FIND THEM IN ANY SEARCH RESULTS. That was the internet. The internet was at the mercy of incredibly crappy search engines. We had sites like dogpile that queried multiple search engines just because, the results from each of them were a crapshoot, and it was hoped that one of the 5 you compared might have one hit on what you wanted in the first page of results... It didn't work, but people were that desperate.
A couple years ago I was debating the same thing here on /. So I went over to AllTheWeb.com (which was one of the last throwbacks) and demonstrated the problem. Search for "Slashdot" and hit #3 is Goatse.cx. That was the caliber of search engines in the good old days.
The US has the ordinance to destroy everyone and everything on the whole planet. That doesn't mean they don't need more targeted weapons better suited to their purpose.
In particular, it would be rather perverse to use tactical nukes to attack Iran, ostensibly in an attempt to stop their nuclear ambitions. That little ironic twist could quite possibly spur the development of nukes by various nations around the world.
There's always a broad range of factors involved.
For someone who's going to make a small number of calls, Virgin Mobile's $35 plan is awesome. But I'm an even bigger fan of Boost Mobile's "shrinkage" which gives you unlimited everything for $55, then drops the price by $5 every 6 months, bottoming out at $40... You'll have to consider the latter an investment, but worth it.
That puts the monthly bill for 2 people at, say $75 / month (that INCLUDES all taxes, fees, etc., etc.) That may be double what you're paying now, but once you get used to being connected to the Internet full-time, you'll never be willing to switch back again. In addition there are non-trivial one-time charges, but they are dwarfed by the monthly fees.
Any smartphone will do, but you'll be much happier if you check out every single spec of a device before buying, and assume it's missing if not listed. No matter how expensive the smartphone, they like to cut-corners. Transform Ultra is pretty close to a decent phone, but critically needs a rubber case, and worse I exchanged two with twitchy and unusable touch-screens before I gave up in disgust. Optimus Slider has a nice keyboard and better screen, but doesn't have automatic brightness adjustment (a real annoyance) and has an ARMv6 CPU which has the afore mentioned problems. The Insight has similar corner-cutting issues... The Replenish is interesting, but also ARMv6.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all that's out there. I learned more than a decade ago that a PDA without a keyboard is a useless toy, while ones with a keyboard are often imminently useful. Friends and cow-orkers swear on-screen keyboards are perfect (Swype is tolerable, but insufficient) but look longingly as I slide out the keyboard and SSH into the nearest server, or play an emulator without swearing at the horrible on-screen controls... Two-fingered typing isn't ideal, works surprisingly well.
Not true with DSL nor Cable in most of SoCal (wher I've looked). I'm sure the rest of the country will catch up eventually.
An IT job is all about brain power. You should be there because you WANT to learn. However, it's very different from other fields, in that you don't need to go get lectures, and retraining... You just start branching off into new territory, until you're working in entirely different areas than where you started.
There's always the trendy jobs... language of the week, and if that's what you're chasing, you've indeed got your work cut out for you. But that's really not what you should be doing.
My own resume could be a decade older and no-one would know. Oracle & Solaris. PostgreSQL & Linux. Cisco and APC. This stuff has been around quite a while, and has fairly slowly changes.
I don't buy the premise that IT is "hurt". It's done better than just about any other field withstanding recession (though salaries seem to have eroded), just kicking off those who were dead-weight and only had a job due to the severe personnel shortages.
Nothing lasts forever, and eventually the future becomes the past, but basic the decision of when an industry is going to decline on superstition about who said what about it, is utterly ridiculous. You've got a bright future losing money in the stock market with that mindset...
I don't see what this has to do with my point at all, but anyhow, this isn't a difficult problem... Borrow a device that has Android market, install the app, "backup" the app (creating an APK from it) and transfer the APK to your Archos. I'm sure you can find hacked Android Market installers out there, too.
Of course you can. Never tried an Intercept specifically, but I've had others. Note: Pay attention to processor. Cheap Android devices are often ARMv6, which won't run Flash Player, some multimedia apps, and a number of high-end games (unless you can find reverse-engineered versions on xda forums or such, and don't assume you will).
And instead of a landline, I've got unlimited and long distance calling on my cell, plus data, for just slightlly more than a basic landline or most VoIP service costs. I suppose if you're forced to use DSL the dry-loop charge (non-existant around here, these days) would make a bigger difference, but cable is simply superior across the board if you can get it.
Took me a minute... I know it as Neutron Player. It's a good app that sounds great and plays everything, but the UI is made to look "cool" rather than be functional. I'll be on my second track in Winamp while you're still adding songs to your playlist, and scrolling through... It's not terrible, but it needs work.
I didn't say "per month". Ever heard of an MP3 player with a monthly service fee? Low-end android devices are pretty cheap. eg. $75 for an Archos28. $99 for a Samsung Intercept or Replenish. I know there's even cheaper options out there if you look around for a bit.
Only if you never, ever use it. I had Boost paygo, and I never got through a month without using $30 (300min).
And BTW, you aren't entirely stuck... You just need an iDEN Smartphone. Only one I know of is the Motorola 1i. Go through the procedure for switching your phone, and you've got the same plan on a smartphone... Two big problems being that A) The i1 is ancient, so it's pretty crippled, and B) iDEN may be slow, but no internet access (because you're being cheap) really takes the teeth out of having a smartphone... You don't know you want it until you've tried it for a while... Feeling right at home in any strange location (maps & navigation), never need to print out anything, ever again (e-mail, files & internet access is with you at all time), music and radio always with you, and much more. $35/mo is well worth it. Boost's $40/mo (after a couple years) for data and unlimited talk is even better.
What a crazy list... Do you even HAVE a phone (that cost more than $30)? Those are all quite easy to get with even the cheapest Android phone. They all accept 32GB microSDHC cards, which can be swapped-out as desired for unlimited storage. Plug in any headphones you want.
Playback, format, interface, and organization are all a matter of software... Winamp does pretty well, and it's mostly just a clone of DoubleTwist, which is also quite good, and both free. But if you want a few more features, spending a whopping $5 is no big hardship, and gives you access to some top-rate apps. Hell, not only can you PLAY MIDI, you can COMPOSE MIDI on the thing.
And as an added bonus, you get full-featured video playback for free.
You can do all this even if you don't use it as your actual phone... But more importantly, if it IS your phone, then you have it with you at all times, anyhow, wherever you go. It's extremely difficult to justify buying a stand-alone MP3 player these days.
It sounds like your "geek cred" is about a decade out-of-date.
Umm... it already does. I had a bitch of a time breaking-into the industry, out of college. Those who think any industry is a panacea and employers will come breaking down your door are in for a rude awakening. There are always ways to break-in, though. The best nursing programs aren't just schooling, they partner with hospitals and require months doing real work in a real hospital as a prereq to graduation. IT programs should do more of that.
Besides internships, seeking entry-level jobs outside of your area, and working part time, for lowsy wages will get you in the door, getting the on-the-job training new graduates don't know exists or believe they're so good that they don't neeed it, and put those years of experience on your resume, not to mention professional references, which are very important once you reach the interview stage.
The upside to those years of experience requirements are that every year you work somewhere, you'ree eligable for more and higher-paying jobs, like clockwork. Think of it as job security, since once you're in, you get less and less competition, and don't have to worry about being undercut by upstarts. In addition, I know full well that "years of experience" is just a ballpark, and all too often an arbitrary yardstick used to reduce the flood of incoming resumes to just the biggest liars, and the great people who wouldn't dream of working for what the company is paying... I consider it self-regulating that way, in the long-term. I noticed the last job I left put out a job listing to replace me, with all kinds of requirements I couldn't possibly meet, and wouldn't have applied for at the time.
There's no question different industries have their ups and downs. But your assumption that they're all short-lived and some sort of superstition that once they're mainstream/popular their demise is imminent is ridiculous. Maybe IT will start drying up, or maybe it's just starting to take off.
Your statement is utterly idiotic, seeemingly an attempt to justify your own copyright infringment by insisting that everyone else MUST be doing it.
Your numbers seem intentional bullshit, using the completely wrong metric for everything. You can't say how many songs an iPod can store, because a song isn't a given length or data size. Now MINUTES is a much better metric... you can say how many MINUTES of music at 192kbps can fit on an iPod. And as for buying it, $1/song is the WORST CASE SCENARIO. Buying full albums on iTunes for $10 will give you more than 10 songs. None of this is relevant, though, because again, "song" isn't a measure of anything, it's just more nonsensical bullshit. If you want to measure something, $X per CD is something to go on... CDs are up to 80 minutes, and rarely under half that length for a commercial album.
So now we have something to work with...
If you consider someone encoding at 192kbps, buying full albums for $5 (whether old albums at bargain prices, used CDs, or overstock CDs from amazon marketplace and whatnot) with nearly 80 minutes of music on each one (some artists do exactly that) you've filled up your 20GByte iPod with just a couple thousand dollars of music. The music is much, much cheaper still if you consider people who insist on lossless formats, whether for sane or insane reasons. And it's considerably cheaper still if you have a penchant for (public domain) clasical or operatic music, unknown (garage) bands, or similar. Lots of other ways you can get up to 20GBytes, too, like using if for file storage, or hey, perhaps you're not insane and you only have enough music to get it half-full, but want room for expansion... Now we're down to $1K.
And what's worse is your implication that people just up and buy all their music one days with a big check. In fact I've been buying $10 CDs every couple months (on average) since I was a young kid. Yeah, after a lot of years of that, it can most certainly total several thousand dollars, but you can do it on minimum wage, or an allowance with no hardship... no interest payments, no forced buying schedule, etc.
Your implication that everyone is illegally aquiring all their music is nonsense. Just because the internet hasn't been popular very long, and not everyone has had high-speed connections for much of that time, I'd bet the MAJORITY of music going onto iPods is physical CDs ripped to MP3s. Let's go a bit further, and ask, if everyone is downloading their music for free, why is iTMS making tons of money? Why does Amazon have a competing service? Why have them if nobody's using them, and if everyone is breaking the law, there's no reason for anyone to pay to use either service...
...and disinfect the worm, allowing it to proceed on it's merry way.
I don't see why Keanu gets singled out with a meme of his own, when other actors like Tom Cruise are considerably worse in every regard, and more notable.
That's incorrect for anything where the language barrier might be an issue, the hours might be a problem, or there are any security restrictions around the data at all.
The best bet is probably non-technical. I've seen work at home jobs for secretaries, and call-center type work that anyone can do, wouldn't take full-day effort, and is not outsourcable. Of course if you're looking for decent wages, working from home, without any particular skills, and while picking your own, flexible hours, you're screwed.
That's not the point at all. The point is that they've started using a trademarked term in a very official way (not just informally saying "It's like super wifi.") such as in trade show names. This is public notice, a prelude to a big trademark infringement lawsuit over the misuse of the term WiFi.
Imagine if DisplayPort was not named DisplayPort, but instead was listed everywhere as "Super HDMI". It doesn't matter if that name helps you understand what it is... you're using someone else's trademark as a semi-offical name for your product. You're massively in the wrong, and should expect the mother of all trademark lawsuits to land on your head in short order, and you won't have a leg to stand on.
Evil will always triumph, because good Is dumb - Dark Helmet
No. "Multiuser system" indicates users are secure from one another. Linux is not ms-dos. I'm sure vmware would like you to believe otherwise.
Network services use multiuser system access controls to good effect. Bind, ntp, etc., will chroot themselves into a nearly empty dir, and then drop privledges. This means an exploit in, say, bind results in attackers only getting a non-privledged account access on the target system. Since those chroot'd users can't access /proc, or any other suid programs, network services are still pretty safe.
There are services out there which provide shell accounts
That's usually exact opposite of reality, and yet far too many people believe it.
That's not true. The age of consent is massively different between countries. What's CP in the US (18) is perfectly legal in Spain (13). I point this out because the US has most definitely prosecuted 16/17 year-olds for CP, for distributing nude pictures of themselves.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/kids/
That's exactly what happens when YOU put absolutely no effort in.
Tell you what, you're good at making big noise on the internet... why don't you lead up the revolution? Grab your gun. We'll all be right behind you, I swear...
"work differently" is so vague as to be meaningless. You said we could not leverage our taxes to accomplish the same things, which really has no basis.
Completely untrue. With any online banks, you can endorse and mail checks directly to them. Many even send you prepaid envelopes.
If you really have to deal with cash, you could go to the nearest gas station and turn it into a money order for a $1 fee.