With all the failed companies (Enron, etc..) and all of the "dot-bombs", I can't help to ask myself who's to take responsibility?
Today's corporate leaders are the "Robber Barons" of the late 19th century. Unfortunately (*in the USA*) the Government doesn't seem to watch/regulate corporations, nor do they seem to care. The end result is the rich getting richer, and the average working guys like you and I are getting screwed.
Oh - Don't worry - some other company will spring up and take over Comdex... or they'll re-create it under a different name.
I have to agree with you. If you work for a large company or in my case (a university) that is economically sound - you SHOULD be able to spend your entire career there and (hopefully) retire from there - as long as you can manage the stress levels and keep up with the current technologies.
Just self-sign a certificate. Truly, if it's not signed by some big name registrar, most internet users (IE of course) will get messages notifying them that it's not a "trusted" certificate anyways.
Self-signing is ok - but if you work for a big company and/or a financial institution - a CA is like an insurance policy. True - most end users don't know what a CA is, let alone know how to tell if one's legit.
The last dotcom I worked for bought CAs for liability and safety reasons - they were an online bill presentation and payment company.
From what I've read, the X-box is nothing more than a PIII PC with some mods to make it "different".
After reading this, I'm wondering when someone will either (a) mod a PC to play X-Box discs, or (b) build their own X-Box out of PC parts and mod chips.
"Running the client as a service is a cleaner way to do things, because it will let you effectively hide the client from the hands of meddling users."
If you're getting permission to run the client, why hide it??? And how does "stealth mode" make it any cleaner than not running it as a service, and (since the article is talking about running it in MS Windows 9x/NT/2k/Xp) just putting the.exe in the startup?
I'd buy about 1,000,000 monkeys - and fund the millitary to train and equip them with flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and other implements of destruction, and then have them airlifted into Afghanistan to get Osama.
With the rest of my money... hmmm imagine the beowulf cluster I could put together! *lmao*
A price war will just mean that corporations will lower the standards in production practices, and probably layoff a bunch of people in the assembly plants to offset the rise in the price of chips. In the end, the price of dvd players and drives will drop.
if you've got a decent USENET newsfeed, and a nice bandwidth pipe, you can get a zillion times more porn off of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups than you can get off of any P2P app.
*duh*
It's funny how alot of non-techie people have no idea what USENET is, and find programs like Free Agent for windoz to be really confusing.
For those of us who run businesses, it'd be great to have a TINY printer that could attach directly to my PDA. Then I could use it to print out stickers for pricetags, barcodes, etc...
Also I could use it to print out stickers w/ people's names, addresses and tel. no's and I can stick them onto cards and place them in my rolodex... also for retun address or sending address labels, etc.
I know you're all thinking - "why don't you just sync your PDA to a PC and THEN print out labels..."
Well - my wish is to eliminate that step... so I want a TINY printer for my PDA.
Good! Maybe I can finally understand that "Chick a Me Chi, the Chinese Chicken" song.
That's "Chickety China, The Chinese Chicken" - and it's a line from some song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.
Chickety China, the Chinese chicken. Have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'. Watchin' X Files with no lights on, We're dans la maison, I hope the smoking man's in this one.
There's also a prank phone call to a Chinese resturaunt based on this line.
so - what are the OTHER systems they can hold???
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I found this comment interesting:
Although NORAD wants the new high-altitude airships for radar surveillance, they could eventually hold other systems, said Thomas, the NORAD spokesman.
I guess this could be good for wireless communications... but I'm pondering the fact that they could use these zeppelins for other things, like eavesdropping, etc..
I would HOPE that these baloons are tethered to something, or are somehow kept in a certain area at a certain altitude. I'd imagine that "runaway baloons" could cause aircraft tragedies.
Also what if one was to come back down to earth and fall onto moving traffic?
Think about it. IF there are aliens who fly around the universe with SUPERIOR technology - they'd have the means to contact us.... and when they DO - we'll know it.
I'm not trying to troll or bait a flame war - I'm just questioning the feasibility and practicality of SETI@home.
There must be OTHER projects to lend CPU cycles to. I know that Distributed.net has projects that are looking to create stronger encryption. And at my last job, a co-worker had a screen saver program that used his spare cpu cycles to work on cancer research.
SURE - it'd be cool to have the PC that decoded the first real ET message - but what are the chances of doing so?
Would it be more practical/feasible to donate those spare cpu cycles elsewhere???
if some biotech company wants some remote computer to use my PC for DNA analysis, it had better pay me well for my generosity.
agreed!
I fondly remember the days of the pre-commercial internet. Nobody truly controlled anything.
What about this ISOS? Who controls it? And I don't know how I'd feel if some terrorists were using my CPU cycles and hdd space for their activities...
The THEORY of all this sounds good - but there is no practical application for this - especially on a non-voluntary basis. Groups like SETI and Distributed.net have been successful because of VOLUNTEERS. I sure wouldn't like it forced upon me. No more than I like the spyware that came with Morpheus, Kazaa, and all those other software apps.
I would GLADLY rent out CPU cycles to research facilities though.
"A developers kit accompanied this AquaPad which included an 802.11b WLAN Access Point, and 802.11b Cisco Aironet 350 Series PCMCIA card.
" It can be effectively used as a dumb term - all storage would be on the server side.
A funny anagram of Al Queda that is on topic here
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Al Qaeda is an anagram for "A QA DEAL"
*lol*
I'm sorry but when I was reading this I looked at Al Qaeda and realised this funny anagram and I had to post it. Maybe GATES and Osama are working on some sort of Pinky and the Brain type of scheme for world domination! *lmao*
Alot of.com's I've worked at in the past 2-3 years always wanted to "lowball" developers and engineers, while lining the pockets of resource managers, implementation managers, marketing people, etc.
Then a skilled/talented developer and/or engineer wants more money. The employer does nothing to retain them - thus the skilled/talented employee leaves.
Now who maintains the code?
The other problem is bringing in short term consultants for long term projects. The non-technical people who make these executive decisions don't seem to see the feasability of KEEPING their code maintained by the talented/skilled person who BEGAN the development on it.
I know alot of consultants read/. - so I'll probably take a big hit on the karma - but I just was the casualty of another dotcom failure - and this was a seriousl problem.
Another problem is hiring non-technical managers to manage technical people. At my last job we had a manager off of an automobile manufacturing production line quit his job at the auto company to take a job as the manager of a group of Unix admins. This "bumper jockey" had NO CLUE what we did for a living, and treated us like a bunch of unionized UAW slobs, and not like professionals.
How can a non-technical boss effectively manage technical people???
Also - how about all the Ceo, Cio, Cto, eieio - types with their big salaries, catered lunches, etc... Alot of them have NO programming or hands-on technical experience. Hell - I've had the CTO come up to me and tell me that "The Internet was broken" when he knocked the dongle out of the side of his laptop - severing the network connection. And this guy is our Chief Technology Officer???? *lmao*
I'm not saying that only technological people can make technology companies work - but I do feel that managers should take some sort of hands-on classes to learn some basic programming and internet skills so they have SOME SORT OF CLUE about what WE all do for a living!
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it may be one of the biggest wins yet for open-source software
So - is the OSS movement about crushing Microsoft now?
I didn't realize that the OSS community was at war with Microsoft. I thought it was about making good software, and keeping the source open...
With all the failed companies (Enron, etc..) and all of the "dot-bombs", I can't help to ask myself who's to take responsibility?
Today's corporate leaders are the "Robber Barons" of the late 19th century. Unfortunately (*in the USA*) the Government doesn't seem to watch/regulate corporations, nor do they seem to care. The end result is the rich getting richer, and the average working guys like you and I are getting screwed.
Oh - Don't worry - some other company will spring up and take over Comdex... or they'll re-create it under a different name.
I have to agree with you. If you work for a large company or in my case (a university) that is economically sound - you SHOULD be able to spend your entire career there and (hopefully) retire from there - as long as you can manage the stress levels and keep up with the current technologies.
Just self-sign a certificate. Truly, if it's not signed by some big name registrar, most internet users (IE of course) will get messages notifying them that it's not a "trusted" certificate anyways.
Self-signing is ok - but if you work for a big company and/or a financial institution - a CA is like an insurance policy. True - most end users don't know what a CA is, let alone know how to tell if one's legit.
The last dotcom I worked for bought CAs for liability and safety reasons - they were an online bill presentation and payment company.
From what I've read, the X-box is nothing more than a PIII PC with some mods to make it "different".
After reading this, I'm wondering when someone will either (a) mod a PC to play X-Box discs, or (b) build their own X-Box out of PC parts and mod chips.
If this has already been done, please post links.
"Running the client as a service is a cleaner way to do things, because it will let you effectively hide the client from the hands of meddling users."
.exe in the startup?
If you're getting permission to run the client, why hide it??? And how does "stealth mode" make it any cleaner than not running it as a service, and (since the article is talking about running it in MS Windows 9x/NT/2k/Xp) just putting the
No I'm not from NY.
You must be from South Jersey/Philly if you call them hoagies.
FYI:
Here in NJ they're called subs not grinders.
And you don't go down to the shore for a sub - you go to a pizzaria.
I'd buy about 1,000,000 monkeys - and fund the millitary to train and equip them with flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and other implements of destruction, and then have them airlifted into Afghanistan to get Osama.
With the rest of my money... hmmm imagine the beowulf cluster I could put together! *lmao*
> East
You open this door, and there is a long passageway to another door. A NASTY DWARF THROWS AN AXE AT YOU!
> OPEN DOOR
You open the door, and there is a black sceptre and a bird cage on the floor. "XYZZY" is written on the door.
> XYZZY
You are in a well house.....
A price war will just mean that corporations will lower the standards in production practices, and probably layoff a bunch of people in the assembly plants to offset the rise in the price of chips. In the end, the price of dvd players and drives will drop.
if you've got a decent USENET newsfeed, and a nice bandwidth pipe, you can get a zillion times more porn off of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups than you can get off of any P2P app.
*duh*
It's funny how alot of non-techie people have no idea what USENET is, and find programs like Free Agent for windoz to be really confusing.
No. People would be running Atari(tm) Windows on Motorola processors instead of on the x86 platform.
*groan*
I almost fell out of my chair when I got to question 10 of their FAQ:
/.er; in which case you know the answer!
Q: Can I create a Beowulf cluster using many Simputers?
A: You must be a
rotflmao!
Hrm... they omitted that they eye sends back photographs, streaming video, and other data to Echelon monitoring facilities.
They also failed to mention the artificial eye's laser beam and the mass destruction capabilities.
For those of us who run businesses, it'd be great to have a TINY printer that could attach directly to my PDA. Then I could use it to print out stickers for pricetags, barcodes, etc...
Also I could use it to print out stickers w/ people's names, addresses and tel. no's and I can stick them onto cards and place them in my rolodex... also for retun address or sending address labels, etc.
I know you're all thinking - "why don't you just sync your PDA to a PC and THEN print out labels..."
Well - my wish is to eliminate that step... so I want a TINY printer for my PDA.
Good! Maybe I can finally understand that "Chick a Me Chi, the Chinese Chicken" song.
That's "Chickety China, The Chinese Chicken" - and it's a line from some song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.
Chickety China, the Chinese chicken.
Have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'.
Watchin' X Files with no lights on,
We're dans la maison, I hope the smoking man's in this one.
There's also a prank phone call to a Chinese resturaunt based on this line.
Although NORAD wants the new high-altitude airships for radar surveillance, they could eventually hold other systems, said Thomas, the NORAD spokesman.
I guess this could be good for wireless communications... but I'm pondering the fact that they could use these zeppelins for other things, like eavesdropping, etc..
I would HOPE that these baloons are tethered to something, or are somehow kept in a certain area at a certain altitude. I'd imagine that "runaway baloons" could cause aircraft tragedies.
Also what if one was to come back down to earth and fall onto moving traffic?
Great idea... but I don't see it working.
Think about it. IF there are aliens who fly around the universe with SUPERIOR technology - they'd have the means to contact us.... and when they DO - we'll know it.
I'm not trying to troll or bait a flame war - I'm just questioning the feasibility and practicality of SETI@home.
There must be OTHER projects to lend CPU cycles to. I know that Distributed.net has projects that are looking to create stronger encryption. And at my last job, a co-worker had a screen saver program that used his spare cpu cycles to work on cancer research.
SURE - it'd be cool to have the PC that decoded the first real ET message - but what are the chances of doing so?
Would it be more practical/feasible to donate those spare cpu cycles elsewhere???
agreed!
I fondly remember the days of the pre-commercial internet. Nobody truly controlled anything.
What about this ISOS? Who controls it? And I don't know how I'd feel if some terrorists were using my CPU cycles and hdd space for their activities...
The THEORY of all this sounds good - but there is no practical application for this - especially on a non-voluntary basis. Groups like SETI and Distributed.net have been successful because of VOLUNTEERS. I sure wouldn't like it forced upon me. No more than I like the spyware that came with Morpheus, Kazaa, and all those other software apps.
I would GLADLY rent out CPU cycles to research facilities though.
"A developers kit accompanied this AquaPad which included an 802.11b WLAN Access Point, and 802.11b Cisco Aironet 350 Series PCMCIA card.
"
It can be effectively used as a dumb term - all storage would be on the server side.
Al Qaeda is an anagram for "A QA DEAL"
*lol*
I'm sorry but when I was reading this I looked at Al Qaeda and realised this funny anagram and I had to post it. Maybe GATES and Osama are working on some sort of Pinky and the Brain type of scheme for world domination! *lmao*
OK - there goes all my Karma...
Alot of .com's I've worked at in the past 2-3 years always wanted to "lowball" developers and engineers, while lining the pockets of resource managers, implementation managers, marketing people, etc.
/. - so I'll probably take a big hit on the karma - but I just was the casualty of another dotcom failure - and this was a seriousl problem.
Then a skilled/talented developer and/or engineer wants more money. The employer does nothing to retain them - thus the skilled/talented employee leaves.
Now who maintains the code?
The other problem is bringing in short term consultants for long term projects. The non-technical people who make these executive decisions don't seem to see the feasability of KEEPING their code maintained by the talented/skilled person who BEGAN the development on it.
I know alot of consultants read
Another problem is hiring non-technical managers to manage technical people. At my last job we had a manager off of an automobile manufacturing production line quit his job at the auto company to take a job as the manager of a group of Unix admins. This "bumper jockey" had NO CLUE what we did for a living, and treated us like a bunch of unionized UAW slobs, and not like professionals.
How can a non-technical boss effectively manage technical people???
Also - how about all the Ceo, Cio, Cto, eieio - types with their big salaries, catered lunches, etc... Alot of them have NO programming or hands-on technical experience. Hell - I've had the CTO come up to me and tell me that "The Internet was broken" when he knocked the dongle out of the side of his laptop - severing the network connection. And this guy is our Chief Technology Officer???? *lmao*
I'm not saying that only technological people can make technology companies work - but I do feel that managers should take some sort of hands-on classes to learn some basic programming and internet skills so they have SOME SORT OF CLUE about what WE all do for a living!
Comcast @home - NJ is up - it's after 3am here.