You should never have idle computers, you should always be using all the CPU power you can. And if you are not you should run the distributed.net client. And if you need a reason for this, which you shouldn't, it will fill your life with eternal bliss and happyness. Happy crackin'.
I too am reading the second shadow book right now and have read almost all his other books, he is my favorite author. I even have a hard back, signed copy of Ender's Game. But it seems to me as if the lessons he is trying to teach his readers, and yes he does try to teach his readers things not just entertain them, are becoming more blunt. In Shadow of the Hegemon Sister Carlotta talks to Bean about God and Bean and Ender's mother talk about religion and spirituality. I still enjoy his writing but it is getting more and more full of his religious beliefs, like he is trying to make the heathens find god or something, and that's not his job.
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-dram
I'm just moving out into my first appartment and plan to get a satalite dish of some sort instead of cable and I only have a DVD player, no VCR. What I plan to do is get a TV tuner card in my computer and record TV shows onto my harddrive. Then I will burn them to a V-CD and watch it on my DVD player. It should work wonders.
We should have a help desk appreciation day. They are the one that have to deal with these idiots. "How do I view the ads at www.adcritic.com?" "why cant I go in chat rooms?" This is all I hear all day. At least the sysadmin get to do fun things with their computers, i just get to fix other idiots problems.
I believe Lars Ulrich is dead on in his thinking. He thinks that Napster is good, but if you dont want your music traded it shouldnt be. This ruling is going beyond even what he thinks should be done. Some sort of comprimize is in order. The courts do not have to rule in one direction or the other. They should say "RIAA, its not your music get you ugly face out of the way. Napster, if any artist of group ever comes to you and says, 'We dont want our music traded,' then stop alowing their songs to be traded and anybody that does you are to ban from your service." That should be the ruling.
Ok now picture this. You have Joey Potter (from Dawsons Creek) as a kid looking into going into the FBI. Then you have Scully like take her under her wing and kinda show her around. Then you can have the rest of the Dawsons Creek cast in there and have cross over episodes and stuff. Then you would get "normal" teenagers to watch X-Files. That an idea.
In the book High Velocity Leadership the guy that lead the Pathfinder Mars mission talks about the structure he implemented. It was of course different than the Apollo era NASA but it was an intresting look at how you properly get people to do things they might not have been highered for.
The current issue of Wired has a list of the 40 biggest tech cities in the world (this is the issue that has Sealand as its cover story). They rated the cities by the VC coming in to the cities, the start-ups in the cities, the established tech companies in the cities, and industry ties with local colleges and universities. This doesn't quite tell you what cities will be geek friendly but it will give you a good idea of where your skills will be most wanted and a lot of the time if companies are looking for a lot of geeks they will try and make the people in the city geek friendly, especially if its a city where one of these companies employs many of the city residents.
When most ppl think of the radio they think of frequencies higher than light. That is your UHF, VHF, Microwave, etc. If you use everything in the low end of the spectrum you will get more usable bandwidth. The bandwidth in the low end is alot smaller than at the GHz range but if we ever run out we can use it. Or we could plan ahead and use it for things that do not need much bandwidth.
Why is it bad if companys are trying to get their employies to stay? The job turnover rate, at least in the tech feild, is astronomicaly high. Not a good thing.
I do not see Metallica being better than the RIAA. The RIAA already had a law suit going against Napster prior to Metallica's law suit. Metallica's law suit was more to scare universitys and act as a very good PR stunt. The way I brain it is that the artists pay the RIAA to fight lawsuits like this and the artists (Metallica and Dr. Dre) should wait to see what the courts ruling is for the RIAA's case. Even though I do not agree with Metallica's law suit I do agree with Lars Ulrich. On Charlie Rose a week and a half ago he said that artists should be able to choose wether their music gets distributed by mp3 or not. I believe that any artist should be able to ask a company to ban users that copy their music just as Metallica asked Napster to do, and I was one of the banned users.
Microsoft's End User License Agreement states "...you must take reasonable security precautions, at least as great as the precautions you take to protect your own confidential information..." Isnt this how the open source community protects its trade secrets, by relseasing them for all to see? Can't the execs at microsoft read the Art of War and learn to be flexable and think like the enemy. They would be so much more successful.
The current issue of Wierd magazine is all about this subject. What is says is that people will use their natural languages and that we will use computers to translate for us. Something kind of like Star Treks universal translator. Bablefish is one example of the technology that is in development to make this happen. Researchers are also using voice recongnition software along with translation software to try and get voice to voice, real-time, translatoins.
W.A.V.E. should not be surprising to anybody. For years school age children have been deprived of their constitutional rights. It is the prevailing opinion through out the county that school goers have no rights or have fewer rights than adults. It was even stated in the article in the sentence, "Although school-age children are presumed to have few rights, it's obvious that this kind of anonymous and intrusive law enforcement would [be] blatantly unconstitutional for adults." If it were unconstitutional for adults, why wouldn't it be unconstitutional for a minor? The Supreme Court stated in the case of Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) that "In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are 'persons' under our Constitution." That's says students, all students no matter what age, are people under the Constitution. Therefore if something is "blatantly unconstitutional for adults" the same thing is blatantly unconstitutional for minors as well. Even though this is the ruling of the Supreme Court it is not something that has been fully integrated into the thinking of the schools faculty. Many school faculty violate students Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by searching students property without just cause and punishing students without them getting a say in their defense. I don't understand why it is that well educated people see a flaw in not protecting students right to privacy, which there is no constitutional right for, and not see flaws in the way the schools are now run. Is this the idea of fewer rights for children that are showing up in our actions? Yes, I think it is. Why is it that children are the scapegoat of our society? Just because they don't vote, have no money and have no way to defend themselves it doesn't mean that they have any fewer rights than the people that can defend themselves.
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You should never have idle computers, you should always be using all the CPU power you can. And if you are not you should run the distributed.net client. And if you need a reason for this, which you shouldn't, it will fill your life with eternal bliss and happyness. Happy crackin'.
I too am reading the second shadow book right now and have read almost all his other books, he is my favorite author. I even have a hard back, signed copy of Ender's Game. But it seems to me as if the lessons he is trying to teach his readers, and yes he does try to teach his readers things not just entertain them, are becoming more blunt. In Shadow of the Hegemon Sister Carlotta talks to Bean about God and Bean and Ender's mother talk about religion and spirituality. I still enjoy his writing but it is getting more and more full of his religious beliefs, like he is trying to make the heathens find god or something, and that's not his job. - -dram
I'm just moving out into my first appartment and plan to get a satalite dish of some sort instead of cable and I only have a DVD player, no VCR. What I plan to do is get a TV tuner card in my computer and record TV shows onto my harddrive. Then I will burn them to a V-CD and watch it on my DVD player. It should work wonders.
We should have a help desk appreciation day. They are the one that have to deal with these idiots. "How do I view the ads at www.adcritic.com?" "why cant I go in chat rooms?" This is all I hear all day. At least the sysadmin get to do fun things with their computers, i just get to fix other idiots problems.
I believe Lars Ulrich is dead on in his thinking. He thinks that Napster is good, but if you dont want your music traded it shouldnt be. This ruling is going beyond even what he thinks should be done. Some sort of comprimize is in order. The courts do not have to rule in one direction or the other. They should say "RIAA, its not your music get you ugly face out of the way. Napster, if any artist of group ever comes to you and says, 'We dont want our music traded,' then stop alowing their songs to be traded and anybody that does you are to ban from your service." That should be the ruling.
Ok now picture this. You have Joey Potter (from Dawsons Creek) as a kid looking into going into the FBI. Then you have Scully like take her under her wing and kinda show her around. Then you can have the rest of the Dawsons Creek cast in there and have cross over episodes and stuff. Then you would get "normal" teenagers to watch X-Files. That an idea.
In the book High Velocity Leadership the guy that lead the Pathfinder Mars mission talks about the structure he implemented. It was of course different than the Apollo era NASA but it was an intresting look at how you properly get people to do things they might not have been highered for.
The current issue of Wired has a list of the 40 biggest tech cities in the world (this is the issue that has Sealand as its cover story). They rated the cities by the VC coming in to the cities, the start-ups in the cities, the established tech companies in the cities, and industry ties with local colleges and universities. This doesn't quite tell you what cities will be geek friendly but it will give you a good idea of where your skills will be most wanted and a lot of the time if companies are looking for a lot of geeks they will try and make the people in the city geek friendly, especially if its a city where one of these companies employs many of the city residents.
When most ppl think of the radio they think of frequencies higher than light. That is your UHF, VHF, Microwave, etc. If you use everything in the low end of the spectrum you will get more usable bandwidth. The bandwidth in the low end is alot smaller than at the GHz range but if we ever run out we can use it. Or we could plan ahead and use it for things that do not need much bandwidth.
Why is it bad if companys are trying to get their employies to stay? The job turnover rate, at least in the tech feild, is astronomicaly high. Not a good thing.
I do not see Metallica being better than the RIAA. The RIAA already had a law suit going against Napster prior to Metallica's law suit. Metallica's law suit was more to scare universitys and act as a very good PR stunt. The way I brain it is that the artists pay the RIAA to fight lawsuits like this and the artists (Metallica and Dr. Dre) should wait to see what the courts ruling is for the RIAA's case. Even though I do not agree with Metallica's law suit I do agree with Lars Ulrich. On Charlie Rose a week and a half ago he said that artists should be able to choose wether their music gets distributed by mp3 or not. I believe that any artist should be able to ask a company to ban users that copy their music just as Metallica asked Napster to do, and I was one of the banned users.
Microsoft's End User License Agreement states "...you must take reasonable security precautions, at least as great as the precautions you take to protect your own confidential information..." Isnt this how the open source community protects its trade secrets, by relseasing them for all to see? Can't the execs at microsoft read the Art of War and learn to be flexable and think like the enemy. They would be so much more successful.
The current issue of Wierd magazine is all about this subject. What is says is that people will use their natural languages and that we will use computers to translate for us. Something kind of like Star Treks universal translator. Bablefish is one example of the technology that is in development to make this happen. Researchers are also using voice recongnition software along with translation software to try and get voice to voice, real-time, translatoins.
W.A.V.E. should not be surprising to anybody. For years school age children have been deprived of their constitutional rights. It is the prevailing opinion through out the county that school goers have no rights or have fewer rights than adults. It was even stated in the article in the sentence, "Although school-age children are presumed to have few rights, it's obvious that this kind of anonymous and intrusive law enforcement would [be] blatantly unconstitutional for adults." If it were unconstitutional for adults, why wouldn't it be unconstitutional for a minor? The Supreme Court stated in the case of Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) that "In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are 'persons' under our Constitution." That's says students, all students no matter what age, are people under the Constitution. Therefore if something is "blatantly unconstitutional for adults" the same thing is blatantly unconstitutional for minors as well. Even though this is the ruling of the Supreme Court it is not something that has been fully integrated into the thinking of the schools faculty. Many school faculty violate students Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by searching students property without just cause and punishing students without them getting a say in their defense. I don't understand why it is that well educated people see a flaw in not protecting students right to privacy, which there is no constitutional right for, and not see flaws in the way the schools are now run. Is this the idea of fewer rights for children that are showing up in our actions? Yes, I think it is. Why is it that children are the scapegoat of our society? Just because they don't vote, have no money and have no way to defend themselves it doesn't mean that they have any fewer rights than the people that can defend themselves.