$3 dollars per show is low enough to be reasonable
I personally generally watch one or two shows a day, so call it $4.50/day on average, 30 days a month is $135 a month in this scheme.
My satellite TV bill is roughly £40/month, or about $80. I'm already spending 50% more at best using your pricing scheme, and that ignores what the rest of my family watches.
$3/show is ludicrously high compared to actual cost now, unless you meant per show as in "see The Simpsons for $3" regardless of which episodes and how many times. *Then* it might work out cost effective, but I doubt it - my daugther watches a lot of different cartoons and films, and the cost would quickly add up (and that's before we factor my partner into things...)
Outsourcing is driven by technology - without convenient, fast means to communicate across the globe, it wouldn't be practical to shift development to other countries.
Still, this is slashdot, where outsourcing is an evil use of new technology but the **AAs need to accept the use of new technology, and where copyright is evil unless it's being used to protect GPLed and similarly licensed works.
There is only one Highlaner movie, the first one. I'll not watch any other again.
(And never ask yourself how they managed to hide full swords when they wore short coats. Where the hell did they pull them from?)
Reminds me of an old (~10-12 years) PC game called Syndicate. You commanded a team of four cyborgs, loaded down with enough firepower to wipe out a city. Run around with your weapons drawn, and people fled. Put them away, and they ignored you.
How the hell did they hide half a dozen chain guns and a couple of gauss guns under long overcoats?!
it's that much harder to get countries known for 'cutting corners' (like Russia) to do their job correctly..
And the only reason that it's the Russians who are supplying the station is because of the Columbia disaster:
But he said it is no more critical than previous supply runs, which have been conducted exclusively by the Russians ever since last year's Columbia disaster.
Before moaning about other countries, perhaps you should look to the problems in your own...
What the grandparent means is that bug-fixing Service Packs and feature-adding upgrades should be kept separate so you can grab the bug fixes without worrying about the new features breaking shit.
Evolution hasn't purposely done anything. For whatever reason, there is not sufficient evolutionary disadvantage to being left handed for it to have died out amongst humans. Conversely, any advantage there may be to being right-handed is sufficent to make it dominant, but insufficient to wipe out left-handedness.
Evolution is a name for a process, not a thing, it doesn't do anything, on purpose or not.
For a geek/tech site, we're very loose with our terminology and language at times...
This is slashdot, where everything that isn't actually a physical object should be free, and time and creative effort mean little or nothing, except for reputation and kudos, not something you can generally live on alone.
I bet you'd struggle to find one in 50 who had ever even written a hello world in qbasic, one in 500 who could do the same in C
And what has that to do with a person's ability to use a computer as a teaching aid? If they're supposed to be teaching computing then sure; if they're just supposed to be *teaching*, though, and are using the computer as another tool, like exercise books and a blackboard are tools, then what does it matter? As long as they *can* use it, they should be fine.
A Roland Piquepaille submission with a link to the actual story? Granted, I expected everything to go to hell at the office when I was away for a few days, but at slashdot too?
Could he actually be listening to all the people bitching about his submissions at last? At least he got a link to his blog in there too, although it was a close run thing. Not that he made it clear that it was his blog, of course - that would be asking too much...
Heh - I've just quite Doom 3 to have a quick play of something else, and decided to check/. in between. Just before I quit D3, at one point, I had literally thought "Why go to all the trouble of making such exquisitely detailed monsters, just to plunge you into darkness so you can never see them?".
"Asshats" and "anonymous destruction of career or business" definitely apply. Two scenarios:
1) an asshat fakes spam for/from *you*, sends out enough to get noticed and *you* end up the target of one of these
2) these become popular, several are created, people become accustomed to running them, then an asshat creates/subverts/whatever one and uses it to target *you*
The zombie botnet definitely applies if it's used to create a poor man's Akamai for the spamming site; much much harder to take down by DDoS.
Well, I'm currently a Senior Programmer tech leading a pilot project that's part of a much larger iniative that has been and will be literally headline news.
My degree is in Physics; we had some computing modules that taught the basics of programming, with a view to doing numerical modelling and simple simulation work, solving equations numerically, and so on. Everything else I know about programming is self-taught. I'm no guru, but I'm no grunt coder either.
As you say, university is not so much about learning a subject, as it is about learning itself. Having a degree demonstrates self-motivation, dedication, a willingness and ability to learn and apply the knowledge you've learnt; in a way, the actual degree itself is largely immaterial. I've worked with history graduates who made perfectly capable programmers.
Correction: Other operating system's don't have these problems and associated costs and loss of productivity *yet*.
No software is pefect, no software is bug-free. Even if it's impossible to compromise a Linux box using a remote exploit (and it isn't), there will always be local exploits. Nothing can save a box from a user with the root password who installs any old crap from any source, and *that* is the biggest problem facing Windows users (imho) - that they tend to install/run viruses and other malware manually. You can switch them to Linux, but that behaviour is going to be a whole lot harder to change.
Right now, there's no point expending the effort writing that crap for other platforms, as the install base is too small. When/if they gain significant market share, that will change.
Security of the database is. Availability of the source helps to make sure that that has no flaws, but that's useless if an insider rips off a portion of the db to sell to the highest bidder.
Even ignoring that, they at least have access to statistical and marketing data on who visits what sites when, potentially even how much they spend; that could be quite valuable to the right people.
You mean that having to create a fiction that's close enough to the truth to be believable and memorable (so you don't forget the lies you tell!), yet far enough off to achieve the desired effect (be it avoiding trouble, personal gain, whatever) is more difficult than simply recounting a fact?
Good to see it confirmed, I guess, and I do believe in pure research for research's sake, but even I am moved to say "well, duh!".
t also means any code I contribute to open source is actually owned by them, and can't be legally GPL'd.
Yes it can, it just means that you need your employer's permission first, as they own the copyright, not you.
If you mean that you can't unilaterally GPL it, well, no, but you don't own the copyright; you can't choose to GPL my code, either. (Not quite the same thing, but you know what I mean)
It's just that I don't think you would like computerf from 1984.
Computers from 1984 were great... in 1984. Now I have more computing power strapped to my belt every day (as an iRiver) than most people had access to in 1994, let alone 1984.
Slashdot doesn't have permission to repost the stories, but guess what? No one cares. Why?
Because we're expected to respect the copyright and wishes of people who develop GPLed software, anf ignore those of other people? Or just people we don't like for some reason?
It's quite simple. You want someone to respect your copyrights (or even just those you agree with), you have to respect the copyrights of others. Just because they ask for something in return for access to the material (money, registration details, your first born, whatever) that you'd rather not give doesn't make violating their copyright right.
NO ONE WANTS TO REGISTER FOR FUCKING NEWS.
THEN DON'T FUCKING READ IT. Read it somewhere else. If it's not worth the registration, then go without.
I hope slashdot has permission to reproduce this here, otherwise it's copyright infringement. After they mentioned the site in the article too. There's gratitude for you.
The problem is that any fool can get mod points these days
No - a lot of people have been silently banned from moderating, myself included. At least, given that I've not had mod points in a couple of *years*, I assume I'm banned. Doesn't bother me though. If they don't want me to help, I won't.
That way if your taking a picture of a school girl going up a escalator with a skirt or pictures at a book store "big brother" will know that you are doing it.
"Big brother"? You object to giving the girl the chance to confront the guy?
Speaking from experience, I challenge you to get a decent shot in a club with a phone camera. Even when people are posing for it the image is far less than perfect...
Further, if I can carelessly shove it into my pocket, its unlikely the lens will even stay clean.
That's one reason why I went for the Samsung E800 when I recently got a new phone. It slides open/shut to reveal/hide the keypad, and when shut, the camera lens is protected by the battery compartment. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than being permanently exposed.
I don't think we'll see the day when phones are compared based on image quality.
Maybe not by the maufacturers (although most try to show off the image quality, often with very carefully chosen and composed scenes), but try googling - you may be surprised just how many forums there are dedicated to just that.
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$3 dollars per show is low enough to be reasonable
I personally generally watch one or two shows a day, so call it $4.50/day on average, 30 days a month is $135 a month in this scheme.
My satellite TV bill is roughly £40/month, or about $80. I'm already spending 50% more at best using your pricing scheme, and that ignores what the rest of my family watches.
$3/show is ludicrously high compared to actual cost now, unless you meant per show as in "see The Simpsons for $3" regardless of which episodes and how many times. *Then* it might work out cost effective, but I doubt it - my daugther watches a lot of different cartoons and films, and the cost would quickly add up (and that's before we factor my partner into things...)
Outsourcing is driven by technology - without convenient, fast means to communicate across the globe, it wouldn't be practical to shift development to other countries.
Still, this is slashdot, where outsourcing is an evil use of new technology but the **AAs need to accept the use of new technology, and where copyright is evil unless it's being used to protect GPLed and similarly licensed works.
There is only one Highlaner movie, the first one. I'll not watch any other again.
(And never ask yourself how they managed to hide full swords when they wore short coats. Where the hell did they pull them from?)
Reminds me of an old (~10-12 years) PC game called Syndicate. You commanded a team of four cyborgs, loaded down with enough firepower to wipe out a city. Run around with your weapons drawn, and people fled. Put them away, and they ignored you.
How the hell did they hide half a dozen chain guns and a couple of gauss guns under long overcoats?!
it's that much harder to get countries known for 'cutting corners' (like Russia) to do their job correctly..
And the only reason that it's the Russians who are supplying the station is because of the Columbia disaster:
But he said it is no more critical than previous supply runs, which have been conducted exclusively by the Russians ever since last year's Columbia disaster.
Before moaning about other countries, perhaps you should look to the problems in your own...
Fedora Core is not RHEL.
What the grandparent means is that bug-fixing Service Packs and feature-adding upgrades should be kept separate so you can grab the bug fixes without worrying about the new features breaking shit.
It's bug fixes that are breaking things.
Evolution hasn't purposely done anything. For whatever reason, there is not sufficient evolutionary disadvantage to being left handed for it to have died out amongst humans. Conversely, any advantage there may be to being right-handed is sufficent to make it dominant, but insufficient to wipe out left-handedness.
Evolution is a name for a process, not a thing, it doesn't do anything, on purpose or not.
For a geek/tech site, we're very loose with our terminology and language at times...
This is slashdot, where everything that isn't actually a physical object should be free, and time and creative effort mean little or nothing, except for reputation and kudos, not something you can generally live on alone.
I bet you'd struggle to find one in 50 who had ever even written a hello world in qbasic, one in 500 who could do the same in C
And what has that to do with a person's ability to use a computer as a teaching aid? If they're supposed to be teaching computing then sure; if they're just supposed to be *teaching*, though, and are using the computer as another tool, like exercise books and a blackboard are tools, then what does it matter? As long as they *can* use it, they should be fine.
A Roland Piquepaille submission with a link to the actual story? Granted, I expected everything to go to hell at the office when I was away for a few days, but at slashdot too?
Could he actually be listening to all the people bitching about his submissions at last? At least he got a link to his blog in there too, although it was a close run thing. Not that he made it clear that it was his blog, of course - that would be asking too much...
Heh - I've just quite Doom 3 to have a quick play of something else, and decided to check /. in between. Just before I quit D3, at one point, I had literally thought "Why go to all the trouble of making such exquisitely detailed monsters, just to plunge you into darkness so you can never see them?".
Spooky.
"Asshats" and "anonymous destruction of career or business" definitely apply. Two scenarios:
1) an asshat fakes spam for/from *you*, sends out enough to get noticed and *you* end up the target of one of these
2) these become popular, several are created, people become accustomed to running them, then an asshat creates/subverts/whatever one and uses it to target *you*
The zombie botnet definitely applies if it's used to create a poor man's Akamai for the spamming site; much much harder to take down by DDoS.
Well, I'm currently a Senior Programmer tech leading a pilot project that's part of a much larger iniative that has been and will be literally headline news.
My degree is in Physics; we had some computing modules that taught the basics of programming, with a view to doing numerical modelling and simple simulation work, solving equations numerically, and so on. Everything else I know about programming is self-taught. I'm no guru, but I'm no grunt coder either.
As you say, university is not so much about learning a subject, as it is about learning itself. Having a degree demonstrates self-motivation, dedication, a willingness and ability to learn and apply the knowledge you've learnt; in a way, the actual degree itself is largely immaterial. I've worked with history graduates who made perfectly capable programmers.
Correction: Other operating system's don't have these problems and associated costs and loss of productivity *yet*.
No software is pefect, no software is bug-free. Even if it's impossible to compromise a Linux box using a remote exploit (and it isn't), there will always be local exploits. Nothing can save a box from a user with the root password who installs any old crap from any source, and *that* is the biggest problem facing Windows users (imho) - that they tend to install/run viruses and other malware manually. You can switch them to Linux, but that behaviour is going to be a whole lot harder to change.
Right now, there's no point expending the effort writing that crap for other platforms, as the install base is too small. When/if they gain significant market share, that will change.
Security of the database is. Availability of the source helps to make sure that that has no flaws, but that's useless if an insider rips off a portion of the db to sell to the highest bidder.
Even ignoring that, they at least have access to statistical and marketing data on who visits what sites when, potentially even how much they spend; that could be quite valuable to the right people.
You mean that having to create a fiction that's close enough to the truth to be believable and memorable (so you don't forget the lies you tell!), yet far enough off to achieve the desired effect (be it avoiding trouble, personal gain, whatever) is more difficult than simply recounting a fact?
Good to see it confirmed, I guess, and I do believe in pure research for research's sake, but even I am moved to say "well, duh!".
t also means any code I contribute to open source is actually owned by them, and can't be legally GPL'd.
Yes it can, it just means that you need your employer's permission first, as they own the copyright, not you.
If you mean that you can't unilaterally GPL it, well, no, but you don't own the copyright; you can't choose to GPL my code, either. (Not quite the same thing, but you know what I mean)
It's just that I don't think you would like computerf from 1984.
Computers from 1984 were great... in 1984. Now I have more computing power strapped to my belt every day (as an iRiver) than most people had access to in 1994, let alone 1984.
Slashdot doesn't have permission to repost the stories, but guess what? No one cares. Why?
Because we're expected to respect the copyright and wishes of people who develop GPLed software, anf ignore those of other people? Or just people we don't like for some reason?
It's quite simple. You want someone to respect your copyrights (or even just those you agree with), you have to respect the copyrights of others. Just because they ask for something in return for access to the material (money, registration details, your first born, whatever) that you'd rather not give doesn't make violating their copyright right.
NO ONE WANTS TO REGISTER FOR FUCKING NEWS.
THEN DON'T FUCKING READ IT. Read it somewhere else. If it's not worth the registration, then go without.
I hope slashdot has permission to reproduce this here, otherwise it's copyright infringement. After they mentioned the site in the article too. There's gratitude for you.
Well, your ears may be 70 years old, but with the references to "winderz" and "M$", I'm having trouble believing that your brain is.
Gawd I get tired of hearing winderz sheeple claim the linux camp is nothing but a bunch of thieves.
Me too - but then I also get tired of the open sores lunix hippies* harping on about stuff too at times.
(* That's funny too, right?)
Is your copy of winderz legal?
Yes thanks, bought and paid for from a reputable supplier. Not all of us "winderz sheeple" steal stuff either.
The problem is that any fool can get mod points these days
No - a lot of people have been silently banned from moderating, myself included. At least, given that I've not had mod points in a couple of *years*, I assume I'm banned. Doesn't bother me though. If they don't want me to help, I won't.
That way if your taking a picture of a school girl going up a escalator with a skirt or pictures at a book store "big brother" will know that you are doing it.
"Big brother"? You object to giving the girl the chance to confront the guy?
but does nothing when used in a disco
Speaking from experience, I challenge you to get a decent shot in a club with a phone camera. Even when people are posing for it the image is far less than perfect...
Further, if I can carelessly shove it into my pocket, its unlikely the lens will even stay clean.
That's one reason why I went for the Samsung E800 when I recently got a new phone. It slides open/shut to reveal/hide the keypad, and when shut, the camera lens is protected by the battery compartment. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than being permanently exposed.
I don't think we'll see the day when phones are compared based on image quality.
Maybe not by the maufacturers (although most try to show off the image quality, often with very carefully chosen and composed scenes), but try googling - you may be surprised just how many forums there are dedicated to just that.