Too bad my first experience with it was less than rosy.
If you want to see a losing business strategy, check out lookTV.
These doofuses seemed to think that the best way to make money is to stop gaining customers. I would say the best way to make money is not to have such a losing busines plan.
They don't list their wireles service on their website anymore, but I remember this quote from heart (it still gives me a chuckle today):
"Due to increasing demand, we can no longer offer the look ultrafast wireless internet service to new customers".
user (username) pass (password) list top (number of message to check) (kb to read) dele (message to delete) retr (number of message to read entirely) quit
Quicker, cheaper, easier. This was one of the best tips I got from a friendly sysadmin.:)
Of course, I would ask why CmdrTaco didn't check the RFC, but hey, who am I to question slashdot's leader?;)
I worked for a company so cheap they told me I had to bring my own pen to work.
I kid you not. We gave customer's estimates for the prices of their computers written in #2 HB pencil on the back of used paper because the company wouldn't pay for ink for the printer. Not to mention that the company hid the unused paper so we couldn't find it. And of course, company letterhead and business cards? Pffft. Company was too cheap to pay for these also.
Sigh.
I got so tired of it that the last month I worked there I simply told customers they would have to bring me a pen and paper for a written estimate. That sorta put off the customers, but then again, I wasn't on commission, so why should I care?
Silly manager. He told you the problem, and it was obviously out of his hands. Your answer was simple.
If the employee does his job well while he's there you tell the employee that you will have to dock his first hour's pay by 1/6 th. If the employee isn't any good you now have grounds for dismissal.
Either way, you win. And, in the case of the good employee, he should understand he only gets paid while at work. He would be willing to take the cut, or perhaps ask you if he can work 10 minutes later than other employees to make up the slack.
By forcing him to either get clocked in early, or take an earlier bus and be there an hour early your employee has now sent his resume elsewhere. If its a bad employee, perhaps this isn't a bad thing. Otherwise you've now lost goodwill between you and a worker for a measly few dollars a day.
Sorta like the company I quit that refused to buy pens "because the employees would steal them". Any company too cheap to invest $0.10 a day in me is too cheap to employ me. There were, of course, a million other little things like this that lead up to a serious "cheap-ass company" syndrome. Like not buying paper, or deciding they won't pay you for the lunches you spend working anyways.
Remember, your shareholders are people too. Every little dollar counts as much to them as people as your employees, who are people too. Your job as a manager is to balance these two problems out.
>You need to keep moral up and also productivity.
Keeping morale up is way more than not firing people. If you get rid of deadwood, the workers might be happy they aren't encumbered by raving morons anymore. Keeping morale up is something that is done little gesture by little gesture.
Remember, its the little things that count. Or at least it was at my last two jobs (which, thankfully, I quit just before the department/company was ruined by incompetence).
Anyways, just my $0.02 for another manager under whom I would have quit.
>Open the box void the warranty, it MUST be serviced at Gateway.
That's because of retards that have a hard time even realising that you don't plug a phone cord into the network card, not to mention the (HALF HOUR) support calls on which way around the keyboard and mouse plug in [even when they're colour coded the users don't get it].
I've heard stories (at the store I worked at) of people removing the backplate on AGP cards and putting it backwards into a PCI slot because they are too STUPID (as far as computers go) to know that doesn't work. I probably don't even need to mention the people that force mating conectors (molex and IDC) in backwards...
If people fixed their cars with the amount of knowledge most people fix their computers, we'd have 90% of the cars on the road without brakes.
Personally, I void the warranty on these computers without worry. But then again, I spent some months in a computer repair shop, so I know what I'm doing, and I know why the "Warranty void if removed" stickers are there.
If you _don't_ know why they're there, its a certain sign that you have no business violating them.
>ARTISTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR!!!
I agree. I don't agree about your feelings on piracy (American satellite TV in canada, until this weekend, was absolute proof against your argument), but I agree artists have the right to control their labour.
Unfortunately IIRC, part of the CBDTPA would control how free software can be given away (perhaps I'm confused on this). If so, how can you possibly say the CBDTPA allows for the freedom of will for artists? Perhaps some artists (actually, when one considers most non-commercial sites on the internet a work of art, one could say most people) would rather their work be used by everyone, rather than just everyone with money.
It seems you're a nice person who gives to charities directly. I personally don't (again, a surprising majority of people, especially your friends up north, don't give much to charities). I'd rather (and most of us would rather -- again, if I could find the stats on the net I would, but I only have them on paper) the government worry about who needs my charity money most, and that's why I prefer the government to give it away for me.
>The specific comment "a social policy that leaves people hungry, homeless, undereducated and in poor health" is what pissed me off.
Well, you've got to consider the reason they never make it even close to #1 on the "World's best country to live in" is partly because when the judges see the slums there they are disgusted. [Thank God they haven't seen our Canadian Indian reserves yet]. I'm not an expert in social policy (but I play one on the internet) so I really don't know how to fix that problem.
In most 1st world countries when you are broke, though, you can still get basic medicare, and you can still get a basic living allowance no matter what.
What the guy should have said is "a social policy that leaves lazy people hungry, homeless, undereducated and in poor health". A lot of us feel that just because someone isn't interested in putting in an effort doesn't mean we should leave them in the street to die. You've part of that set of people who think that's wrong, its just your way of giving is diferent.
My thinking has always been that there's a fine line between keeping someone alive and giving them a reason to be lazy. Our Indian reserves are exactly the second half of the problem -- too much money means people who don't care about their lives...
(but anyways, this is probably way off topic now)
>In the United States, if you are a high school graduate under age 35, I know someone who is constantly hiring. It's called the Army
Well... where I am they aren't hiring, and there's a lot of people who take offence at being torn down as a person and built back up as a killer (again, try not to take offense at that, but as a pacifist that's how I see the situation). However, I do agree there's more than enough work out there for people willing to do it! [I've held as many as 3 jobs at a time on top of college when I wanted money, so if I can do that, why can't others?]
>People are in poor health because they......don't bother to plan for health care.
Well, I'd disagree with that. Yes, they don't plan for the worst (bad health) but that's the human condition, not to mention an aversion to paranoia. That's what stops a LOT of people already in 1st world countries emmigrating to the US [I know its what's stopping me!]. They just don't want to save $100,00 in the chance they'll need it for health care -- insurance doesn't work, I'm sure you've heard the many ways they squirm out of their policies when you need them.
Anyways, I also strongly disagree that the US is Fascist in general. However, I would say that the US would be implementing a Fascist policy in the CBDTPA, and that's why it needs to be stopped!
The original poster (before you) violated Godwin's law. If you want to continue the thread leave anything he said about Nazis out of it. That's just a red herring designed to piss everyone off.
Now, ignoring all the BS about Hitler, I have a beef or two with what you've said:
>While I don't disagree about the nature of the laws, I do question your assertion that they are violating the Constitution. Which part?
I'm not totally up on American law, but I'm pretty certain that your constitution guarantees many freedoms (such as freedom of speech). If the CBDTPA is just an extension to the DMCA then it is anti free-speech. Isn't that your first amendment?
>Social policy. Well, I'm a firm believer that there are plenty of charities out there, and the government doesn't need to be one of them.
That certainly can be your opinion (and, fortunately for you and many others the majority disagrees with it), however you can't have it both ways.
>You know, I've become unemployed in the past... I went back to school to make myself more qualified. The government is more than willing to loan almost anyone money to go to school.
You can't have it both ways. You can't use the government acting as a charity (and handing out money for people to go to school without any guarantees they'll get it back is nothing more than a backhanded charity) and not want it being a charity.
>I still haven't figured out where people like you get the idea that you should strongarm people like me into giving to beggars on the street like the one who sits at the stoplight a few blocks from here.
Huh? Did he say for you to walk up to street beggars and give them money? You need a fixed residence to pick up a cheque from the gov't, so if there's anyone you should respect with your views, it would be a street beggar.
Again, another contradiction in your ideas presents itself:
>Then again, why do anything at all when the government is making the people who actually do the work pay your way through life?
Ok.
>Hey, why don't we make everyone equal by making a standard wage, no matter what kind of, or lack of work that they have? You know, $20/hour for everyone, both the college grads, and the people who dropped out in 9th grade.
I am assuming you think the 9th grader has an easier life. Hate to break it to you but if he gets a job it will not be easy. People say all the time "Gas pumpers and golden arches flippers have it easy". Well, if so why not do their job?. I know why. Becuase the job sucks. Its physically demanding, or mentally annoying. Either way most everyone who graduates college is looking for the cushy, easy way out with a 9-5 desk job pushing paper.
If you want, feel free to reply and clear up what you've just said. Maybe I'm reading you wrong?
Perhaps you're just confused on the meaning of "fascism". It doesn't have anything to do with work, you know.
Its:
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"
If you don't consider the president elect (I do consider him elected myself, but by a really thin thread) its easy to see how laws like the DMCA and CBDTPA causes socioeconomic controls (if you don't have the money, you can't participate in society), and suppression of opposition through censorship (DeCSS, anyone?). The other items (nationalism, racism, and terror) tend to be qualitative rather than quantitative, so these are the points that should be argued against the US being fascist. In my opinion the US is still far from it, but bills like this bring it closer and closer to the line.
Wether or not a burger flipper has 10 or 20 babies doesn't really factor into the discussion.
>I have to support some drug-addicted high school dropout who fucked his own life up, as if I'm the one who told him not to get a job.
Explain how, without mentioning apache or anything at all but the kernel or kernel modules (which is the only true part of Linux, everything else is simply software that runs on top of Linux, just like IIS isn't Windows).
If you can't see it already, I call you out, troll.
>You can also carry around a large amount of music at a lower cost than mp3 players that are of a similar size.
Ahahahah! Oh puhlease! All the MD boosters should get into this millenium already!
I can buy a 3" CD (for which the player is give or take a similar size to an MD player) for under $1.50. It holds 2 albums at virtually CD quality. Can you buy two MDs for that price? Can you even buy one?
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>I did feel bad about showing the prof, since I knew they'd both stayed really late the night before at the lab...
And teachers wonder why its so hard to get students to work well in groups.
All I have to say is DUH! If two students submit the identical thing but can prove they collaborated (not the exactly same as cheating) and still learned the material is that not better than good enough? How many programming teams do you see that work that well together?
Perhaps its about time to encourage this sort of group work.
Now cheating off old assignments from students in another year, well, that's really cheating since there's no way you learned the content of the course that way.
I think collaboration isn't as bad as some make it out to be (it isn't even plagarism!).
Sadly, many of the radio shacks in Canada (or so I've seen and been told by RS Managers) have stopped stocking even basic parts like resistors and capacitors. The only wire they carry is good for cars, tv and satellites. I can't even find wire wrap wire (or the tool) in many of them anymore.
Breadboards? At $20 each (when they sold 'em) don't even get me started...
If you're lucky you can sometimes get switches there.
Does it _really_ cost that much to have an inventory of these penny-parts that they can't afford to stock them?
>If thats the way things are then automobile mechanics must be geniuses!
I take it you've never been to more than 1 auto mechanic before (wink). Well over 50% of all auto mechanics are crooked and since most people appear to be below the mechanic's intelligence level as far as the car goes, they get away with it. [They wouldn't get away with it if you knew how to fix and check it yourself, now would they?]
(For proof just look on TV the next time there's a crooked mechanic show on. I think my own Province scored a 65% crookedness rating!)
If fixing cars were easy and simple the scam rate would be in the single digits.
A homebrew IDE controller isn't bad, really. It is more difficult than most of the external interface logic in a PC (which probably goes LPT/COM/Keyboard & PS2/Floppy/IDE in difficulty levels).
If you decide to build one, see if you can get an old "Smartdrive" interface board from a Tandy for a reference. There's nothing more than a bunch of TTL chips and a couple of PALs on it (nothing bigger than 20 pins).
They still work on modern machines that still have ISA (I have one and have tested it:-), so there's no reason why you can't re-implement their design.
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>Uh. Yeah. You obviously suck at copy and pasting.
Just did it now. And didn't even have to hit the keyboard. Much better on my RSI.
>Are you just talking out your ass, or did you really have that happen.
Yes, it really did happen. I have an old DTC SCSI card that isn't supported anymore, so it was basically junk.
Wouldn't have happened on an open source OS, like Linux.
>How do you check if UDMA support is enabled on your hard drives in linux?
dmesg | grep -i dma
Woooo, that was *so* hard [/sarcasm]
>In windows, all hardware driver settings are on the same screen, and I know right where to look.
In Linux all hardware driver settings are in the same directory,/proc and I know right where to look. Fewer keystrokes and crashes too.
>Please eat yourself
Well, that's the maturity level of windows users for ya!
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Cut 'n paste isn't quirky at all!
Unlike windows' flavour of the month key combinations (is it shift-insert or Ctrl-V or right-click and hit paste today?) all unix apps are meant to follow a common standard: Select by dragging. Copy with the middle button.
And printers aren't difficult to configure once you know how to work with printcap (with all the great manuals on it everywhere I'd liken this to learning how to double click). I can configure a far more versatile printer configuration with a copy of ApsFilter, gs (pre-installed, of course), and [insert favourite editor here] in way less time than windows.
Of course, if all I want is a raw printer socket (ever tried to emulate a postscript printer with only the tools that come with windows... better hope you bought the PS expansion module for your printer!), windows is still beat hands down:
echo "lp:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh" >/etc/printcap and you're golden.
Hardware difficult to configure? Pray tell me how!
My hardware is autodetected by my kernel without so much as a keystroke (well, you do have to push power). If you add something, you can either recompile the kernel (if "make bzImage" is too hard for an average user I'm surprised they can remember "A:\win98\drivers\") or perhaps your distro has an module autodection system in place.
I dread having to put any hardware in my windows box. ESPECIALLY older hardware (ohoh! May as well throw out that old SCSI card that's perfect for your CD burner since the last drivers were for win98!). In Linux hardware only improves with age (better support, easier installation).
I'll give you the font problem though, but I'll raise the ante by saying that X supports more fonts than windows probably ever will (I hear all the time they are going to raise the maximum amount of fonts with every distribution. Too bad that a couple of times the original amount isn't really much of a raise in the computer world over a decade -- did this get fixed in XP at all?).
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You clearly have free (gratis) and Free (libre) confused.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad my first experience with it was less than rosy.
If you want to see a losing business strategy, check out lookTV.
These doofuses seemed to think that the best way to make money is to stop gaining customers. I would say the best way to make money is not to have such a losing busines plan.
They don't list their wireles service on their website anymore, but I remember this quote from heart (it still gives me a chuckle today):
"Due to increasing demand, we can no longer offer the look ultrafast wireless internet service to new customers".
LOL
ftp.datafellows.com
:)
It's been good for the past 6 or 7 years...
HTH!
And I will have to check out that perl script. F-Prot has always been good.
Saith CmdrTaco:
>I'm on a modem for a few weeks and downloading countless megs of mail viruses is extremely frusterating
Ok, so megs is pluralized. I can assume a minumum of 2 megabytes downloading.
I will also assume he gets the FCC maximum 53k connection.
(Assuing a perfect connection, which is never the case):
2,000,000 / 5300 = 6.3 minutes.
Time to type in 5-10 lines of text in a telnet session for someone who can type... 30 seconds. Maybe.
Yup, I would say it is MUCH quicker than clicking a button that causes you to wait over 12x longer. Thank you for asserting my point of view!
telnet mail.xyz.com 110
:)
;)
user (username)
pass (password)
list
top (number of message to check) (kb to read)
dele (message to delete)
retr (number of message to read entirely)
quit
Quicker, cheaper, easier. This was one of the best tips I got from a friendly sysadmin.
Of course, I would ask why CmdrTaco didn't check the RFC, but hey, who am I to question slashdot's leader?
Yes, there are.
I worked for a company so cheap they told me I had to bring my own pen to work.
I kid you not. We gave customer's estimates for the prices of their computers written in #2 HB pencil on the back of used paper because the company wouldn't pay for ink for the printer. Not to mention that the company hid the unused paper so we couldn't find it. And of course, company letterhead and business cards? Pffft. Company was too cheap to pay for these also.
Sigh.
I got so tired of it that the last month I worked there I simply told customers they would have to bring me a pen and paper for a written estimate. That sorta put off the customers, but then again, I wasn't on commission, so why should I care?
>Well, he found a way to get to work on time.
Yup. He got someone to punch him in early.
Silly manager. He told you the problem, and it was obviously out of his hands. Your answer was simple.
If the employee does his job well while he's there you tell the employee that you will have to dock his first hour's pay by 1/6 th. If the employee isn't any good you now have grounds for dismissal.
Either way, you win. And, in the case of the good employee, he should understand he only gets paid while at work. He would be willing to take the cut, or perhaps ask you if he can work 10 minutes later than other employees to make up the slack.
By forcing him to either get clocked in early, or take an earlier bus and be there an hour early your employee has now sent his resume elsewhere. If its a bad employee, perhaps this isn't a bad thing. Otherwise you've now lost goodwill between you and a worker for a measly few dollars a day.
Sorta like the company I quit that refused to buy pens "because the employees would steal them". Any company too cheap to invest $0.10 a day in me is too cheap to employ me. There were, of course, a million other little things like this that lead up to a serious "cheap-ass company" syndrome. Like not buying paper, or deciding they won't pay you for the lunches you spend working anyways.
Remember, your shareholders are people too. Every little dollar counts as much to them as people as your employees, who are people too. Your job as a manager is to balance these two problems out.
>You need to keep moral up and also productivity.
Keeping morale up is way more than not firing people. If you get rid of deadwood, the workers might be happy they aren't encumbered by raving morons anymore. Keeping morale up is something that is done little gesture by little gesture.
Remember, its the little things that count. Or at least it was at my last two jobs (which, thankfully, I quit just before the department/company was ruined by incompetence).
Anyways, just my $0.02 for another manager under whom I would have quit.
TV will be free again. Or perhaps we've really gone back to a time before the 80's and are just catching up again right now!
>wow, techtv is the best, i wish i got it where i live
:-(]. 3,760 MHz Horizontal, MPEG2/DVB, Symbol rate: 26000 FEC:7/8.
Where do you live?
In the western hemisphere, try Satcom C4, transponder 12, or the various DSS providers.
In asia, try AsiaSat3S [listed as encrypted
Elsewhere, I don't know -- sorry. Since TechTV seems to be (generally) a FTA channel, you might get lucky if you check your local DVB listings...
>Open the box void the warranty, it MUST be serviced at Gateway.
That's because of retards that have a hard time even realising that you don't plug a phone cord into the network card, not to mention the (HALF HOUR) support calls on which way around the keyboard and mouse plug in [even when they're colour coded the users don't get it].
I've heard stories (at the store I worked at) of people removing the backplate on AGP cards and putting it backwards into a PCI slot because they are too STUPID (as far as computers go) to know that doesn't work. I probably don't even need to mention the people that force mating conectors (molex and IDC) in backwards...
If people fixed their cars with the amount of knowledge most people fix their computers, we'd have 90% of the cars on the road without brakes.
Personally, I void the warranty on these computers without worry. But then again, I spent some months in a computer repair shop, so I know what I'm doing, and I know why the "Warranty void if removed" stickers are there.
If you _don't_ know why they're there, its a certain sign that you have no business violating them.
The best part is the copier records the attempt to copy a bill. You just fingered Kinko's the next time someone comes to repair the machine!
Too bad that old copiers only have old bills stored in memory, and that most countries are moving to different looking currency now. >:-)
Next time you're at that kinko's, try copying a new $10 bill, or the new $5 bill. Heh...
>ARTISTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR!!!
...don't bother to plan for health care.
I agree. I don't agree about your feelings on piracy (American satellite TV in canada, until this weekend, was absolute proof against your argument), but I agree artists have the right to control their labour.
Unfortunately IIRC, part of the CBDTPA would control how free software can be given away (perhaps I'm confused on this). If so, how can you possibly say the CBDTPA allows for the freedom of will for artists? Perhaps some artists (actually, when one considers most non-commercial sites on the internet a work of art, one could say most people) would rather their work be used by everyone, rather than just everyone with money.
It seems you're a nice person who gives to charities directly. I personally don't (again, a surprising majority of people, especially your friends up north, don't give much to charities). I'd rather (and most of us would rather -- again, if I could find the stats on the net I would, but I only have them on paper) the government worry about who needs my charity money most, and that's why I prefer the government to give it away for me.
>The specific comment "a social policy that leaves people hungry, homeless, undereducated and in poor health" is what pissed me off.
Well, you've got to consider the reason they never make it even close to #1 on the "World's best country to live in" is partly because when the judges see the slums there they are disgusted. [Thank God they haven't seen our Canadian Indian reserves yet]. I'm not an expert in social policy (but I play one on the internet) so I really don't know how to fix that problem.
In most 1st world countries when you are broke, though, you can still get basic medicare, and you can still get a basic living allowance no matter what.
What the guy should have said is "a social policy that leaves lazy people hungry, homeless, undereducated and in poor health". A lot of us feel that just because someone isn't interested in putting in an effort doesn't mean we should leave them in the street to die. You've part of that set of people who think that's wrong, its just your way of giving is diferent.
My thinking has always been that there's a fine line between keeping someone alive and giving them a reason to be lazy. Our Indian reserves are exactly the second half of the problem -- too much money means people who don't care about their lives...
(but anyways, this is probably way off topic now)
>In the United States, if you are a high school graduate under age 35, I know someone who is constantly hiring. It's called the Army
Well... where I am they aren't hiring, and there's a lot of people who take offence at being torn down as a person and built back up as a killer (again, try not to take offense at that, but as a pacifist that's how I see the situation). However, I do agree there's more than enough work out there for people willing to do it! [I've held as many as 3 jobs at a time on top of college when I wanted money, so if I can do that, why can't others?]
>People are in poor health because they...
Well, I'd disagree with that. Yes, they don't plan for the worst (bad health) but that's the human condition, not to mention an aversion to paranoia. That's what stops a LOT of people already in 1st world countries emmigrating to the US [I know its what's stopping me!]. They just don't want to save $100,00 in the chance they'll need it for health care -- insurance doesn't work, I'm sure you've heard the many ways they squirm out of their policies when you need them.
Anyways, I also strongly disagree that the US is Fascist in general. However, I would say that the US would be implementing a Fascist policy in the CBDTPA, and that's why it needs to be stopped!
The original poster (before you) violated Godwin's law. If you want to continue the thread leave anything he said about Nazis out of it. That's just a red herring designed to piss everyone off.
Now, ignoring all the BS about Hitler, I have a beef or two with what you've said:
>While I don't disagree about the nature of the laws, I do question your assertion that they are violating the Constitution. Which part?
I'm not totally up on American law, but I'm pretty certain that your constitution guarantees many freedoms (such as freedom of speech). If the CBDTPA is just an extension to the DMCA then it is anti free-speech. Isn't that your first amendment?
>Social policy. Well, I'm a firm believer that there are plenty of charities out there, and the government doesn't need to be one of them.
That certainly can be your opinion (and, fortunately for you and many others the majority disagrees with it), however you can't have it both ways.
>You know, I've become unemployed in the past... I went back to school to make myself more qualified. The government is more than willing to loan almost anyone money to go to school.
You can't have it both ways. You can't use the government acting as a charity (and handing out money for people to go to school without any guarantees they'll get it back is nothing more than a backhanded charity) and not want it being a charity.
>I still haven't figured out where people like you get the idea that you should strongarm people like me into giving to beggars on the street like the one who sits at the stoplight a few blocks from here.
Huh? Did he say for you to walk up to street beggars and give them money? You need a fixed residence to pick up a cheque from the gov't, so if there's anyone you should respect with your views, it would be a street beggar.
Again, another contradiction in your ideas presents itself:
>Then again, why do anything at all when the government is making the people who actually do the work pay your way through life?
Ok.
>Hey, why don't we make everyone equal by making a standard wage, no matter what kind of, or lack of work that they have? You know, $20/hour for everyone, both the college grads, and the people who dropped out in 9th grade.
I am assuming you think the 9th grader has an easier life. Hate to break it to you but if he gets a job it will not be easy. People say all the time "Gas pumpers and golden arches flippers have it easy". Well, if so why not do their job?. I know why. Becuase the job sucks. Its physically demanding, or mentally annoying. Either way most everyone who graduates college is looking for the cushy, easy way out with a 9-5 desk job pushing paper.
If you want, feel free to reply and clear up what you've just said. Maybe I'm reading you wrong?
Perhaps you're just confused on the meaning of "fascism". It doesn't have anything to do with work, you know.
Its:
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"
If you don't consider the president elect (I do consider him elected myself, but by a really thin thread) its easy to see how laws like the DMCA and CBDTPA causes socioeconomic controls (if you don't have the money, you can't participate in society), and suppression of opposition through censorship (DeCSS, anyone?). The other items (nationalism, racism, and terror) tend to be qualitative rather than quantitative, so these are the points that should be argued against the US being fascist. In my opinion the US is still far from it, but bills like this bring it closer and closer to the line.
Wether or not a burger flipper has 10 or 20 babies doesn't really factor into the discussion.
>I have to support some drug-addicted high school dropout who fucked his own life up, as if I'm the one who told him not to get a job.
Where did that come from?
>If only MIME wasn't a hopeless mess in Linux.
Explain how, without mentioning apache or anything at all but the kernel or kernel modules (which is the only true part of Linux, everything else is simply software that runs on top of Linux, just like IIS isn't Windows).
If you can't see it already, I call you out, troll.
>You can also carry around a large amount of music at a lower cost than mp3 players that are of a similar size.
Ahahahah! Oh puhlease! All the MD boosters should get into this millenium already!
I can buy a 3" CD (for which the player is give or take a similar size to an MD player) for under $1.50. It holds 2 albums at virtually CD quality. Can you buy two MDs for that price? Can you even buy one?
I think not.
>Perhaps someone will write his letter using Palm's Graffiti (artifical handwriting) without thinking! That'll fool 'em.
Wouldn't that just come out as one black blob?
>It will never be pay per packet.
Too late. Some ISPs already charge $70 per CD.
>You're in need of makeup and feminine hygiene products.
SmarterChild: I'm sorry, I can't answer questions about beauty.
Mmmm, more fun on that topic:
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>I did feel bad about showing the prof, since I knew they'd both stayed really late the night before at the lab...
And teachers wonder why its so hard to get students to work well in groups.
All I have to say is DUH! If two students submit the identical thing but can prove they collaborated (not the exactly same as cheating) and still learned the material is that not better than good enough? How many programming teams do you see that work that well together?
Perhaps its about time to encourage this sort of group work.
Now cheating off old assignments from students in another year, well, that's really cheating since there's no way you learned the content of the course that way.
I think collaboration isn't as bad as some make it out to be (it isn't even plagarism!).
Sadly, many of the radio shacks in Canada (or so I've seen and been told by RS Managers) have stopped stocking even basic parts like resistors and capacitors. The only wire they carry is good for cars, tv and satellites. I can't even find wire wrap wire (or the tool) in many of them anymore.
Breadboards? At $20 each (when they sold 'em) don't even get me started...
If you're lucky you can sometimes get switches there.
Does it _really_ cost that much to have an inventory of these penny-parts that they can't afford to stock them?
>If thats the way things are then automobile mechanics must be geniuses!
I take it you've never been to more than 1 auto mechanic before (wink). Well over 50% of all auto mechanics are crooked and since most people appear to be below the mechanic's intelligence level as far as the car goes, they get away with it. [They wouldn't get away with it if you knew how to fix and check it yourself, now would they?]
(For proof just look on TV the next time there's a crooked mechanic show on. I think my own Province scored a 65% crookedness rating!)
If fixing cars were easy and simple the scam rate would be in the single digits.
A homebrew IDE controller isn't bad, really. It is more difficult than most of the external interface logic in a PC (which probably goes LPT/COM/Keyboard & PS2/Floppy/IDE in difficulty levels).
:-), so there's no reason why you can't re-implement their design.
If you decide to build one, see if you can get an old "Smartdrive" interface board from a Tandy for a reference. There's nothing more than a bunch of TTL chips and a couple of PALs on it (nothing bigger than 20 pins).
They still work on modern machines that still have ISA (I have one and have tested it
>Uh. Yeah. You obviously suck at copy and pasting.
/proc and I know right where to look. Fewer keystrokes and crashes too.
Just did it now. And didn't even have to hit the keyboard. Much better on my RSI.
>Are you just talking out your ass, or did you really have that happen.
Yes, it really did happen. I have an old DTC SCSI card that isn't supported anymore, so it was basically junk.
Wouldn't have happened on an open source OS, like Linux.
>How do you check if UDMA support is enabled on your hard drives in linux?
dmesg | grep -i dma
Woooo, that was *so* hard [/sarcasm]
>In windows, all hardware driver settings are on the same screen, and I know right where to look.
In Linux all hardware driver settings are in the same directory,
>Please eat yourself
Well, that's the maturity level of windows users for ya!
Cut 'n paste isn't quirky at all!
/etc/printcap and you're golden.
Unlike windows' flavour of the month key combinations (is it shift-insert or Ctrl-V or right-click and hit paste today?) all unix apps are meant to follow a common standard: Select by dragging. Copy with the middle button.
And printers aren't difficult to configure once you know how to work with printcap (with all the great manuals on it everywhere I'd liken this to learning how to double click). I can configure a far more versatile printer configuration with a copy of ApsFilter, gs (pre-installed, of course), and [insert favourite editor here] in way less time than windows.
Of course, if all I want is a raw printer socket (ever tried to emulate a postscript printer with only the tools that come with windows... better hope you bought the PS expansion module for your printer!), windows is still beat hands down:
echo "lp:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh" >
Hardware difficult to configure? Pray tell me how!
My hardware is autodetected by my kernel without so much as a keystroke (well, you do have to push power). If you add something, you can either recompile the kernel (if "make bzImage" is too hard for an average user I'm surprised they can remember "A:\win98\drivers\") or perhaps your distro has an module autodection system in place.
I dread having to put any hardware in my windows box. ESPECIALLY older hardware (ohoh! May as well throw out that old SCSI card that's perfect for your CD burner since the last drivers were for win98!). In Linux hardware only improves with age (better support, easier installation).
I'll give you the font problem though, but I'll raise the ante by saying that X supports more fonts than windows probably ever will (I hear all the time they are going to raise the maximum amount of fonts with every distribution. Too bad that a couple of times the original amount isn't really much of a raise in the computer world over a decade -- did this get fixed in XP at all?).
You clearly have free (gratis) and Free (libre) confused.
Read those definitions before you post again.
You have been warned.