If you're earning well above the average for CS majors at your school, shouldn't that be an indication that it's not easy to get a well-paying job in the field any more? Otherwise, I'd expect the rest of them to have jobs like yours as well.
Well, maybe he was modded that way because that's exactly the same post that gets posted a dozen times anything vaguely related to censorship comes up. Or because, in his rush to get the easy karma, his post really has very little to do with the discussion. Of course, if I felt the need to moderate it down, at least I'd have the guts to mark it redundant or offtopic -- but a downmod is hardly unwarranted.
This attitude presumes that your (or your friend's) time is worth nothing.
No. It presumes that his time is worth less than the time it takes to test and return the RAM. If you're buying a large amount of RAM, you can probably average about 5 minutes per stick. Not too bad.
Unless you're a teenager, there's not too much you can do these days that's not at home and doesn't cost a lot more then that.
Sounds to me like you have a serious lack of imagination. There are lots of things to be done that don't cost money -- or cost very little -- if you stray outside of the "sit-and-be-entertained" mindset.
Sure, $9 isn't exactly cheap but it's not like you have to save up for it or anything,
Spoken like a college kid who has never had to watch his money in his life.
Well, but he was presumably conspiring with people who had accepted the licence, and inciting them to violate it, unless of course he was illegally monitoring their activity without their consent.
How about you actually find out what happened and what constitutes breaking the license, rather than just making things up?
That's because Bill doesn't know what he's talking about -- Overrated and Underrated do not show up in metamod, and thus are a favorite choice for abusive moderators. The problems with this scheme have been explained to the Powers that Be, repeatedly, ever since the current metamoderation scheme was implemented. However, as with most things, Taco apparently either doesn't care or happens to like the ability to moderate without accountability.
Are you absolutely sure that the "fansub" was really a fan-produced version? On occasion, the fansubs that you can get on the internet are actually just rips of a DVD from one of the Asian markets that happens to include English subs. Most of the reputable places that host fansubs try to weed those out, but if you downloaded them from usenet or IRC, that might have been what you ended up with.
Not saying that's neccessarily what happened here, but that would be my first guess given the situation you described. If you're really interested, you could contact the company that has the legitimate rights to distribute the show in the US, and ask whether the DVD you bought was legit or not.
There's nothing inherent in being poor that forces you to write bad checks. If you can't tell when one number is bigger than another, then you shouldn't have a checking account.
For some reason, I think there is more truth there than most of us would like to believe or admit.
What are these cases where the FBI has broken into somebody's house and shot them when they refused to stop talking nonsense? Because I don't think that I've heard of that one.
Blackbox is an existing window manager -- it's been around longer than most of the ones that the kids drool over every time a screenshot gets posted. And this "bogus niche" seems to be rather large -- not only do many people use it on their desktop, but I've seen it being used in commercial settings on several occasions. How about you do something productive with your time, rather than complaining when somebody decides to devote their energy into something besides the newest Windows / OSX clone window manager?
The "legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion" is a "for instance." It doesn't say that the comments must be in the same thread or discussion in order to be redundant; that's just an example.
And if we didn't imprison anyone, we would be guaranteed not to imprison innocent people.
I'm not going to argue one way or another on what the standard should be, but the fact of the matter is that we just have to do our best to prevent innocent people from being punished, while accepting the fact that it will sometimes happen.
With BitTorrent it's difficult to do this, because unless you upload (and peers report packets coming from you to the tracker) then your download speed is gonna suck.
This is only the case when you are trying to download from a torrent where there isn't enough bandwidth available on the torrent to serve all of the downloaders. In that case, those who are uploading will tend to get better rates than those who are not (or who are severely limiting it.) However, when the available bandwidth starts increasing compared to the number of downloaders, they can start getting their downloads for "free." This often happens after the torrent is a few days old, and there are a bunch of people sitting on the torrent.
If you have too many people with low upload rates, then the people who aren't restricting their uploads won't end up connected to each other -- and so will frequently end up uploading significantly more than they eventually download. That's one likely explanation for the parent poster's experience of uploading much more than he downloaded.
One other thing that can affect this is that most of the popular clients -- the last time I looked at them, anyway -- normally try to take as much bandwidth as they can for each torrent that you are uploading/downloading. Imagine that you are on two torrents, one popular and one unpopular. A bunch of people are connected on the first, and only one on the second. Often, half of your upstream will be used to upload to the one person on torrent 2, regardless of whether he is uploading or not.
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To be honest, I rather doubt that the average Amish would be able to explain, at a fundamental level, how a mirror reflects light, or how propane burns.
Not that I'm saying anything bad about the Amish; I doubt that the average person on the street, or the average slashdotter understands those either.
But everyone on slashdot seems to think that you should always disagree with experts.
Not true. It's OK to agree with experts who say what you already believe. Bonus points for attributing to an expert something that he didn't actually say.
To use another example, why does iTunes not charge ten times the amount they do for music downloads?
Because they figured out that doing so would not lead to greater profit, of course. Why not call for iTunes to do the same thing? If they offered the songs for $0.25 instead of $1.00, they'd surely get more sales.
In my book, $2-$3 for a half-hour TV episode is at least as reasonable as $1 for a four-minute song. I wish that they had a service to provide downloads of single episodes (rather than buying the full DVD set), but claiming that they should offer the shows for a quarter a pop sounds a lot more like an excuse to pirate the shows rather than a reasonable request.
My understanding is that remote network access to the Mac under OSX is turned off by default, as are most other remote server-like services, such as FTP and telnet.
This is a good step that helps dramatically reduce the chance of a remote exploit, but it does not eliminate it. For instance, a kernel bug could still allow a remote user to gain access, even with no services turned on. (I believe that Linux may have had a couple of these, although I'm not 100% sure on that.) Additionally, a vulnerability in a program used to access the network could allow an attacker to run something on the user's machine. (Witness many of the IE exploits.)
Local to me is when a user can sit down in front of the actual computer and type commands on a keyboard attached to the same..
Many people think that, which is why I said it was confusing. However, regardless of what local is to you, that's not the meaning of the term "local exploit."
That means physical accress to the machine, does it not?
It does not, though I will admit that the "local" / "remote" names are rather confusing. A local exploit is one that is run by a user that has access to the system; that includes somebody who logs into a regular user account via telnet or ssh. A remote exploit is one that is run from outside the system. In this case, what is described is a remote exploit to get user-level access, followed by a local root exploit to get root access. Both can be done via the network.
Synchronized smooth resizing so there's no disjunct between window borders moving and the contents redrawing (you should see the demos of this in luminocity... it really makes a difference in how real the interface feels, just as double-buffering did for stuff moving)
A shared path between on-screen display and printing (using Cairo's PDF/PS backends)
Alpha transparency in applications whenever and wherever the urge strikes us
A couple things that may lead to greater usability:
Toolkit themes that draw with layer blending effects, delightful bezier curves, and irritating alpha gradients
Live window thumbnails
And lots of rather pointless fancy eye candy:
Indiana Jones buttons that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them
Hundreds of spinning soft snowflakes floating over your screen.... without messing up nautilus
A photograph of a field of long dry savanna grass as your desktop background... where the grass is gently swooshed around by a breeze created by moving your mouse across the background
Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations
Vector icons with very occasional super subtle animations rendered in realtime...a tiny fly which buzzes around the trash every several minutes, etc... think mood animations as in Riven (which as a total random aside is still a shockingly beautiful and atmospheric game years after it came out, postage stamp sized multimedia videos notwithstanding)
Workspace switching effects so lavish they make Keynote jealous
Brush stroke / Sumi-e, tiger striped, and other dynamically rendered themes where every button, every line looks a little different (need to post shots / explanation of this stuff, but another day)
Progress bars made with tendrils of curves that smoothly twist and squirm like a bucket of snakes as the bar grows
Text transformed and twisted beyond recognition in a manner both unseemly and cruel
A 10% opaque giant floating head of tigert overlayed above all the windows and the desktop.
Now, these fancy effects are certainly kind of cool, and may look nice. (Though I can guarantee that when they're all in, I'll probably still be using Blackbox.) However, is that really all that the future holds? More special effects, without any substantial improvements in usability?
The web forum features I had in mind were the ability to delete posts, memberships, restrict member privileges viewing or posting or both, moderation and similar. These features are useful things like paid tech support, closed communities, educational uses etc.
You could always run a private NNTP server, which allows you to have most of these features. And then you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
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If you're earning well above the average for CS majors at your school, shouldn't that be an indication that it's not easy to get a well-paying job in the field any more? Otherwise, I'd expect the rest of them to have jobs like yours as well.
Well, maybe he was modded that way because that's exactly the same post that gets posted a dozen times anything vaguely related to censorship comes up. Or because, in his rush to get the easy karma, his post really has very little to do with the discussion. Of course, if I felt the need to moderate it down, at least I'd have the guts to mark it redundant or offtopic -- but a downmod is hardly unwarranted.
That's because Bill doesn't know what he's talking about -- Overrated and Underrated do not show up in metamod, and thus are a favorite choice for abusive moderators. The problems with this scheme have been explained to the Powers that Be, repeatedly, ever since the current metamoderation scheme was implemented. However, as with most things, Taco apparently either doesn't care or happens to like the ability to moderate without accountability.
Not saying that's neccessarily what happened here, but that would be my first guess given the situation you described. If you're really interested, you could contact the company that has the legitimate rights to distribute the show in the US, and ask whether the DVD you bought was legit or not.
I find it amazing that, even three years after its death, Adequacy still manages to get people to bite. That site was brilliant.
There's nothing inherent in being poor that forces you to write bad checks. If you can't tell when one number is bigger than another, then you shouldn't have a checking account.
Blackbox is an existing window manager -- it's been around longer than most of the ones that the kids drool over every time a screenshot gets posted. And this "bogus niche" seems to be rather large -- not only do many people use it on their desktop, but I've seen it being used in commercial settings on several occasions. How about you do something productive with your time, rather than complaining when somebody decides to devote their energy into something besides the newest Windows / OSX clone window manager?
The "legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion" is a "for instance." It doesn't say that the comments must be in the same thread or discussion in order to be redundant; that's just an example.
You end up shutting down the zombied PCs. I don't see how that's a bad thing.
Or maybe, just maybe, you need to improve your reading comprehension?
I'm not going to argue one way or another on what the standard should be, but the fact of the matter is that we just have to do our best to prevent innocent people from being punished, while accepting the fact that it will sometimes happen.
If you have too many people with low upload rates, then the people who aren't restricting their uploads won't end up connected to each other -- and so will frequently end up uploading significantly more than they eventually download. That's one likely explanation for the parent poster's experience of uploading much more than he downloaded.
One other thing that can affect this is that most of the popular clients -- the last time I looked at them, anyway -- normally try to take as much bandwidth as they can for each torrent that you are uploading/downloading. Imagine that you are on two torrents, one popular and one unpopular. A bunch of people are connected on the first, and only one on the second. Often, half of your upstream will be used to upload to the one person on torrent 2, regardless of whether he is uploading or not.
Not that I'm saying anything bad about the Amish; I doubt that the average person on the street, or the average slashdotter understands those either.
In my book, $2-$3 for a half-hour TV episode is at least as reasonable as $1 for a four-minute song. I wish that they had a service to provide downloads of single episodes (rather than buying the full DVD set), but claiming that they should offer the shows for a quarter a pop sounds a lot more like an excuse to pirate the shows rather than a reasonable request.
It does not, though I will admit that the "local" / "remote" names are rather confusing. A local exploit is one that is run by a user that has access to the system; that includes somebody who logs into a regular user account via telnet or ssh. A remote exploit is one that is run from outside the system. In this case, what is described is a remote exploit to get user-level access, followed by a local root exploit to get root access. Both can be done via the network.
A few things that sound useful, like:
- Hardware accelerated PDF viewers
- Synchronized smooth resizing so there's no disjunct between window borders moving and the contents redrawing (you should see the demos of this in luminocity... it really makes a difference in how real the interface feels, just as double-buffering did for stuff moving)
- A shared path between on-screen display and printing (using Cairo's PDF/PS backends)
- Alpha transparency in applications whenever and wherever the urge strikes us
A couple things that may lead to greater usability:- Toolkit themes that draw with layer blending effects, delightful bezier curves, and irritating alpha gradients
- Live window thumbnails
And lots of rather pointless fancy eye candy:- Indiana Jones buttons that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them
- Hundreds of spinning soft snowflakes floating over your screen.... without messing up nautilus
- A photograph of a field of long dry savanna grass as your desktop background... where the grass is gently swooshed around by a breeze created by moving your mouse across the background
- Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations
- Vector icons with very occasional super subtle animations rendered in realtime...a tiny fly which buzzes around the trash every several minutes, etc... think mood animations as in Riven (which as a total random aside is still a shockingly beautiful and atmospheric game years after it came out, postage stamp sized multimedia videos notwithstanding)
- Workspace switching effects so lavish they make Keynote jealous
- Brush stroke / Sumi-e, tiger striped, and other dynamically rendered themes where every button, every line looks a little different (need to post shots / explanation of this stuff, but another day)
- Progress bars made with tendrils of curves that smoothly twist and squirm like a bucket of snakes as the bar grows
- Text transformed and twisted beyond recognition in a manner both unseemly and cruel
- A 10% opaque giant floating head of tigert overlayed above all the windows and the desktop.
Now, these fancy effects are certainly kind of cool, and may look nice. (Though I can guarantee that when they're all in, I'll probably still be using Blackbox.) However, is that really all that the future holds? More special effects, without any substantial improvements in usability?