This had me worried for about 5 seconds (I had played this cd on my work PC), before I realised it was the standard EMI crap.
If you live in australia you would be extremely used to this. EMI Aus have been using it for a year or two now. Albumns that I can think of off the top of my head are Something for Kate - The Official Fiction, APC - 13th Step, Living End - Modern Artilery, there is heaps more that I have bought with this stuff, and I have just ignored it each time.
It launches some crappy player from the cd when installed, but you can just close that and then load the cd normally in something else (winamp, etc). The cd still rips fine (I have it on my iRiver now).
This is no reflection on the band, just more of a reason why we should hate the record companies.
Thats not bad, though I have yet to see at atm with a decent sound card.
We have quakeII running on an NCR atm here in the office... that gets some odd looks when people walk into the office, and see gibs flying everywhere. We have laughed at the idea of using it for the idle loop screens (adverts normally), but haven't found a customer who thinks its a good idea.
Having spent way to much time working on Diebolds earlier atm products (yes I still write software for the Diebold 912 protocol), I am scared at anything they put out. Personally, i will keep voting with a paper and pencil.
They can only add hardware in front of the card reader. So they need the camera to read the PIN as it is typed in, they cannot modify the hardware/software inside of the atm.
Personally I would be more worried about the fact that a large number of ATMs in the world still use single DES.
While I do agree that working in a open office/shared room is good for creativity and problem solving it sucks for doing real work.
I am in a very open plan office, there is 14 of us in one room (the entire australian office), so we can all hear when someone is having problems and offer adivce. However when it comes down to actually writing some code, following some debug, or god forbid writing docs, its is a real PITA when the people behind you are having a NURF fight.
Wearing headphones and listening to music works some of the time, but it does not help when random flying objects hit you in the back of he head.
I do agree with the statement that we are here to work, not to socialise, however we have to vent in this manner or else we would probably go insane.
I would have thought this was obvious. If you worried about what your children are going to get up to on the net, don't let them do it in the privacy of their own rooms...
When I was younger, the PC was kept in the family room, so my folks could see what I was doing at all times. This also promoted communication, I was around people more so I talked to them. You stick the PC in the kids room, how often do you think they will come out to talk to you ?
I can honestly say, that no child of mine, under the age of 16 would ever have a PC in their room.
That being said, i do believe that once your children reach a certain age (around 15/16/17 depends on the child and the maturity they show). Then you need to start letting them live their own lives and make decisions/mistakes for themselves.
As other people have said you need to be open with your children about sexuality, drugs and alcohol, but again how open you are depends on how mature you child is.
Guiding your children is alot easier than imposing a lot of rules, because rules were always meant to be broken, and a child, no matter how 'good' they are will always push things to see what happens when they break.
This is one of the reasons I LOVE living in Australia. Down here companies MUST accrue annual leave. I don't feel like taking all of my mine one year it rolls over to the next. This is fantastic, because at the start I had no reason to take leave, so I just built it up until I wanted to use it.
That combined with days'in'lue for time I'm on site means I gain holidays very quicky.
Its not too bad, its not too good either.
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The company I am working for at the moment does SubHost systems and ATM software for large banks mostly in the third world market.
At the moment we have two ATM products. The first runs on OS2 systems. The code is a pig, its impossible to understand, but it works. The systems are mostly stable, and if they do go down, they just reboot and reload. (and they do go down often, we install systems in the middle of fricken nowhere, so power reliability is a joke. hell even comms is a problem when people dig up the cables to steal the copper).
We also have a win32 product that we are just starting to roll out in a big way. Biggest problem... scandisk if the machine isn't shutdown properly. Loading an atm is a PITA most of the time, but having to wait for scandisk is a real problem.
Security, not really an issue. The atms themselves are pretty stupid, they don't do much with out the subhosts say so (unless they are running offline, which only a few banks allow in our market). And getting the money out of the safe has nothing to do with the software.
Reliabilty is the biggest problem IMHO. But that said, I have an interest in staying with OS2, I would like to keep my job:-)
I have been hearing about this for most of the day.
I had a chuckle to myself when I heard Alston's response the suggestion that these measures would have no effect because most of the spam comes from overseas. He beleives that by implementing these strong arm policies we are setting an example to the international community, and slowly other countries will follow in suit.
Countries that are spam-friendly are not going to care what the hell australia does. So we are getting these insane policies for no real reason.
I seem to remember that at one point the recording industry tried to put a levy on blank tapes as well, because they could be used as a copying media. IIRC this attempt was knocked down by the Supreme Court, hopefully this will go the same way.
What really amazes me however is the consumers are told that the reason we have such high prices for cd's is because of the illegal copying of cd's and costs need to be recouped some how. So aren't we getting hit twice for the same thing ?
Ummm... are we putting 2 and 2 together to get 5 here ??? Slashdot was posting movie reviews before andover.net... let alone before VA. Granted this review has questionable geek content (from my point of view), but I don't mind a little bit of varied content, just makes things a little bit more interesting. If you don't want movie reviews, don't read them... no one forces you to read every article posted.
Not being an expert in all this political BS and double talk i see it as ASIO now has the power to get a warrant that allows them to access a computer remotely and get information...
who says they will even be able to get into the named system as no where does it say that you are required to give them access? and also if they can get a search warrant to access a system remotely surely they can get a warrant to access the house or building that the system is located in then just seize the system?
I still think it's scary that people this well umm... stupid (if your in Oz watch parlement question time, always good for a laugh) are in control of regulating the IT future in my country...
Apart from the obvious lies told by Family PC (i am assuming they are lying, unless they have some really cool time travel equipment... hey it IS a possibility). And doesn't this just convey so many values about morality, it's okay to lie kiddies, but for the love of all things sacred don't play any game that could be concidered VIOLENT.
What is wrong with a girl who is about 17 (again I assume because I can find no reference to her exact age) buying a game that is 17+. Isn't this the same as a couple of 17 yr old guys sneaking into an R18+ movie? Is it really up to the clerks to ask for ID. ("Hey you with the Quake beta, drop the box and show us some ID.")
If Parents really had a problem with there kids playing violent games they wouldn't let them. I remember getting Wolfenstien 3D and my folks telling me flat out, you will not play that game. I didn't play the game.
I know, when I was 15/16 I could walk into the video store and get MA/R movies without any hassle. Clerks just don't care, if the parents have a problem let them deal with it, it is not down the stores to stop people buying.
Could it just be that Geeks don't have good social skills simply becasue they don't go out into public much?
The only time I venture out into the real world is to go to uni or when I realise that eating might actualy be good for me. If for some other reason I go out into the world (to buy books, hardware, etc.) I am ill at ease with those around me, make a fool of myself at the counter and knock over a display or two.
But I am damned if I am autistic. I have good co-ordination, (most geeks do to be able to play quake well), the reason I knock things over is that I am nervious and trying to get out of wherever I am as fast as possible. My rhythm may not be the best in the world but most of the time I can keep in time with the music and I have great balance.
I just think that this article/study/book is trying to create a 'sexy' solution for a question that has a very obvious answer. Granted SOME geeks may have mild autism, just as some non-geeks have it to.
Yes Java is a good language, but it does not teach programing, it teaches coding. I am CS student and have had to learn java for my courses. I had done some (not much) programming before starting my degree and I found at the end of the semester my programming skills had declined. I could code great applications however.
Java is a language where everything is done for you, you don't have to think about what your doing so you don't learn the fundamentals of programing.
I beleive if they really want to teah these kids programming, teach them pseduocode first, then teach them a language.
12:00am June 3rd (i'm in Oz) the movie starts, I can see it and be home in time to leave for uni. After my lectures have finished i can go and see it again.
I'm a uni student now so i'm writing this opinion with the blessing of 20/20 hindsight, but I would Like to start by saying I HATED HIGH SCHOOL.
Going to high school in a small Australian town was pure hell, i was the small weedy kid with glasses who went to a different Primary School and who knew no-one becasue of this i was an outcast from day one. I was picked on, beaten up and pud down just becasue I was different. I enjoyed learning, i prefered mental tasks to physical, sitting in front of a computer was fun for me, getting beaten up on a football field wasn't.
From this I learnt to hate, just like the kids in Colorado, i hated SOME of the people I went to school with becasue they treated me differently. I however like 'Jay in the Southeast' could never kill anyone or condone the killing of anyone.
The One thing that high school did give me was a thick skin, so i am a better person for having to live through that hell.
I think and I know this is going to sound Corney, but the media has a lot to answer for.. they are the ones who have perpetuated the idea that all quake loving geeks must at heart be a Killer, when in fact it is the exact opposite./me stands down from his soap-box and runs to avoid the tomatoes..
It get's released on a thursday out here in Oz (June 3rd). That has to be the one day of the week I have a full day of classes:-(. I skipped High School to see the X-Files when it came out but now i'm thinking it's not worth the trouble, I'll just see it at night when I get home. Just so long as I see it on the first day, dosn't matter what time of day:-)
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While I was doing some postgrad, one of the guys I shared an office with brought his dog in every day.
:-)
I am not a dog person, but I soon learnt to deal with it. Great stress release playing catch with a dog.
Also a fantastic way to keep unwanted students out of your office
This had me worried for about 5 seconds (I had played this cd on my work PC), before I realised it was the standard EMI crap.
If you live in australia you would be extremely used to this. EMI Aus have been using it for a year or two now. Albumns that I can think of off the top of my head are Something for Kate - The Official Fiction, APC - 13th Step, Living End - Modern Artilery, there is heaps more that I have bought with this stuff, and I have just ignored it each time.
It launches some crappy player from the cd when installed, but you can just close that and then load the cd normally in something else (winamp, etc). The cd still rips fine (I have it on my iRiver now).
This is no reflection on the band, just more of a reason why we should hate the record companies.
Thats not bad, though I have yet to see at atm with a decent sound card.
We have quakeII running on an NCR atm here in the office... that gets some odd looks when people walk into the office, and see gibs flying everywhere. We have laughed at the idea of using it for the idle loop screens (adverts normally), but haven't found a customer who thinks its a good idea.
Having spent way to much time working on Diebolds earlier atm products (yes I still write software for the Diebold 912 protocol), I am scared at anything they put out. Personally, i will keep voting with a paper and pencil.
The scammers don't have full access to the atm...
They can only add hardware in front of the card reader. So they need the camera to read the PIN as it is typed in, they cannot modify the hardware/software inside of the atm.
Personally I would be more worried about the fact that a large number of ATMs in the world still use single DES.
While I do agree that working in a open office/shared room is good for creativity and problem solving it sucks for doing real work.
I am in a very open plan office, there is 14 of us in one room (the entire australian office), so we can all hear when someone is having problems and offer adivce. However when it comes down to actually writing some code, following some debug, or god forbid writing docs, its is a real PITA when the people behind you are having a NURF fight.
Wearing headphones and listening to music works some of the time, but it does not help when random flying objects hit you in the back of he head.
I do agree with the statement that we are here to work, not to socialise, however we have to vent in this manner or else we would probably go insane.
I would have thought this was obvious. If you worried about what your children are going to get up to on the net, don't let them do it in the privacy of their own rooms...
When I was younger, the PC was kept in the family room, so my folks could see what I was doing at all times. This also promoted communication, I was around people more so I talked to them. You stick the PC in the kids room, how often do you think they will come out to talk to you ?
I can honestly say, that no child of mine, under the age of 16 would ever have a PC in their room.
That being said, i do believe that once your children reach a certain age (around 15/16/17 depends on the child and the maturity they show). Then you need to start letting them live their own lives and make decisions/mistakes for themselves.
As other people have said you need to be open with your children about sexuality, drugs and alcohol, but again how open you are depends on how mature you child is.
Guiding your children is alot easier than imposing a lot of rules, because rules were always meant to be broken, and a child, no matter how 'good' they are will always push things to see what happens when they break.
This is one of the reasons I LOVE living in Australia. Down here companies MUST accrue annual leave. I don't feel like taking all of my mine one year it rolls over to the next. This is fantastic, because at the start I had no reason to take leave, so I just built it up until I wanted to use it.
That combined with days'in'lue for time I'm on site means I gain holidays very quicky.
The company I am working for at the moment does SubHost systems and ATM software for large banks mostly in the third world market.
:-)
At the moment we have two ATM products. The first runs on OS2 systems. The code is a pig, its impossible to understand, but it works. The systems are mostly stable, and if they do go down, they just reboot and reload. (and they do go down often, we install systems in the middle of fricken nowhere, so power reliability is a joke. hell even comms is a problem when people dig up the cables to steal the copper).
We also have a win32 product that we are just starting to roll out in a big way. Biggest problem... scandisk if the machine isn't shutdown properly. Loading an atm is a PITA most of the time, but having to wait for scandisk is a real problem.
Security, not really an issue. The atms themselves are pretty stupid, they don't do much with out the subhosts say so (unless they are running offline, which only a few banks allow in our market). And getting the money out of the safe has nothing to do with the software.
Reliabilty is the biggest problem IMHO. But that said, I have an interest in staying with OS2, I would like to keep my job
I have been hearing about this for most of the day.
I had a chuckle to myself when I heard Alston's response the suggestion that these measures would have no effect because most of the spam comes from overseas. He beleives that by implementing these strong arm policies we are setting an example to the international community, and slowly other countries will follow in suit.
Countries that are spam-friendly are not going to care what the hell australia does. So we are getting these insane policies for no real reason.
I seem to remember that at one point the recording industry tried to put a levy on blank tapes as well, because they could be used as a copying media. IIRC this attempt was knocked down by the Supreme Court, hopefully this will go the same way.
What really amazes me however is the consumers are told that the reason we have such high prices for cd's is because of the illegal copying of cd's and costs need to be recouped some how. So aren't we getting hit twice for the same thing ?
Considering Linux Conf.au kicked off today, maby the Labour Council is just looking to give geeks something to do between presentations ?
Seriously though, this is just a cheap publicity stunt for the Labour Council and should be treated as such.
Ummm... are we putting 2 and 2 together to get 5 here ??? Slashdot was posting movie reviews before andover.net... let alone before VA. Granted this review has questionable geek content (from my point of view), but I don't mind a little bit of varied content, just makes things a little bit more interesting. If you don't want movie reviews, don't read them... no one forces you to read every article posted.
Not being an expert in all this political BS and double talk i see it as ASIO now has the power to get a warrant that allows them to access a computer remotely and get information...
who says they will even be able to get into the named system as no where does it say that you are required to give them access? and also if they can get a search warrant to access a system remotely surely they can get a warrant to access the house or building that the system is located in then just seize the system?
I still think it's scary that people this well umm... stupid (if your in Oz watch parlement question time, always good for a laugh) are in control of regulating the IT future in my country...
Apart from the obvious lies told by Family PC (i am assuming they are lying, unless they have some really cool time travel equipment... hey it IS a possibility). And doesn't this just convey so many values about morality, it's okay to lie kiddies, but for the love of all things sacred don't play any game that could be concidered VIOLENT.
What is wrong with a girl who is about 17 (again I assume because I can find no reference to her exact age) buying a game that is 17+. Isn't this the same as a couple of 17 yr old guys sneaking into an R18+ movie? Is it really up to the clerks to ask for ID. ("Hey you with the Quake beta, drop the box and show us some ID.")
If Parents really had a problem with there kids playing violent games they wouldn't let them. I remember getting Wolfenstien 3D and my folks telling me flat out, you will not play that game. I didn't play the game.
I know, when I was 15/16 I could walk into the video store and get MA/R movies without any hassle. Clerks just don't care, if the parents have a problem let them deal with it, it is not down the stores to stop people buying.
Could it just be that Geeks don't have good social skills simply becasue they don't go out into public much?
The only time I venture out into the real world is to go to uni or when I realise that eating might actualy be good for me. If for some other reason I go out into the world (to buy books, hardware, etc.) I am ill at ease with those around me, make a fool of myself at the counter and knock over a display or two.
But I am damned if I am autistic. I have good co-ordination, (most geeks do to be able to play quake well), the reason I knock things over is that I am nervious and trying to get out of wherever I am as fast as possible. My rhythm may not be the best in the world but most of the time I can keep in time with the music and I have great balance.
I just think that this article/study/book is trying to create a 'sexy' solution for a question that has a very obvious answer. Granted SOME geeks may have mild autism, just as some non-geeks have it to.
Yes Java is a good language, but it does not teach programing, it teaches coding. I am CS student and have had to learn java for my courses. I had done some (not much) programming before starting my degree and I found at the end of the semester my programming skills had declined. I could code great applications however.
Java is a language where everything is done for you, you don't have to think about what your doing so you don't learn the fundamentals of programing.
I beleive if they really want to teah these kids programming, teach them pseduocode first, then teach them a language.
There are already some nice guides to geek (girls/guys) out there... Guide to Geek Guys and... Guide to Geek Girls
I just got home from buying my tickets...
12:00am June 3rd (i'm in Oz) the movie starts, I can see it and be home in time to leave for uni. After my lectures have finished i can go and see it again.
Sleep??? whats that?
I'm a uni student now so i'm writing this opinion with the blessing of 20/20 hindsight, but I would Like to start by saying I HATED HIGH SCHOOL.
/me stands down from his soap-box and runs to avoid the tomatoes..
Going to high school in a small Australian town was pure hell, i was the small weedy kid with glasses who went to a different Primary School and who knew no-one becasue of this i was an outcast from day one. I was picked on, beaten up and pud down just becasue I was different. I enjoyed learning, i prefered mental tasks to physical, sitting in front of a computer was fun for me, getting beaten up on a football field wasn't.
From this I learnt to hate, just like the kids in Colorado, i hated SOME of the people I went to school with becasue they treated me differently. I however like 'Jay in the Southeast' could never kill anyone or condone the killing of anyone.
The One thing that high school did give me was a thick skin, so i am a better person for having to live through that hell.
I think and I know this is going to sound Corney, but the media has a lot to answer for.. they are the ones who have perpetuated the idea that all quake loving geeks must at heart be a Killer, when in fact it is the exact opposite.
It get's released on a thursday out here in Oz (June 3rd). That has to be the one day of the week I have a full day of classes :-(. I skipped High School to see the X-Files when it came out but now i'm thinking it's not worth the trouble, I'll just see it at night when I get home. Just so long as I see it on the first day, dosn't matter what time of day :-)