You mean year of the criminal scum bag, right? Its time our community quit treating some of these guys like heros and freedom fighters - they're vandals, crooks, and theives, and need to be treated as such. There are no "grey hats" - you're either a white hat or a black hat, and you can't be both.
I went to a medium sized University in the mid-west, and I had a couple of freinds who had graduated early from high school. One was 16 and didn't have a drivers license yet. He did fine academically (actually outstanding), but faced some social challenges. He would have likely had a better college experience if he'd come to college a couple of years later - why not have a more robust series of high-school options so that you can keep all students gainfully learning throughout the process? Strong magnet school programs can mitigate this - when I lived in Louisiana I attended an awesome magnet school in 9th grade, but then we moved back to Ohio and my school was good, but not necessarily challenging.
I think we would be better served by having our best and brightest attend primary and secondary school through the full 12 years, followed by a 4 year college program - get them better educated in the same amount of time vs the same education faster . . .
Their is much of your education at college that is more that learning the details being instructed - time, maturity and socialization are important.
Before you go off, yes, I know some people are different, and yes, I know several people made it big after dropping out of college - I'm sharing with you observations based on being 41, working in the military and the civilian sector with many of the best and the brightest / the cream of the crop.
Feel free to flame, but come talk to me again when you've got some more years in the real world and you may agree more with me than you do today . . .
Umm - the author's likely do, and as a consumer of works produced by people who get compensated for their effort, so do I.
The point isn't about obscurity or not, it's that the person who creates the thing, owns the thing - sorry that's inconvienent for you.
I mean, if I want to "borrow" your car, but it's too difficult to find you, should I just take it? I mean who fucking cares about your rights, I need to get across town and do something productive, so your ownership and control of that car is impeding economic and cultural development if I can't use it to get across town.
Depends, most states are "at will" employment, you can be terminated at any time, for any reason . . .
In the end, it's their company, their data, their risk.
If you want this to be effective, ensure that you communicate the risk - and that they understand it. Also, figure out an easy, non-intrusive way to do this. Laptops are key for most business leaders, and being without it, even overnight can be hard to schedule. Plus they may not want you snoping around it.
What about a USB hard drive attached to the docking station that does background back up? Similar to time machine on a mac?
This is really the point - this is about College Degreed engineers. And no, an associates or even a bachelors from a "technical" college isn't the same. My last employer was constantly hiring degreed programmer for high 40's to 50's and raises came quickly (+10% a year for the first 4 or 5 years). The company was reliably and the benefits were first class. BUT you had to be a problem solver and able to pick up new languages quickly (it was a large consultancy).
Much more importantly - Comp Sci, System Engineering, etc. will be a boom industry for decades - you may not be a code guy for long, you'll end up as a designer, architect, integration analyst, etc. Get a real education, not the tech equivalent of VOED school and you'll be fine.
Note - I know this sounds elitist, but it's reality. Do you want to be a technician or an engineer? There are auto-mechanics and automobile engineers, just make your choice. A real degree at a physical university where you talk to the professors and follow class mates is the best way, if you can pull it off . . .
Actually, that's not communism - it is simply the implementation of a public utility. Nor does it prevent competition - others are still free to compete against a cooperative, or often times, even a publicly operating utility - but it may not be a wise investment depending on how you envision yourself competing . . .
First of all - cost is cost. If you want them to upgrade their networks (agian - the cable companies have spent significant amounts of money in the last 10 years upgrading their networks) - expect to pay more. Remember - these are for profit enterprises, not charity networks. Congestion means that use is outstripping capacity and current pricing is based on current capacity. So you can add capacity at an increased price or you limit use (caps or throttling). There a reason why you can get residential cable with 5M/2M bandwidth for less than $50 / month but pay more than $300/month for a full T1 (1.5M) - its called dedicated bandwidth and service level agreements.
Second - private companies don't have a requirement to protect free speech. In the US, the only thing they need to do is protect their common carrier status. If you don't like the cable companies, pay for a real connection.
They wanted to be treated like blue collar, hourly employees - now they can be paid like them. If you want a salaried, career position and the pay that comes with, get used to working more than 40 hours.
Or you can go out on your own, work 80 hours a week, and possibly not get paid at all.
Quit whining and get back to your oars (ok - this line is a joke, but I'm serious about the rest).
Sorry - you're wrong on this one - noise impacts digital signals as well - the error correcting circuits will try to fix the problem, but no guarantees - issue can range from sparkles to blocks to total drop out - been working and editing digital video for 10 years, trust me on this . . .
Also - good luck finding a $5 HDMI cable - unfortunately, cabling has always been a racket - we won't even talk about 1 meter ultra scsi cables, will we:-)
It really does become about money on ledger sheets, and little about the workforce and impact on people just trying to make a living. Meanwhile CEOs and other execs reap massive rewards, usually with little relationship to how well their company does because of these decisions.
Do you really beleive that - executive compensation is based on what the Board of Directors believes the executive will do for them - the share holders; and boards have sacked more than one CEO for under performing. Their rewards are directly related to the value they bring the shareholder (and hence the company). I love technologists as much as anyone else - but if you are a commodity worker - whether highly skilled or not - than you are a commodity worker, and you add incremental value to organization.
I get tired of hearing about "high" executive compensation, or high athlete / actor compensation . . . compensation is almost always about the value (in the case of a new hire - the expected value) brought to organization. People with rare, but high demand skills / talents will always be worth significantly more . . .
Are you a mechanic or an engineer - do you simply plan on working 8-5, with 30 minutes for lunch and 2 15 minutes breaks - or do you see yourself as a professional with a career. If you're a professional with a career (where I see myself) then find a new job if you boss is an unreasonable jerk (note- we're at essentially full employment - if there aren't jobs where you live, then move). If you see yourself as a mechanic, looking for an 8-5 for 30 years - you might want to wake up, that dream died in the 70s. Trust me, I'm originally from northern Ohio - I've seen the corpse. Time to move on . . .
Maybe, if you're storing in ascii or something widely used like jpeg, you're buying yourself significant time, but it can be very difficult to retrieve old files in other, less popular format, even worse if they're proprietary. Think of all the different spreadsheet programs or database programs that have existed over the years . . . jpeg, aiff, standards based a/v compression, those might be safe, but is someone using a peice of shareware to manage this information that is going to be around in 10 years?
but can you still open them? what happens when a ubiquitious file format falls into disuse? how long until you can no longer readily access the content because there is nothing that reads the file type?
I realize I should do more research, but I don't have the time . . . but I gaurantee you that paper production uses monstrous amount of water . . . my university had a paper sciences program and several of my friends were in it, I would wager that it rival pc constuction processes for pure volume of water used . . .
The big deal is that as a news reporter, to "create" scenes is to report accurately. No different than if you create composite persons in an article based on several people. It can be done, but it should be clearly pointed out.
Even in the case of restaging the foto for Mt Suribache (Marines raising a flag in WWII) the point is that the event in the foto happened as portrayed, even if only during the restaging. The specific event protrayed in the photoshopped image never really happened.
I know this sounds like a stretch, but as a History major married to a Broadcast Journalism major, let me assure this is a big deal on several fronts . . .
He's not really building clones . . . he's simply repacking Macs . . . if he takes a Biege G3 ZIF motherboard and puts it in a box with no memory, hard drive or processor . . . what's he really doing?
Clones implies different (compatible) hardware, the original Mac clones were great becuase they actually pushed apple in areas they probably wouldn't have moved too (at least under the leadership at the time).
This guy just sounds like someone destined to go out of business.
means they have to have an account on the machine . . . usually (always??)local exploits can still be executed via some sort of remote shell (ssh, telnet, rsh, etc)
IANAL, but my understanding of trademark law is: <ul> <li>you can't trademark normal words (hence they made up google <li>you have to protect you trademark or you lose it (Kleenex brand facial tissue, not a kleenex) <li>the only real source of revenue available to a company like google is eyeballs and brand, they HAVE TO PROTECT IT OR THEY LOSE IT </ul>
200 GB drives are less $400 (link on Tom's hardware site) in a year they will probably be less than $200, and in three years they will be obsolete . . . it's not that they will probably fail any faster, it's a question of whether you should warranty a product beyond it's reasonably replacable life . . . most electronics (dvds, vcrs, cd players, etc) come with a 90 day warranty anymore . . .
and we're different from Linux geeks how????
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As a long time mac advocate, forced windows user and linux sysadmin . . . explain to me how mac advocates are significantly different than linux geeks who insist that Linux is the one true un*x, the one to rule them all . . .
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I don't think that word means what you think it means!
You mean year of the criminal scum bag, right? Its time our community quit treating some of these guys like heros and freedom fighters - they're vandals, crooks, and theives, and need to be treated as such. There are no "grey hats" - you're either a white hat or a black hat, and you can't be both.
I went to a medium sized University in the mid-west, and I had a couple of freinds who had graduated early from high school. One was 16 and didn't have a drivers license yet. He did fine academically (actually outstanding), but faced some social challenges. He would have likely had a better college experience if he'd come to college a couple of years later - why not have a more robust series of high-school options so that you can keep all students gainfully learning throughout the process? Strong magnet school programs can mitigate this - when I lived in Louisiana I attended an awesome magnet school in 9th grade, but then we moved back to Ohio and my school was good, but not necessarily challenging.
I think we would be better served by having our best and brightest attend primary and secondary school through the full 12 years, followed by a 4 year college program - get them better educated in the same amount of time vs the same education faster . . .
Their is much of your education at college that is more that learning the details being instructed - time, maturity and socialization are important.
Before you go off, yes, I know some people are different, and yes, I know several people made it big after dropping out of college - I'm sharing with you observations based on being 41, working in the military and the civilian sector with many of the best and the brightest / the cream of the crop.
Feel free to flame, but come talk to me again when you've got some more years in the real world and you may agree more with me than you do today . . .
Umm - the author's likely do, and as a consumer of works produced by people who get compensated for their effort, so do I.
The point isn't about obscurity or not, it's that the person who creates the thing, owns the thing - sorry that's inconvienent for you.
I mean, if I want to "borrow" your car, but it's too difficult to find you, should I just take it? I mean who fucking cares about your rights, I need to get across town and do something productive, so your ownership and control of that car is impeding economic and cultural development if I can't use it to get across town.
Make sense comrade?
Depends, most states are "at will" employment, you can be terminated at any time, for any reason . . .
In the end, it's their company, their data, their risk.
If you want this to be effective, ensure that you communicate the risk - and that they understand it. Also, figure out an easy, non-intrusive way to do this. Laptops are key for most business leaders, and being without it, even overnight can be hard to schedule. Plus they may not want you snoping around it.
What about a USB hard drive attached to the docking station that does background back up? Similar to time machine on a mac?
This is really the point - this is about College Degreed engineers. And no, an associates or even a bachelors from a "technical" college isn't the same. My last employer was constantly hiring degreed programmer for high 40's to 50's and raises came quickly (+10% a year for the first 4 or 5 years). The company was reliably and the benefits were first class. BUT you had to be a problem solver and able to pick up new languages quickly (it was a large consultancy).
Much more importantly - Comp Sci, System Engineering, etc. will be a boom industry for decades - you may not be a code guy for long, you'll end up as a designer, architect, integration analyst, etc. Get a real education, not the tech equivalent of VOED school and you'll be fine.
Note - I know this sounds elitist, but it's reality. Do you want to be a technician or an engineer? There are auto-mechanics and automobile engineers, just make your choice. A real degree at a physical university where you talk to the professors and follow class mates is the best way, if you can pull it off . . .
Actually, that's not communism - it is simply the implementation of a public utility. Nor does it prevent competition - others are still free to compete against a cooperative, or often times, even a publicly operating utility - but it may not be a wise investment depending on how you envision yourself competing . . .
First of all - cost is cost. If you want them to upgrade their networks (agian - the cable companies have spent significant amounts of money in the last 10 years upgrading their networks) - expect to pay more. Remember - these are for profit enterprises, not charity networks. Congestion means that use is outstripping capacity and current pricing is based on current capacity. So you can add capacity at an increased price or you limit use (caps or throttling). There a reason why you can get residential cable with 5M/2M bandwidth for less than $50 / month but pay more than $300/month for a full T1 (1.5M) - its called dedicated bandwidth and service level agreements.
Second - private companies don't have a requirement to protect free speech. In the US, the only thing they need to do is protect their common carrier status. If you don't like the cable companies, pay for a real connection.
They wanted to be treated like blue collar, hourly employees - now they can be paid like them. If you want a salaried, career position and the pay that comes with, get used to working more than 40 hours.
Or you can go out on your own, work 80 hours a week, and possibly not get paid at all.
Quit whining and get back to your oars (ok - this line is a joke, but I'm serious about the rest).
use a mac and set up a mobile account - it handles everything neatly for you . . .
Yes, I do - I'm with the ministry of silly walks!
Sorry - you're wrong on this one - noise impacts digital signals as well - the error correcting circuits will try to fix the problem, but no guarantees - issue can range from sparkles to blocks to total drop out - been working and editing digital video for 10 years, trust me on this . . .
:-)
Also - good luck finding a $5 HDMI cable - unfortunately, cabling has always been a racket - we won't even talk about 1 meter ultra scsi cables, will we
Do you really beleive that - executive compensation is based on what the Board of Directors believes the executive will do for them - the share holders; and boards have sacked more than one CEO for under performing. Their rewards are directly related to the value they bring the shareholder (and hence the company). I love technologists as much as anyone else - but if you are a commodity worker - whether highly skilled or not - than you are a commodity worker, and you add incremental value to organization.
I get tired of hearing about "high" executive compensation, or high athlete / actor compensation . . . compensation is almost always about the value (in the case of a new hire - the expected value) brought to organization. People with rare, but high demand skills / talents will always be worth significantly more . . .
Are you a mechanic or an engineer - do you simply plan on working 8-5, with 30 minutes for lunch and 2 15 minutes breaks - or do you see yourself as a professional with a career. If you're a professional with a career (where I see myself) then find a new job if you boss is an unreasonable jerk (note- we're at essentially full employment - if there aren't jobs where you live, then move). If you see yourself as a mechanic, looking for an 8-5 for 30 years - you might want to wake up, that dream died in the 70s. Trust me, I'm originally from northern Ohio - I've seen the corpse. Time to move on . . .
Maybe, if you're storing in ascii or something widely used like jpeg, you're buying yourself significant time, but it can be very difficult to retrieve old files in other, less popular format, even worse if they're proprietary. Think of all the different spreadsheet programs or database programs that have existed over the years . . . jpeg, aiff, standards based a/v compression, those might be safe, but is someone using a peice of shareware to manage this information that is going to be around in 10 years?
but can you still open them? what happens when a ubiquitious file format falls into disuse? how long until you can no longer readily access the content because there is nothing that reads the file type?
"What is the average velocity of a data-laden pigeon . . ."
I realize I should do more research, but I don't have the time . . . but I gaurantee you that paper production uses monstrous amount of water . . . my university had a paper sciences program and several of my friends were in it, I would wager that it rival pc constuction processes for pure volume of water used . . .
The big deal is that as a news reporter, to "create" scenes is to report accurately. No different than if you create composite persons in an article based on several people. It can be done, but it should be clearly pointed out.
Even in the case of restaging the foto for Mt Suribache (Marines raising a flag in WWII) the point is that the event in the foto happened as portrayed, even if only during the restaging. The specific event protrayed in the photoshopped image never really happened.
I know this sounds like a stretch, but as a History major married to a Broadcast Journalism major, let me assure this is a big deal on several fronts . . .
He's not really building clones . . . he's simply repacking Macs . . . if he takes a Biege G3 ZIF motherboard and puts it in a box with no memory, hard drive or processor . . . what's he really doing?
Clones implies different (compatible) hardware, the original Mac clones were great becuase they actually pushed apple in areas they probably wouldn't have moved too (at least under the leadership at the time).
This guy just sounds like someone destined to go out of business.
means they have to have an account on the machine . . . usually (always??)local exploits can still be executed via some sort of remote shell (ssh, telnet, rsh, etc)
IANAL, but my understanding of trademark law is:
<ul>
<li>you can't trademark normal words (hence they made up google
<li>you have to protect you trademark or you lose it (Kleenex brand facial tissue, not a kleenex)
<li>the only real source of revenue available to a company like google is eyeballs and brand, they HAVE TO PROTECT IT OR THEY LOSE IT
</ul>
200 GB drives are less $400 (link on Tom's hardware site) in a year they will probably be less than $200, and in three years they will be obsolete . . . it's not that they will probably fail any faster, it's a question of whether you should warranty a product beyond it's reasonably replacable life . . . most electronics (dvds, vcrs, cd players, etc) come with a 90 day warranty anymore . . .
As a long time mac advocate, forced windows user and linux sysadmin . . . explain to me how mac advocates are significantly different than linux geeks who insist that Linux is the one true un*x, the one to rule them all . . .
do you really think you will do better the second time :)