I wonder if this'd be something sociologists would like to watch...?
Though, you are seeing only those people entering the network who are A. Thought of as at least potentially interested in joining. B. Wouldn't think less of you for asking.
I would like to know what sociologists think of these kinds of groups, and what purpose they serve.
Especially in that "exclusive" here just doesn't mean much. Certainly this isn't about keeping people out, more a mechanism to get people to want to be in. There isn't any meaningful criteria to be met in order to get in.
The phrase "I belong to Orkut." is about the same as... I'm a nerdy computer geek in search of validation.
While exclusivity does have it's place for certain things (rock climbing afficinados for instance) exclusivity for the sake of exclusivity serves as more of a warning for the rest of us about their members.
I'll be generous, and suppose that the purpose here is to provide a mechanism to meet people that your "friends" know but you don't, or are perhaps more "safe".
Fact is though, the world is filled with all kinds of people and in my experience, ranom and agressive friendlyness is still generally more effective (and fun) than trying to cull from a list of people who you really still know nothing about.
At my last cell company, the *killer app* apparently was to write software to strip caller ID info from the data stream and charge me to turn off the filter.
I currently have a mailbox with 3 available message spaces... Not that I mind so much, but does the exra space for a few more messages really cost 5.95 a month?
I feel like someone has crapped in my well so they can sell me bottled water.
The ability to burn DRM'd tracks, no matter what the burn number limitation could be the ultimate loophole in any form of DRM.... I suppose i should think of something clever to write here, eh?
I know it's just your sig, but it's appropriate.
Clever being a virtual CD-R that copies the data stream back to the HD as a WAV?
Just a small nitpick - the article fails to mention that only users of browsers capable of (or set to by default) showing images can be tracked by this method.
As Valve has said. If the driver isn't an official release, it's not appropriate to bench with it. NVidia may turn their driver around, but given the industry's history it's a reasonable expectation. Valve knows and has stated a number of times in a couple of recent interviews that the majority of their customers are NVidia users. Hence the great deal of time optimising of their code.
Valve has said that they do not have said drivers. To wit, valve has stated, really, until they're public it's not appropriate to bench with any driver. NVidia says they do, but that's irrelevant by their above arguement.
So Valve has spent a *LOT* of time optimising code since until it's actually in a release it really isn't a useable driver. And as history has shown, a "benchmark driver" and a public official driver are often very different performance wise.
If I was Valve, I'd be fucking pissed. All that time spent and then being fucked with by a vendor with serious character issues?
The auction is irrelevant in my opinion. Of course they're auctioning off to the highest bidder. Any thing else would be stupid.
That to me is the most infuriating part of writing classes. When a prof cannot even describe why he gave you an F on an otherwise perfect paper. I feel like the content portion of so many of my classes should have been labeled "whim" instead. It's about what it amounted to.
As has been said many times by various authors. The worst thing a budding writer can do is take a creative writing course. Sucks the soul right out of you.
As a side note...my e-mail spell checker (FirstClass) doesn't recognise the word "e-mail".
Funny? I thought it was an excelent idea. Except I'd automate and organise all the data on the campus support site with bandwidth usage by room. Redirect all http requests from those known vulnerable/infected machines to that page (if possible). Of course you'll need to put all the needed patches and tools on the page as well as links to (free?) anti-virus software.
People/institutions with large storage arrays. Lan parties are, in a lot of ways, hindered by bandwidth. We have a monthly thing in town here that is pushing the limits of the 100mb switches and GE backbone. Watching multiple streams of HDTV video from the media server in your basement. Networking processors from different workstations to provide a little more processing power.
Nature was benevolent enough to put her stuff in the public domain.
God, however, is another story.
God indeed. He has so many publicists I can never tell who to send my check to.
Nature, by the way, is up to her neck in patent infringement suits from numerous Biotech firms. SCO has yet to make an official announcement reguarding any infringing soruce code but are carefully looking into the matter.
Look at the printer... That's not funcional workspace. That's just a shelf to show off the fact that you actually have a printer. If the second shelf wasn't in the way, you *might* be able to get paper into it and print. Be sure to catch the output before it floats to the floor.
The scanner? Sure, I'll get on my hands and knees and crawl under the desk to get to it.
Give me a break, this is just for show. No one intending to actually work would buy this thing.
This argument makes the assumption that IT is ever properly staffed in the first place. IT people almost universally want to lessen their workload so it falls more in line with their actual [underfunded] workload capacity!
I think that was the point of the article. It's about the CIO not the staff. Headcount is king, and from what I've seen, it really is. If you need more IT to keep up all the time, you just keep getting all these people under you.
Resume-- Mangaged a 350 head IT department for bigass corporation...
is much more impressive than
Resume-- Managed a 5 person IT department for bigass corporation....
It would be 'ready to ship'. Slap a big 'ol 1 on the front and put it in a box.
Considering the state of most MMORPG's these days. You could put a script on the CD that pops up a dialog "Content comming soon!". Label it Ultimate Online Origins Space Wars Online 2. No one will ever know the difference. Reviewers will gush with praise saying that it sure is promising and in time it may even become a game.
It's actually been technically feasable for a long time. A couple years ago I watched a documentary where they were showing how (also in the UK) they could locate any phone within about 3 meters (or is that 'meteres'?) to 'assist emergency services' in locating a caller.
No idea if the service was actually used that way.
Slashdot Mirror
We'll never know. I'm sure he's logged in as root though.
I wonder if this'd be something sociologists would like to watch...?
Though, you are seeing only those people entering the network who are
A. Thought of as at least potentially interested in joining.
B. Wouldn't think less of you for asking.
I would like to know what sociologists think of these kinds of groups, and what purpose they serve.
Especially in that "exclusive" here just doesn't mean much.
Certainly this isn't about keeping people out, more a mechanism to get people to want to be in. There isn't any meaningful criteria to be met in order to get in.
The phrase "I belong to Orkut." is about the same as... I'm a nerdy computer geek in search of validation.
While exclusivity does have it's place for certain things (rock climbing afficinados for instance) exclusivity for the sake of exclusivity serves as more of a warning for the rest of us about their members.
I'll be generous, and suppose that the purpose here is to provide a mechanism to meet people that your "friends" know but you don't, or are perhaps more "safe".
Fact is though, the world is filled with all kinds of people and in my experience, ranom and agressive friendlyness is still generally more effective (and fun) than trying to cull from a list of people who you really still know nothing about.
the VoodooPC is an extra $900 though.
Nor is it available through a retail outlet.
>I don't think you have to be much of a tree hugger to be appalled by this.
Question: Do you eat ham?
Just asking, because if you think that's bad, people have sued city planning departments because they live too near a hog farm.
I was going to say Dairy Farm, but you are correct. I have not yet experienced an odor as foul as a pig farm. Ever.
There is something "special" about pigs and their crapulence. The olfactory equivalent of a neuclear weapon.
At my last cell company, the *killer app* apparently was to write software to strip caller ID info from the data stream and charge me to turn off the filter.
I currently have a mailbox with 3 available message spaces... Not that I mind so much, but does the exra space for a few more messages really cost 5.95 a month?
I feel like someone has crapped in my well so they can sell me bottled water.
This man needs a +6. And Randyest needs some karma for being the first person I've seen eat their words, and like it.
I don't know man. I'm paying about a $1.16 for the same songs without any encumberance.
The ability to burn DRM'd tracks, no matter what the burn number limitation could be the ultimate loophole in any form of DRM....
I suppose i should think of something clever to write here, eh?
I know it's just your sig, but it's appropriate.
Clever being a virtual CD-R that copies the data stream back to the HD as a WAV?
Sounds good to me.
Just a small nitpick - the article fails to mention that only users of browsers capable of (or set to by default) showing images can be tracked by this method.
Long live lynx!
Heh moderately funny.
Almost as funny as being moderated informative.
What about releasing the toxic chemicals found in computers, especially in monitors, into the environment?
The event is acutally a public exhibition for the local "prepping facility" to the "recyclers" in China.
Word.
As Valve has said. If the driver isn't an official release, it's not appropriate to bench with it. NVidia may turn their driver around, but given the industry's history it's a reasonable expectation. Valve knows and has stated a number of times in a couple of recent interviews that the majority of their customers are NVidia users. Hence the great deal of time optimising of their code.
The auction is just good business.
As a side note, on various articles...
Valve has said that they do not have said drivers. To wit, valve has stated, really, until they're public it's not appropriate to bench with any driver. NVidia says they do, but that's irrelevant by their above arguement.
So Valve has spent a *LOT* of time optimising code since until it's actually in a release it really isn't a useable driver. And as history has shown, a "benchmark driver" and a public official driver are often very different performance wise.
If I was Valve, I'd be fucking pissed. All that time spent and then being fucked with by a vendor with serious character issues?
The auction is irrelevant in my opinion. Of course they're auctioning off to the highest bidder. Any thing else would be stupid.
That to me is the most infuriating part of writing classes. When a prof cannot even describe why he gave you an F on an otherwise perfect paper. I feel like the content portion of so many of my classes should have been labeled "whim" instead. It's about what it amounted to.
As has been said many times by various authors. The worst thing a budding writer can do is take a creative writing course. Sucks the soul right out of you.
As a side note...my e-mail spell checker (FirstClass) doesn't recognise the word "e-mail".
...yields $29,000,000 net income per day for MSFT
That's pretty gross...
But it get's Be's creditors paid and perhaps even a little cash for what/who's left for all their trouble.
Funny? I thought it was an excelent idea. Except I'd automate and organise all the data on the campus support site with bandwidth usage by room. Redirect all http requests from those known vulnerable/infected machines to that page (if possible). Of course you'll need to put all the needed patches and tools on the page as well as links to (free?) anti-virus software.
People/institutions with large storage arrays.
Lan parties are, in a lot of ways, hindered by bandwidth. We have a monthly thing in town here that is pushing the limits of the 100mb switches and GE backbone.
Watching multiple streams of HDTV video from the media server in your basement.
Networking processors from different workstations to provide a little more processing power.
And most importantly.
Haptic porn.
Nature was benevolent enough to put her stuff in the public domain.
God, however, is another story.
God indeed. He has so many publicists I can never tell who to send my check to.
Nature, by the way, is up to her neck in patent infringement suits from numerous Biotech firms. SCO has yet to make an official announcement reguarding any infringing soruce code but are carefully looking into the matter.
True that.
Look at the printer... That's not funcional workspace. That's just a shelf to show off the fact that you actually have a printer. If the second shelf wasn't in the way, you *might* be able to get paper into it and print. Be sure to catch the output before it floats to the floor.
The scanner? Sure, I'll get on my hands and knees and crawl under the desk to get to it.
Give me a break, this is just for show. No one intending to actually work would buy this thing.
This argument makes the assumption that IT is ever properly staffed in the first place. IT people almost universally want to lessen their workload so it falls more in line with their actual [underfunded] workload capacity!
I think that was the point of the article. It's about the CIO not the staff. Headcount is king, and from what I've seen, it really is. If you need more IT to keep up all the time, you just keep getting all these people under you.
Resume-- Mangaged a 350 head IT department for bigass corporation...
is much more impressive than
Resume-- Managed a 5 person IT department for bigass corporation....
It would be 'ready to ship'.
Slap a big 'ol 1 on the front and put it in a box.
Considering the state of most MMORPG's these days. You could put a script on the CD that pops up a dialog "Content comming soon!". Label it Ultimate Online Origins Space Wars Online 2. No one will ever know the difference.
Reviewers will gush with praise saying that it sure is promising and in time it may even become a game.
Interesting, if what the article says about the 20 dollar fee is true. Perhaps we can end spam by answering it.
Facinating.
It's actually been technically feasable for a long time. A couple years ago I watched a documentary where they were showing how (also in the UK) they could locate any phone within about 3 meters (or is that 'meteres'?) to 'assist emergency services' in locating a caller.
No idea if the service was actually used that way.
(because if everybody wanted it we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?)
Or even an appreciable percentage for that matter.
Either that or you'd see oven mitts at CompUSA marketed as "PDA accessories".
You could flip the keyboard over and it doubles as a skillet! Perfect for camping trips!