The only problem with this is that both candidates wouldn't respond to the answers themselves, their publicity people would. That means that most of the questions you'd ask would be answered with vague and predictable responses.
I'd love to see them answer some meaningful questions, but I just don't see this working well.
"The plot, which hurtles across maps of the world Indiana Jones style, definitely take a back seat to the effects."
Why can't Hollywood make movies that have great special effects AND good plots? The Matrix and Spiderman were the the only two decent movies in recent times that have had good CG and a decent plot. I guess you could toss some of the Pixar flicks as well, but that's still a small minority when compared to all the crap that has come out.
Hollywood, pay attention: we need something that interests us, not just something that looks pretty.
I'm a salary employee who averages around 40 hours a week. When it gets really busy I sometimes work as many as 60 hours. My employer knows this and gives me an extra day off after putting in a long week. It's been slow lately so my boss has allowed me to leave early the past few days. In return, when it gets crazy around there I won't mind having to stay around late or coming in on a Saturday. It's all about having a good relationship with your employer.
The only IT workers that I know of that earn hourly wages, and get OT pay as a result, are computer store employees. I guess some interns I know would qualify as well. I think we need a slashdot poll: when was the last time you got overtime pay for an IT job?
Instead of designating workers as "professional" under the new law and avoiding OT pay, companies can currently just pay a salary. The only difference is that companies will no longer be able to shaft low income workers.
"Editor's Note: CNN picked this story up from The Associated Press, which gives details below. We have no idea as to the status of Ken Jennings' run. If you'd prefer to not know anything, stop reading now."
Slashdot should have done something similar with a "Read More" break.
What? This has absolutely nothing to do with the FCC, and the original poster was wrong in hinting that it does. It has to do with a lease contract between the campus and the students, nothing more. If they want to prohibit certain items, they can as long as the lease allows for it. If the students want to run those prohibited items, they should move out of campus housing and not connect to the campus network.
And still morally wrong and illegal to steal. How do we expect the RIAA, MPAA, etc to embrace technology when the most public geeks make comments like that? Sure music is overpriced and a lot is crap, but it's still stealing. At least iTunes and Real are going about this the right way.
That said, I'll NEVER install anything from Real on my system. It's as bad as Bonzi Buddy to get rid of.
I'm bored with everyone saying that Armstrong is doping. He's by far the most scrutinized individual in the world as far as testing goes, and he's never tested positive. You think that he'd be afraid of the Olympic testing which is approximately the same as the Tour testing? Of course not. If he can pass one, he can pass the other. The guy has been away from his children for months while training for the Tour... I'd want to go home too.
As for the other "top" athletes, I'm not sure which ones you're referring to. The NBA players that didn't go aren't doping, since the NBA has almost as strict testing as the Olympics. They've either got legitimate excuses (Garnett and Kidd: marriage and injury, respectively) or they're dumbasses (Shaq, for example).
As for the US beating China, it'll be tough, but it is possible. I think their medal counts will be very close, but the US won't have nearly as many golds.
Sidenote: US Mens Basketball would be set if they had invited Michael Redd (who wanted to go) instead of one of the rookies. Then they'd have the best pure shooter in the game and the 2nd best big man as the core of the team. Inside-outside is the way to win international basketball.
This year NBC is showing every single event by using all of their stations. Sure, you need to have a full cable package, but it's well worth it. So far today I've watched women's handball, synchronized diving, Argentina vs Serbia men's basketball (awesome finish), men's gymnastics, and women's weight lifting. NBC's high def coverage is amazing, btw. I've not watched BBC coverage of the Olympics before, but having every event on seems decent enough.
The Olympics are far from a public event. It's a sporting event same as any other. The only difference between the Olympics and the Superbowl is that the Olympics sells airtime to multiple broadcast companies, whereas the NFL only sells the Superbowl rights to one. This is where the "censorship" comes in. In order to be fiscally viable, individual broadcast companies can't show outside their borders or the IOC's whole fiscal plan goes out the window.
How do you propose it be done? It they allow all the broadcast companies into the games, the only way the IOC can cover its costs is by ticket sales (want to buy a ticket to an event for a couple grand, cause that's what it would be). Want the broadcast companies to pay a flat fee for the rights to broadcast? That won't work either. Many companies use a bidding process to give other companies the exclusive right to provide a service (and as a result make $), and the Olympics are no different.
As for the hurricane coverage, the storm hadn't completely dimished yet. As a result, people's lives were still in danger to some extent. Perhaps they should have found a better way of handling it (Fox uses split screen here during the NFL games when there's weather coverage, so you can still see the game). However, I can just imagine the public outcry if more people would have been killed during the Olympic coverage and NBC hadn't put warnings on. That said, the evacuations were put out for a reason, and people are stupid to not heed them.
This is one of the more backwards posts I've ever seen here, and that's saying a lot. First of all, I'm thankful NBC decided to break into coverage with Hurricane Charley coverage. Besides damaging some roof tiles, it's killed at least 15 people, and your comment makes you come across as a heartless bastard. When there's bad weather during NFL season, people around here get upset when the stations cut into Packer games with weather coverage, but they're doing the right thing. Corporate greed would be catering to the fans that DON'T want to see the weather coverage, but the stations have shown time and again that they have some morals.
Second, how do you expect NBC to pay for the $1B bill they have to pay for the right to broadcast the games. NBC is going above and beyond most other countries' broadcast companies in attempting to show every event. Sure they're in it for the money, but they're a business. Don't like the commercials? Get a Tivo and skip them instead of whining about it.
Finally, Greece is bringing in a TON of money that will pay for the Olympics, not to mention they get the opportunity to redefine themself. It's likely that people watching on TV will see the beautiful scenery and decide to vacation there years to come. I'm probably one of them. I live in Wisconsin, where the PGA Championship is going on right now. Sheboygan dished out a TON of money to get the town in order for the event, but they're bringing in far more in tourist activity.
I don't like commercials myself, but to complain about it as corporate greed is just stupid. Want commercial free TV? Start a company and sponsor a commercial-free timeslot like a few other companies do.
Also, don't carry your laptop around in one of those $200 leather laptop cases. I use a backpack. Sure, it was designed for a laptop but it doesn't look like it was. Maybe I have gym shoes and a change of clothes in there, or maybe I have an iBook, iPod, spare battery, Tréo 600, Passport, etc
Amen to that. I made the mistake of using a laptop bag to carry around my school books for a while. Left it in my backseat overnight and got my window busted out. Yeah, they didnt get away with a laptop, but I had to replace the window and school books. I'm sure it pissed them off too.
Katie Jones should set up a Paypal account linked from her website, where people could donate money to help offset her bandwidth and legal fees. If she donates the excess money to a charity, it'd still be clear she's not using the website for profit. If she donated to a victim's charity of some type, it would be a good gesture to show she supports the point of the book, just not the tactics involved. I'd definitely be willing to donate a few bucks to help Katie Jones out.
The Da Vinci project looks to only have a couple of tests to date, and none carrying a passenger to any notable altitude. The most information I could find is here. Have they done the testing that SpaceShipOne has, or are they just making a hasty attempt to try beating the SpaceShipOne team? Hopefully it's been tested enough that nobody gets hurt.
There's more info at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Among the quotes: 'She said there was even mold growing on a few of the 520 CDs received in Mequon - a five-disk 1999 set titled "Respect: A Century of Women in Music."... It was disappointing because we could have actually used that one'. As a Milwaukee resident I know I'll be running to the library to check a few of these out.:P
Uh.. no. That's like saying a PC user with a brand new expensive video card is more educated than a PC user with an older video card. All it means is that one had particular preferences or needs to be met that were different than the other.
I would contend that yes, Mac owners tend to be smarter but for one reason only: PC's have far more market saturation, meaning that when Joe Bob from the 7-Eleven needs a computer, it will probably be a PC.
Same goes for Linux vs Windows. Linux users tend to be more educated than Windows users just because Windows has more market saturation than Linux. As Linux gains ground, people who don't know the difference between the two may pick Linux instead, thus lowering the intelligence average.
Exactly. I haven't been in the business nearly as long, but I've discovered this myself. Our IT department was cut from 8 people down to 3 (for a company with 250 employees), and the main reason I stayed on is that I've always been extremely productive, done good work, and kept a good attitude . Among those employees who lost their jobs were people who talked down to users, got management mad at them, or were just plain lazy. Granted these things may not apply as much in a large company, but that's exactly why I don't work for a large company.
As for people complaining about not having jobs... there's plenty of jobs out there, just not the cushy ones you'd prefer. I lost my job a while back and had to do package handling at UPS while working part-time at my current employer. Over time I proved my worth and they took me on full time. Sometimes you have to take a non-direct path to getting a nice secure job, but sitting at home complaining about it on Slashdot helps no one.
Accelerator for narrowband connections. Predict which pages the user is more likely to visit next, and start loading them as the user still reads the previous page.
This is the only suggestion so far that really seems worth making the browser larger (and hence, slower).
Slashdotters have gone over (many times) all the ways that the solar panels could have been cleaned, and always point back to the Nasa quotes about how it's not really worth it. The just decided to put larger solar panels on instead of cleaning equipment (if I'm remembering correctly).
One thing I haven't heard mentioned, perhaps because it wouldn't work, is coating the panels with Teflon. Is there some reason you can't put Teflon on solar cells, or is this something they already do? Just seems like a simple and inexpensive solution to the problem.
The Klondike Open might be a little more managable for the average golfer. I tried finding a website with info on it, but failed. Basically, it's a single hole, par 72 golf tourney in Alaska. You tee off in the middle of town and they set a 5 gallon bucket into the snow on top of the local mountain. You can use an orange ball, tee up the ball on every swing, and take along a spotter and caddy. You can clear branches and vegetation that's in your way. Otherwise all normal golf rules apply.
My company just changed the policy for everyone. Now we're each required to pay $5 per biweekly pay period for cell phones. We have a 700 minute limit as well, so if we go over (even if it's work related), we have to pay more.
We're not allowed to say no to the phone either... it's required that we have a company provided phone and that we pay $5 for it. Not that $5 will kill me.
The thing that pisses me off it that managers have the same policy, except they have no time restrictions. So basically our $5/month is covering the 1000 minutes our CEO spent on his phone while vacationing in Belize. Complete bullshit, but hey... I'm not gonna quit over it so I get over it.
While this might take care of keeping kids off a large number of porn sites, it still will allow kids through to sites with all pictures. Those can't be filtered by keyword.
My personal belief is that kids under a certain age should NEVER be on the Internet without close supervision. As the kids get older, they should be given more freedom to explore by themselves, but monitoring software is still a good idea.
A close friend of mine who's 18 and getting ready to go off to college still isn't allowed on the computer when her mom is at work during the day. The computer is password protected so the mom has to be around when they're on it. They just accept it and deal with it. She doesn't sit and watch over their shoulder now that they're older, but she's at least around and able to glance at the screen occasionally.
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The only problem with this is that both candidates wouldn't respond to the answers themselves, their publicity people would. That means that most of the questions you'd ask would be answered with vague and predictable responses.
I'd love to see them answer some meaningful questions, but I just don't see this working well.
Note: I am a Bush fanboy.
"The plot, which hurtles across maps of the world Indiana Jones style, definitely take a back seat to the effects."
Why can't Hollywood make movies that have great special effects AND good plots? The Matrix and Spiderman were the the only two decent movies in recent times that have had good CG and a decent plot. I guess you could toss some of the Pixar flicks as well, but that's still a small minority when compared to all the crap that has come out.
Hollywood, pay attention: we need something that interests us, not just something that looks pretty.
I'm a salary employee who averages around 40 hours a week. When it gets really busy I sometimes work as many as 60 hours. My employer knows this and gives me an extra day off after putting in a long week. It's been slow lately so my boss has allowed me to leave early the past few days. In return, when it gets crazy around there I won't mind having to stay around late or coming in on a Saturday. It's all about having a good relationship with your employer.
The only IT workers that I know of that earn hourly wages, and get OT pay as a result, are computer store employees. I guess some interns I know would qualify as well. I think we need a slashdot poll: when was the last time you got overtime pay for an IT job?
Instead of designating workers as "professional" under the new law and avoiding OT pay, companies can currently just pay a salary. The only difference is that companies will no longer be able to shaft low income workers.
The CNN article starts with this:
"Editor's Note: CNN picked this story up from The Associated Press, which gives details below. We have no idea as to the status of Ken Jennings' run. If you'd prefer to not know anything, stop reading now."
Slashdot should have done something similar with a "Read More" break.
What? This has absolutely nothing to do with the FCC, and the original poster was wrong in hinting that it does. It has to do with a lease contract between the campus and the students, nothing more. If they want to prohibit certain items, they can as long as the lease allows for it. If the students want to run those prohibited items, they should move out of campus housing and not connect to the campus network.
He's actually a pretty smart guy. Has written a lot of tech
books. Didn't RTFA myself, but normally he's pretty accurate.
And still morally wrong and illegal to steal. How do we expect the RIAA, MPAA, etc to embrace technology when the most public geeks make comments like that? Sure music is overpriced and a lot is crap, but it's still stealing. At least iTunes and Real are going about this the right way.
That said, I'll NEVER install anything from Real on my system. It's as bad as Bonzi Buddy to get rid of.
Burn karma burn, slashdot inferno...
I'm bored with everyone saying that Armstrong is doping. He's by far the most scrutinized individual in the world as far as testing goes, and he's never tested positive. You think that he'd be afraid of the Olympic testing which is approximately the same as the Tour testing? Of course not. If he can pass one, he can pass the other. The guy has been away from his children for months while training for the Tour... I'd want to go home too.
As for the other "top" athletes, I'm not sure which ones you're referring to. The NBA players that didn't go aren't doping, since the NBA has almost as strict testing as the Olympics. They've either got legitimate excuses (Garnett and Kidd: marriage and injury, respectively) or they're dumbasses (Shaq, for example).
As for the US beating China, it'll be tough, but it is possible. I think their medal counts will be very close, but the US won't have nearly as many golds.
Sidenote: US Mens Basketball would be set if they had invited Michael Redd (who wanted to go) instead of one of the rookies. Then they'd have the best pure shooter in the game and the 2nd best big man as the core of the team. Inside-outside is the way to win international basketball.
This year NBC is showing every single event by using all of their stations. Sure, you need to have a full cable package, but it's well worth it. So far today I've watched women's handball, synchronized diving, Argentina vs Serbia men's basketball (awesome finish), men's gymnastics, and women's weight lifting. NBC's high def coverage is amazing, btw. I've not watched BBC coverage of the Olympics before, but having every event on seems decent enough.
The Olympics are far from a public event. It's a sporting event same as any other. The only difference between the Olympics and the Superbowl is that the Olympics sells airtime to multiple broadcast companies, whereas the NFL only sells the Superbowl rights to one. This is where the "censorship" comes in. In order to be fiscally viable, individual broadcast companies can't show outside their borders or the IOC's whole fiscal plan goes out the window.
How do you propose it be done? It they allow all the broadcast companies into the games, the only way the IOC can cover its costs is by ticket sales (want to buy a ticket to an event for a couple grand, cause that's what it would be). Want the broadcast companies to pay a flat fee for the rights to broadcast? That won't work either. Many companies use a bidding process to give other companies the exclusive right to provide a service (and as a result make $), and the Olympics are no different.
As for the hurricane coverage, the storm hadn't completely dimished yet. As a result, people's lives were still in danger to some extent. Perhaps they should have found a better way of handling it (Fox uses split screen here during the NFL games when there's weather coverage, so you can still see the game). However, I can just imagine the public outcry if more people would have been killed during the Olympic coverage and NBC hadn't put warnings on. That said, the evacuations were put out for a reason, and people are stupid to not heed them.
This is one of the more backwards posts I've ever seen here, and that's saying a lot. First of all, I'm thankful NBC decided to break into coverage with Hurricane Charley coverage. Besides damaging some roof tiles, it's killed at least 15 people, and your comment makes you come across as a heartless bastard. When there's bad weather during NFL season, people around here get upset when the stations cut into Packer games with weather coverage, but they're doing the right thing. Corporate greed would be catering to the fans that DON'T want to see the weather coverage, but the stations have shown time and again that they have some morals.
Second, how do you expect NBC to pay for the $1B bill they have to pay for the right to broadcast the games. NBC is going above and beyond most other countries' broadcast companies in attempting to show every event. Sure they're in it for the money, but they're a business. Don't like the commercials? Get a Tivo and skip them instead of whining about it.
Finally, Greece is bringing in a TON of money that will pay for the Olympics, not to mention they get the opportunity to redefine themself. It's likely that people watching on TV will see the beautiful scenery and decide to vacation there years to come. I'm probably one of them. I live in Wisconsin, where the PGA Championship is going on right now. Sheboygan dished out a TON of money to get the town in order for the event, but they're bringing in far more in tourist activity.
I don't like commercials myself, but to complain about it as corporate greed is just stupid. Want commercial free TV? Start a company and sponsor a commercial-free timeslot like a few other companies do.
Amen to that. I made the mistake of using a laptop bag to carry around my school books for a while. Left it in my backseat overnight and got my window busted out. Yeah, they didnt get away with a laptop, but I had to replace the window and school books. I'm sure it pissed them off too.
Katie Jones should set up a Paypal account linked from her website, where people could donate money to help offset her bandwidth and legal fees. If she donates the excess money to a charity, it'd still be clear she's not using the website for profit. If she donated to a victim's charity of some type, it would be a good gesture to show she supports the point of the book, just not the tactics involved. I'd definitely be willing to donate a few bucks to help Katie Jones out.
And in 1999 it happened twice in three months. Not rare at all.
Oops. I'm a web developer and can't form a simple link. :)
here (real link this time)
The Da Vinci project looks to only have a couple of tests to date, and none carrying a passenger to any notable altitude. The most information I could find is here. Have they done the testing that SpaceShipOne has, or are they just making a hasty attempt to try beating the SpaceShipOne team? Hopefully it's been tested enough that nobody gets hurt.
There's more info at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Among the quotes: 'She said there was even mold growing on a few of the 520 CDs received in Mequon - a five-disk 1999 set titled "Respect: A Century of Women in Music." ... It was disappointing because we could have actually used that one'. As a Milwaukee resident I know I'll be running to the library to check a few of these out. :P
Uh.. no. That's like saying a PC user with a brand new expensive video card is more educated than a PC user with an older video card. All it means is that one had particular preferences or needs to be met that were different than the other.
I would contend that yes, Mac owners tend to be smarter but for one reason only: PC's have far more market saturation, meaning that when Joe Bob from the 7-Eleven needs a computer, it will probably be a PC.
Same goes for Linux vs Windows. Linux users tend to be more educated than Windows users just because Windows has more market saturation than Linux. As Linux gains ground, people who don't know the difference between the two may pick Linux instead, thus lowering the intelligence average.
Exactly. I haven't been in the business nearly as long, but I've discovered this myself. Our IT department was cut from 8 people down to 3 (for a company with 250 employees), and the main reason I stayed on is that I've always been extremely productive, done good work, and kept a good attitude . Among those employees who lost their jobs were people who talked down to users, got management mad at them, or were just plain lazy. Granted these things may not apply as much in a large company, but that's exactly why I don't work for a large company.
As for people complaining about not having jobs... there's plenty of jobs out there, just not the cushy ones you'd prefer. I lost my job a while back and had to do package handling at UPS while working part-time at my current employer. Over time I proved my worth and they took me on full time. Sometimes you have to take a non-direct path to getting a nice secure job, but sitting at home complaining about it on Slashdot helps no one.
This is the only suggestion so far that really seems worth making the browser larger (and hence, slower).
Slashdotters have gone over (many times) all the ways that the solar panels could have been cleaned, and always point back to the Nasa quotes about how it's not really worth it. The just decided to put larger solar panels on instead of cleaning equipment (if I'm remembering correctly).
One thing I haven't heard mentioned, perhaps because it wouldn't work, is coating the panels with Teflon. Is there some reason you can't put Teflon on solar cells, or is this something they already do? Just seems like a simple and inexpensive solution to the problem.
The Klondike Open might be a little more managable for the average golfer. I tried finding a website with info on it, but failed. Basically, it's a single hole, par 72 golf tourney in Alaska. You tee off in the middle of town and they set a 5 gallon bucket into the snow on top of the local mountain. You can use an orange ball, tee up the ball on every swing, and take along a spotter and caddy. You can clear branches and vegetation that's in your way. Otherwise all normal golf rules apply.
My company just changed the policy for everyone. Now we're each required to pay $5 per biweekly pay period for cell phones. We have a 700 minute limit as well, so if we go over (even if it's work related), we have to pay more.
We're not allowed to say no to the phone either... it's required that we have a company provided phone and that we pay $5 for it. Not that $5 will kill me.
The thing that pisses me off it that managers have the same policy, except they have no time restrictions. So basically our $5/month is covering the 1000 minutes our CEO spent on his phone while vacationing in Belize. Complete bullshit, but hey... I'm not gonna quit over it so I get over it.
While this might take care of keeping kids off a large number of porn sites, it still will allow kids through to sites with all pictures. Those can't be filtered by keyword.
My personal belief is that kids under a certain age should NEVER be on the Internet without close supervision. As the kids get older, they should be given more freedom to explore by themselves, but monitoring software is still a good idea.
A close friend of mine who's 18 and getting ready to go off to college still isn't allowed on the computer when her mom is at work during the day. The computer is password protected so the mom has to be around when they're on it. They just accept it and deal with it. She doesn't sit and watch over their shoulder now that they're older, but she's at least around and able to glance at the screen occasionally.