...and I would scratch my head whenever someone I knew bought one. It was *big* and couldn't fit many pictures on a disk.
I have two Kodak DC-2xx series cameras. Transferring images is easy--I pop out the memory card and plug it into the PCMCIA (PC) slot on either my laptop or my Linux server (you can get a PC "drive" for under $99). There's a small adapter needed. Then I can mount the card as a disk drive and copy them off.
I'm very surprised that few people use this option. However, I beleive there are similar USB readers for Sony "Memory Sticks", etc.
A CD-ROM camera would be handy for specialized applications, like when you want to give the photos away to someone else on-the-spot. Kinda like how the old Polaroids worked. In that vein...why not put a tiny ink-jet printer in the camera that can print a little 3x5 photo? Surely they can fit a printer in the space of a CD-ROM drive, can't they?
I received over 700 copies of the ILOVEYOU virus from some company (an Internet Portal! They should have known better). For some reason my email address was in their database; I had done some work for them in the past.
The email came from all over the company: from the CTO on down.
I wish I could have held them liable! It cost me about an hour of my time, including the time spent calling them on the phone telling them to stop it and to take my name out of their email directory. I don't care if it was intentional or not!
I've been hearing numbers stations for the past 25 years. Many, many people, including myself, have tried to make sense of them. My best guess is that they're for use with a one-time pad, and may not be crackable.
...if Metalica's lawyers listened to each and every recording to see if they infringed.
I played with Napster once. I'm actually on the side of Big Media (sorry), so what I had made available in my directory was an MP3 of *me* singing an old public-domain folksong. But I gave it the title of a hit song (a Britney Spears song) so suckers would find it and download it.
While I'm sure there aren't too many pranksters like this, Metalica has no way to be sure that each of these files infringes unless they download and listen to them.
It's a shame because legitimate musicians who record and sing their own music, or public-domain music will have trouble putting their MP3s on the web without being harassed. Even my service provider sent me an automatically generated warning when legit MP3s appeared on my site. I sent back the nastiest letter I've ever written. Since then, I stopped using the MP3 format; there are better audio compressors, and MP3 has been forever "tainted."
There was a Forrester report that came out recently and conculded that most "dotcoms" were vapid and shallow, and that most of their Management lacked experience.
This was exactly my experience when I spent two years at a dotcom.
There's no substance to most of these companies. The valuation can't be based on potential, because there's no potential there. Just a pile of inexperienced managers directing the cheapest "Web Programmers" (i.e., green-haired kids with piercings) they can scrape up.
I've seen teams staffed entirely with people who have had no or negative experience. They would conisder someone who's career consited of 3 months at Netscape (on a cancelled project and was let go), 4 months at iVillage (and let go after being on a failed project), and 5 months at Tripod (and let go after having been on a faile project) as havint 1 year experience. In fact, a person like this has never been on a project from start to finish, and has no idea how to get something out the door.
One of my managers was an admitted pedophile, who still runs that company--from Jail!
I don't have 1 cent invested in any dotcom anymore (though I do have a pile of worthless options!) -- ib
You said: > As you clean up your registry and replace your > damaged files Well, while I did recieve several copies of the "virus" and I do use Microsoft Outlook, *I* didn't get infected. Why? Because I'm not stupid. I like the way Mac people were saying that they are immune to viruses. They like to gloat over this one. Fact is, people don't write Mac worms because there aren't enough Macs for it to spread!
Perhaps they should list people who aren't criminals!
It's interesting that they gather their data from newspaper reports, etc. All you need is a web server and some minimum-wage workers to scan the newspapers to enter this business. It's a do-it-yourself Megan's Slaw.
BTW, even though this is not a government sanctioned list, and it's happening in a foreign country, it means we should be careful about supporting things like Megan's Law, even if we don't like pedophiles or child molestors
I'm a SlackWare holdout, and I find my self more and more telling Linux newbies that there are other choice. RedHat is fine, I've got nothing against it, but I grew up on Slack.
However, there's no reason to be fanatical about it. Perhaps these folks are going a bit overboard?
Seriously, I think their explanation may be true. Some right-wing yahoo (pardon the expression) submitted those sites, which were approved. There was just no left-wing zealot who did the same for the other side.
Computer Science could be a discipline, but many schools are running their programs like a vocational school.
I've been responsible for hiring and managing over 50 people during my career as a manager...and I can say that I'd rather have someone with a Math degree or a E.E. degree nine times out of 10.
...but themselves for their children's lack of intelligence!
Mabye if parents spent more time with their kids, didn't get divorced, and took an interest in their kids lives, they'd seem more intelligent.
In this age where slow children have "Attention Deficit Disorder" (and we pump 'em with drugs), and "Learning Disablilty" it's awfully convenient to blame the environment for a parent's failing.
As far as HTML on a page, I found that you should optimize for Rendering Time, which isn't always the smallest page, esp. when it comes to tables.
For server side programming, unless every page is generated dynamically, you should program it the easiest way possible and throw some CacheFlows in front of it.
Of course, since most of the people selling themselves as "web programmers" are undegreed kids with little formal knowledge, there's a lot of crap floating around. Until employers value experienced professionals with the proper credentials (instead of thinking that every kid with green hair and a stud through his tounge is a web expert), there's little hope for a standard of quality on the web.
And I agree with him a bit. There's something unhealthy about the notion of an "online community." I know several people who destroyed their lives with on-line chat, for example. It's destroyed marriages and cost people jobs, from becomming addicted to it.
Physical libraries encourage a comminity of scholarship, and not just some people searching text and pulling out a sentence here and there for a quick quote.
I'd never hire *you* to be an HTML "programmer" if you won't support IE! (BTW, why do kids today who know HTML call themselves programmers. Back in my day, people who wrote text with a markup language were called Tech Writers)
If you want "Standard" HTML, you should only support Amaya. But if you want the majority of people to be able to view your stuff, you need to support IE. It is the Defacto standard.
I also know that IE is much closer to the standard than Netscape. And it supports the DOM correctly.
I hope you and your Macintosh are happy with Netscape. As for me, I'll support IE first, Netscape second.
Maybe it's not the Netscape Engineers that are weenies, it's the Netscape users!
While I'm sure that this solution won't be perfect for everyone, it's a great start.
Blockbuster's days are numbered. All they really are is a (very bursty) bandwidth provider. Once there's a way to get movies downloaded directly into homes, the entire video rental industry will disappear. And it won't take very long.
Though some may object to the play once (a la DIVX) aspect, that doesn't bother me. I didn't like DIVX because the players cost more, it seemed wasteful (a disk you have to throw away), and, most important, it dialed the phone whenever you watched a movie. If the disk had a fuse or something that blew, it would have appealed to more people.
As a Microsoft shareholder, I'm outraged. The irresponsible press, like the awful San Jose Mercury "News" (which is practically owned by Fry's Electronics), gleefully reported this story.
It was very easy to verify. As soon as I heard the story, I tried to verify it, by installing IIS, etc, and was unable to.
Looks like the press got suckered in to reporting an urban legend! I hope Bill Gates puts these so-called newspapers out of business for this slanderous coverage.
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I have two Kodak DC-2xx series cameras. Transferring images is easy--I pop out the memory card and plug it into the PCMCIA (PC) slot on either my laptop or my Linux server (you can get a PC "drive" for under $99). There's a small adapter needed. Then I can mount the card as a disk drive and copy them off.
I'm very surprised that few people use this option. However, I beleive there are similar USB readers for Sony "Memory Sticks", etc.
A CD-ROM camera would be handy for specialized applications, like when you want to give the photos away to someone else on-the-spot. Kinda like how the old Polaroids worked. In that vein...why not put a tiny ink-jet printer in the camera that can print a little 3x5 photo? Surely they can fit a printer in the space of a CD-ROM drive, can't they?
--- Speaking only for myself,
...go after it's QA folks and UI designers who exist in a culture that loves to trade software and insider secrets. -- ib
--- Speaking only for myself,
...on a plane (after takeoff) and I've never been able to get any service. I have a feeling results would be very poor even if allowed.
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The email came from all over the company: from the CTO on down.
I wish I could have held them liable! It cost me about an hour of my time, including the time spent calling them on the phone telling them to stop it and to take my name out of their email directory. I don't care if it was intentional or not!
--- Speaking only for myself,
I've been hearing numbers stations for the past 25 years. Many, many people, including myself, have tried to make sense of them. My best guess is that they're for use with a one-time pad, and may not be crackable.
--- Speaking only for myself,
I played with Napster once. I'm actually on the side of Big Media (sorry), so what I had made available in my directory was an MP3 of *me* singing an old public-domain folksong. But I gave it the title of a hit song (a Britney Spears song) so suckers would find it and download it.
While I'm sure there aren't too many pranksters like this, Metalica has no way to be sure that each of these files infringes unless they download and listen to them.
It's a shame because legitimate musicians who record and sing their own music, or public-domain music will have trouble putting their MP3s on the web without being harassed. Even my service provider sent me an automatically generated warning when legit MP3s appeared on my site. I sent back the nastiest letter I've ever written. Since then, I stopped using the MP3 format; there are better audio compressors, and MP3 has been forever "tainted."
--- Speaking only for myself,
I think when Larry Elison owns computing, we'll wish we had Bill back!
--- Speaking only for myself,
This was exactly my experience when I spent two years at a dotcom.
There's no substance to most of these companies. The valuation can't be based on potential, because there's no potential there. Just a pile of inexperienced managers directing the cheapest "Web Programmers" (i.e., green-haired kids with piercings) they can scrape up.
I've seen teams staffed entirely with people who have had no or negative experience. They would conisder someone who's career consited of 3 months at Netscape (on a cancelled project and was let go), 4 months at iVillage (and let go after being on a failed project), and 5 months at Tripod (and let go after having been on a faile project) as havint 1 year experience. In fact, a person like this has never been on a project from start to finish, and has no idea how to get something out the door.
One of my managers was an admitted pedophile, who still runs that company--from Jail!
I don't have 1 cent invested in any dotcom anymore (though I do have a pile of worthless options!) -- ib
--- Speaking only for myself,
You said: > As you clean up your registry and replace your > damaged files Well, while I did recieve several copies of the "virus" and I do use Microsoft Outlook, *I* didn't get infected. Why? Because I'm not stupid. I like the way Mac people were saying that they are immune to viruses. They like to gloat over this one. Fact is, people don't write Mac worms because there aren't enough Macs for it to spread!
--- Speaking only for myself,
Perhaps they should list people who aren't criminals!
It's interesting that they gather their data from newspaper reports, etc. All you need is a web server and some minimum-wage workers to scan the newspapers to enter this business. It's a do-it-yourself Megan's Slaw.
BTW, even though this is not a government sanctioned list, and it's happening in a foreign country, it means we should be careful about supporting things like Megan's Law, even if we don't like pedophiles or child molestors
--- Speaking only for myself,
I just searched for "Irving Berlin" and "Cole Porter" and came back empty handed.
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Don't more folks speak Klingon than Esperanto anyway?
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However, there's no reason to be fanatical about it. Perhaps these folks are going a bit overboard?
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Won't two knobs (selection, volume) work just as well? Voice just adds expense and complication!
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You're CW translation skills stink!
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Seriously, I think their explanation may be true. Some right-wing yahoo (pardon the expression) submitted those sites, which were approved. There was just no left-wing zealot who did the same for the other side.
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I'd better get my umbrella!
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You're 100% right.
Computer Science could be a discipline, but many schools are running their programs like a vocational school.
I've been responsible for hiring and managing over 50 people during my career as a manager...and I can say that I'd rather have someone with a Math degree or a E.E. degree nine times out of 10.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Mabye if parents spent more time with their kids, didn't get divorced, and took an interest in their kids lives, they'd seem more intelligent.
In this age where slow children have "Attention Deficit Disorder" (and we pump 'em with drugs), and "Learning Disablilty" it's awfully convenient to blame the environment for a parent's failing.
--- Speaking only for myself,
As far as HTML on a page, I found that you should optimize for Rendering Time, which isn't always the smallest page, esp. when it comes to tables.
For server side programming, unless every page is generated dynamically, you should program it the easiest way possible and throw some CacheFlows in front of it.
Of course, since most of the people selling themselves as "web programmers" are undegreed kids with little formal knowledge, there's a lot of crap floating around. Until employers value experienced professionals with the proper credentials (instead of thinking that every kid with green hair and a stud through his tounge is a web expert), there's little hope for a standard of quality on the web.
--- Speaking only for myself,
And I agree with him a bit. There's something unhealthy about the notion of an "online community." I know several people who destroyed their lives with on-line chat, for example. It's destroyed marriages and cost people jobs, from becomming addicted to it.
Physical libraries encourage a comminity of scholarship, and not just some people searching text and pulling out a sentence here and there for a quick quote.
--- Speaking only for myself,
If you want "Standard" HTML, you should only support Amaya. But if you want the majority of people to be able to view your stuff, you need to support IE. It is the Defacto standard.
I also know that IE is much closer to the standard than Netscape. And it supports the DOM correctly.
I hope you and your Macintosh are happy with Netscape. As for me, I'll support IE first, Netscape second.
Maybe it's not the Netscape Engineers that are weenies, it's the Netscape users!
--- Speaking only for myself,
Blockbuster's days are numbered. All they really are is a (very bursty) bandwidth provider. Once there's a way to get movies downloaded directly into homes, the entire video rental industry will disappear. And it won't take very long.
Though some may object to the play once (a la DIVX) aspect, that doesn't bother me. I didn't like DIVX because the players cost more, it seemed wasteful (a disk you have to throw away), and, most important, it dialed the phone whenever you watched a movie. If the disk had a fuse or something that blew, it would have appealed to more people.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Netscape software sucks. Even Netscape's parent company AOL admits IE is better. After all, when you subscribe to AOL, you get Internet Explorer.
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It was very easy to verify. As soon as I heard the story, I tried to verify it, by installing IIS, etc, and was unable to.
Looks like the press got suckered in to reporting an urban legend! I hope Bill Gates puts these so-called newspapers out of business for this slanderous coverage.
--- Speaking only for myself,