Could microsoft perhaps change their focus to "not changing focus" every 2 months? A few months ago, it was all about a new focus on service centric software development... then, it was all about a new focus on security, and so on. Kinda reminds me of the "top priority" syndrome, where if every item in your to-do list is "top priority", the result is that none of it really is.
In areas where traffic is a problem, lets ELIMINATE THE STUPID CAR POOL LANES, (since nobody uses 'em anyway), open 'em to general use, and effectively increase the carrying capacity of the road. duh.
Since fuel cells could theoretically power our cars for an amazingly long period of time, there won't be any need for hydrogen to be available on every street corner like gasoline. The only reason we need gas stations everywhere is because of the high demand generated by the need to constantly be refueling our vehicles. With hydrogen fuel cells, we would only need to re-fuel the cars every once in a while, not several times per week.
I think hydrogen could be re-fueled in our cars much like oil for our furnaces... when your car is getting low on hydrogen once each year, call up the local hydrogen company and they would drive their truck over to your house and fuel up the car. No problem.
I could be completely wrong on this, but just because somebody is downloading a song via p2p doesn't mean that there is a copyright violation being committed. If that user has actually purchased the album, then that user is not commiting a "crime" by downloading songs. Like I said, I could be completely wrong on this... but if I'm right, then the FBI is going to have to overcome the impossible task of determining exactly who is actually committing a crime and who is downloading legally.
"Guideplus" isn't really a piece of software... its a system of programming data that is carried in the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of the signal on your cable lines. Most modern TVs and VCRs are now equipped with "guideplus" which allows viewers to have interactive TV guides without digital cable. It just so happens that ATI was smart enough to include guideplus capability with their TV capture card... a good feature if you ask me. However, each manufacturer is free to implement guideplus functionality in whichever way they see fit... if ATI's implementation sucks ass, then fine -- but don't confuse that with "guideplus" as a whole.
Not only is it bullshit, but I couldn't get past the first page because the author's use of the term "memory" to describe hard drive space is completely ignorant. If he can't tackle the basics, how is he then qualified to write about an entire file system? Yeah... didn't think so.
In my experience, only a (surprisingly small) minority of clients care at all about what programming language was used to implement their systems.
Usually that true, except when the application is barely able to run on any reasonably modern system because support for the language/platform was dropped many years ago.
Go ahead and laugh, but I work for a company that still writes/maintains qbasic software and sells it to unsuspecting clients for $50,000 bucks a pop. I think we need a "software purchasing for dummies" book.
Just look at how the article is written... ZIP is an open format, but it is PKware's responsibility to maintain, revise, and officially sanction the format. But look at how the article is written... its written as though pkware and winzip are equals, both "setting the standards", and that winzips "fork" of.ZIP is somehow viewed as a "split" with pkware. IMHO, the only relevent implementation is WinZIP. Nobody uses PKWARE. They're irrelevant... especially since they can't even keep the.ZIP spec in order!
If you were engaged in the business of trying to "promote" the use of skyphones rather than allowing people to use their own cell phones, wouldn't you want the UKCAA on your side to back up the claims? I think they're in on it too;)
As if y2k wasn't fun enough, just imagine the software updates needed if we get universal zip codes. Oh the joy! The thought of pouring over hundreds of thousands of lines of VBDOS/Quickbasic code just made me much happier. Thanks.
This idea seems somewhat ineficient and more complicated than it has to be... why not simply tunnel port 139 via ssh and mount the remote filesystem via SMB?
Here's what we should do... give china ONE ipv4 address and NAT the entire country. That solves their problem. It also frees up 21,999,999 IP addresses for the rest of the address starved world. This will also solve the SPAM problem... one iptables entry will fix that.
Sounds like a good idea to me... anyone else agree?
Congrats on the homebrewed beer... I've been homebrewing for about 2 years now and I find it to be a very rewarding hobby if you know what I mean;)
Just my thoughts on the subject... I doubt that the skills you mention will ever be "lost". Just like how people today still fiddle around with trebuchets and other cool ancient items, I think there will always be people that churn butter for historical clarity.
Tasks such as making soap, etc. really aren't necessities of our lives any more. Skills have a way of exiting society when they aren't needed for survival any longer... kinda like how very few people still fashion arrowheads out of volcanic glass... we simply don't have to. We have supermarkets in which to hunt already killed animals... the days of going to the forest to go shopping are long over.
Clearly we need a 5 day waiting period on developers. How many more of our websites must go down before congress gets the message? We should also launch a class action lawsuit against schools and staffing agencies for negligence in putting dangerous developers in the hands of unsuspecting companies. Its the republicans fault.
This is actually a good idea... although occuring at government expense, its certainly better than "the threat of blacklisting". Honestly, most people that unknowingly leave open SMTP relays are ignorant to blacklists anyway, thus "blacklisting" isn't much of a threat.
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Could microsoft perhaps change their focus to "not changing focus" every 2 months? A few months ago, it was all about a new focus on service centric software development ... then, it was all about a new focus on security, and so on. Kinda reminds me of the "top priority" syndrome, where if every item in your to-do list is "top priority", the result is that none of it really is.
In areas where traffic is a problem, lets ELIMINATE THE STUPID CAR POOL LANES, (since nobody uses 'em anyway), open 'em to general use, and effectively increase the carrying capacity of the road. duh.
Since fuel cells could theoretically power our cars for an amazingly long period of time, there won't be any need for hydrogen to be available on every street corner like gasoline. The only reason we need gas stations everywhere is because of the high demand generated by the need to constantly be refueling our vehicles. With hydrogen fuel cells, we would only need to re-fuel the cars every once in a while, not several times per week.
I think hydrogen could be re-fueled in our cars much like oil for our furnaces... when your car is getting low on hydrogen once each year, call up the local hydrogen company and they would drive their truck over to your house and fuel up the car. No problem.
I could be completely wrong on this, but just because somebody is downloading a song via p2p doesn't mean that there is a copyright violation being committed. If that user has actually purchased the album, then that user is not commiting a "crime" by downloading songs. Like I said, I could be completely wrong on this... but if I'm right, then the FBI is going to have to overcome the impossible task of determining exactly who is actually committing a crime and who is downloading legally.
Imaging a beow^H^H^Hookshelf of those!
I think you're confusing "guide+" with "vcr plus".
"Guideplus" isn't really a piece of software ... its a system of programming data that is carried in the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of the signal on your cable lines. Most modern TVs and VCRs are now equipped with "guideplus" which allows viewers to have interactive TV guides without digital cable. It just so happens that ATI was smart enough to include guideplus capability with their TV capture card ... a good feature if you ask me. However, each manufacturer is free to implement guideplus functionality in whichever way they see fit ... if ATI's implementation sucks ass, then fine -- but don't confuse that with "guideplus" as a whole.
Not only is it bullshit, but I couldn't get past the first page because the author's use of the term "memory" to describe hard drive space is completely ignorant. If he can't tackle the basics, how is he then qualified to write about an entire file system? Yeah... didn't think so.
In my experience, only a (surprisingly small) minority of clients care at all about what programming language was used to implement their systems.
Usually that true, except when the application is barely able to run on any reasonably modern system because support for the language/platform was dropped many years ago.
Go ahead and laugh, but I work for a company that still writes/maintains qbasic software and sells it to unsuspecting clients for $50,000 bucks a pop. I think we need a "software purchasing for dummies" book.
What do they mean? Its a reference to South Park's underpants gnomes. Am I really a crackwhore? No, thats my email address. Any more questions?
Note to moderators: ITS NOT FUCKING REDUNDANT WHEN THE POST IS THE FIRST OF MANY. MOD DOWN THE REST.
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Just look at how the article is written ... ZIP is an open format, but it is PKware's responsibility to maintain, revise, and officially sanction the format. But look at how the article is written ... its written as though pkware and winzip are equals, both "setting the standards", and that winzips "fork" of .ZIP is somehow viewed as a "split" with pkware. IMHO, the only relevent implementation is WinZIP. Nobody uses PKWARE. They're irrelevant... especially since they can't even keep the .ZIP spec in order!
If you were engaged in the business of trying to "promote" the use of skyphones rather than allowing people to use their own cell phones, wouldn't you want the UKCAA on your side to back up the claims? I think they're in on it too ;)
You may now dawn your aluminum foil hat.
[sarcasm]Awesome idea.[/sarcasm]
As if y2k wasn't fun enough, just imagine the software updates needed if we get universal zip codes. Oh the joy! The thought of pouring over hundreds of thousands of lines of VBDOS/Quickbasic code just made me much happier. Thanks.
Umm... you don't know how SSH tunneling works, do you?
... it would use port 22, the SSH port.
It wouldn't use port 139
This idea seems somewhat ineficient and more complicated than it has to be... why not simply tunnel port 139 via ssh and mount the remote filesystem via SMB?
Here's what we should do ... give china ONE ipv4 address and NAT the entire country. That solves their problem. It also frees up 21,999,999 IP addresses for the rest of the address starved world. This will also solve the SPAM problem ... one iptables entry will fix that.
Sounds like a good idea to me... anyone else agree?
Then that action becomes "necessity" again and we do it. Right now, its not.
Congrats on the homebrewed beer ... I've been homebrewing for about 2 years now and I find it to be a very rewarding hobby if you know what I mean ;)
... I doubt that the skills you mention will ever be "lost". Just like how people today still fiddle around with trebuchets and other cool ancient items, I think there will always be people that churn butter for historical clarity.
... kinda like how very few people still fashion arrowheads out of volcanic glass ... we simply don't have to. We have supermarkets in which to hunt already killed animals... the days of going to the forest to go shopping are long over.
Just my thoughts on the subject
Tasks such as making soap, etc. really aren't necessities of our lives any more. Skills have a way of exiting society when they aren't needed for survival any longer
awesome! We slashdotted mars
Did anyone happen to get a description of the getaway vehicle?!?!?
Clearly we need a 5 day waiting period on developers. How many more of our websites must go down before congress gets the message? We should also launch a class action lawsuit against schools and staffing agencies for negligence in putting dangerous developers in the hands of unsuspecting companies. Its the republicans fault.
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This is actually a good idea ... although occuring at government expense, its certainly better than "the threat of blacklisting". Honestly, most people that unknowingly leave open SMTP relays are ignorant to blacklists anyway, thus "blacklisting" isn't much of a threat.
Something tells me that FSCKING WITH THE EARTH'S CORE IS NOT A GREAT IDEA! HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
Anyone else get the same vibe, or am I alone on this one? derp.