yeah that's why you get a mont blanc ballpoint. same potential for showing off, but it's actually a nice pen (well, depending on the ink you fill it with.)
you can get old TNT2 or RIVA128 cards for less than $10 in bargain bins. They work great in Linux, support a lot of 2D modes, and are well documented. If you're never gonna touch 3D, any video card from the past 6 years will be equivalent in your eyes (unless it's an all-in-wonder, then it's just coo'.)
ACPI on mac (dunno what it's actually called) works beautifully, especially on their laptops. You can close the top of the laptop, open it back up, and everything will pop up immediately and start working. It's about as transparent as possible.
Well, while you're installing drivers and patching your kernel to interface with the nuclear ICBMs, I can just plug them in on my Mac with iNuke and destroy you immediately. Do not doubt the superiority of the Mac.;)
Yeah, Baylor, the school where drinking is against school rules and where dancing was only allowed 15 years ago. Waco is a shithole of a town, and the campus is in the middle of the ghetto. Hehe, I'm not trying to be mean, I just hear these complaints all the time from my non-southern baptist friends who go there;)
There's a dramatic global shift in the economy taking place, and it's nothing but good for the United States. American corporations (which are mostly owned by American stockholders, controlled by American boards, and handle their money in American banks) own everything. Essentially, we're turning into a nation of owners. Why do the work ourselves when we can pay a few Indian guys next to nothing to do the same thing, and sell it at the same price we would have if Americans had done it?
The reason most IT people are pissed off about the job market is because they see themselves as "smarter" or "more deserving" than guys in India. Keep in mind, these Indian guys who are getting these jobs went to college for 4 years too. Maybe American wages are too high and need to be brought down to international standards. Would everyone be clamoring to work in IT if the jobs only paid $5k a year? People in India are, because other jobs pay far, far less. Other industries have gone through this too, it's not the end of the world. The industry has changed; you're not going to be a rockstar. A CS degree is no longer a "free pass" into the IT industry. It's been that way with MBAs for decades, and that's a 6 year degree. Get used to it, though there will always be a market for English-speaking IT people; it may just not pay as much as you'd like it to.
Actually, I hate to bring this up, but the iMac was really what made USB take off. Before the iMac was released, PC makers had been pushing USB, but peoples' existing devices weren't compatible so they weren't popular and USB devices didn't sell, thus nobody made them. Kind of a chicken-egg problem. Apple comes out with the iMac, where USB is the only peripheral option, and everyone and their mother started making USB products because there was now a real demand for them. When the devices were available for Mac, Windows users started buying them too. The reason Intel doesn't incorporate FireWire on their motherboards is because they don't like paying Apple and Sony royalties for firewire controllers. Besides, they'd rather see high-speed USB 2.0 succeed, because they get to collect royalties from other companies on that. In other words, it's strictly business.
As for PowerPC, yeah, lots of embedded devices use PowerPC-derived chips, including the Nintendo GameCube, countless routers and the TiVo. IBM used to make low-end AIX servers with PowerPCs, but I think they've stopped that. Though, one benefit of Apple being IBM's only PowerPC customer is that IBM will basically custom-build chips for Apple. Microsoft wishes it had that kind of power.;)
No. No. No. No. No. Market cap means jack shit. Market cap is essentially what the market THINKS the company is worth. A stock could be very overinflated (example: Enron) and have a larger market cap than a company with real assets, or one that also might benefit from a past market reputation (IBM is an ooooold company, and had far more relevance in the past of computing than it does presently) HP used to be a lot bigger than they are now, but they spun off about half the company that sold medical equipment. Market cap fluctuates way too quickly and for way too many reasons, like a bad economy, interest rate hikes from the fed, or ratings adjustments by market analysts. In other words, use something more relevant, like sales or units shipped. Please don't use market cap as anything other than an investment tool;)
Laws mean jack shit when you're dealing with a spammer operating out of Romania. Legislating the internet in general is just a waste of time. Also, any technical scheme to stop spam that does not include a whitelist of some kind is also doomed to fail. All a spammer has to do is hack a random Windows box (and they do,) set up a custom mail server that will spoof the headers, then spam away. Then again, whitelists carry with them their own problems.
Blacklists aren't a great idea either, too easy to hop around via hacked boxes and/or DDoS the blacklist server (as we've seen happen recently.) The only way I could see a scheme like this being even remotely successful would be if ISPs started parsing incoming packets for mail server requests, then dropped them, as 99% of end-users should not be running a mail server.
Basically, the problem with spam is that most of the solutions introduce bigger problems than they solve. Adding to the problem is the fact that no system is ironclad, so somebody eventually will find a way around it. Now we know how the RIAA feels with their "protected" CDs. The best solution seems to be some sort of adaptive filtering, which is what most people use now. There's no real effective way to reduce spam seen by the mailserver, so the best way is to reduce spam seen by the user.
SCO wants this thing to hit them so Darl can have an excuse to bankrupt the company and not make it look like he did it. I mean, come on, the company will probably fold in a week or two anyway, all their 'evidence' was as much vaporware as their products. Now Darl has a way to kill the company and not look too bad in the process. I doubt they wrote it themselves or anything, but I think Darl sees the writing on the wall. He's already made his money anyway, what does he care?
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That had nothing to do with the ad, it has to do with the fact that TV networks don't air "issue ads," or political ads not endorsing a certain political candidate. Basically, they're too controversial and the networks don't want to show anything that might make people want to change the channel. Yup, sucks, but that's the way things work. And this has nothing to do with the first amendment, CBS is a corporation, the first amendment only applies to the government. It would only be illegal if the FCC or Congress passed a law prohibiting issue ads on TV.
Basically, from what I've read about VxWorks, (never used it personally) that's a distinct possibility. The workaround here is to just keep the filesystem clean, which, while it's not elegant, is probably one of the few options they have from a distance of a few million miles. Maybe they should be running qnx or a form of realtime linux/bsd? Something to think about for future missions perhaps.
Nah, it's just because "India" in this sense is not just India, it's also Malaysia, Pakistan, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. Lots of jobs go to those countries too. But in this sense, Ireland might as well count.;)
Yeah, except if it were built by monster garage techs it would have a 5000 watt stereo system and flamethrowers on the exhaust. Which is not necessarily a bad thing...
If you want to be a level designer, then just design levels. Most professional mappers got their start by designing fan maps that were popular and got them noticed by a company. Essentially, if you want to take this track, the proper method is:
1) Get another job 2) Start designing levels 3) Make a good one that is popular among players 4) Get job of your dreams that probably pays $30k a year
(and don't you DARE say "5) Profit!" or I'll smack the taste out yo' mouth)
Yeah, except people don't realize that being a game programmer is pretty much the same as being a word processor programmer, the only difference is in the functions that you call. You probably won't even get to play the game you're working on until it's almost done, and by then you'll be so sick of working 80 hour weeks on it you'll probably never want to see it again.
You get a lot of idealistic kids coming out of high school/college thinking they want to write video games because they like to play them, which is about as stupid a conclusion as you can draw. Nevermind most game production houses are really small, hire maybe one or two people a year, and when they do you've gotta be a guru. Christ, you practically need a master's degree in mathematics to mess with the 3d engines these days. Besides, in 5 years, they'll probably replace all the programmers with people in India.
Yes, but there are tradeoffs between security and usability that must be made on a desktop system. The file doesn't even have to be executable, or even exploit a mail program. It can exploit *any* program, so long as you can double-click on a file and it will open in the correct program (this is a must for a usable desktop system, so we'll assume that if Linux is the dominant desktop OS, most/all desktop Linux machines have this feature) and from there, can exploit whatever the heck it wants. While the paranoid among us might open up a KWord (or whatever other dominant applications there are) document in vi or the like first, most people would just double click on it.
Under an OSS model, the source code to these programs would be available, making it easy to look for exploits. While these exploits would be fixed shortly after any virus is released into the wild, there would still be people out there who never upgrade. This is essentially what happens with Windows; Microsoft releases patches for known vulnerabilities either before or within days of a major virus exploit. The problem is that people don't apply them, and remain vulnerable. Linux has vulnerabilities, christ, there are people out there who still run ancient versions of BIND 4.x and kernels with known root holes. You can trust a competent system admin to keep up to date on security patches, but home users are never going to keep up to date on them, whether the OS is Windows or Linux.
Anyway, the real point of all this is that the weakest link in the chain is the user. Linux is not invincible either. There are Unix "worms" out there in the form of perl scripts that scan for known vulnerabilities in common daemons/CGIs (formmail.pl is a popular one, any admin who checks apache logs can tell you that,) exploit them if possible, upload a rootkit and start probing for more servers to infect. They just don't get press because they don't flood everyone's inboxes with crap, they just provide hackers with a lot of root shells to bounce connections off of.
This is flamebait, but I'll bite. Viruses these days are due to no inherent flaw in Windows or any mail clients period. They rely on tricking people into opening attachments, which, if Linux had the userbase Windows had, would still work on Linux. In the case of MyDOOM, it basically says "This message cannot be viewed with the current character set. It has been included as an attachment." People open it, it spews some garbage characters into a Notepad file, opens it, then infects the machine. It's basically a slightly different approach to a trojan. People are going to be ignorant/gullible whether they're running Windows or Linux, so there will always be the opportunity for worms like this to spread.
Hah.. yeah except McDonalds often pays less than minimum wage. Take a horrible job that's not worth the minimum wage they pay you, add a manager with a raging cocaine habit who skims 2-3 hours a week off everyone's paycheck to fund it, viola. Nobody would challenge him, because that means they'd get drug tested and then lose their job, pretty much irrelevent of the results of the drug test. That pretty much describes what fast-food jobs are like. Now, would you like fries with that?
There's a difference between being professional and having a stick up your ass:) Yes, you should show up in a suit and tie and act like a civilized human being, but there's no reason you can't have personality. Basically, your objective in an interview is to make the other guy like you. Plain and simple. If all they cared about were your technical qualifications, they would not bother calling you in for an interview. If you don't get the job, either someone else was better qualified or the interviewer liked someone else better. You can only affect one of those during an interview.:)
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yeah that's why you get a mont blanc ballpoint. same potential for showing off, but it's actually a nice pen (well, depending on the ink you fill it with.)
you can get old TNT2 or RIVA128 cards for less than $10 in bargain bins. They work great in Linux, support a lot of 2D modes, and are well documented. If you're never gonna touch 3D, any video card from the past 6 years will be equivalent in your eyes (unless it's an all-in-wonder, then it's just coo'.)
ACPI on mac (dunno what it's actually called) works beautifully, especially on their laptops. You can close the top of the laptop, open it back up, and everything will pop up immediately and start working. It's about as transparent as possible.
Well, while you're installing drivers and patching your kernel to interface with the nuclear ICBMs, I can just plug them in on my Mac with iNuke and destroy you immediately. Do not doubt the superiority of the Mac. ;)
The reason punk all sounds the same is because there's only so much you can do with 3 power chords and untalented musicians ;)
yep. gonna graduate with a degree in philosophy next year ;) then I look forward to my career of managing a McDonalds.
Yeah, Baylor, the school where drinking is against school rules and where dancing was only allowed 15 years ago. Waco is a shithole of a town, and the campus is in the middle of the ghetto. Hehe, I'm not trying to be mean, I just hear these complaints all the time from my non-southern baptist friends who go there ;)
The same can be said of any technical school :)
;) Lamar sucks ass
(btw, what's up Adam? went to high school with you
There's a dramatic global shift in the economy taking place, and it's nothing but good for the United States. American corporations (which are mostly owned by American stockholders, controlled by American boards, and handle their money in American banks) own everything. Essentially, we're turning into a nation of owners. Why do the work ourselves when we can pay a few Indian guys next to nothing to do the same thing, and sell it at the same price we would have if Americans had done it?
The reason most IT people are pissed off about the job market is because they see themselves as "smarter" or "more deserving" than guys in India. Keep in mind, these Indian guys who are getting these jobs went to college for 4 years too. Maybe American wages are too high and need to be brought down to international standards. Would everyone be clamoring to work in IT if the jobs only paid $5k a year? People in India are, because other jobs pay far, far less. Other industries have gone through this too, it's not the end of the world. The industry has changed; you're not going to be a rockstar. A CS degree is no longer a "free pass" into the IT industry. It's been that way with MBAs for decades, and that's a 6 year degree. Get used to it, though there will always be a market for English-speaking IT people; it may just not pay as much as you'd like it to.
Actually, I hate to bring this up, but the iMac was really what made USB take off. Before the iMac was released, PC makers had been pushing USB, but peoples' existing devices weren't compatible so they weren't popular and USB devices didn't sell, thus nobody made them. Kind of a chicken-egg problem. Apple comes out with the iMac, where USB is the only peripheral option, and everyone and their mother started making USB products because there was now a real demand for them. When the devices were available for Mac, Windows users started buying them too. The reason Intel doesn't incorporate FireWire on their motherboards is because they don't like paying Apple and Sony royalties for firewire controllers. Besides, they'd rather see high-speed USB 2.0 succeed, because they get to collect royalties from other companies on that. In other words, it's strictly business.
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As for PowerPC, yeah, lots of embedded devices use PowerPC-derived chips, including the Nintendo GameCube, countless routers and the TiVo. IBM used to make low-end AIX servers with PowerPCs, but I think they've stopped that. Though, one benefit of Apple being IBM's only PowerPC customer is that IBM will basically custom-build chips for Apple. Microsoft wishes it had that kind of power.
No. No. No. No. No. Market cap means jack shit. Market cap is essentially what the market THINKS the company is worth. A stock could be very overinflated (example: Enron) and have a larger market cap than a company with real assets, or one that also might benefit from a past market reputation (IBM is an ooooold company, and had far more relevance in the past of computing than it does presently) HP used to be a lot bigger than they are now, but they spun off about half the company that sold medical equipment. Market cap fluctuates way too quickly and for way too many reasons, like a bad economy, interest rate hikes from the fed, or ratings adjustments by market analysts. In other words, use something more relevant, like sales or units shipped. Please don't use market cap as anything other than an investment tool ;)
Laws mean jack shit when you're dealing with a spammer operating out of Romania. Legislating the internet in general is just a waste of time. Also, any technical scheme to stop spam that does not include a whitelist of some kind is also doomed to fail. All a spammer has to do is hack a random Windows box (and they do,) set up a custom mail server that will spoof the headers, then spam away. Then again, whitelists carry with them their own problems.
Blacklists aren't a great idea either, too easy to hop around via hacked boxes and/or DDoS the blacklist server (as we've seen happen recently.) The only way I could see a scheme like this being even remotely successful would be if ISPs started parsing incoming packets for mail server requests, then dropped them, as 99% of end-users should not be running a mail server.
Basically, the problem with spam is that most of the solutions introduce bigger problems than they solve. Adding to the problem is the fact that no system is ironclad, so somebody eventually will find a way around it. Now we know how the RIAA feels with their "protected" CDs. The best solution seems to be some sort of adaptive filtering, which is what most people use now. There's no real effective way to reduce spam seen by the mailserver, so the best way is to reduce spam seen by the user.
SCO wants this thing to hit them so Darl can have an excuse to bankrupt the company and not make it look like he did it. I mean, come on, the company will probably fold in a week or two anyway, all their 'evidence' was as much vaporware as their products. Now Darl has a way to kill the company and not look too bad in the process. I doubt they wrote it themselves or anything, but I think Darl sees the writing on the wall. He's already made his money anyway, what does he care?
That had nothing to do with the ad, it has to do with the fact that TV networks don't air "issue ads," or political ads not endorsing a certain political candidate. Basically, they're too controversial and the networks don't want to show anything that might make people want to change the channel. Yup, sucks, but that's the way things work. And this has nothing to do with the first amendment, CBS is a corporation, the first amendment only applies to the government. It would only be illegal if the FCC or Congress passed a law prohibiting issue ads on TV.
No, I doubt you could collect the $250,000 from SCO, but Microsoft is offering the same amount. Kind of like selling one enemy to the other.
Basically, from what I've read about VxWorks, (never used it personally) that's a distinct possibility. The workaround here is to just keep the filesystem clean, which, while it's not elegant, is probably one of the few options they have from a distance of a few million miles. Maybe they should be running qnx or a form of realtime linux/bsd? Something to think about for future missions perhaps.
Hrm.. Since India was never Soviet.. Perhaps:
In British India, they send the job to you... after tea, of course.
Nah, it's just because "India" in this sense is not just India, it's also Malaysia, Pakistan, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. Lots of jobs go to those countries too. But in this sense, Ireland might as well count. ;)
Yeah, except if it were built by monster garage techs it would have a 5000 watt stereo system and flamethrowers on the exhaust. Which is not necessarily a bad thing...
If you want to be a level designer, then just design levels. Most professional mappers got their start by designing fan maps that were popular and got them noticed by a company. Essentially, if you want to take this track, the proper method is:
1) Get another job
2) Start designing levels
3) Make a good one that is popular among players
4) Get job of your dreams that probably pays $30k a year
(and don't you DARE say "5) Profit!" or I'll smack the taste out yo' mouth)
Yeah, except people don't realize that being a game programmer is pretty much the same as being a word processor programmer, the only difference is in the functions that you call. You probably won't even get to play the game you're working on until it's almost done, and by then you'll be so sick of working 80 hour weeks on it you'll probably never want to see it again.
You get a lot of idealistic kids coming out of high school/college thinking they want to write video games because they like to play them, which is about as stupid a conclusion as you can draw. Nevermind most game production houses are really small, hire maybe one or two people a year, and when they do you've gotta be a guru. Christ, you practically need a master's degree in mathematics to mess with the 3d engines these days. Besides, in 5 years, they'll probably replace all the programmers with people in India.
Yes, but there are tradeoffs between security and usability that must be made on a desktop system. The file doesn't even have to be executable, or even exploit a mail program. It can exploit *any* program, so long as you can double-click on a file and it will open in the correct program (this is a must for a usable desktop system, so we'll assume that if Linux is the dominant desktop OS, most/all desktop Linux machines have this feature) and from there, can exploit whatever the heck it wants. While the paranoid among us might open up a KWord (or whatever other dominant applications there are) document in vi or the like first, most people would just double click on it.
Under an OSS model, the source code to these programs would be available, making it easy to look for exploits. While these exploits would be fixed shortly after any virus is released into the wild, there would still be people out there who never upgrade. This is essentially what happens with Windows; Microsoft releases patches for known vulnerabilities either before or within days of a major virus exploit. The problem is that people don't apply them, and remain vulnerable. Linux has vulnerabilities, christ, there are people out there who still run ancient versions of BIND 4.x and kernels with known root holes. You can trust a competent system admin to keep up to date on security patches, but home users are never going to keep up to date on them, whether the OS is Windows or Linux.
Anyway, the real point of all this is that the weakest link in the chain is the user. Linux is not invincible either. There are Unix "worms" out there in the form of perl scripts that scan for known vulnerabilities in common daemons/CGIs (formmail.pl is a popular one, any admin who checks apache logs can tell you that,) exploit them if possible, upload a rootkit and start probing for more servers to infect. They just don't get press because they don't flood everyone's inboxes with crap, they just provide hackers with a lot of root shells to bounce connections off of.
This is flamebait, but I'll bite. Viruses these days are due to no inherent flaw in Windows or any mail clients period. They rely on tricking people into opening attachments, which, if Linux had the userbase Windows had, would still work on Linux. In the case of MyDOOM, it basically says "This message cannot be viewed with the current character set. It has been included as an attachment." People open it, it spews some garbage characters into a Notepad file, opens it, then infects the machine. It's basically a slightly different approach to a trojan. People are going to be ignorant/gullible whether they're running Windows or Linux, so there will always be the opportunity for worms like this to spread.
Hah.. yeah except McDonalds often pays less than minimum wage. Take a horrible job that's not worth the minimum wage they pay you, add a manager with a raging cocaine habit who skims 2-3 hours a week off everyone's paycheck to fund it, viola. Nobody would challenge him, because that means they'd get drug tested and then lose their job, pretty much irrelevent of the results of the drug test. That pretty much describes what fast-food jobs are like. Now, would you like fries with that?
There's a difference between being professional and having a stick up your ass :) Yes, you should show up in a suit and tie and act like a civilized human being, but there's no reason you can't have personality. Basically, your objective in an interview is to make the other guy like you. Plain and simple. If all they cared about were your technical qualifications, they would not bother calling you in for an interview. If you don't get the job, either someone else was better qualified or the interviewer liked someone else better. You can only affect one of those during an interview. :)