real CS is about much more than just programming. Look at any 1st-tier CS school's curriculum. There are very few actual how-to-program classes. There are lots of classes on theory and principles. None that give you a limiting certification.
a certification teaches you how to answer questions and follow a set of instructions. a real education teaches you how to think and solve problems.
i'd rather hire one CS student that went to a 4-year, second tier school, than a thousand 2-year certified programming monkeys.
The Canon 10D is aimed at pros, and what pro would actually rely on a "hack" to turn their Rebel into a 10D? These guys have to be able to trust their cameras completely and having hacked firmware will degrade that trust, no matter what the 1337 h4x0r community says.
Besides, what will happen to these pros when the next Canon firmware obliterates this hack? If the firmware provides needed fixes that they can't get without losing their "Rebel/10D", they're going to be mighty unhappy.
So I doubt Canon will be too worried about this: their target audience for the 10D isn't the hack-using geekerati, it's professionals. People who rely on their cameras aren't about to compromise reliability just to save a (relatively) few $$.
Look at OSS today: yes, the code IS there, but NO, it is NOT inherently more secure than closed source, because few people seriously review the code. OpenBSD does it right: they have independent review of their code on an ongoing basis, and look at where it's gotten them. The security of their software is well above average.
Experiments have shown that it takes solid, talented auditors to expose weaknesses in any code: Joe Schmo can't just glance at OSS and tell whether it's good or not. So the answer ISN'T Open Source, it's through, independent code review.
I have some copyrighted materials that just happen to have names like oh, explorer.exe and win32spl.dll Now, these have nothing to do with windows at all, they're just "hello world" programs. does this mean that I can delete these off RIAA servers because they have something that has the same name as one of my copyrighted materials?
what if I have a band called M3tallica (not likely) and distribute mp3s freely from our concerts....do they have a right to delete files with that name off other people's computers, just because my band's name is close to that of a large, copyright-nuts band?
damn RIAA wants us in 1984.
Notice what's already happening to Napster...
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If you go to download.com, their most popular download is no longer Napster... It's AudioGalaxy.
I believe AudioGalaxy is already filtering some stuff, but when they become the target of the RIAA, something else will become the new fad.
Even though pre-made images are great, something as simple as a recipe for tweaking a distro to work well with a system could be lucrative.
I am one of many people who host websites devoted to describing how to get different distros working on different machines. In the eleven months since it was first published, my site has had over three thousand hits. Three thousand hits may not seem like a lot, but those could be three thousand customers paying money for a product (a guide to installing linux on their particular laptop) that is nearly free to the producer (simply harvest the data provided by sites linked to by the Linux on Laptops database.)
Beyond that, by providing support and even compatability gaurantees for specific laptops they have information for, this could well be a very, very lucrative business for a company, without having to produce their own images!
Of course! The fat cats in Washington whose pockets are lined by big business want to make Free Software a less appealing choice.
If there's a $299 dollar tax on free software product A, and commercial software product B goes for $299 after tax, wouldn't you have a hard time choosing? (If you weren't the slashdot zealot you are!)
This just doesn't make sense from a "I want to make money with my machine's extra cycles" view. Their machine requirements aren't bad, but aren't the extra P166 I have lying around.
Their location, bandwith and other requirements dictate a decent amount of cash be spend by you, the potential money maker. And then, they haven't said what they'll pay. It can't be great though, because why else wouldn't they be leasing a real server from a commercial colo establishment?
Renting the sort of machine they reqiure and getting the typical 24/7 uptime a commercial venture can provide can't cost that much. It seems as if they just want to be shafting you, the cycle provider.
Ok, so SMP is not supported at launch time. Is this the same "not supported" as Celeron SMP, which many people have in their box right now? Could a mobo maker come out with a board that allows P4 SMP, and just not have it supported by intel?
I know for a fact that I do not get directly charged any amount for any taxes or tolls that the trucks might incurr in getting a package from the wholesaler to my local store.
I pay for that in the markup at the store. Why should I have to pay AT&T anything beyond the price I would pay for an AT&T account, or beyond the markup the company feels they need to include to compensate for their AT&T connection? If they feel they need their fingers deeper in the online commerce pies, they should raise their ISP costs for the user, either home or business, and see what happens then.
You mean some people actually WANT to tell others that their email address has changed? Changing addresses without telling anyone has significantly reduced the number of messages I get per day.
Lets look at this objectively: a 10% increase in speed over SDRAM, which is already way behind what modern processors need in terms of speed/bandwith. Looking at the leaps and bounds with which processor speed is growing, a 10% increase is a drop in the bucket. It's a waste of time and money.
Intel and AMD need to stop their Mhz/Ghz race and prod some chip maker into making decent, fast RAM. Otherwise, we're gonna be running 2Ghz machines bottlenecked to 133Mhz bus. And that will not be cool.
This is where software/service firms need to take some responsibilty for their actions and inactions. Do you really think that if this guy had gone ahead and taken $50m or more Fiserv would have said "oops! we made a mistake, let us fix it". Nope. It would be up to the banks or end users to repair the damages to their accounts. All because some company whose job is to keep data secure failed.
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My laptop, which originally had Windows NT 4.0 on it, doesn't have a DVD drive, and to add one now that I've switched to an OS that supports DVD (Win2k), would be really expensive. If I could get movies from the DVD drive on my home PC onto CD, I could watch movies on my DVD-less laptop while travelling. I consider that to be a good (and fair) use for the technology.
At my small liberal-arts college, the administration has yet to take any stand against Napster. What the network people have done though is to limit the bandwith taken up by traffic on the Napster port. During the day, it's limited to 10% of our total bandwith. Since this step was implemented, I've noticed a dramatic increase in daytime transfer rates.
It's hard to believe that so much traffic, nearly all of it illegal, has been going through our lines. Soon the recording industry might not be the only ones looking to squelch Napster use on campus. I can certainly see university administrations cutting back on Napster's bandwith rather than buying expensive new internet connections.
A friend recently quoted somthing (forget what) which said that Apple, to compensate for low CPU MHz, was planning on offering multiple processor machines for lower prices, to compete with the GHz+ Intel stuff. Now that Intel chips are pushing 700Mhz in notebooks, will we soon see a multi-G4 notebook?
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I'm somewhat serious about building one of these boxes myself.
I have to buy a lot of little parts from a multitude of vendors, fine. A small premium to pay over their quoted price.
My question falls to: where the heck do I buy a "Chyang Fun Industry (CFI Group) CFI-B53PM 5 Port Backplane (SiI3726)"?
Spend a few minutes and try and find that part for sale.
--frustrated--
a certification teaches you how to answer questions and follow a set of instructions. a real education teaches you how to think and solve problems.
i'd rather hire one CS student that went to a 4-year, second tier school, than a thousand 2-year certified programming monkeys.
You'll be clubbed to death by any Apple evangelist who sees you doing this...
The Canon 10D is aimed at pros, and what pro would actually rely on a "hack" to turn their Rebel into a 10D? These guys have to be able to trust their cameras completely and having hacked firmware will degrade that trust, no matter what the 1337 h4x0r community says.
Besides, what will happen to these pros when the next Canon firmware obliterates this hack? If the firmware provides needed fixes that they can't get without losing their "Rebel/10D", they're going to be mighty unhappy.
So I doubt Canon will be too worried about this: their target audience for the 10D isn't the hack-using geekerati, it's professionals. People who rely on their cameras aren't about to compromise reliability just to save a (relatively) few $$.
Through code review and auditing IS the answer.
Look at OSS today: yes, the code IS there, but NO, it is NOT inherently more secure than closed source, because few people seriously review the code. OpenBSD does it right: they have independent review of their code on an ongoing basis, and look at where it's gotten them. The security of their software is well above average.
Experiments have shown that it takes solid, talented auditors to expose weaknesses in any code: Joe Schmo can't just glance at OSS and tell whether it's good or not. So the answer ISN'T Open Source, it's through, independent code review.
Hopefully the site isn't hosted on this bike...if it got slashdotted and crashed, we could all get sued for his injuries!
I have a feeling that the /. effect will shut this guy's store down faster than the DMCA could ever hope to.
Cheaper than going to his ISP and cutting him off there, and certainly cheaper than legal battles
Did anyone else notice, or was anyone else bothered by the fact that Tom's super-deluxe testing station has a Innovatek sticker on it?
Innovatek is, of course, the brand of water cooler Tom found to be superior in his testing.
Groovy.
I have some copyrighted materials that just happen to have names like oh, explorer.exe and win32spl.dll Now, these have nothing to do with windows at all, they're just "hello world" programs. does this mean that I can delete these off RIAA servers because they have something that has the same name as one of my copyrighted materials?
what if I have a band called M3tallica (not likely) and distribute mp3s freely from our concerts....do they have a right to delete files with that name off other people's computers, just because my band's name is close to that of a large, copyright-nuts band?
damn RIAA wants us in 1984.
If you go to download.com, their most popular download is no longer Napster... It's AudioGalaxy.
.mp3 trader goes on.
I believe AudioGalaxy is already filtering some stuff, but when they become the target of the RIAA, something else will become the new fad.
And so the life of the
Yay.
another busy, intermittently available repeater.
:)
yay
now when do we get autopatch?
Well. Cingluar ads did their jobs. I came back from the game after giving up all hope of a Giant win, and went to the Cingular website...
baa baa baaaa
Even though pre-made images are great, something as simple as a recipe for tweaking a distro to work well with a system could be lucrative.
I am one of many people who host websites devoted to describing how to get different distros working on different machines. In the eleven months since it was first published, my site has had over three thousand hits. Three thousand hits may not seem like a lot, but those could be three thousand customers paying money for a product (a guide to installing linux on their particular laptop) that is nearly free to the producer (simply harvest the data provided by sites linked to by the Linux on Laptops database.)
Beyond that, by providing support and even compatability gaurantees for specific laptops they have information for, this could well be a very, very lucrative business for a company, without having to produce their own images!
Well...it's still more ergonomically correct than the original iMac hockey-puck mouse.
Is most colleges don't offer degrees in binge drinking and drug use...
(as said by a student at a small liberal arts school notorious for its alcoholism...)
Of course! The fat cats in Washington whose pockets are lined by big business want to make Free Software a less appealing choice.
If there's a $299 dollar tax on free software product A, and commercial software product B goes for $299 after tax, wouldn't you have a hard time choosing? (If you weren't the slashdot zealot you are!)
This just doesn't make sense from a "I want to make money with my machine's extra cycles" view. Their machine requirements aren't bad, but aren't the extra P166 I have lying around.
Their location, bandwith and other requirements dictate a decent amount of cash be spend by you, the potential money maker. And then, they haven't said what they'll pay. It can't be great though, because why else wouldn't they be leasing a real server from a commercial colo establishment?
Renting the sort of machine they reqiure and getting the typical 24/7 uptime a commercial venture can provide can't cost that much. It seems as if they just want to be shafting you, the cycle provider.
Ok, so SMP is not supported at launch time. Is this the same "not supported" as Celeron SMP, which many people have in their box right now? Could a mobo maker come out with a board that allows P4 SMP, and just not have it supported by intel?
Or is this "not supported" as in not doable?
I know for a fact that I do not get directly charged any amount for any taxes or tolls that the trucks might incurr in getting a package from the wholesaler to my local store.
I pay for that in the markup at the store. Why should I have to pay AT&T anything beyond the price I would pay for an AT&T account, or beyond the markup the company feels they need to include to compensate for their AT&T connection? If they feel they need their fingers deeper in the online commerce pies, they should raise their ISP costs for the user, either home or business, and see what happens then.
I bet they won't like it
You mean some people actually WANT to tell others that their email address has changed? Changing addresses without telling anyone has significantly reduced the number of messages I get per day.
Lets look at this objectively: a 10% increase in speed over SDRAM, which is already way behind what modern processors need in terms of speed/bandwith. Looking at the leaps and bounds with which processor speed is growing, a 10% increase is a drop in the bucket. It's a waste of time and money.
Intel and AMD need to stop their Mhz/Ghz race and prod some chip maker into making decent, fast RAM. Otherwise, we're gonna be running 2Ghz machines bottlenecked to 133Mhz bus. And that will not be cool.
This is where software/service firms need to take some responsibilty for their actions and inactions. Do you really think that if this guy had gone ahead and taken $50m or more Fiserv would have said "oops! we made a mistake, let us fix it". Nope. It would be up to the banks or end users to repair the damages to their accounts. All because some company whose job is to keep data secure failed.
My laptop, which originally had Windows NT 4.0 on it, doesn't have a DVD drive, and to add one now that I've switched to an OS that supports DVD (Win2k), would be really expensive. If I could get movies from the DVD drive on my home PC onto CD, I could watch movies on my DVD-less laptop while travelling. I consider that to be a good (and fair) use for the technology.
At my small liberal-arts college, the administration has yet to take any stand against Napster. What the network people have done though is to limit the bandwith taken up by traffic on the Napster port. During the day, it's limited to 10% of our total bandwith. Since this step was implemented, I've noticed a dramatic increase in daytime transfer rates.
It's hard to believe that so much traffic, nearly all of it illegal, has been going through our lines. Soon the recording industry might not be the only ones looking to squelch Napster use on campus. I can certainly see university administrations cutting back on Napster's bandwith rather than buying expensive new internet connections.
A friend recently quoted somthing (forget what) which said that Apple, to compensate for low CPU MHz, was planning on offering multiple processor machines for lower prices, to compete with the GHz+ Intel stuff. Now that Intel chips are pushing 700Mhz in notebooks, will we soon see a multi-G4 notebook?
Now that would be something.