With wireless networking and PalmVNC, you could operate the in-dash computer via a PalmOS-compatible PDA. Imagine that this thing could be very powerful as a combination MP3 jukebox, satnav device, PVR -- toss a 7" monitor in the back seat of a SUV or minivan, which some manufacturers are starting to add in their luxury models, great for the kids -- and with USB ports, the thing could be useful to store files for your digital camera. Sure, some of these things (satnav/gps, MP3 playing) can be done by a PDA, but you're limited by the memory you can stuff into the PDA. A full PC, OTOH, can have hundreds of megs of RAM and hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive storage. That, and the fact that you can combine all those devices into one is going to save you space.
They might sign away 49% of their custody and send you to a Behavioral Modification Center offshore in Jamaica staffed by uneducated/uncertified people who will "restrain" you into submission.
I assume this is what you threaten your kids with every time they misbehave?;)
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
Wouldn't that be a hoot? No...wait...my PHB would say "Okay, we're going to rewrite all of our mission critical web applications in Perl and base them on Slashcode." *shudders* Never mind.;)
Meditation isn't sex. And meditation isn't a religious ceremony either. Meditation can hardly be construed as being offensive. Practically every religion on the planet, including the Abrahamic religions (Judaism/Christianity/Islam), encourages some form of meditation. Many atheists and agnostics practice meditation as well. It is not necessarily a spritual exercise (although it certainly can be), but a mental one. Note that no particular form of meditation is being shoved down anyone's throat, and that the meditation is not being force fed to anyone. It's a benefit. If you don't want to do it, nobody's making you.
Those who find meditation benefits in the workplace to be offensive are too easily offended.
Civil answer would also be great, but we have to find another source that works on the 'other side' of the fence (not FSF lawyers, but RIAA lawyers).
And given the number of cracks and stabs taken at the RIAA and the MPAA, do you *really* think they would *want* to answer questions posed by a mob of Slashdot users?;)
I don't disagree with you at all, and if you read the link I provided, you'll find that there are a wide variety of techniques for meditation, and that clearly I do not endorse any one of those for any given group of people. The original-original poster said that he/she/it felt that meditation was nonsense and that it was useless. You have to find the right way for you, and that was the reason I provided the link.
I've thought the same thing, but then I realized this scenario:
I *always* pay for gas at the pump, mostly outta habit, and partly because I like watching the little pegasus on the pump light up when I wave my Mobil Speedpass over the little square.;)
If I really am hungry/thirsty or need cigarettes, milk, bread, or other convenience store items, I *will* go inside afterwards.
It's not like the gas is always the first thing and the convenience store is secondary. In Detroit, we drive *everywhere*. (Think about it, it makes sense. We live and die by the automotive industry here;). For us, the gas station has *become* the convenience store. There are fewer and fewer "7-11" type stores. The only reason to go to a store like this anymore is to buy beer, wine or liquor (which is illegal to sell in a gas station in the State of Michigan and many other states). For almost everything else, when we don't want to stand in line at the grocery store, we typically head for the nearest gas station.
Most of the time I go to the gas station, I'm not actually there to buy gas. You can see this reflected in newer gas station designs, whereby there are actually *parking* spaces laid out for people who aren't getting gas.
So the supposition that the convenience store part of a gas station is mostly for impulse purchases is an incorrect one. Maybe there are some people that this mode of thinking fits for, but not all, and at least where I come from, not even for most.
Yeah, but unlike your six pack, meditation has actual physical and mental health benefits, which your six pack causes actual physical and mental harm. That's the difference.;)
With this being said, I love automated services such as "Pay-at-the-Pump" and especially self-checkout at the grocery stores. It's not that I'm some hermit who likes no human contact, but who wants to make idle chit-chat with some register jockey?
It comes down to convenience factor. Note that in each of these scenarios, if you really want it, you *can* still get serviced by a real, live flesh-and-blood person. Another similar scenario is the automated ticket selling machines at some movie theatres. You can order your tickets online, by phone, or at the machine, and then pay them using a credit or ATM/debit card right at the machine. Despite the existence of this automated service, the overwhelming majority of people will still by their tickets at the counter.
So for those who demand it, I think more and more services *will* be automated, but live human being service will still be around as long as there are people who demand that. Once again, it's free markets working themselves out.;)
I think this will most likely be the case in the future
The only thing I can say in response to that is if it didn't work for you, you're not doing it right.;) (I'm sure you've heard this before. Most people I tell this to in response to what you've said say the same thing;)
There is plenty of actual, hard scientific evidence that points to both physical and mental health benefits to meditation. Here are some useful meditation resources that I've found to be helpful.
This is ridiculous. Employers would find that their employess were productive and content by treating them with respect and dignity, managing them properly, having proper time-scales, fair working hours, etc. Enforced yoga, meditation and feng-shui is childish, silly and new-age clap-trap put about my a bunch of charlatans looking to make a quick buck out of the naieve, impressionable and those with more money than sense.
As someone who meditates on a daily basis, I wholeheartedly disagree. Meditation is *very* useful for clearing the mind and relieving stress. It's a useful tool for collecting your thoughts, visualizing the achievement of goals, and quieting the useless chatter in your mind that keeps you from being productive. It's a technique that's been using tens of thousands of years, and it's very, very effective. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
Yeah, I expect the Treo to retail somewhere in the high $400s, about for an extra $100, it's a cell phone too, which this doesn't appear to be.
The only thing is I gotta wonder how long the Treo will last after finalizing the merger with Palm. Will Palm provide support? For how long? Palm will most likely kill off the entire Handspring line of products, this will include the Treo 600, which will no doubt be short-lived.
You're forgetting PACs. That's one of the main problems -- so-called "soft money."
Let's say Microsoft, AOL, and Disney want to push digital rights management (DRM) as a political measure -- forcing all computers, old and new, in the United States to be DRM-enabled at the hardware level. So they form a political action committee -- a PAC, say called the MAD DRM PAC.
Now they wanna donate $100,000 to say...Bush. So instead, they each pump ~$33,300 into MAD DRM PAC, and then MAD DRM PAC donates that money (~$100,000) to Bush's campaign. Now that money didn't come from Microsoft, AOL or Disney, it came from MAD DRM PAC.which "decided" to donate that money to Bush.
So Bush wouldn't have to wear the MS logo, the AOL logo or the Disney logo because he didn't receive a DIME from those companies, he recieved all his money from MAD DRM PAC, which is a non-profit organization.
Your understanding of political campaign fundraising issues is somewhat limited. No offense.:)
...and...? Linux is widely available, reliable, robust and free. If there were no Linux, spammers would just use some other system. So you can't really say that Linux and Linus Torvalds are responsible or liable for spam.
A friend of mine worked for a professional spamming outfit that was exclusively Microsoft-based. It's not like it hasn't or can't be done. It's just generally cheaper and easier to do stuff on Linux.
Hard drives are _not_ a backup technology. The whole point of tapes/cds/dvds/etc is to decouple the data storage from the reader. Thus the data is often stored in a solid state medium making it less succeptable to failure while the reader often contains lots of moving parts making it more prone to fail. So, if the two are decoupled, when the reader breaks, I just get a new one and my data is safe. But if we 'backup' on a hard drive, and the hard drive crashes or the internal hard drive reader crashes, we can't simply get a new reader, the data is just gone.
Exactly what I was going to say. Of course, this brings up the issue of archival backups. One of the main problems is the longevity of the reader. You can get a new reader -- as long as you can get one.
That's why it's important to pick a media that's popularly used and not proprietary, so if the technology becomes non-existent in 10 years (HP DLT/LTO, for instance) you might still be able to get drives for it.
DVDs are good as long your backups are small. But for a half-a-terrabyte RAID array, it starts to become impractical as you require 100 pieces of media. Short of a DVD jukebox system, you can opt for tape, but AFAIK, the only tapes that backup something that big on one piece of media are LTO, which are proprietary.
DVD recordables are probably more suited for archival storage than tape (not subject to magnetic fields and such) but tape is more practical in terms of media count. But high-capacity tapes are proprietary and may be gone in a 10 years.
It gives me a headache just thinking about it all.
IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number,"
how about "thirty six trillion" ?
I know. The whole statement is pointless. He may as well have said that IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion to a number in excess of 10 (...yada yada.) There are LOTS of numbers between 35 trillion and numbers that have no name.
I hate to tell both you and the anonymous coward that replied to you, but there is PLENTY of case law where employers have claimed that employees were not acting on behalf of the company's interests and won.
There is case law going the other way, too, though.
It comes down to the evidence presented in the case. Was there an established, written policy about working on Linux? Are there memos between this programmer and his supervisor(s) regarding the work being done on the Linux kernel? What evidence is there that the programmer was acting in the interests of the company?
Use of company resources isn't enough. I'm using company resources RIGHT NOW to post this message. Does this mean I'm acting on behalf of my employer? Nope.
Slashdot Mirror
unless you're a plant or something
:)
Plants can post on Slashdot? *This* I gotta see.
With wireless networking and PalmVNC, you could operate the in-dash computer via a PalmOS-compatible PDA. Imagine that this thing could be very powerful as a combination MP3 jukebox, satnav device, PVR -- toss a 7" monitor in the back seat of a SUV or minivan, which some manufacturers are starting to add in their luxury models, great for the kids -- and with USB ports, the thing could be useful to store files for your digital camera. Sure, some of these things (satnav/gps, MP3 playing) can be done by a PDA, but you're limited by the memory you can stuff into the PDA. A full PC, OTOH, can have hundreds of megs of RAM and hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive storage. That, and the fact that you can combine all those devices into one is going to save you space.
That's why you'd want a PC in your car.
They might sign away 49% of their custody and send you to a Behavioral Modification Center offshore in Jamaica staffed by uneducated/uncertified people who will "restrain" you into submission.
;)
I assume this is what you threaten your kids with every time they misbehave?
If you are *sleeping* than it is *not* meditation. I think this was said before. ;)
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
;)
Wouldn't that be a hoot? No...wait...my PHB would say "Okay, we're going to rewrite all of our mission critical web applications in Perl and base them on Slashcode." *shudders* Never mind.
Meditation isn't sex. And meditation isn't a religious ceremony either. Meditation can hardly be construed as being offensive. Practically every religion on the planet, including the Abrahamic religions (Judaism/Christianity/Islam), encourages some form of meditation. Many atheists and agnostics practice meditation as well. It is not necessarily a spritual exercise (although it certainly can be), but a mental one. Note that no particular form of meditation is being shoved down anyone's throat, and that the meditation is not being force fed to anyone. It's a benefit. If you don't want to do it, nobody's making you.
Those who find meditation benefits in the workplace to be offensive are too easily offended.
Civil answer would also be great, but we have to find another source that works on the 'other side' of the fence (not FSF lawyers, but RIAA lawyers).
;)
And given the number of cracks and stabs taken at the RIAA and the MPAA, do you *really* think they would *want* to answer questions posed by a mob of Slashdot users?
I'll be ecstatic if a Treo 600 will be under $500, but let's get a little realistic at least.
;) I wasn't pulling the number out of my ass. ;)
Um, not to be rude, but RTFA.
I don't disagree with you at all, and if you read the link I provided, you'll find that there are a wide variety of techniques for meditation, and that clearly I do not endorse any one of those for any given group of people. The original-original poster said that he/she/it felt that meditation was nonsense and that it was useless. You have to find the right way for you, and that was the reason I provided the link.
I've thought the same thing, but then I realized this scenario:
;)
;). For us, the gas station has *become* the convenience store. There are fewer and fewer "7-11" type stores. The only reason to go to a store like this anymore is to buy beer, wine or liquor (which is illegal to sell in a gas station in the State of Michigan and many other states). For almost everything else, when we don't want to stand in line at the grocery store, we typically head for the nearest gas station.
I *always* pay for gas at the pump, mostly outta habit, and partly because I like watching the little pegasus on the pump light up when I wave my Mobil Speedpass over the little square.
If I really am hungry/thirsty or need cigarettes, milk, bread, or other convenience store items, I *will* go inside afterwards.
It's not like the gas is always the first thing and the convenience store is secondary. In Detroit, we drive *everywhere*. (Think about it, it makes sense. We live and die by the automotive industry here
Most of the time I go to the gas station, I'm not actually there to buy gas. You can see this reflected in newer gas station designs, whereby there are actually *parking* spaces laid out for people who aren't getting gas.
So the supposition that the convenience store part of a gas station is mostly for impulse purchases is an incorrect one. Maybe there are some people that this mode of thinking fits for, but not all, and at least where I come from, not even for most.
Yeah, but unlike your six pack, meditation has actual physical and mental health benefits, which your six pack causes actual physical and mental harm. That's the difference. ;)
With this being said, I love automated services such as "Pay-at-the-Pump" and especially self-checkout at the grocery stores. It's not that I'm some hermit who likes no human contact, but who wants to make idle chit-chat with some register jockey?
;)
It comes down to convenience factor. Note that in each of these scenarios, if you really want it, you *can* still get serviced by a real, live flesh-and-blood person. Another similar scenario is the automated ticket selling machines at some movie theatres. You can order your tickets online, by phone, or at the machine, and then pay them using a credit or ATM/debit card right at the machine. Despite the existence of this automated service, the overwhelming majority of people will still by their tickets at the counter.
So for those who demand it, I think more and more services *will* be automated, but live human being service will still be around as long as there are people who demand that. Once again, it's free markets working themselves out.
I think this will most likely be the case in the future
The only thing I can say in response to that is if it didn't work for you, you're not doing it right. ;) (I'm sure you've heard this before. Most people I tell this to in response to what you've said say the same thing ;)
There is plenty of actual, hard scientific evidence that points to both physical and mental health benefits to meditation. Here are some useful meditation resources that I've found to be helpful.
This is ridiculous. Employers would find that their employess were productive and content by treating them with respect and dignity, managing them properly, having proper time-scales, fair working hours, etc. Enforced yoga, meditation and feng-shui is childish, silly and new-age clap-trap put about my a bunch of charlatans looking to make a quick buck out of the naieve, impressionable and those with more money than sense.
As someone who meditates on a daily basis, I wholeheartedly disagree. Meditation is *very* useful for clearing the mind and relieving stress. It's a useful tool for collecting your thoughts, visualizing the achievement of goals, and quieting the useless chatter in your mind that keeps you from being productive. It's a technique that's been using tens of thousands of years, and it's very, very effective. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
Yeah, I expect the Treo to retail somewhere in the high $400s, about for an extra $100, it's a cell phone too, which this doesn't appear to be.
The only thing is I gotta wonder how long the Treo will last after finalizing the merger with Palm. Will Palm provide support? For how long? Palm will most likely kill off the entire Handspring line of products, this will include the Treo 600, which will no doubt be short-lived.
You're forgetting PACs. That's one of the main problems -- so-called "soft money."
:)
Let's say Microsoft, AOL, and Disney want to push digital rights management (DRM) as a political measure -- forcing all computers, old and new, in the United States to be DRM-enabled at the hardware level. So they form a political action committee -- a PAC, say called the MAD DRM PAC.
Now they wanna donate $100,000 to say...Bush. So instead, they each pump ~$33,300 into MAD DRM PAC, and then MAD DRM PAC donates that money (~$100,000) to Bush's campaign. Now that money didn't come from Microsoft, AOL or Disney, it came from MAD DRM PAC.which "decided" to donate that money to Bush.
So Bush wouldn't have to wear the MS logo, the AOL logo or the Disney logo because he didn't receive a DIME from those companies, he recieved all his money from MAD DRM PAC, which is a non-profit organization.
Your understanding of political campaign fundraising issues is somewhat limited. No offense.
Yes. In fact, I'm adding that to the global password policies on my servers right now as I type this.
The users'll complain, but we'll be secure from this exploit!
...and...? Linux is widely available, reliable, robust and free. If there were no Linux, spammers would just use some other system. So you can't really say that Linux and Linus Torvalds are responsible or liable for spam.
A friend of mine worked for a professional spamming outfit that was exclusively Microsoft-based. It's not like it hasn't or can't be done. It's just generally cheaper and easier to do stuff on Linux.
Hard drives are _not_ a backup technology. The whole point of tapes/cds/dvds/etc is to decouple the data storage from the reader. Thus the data is often stored in a solid state medium making it less succeptable to failure while the reader often contains lots of moving parts making it more prone to fail. So, if the two are decoupled, when the reader breaks, I just get a new one and my data is safe. But if we 'backup' on a hard drive, and the hard drive crashes or the internal hard drive reader crashes, we can't simply get a new reader, the data is just gone.
Exactly what I was going to say. Of course, this brings up the issue of archival backups. One of the main problems is the longevity of the reader. You can get a new reader -- as long as you can get one.
That's why it's important to pick a media that's popularly used and not proprietary, so if the technology becomes non-existent in 10 years (HP DLT/LTO, for instance) you might still be able to get drives for it.
DVDs are good as long your backups are small. But for a half-a-terrabyte RAID array, it starts to become impractical as you require 100 pieces of media. Short of a DVD jukebox system, you can opt for tape, but AFAIK, the only tapes that backup something that big on one piece of media are LTO, which are proprietary.
DVD recordables are probably more suited for archival storage than tape (not subject to magnetic fields and such) but tape is more practical in terms of media count. But high-capacity tapes are proprietary and may be gone in a 10 years.
It gives me a headache just thinking about it all.
Ummm...my pop's got the strength of ZERO MINUS INFINITY Neanderthals! Oh wait...
The number of IP addresses IP6 will allow is truely astronomical, 6.65x10^23 addresses for every square
Heh. Reminds of a REALLY old joke: For a good time call Avogadro 6.022*10^23!
Ha! I kill me! I'll be here all week.
THE *SKY* IS FALLING! THE SKY *IS* FALLING! THE SKY IS *FALLING*!
:)
Doomsday is here! When the IP addresses run out, The Dark Lord Sauron and his minions shall RULE MIDDLE EARTH! Muhahahahahah!
Puhleeze. Between NAT and IPv6 I think we've got this covered.
IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number,"
how about "thirty six trillion" ?
I know. The whole statement is pointless. He may as well have said that IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion to a number in excess of 10 (...yada yada.) There are LOTS of numbers between 35 trillion and numbers that have no name.
Yeah, but I couldn't believe it. I On their directory I clicked on Computer Science and #1 was Slashdot. Ha!
:-P
That PROVES that they don't know about what they're doing!
I hate to tell both you and the anonymous coward that replied to you, but there is PLENTY of case law where employers have claimed that employees were not acting on behalf of the company's interests and won.
There is case law going the other way, too, though.
It comes down to the evidence presented in the case. Was there an established, written policy about working on Linux? Are there memos between this programmer and his supervisor(s) regarding the work being done on the Linux kernel? What evidence is there that the programmer was acting in the interests of the company?
Use of company resources isn't enough. I'm using company resources RIGHT NOW to post this message. Does this mean I'm acting on behalf of my employer? Nope.