But if even nine other people do what I did then that's 1.31gigs of data transfer; someone's got to pay for that. With any luck there'll be a benevolent user somewhere among the mix who's willing to contribute.
I've had good experiences with KDS as well, in spite of their bargain prices. The 17" Avitron display I bought 4 years ago came with something like a 7-year (limited) warranty. I've had absolutely no problems with it thus far.
they're not trying to give 50 or 100 units away to geeks, they're really just trying to decide where to invest research and development.
So what if it IS a marketing survey? The result is the same; the company gets feedback from the public and uses it to build devices which better meet our needs.
The best way to help the Iraqi's is to contribute whatever you can the best you can.
It's not only WHAT you can contribute, but WHEN is the right time to contribute it.
Everyone and their mother went out and gave blood right after 9/11... the lines to donate wrapped around the block. In the end, the Red Cross had to throw a huge amount of that blood out because there was no demand for it during the time when it was usable. Now we have shortages again.
I don't mean why would you want a wireless bridge between two network segments. I mean, why would you want to implement such a bridge with dedicated webcams and video displays instead of, say, infrared LEDs.
Client #1: A new upstart company whose owner wants a network put in, but wants to know what the best way to do it is and why. Pays $750.
Wouldn't take the assignment. The fee isn't enough to cover the amount of work involved.
I CERTAINLY wouldn't take the job but just do it half-assed because I wasn't getting paid what I deserved.
Client #2: An established company whose owner routinely gets advice from his/her close friends and family, and wants you to use FormMail for requests on their website, even though there are hundreds of better applications and simple 10 lines of PHP will do it better and faster. Pays $2300.
I'd take a reputable mailer program and create a wrapper for it that uses formmail syntax. Everybody's happy.
Client #3: A large corporation who has hired you as a temporary drone to do some tech work for their latest sattellite office along with the other temps. They already have three others that work perfectly fine with their 10Mbps networks and ISDN lines, even though there are DSL and Cable lines running to the building that cost about the same price. Pays $800.
I'm not sure I understand the scenario you're laying out here, but if they already have an IDSN architecture that works for their needs, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to DSL or Cable service just because it's more cost-effective. Planning and rolling it out would take time and effort, and could negatively impact their business if not done just right.
Amazing that some schools are so poor they can't afford new PCs
You say amazing, I say depressing, let's split the difference.
My high school's math computer lab in the early 1990's was a room full of Apple IIgs's running some kind of graphic software off of 5 1/4" floppy disks. And this was at the beginning of the Pentium era.
Those machines were in all likelihood less powerful than the TI-90's that everyone carried around in their backpacks. Having that computer lab was a waste of our time and the teacher's time, and a waste of classroom space.
I wonder if they're still there, and I probably won't be too surprised if they are.
First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing.
I'm a permanent employee, and I know what the hell I'm doing: I'm building a CAREER, instead of floating from project to detached project.
I'm less than four years out of college and I'm already at the managerial level. I'll be a director by the time I'm thirty, maybe a vice president by the time I'm forty. When you're forty, what will you be doing? Working on your 75th short-term contract job?
When you're a contractor-for-life you're a lackey-for-life. If you're cool with that, then go right ahead. Some of us aspire to do more with our lives than that.
So, anybody know how to make any decent browser never time out?
1. Download the Mozilla source 2. Find the code that closes the connection when a timeout interval has been reached 3. Comment it out 4. Recompile it 5. Run
(You'll notice I've left 6. ??? 7. Profit! off the list, since those are already part of the standard Netscape/Mozilla business plan)
But if there isn't pin compatibility, then this means that you can't use one motherboard designed for Intel with a Via chip.
Unless...
Unless there were some kind of really simple adapter to go between the chip and the socket, that just does some pin remappings and maybe a little voltage conversion...
if you ask a human being for 3 random numbers, odds are very good that they will give you at least two sequential ones...such as 7 6 2...or 5 9 8...
A single number in isolation cannot be random. It's the sequence of numbers that determines randomness -- if the sequence can be predicted, they are not random.
I think you're confusing 'sequential' with 'consecutive'. What number comes after '7,6,2'? Can you guess?
512(i)(1)(A) applies to Princeton's LAN, not the 'wake' search interface. I guarantee you that Princeton's Code of Conduct includes language that says if you misuse computer resources for illicit activities, you can have your access to them revoked.
512(i)(1)(B) is pretty meaningless in the absence of any "standard technical measures" as defined in 512(i)(2). The thing I can imagine that MIGHT apply is the copyright flag in ID3 tags, but I'm guessing that the search software retains any such flags that are present. Thus, ID3 copyright flags are ACCOMODATED and NOT INTERFERED with.
Aiming a multi-billion dollar lawsuit at one student has a pretty sobering effect on anybody that's nearby and watching
No it doesn't. College students will always think "That won't happen to ME"... it's why one in six adults carries the herpes virus.
the RIAA has the resources to file suit all day and night, win or lose.
But with each suit the RIAA files, those resources are depleted that much more. Will there come a point in the future where they realize that file sharing hasn't decreased any, they haven't won a single lawsuit, and they've spent millions of dollars with no tangible results? No business can keep that up forever.
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We're still using the same 16 interrupts they introduced with the PC-AT
15 interrupts. IRQ 2 just cascades to the second group of 8, so IRQs 2 and 9 end up being the same thing.
The priority order also ends up being 1,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,3,4,5,6,7,8 which is retarded.
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Your mistake is that you assume "legacy" simply means "old". What it really means is "has been supplanted by something better."
Also, The Beatles' entire recording career lasted only about 8 years. I don't think they're a particularly good example of "Good things take time to mature".
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My complaint isn't that legacy interfaces take up system resource space like IRQ's
My complaint is that they take up PHYSICAL space.
All other things equal, most external PC peripherals would run fine on USB. But rather than just a row of USB ports on the back of my machine, I have a PS/2 mouse jack, and a PS/2 keyboard jack, and two serial ports, and one parallel port...
And even a joystick port. I think that one originated on the PCjr. No one even makes devices for the joystick port anymore (only 2 analog axes and 2 buttons? Feh.), yet lots of motherboards and most sound cards still have one.
If harm befalls Mr. Moore, Uy's going to be in a spot of trouble.
The same way that General Motors gets in trouble if some crazy mows down a couple pedestrians in a GMC truck.
Sending death threats, or threats of any type, to a person is Wrong. It doesn't matter what he might have done to piss you off, when you invoke the threat of bodily harm you've crossed the line.
Sending catalogs and such to his business/home address, I have no problem with that. If Moore didn't want to receive catalogs, he shouldn't have agreed to post a mailbox on the front of his building. Anyone may initiate contact with anyone else through the postal system, save when there are circumstances (marketing opt-out lists, restraining orders) barring it.
Have you ever used "View Source" on the google homepage?
It's the best 3,736 bytes on the web.
The only place I could find for improvement would be to remove the comment tags within the style and script tags. They're in the head of the document, so there's really no need to put them in comments for the benefit of older browsers -- browsers aren't supposed to use tags in the head as display content anyway.
Then again, both the style and the script tags really SHOULD specify what language their content is -- browsers default to CSS and Javascript, but why rely on defaults?
Slashdot Mirror
(where is the golden rule that says music produces/artist have to be millionaires? I mean, noone else is..)
And neither are the vast majority of music producers and artists.
Where is the Golden Rule that says IT people deserve to get paid more than burger flippers???
This is Big. Very big. Changing the way the world does business big.
Hopefully not big in the same way that AOL buying Time Warner was...
Apple is the sole company in the world that could build an entire *working* DRM system.
Yes, but will it matter if the iDRM system only gets adopted by 5-10% of the consumer base?
DRM will fail unless its use is widespread. DRM will fail even if its use is widespread.
Would I buy a Sony DVD player and expect it to only play CDs or DVDs from Sony?
*coughcough SACD coughcough*
But if even nine other people do what I did then that's 1.31gigs of data transfer; someone's got to pay for that. With any luck there'll be a benevolent user somewhere among the mix who's willing to contribute.
How about you, greedy-ass?
I've had good experiences with KDS as well, in spite of their bargain prices. The 17" Avitron display I bought 4 years ago came with something like a 7-year (limited) warranty. I've had absolutely no problems with it thus far.
they're not trying to give 50 or 100 units away to geeks, they're really just trying to decide where to invest research and development.
So what if it IS a marketing survey? The result is the same; the company gets feedback from the public and uses it to build devices which better meet our needs.
People, why aren't we mirroring sites on other high-profile facilities with no bandwidth caps or problems?
Because that would be a violation of the sites' copyrights, and could get OSDN and Slashdot sued.
Any more brain-busters?
The best way to help the Iraqi's is to contribute whatever you can the best you can.
It's not only WHAT you can contribute, but WHEN is the right time to contribute it.
Everyone and their mother went out and gave blood right after 9/11... the lines to donate wrapped around the block. In the end, the Red Cross had to throw a huge amount of that blood out because there was no demand for it during the time when it was usable. Now we have shortages again.
I would say freedom of information coincides quite nicely with the coalitions effort to build Iraq into a land free people.
I would remind everyone that freedom of information existed long before the Internet.
Why would you want to do this?
I don't mean why would you want a wireless bridge between two network segments. I mean, why would you want to implement such a bridge with dedicated webcams and video displays instead of, say, infrared LEDs.
Client #1: A new upstart company whose owner wants a network put in, but wants to know what the best way to do it is and why. Pays $750.
Wouldn't take the assignment. The fee isn't enough to cover the amount of work involved.
I CERTAINLY wouldn't take the job but just do it half-assed because I wasn't getting paid what I deserved.
Client #2: An established company whose owner routinely gets advice from his/her close friends and family, and wants you to use FormMail for requests on their website, even though there are hundreds of better applications and simple 10 lines of PHP will do it better and faster. Pays $2300.
I'd take a reputable mailer program and create a wrapper for it that uses formmail syntax. Everybody's happy.
Client #3: A large corporation who has hired you as a temporary drone to do some tech work for their latest sattellite office along with the other temps. They already have three others that work perfectly fine with their 10Mbps networks and ISDN lines, even though there are DSL and Cable lines running to the building that cost about the same price. Pays $800.
I'm not sure I understand the scenario you're laying out here, but if they already have an IDSN architecture that works for their needs, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to DSL or Cable service just because it's more cost-effective. Planning and rolling it out would take time and effort, and could negatively impact their business if not done just right.
Amazing that some schools are so poor they can't afford new PCs
You say amazing, I say depressing, let's split the difference.
My high school's math computer lab in the early 1990's was a room full of Apple IIgs's running some kind of graphic software off of 5 1/4" floppy disks. And this was at the beginning of the Pentium era.
Those machines were in all likelihood less powerful than the TI-90's that everyone carried around in their backpacks. Having that computer lab was a waste of our time and the teacher's time, and a waste of classroom space.
I wonder if they're still there, and I probably won't be too surprised if they are.
First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing.
I'm a permanent employee, and I know what the hell I'm doing: I'm building a CAREER, instead of floating from project to detached project.
I'm less than four years out of college and I'm already at the managerial level. I'll be a director by the time I'm thirty, maybe a vice president by the time I'm forty. When you're forty, what will you be doing? Working on your 75th short-term contract job?
When you're a contractor-for-life you're a lackey-for-life. If you're cool with that, then go right ahead. Some of us aspire to do more with our lives than that.
Are you kidding? You really want the government (or other government-like body) to step in and define and enforce a standard for ink cartridges?
Standards bodies move slower than innovations occur (those idealists at the W3C being one possible exception).
If there were a government standard for printers, we'd all still have dumb 9-pin dot matrix line printers hanging off our computers' parallel ports.
So, anybody know how to make any decent browser never time out?
1. Download the Mozilla source
2. Find the code that closes the connection when a timeout interval has been reached
3. Comment it out
4. Recompile it
5. Run
(You'll notice I've left
6. ???
7. Profit!
off the list, since those are already part of the standard Netscape/Mozilla business plan)
But if there isn't pin compatibility, then this means that you can't use one motherboard designed for Intel with a Via chip.
Unless...
Unless there were some kind of really simple adapter to go between the chip and the socket, that just does some pin remappings and maybe a little voltage conversion...
if you ask a human being for 3 random numbers, odds are very good that they will give you at least two sequential ones...such as 7 6 2...or 5 9 8...
A single number in isolation cannot be random. It's the sequence of numbers that determines randomness -- if the sequence can be predicted, they are not random.
I think you're confusing 'sequential' with 'consecutive'. What number comes after '7,6,2'? Can you guess?
512(i)(1)(A) applies to Princeton's LAN, not the 'wake' search interface. I guarantee you that Princeton's Code of Conduct includes language that says if you misuse computer resources for illicit activities, you can have your access to them revoked.
512(i)(1)(B) is pretty meaningless in the absence of any "standard technical measures" as defined in 512(i)(2). The thing I can imagine that MIGHT apply is the copyright flag in ID3 tags, but I'm guessing that the search software retains any such flags that are present. Thus, ID3 copyright flags are ACCOMODATED and NOT INTERFERED with.
Aiming a multi-billion dollar lawsuit at one student has a pretty sobering effect on anybody that's nearby and watching
No it doesn't. College students will always think "That won't happen to ME"... it's why one in six adults carries the herpes virus.
the RIAA has the resources to file suit all day and night, win or lose.
But with each suit the RIAA files, those resources are depleted that much more. Will there come a point in the future where they realize that file sharing hasn't decreased any, they haven't won a single lawsuit, and they've spent millions of dollars with no tangible results? No business can keep that up forever.
We're still using the same 16 interrupts they introduced with the PC-AT
15 interrupts. IRQ 2 just cascades to the second group of 8, so IRQs 2 and 9 end up being the same thing.
The priority order also ends up being 1,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,3,4,5,6,7,8 which is retarded.
Your mistake is that you assume "legacy" simply means "old". What it really means is "has been supplanted by something better."
Also, The Beatles' entire recording career lasted only about 8 years. I don't think they're a particularly good example of "Good things take time to mature".
My complaint isn't that legacy interfaces take up system resource space like IRQ's
My complaint is that they take up PHYSICAL space.
All other things equal, most external PC peripherals would run fine on USB. But rather than just a row of USB ports on the back of my machine, I have a PS/2 mouse jack, and a PS/2 keyboard jack, and two serial ports, and one parallel port...
And even a joystick port. I think that one originated on the PCjr. No one even makes devices for the joystick port anymore (only 2 analog axes and 2 buttons? Feh.), yet lots of motherboards and most sound cards still have one.
It's a waste of space, period.
If harm befalls Mr. Moore, Uy's going to be in a spot of trouble.
The same way that General Motors gets in trouble if some crazy mows down a couple pedestrians in a GMC truck.
Sending death threats, or threats of any type, to a person is Wrong. It doesn't matter what he might have done to piss you off, when you invoke the threat of bodily harm you've crossed the line.
Sending catalogs and such to his business/home address, I have no problem with that. If Moore didn't want to receive catalogs, he shouldn't have agreed to post a mailbox on the front of his building. Anyone may initiate contact with anyone else through the postal system, save when there are circumstances (marketing opt-out lists, restraining orders) barring it.
Have you ever used "View Source" on the google homepage?
It's the best 3,736 bytes on the web.
The only place I could find for improvement would be to remove the comment tags within the style and script tags. They're in the head of the document, so there's really no need to put them in comments for the benefit of older browsers -- browsers aren't supposed to use tags in the head as display content anyway.
Then again, both the style and the script tags really SHOULD specify what language their content is -- browsers default to CSS and Javascript, but why rely on defaults?