Because in 2000 Microsoft was broken up by the justice department into an Operating Systens unit and an applications unit.
Oh wait sorry, the yellow header sent me into my happy space where the world was fair and McCain was president.
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Essentially the article says IT guys annoy people who don't know squat about computers, and then these people leave the IT guys alone.
What it doesn't mention is that what annoys IT people to no end are the people who know nothing about computers but try to interject their opinion. You know, the poeple who don't listen to you when you say don't install program X, or don't install anything, or ingeneral ignore you when you say DON'T DO THAT!.
IT people tent to get bad reps because the technology is new and people have been ocnditioned that people who know about it are nerds or geeks. What they should understand is that IT guys are the mechanics of the technical world. You don't but diesle in a gasoline vehicle beause it is cheaper. If you do your mechanic will laugh at you and say don't do that again. The same way you don't instal everything you come across on the internet because your IT guy will laugh at you and say don't do that again. The only difference is you are more liekly to listen to your mechanic than to your IT guy.
Note: you and your probably doesn't apply to the slashdot crowd at large but speaking in third person about ID10T errors is annoying at best, so you was used.
Does this mena that there will now be another good thing to watch on G4TTV? (The first being the back of my eyelids of course).
TechTV wasn't a GREAT network, but I never turned to it and felt like my brain was being removed from the back of my head. Now, post merger, the content is trite, the reviews are lame (but getting better at least), and the Screen Savers has passed into unwatchable. Maybe I am missing some show that comes on in my off time, but what is good on the network?
I feel sorry for all of the over caffinated students that are going to get branded when this is all over.
Well the onlly marketable named product Sun has right now is Java, and they are whoring out their youngest child for crack faster than you can say Sweet Zombie Jesus. I like Java, I really do, but it's alphabet soup family of products reads like intrest groups at gay pride parades. J2ME5, J2EE5, JDBC, JWS, JNLP, J2SDk,J2RE, etc. Maybe they should focus on their other marginally successful products like... umm.. well... umm...
The XBox two will rule all because it will have such hits as Halo:Revisited and Halo2, and Halo3, and X-Halo, and World of Halo, and Halo all stars. We will get to play throught intense action games without being bored to death by those awful RPG's.
I wish that people would quit blaming the passengers of the plane. The terrorists had already killed the crew, and the passengers knew the plane had to land somewhere. Before this time terrorists did one for two things. 1)Use the plane as a get away vehilce. You end up in cuba but you are alive or 2) blow it up wholesale in the sky. The terrorists were flying the plane so number two was out.
When people DID get wind of what was going on they tried to take control (ex the fourth flight).
While the traditionl travelling salesman problem is NPC and anyone who has taken a proper CS track will have heard of it and studied it to death, are there any proofs, algorithims for it when the graph is adding new nodes?
The biggest thing wrong right now is that when you add a new Vertex to the graph it could change the shortest path between two other verticies.
Damn I knew I shouldn't have picked up the coffee of the day on my lunch break.(Right now my job is testing the wireless network in several areas so I am wandering around with a laptop surfing/. and gett 12.50 an hour)
For example, when a company's expenditures outpace income a loss is reported.
When a development on a product is costing more than revenus from the product that is a loss (even though the company makes money).
The company did make as much money as the expected, (ie their market share dropped) so that is a loss. (Even if a profit is made)
The company's marketshare grew at a reduced rate.
All of these are reported as losses at one point in time or another (depending on the way that statistics align), but the biggest distributor of pirated software in all of these cases is NOT P2P but a much more dangerous network: sneakernet. Friend finds copy of windows 2003 Ent Server he gives it to a friend to friend to a friend etc etc. Or some guy buys a few cd's off the hobo on a blanket in central park. In asia you go into a thrift/secondhand store and pick up what you want. But rarely do you get illegal software from P2P.
Essentially institute a "safe auto" contact policy. You have an answering machine on your home phone number that they can call when they need you. You have, as far as they are concerend, no cellphone, pager, blackberry, or non corporate internet. If they send you an email you will get it when you are at work. I can not think of a single profession where there is a similar situation. Do construction works have a BYOB policy (Bring your own Backhoe)? No then why should 24/7 IT guys (which is what your company wants) have a BYOB (Bring your own broadband) expectation?
The trick is when your laptop is about to go out of warranty find a power supply with the same plug but has reversed polarity. If it lives up the amperage.
Since noone carry system board for 3 year old motherboards you get a new system.
Extending upon your arguments we can also note that the global economy puts us in a bind against foreign competitors where the country with the lowest cost of living (think of it as a large scale TCO) is the best choice to make a product. A U.S. company can come in and pay the workers there peanuts but still beat the average sallary by 200-300% easy. Plus with the increasing political stability of places such as Japan, China, India, and Pakastan there is little to no reason for companies to stay in the U.S. if the government were to begin cracking down on outsourcing in bulk. The solution is not to force jobs that can be done elsewhere to be done here, but to create jobs avaliable nowhere else here.
Essentially the trend for U.S. based products has been 1)develop in us 2) market in US 3) market elsewhere 4)develop elsewhere 5) sell new products back to US. Now what our government should do is examine what technologies will be the most benefit to mankind/corp-kind in the next 20 years and encourage development on that. Then as phase 3 begins to kick in we begin new development.
Some sites get it right or at least some close proximity to right. Then they fuck it up, badly. Old school hotmail for instance was a very clean and intuative site. Then ads were added, then "features", and now every link is a javascript link that fucks up my tabbed browsing experience. Combine that with I can't find a fucking thing, it is full of spam, and the junk folder delete function is all or nothing.
Ok back on topic, if any webdevs are reading this, if it ain't broke then for the love of the sweet zombie Jesus W Christ don't fuck with it.
Yes it is partly our fault, but how can you hope to increase funding to NASA when your choices are either a group of Republicans who are fighting over the title of the most conservative (ex. the GA senate race) or Democrats who are running on the Bush is an ass hole platform without any of their own ideas or agendas being pushed to the media at large?
If you pay a developer $50,000 a year for a multimillion dollar software project, $995 is cheap. Cheap by commercial standards is a different beast than cheap by hobbist standards.
This is a very nice business move by msft and seems to make life for other much easier.
I have never understood gift cards or gift certificates. If I don't know what to get a person I do the best thing possible, get them a nice card they will like, a book, and 20$. Then the recpiaint gets what he/she wants and I get the satisfaction of knowing I didn't just give them 20$ at the last minute. Gift cards give money to a store you may or may not shop at for no real benefit to the recipiant. Last Christmas I received 2 25$ gift cards to chain resturants form family. Unfortunately I live in rural Georgia and it is a 30 minutes drive to the nearest McDonalds and an hour plus drive to a Buffaloes, Moe's, Joe's crab shack, Roadhouse Grill, etc.
SO would someone here please explain why people buy gift cards instead of cheap gift + cash? (Which is all giftcards are in my eyes)
Digital IP is in such a fucked shape right now that I can actually see these idiot winning.
A few days ago a Managment friend of mine who used to be CS and I were talking about IP and patents. Suprisingly we agreed that the system is out of whack.
For example, if I built a washing mahcine that got clothes clean by rinsing them every 5 minutes I can get a patent for it. Then if he takes my design but instead of every 5 minutes his rinses every 3 minutes and also reverses the spin it is a new design and i cant sue him. Now lets go to the current digital state. If I made a program that defragmented a disk drive using algorithim x I can get a patent. Now if he dreates a defrag program that uses algothim y I can sue him and win even though our programs are as different as the two earlier washing mahcines.
Secondsun
PS:(I know a defrag program is not the best analogy but it demonstrates my point)
In a college environment, especially for CS majors, saying don't connect to the campus network is like saying don't go to class. True one can theoretically use the computers provided to them by the uni in the labs and library, but what happens when you need to vi something in windows on a public computer? Or how about compiling test code?
No students need their computer and they need their net connections. A University has no right to force a scan of a person's computer but they do have the right to block the fucking RPC port that most worms attack. If they turned that port off at the router 99% of these problems would go away.
TO address people who believe that the campus should not restrict any activity the administration of that school has aleady proven that the do not agree with you so you have to pick the lesser of two evils. A choice between a forced scan and remote administration of your system or having a slightly crippled net is easy to make for me.
This is purly a business move aimed at PHB's. IBM has made money telling people that Open Source is good and MS is getting in on the right for free. It could also be that they are trying to get in on the good side of budding developers. I don't know any other CS majors that use Windows on their main desktop and I know of no CS majors who write their code in Windows. At Georgia Tech everything in class is done in Linux after the first Scheme class. If the future coders don't know Microsoft stuff they won't use it or push it in their jobs.
What I thought would have made Voyager cool was them being tricked by Species 8472 into leading them home. After that you have a typical war story arc suchas as higher ups being replaced by aliens in the midst of the welcome home stories. The series didn't have to end when they got home.
At least when Enterprise made it back form the expanse they intered the atmosphere, Voyager just piggy backed a borg sphere with technology from 40 years in the future. (That we didn't see AT ALL in Nemisis).
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Because in 2000 Microsoft was broken up by the justice department into an Operating Systens unit and an applications unit.
Oh wait sorry, the yellow header sent me into my happy space where the world was fair and McCain was president.
Essentially the article says IT guys annoy people who don't know squat about computers, and then these people leave the IT guys alone.
What it doesn't mention is that what annoys IT people to no end are the people who know nothing about computers but try to interject their opinion. You know, the poeple who don't listen to you when you say don't install program X, or don't install anything, or ingeneral ignore you when you say DON'T DO THAT!.
IT people tent to get bad reps because the technology is new and people have been ocnditioned that people who know about it are nerds or geeks. What they should understand is that IT guys are the mechanics of the technical world. You don't but diesle in a gasoline vehicle beause it is cheaper. If you do your mechanic will laugh at you and say don't do that again. The same way you don't instal everything you come across on the internet because your IT guy will laugh at you and say don't do that again. The only difference is you are more liekly to listen to your mechanic than to your IT guy.
Note: you and your probably doesn't apply to the slashdot crowd at large but speaking in third person about ID10T errors is annoying at best, so you was used.
Does this mena that there will now be another good thing to watch on G4TTV? (The first being the back of my eyelids of course).
TechTV wasn't a GREAT network, but I never turned to it and felt like my brain was being removed from the back of my head. Now, post merger, the content is trite, the reviews are lame (but getting better at least), and the Screen Savers has passed into unwatchable. Maybe I am missing some show that comes on in my off time, but what is good on the network?
I feel sorry for all of the over caffinated students that are going to get branded when this is all over.
Well the onlly marketable named product Sun has right now is Java, and they are whoring out their youngest child for crack faster than you can say Sweet Zombie Jesus. I like Java, I really do, but it's alphabet soup family of products reads like intrest groups at gay pride parades. J2ME5, J2EE5, JDBC, JWS, JNLP, J2SDk,J2RE, etc. Maybe they should focus on their other marginally successful products like... umm.. well... umm...
I can imagine being woken up at 2 AM for an emergency outage because someone forgot to water the server.
The XBox two will rule all because it will have such hits as Halo:Revisited and Halo2, and Halo3, and X-Halo, and World of Halo, and Halo all stars. We will get to play throught intense action games without being bored to death by those awful RPG's.
Oh wait, didn't Nintendo say the same thing?
My favorite tool is midnight commander (mc). I fail to see how people can do without it.
I wish that people would quit blaming the passengers of the plane. The terrorists had already killed the crew, and the passengers knew the plane had to land somewhere. Before this time terrorists did one for two things. 1)Use the plane as a get away vehilce. You end up in cuba but you are alive or 2) blow it up wholesale in the sky. The terrorists were flying the plane so number two was out.
When people DID get wind of what was going on they tried to take control (ex the fourth flight).
While the traditionl travelling salesman problem is NPC and anyone who has taken a proper CS track will have heard of it and studied it to death, are there any proofs, algorithims for it when the graph is adding new nodes?
/. and gett 12.50 an hour)
The biggest thing wrong right now is that when you add a new Vertex to the graph it could change the shortest path between two other verticies.
Damn I knew I shouldn't have picked up the coffee of the day on my lunch break.(Right now my job is testing the wireless network in several areas so I am wandering around with a laptop surfing
What kind of loss is this?
For example, when a company's expenditures outpace income a loss is reported.
When a development on a product is costing more than revenus from the product that is a loss (even though the company makes money).
The company did make as much money as the expected, (ie their market share dropped) so that is a loss. (Even if a profit is made)
The company's marketshare grew at a reduced rate.
All of these are reported as losses at one point in time or another (depending on the way that statistics align), but the biggest distributor of pirated software in all of these cases is NOT P2P but a much more dangerous network: sneakernet. Friend finds copy of windows 2003 Ent Server he gives it to a friend to friend to a friend etc etc. Or some guy buys a few cd's off the hobo on a blanket in central park. In asia you go into a thrift/secondhand store and pick up what you want. But rarely do you get illegal software from P2P.
Essentially institute a "safe auto" contact policy. You have an answering machine on your home phone number that they can call when they need you. You have, as far as they are concerend, no cellphone, pager, blackberry, or non corporate internet. If they send you an email you will get it when you are at work. I can not think of a single profession where there is a similar situation. Do construction works have a BYOB policy (Bring your own Backhoe)? No then why should 24/7 IT guys (which is what your company wants) have a BYOB (Bring your own broadband) expectation?
The trick is when your laptop is about to go out of warranty find a power supply with the same plug but has reversed polarity. If it lives up the amperage.
Since noone carry system board for 3 year old motherboards you get a new system.
Extending upon your arguments we can also note that the global economy puts us in a bind against foreign competitors where the country with the lowest cost of living (think of it as a large scale TCO) is the best choice to make a product. A U.S. company can come in and pay the workers there peanuts but still beat the average sallary by 200-300% easy. Plus with the increasing political stability of places such as Japan, China, India, and Pakastan there is little to no reason for companies to stay in the U.S. if the government were to begin cracking down on outsourcing in bulk. The solution is not to force jobs that can be done elsewhere to be done here, but to create jobs avaliable nowhere else here.
Essentially the trend for U.S. based products has been 1)develop in us 2) market in US 3) market elsewhere 4)develop elsewhere 5) sell new products back to US. Now what our government should do is examine what technologies will be the most benefit to mankind/corp-kind in the next 20 years and encourage development on that. Then as phase 3 begins to kick in we begin new development.
Which goes to show, never reply to slashdot when you are drunk.
Some sites get it right or at least some close proximity to right. Then they fuck it up, badly. Old school hotmail for instance was a very clean and intuative site. Then ads were added, then "features", and now every link is a javascript link that fucks up my tabbed browsing experience. Combine that with I can't find a fucking thing, it is full of spam, and the junk folder delete function is all or nothing.
Ok back on topic, if any webdevs are reading this, if it ain't broke then for the love of the sweet zombie Jesus W Christ don't fuck with it.
WInston Niles Rumfoord was a character in the book Sirens of Titan for any and all of those interested in knowing what he was talking about.
It was written by Kirt Vonnecut who also wrote galapagos and the sunscreen song.
Yes it is partly our fault, but how can you hope to increase funding to NASA when your choices are either a group of Republicans who are fighting over the title of the most conservative (ex. the GA senate race) or Democrats who are running on the Bush is an ass hole platform without any of their own ideas or agendas being pushed to the media at large?
If you pay a developer $50,000 a year for a multimillion dollar software project, $995 is cheap. Cheap by commercial standards is a different beast than cheap by hobbist standards.
This is a very nice business move by msft and seems to make life for other much easier.
I have never understood gift cards or gift certificates. If I don't know what to get a person I do the best thing possible, get them a nice card they will like, a book, and 20$. Then the recpiaint gets what he/she wants and I get the satisfaction of knowing I didn't just give them 20$ at the last minute. Gift cards give money to a store you may or may not shop at for no real benefit to the recipiant. Last Christmas I received 2 25$ gift cards to chain resturants form family. Unfortunately I live in rural Georgia and it is a 30 minutes drive to the nearest McDonalds and an hour plus drive to a Buffaloes, Moe's, Joe's crab shack, Roadhouse Grill, etc.
SO would someone here please explain why people buy gift cards instead of cheap gift + cash? (Which is all giftcards are in my eyes)
The Lion worm gave my University's Linux server's hell a couple of years back. They were al running unpached RedHat 7.3 and it wasn't pretty.
A metric assload is .95 * one Imperial assload. The difference comes form the lack of the standard British rod.
Digital IP is in such a fucked shape right now that I can actually see these idiot winning.
A few days ago a Managment friend of mine who used to be CS and I were talking about IP and patents. Suprisingly we agreed that the system is out of whack.
For example, if I built a washing mahcine that got clothes clean by rinsing them every 5 minutes I can get a patent for it. Then if he takes my design but instead of every 5 minutes his rinses every 3 minutes and also reverses the spin it is a new design and i cant sue him. Now lets go to the current digital state. If I made a program that defragmented a disk drive using algorithim x I can get a patent. Now if he dreates a defrag program that uses algothim y I can sue him and win even though our programs are as different as the two earlier washing mahcines.
Secondsun
PS:(I know a defrag program is not the best analogy but it demonstrates my point)
In a college environment, especially for CS majors, saying don't connect to the campus network is like saying don't go to class. True one can theoretically use the computers provided to them by the uni in the labs and library, but what happens when you need to vi something in windows on a public computer? Or how about compiling test code?
No students need their computer and they need their net connections. A University has no right to force a scan of a person's computer but they do have the right to block the fucking RPC port that most worms attack. If they turned that port off at the router 99% of these problems would go away.
TO address people who believe that the campus should not restrict any activity the administration of that school has aleady proven that the do not agree with you so you have to pick the lesser of two evils. A choice between a forced scan and remote administration of your system or having a slightly crippled net is easy to make for me.
This is purly a business move aimed at PHB's. IBM has made money telling people that Open Source is good and MS is getting in on the right for free.
It could also be that they are trying to get in on the good side of budding developers. I don't know any other CS majors that use Windows on their main desktop and I know of no CS majors who write their code in Windows. At Georgia Tech everything in class is done in Linux after the first Scheme class. If the future coders don't know Microsoft stuff they won't use it or push it in their jobs.
What I thought would have made Voyager cool was them being tricked by Species 8472 into leading them home. After that you have a typical war story arc suchas as higher ups being replaced by aliens in the midst of the welcome home stories. The series didn't have to end when they got home.
At least when Enterprise made it back form the expanse they intered the atmosphere, Voyager just piggy backed a borg sphere with technology from 40 years in the future. (That we didn't see AT ALL in Nemisis).