A better question, in this context, would be: Which is better, fifty rear-end collisions outside the intersection, or five broadside collisions inside the intersection?
"Douglas Englebart was a true visionary. On a single conference on Deceber 9, 1968, he performed a live demonstration that showed working prototypes of a computer mouse, hypertext, email, word processor, and collaborative real-time editor." However, you will note the lack of a working spellcheck. Or else Deceber is a month that only existed in the 60's.
Sarcasm intended... it's full time, 40+ hrs/wk minimum. New York just sucks because of the taxes and the fact the politicians do everything they can to get businesses to leave the state. I've considered hopping the border to PA for more than just the legal fireworks and cheap gas. Also, I wouldn't call Rochester "rural"... it's the second largest metro area in the state after NYC:-p
I have Siemens hearing aids... does that mean someone is going to hack my head through the aids' wireless (used mostly to communicate between the two)?
"amateur astronomers here on Earth"
I didn't know we had amateur astronomers elsewhere. I suppose the folks up on the space station, but I wouldn't count them as amateurs even if their background isn't astronomy...
The best ones (like my parents) are the ones who put "www.youtube.com" into the Google search bar on their browser that's about 2cm away from the address bar. And my mother is assistant manager of the IT dept at a major medical lab yet I can't get her to change...
I think it's a good idea as long as students are not penalized for not participating. Unless the schools want to provide PCs and on-demand dial-up connections to students that don't have a computer or Internet, it would hardly be fair to expect students to go to the public library to get online if schools are closed due to weather. Believe it or not, there's plenty of students that would take advantage of this even if it was not mandatory, if only for a review/Q&A style class online.
The problem isn't that we're defending him. Most people on Slashdot think he's an idiot and a criminal. The problem is the $1.5 million fine. That's around 20 years of his salary (at a comfortable $75k/yr). It's not a matter of whether or not he's guilty or deserves punishment, it's a matter of letting the punishment fit the crime. That pesky eighth amendment that mentions no excessive fines.
This would be a nice complement, but not a replacement. The true value of streaming NetFlix is On Demand availability. Not 8 hours after demand. There's been a lot of times I get 15 minutes into a movie, decide it's too boring (or has Angelina Jolie) and then want to watch something else. Or I'm settling down to a Mad Max marathon... I don't want to wait 8 hours between movies, otherwise I might as well just go find the nearest Blockbuster.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of Anonymous from DDoS to identity theft has escalated into a war which has decimated a million scriptkiddies. The Hacktivists and the Rogues have all but exhausted the resources of 4chan in their struggle for domination. Both sides now moronic beyond compare, the remnants of their fad continues to harass Sony, their idiocy fueled by over four thousand years of inbreeding. This is a fight until their mothers tell them to get off the computer. For each side, the only acceptable outcome in the complete elimination of the ROFLs.
Speaking as a tech at a medical equipment retailer, fax is still huge in the medical industry. Of course, my company is pretty close to the edge of tech. One of our selling points is being a tech friendly company, so our incoming faxes are converted to email and sent to people's inboxes as a PDF rather than being printed. Likewise, outgoing faxes are sent straight from the computer through our fax server. Even with these implementations, we still go through thousands of pages per day of paper faxes that can't be digitized for one reason or another, simply because doc offices, therapists and insurance companies all insist on fax.
It's not so much like paying GM an extra fee to unlock your stereo, because GM doesn't maintain the roads or drive-in theaters or whatever would equate to a multiplayer server that needs to be maintained. It's more like registering a used car would cost an extra $15 if you want access to public roads.
Even while our physical speed is slowing down, the speed at which our information travels is still growing constantly at rates physical speed could never match. Perhaps rather than us slowing down, we just shifted from seeing how fast we can move things to how fast we can move ideas.
A few more things I would like to add to the "Not Worth Saving" list
- Politicians
- Lawyers
- Religious extremists
- Lindsay Lohan
- Radio DJ's who spend a lot of time focusing on Michael Jackson/Tiger Woods/Charlie Sheen/etc
- Reality Television "stars"
- Hugo Chavez
- The RIAA/MPAA/etc
- The guy who changed the spelling to "Syfy"
- The guy who added wrestling to SciFi's lineup (may be the same guy as above)
- People who use IE6
- Steve Ballmer
- SCO
- People that bother to read the featured article
Please note that about half the people listed above will eventually cause their own extinction anyway...
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A better question, in this context, would be: Which is better, fifty rear-end collisions outside the intersection, or five broadside collisions inside the intersection?
"Douglas Englebart was a true visionary. On a single conference on Deceber 9, 1968, he performed a live demonstration that showed working prototypes of a computer mouse, hypertext, email, word processor, and collaborative real-time editor." However, you will note the lack of a working spellcheck. Or else Deceber is a month that only existed in the 60's.
That's 73.99%... I use Opera (and sometimes even IE9)
Sarcasm intended... it's full time, 40+ hrs/wk minimum. New York just sucks because of the taxes and the fact the politicians do everything they can to get businesses to leave the state. I've considered hopping the border to PA for more than just the legal fireworks and cheap gas. Also, I wouldn't call Rochester "rural"... it's the second largest metro area in the state after NYC :-p
Anywhere in NY outside of NYC. I moved from the Mohawk Valley to Rochester just to find any IT job, and now I'm a highly paid consultant at $33k/yr
I have Siemens hearing aids... does that mean someone is going to hack my head through the aids' wireless (used mostly to communicate between the two)?
This was foretold by LRR almost four years ago: http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/228/Halo-The-Future-of-Gaming
This way, the Nobel Prize for Technology can have as much meaning as the Nobel Peace Prize and the Time Person of the Year
No, it's more along the lines of a PC being the "golden host" that all other PCs in a line are imaged from. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
"amateur astronomers here on Earth" I didn't know we had amateur astronomers elsewhere. I suppose the folks up on the space station, but I wouldn't count them as amateurs even if their background isn't astronomy...
The best ones (like my parents) are the ones who put "www.youtube.com" into the Google search bar on their browser that's about 2cm away from the address bar. And my mother is assistant manager of the IT dept at a major medical lab yet I can't get her to change...
I think it's a good idea as long as students are not penalized for not participating. Unless the schools want to provide PCs and on-demand dial-up connections to students that don't have a computer or Internet, it would hardly be fair to expect students to go to the public library to get online if schools are closed due to weather. Believe it or not, there's plenty of students that would take advantage of this even if it was not mandatory, if only for a review/Q&A style class online.
The problem isn't that we're defending him. Most people on Slashdot think he's an idiot and a criminal. The problem is the $1.5 million fine. That's around 20 years of his salary (at a comfortable $75k/yr). It's not a matter of whether or not he's guilty or deserves punishment, it's a matter of letting the punishment fit the crime. That pesky eighth amendment that mentions no excessive fines.
This would be a nice complement, but not a replacement. The true value of streaming NetFlix is On Demand availability. Not 8 hours after demand. There's been a lot of times I get 15 minutes into a movie, decide it's too boring (or has Angelina Jolie) and then want to watch something else. Or I'm settling down to a Mad Max marathon... I don't want to wait 8 hours between movies, otherwise I might as well just go find the nearest Blockbuster.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of Anonymous from DDoS to identity theft has escalated into a war which has decimated a million scriptkiddies. The Hacktivists and the Rogues have all but exhausted the resources of 4chan in their struggle for domination. Both sides now moronic beyond compare, the remnants of their fad continues to harass Sony, their idiocy fueled by over four thousand years of inbreeding. This is a fight until their mothers tell them to get off the computer. For each side, the only acceptable outcome in the complete elimination of the ROFLs.
Sure, if you want to be the one to pay for it... Quiet doesn't come cheap.
So now they can remake The Spy Who Loved Me and give Jaws a pet...
Speaking as a tech at a medical equipment retailer, fax is still huge in the medical industry. Of course, my company is pretty close to the edge of tech. One of our selling points is being a tech friendly company, so our incoming faxes are converted to email and sent to people's inboxes as a PDF rather than being printed. Likewise, outgoing faxes are sent straight from the computer through our fax server. Even with these implementations, we still go through thousands of pages per day of paper faxes that can't be digitized for one reason or another, simply because doc offices, therapists and insurance companies all insist on fax.
Only if the RIAA claims they own the copyright to them... and we know they will
The BSOD is arguably the most distinctive screen of any OS... and probably more recognizable to most people than the Microsoft, Apple or Google logo
It's not so much like paying GM an extra fee to unlock your stereo, because GM doesn't maintain the roads or drive-in theaters or whatever would equate to a multiplayer server that needs to be maintained. It's more like registering a used car would cost an extra $15 if you want access to public roads.
So it is something you just dump something on! It is a big truck! It's not a series of tubes! Someone should tell Ted Stevens he got it wrong.
Even while our physical speed is slowing down, the speed at which our information travels is still growing constantly at rates physical speed could never match. Perhaps rather than us slowing down, we just shifted from seeing how fast we can move things to how fast we can move ideas.
The Chinese are within 128MB of creating perfect write-only media.
A few more things I would like to add to the "Not Worth Saving" list - Politicians - Lawyers - Religious extremists - Lindsay Lohan - Radio DJ's who spend a lot of time focusing on Michael Jackson/Tiger Woods/Charlie Sheen/etc - Reality Television "stars" - Hugo Chavez - The RIAA/MPAA/etc - The guy who changed the spelling to "Syfy" - The guy who added wrestling to SciFi's lineup (may be the same guy as above) - People who use IE6 - Steve Ballmer - SCO - People that bother to read the featured article Please note that about half the people listed above will eventually cause their own extinction anyway...