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  1. Re:The real translation: on Build Your Own Computer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    guess you've never been a programmer or engineer. you don't learn on the job :)

  2. Re:VOD on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how. You can pick genres/etc. You can subscribe to the channel that downloads new releases of said genre and you get to pick.

    What is this crap aboug right wing bla bla? Do you even understand the technology in use? It's broadcast, not cable, hence you have to have some sort of present transmission period. You can transmit the videos at said time and then VIEW on demand, just not download on demand.

    This goes for more than just one channel.

  3. server on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    started working on a new key server..will probably implement it into waste sometime.

    just an add/delete feature at the moment:

    http://waste.acz.org/keys.php

    http://waste.acz.org is waste mirror.

  4. Re:GPL on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    sure, what test do you propose?

  5. Re:GPL on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    A Link if you want one in that format.

  6. Re:GPL on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    http://waste.acz.org/ There, see how that goes.

    this took a while to post, slashdot kept saying I just hit reply 5 seconds ago no matter what.

  7. Re:GPL on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    Hrm, if I could get a whole package of it, I'd see about mirroring it also.

  8. hey on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 1

    At least it's more public now their intent not to dramatically evolve IE in it's current format.

    If you want a certain kind of development, they're almost telling you to pick a different browser, but if you want to keep up with what they feel is the new wave, then you go with them. It's a simple matter of course.

    There's no reason why IE has to be built with the same audience in mind as the current open source endeavers, which will probably picck up the slack for those who want it.

  9. Re:yep on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 1

    I suppose that's true.

    I know of a chinese family here that runs and owns a restaurant. They have plenty of money now, and send a lot home to the other half that is there. That family is now living very comfortably in china.

    However, they've just now moved out of a 2 bedroom apartment where 2 of them even had to sleep in the living room hallway on matresses.

    Yet, they supposedly had money. However, the living style was worse here with money than in china without money because of what they accepted as a level of living for what they wanted to provide for the others.

    So, I couldn't judge them based off their old living conditions purely. It's up to them if they want to live well or not.

    The problem that arises with working conditions in such places as China isn't so much that the pay isn't there, but that the environment isn't there. The manufacturer isn't going to provide a better environment on their own even with good pay from foreign companies. It is up to them to provide what they would provide in any other country, even if that means building a village and supporting the area just for the factory. The, you will get the quality shoe you desire.

    The employees are happy in a lot of these factory villages, but it's the manufacturer who tries to cut corners anyway. This produces bad results for the product, and companies are forced to move on to other places...which would, i assume, then seriously drop the living conditions of the former employees. It really has to be up to some sort of local/national enforcement beyond the scope of foreign companies. Money isn't always the answer, they will always want more.

  10. Re:yep on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 1

    I meant page number for audit reports.

    It was just one .pdf file I mentioned.

    Anyway, the earlier user went off topic, but I was just talking about the attitude of companies towards lifestyles mixed with work environment. I wasn't talking about pay nor was I trying to balance the argument with it.

  11. Re:yep on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.adidas-salomon.com/en/sustainability/_d ownloads/adidas_Salomon_SER_2002.pdf

    You can believe them or not, but their reports are there, mid 30's for numbers I think.

    Only reason I bring this up is my new brother in-law works at the US headquarters in portland(germany based hq exists also) and this issue was presented to him. He responded with the answer that their conditions do concern them. This report summarizes their answer as I heard it personally and in paper.

    Anyway, my point was that living conditions and lifestyles being the focus of a company produce different results. It doesn't matter who they exploit, if they exploit them to get their posh courts/etc.

  12. Re:yep on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 1

    You'd be wrong on both accounts.

    Adidas pays fair wages and provides a whole community setting for their workers. Very covetted job. But, indeed that does happen, exploitation. However, it is a problem that they deal with. If the company, because it is just a company they fund/provide support for workers, fails to provide the work environment they demand, they they move on. Actually, good pay is a good incentive for fair business.

  13. yep on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 1

    Sounds like some other companies geared towards a lifestyle, such as Adidas.

    I played some basketball on their fullsize court in the middle of the office complex, indoors :)

  14. hrm on Might Mars Contain Life? · · Score: 1

    You know, believe there's life on Mars or not, we're not going be able to study enough until we learn to have a base farther out there.

    I think the idea of finding water/fuel for such an endeavor would benefit more than sending a lot of probes for speculation.

  15. Re:until when on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    Well, indeed you are correct. I do know the difference, but please overlook them as last night was not the best of times.

    Rather sick myself and my mom just got put into the hospital for unknown bleeding. I suppose ie/eg wasn't my main concern.

  16. until when on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Makes you wonder how long it will be until protocols/network designs are attacked on the same basis as the product derived from them. ie p2p/filesharing.

    Considering nullsoft, might be a risky move.

  17. hrm on Game Originality: Any Left? · · Score: 1

    perhaps it's time we go back to the days of smaller, condensed games, plots, storylines.

    You could extend a simple game style like...mario kart to include vastly more gameplay/etc while keeping it simple and fun.

  18. Re:Christian Science Monitor? on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Aye, it came out more harsh than I had meant.

    What I meant is the name is auto-judged...which I, myself, do. However, I don't make the mistake of confusing the two groups as some might...but I mean there's no such "Christian scientists" general group to confuse it with.

    It's just a term mix-up that annoys me they put that name to something that looks like I might support them as a Christian.

    My apologies man.

  19. Re:Christian Science Monitor? on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks for the auto-degredation of Christian people doing scientific research as not solid.

    However, I don't believe they are the Christians you are seeking. If you do as much research on their journalism skills, you'll find that they are not the same conservative's that you might call Christians.

  20. Re:Healthcare Software on When Bad Software Can Kill · · Score: 1

    You're saying that these computers were networked to a system that could be infected with a simple virus?

    Seems that the problem isn't always the choice of machine but the choice of setup.

  21. Re:One option on Why is Hosted Disk Space So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I was just there for a wedding and picked up a few design/hosting jobs on the side.

    Where in downtown is it anyway?

  22. Re:who cares about ATI on ATI vs. NVIDIA: ATI Steals the Show · · Score: 1

    Interesting, everyone thinks the community would do a better job of linux drivers for nvidia....seems they should focus their attention elsewhere.

  23. Re:A tech company? on SGI Announces Restructuring, Cuts 400 Jobs · · Score: 1

    I think management cost could be considered negligible :)

  24. Re:Is this a C# or a .NET problem? on Hijacking .NET · · Score: 1

    Well, you could use static methods if you wanted to allow some access without instantiation.

  25. stats on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    Has there been a study, or some site that tracks a certain group of computers of varies systems/OSes and their crash counts/types?

    My 2000 machine at my work has more problems with power spikes than it does crashing, and my XP at home has only crashed due to a driver failure on a 5-in-1 flash card reader.

    That's just those 2 systems of course, I've had nasty crashes on many other windows systems and NT 4 was nasty too.

    I've worked with several embedded systems and find such systems as LynxOS fairly reliable also, however I've not been in the field so much with it as continued development testing.

    Are these crashes design based, or framework based? Give a weird problem, and some Linux/Unix based systems will simply die due to file corruption repeatedly. Windows will crash from internals a lot, and stuff like driver plugins(depends which flavor) which should be caught more, but can recover decently on basic crashes(xp more it seems).

    Just a thought if these kinds of stats are anywhere.