This is one of the most depressing things I've read in atleast a month. This guy lives in Denver, an hour away from me. His resume is filled with the same buzzword bullshit as mine, only more of it and with more experience.
I feel right now like I just lost everything in the stock market. 4 years ago when I started college (investing in a skillset), those skills were climbing in value at a good rate. I remember being told that I'd be making an easy 50-60k right out of college - as in the day I graduate.
Now the prices on my skills have collapsed. What once went for $60/share now goes for $2.50. Everyone knows Java. Or Perl, or SQL, or blah blah blah.
I want a real career. Without computers. Without the corporation.
In most cases the company he works for would own the pattent - and since he worked at IBM at the time, I'm sure that would be the case.
Sure, some companies have bonuses for every pattent you file for them, but they still own the rights to it, and then get allllllll the money. He gets a few grand.
I didn't RTFA, but I suspect something of this quality isn't intended for the season premeir of Friends.
I would suspect this has a lot more potential for now in the scientific fields. Being able to capture video at such high quality could be useful for everything from video telescopes to microscopes.
If it does reach the consumer/entertainment end of things... I can only see it replacing IMAX, not TV.
I miss the old days of coolshit days... when all the stories were new releases of cool software, or space projects, or garage tech projects people have done, or the latest-greatest walking robot to come out of MIT labs.
Now, I understand that what VeriSign has done is wrong in several ways, but to play devil's advocate, I want to ask you guys a question:
What if rather than sitefinder, it redirected you to google? The "feature" they are trying to convince us they provide is basically spell checking the URL you type. "salshdot.org? Oh... you meant slashdot, here let me take you there."
What if this had been done in a more acceptable way, where profit leeching wasn't a suspected motive? Would we still complain?
And btw, the only downside I can personally think of with the concept in general is that you can no longer tell a site is down or exists just by pinging it, because you get the "spell checker" site's reply rather than nothing.
I found a disconcerting bug in my otherwise dependable word processor. It repeated words, on occasion, in the text
Could it be that over all those years you'd been been typing those doubles without realizing it? It is one of the the most common writing errors to to make.
Plus it's highly unlikely that a word processor would have a bug like this, concidering the way text is usually stored internally.
Broadband was marketed to us with concepts like streaming video and audio, video conferencing, etc. So it does seem unfair to limit this stuff.
However, it is not bandwidth capping that offends me, mainly because I don't concider myself being in the top N% of users.
What offends me is explicitly limiting what I can do with my connection. AT&T used to block port 80 on incoming traffic so I couldn't host a webpage on my (albeit 128k uplink) connection. Now Comcast took over and it seems that port 80 block is gone, but I think I'm still violating the TOS by running apache on my system at home.
One of the main reasons I like having a 24/7 connection is so I can run a [file|web|vnc|cvs|...] server at home and connect from anywhere.
Or maybe you could get a real job. HTML, Javascript, DHTML, and Flash are not "professional tallents".
I would have a little respect if you claimed to write web based applications, because they atleast require a little programming knowledge, though most are still shit php/perl scripts.
Research and communication in general, but here's a breakdown:
Personal research. Never before has it been so easy to find out if it's normal for your testicles to itch periodically. Not just great for sexual stuff either, it really helped me as a teen to understand social norms, and make me feel less abnormal.
Consumer research. I no longer drive to kmart, walmart, target, best buy, circuit city, etc when I want to buy something. I hit their respective websites to price check, feature check, etc.... then go to the store I plan on buying from. Not to mention the benefits of sites like newegg.com.
Communication. Duh. Email is awsome, so long as you can manage the spam. Instant Messaging is awsome. Internet(email/www/IM) to cell phone (sms) is awsome.
Resource sharing. Via the Internet, work and school I have instant access to countless various Unix/Linux computers and windows boxes. Usually I just leave my work up on a VNC server on a unix box and connect to it from wherever.
I can certainly imagine life without the net (and it's nice to try it sometimes)... but for computer use, I definitelly feel naked without it.
read on on hardocp.com lastnight (thursday) at 7pm.
I've complained about this before, and got the excuse "this just means there's a large readership overlap"....
and having thought about that, it just gives MORE reason not to post to both sites. That means more people read the same story in both places. Slashdot even has a Hardocp slashbox.
In my eyes, Hardocp is for the gamer/hardware enthusiast/ over clocking/ water cooling/ etc stuff. slashdot is for the rest.
If you're like me and are already on the quest for a quiet PC... here are some good/decent sources:
www.quietpcusa.com www.silentpcreview.com
Nexus makes some pretty good stuff I hear.
Something to be aware of though, there are some sites out there advertising a 14dbA SilenX PSU for $50... and they are counterfit. The real SilenX company DOES produce 14dbA PSUs, but for closer to $100. These authentic ones have been renamed away from the SilenX brand. See www.silenx.com fore more info on that:)
Not as big a security risk as you guys think
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Guys... you have to realize these ATMs (unix, windows, other) are NOT on the public internet. They're not even on the same network as the workstation computers inside the bank. They may not even be using the same protocols, but I don't know about that.
The fact that they run Windows doesn't honestly mean much to me, because if the security experts in those banks are stupid enough to connect an ATM (or any number of other important machines internally) to any sort of public network... they're gonna get fucked at one point or another.
How often do you think a UNIX ATM's kernel/packages gets patched to fix that latest overflow discovered? Probably never.
Boy, I sure am glad that my SendmailUpdate notified me automatically that there was a problem and automatically downloaded the patch for me. Windows never does that, right folks?
Seriously. How many people out there are running sendmail and don't read slashdot (thus never getting notification?). How many people are running a brand-spankin-new linux distro that came set up out of the box with sendmail, and don't even know they're running it? How many know they have it but just don't give a shit?
Yes, the patch was released quickly. But how easily is it widely distributed? Windows may have buggy software - but so does the rest of the world, atleast MS put automatic WindowsUpdate in XP to help take care of the distribution problem.
Some people already are saying "well, MS code sucks, and so does sendmail's"... and you're right, they're both prone to problems along with everyone else's code. The point is DISTRIBUTING A FIX. I don't see much of an open source solution for that.
Mebius now only has a small sample of 3D applications, such as an image of fruit and flowers and an animation of dinosaurs. But Sharp is hoping other companies will design 3D games and videos
So, it uses some proprietary 3D format? It's junk then. Why not have it support OpenGL and DirectX?
I Had a TNT2 when they came out that had 3D glasses and worked perfectly with any OpenGL/DirectX graphics... why should this be different?
I knew someone was going to comlain about #4. I was just waiting for you to bite..
By "higher ups" I am not talking about the upper class, perse, but people of high public visibility like politicians, CEOs, actors/actresses/etc.
These people don't give a damn how the computer works (for the most part), they just want it to work. They buy Macs and computers with XP on them. If there is a Kazaa icon on the desktop, I'm sure they'll use it eventually, but they certainly won't install it themselves.
Also, I'm speaking only about those people - not their children. I'm sure their children get on P2P network just as much as the rest of us.
This won't happen because: * Downloading copyrighted material IS illegal, and I doubt you'll catch any higher ups doing it
* Higher ups tend to have more money to spend. I personally HATE trying to get a full album off kazaa and would rather go buy it (though I also HATE supporting the recording studios, so I end up with no albums:))
* Higher ups probably don't have the knowledge to get on a P2P network, or don't care enough, see #2.
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This is one of the most depressing things I've read in atleast a month. This guy lives in Denver, an hour away from me.
His resume is filled with the same buzzword bullshit as mine, only more of it and with more experience.
I feel right now like I just lost everything in the stock market. 4 years ago when I started college (investing in a skillset), those skills were climbing in value at a good rate. I remember being told that I'd be making an easy 50-60k right out of college - as in the day I graduate.
Now the prices on my skills have collapsed. What once went for $60/share now goes for $2.50. Everyone knows Java. Or Perl, or SQL, or blah blah blah.
I want a real career. Without computers. Without the corporation.
Fuck this.
In most cases the company he works for would own the pattent - and since he worked at IBM at the time, I'm sure that would be the case.
Sure, some companies have bonuses for every pattent you file for them, but they still own the rights to it, and then get allllllll the money. He gets a few grand.
I didn't RTFA, but I suspect something of this quality isn't intended for the season premeir of Friends.
I would suspect this has a lot more potential for now in the scientific fields. Being able to capture video at such high quality could be useful for everything from video telescopes to microscopes.
If it does reach the consumer/entertainment end of things... I can only see it replacing IMAX, not TV.
Ohhh... fright..
...
I thought you said they might die of freight
yuk yuk.
I miss the old days of coolshit days...
when all the stories were new releases of cool software, or space projects, or garage tech projects people have done, or the latest-greatest walking robot to come out of MIT labs.
*sigh*
The tech world sure has changed.
Legal humor. I didn' think it could get any worse than "in Soviet Russia...", but I guess it has.
I tried reading one of the "funny" rulings.. but after about a paragraph i fell asleep.
So say I sit down with my backpack on may lap, it gets me wrong. Or if a kid/cat/dog jumps on my lap.
:)
Or kids jump on the couch and break it.
Or 2 kids sit next to each other in the space it takes to fit me, and the TV tunes it to my favorite porn station
or I lose a few pounds and it tunes me in to my wife's favorite shows...
This sounds pretty crappy to me
Now, I understand that what VeriSign has done is wrong in several ways, but to play devil's advocate, I want to ask you guys a question:
What if rather than sitefinder, it redirected you to google? The "feature" they are trying to convince us they provide is basically spell checking the URL you type. "salshdot.org? Oh... you meant slashdot, here let me take you there."
What if this had been done in a more acceptable way, where profit leeching wasn't a suspected motive? Would we still complain?
And btw, the only downside I can personally think of with the concept in general is that you can no longer tell a site is down or exists just by pinging it, because you get the "spell checker" site's reply rather than nothing.
Feedback?
I found a disconcerting bug in my otherwise
dependable word processor. It repeated words, on
occasion, in the text
Could it be that over all those years you'd been
been typing those doubles without realizing it?
It is one of the the most common writing errors to
to make.
Plus it's highly unlikely that a word processor would have a bug like this, concidering the way text is usually stored internally.
Broadband was marketed to us with concepts like streaming video and audio, video conferencing, etc. So it does seem unfair to limit this stuff.
However, it is not bandwidth capping that offends me, mainly because I don't concider myself being in the top N% of users.
What offends me is explicitly limiting what I can do with my connection. AT&T used to block port 80 on incoming traffic so I couldn't host a webpage on my (albeit 128k uplink) connection. Now Comcast took over and it seems that port 80 block is gone, but I think I'm still violating the TOS by running apache on my system at home.
One of the main reasons I like having a 24/7 connection is so I can run a [file|web|vnc|cvs|...] server at home and connect from anywhere.
shoot, you beat me to it. Good story though.
Or maybe you could get a real job. HTML, Javascript, DHTML, and Flash are not "professional tallents".
I would have a little respect if you claimed to write web based applications, because they atleast require a little programming knowledge, though most are still shit php/perl scripts.
Research and communication in general, but here's a breakdown:
Personal research. Never before has it been so easy to find out if it's normal for your testicles to itch periodically. Not just great for sexual stuff either, it really helped me as a teen to understand social norms, and make me feel less abnormal.
Consumer research. I no longer drive to kmart, walmart, target, best buy, circuit city, etc when I want to buy something. I hit their respective websites to price check, feature check, etc.... then go to the store I plan on buying from. Not to mention the benefits of sites like newegg.com.
Communication. Duh. Email is awsome, so long as you can manage the spam. Instant Messaging is awsome. Internet(email/www/IM) to cell phone (sms) is awsome.
Resource sharing. Via the Internet, work and school I have instant access to countless various Unix/Linux computers and windows boxes. Usually I just leave my work up on a VNC server on a unix box and connect to it from wherever.
I can certainly imagine life without the net (and it's nice to try it sometimes)... but for computer use, I definitelly feel naked without it.
read on on hardocp.com lastnight (thursday) at 7pm.
....
I've complained about this before, and got the excuse "this just means there's a large readership overlap"
and having thought about that, it just gives MORE reason not to post to both sites. That means more people read the same story in both places. Slashdot even has a Hardocp slashbox.
In my eyes, Hardocp is for the gamer/hardware enthusiast/ over clocking/ water cooling/ etc stuff. slashdot is for the rest.
If you're like me and are already on the quest for a quiet PC... here are some good/decent sources:
:)
www.quietpcusa.com
www.silentpcreview.com
Nexus makes some pretty good stuff I hear.
Something to be aware of though, there are some sites out there advertising a 14dbA SilenX PSU for $50... and they are counterfit. The real SilenX company DOES produce 14dbA PSUs, but for closer to $100. These authentic ones have been renamed away from the SilenX brand. See www.silenx.com fore more info on that
Guys... you have to realize these ATMs (unix, windows, other) are NOT on the public internet. They're not even on the same network as the workstation computers inside the bank. They may not even be using the same protocols, but I don't know about that.
The fact that they run Windows doesn't honestly mean much to me, because if the security experts in those banks are stupid enough to connect an ATM (or any number of other important machines internally) to any sort of public network... they're gonna get fucked at one point or another.
How often do you think a UNIX ATM's kernel/packages gets patched to fix that latest overflow discovered? Probably never.
a beowolf joke plus a no carrier joke... come on mods, this is not worth spending your points!
Boy, I sure am glad that my SendmailUpdate notified me automatically that there was a problem and automatically downloaded the patch for me. Windows never does that, right folks?
... and you're right, they're both prone to problems along with everyone else's code. The point is DISTRIBUTING A FIX. I don't see much of an open source solution for that.
Seriously. How many people out there are running sendmail and don't read slashdot (thus never getting notification?). How many people are running a brand-spankin-new linux distro that came set up out of the box with sendmail, and don't even know they're running it? How many know they have it but just don't give a shit?
Yes, the patch was released quickly. But how easily is it widely distributed? Windows may have buggy software - but so does the rest of the world, atleast MS put automatic WindowsUpdate in XP to help take care of the distribution problem.
Some people already are saying "well, MS code sucks, and so does sendmail's"
So there.
Mebius now only has a small sample of 3D applications, such as an image of fruit and flowers and an animation of dinosaurs. But Sharp is hoping other companies will design 3D games and videos
So, it uses some proprietary 3D format? It's junk then. Why not have it support OpenGL and DirectX?
I Had a TNT2 when they came out that had 3D glasses and worked perfectly with any OpenGL/DirectX graphics... why should this be different?
Does the FX architecture involve cheating on benchmarks? :)
I knew someone was going to comlain about #4. I was just waiting for you to bite..
By "higher ups" I am not talking about the upper class, perse, but people of high public visibility like politicians, CEOs, actors/actresses/etc.
These people don't give a damn how the computer works (for the most part), they just want it to work. They buy Macs and computers with XP on them. If there is a Kazaa icon on the desktop, I'm sure they'll use it eventually, but they certainly won't install it themselves.
Also, I'm speaking only about those people - not their children. I'm sure their children get on P2P network just as much as the rest of us.
This won't happen because:
:))
* Downloading copyrighted material IS illegal, and I doubt you'll catch any higher ups doing it
* Higher ups tend to have more money to spend. I personally HATE trying to get a full album off kazaa and would rather go buy it (though I also HATE supporting the recording studios, so I end up with no albums
* Higher ups probably don't have the knowledge to get on a P2P network, or don't care enough, see #2.
yeah, and they're giving all those foreign people great 5k/yr programming jobs!
because all their employees work in Singapore, India, Russia, etc.
Pretty hard to walk buy and catch someone watchin porn when they're halfway around the world!
before ls had color?!?! ;)