I'm debating the East vs. West question myself; could you throw in any details about why you hated the West coast? So far I gather the housing market/cost of living is off the charts, but on the other hand the weather and beach access is awesome.
I'm optimistic about the competition between Verizon and Comcast. There is nothing like separate infrastructure; the whole opening up the wires for fake DSL service providers was not really doing much. But with the operators owning the wires, you see things like FIOS getting deployed. Especially now that their services are converging, I'm looking forward to the physical layer upgrades in the future.
I never had a hard drive fail. I buy one more new one a year, and drop the smallest one. I run 4 at a time in a beige box PC. They are a mix of all sorts of manufacturers (usually from a CompUSA sale for less than $0.30/GB).
- I never turn off the PC. - The case has no cover.
What need does a biller have in hooking up their IPOD to their work PC? Why would a clientservices-phone jockey need to hook up their USB memory stick? Why would a transcriptionist need access msn/hotmail/yahoomail?
Morale.
This is a tricky thing and different for different types of work. A long time ago when I worked at a research lab, they tolerated my Linux boxes going onto their corporate network, which was a mix of Solaris and Windows. I even managed to interfere with their routing infrastructure by doing experiments with gated. They might have been upset about it, but in the end good work got done and the creative people were happy. If their policy had been draconian, the said good work would have been done at a competitor.
I disagree, as I said above revoking keys for a software player won't disable the $1k hardware. The $1k hardware will be much harder to compromise because it probably uses tamper-resistant measures, so its keys will be left alone longer.
Sounds similar to if I grew up in an English speaking family in the middle of China. English would be my primary language, but I would eventually learn Chinese (whether written or spoken) at some level that would be obviously secondary.
In theory yes, but how easy do you believe it is to update all those specialized video players, all offline?
The nice thing about the DRM in HD systems is that different players have different keys. They could revoke just the key in the offending software player, and not worry about the hardware ones. I really don't understand why the heck they even let someone write a software player, how big of a market slice can that be?
Not to say I'm defending DRM, as the hardware players can be hacked too. If they get rid of software players first, people will start doing exactly that. I'm guessing that different batches of hardware players will get separate keys to minimize the number of users affected by a revocation. Further, tamper-proof electronics will also get better. It will be interesting to see how long this arms race will keep up.
Yeah, they were quite nice for the time. IIRC the 8bit Spectrum version was text only, and the graphics were available in the Atari and Amiga versions.
of the "Lords of Time" text adventures by Level 9, which were accompanied by drawings in the upper portion of the screen. They created an awesome atmosphere that gave the imagination a pointer, and let it do the rest of the work.
Recruit the astronauts from among the slashdot readers. They won't have a problem going a couple of years without sex. You can't miss what you don't know!
Do you mean long term shareholder profit, or only-this-quarter's-numbers-matter profit?
Exactly. The problem is that it is up to the shareholders to define this. I'm sure there are companies out there with enlightened boards, but I bet they run into the same problem as for hiring top notch staff: once they let in B people they start bringing in more B and C people, and goodbye board. Maybe this is how HP went down the tubes.
Hey, this makes me wonder, is there really a lawsuit? As far as the guy said, the asshole manager threatened it, but it's such a long shot that it seems kind of unlikely. Besides, does a middle manager really have power to initiate a lawsuit? That would be more in the HR jurisdiction, and even then if it was some hot shot C-level manager. (The summary doesn't say what the asker does).
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*whoosh*
There was this guy Hugo DeGaris who was working on brute-forcing a cat brain. I wonder what happened to him.
You're right, this thing will never wok.
No - Britney Spears as Picard.
What about a "when they were young" take on TNG? I'd love to see Michael Rosenbaum play Picard.
I'm debating the East vs. West question myself; could you throw in any details about why you hated the West coast? So far I gather the housing market/cost of living is off the charts, but on the other hand the weather and beach access is awesome.
I'm optimistic about the competition between Verizon and Comcast. There is nothing like separate infrastructure; the whole opening up the wires for fake DSL service providers was not really doing much. But with the operators owning the wires, you see things like FIOS getting deployed. Especially now that their services are converging, I'm looking forward to the physical layer upgrades in the future.
Yes!
Heh you will like this:
Adventures of Action Item, Professional Superhero
It would be much easier to use a digital camera.
I never had a hard drive fail. I buy one more new one a year, and drop the smallest one. I run 4 at a time in a beige box PC. They are a mix of all sorts of manufacturers (usually from a CompUSA sale for less than $0.30/GB).
- I never turn off the PC.
- The case has no cover.
What need does a biller have in hooking up their IPOD to their work PC? Why would a clientservices-phone jockey need to hook up their USB memory stick? Why would a transcriptionist need access msn/hotmail/yahoomail?
Morale.
This is a tricky thing and different for different types of work. A long time ago when I worked at a research lab, they tolerated my Linux boxes going onto their corporate network, which was a mix of Solaris and Windows. I even managed to interfere with their routing infrastructure by doing experiments with gated. They might have been upset about it, but in the end good work got done and the creative people were happy. If their policy had been draconian, the said good work would have been done at a competitor.
Is it a sailboat?
I disagree, as I said above revoking keys for a software player won't disable the $1k hardware. The $1k hardware will be much harder to compromise because it probably uses tamper-resistant measures, so its keys will be left alone longer.
Sounds similar to if I grew up in an English speaking family in the middle of China. English would be my primary language, but I would eventually learn Chinese (whether written or spoken) at some level that would be obviously secondary.
In theory yes, but how easy do you believe it is to update all those specialized video players, all offline?
The nice thing about the DRM in HD systems is that different players have different keys. They could revoke just the key in the offending software player, and not worry about the hardware ones. I really don't understand why the heck they even let someone write a software player, how big of a market slice can that be?
Not to say I'm defending DRM, as the hardware players can be hacked too. If they get rid of software players first, people will start doing exactly that. I'm guessing that different batches of hardware players will get separate keys to minimize the number of users affected by a revocation. Further, tamper-proof electronics will also get better. It will be interesting to see how long this arms race will keep up.
Heh, where did I say it was the only one? I played most of those, but the reason I mentioned LoT is because I liked it best.
Yeah, they were quite nice for the time. IIRC the 8bit Spectrum version was text only, and the graphics were available in the Atari and Amiga versions.
of the "Lords of Time" text adventures by Level 9, which were accompanied by drawings in the upper portion of the screen. They created an awesome atmosphere that gave the imagination a pointer, and let it do the rest of the work.
Recruit the astronauts from among the slashdot readers. They won't have a problem going a couple of years without sex. You can't miss what you don't know!
Do you mean long term shareholder profit, or only-this-quarter's-numbers-matter profit?
Exactly. The problem is that it is up to the shareholders to define this. I'm sure there are companies out there with enlightened boards, but I bet they run into the same problem as for hiring top notch staff: once they let in B people they start bringing in more B and C people, and goodbye board. Maybe this is how HP went down the tubes.
We have defined it already-- it is to maximize shareholder profit.
That's funny, I had no idea Lycos was still in business. Last I used them way back when they were trying to be a search engine.
Hey, this makes me wonder, is there really a lawsuit? As far as the guy said, the asshole manager threatened it, but it's such a long shot that it seems kind of unlikely. Besides, does a middle manager really have power to initiate a lawsuit? That would be more in the HR jurisdiction, and even then if it was some hot shot C-level manager. (The summary doesn't say what the asker does).
You guys will get Slashdot in trouble, what if the Boston police are reading this article?