Seems like truck driving would be a great geek job... I mean it's probably one of the few jobs other than programming that involves long stretches of time sitting on your ass, alone, in the middle of the night.
Ah, sorry; I was [mistakenly] under the assumption that it would be a url which was launched rather than embedded. Yegods, an actual not totally offensive use of html in email?
Re:Odd, I see the exact opposite.
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No, but I would put someone with a half dozen years of experience with a track record of good work in charge of things. Young does not always mean inexperienced or incapable. Hell, inexperienced doesn't always mean incapable.
Re:Odd, I see the exact opposite.
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Indeed, and just like every other discrimination age has very little to do with personality.
Odd, I see the exact opposite.
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Being a fairly young IT worker, I see alot of the opposite. Older IT workers are given preference despite their experience and knowledge being similar or worse. *Especially* for any position that involves ANY sort of supervision or departmental representation.
Unfortunately, clicking on a URL is far too much work for the majority of people who "need" calendaring. The calendaring server can be independant from the mail server, but for most practical purposes, business users require that the email client have them integrated.
That's fine, personally I don't see a need for any firewall on my properly configured home machine. I understand the fact that nearly every home user will not be able to lock down their machine, but seriously, shouldn't they be locked down in the first place?
Not exactly. Pretty much every method of intrusion is "known". I mean pretty much every modern [and likely 99% of 'new' attacks in the next 2 years] attack is of a known type. A buffer overflow is a buffer overflow is a buffer overflow, just different buffers.
If your multiple lines of defense are just string checking, yeah it's not going to be secure for new attacks. If the defense is against the type rather than the specific attack, you are much better off because the type is 'known' even if the attack isn't.
This might be good for museums, or historical areas where a computer would spoil the atmosphere, but a mirror would not look out of place. Then the lcd could display information about the room/area.
Not necissarily. Some systems are self-regulating. Nature, and ideal capitolism for example. Unfortunately, people suck. This will always complicate matters. How can you negotiate around someone that starts sniffing your data, or refusing to route traffic?
eh? Not last I saw. Certainly Exchange is a seperate license [and licenses per seat connecting to it], but the actual Outlook application is packaged with Office [although it is supplied with Exchange stand alone IIRC]
Come now; there's innumerable examples of humanity resisting change. Galileo is likely the most famous.
Writing it off isn't what I was doing. There *are* quite a few companies moving to non-Outlook/Exchange. A generalization is just that, a simple generalization. Even if you refute the idea that people resist change, you still must acknowledge the time and resources needed to train people [or allow people to get used to] a different product.
MS office is so prevalent because companies require shared calendaring; thus pretty much Outlook. Everything else comes with outlook, and is thus readily available for use.
No offense to the various free options; but they're just not there yet. At least not there enough to get people [who by nature resist change] to change.
Make sure you know the power grid; power outages are common as 20-30 computers trip breakers.
Make sure you have a phone book [pizza is good mmkay]
Make sure you state the RULES beforehand, so everyone is on the same page:
- Alcohol? if minors are attending, it's probably best to set a policy banning it
- Speakers? Speakers are fun, but at a lan party, they can be disruptive. They DO help if you're doing more than gaming [I actually watched the Matrix for the first time at a 3 day lan party like this at 2 am after playing quake for 36 hours. whoa.]
- Minors? While adults can choose to stay up for 3 days in a communal sleeping area, minors make for a sticky situation
Suggestions:
give a list of things to bring; sleeping bags are good, commonly forgotten things like surge protectors, power cables, CDs are good.
Bring extra power cables/surge protectors
Specific questions:
Advertising: put it on lanparty.com a few months in advance. slashdot is also good, but maybe you should tell us where the hell it is.
crazy gamer: usually with 120 people, 1 crazy guy can be contained if anything by sheer numbers. If anything, cops are good if they're breaking stuff. Keeping 'officials' awake and patroling helps disuade thievery.
cheaters/lamers: What else do you do to lamers?!? beat them with a lead pipe until they stop cheating.
costs: charge a fee for attendance; charge less for pre-registration. Only use sponsors for prizes, though charge them ahead of time if they'd like to come and setup a booth or advertising.
tech support: abso-frickin-lutely. Most gamers are computer savvy, but not necissarily network savvy. With that many machines you'll likely need a dedicated network guy/girl or a few non-dedicated. Tech support should be free! materials like power cables and network cables should be free [and retrieved afterwards if possible] though things like network cards, extra mice should be for sale. ALSO: the network guy/girl should not provide technical support beyond getting the guy's computer on the network. It's not your problem.
Right, why are those (while being terribly disgusting for pretty much everyone) worse than say... rotten.com pics (which are not illegal under the law)?
[note: with the exception of pictures that were made unwillingly, which I will readily concede as being 'bad']
Is it simple morality, or will children be damaged because of it? If it would cause damage is it more than things we commonly accept?
What about cucumber-shaped massage tools? Make that kid has terrible muscle tension!
In all seriousness though: the difference is distance. The dildo-salesman might be in a different country, and can certainly not be sure that the 'person' they're selling the dildo to is a child. They certainly cannot target the child, and they certainly aren't near enough to the child to kidnap/harm/intimidate/rape them.
Sure it makes me queasy, but so would an old man offering anything to only small children outside a candy store. But that's not the case here. There's no malicious intent here. There's no targetting here (though there might be, more likely it's just a spamlist).
Furthermore, the reason that would make me queasy isn't because it's pornography, but because it's predatory.
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Except that every DRM solution does not protect the creator of the art any more than 'normal' media. If you can hear/see it you can copy it.
I concur. Every advantage DNA/chemical computing has, quantum computing has and then some.
Seems like truck driving would be a great geek job... I mean it's probably one of the few jobs other than programming that involves long stretches of time sitting on your ass, alone, in the middle of the night.
It's still a practical application, despite the trivialness of it. I'm certain the first applications run on electric computers were just as trivial.
I don't remember the artcile, or the location of the reference [ http://www.nature.com/nsu/000113/000113-10.html thanks google]...
Well anyways, the travelling salesman problem was solved using specially crafted DNA sequences.
Ah, sorry; I was [mistakenly] under the assumption that it would be a url which was launched rather than embedded. Yegods, an actual not totally offensive use of html in email?
No, but I would put someone with a half dozen years of experience with a track record of good work in charge of things. Young does not always mean inexperienced or incapable. Hell, inexperienced doesn't always mean incapable.
Indeed, and just like every other discrimination age has very little to do with personality.
Being a fairly young IT worker, I see alot of the opposite. Older IT workers are given preference despite their experience and knowledge being similar or worse. *Especially* for any position that involves ANY sort of supervision or departmental representation.
Unfortunately, clicking on a URL is far too much work for the majority of people who "need" calendaring. The calendaring server can be independant from the mail server, but for most practical purposes, business users require that the email client have them integrated.
That's fine, personally I don't see a need for any firewall on my properly configured home machine. I understand the fact that nearly every home user will not be able to lock down their machine, but seriously, shouldn't they be locked down in the first place?
Not exactly. Pretty much every method of intrusion is "known". I mean pretty much every modern [and likely 99% of 'new' attacks in the next 2 years] attack is of a known type. A buffer overflow is a buffer overflow is a buffer overflow, just different buffers.
If your multiple lines of defense are just string checking, yeah it's not going to be secure for new attacks. If the defense is against the type rather than the specific attack, you are much better off because the type is 'known' even if the attack isn't.
This might be good for museums, or historical areas where a computer would spoil the atmosphere, but a mirror would not look out of place. Then the lcd could display information about the room/area.
Not necissarily. Some systems are self-regulating. Nature, and ideal capitolism for example. Unfortunately, people suck. This will always complicate matters. How can you negotiate around someone that starts sniffing your data, or refusing to route traffic?
eh? Not last I saw. Certainly Exchange is a seperate license [and licenses per seat connecting to it], but the actual Outlook application is packaged with Office [although it is supplied with Exchange stand alone IIRC]
Come now; there's innumerable examples of humanity resisting change. Galileo is likely the most famous.
Writing it off isn't what I was doing. There *are* quite a few companies moving to non-Outlook/Exchange. A generalization is just that, a simple generalization. Even if you refute the idea that people resist change, you still must acknowledge the time and resources needed to train people [or allow people to get used to] a different product.
MS office is so prevalent because companies require shared calendaring; thus pretty much Outlook. Everything else comes with outlook, and is thus readily available for use.
No offense to the various free options; but they're just not there yet. At least not there enough to get people [who by nature resist change] to change.
Make sure you know the power grid; power outages are common as 20-30 computers trip breakers.
Make sure you have a phone book [pizza is good mmkay]
Make sure you state the RULES beforehand, so everyone is on the same page:
- Alcohol? if minors are attending, it's probably best to set a policy banning it
- Speakers? Speakers are fun, but at a lan party, they can be disruptive. They DO help if you're doing more than gaming [I actually watched the Matrix for the first time at a 3 day lan party like this at 2 am after playing quake for 36 hours. whoa.]
- Minors? While adults can choose to stay up for 3 days in a communal sleeping area, minors make for a sticky situation
Suggestions:
give a list of things to bring; sleeping bags are good, commonly forgotten things like surge protectors, power cables, CDs are good.
Bring extra power cables/surge protectors
Specific questions:
Advertising: put it on lanparty.com a few months in advance. slashdot is also good, but maybe you should tell us where the hell it is.
crazy gamer: usually with 120 people, 1 crazy guy can be contained if anything by sheer numbers. If anything, cops are good if they're breaking stuff. Keeping 'officials' awake and patroling helps disuade thievery.
cheaters/lamers: What else do you do to lamers?!? beat them with a lead pipe until they stop cheating.
costs: charge a fee for attendance; charge less for pre-registration. Only use sponsors for prizes, though charge them ahead of time if they'd like to come and setup a booth or advertising.
tech support: abso-frickin-lutely. Most gamers are computer savvy, but not necissarily network savvy. With that many machines you'll likely need a dedicated network guy/girl or a few non-dedicated. Tech support should be free! materials like power cables and network cables should be free [and retrieved afterwards if possible] though things like network cards, extra mice should be for sale. ALSO: the network guy/girl should not provide technical support beyond getting the guy's computer on the network. It's not your problem.
Right, why are those (while being terribly disgusting for pretty much everyone) worse than say... rotten.com pics (which are not illegal under the law)?
[note: with the exception of pictures that were made unwillingly, which I will readily concede as being 'bad']
Is it simple morality, or will children be damaged because of it? If it would cause damage is it more than things we commonly accept?
What about cucumber-shaped massage tools? Make that kid has terrible muscle tension!
In all seriousness though: the difference is distance. The dildo-salesman might be in a different country, and can certainly not be sure that the 'person' they're selling the dildo to is a child. They certainly cannot target the child, and they certainly aren't near enough to the child to kidnap/harm/intimidate/rape them.
Sure it makes me queasy, but so would an old man offering anything to only small children outside a candy store. But that's not the case here. There's no malicious intent here. There's no targetting here (though there might be, more likely it's just a spamlist).
Furthermore, the reason that would make me queasy isn't because it's pornography, but because it's predatory.
Why? Why is it bad? Why is it criminal?
In my state sexual education, and thus pictures of naked people is required for minors via public education.
does anyone else find it peculiar that an MSN writer is going on about an Apple product?
But works much better when the third party server is owned by a mega-corp.
Come now, I've driven on the NJ turnpike, and FAR more than 1 in 6 speed on it. In fact, I've seen shots fired for not doing so :]