The date on the page referanced in the Slashdot article is dynamic, it displays whatever todays date it. And you are correct, this occured one year ago today.
We had a potluck lunch and a coat drive, which is the exact opposite of what we had during the.com boom, which was a mega bash (rented a hotel, the whole hotel and boozed it up till the weeee hours) and a nice heafty bonus. So I guess all I recieved this year was my job.
Hmmm, from what I read if I write a shell script that uses grep, awk and maybe a little sed to hash my/var/log directory I am in violation of their patent?!?!?!?! Give me a break, as stated before the USPTO needs a massive overhaul, not to mention someone needs to question the ethics of those who patent common procedures.
Well lets see, my diesel genset cost about half as much, produces about 7 times more electrcity, and will run for 10 days of 133 lbs worth of fuel producing the same about of power the fuel cell does as opposed to the 11 hours this coleman fuelcell will run. Ok I know a lot of that 133 lbs for the hydrogen fuel cell is the canister, but still even if half the weight is canister and only say 60-70 lbs is fuel my diesel will still run for days after the fuelcell has exhausted its hydrogen.
About the only differnce is I have to run my generator in its generator shed outside, and it is noisy, but still I think the fuel economy, ease of obtaining diesel and the fact that if worse comes to worse I can run bio-diesel (which is chemically altered french fry oil). Sorry still sticking with diesel here.
I have played Quake III on an 8000 dollar Philips Plasma 60" (I think it was 60", might have been 56"). It rocked to no end, whether I would shell out the money for something like that though is another question entirely (personally my 21 inch Viewsonic is enough for games? Guess it was personal preferance though.
Why don't we simply boycott CD's, it would take a lot of effort and restraint by people, but I think if we banded together and worked towards a common goal we could send a message to the RIAA and record companies. Belly aching about how they shouldn't do this does absolutely no good. We need to stand up in mass against the recording industry and tell them "No we will not be treated like criminals, we will only buy CD's that work in any equipment and the US courts have shown time swapping to be legal".
Lets do something about this. Something other then complaining and giving up.
As much as I would really truly love to say she is a tool for Bill Gates it honestly looks like she is NOT. According to Open Secrets she didn't get any money from Microsoft. Just to be sure I went ahead and went through all the pages of the Microsoft donations and I could not find her listed anywhere. Looks like the bulk of her money comes from labor unions. Also if you look at the source it was created with Frontpage 5.0.
So my guess is the whole "Use Microsoft Internet Explorer" bit is more of a lack of knowledge in creating web forms, so they used a tool that generated stuff for Internet Explorer only. My advice, pen a nice letter to her explaining and possibly offering to help, if will go a lot farther then hate and spit, especially since it looks like NONE of her money comes from Microsoft, hence this is NOT a conspiracy, I repeat NOT a conspiracy, simply a honest mistake made by someone who probably doesn't know better.
Actually positive air pressure, good air filters and coming in clean are the main things, and you actually can build one, granted not one of those Intel chip moon suit ones, but a lower level one is pretty easy. Though you really shouldn't need a clean room to build a simple orbital satellite, especially one that just beeps, but I guess if this guy wants to build one, more power to him.
I would recommend looking for information on micropropagation (cloning plants). It is a fairly popular hobby and you need cleanroom like conditions, so most micropropagation books have plans for mini cleanrooms. I would recommend talking to people who have done this before (which you are trying to do;), seems there is at least some discussion on Usenet about the subject.
Hahahaha, I love it when orginazations simply think blocking a single port will keep people from using a service. Oh well some people simply don't have a clue.
Uhhh, evacuating an 8000 mile long tube (DC - Bejin) borders on the impossible, or at best very costly and impracticle. It is a novel idea and would make for some intersting sci-fi, but I really doubt people are going to want to travel in what amounts to coffins (assuming someone can figure out how to make the whole vacuum thing remotely cost effective).
Email relies on encoding methods that can double or triple the size of an attachment, so it really isn't he best method for sending large files.
As for what other companies do, most have limits around 2 meg (some less, some a little more). If people need to transfer files within the company setup some sort of fileserver for sharing, geared toward the expertise level of your users (FTP if they have some sense, Windows/Mac shares if they don't).
If someone tries to pressure you to give them larger email size limits explain the above issues, state that it would cost the company more money and unless they have really good reason to need to send 10 meg attachments they aren't gonna get it (since it could hose your mail server in the hands of an idiot).
I guess what it is going to boil down to is the nature of your buissness, if I was System Admin for a company that used email for communications I think 1 or 2 meg would be fine with a couple exceptions for people (family portraits are a personal thing, not buissness). This is really more of a situtational judgement thing, Slasdot users can tell you what they are doing, but it could be vastly differnt from your scenerio (and using wrong advice without enough pesonal knowledge could screw ya).
Here is their website. I told them that people in the Slashdot community would be willing to help, especially if it meant another grassroots anti-microsoft type situtaion, I also asked how we could help, money, equipment whatever. So hopefully we will hear something back. I will keep ya guys posted, hope something good comes of this.
You know what would be a good thing to do, it would be to get the Slashdot community together and help get these people some laptops, without continued community support these guys might fall to Microsoft in the end or just fall period. Open Source is about everyone giving a little, so it would only take everyone who reads this article donating a quarter or a piece of hardware. Anyone with me on this?
Sounds like you just want to multi-init, I know the Adaptec stuff will let you do this (2940 and above?). Just look on google for multi initiated scsi or this
To be honest just get an accountant (it may cost a little up front but could save you thousands down the road), they will know exactly what you want for a lease or purchase and will be able to tailor it for you tax/financial purposes. A good accountant can make the difference between owing more tax and not.
Your land isn't washing into the sea; the beach is nor your land.
First the beach washes away, then your land washes away (seen it first hand in Charleston SC).
they can do it legally, through the proper authorities
Have you seen what sort of paperwork is required to do anything in California? I heard someone say that the reason one of the small islands next to the Golden Gate bridge will never be developed is because it would require something like 40-80 years worth of beuracry and hearings with all the differnt boards and groups and government bodies who have their fingers in the tax/envionmental/governmental/etc pie. I don't think doing it illegally is the way to do things I am mearly pointing out the viewpoint of the developer (that is might have been near impossible to get it done with the correct paperwork).
My problem is most envionmentalists only see the small picture (the spotted owl, the grey monkey or whatever), not the big picture, a steel mill would really help the economy of this town, this golf course will employee several hundred, or the only way Manuel can feed his family is to cut and burn the land for farming. They complain, but they rarely offer solutions, they simply stir the pot, maybe they are truely after fame? I don't know, I am simply saying some stuff gets a little outta hand with these envionmentalists and no one steps back to look at the big picture (can you say wrongful harassement of people who have built see walls legally, watch I can guarentee that will happen).
Sure, maybe they shouldn't build there, but if they didn't and the land just sat fallow the city/county would not get tax money (property, buissness whatever) and hence would not be able to do as much. Societies where everything if owned by the people (or government) are called socialist/communist states, and so far we have proven that it just doesn't work. So unless you really enjoy living under the rule of big brother maybe you should quite down and realize that capitalism works and most everything else doesn't. If you don't like big buissess move to a country without it (like Chad or Cambodia or how about China, I hear the "people" own everything there).
The article talks about seawalls, more then likely built to protect the property owners land from erosion, not building brick walls in the middle of a sand box. Sure the public owns the beaches, but don't the property owners have some rights too? They have paid millions of dollars for thar land next to the beach, don't they deserve to keep it for a while before the ocean reclaims it? Also these are the same people putting millions if not billions into the local economy. Sure it might suck to not have a little bit of beach access or that spot with the killer waves, but I think it would suck worse if they didn't build and your county didn't have enough money to by books for kids or repair the roads. Envionmentalism has its place, but without large buissnesses tax dollars things would suck.
Also read the article closely about the land developer ho put bolders on the beach, it says he just needed a permit, he may or may not get one, but more then likely he will and the bolders will stay, just more tax dollars I guess. Go envionmentalist, help the goverment collect more tax dollars.
If your house was next to a park, and the lake in the park flooded every year wouldn't you want some protection? Or what if you lived on the beach and your land was washing into the sea? Shouldn't you be allowed to put up some sort of seawall?
Who would have guessed that there would be fraud on government contracts?!!??!
Serisouly, I am not really surprised, this stuff happens all the time. Heck I worked for a multi-billion dollar company and we had some guy who made 11,000 dollars worth of 900 number calls, so as weird as the lady getting collect calls from prison is I am not surprised. The average person is a greedy idiot, government contracts are full of regular people (heck who do you think works for NASA, rocket scientists?;) so this stuff is going to happen. From what I have read in the article it isn't as bad as some government fraud problems (can we say S&L or the B2 or the Osprey? Or the X-33?).
I have to agree with the attorney in the article? I think this is going a little to far. What good does this really do? Who are they actually protecting? And whose rights are they violating? Whats next the Sierra Club lowering cameras into my back yard to make sure I am not using too much fertilizer or pesticide on my lawn? Or PETA to make sure I am not doing anything they disagree with (which includes pretty much EVERYTHING, including owning any pet). Where do we draw the line? Can I use sonar or radar to make sure people aren't storing excess paint or motor oil in their garages?
These people shouldn't be hailed as heros, they haven't really done anything other then invade the privacy of land owners.
You will not get into Harvard or Berkeley or MIT...
Lets be honest here, you will NOT get into these schools more then likely period end of story. Persuasive or not they have VERY VERY high standards, people who graduate top of their class, get a 1600 on the SAT etc etc sometimes don't even get into these schools (my youngest brother got a near perfect SAT, graduated top of his prep school, played two varsity sports, did volunteer work at the local public hospital in pediatric ICU and he couldn't get into Harvard, he got offered a full ride to Stanford, Notre Dame, Loyola and some others but NOT Harvard, they waitlisted him). So your logic is a little faulty on this one, since even someone who has a undergrad in physics and good GRE scores may not even stand a good chance of getting into these three schools.
Again I ask, what is wrong with asking, the worst they will say is no, why are so many people on Slashdot against asking? Does it have to do with some sense of fairness, thinking that someone hasn't earned their Masters unless they slaved away on their undergrad in the same field? Or is it the negative attitude that permeates the computer types in society?
My only question for you is why are you so against simply talking to someone over this? It will honestly hurt nothing to simply ask if it is possible to get outta prerequisites and/or to discuss alternatives with the dean or whoever. I think the guy should at least try. Simply nay saying something gets you nothing, and for the most part asking will not hurt anything, at worst they will say no, and even if they do they will at least see that you have ambition. And heck maybe it will work and the guy will be able to get outta some or all of the undergrad classes.
2D design is a very very basic class, they teach basic color mixing (which any painter worth their salt can perform a months worth of these lessons in a matter of minutes), basic design concepts, what shapes are etc etc, it would be the equivelent of making an experianced Systems Admin take Intro to Microcomputer Applications (ie how to use Microsoft Office).
Same thing goes for Art History 101, any good artist researches other artists and periods and styles, so taking this class is a review of things they have studied on their own.
Of course this all depends on the person applying, some people with little experiance may require basic classes, in my wifes case they wouldn't of help further her, if anything it would have simply been an easy A, so she was able to get it waved and was allowed to spend her time (and my money;) on classes that helped her (upper level MFA stuff).
You can do similar things with ANY degree, if you can prove you don't need the class and already know the material (and I am not talking klep(sic) tests) you can have the requirements waved. Colleges/Universities are like any larger beuracraycy, success in anything negotiation requires first and foremost finding the right person and second dealing with that person in the appropriate manner.
As for your assertion of:
"You will probably not be able to convince any graduate school worth its salt that you know all this stuff without having taken these courses."
I don't think you are correct, it is a matter of talking to the right people. Sure if you go in and talk to JoeBlow advisor you will be unlikely to get anywhere, however if you talk to the dean or whoever is truly in charge and you can prove you have the know-how you will get results.
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The date on the page referanced in the Slashdot article is dynamic, it displays whatever todays date it. And you are correct, this occured one year ago today.
We had a potluck lunch and a coat drive, which is the exact opposite of what we had during the .com boom, which was a mega bash (rented a hotel, the whole hotel and boozed it up till the weeee hours) and a nice heafty bonus. So I guess all I recieved this year was my job.
Hmmm, from what I read if I write a shell script that uses grep, awk and maybe a little sed to hash my /var/log directory I am in violation of their patent?!?!?!?! Give me a break, as stated before the USPTO needs a massive overhaul, not to mention someone needs to question the ethics of those who patent common procedures.
Well lets see, my diesel genset cost about half as much, produces about 7 times more electrcity, and will run for 10 days of 133 lbs worth of fuel producing the same about of power the fuel cell does as opposed to the 11 hours this coleman fuelcell will run. Ok I know a lot of that 133 lbs for the hydrogen fuel cell is the canister, but still even if half the weight is canister and only say 60-70 lbs is fuel my diesel will still run for days after the fuelcell has exhausted its hydrogen.
About the only differnce is I have to run my generator in its generator shed outside, and it is noisy, but still I think the fuel economy, ease of obtaining diesel and the fact that if worse comes to worse I can run bio-diesel (which is chemically altered french fry oil). Sorry still sticking with diesel here.
I have played Quake III on an 8000 dollar Philips Plasma 60" (I think it was 60", might have been 56"). It rocked to no end, whether I would shell out the money for something like that though is another question entirely (personally my 21 inch Viewsonic is enough for games? Guess it was personal preferance though.
Why don't we simply boycott CD's, it would take a lot of effort and restraint by people, but I think if we banded together and worked towards a common goal we could send a message to the RIAA and record companies. Belly aching about how they shouldn't do this does absolutely no good. We need to stand up in mass against the recording industry and tell them "No we will not be treated like criminals, we will only buy CD's that work in any equipment and the US courts have shown time swapping to be legal".
Lets do something about this. Something other then complaining and giving up.
As much as I would really truly love to say she is a tool for Bill Gates it honestly looks like she is NOT. According to Open Secrets she didn't get any money from Microsoft. Just to be sure I went ahead and went through all the pages of the Microsoft donations and I could not find her listed anywhere. Looks like the bulk of her money comes from labor unions. Also if you look at the source it was created with Frontpage 5.0.
So my guess is the whole "Use Microsoft Internet Explorer" bit is more of a lack of knowledge in creating web forms, so they used a tool that generated stuff for Internet Explorer only. My advice, pen a nice letter to her explaining and possibly offering to help, if will go a lot farther then hate and spit, especially since it looks like NONE of her money comes from Microsoft, hence this is NOT a conspiracy, I repeat NOT a conspiracy, simply a honest mistake made by someone who probably doesn't know better.
Actually positive air pressure, good air filters and coming in clean are the main things, and you actually can build one, granted not one of those Intel chip moon suit ones, but a lower level one is pretty easy. Though you really shouldn't need a clean room to build a simple orbital satellite, especially one that just beeps, but I guess if this guy wants to build one, more power to him.
I would recommend looking for information on micropropagation (cloning plants). It is a fairly popular hobby and you need cleanroom like conditions, so most micropropagation books have plans for mini cleanrooms. I would recommend talking to people who have done this before (which you are trying to do ;), seems there is at least some discussion on Usenet about the subject.
Hahahaha, I love it when orginazations simply think blocking a single port will keep people from using a service. Oh well some people simply don't have a clue.
Uhhh, evacuating an 8000 mile long tube (DC - Bejin) borders on the impossible, or at best very costly and impracticle. It is a novel idea and would make for some intersting sci-fi, but I really doubt people are going to want to travel in what amounts to coffins (assuming someone can figure out how to make the whole vacuum thing remotely cost effective).
Email relies on encoding methods that can double or triple the size of an attachment, so it really isn't he best method for sending large files.
As for what other companies do, most have limits around 2 meg (some less, some a little more). If people need to transfer files within the company setup some sort of fileserver for sharing, geared toward the expertise level of your users (FTP if they have some sense, Windows/Mac shares if they don't).
If someone tries to pressure you to give them larger email size limits explain the above issues, state that it would cost the company more money and unless they have really good reason to need to send 10 meg attachments they aren't gonna get it (since it could hose your mail server in the hands of an idiot).
I guess what it is going to boil down to is the nature of your buissness, if I was System Admin for a company that used email for communications I think 1 or 2 meg would be fine with a couple exceptions for people (family portraits are a personal thing, not buissness). This is really more of a situtational judgement thing, Slasdot users can tell you what they are doing, but it could be vastly differnt from your scenerio (and using wrong advice without enough pesonal knowledge could screw ya).
Here is their website. I told them that people in the Slashdot community would be willing to help, especially if it meant another grassroots anti-microsoft type situtaion, I also asked how we could help, money, equipment whatever. So hopefully we will hear something back. I will keep ya guys posted, hope something good comes of this.
You know what would be a good thing to do, it would be to get the Slashdot community together and help get these people some laptops, without continued community support these guys might fall to Microsoft in the end or just fall period. Open Source is about everyone giving a little, so it would only take everyone who reads this article donating a quarter or a piece of hardware. Anyone with me on this?
Sounds like you just want to multi-init, I know the Adaptec stuff will let you do this (2940 and above?). Just look on google for multi initiated scsi or this
To be honest just get an accountant (it may cost a little up front but could save you thousands down the road), they will know exactly what you want for a lease or purchase and will be able to tailor it for you tax/financial purposes. A good accountant can make the difference between owing more tax and not.
Your land isn't washing into the sea; the beach is nor your land.
First the beach washes away, then your land washes away (seen it first hand in Charleston SC).
they can do it legally, through the proper authorities
Have you seen what sort of paperwork is required to do anything in California? I heard someone say that the reason one of the small islands next to the Golden Gate bridge will never be developed is because it would require something like 40-80 years worth of beuracry and hearings with all the differnt boards and groups and government bodies who have their fingers in the tax/envionmental/governmental/etc pie. I don't think doing it illegally is the way to do things I am mearly pointing out the viewpoint of the developer (that is might have been near impossible to get it done with the correct paperwork).
My problem is most envionmentalists only see the small picture (the spotted owl, the grey monkey or whatever), not the big picture, a steel mill would really help the economy of this town, this golf course will employee several hundred, or the only way Manuel can feed his family is to cut and burn the land for farming. They complain, but they rarely offer solutions, they simply stir the pot, maybe they are truely after fame? I don't know, I am simply saying some stuff gets a little outta hand with these envionmentalists and no one steps back to look at the big picture (can you say wrongful harassement of people who have built see walls legally, watch I can guarentee that will happen).
Sure, maybe they shouldn't build there, but if they didn't and the land just sat fallow the city/county would not get tax money (property, buissness whatever) and hence would not be able to do as much. Societies where everything if owned by the people (or government) are called socialist/communist states, and so far we have proven that it just doesn't work. So unless you really enjoy living under the rule of big brother maybe you should quite down and realize that capitalism works and most everything else doesn't. If you don't like big buissess move to a country without it (like Chad or Cambodia or how about China, I hear the "people" own everything there).
The article talks about seawalls, more then likely built to protect the property owners land from erosion, not building brick walls in the middle of a sand box. Sure the public owns the beaches, but don't the property owners have some rights too? They have paid millions of dollars for thar land next to the beach, don't they deserve to keep it for a while before the ocean reclaims it? Also these are the same people putting millions if not billions into the local economy. Sure it might suck to not have a little bit of beach access or that spot with the killer waves, but I think it would suck worse if they didn't build and your county didn't have enough money to by books for kids or repair the roads. Envionmentalism has its place, but without large buissnesses tax dollars things would suck.
Also read the article closely about the land developer ho put bolders on the beach, it says he just needed a permit, he may or may not get one, but more then likely he will and the bolders will stay, just more tax dollars I guess. Go envionmentalist, help the goverment collect more tax dollars.
If your house was next to a park, and the lake in the park flooded every year wouldn't you want some protection? Or what if you lived on the beach and your land was washing into the sea? Shouldn't you be allowed to put up some sort of seawall?
Who would have guessed that there would be fraud on government contracts?!!??!
;) so this stuff is going to happen. From what I have read in the article it isn't as bad as some government fraud problems (can we say S&L or the B2 or the Osprey? Or the X-33?).
Serisouly, I am not really surprised, this stuff happens all the time. Heck I worked for a multi-billion dollar company and we had some guy who made 11,000 dollars worth of 900 number calls, so as weird as the lady getting collect calls from prison is I am not surprised. The average person is a greedy idiot, government contracts are full of regular people (heck who do you think works for NASA, rocket scientists?
I have to agree with the attorney in the article? I think this is going a little to far. What good does this really do? Who are they actually protecting? And whose rights are they violating? Whats next the Sierra Club lowering cameras into my back yard to make sure I am not using too much fertilizer or pesticide on my lawn? Or PETA to make sure I am not doing anything they disagree with (which includes pretty much EVERYTHING, including owning any pet). Where do we draw the line? Can I use sonar or radar to make sure people aren't storing excess paint or motor oil in their garages?
These people shouldn't be hailed as heros, they haven't really done anything other then invade the privacy of land owners.
You will not get into Harvard or Berkeley or MIT...
Lets be honest here, you will NOT get into these schools more then likely period end of story. Persuasive or not they have VERY VERY high standards, people who graduate top of their class, get a 1600 on the SAT etc etc sometimes don't even get into these schools (my youngest brother got a near perfect SAT, graduated top of his prep school, played two varsity sports, did volunteer work at the local public hospital in pediatric ICU and he couldn't get into Harvard, he got offered a full ride to Stanford, Notre Dame, Loyola and some others but NOT Harvard, they waitlisted him). So your logic is a little faulty on this one, since even someone who has a undergrad in physics and good GRE scores may not even stand a good chance of getting into these three schools.
Again I ask, what is wrong with asking, the worst they will say is no, why are so many people on Slashdot against asking? Does it have to do with some sense of fairness, thinking that someone hasn't earned their Masters unless they slaved away on their undergrad in the same field? Or is it the negative attitude that permeates the computer types in society?
My only question for you is why are you so against simply talking to someone over this? It will honestly hurt nothing to simply ask if it is possible to get outta prerequisites and/or to discuss alternatives with the dean or whoever. I think the guy should at least try. Simply nay saying something gets you nothing, and for the most part asking will not hurt anything, at worst they will say no, and even if they do they will at least see that you have ambition. And heck maybe it will work and the guy will be able to get outta some or all of the undergrad classes.
2D design is a very very basic class, they teach basic color mixing (which any painter worth their salt can perform a months worth of these lessons in a matter of minutes), basic design concepts, what shapes are etc etc, it would be the equivelent of making an experianced Systems Admin take Intro to Microcomputer Applications (ie how to use Microsoft Office).
;) on classes that helped her (upper level MFA stuff).
Same thing goes for Art History 101, any good artist researches other artists and periods and styles, so taking this class is a review of things they have studied on their own.
Of course this all depends on the person applying, some people with little experiance may require basic classes, in my wifes case they wouldn't of help further her, if anything it would have simply been an easy A, so she was able to get it waved and was allowed to spend her time (and my money
You can do similar things with ANY degree, if you can prove you don't need the class and already know the material (and I am not talking klep(sic) tests) you can have the requirements waved. Colleges/Universities are like any larger beuracraycy, success in anything negotiation requires first and foremost finding the right person and second dealing with that person in the appropriate manner.
As for your assertion of:
"You will probably not be able to convince any graduate school worth its salt that you know all this stuff without having taken these courses."
I don't think you are correct, it is a matter of talking to the right people. Sure if you go in and talk to JoeBlow advisor you will be unlikely to get anywhere, however if you talk to the dean or whoever is truly in charge and you can prove you have the know-how you will get results.