He's an engineer, not an embedded systems guy. Two HP power supplies with GPIB and an internal NI GPIB card are about $1500 worth of hardware. I2C ADC's and a Coldfire would have cost him about $30.
Sounds like he's a engineering manager actually...
I'm willing to bet that the guy in charge of coding the backend for their site is not the same guy setting up the telephone network.
Yes, but one could argue that a website is like a logo, or a sales sheet, or a press kit: it's what represents the values the companies want to convey across, and if they suck, there's a strong hint that the rest of the company may suck too. It's not always true though, as Microsoft, its shiny frontpage and not-so-good OS demonstrates, but more often than not you can trust the first impression a company leaves you. Which is why said companies pay designers and PR folks big bucks to look good incidentally.
Having said that, it's a phone company, so you can bet they're stinking bad regardless:-)
Insightful my hiney. I read the front page right now, i.e. 14 blurbs, and I count 2 that end with a question, one of them being the one you complain about, and the other being a valid question imho.
This said, I agree that the questions are sometime s lame (like this one). Probably submitters feel compelled to leave the blurb open-ended to start the thread of discussion, out of fear of seeing the "important news" fall flat on its face, and it sometimes really is quite annoying.
little known, but the Secret Service have jurisdiction over counterfeiting crimes
It's not a little known fact amongst people who follow the hacking/cracking/phreaking/carding scene, even loosely. Read the excellent book the hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling for an informative account of what the SS does (and also does spectacularly wrong).
I prefer to have read-only filesystems. That way, every reboot guarantees a clean system.
You think it's a joke, but actually I do almost exactly that: for the few times I actually do need to use Windows, chiefly to use AutoCAD, I boot Win98 in VMWare and set it to always return to the hard-disk snapshot it booted with. That way, I can get as many xyz-wares on the Windows box, it'll always come back pristine the next time I restart it. And whenever I need to install something new, or change something in the Windows install, I do it carefully and take a new snapshot when I'm happy with it.
Honestly, VMWare is the best way to use Windows:-)
NOw we'll need a free registration to read the junk on about.com??? No thanks!
Not at all. Here's a mirror copy of what you can find on about.com, without having to log on:
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Maybe the MPAA's next trick is to publicise some scheme they're thinking of using, letting it get published to Slashdot, reading what Slashdotters have to say,[...] Free technical review.
So let's see: will the MPAA/RIAA implement a first-posted, GNAA-encrypted soviet russian copyright protection scheme after reading the feedback from here?
Free technical review on/.... Gee, you must be kidding surely.
I use Mozilla 1.7.5 and it doesn't work. If you point out to me what I might be doing wrong, I'd appreciate. I've try enabling cookies and whatnot, to no avail.
Note that it's not much of a problem really, since I use Gotmail to redirect stuff coming to my Hotmail account to my main POP3 account:-) The Hotmail one is just to subscribe to annoying spam-prone internet services.
MS's unwillingness to serve the same content to different browsers
Well I can vouch for that: there is just no way I can access my Hotmail account with Mozilla, and it seems a dicey affair with Konq. However, for some reason (ahem...), it works just great with IE:-)
Oh well, nothing new here. Remember the DRDOS case against Microsoft? They claimed Windows couldn't interoperate without MSDOS 7 too, yet it could. It's a classic case of Microsoft trying to maintain its monopolies by messing with standards to its advantage.
yup, i install an open-source, highly configurable browser and then install some creepy malbar that will hijack the whole goddamn thing.
Don't forget to recite your Open-Source prayer and throw a dart at Bill Gates' portrait on your wall before taking your tinfoil hat to go to bed tonite...
To me, the only useful thing Yahoo has to offer is Yahoo Groups, chiefly because in its pre-Yahoo phase (as Egroups), it was great and had really useful lists, and despite Yahoo royally f(*&%ing up this service since they bought it, it manages to continue to be okay.
Other than that, Yahoo search/news/whatnot... all suck pond water from the bottom imho.
"Take a tour of windows XP..." "Turn off the animated character?" "Turn off the paperclip?" "Are you sure you want to show 'system' files?"
I think you forgot the regular Windows updates and the re-activation when you add new hardware, which can happen quite often, for example when it's your job to upgrade PC hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
If you've got the room in your house and the money for supercooled kiloton Aluminum bars,
No need for that, just invite CowboyNeal and show him the USB device.
If you drive 120 miles an hour, maybe. It's at mile marker 82 or so. Do the math.
Okay...
82 miles take 41 minutes to make at 120mph. Driving at 109mph will get you there in 45 minutes.
Did i spy geeks and sports in the same sentence?
Not that we windows users don't enjoy living dangerously.
Using Windows isn't sport, it's masochism.
He's an engineer, not an embedded systems guy. Two HP power supplies with GPIB and an internal NI GPIB card are about $1500 worth of hardware. I2C ADC's and a Coldfire would have cost him about $30.
Sounds like he's a engineering manager actually...
Wow, some work you did, lifting the link inside TFA to repost it here...
Mods these days couldn't see a karma-whore if it painted his bottom blue, put on a jester's hat and shouted "I'm a karma-whore"...
One2One is only meaningful in English, but T mobile works in most European languages. (Almost all that use Latin alphabet, anyway).
Some people dont speak English at all!
Well, their main customer base is american after all...
Because of their website?
:-)
I'm willing to bet that the guy in charge of coding the backend for their site is not the same guy setting up the telephone network.
Yes, but one could argue that a website is like a logo, or a sales sheet, or a press kit: it's what represents the values the companies want to convey across, and if they suck, there's a strong hint that the rest of the company may suck too. It's not always true though, as Microsoft, its shiny frontpage and not-so-good OS demonstrates, but more often than not you can trust the first impression a company leaves you. Which is why said companies pay designers and PR folks big bucks to look good incidentally.
Having said that, it's a phone company, so you can bet they're stinking bad regardless
Insightful my hiney. I read the front page right now, i.e. 14 blurbs, and I count 2 that end with a question, one of them being the one you complain about, and the other being a valid question imho.
This said, I agree that the questions are sometime s lame (like this one). Probably submitters feel compelled to leave the blurb open-ended to start the thread of discussion, out of fear of seeing the "important news" fall flat on its face, and it sometimes really is quite annoying.
little known, but the Secret Service have jurisdiction over counterfeiting crimes
It's not a little known fact amongst people who follow the hacking/cracking/phreaking/carding scene, even loosely. Read the excellent book the hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling for an informative account of what the SS does (and also does spectacularly wrong).
I prefer to have read-only filesystems. That way, every reboot guarantees a clean system.
:-)
You think it's a joke, but actually I do almost exactly that: for the few times I actually do need to use Windows, chiefly to use AutoCAD, I boot Win98 in VMWare and set it to always return to the hard-disk snapshot it booted with. That way, I can get as many xyz-wares on the Windows box, it'll always come back pristine the next time I restart it. And whenever I need to install something new, or change something in the Windows install, I do it carefully and take a new snapshot when I'm happy with it.
Honestly, VMWare is the best way to use Windows
NOw we'll need a free registration to read the junk on about.com??? No thanks!
Not at all. Here's a mirror copy of what you can find on about.com, without having to log on:
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
Everyone knows that Kerberos is the biggest solution to the single sign-on dilemma.
You mean it isn't Passport? I'm so confused now...
Congrats to Maria though. Like me, she succeeded it.
You mean Maria Schneider got first post? Strange, it doesn't appear she even posted anything here...
Maybe the MPAA's next trick is to publicise some scheme they're thinking of using, letting it get published to Slashdot, reading what Slashdotters have to say,[...] Free technical review.
/.... Gee, you must be kidding surely.
So let's see: will the MPAA/RIAA implement a first-posted, GNAA-encrypted soviet russian copyright protection scheme after reading the feedback from here?
Free technical review on
I use Mozilla 1.7.5 and it doesn't work. If you point out to me what I might be doing wrong, I'd appreciate. I've try enabling cookies and whatnot, to no avail.
:-) The Hotmail one is just to subscribe to annoying spam-prone internet services.
Note that it's not much of a problem really, since I use Gotmail to redirect stuff coming to my Hotmail account to my main POP3 account
MS's unwillingness to serve the same content to different browsers
:-)
Well I can vouch for that: there is just no way I can access my Hotmail account with Mozilla, and it seems a dicey affair with Konq. However, for some reason (ahem...), it works just great with IE
Oh well, nothing new here. Remember the DRDOS case against Microsoft? They claimed Windows couldn't interoperate without MSDOS 7 too, yet it could. It's a classic case of Microsoft trying to maintain its monopolies by messing with standards to its advantage.
It's all converging on what looks like May 15 to start flying the shuttle again.
It's spelled frying.
there should be a RTFRPFYM (Read the F* Redundant posts first, you moron) acronym.
What do you think, guys?
IMHO, WADR, STFU.
when put behind a baffling series of hardware and software firewalls destroying all connectivity with said Windows machine
There's nothing baffling about pulling the ethernet plug.
An ongoing boycott of Amazon? You and who else?
I guess him and all other Parkinson disease sufferers protesting against the one-click system...
yup, i install an open-source, highly configurable browser and then install some creepy malbar that will hijack the whole goddamn thing.
Don't forget to recite your Open-Source prayer and throw a dart at Bill Gates' portrait on your wall before taking your tinfoil hat to go to bed tonite...
To me, the only useful thing Yahoo has to offer is Yahoo Groups, chiefly because in its pre-Yahoo phase (as Egroups), it was great and had really useful lists, and despite Yahoo royally f(*&%ing up this service since they bought it, it manages to continue to be okay.
Other than that, Yahoo search/news/whatnot... all suck pond water from the bottom imho.
Microsoft want to be the biggest dicks around...
"Take a tour of windows XP..."
"Turn off the animated character?"
"Turn off the paperclip?"
"Are you sure you want to show 'system' files?"
I think you forgot the regular Windows updates and the re-activation when you add new hardware, which can happen quite often, for example when it's your job to upgrade PC hardware.
That's no flamebait, that's right on topic: many pr0n industry workers browse Slashdot while on the job, and it had to be said.