Here's what I don't get... typically you set up a computer structure to fit your needs of what you're playing with. So you've got this setup and now you want to figure out how to multicast with it?
The only need I've ever had for multicasting was when we would use Ghost to put a new image on every identical lab machine on our campus. We used to do it all from the server but it became such a strain as the labs grew.
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Plus with a video stream of the professor, a video stream of the whiteboard, and the course materials, well it'd be pretty close to being there. Helpful for students in the class, but key for actually teaching folks around the world.
Because this video streaming costs money. Many Universities do something similar already, but charge to actually take the class remotely.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it says the company was running terminal emulator software. I know that Citrix charges per license for every user that would be accessing the server and using that software. Now granted, Citrix needs to run on top of something else, but wouldn't the company then be paying twice? The entire idea of marketting a server software like NT server etc is for similar purposes.
Look in your community for some sort of geek-type gathering. Pittsburgh holds something monthly called Geek Night; It is wonderful for networking, as well as good ol beer drinking and conversation with fellow male and female geeks about geek topics and non geek topics. And if your community doesn't have any events like this, why not get together with people from technology companies around your city, and get one started?
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Nah, because she woulda had to pay to use the sample to begin with so wouldn't her legal obligation to them stop there? If she's paid that fee to sample and wants to distribute her song how she wants, thats her perogative (sp?)
But then again, I could be completely off-base.
Btw... why does courtney love care if Napster's full of techno? Techno is good:)
How do you think technology advances? People learn by doing. How do you think some of the biggest jumps in medical and scientific technology were discovered? Playing around like this:P
While everyone is commenting on the possibility of upsetting the balance of Mother Nature, I believe this could be yet another step towards using genes to fight diseases and improve human biology. The ability to transfer genes such as the jellyfish's glow gene has only shown us that it is possible, and is mostly used for tracking purposes, to see the effects. These moths can't reproduce, so I don't forsee much effect on the population as a whole.
Rembember the cute little rhesus monkey inserted with jellyfish genes? He was the first primate to receive inserted DNA. Eventually they can use this to insert human diseases into a monkey to create a better study of diseases like Alzheimers.
All of these gene studies are baby steps towards genetically engineered humans.
You're only too old if you quit keeping up with the growth of the field. I had a older boss who was still running OS/2 because hes stubborn and hates Microsoft but doesn't know unix and didn't want to learn. However, theres an old d00d working here who has surprised the hell out of me with his knowledge. When I say old i meant hes over 50. The IT field is constantly growing. There's many younger people involved because our generation grew up with the technology, whereas our parents didn't.
Yeah, I've got the same problem. What's worse is I'm a girl, so regardless of my age, it's still been difficult to gain respect from my colleagues. I've only recently graduated so it's hard to be taken seriously, but I am slowly gaining respect. If your acheivements haven't showed them anything, maybe it's time to find a new job? Good luck buddy...
~star
My point was that if same-sex parents give more support to a child than a single parents household, which is quite typical in today's society, why deprive the same-sex couple of adopting a child who needs and wants a good home.
But again, this wasn't the point of the damn article/interview.
OK, first off. Judging their lifestyle was *not* the point of the interview.
I'll give you this, children could probably do best by having both male and female role models. But then, so many children are being raised in single parents homes anymore, I don't think it's much different.
It's kind of a big deal when gay couples are allowed to adopt. Courts have been known to take children out of homes with same-sex parents. I believe that homosexuals should have the same basic rights as any other human being. Go read "Heather has Two Mommies" by Leslea Newman:P
I didn't read the original post but that's what meta-moderation is for. I've noticed a lot of mis-modded-down posts (in my opinion) lately. Well-put intelligent but disagreeing posts have been marked flamebait and trolls. If meta-moderation doesn't help, I'm sure theres something in the FAQ about emailing hemos or whoever to bitch/whine.;)
I really enjoyed reading this interview... It was interesting to hear their views on the homosexual and geek lifestyles. Not to mention, maybe their recognition will help break the stereotyping of gays in the geek community.
After the court's decision, Napster was no longer available for free, but literally dozens of new, free Napster-like systems sprang up within months.
*cough*gnutella*cough*
Seriously tho, From what i've read, album sales have actually gone *up* since Napster has been around. Personally, I download music, listen to it for a week or so, and buy the album if I liked it. I've got the money, and I like to support artists I enjoy. Yes, not everyone has the money, especially the college kids with the bandwidth to abuse Napster. But would they be buying the albums anyway? Napster has been good to many artists in getting their music out to the audience, and getting them known. As for established artists like Metallica, I don't think they'll completely kill services like Gnutella. At least not for a while. I thought this article was fairly amusing.
This is silly!
Of course MS is concerned about a competitive operating system that is *free*.
Linus could find similar points with MS...
I hardly think that Linux is going down because MS says so:P
Free does not sustain a business," Miller said. "Development costs money, QA (quality assurance) costs money, support costs money.
Of course it does... which is why there is an open-source community. I'd much rather go in search of drivers for my hardware for my linux box than pay several hundred dollars (is that what it costs?) for a MS product.
Companies/politicians do this all the time...
negative publicity about their competitors. Do we really have a need to be worried?
They care because school administrators are very naive and mostly care about the schools reputation. Using this software makes them look good on paper. And looking good on paper means attracting people moving to the area for that school. Not to mention, obviously more funding for the libraries, as mentioned in the article.
I know the point is more that the information is being sold but... am I correct in understanding that this software doesn't allow you to set the filters? So say a sex ed site was blocked because of the word sex in the meta tag or something, but it was actually educational, is there a way to change that if say, a health teacher, wants his/her students to be able to access it from the library?
Back on topic... I don't see much of a problem with selling the information to marketers, they claim its only anonymous aggregate data. If I'm going to get junkmail, I'd like it to at least be something I might be interested in... The problem I have is that it's still a privacy matter for people that are bothered by things like that, especially when they don't state up front that their application collects data for their profit. It's that whole Big Brother issue... I'd like to know who all is watching me when i websurf
Hrm. How'd you find that essay? The link in the original article only yielded one essay by OSC for me when i searched. I'd be interested in reading more. I just lost some respect for someone i kind of admired because of his excellent story-telling.
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And when I read the statements of those who claim to be both LDS and homosexual, trying to persuade the former community to cease making their membership contingent upon abandoning the latter, I wonder if they realize that the price of such "tolerance" would be, in the long run, the destruction of the Church.
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How can someone who can create such a character as Ender who completely charmed me, sit there and talk about how tolerance in the church will destroy it. Isn't that what it's built around? Oh, well, i don't want to start a religious debate, only commenting. Bleah... sad.:(
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If everyone *did* know how to properly use their PCs, you and I probably would be out of a job.
So these are the same technology? This article didn't mention holey fibers, and I posted about it but of course no one cared...
Is this anything like the holey fibers that were Slashdotted last month?
I promise... its a wired.com link, no goatsex :P
The only need I've ever had for multicasting was when we would use Ghost to put a new image on every identical lab machine on our campus. We used to do it all from the server but it became such a strain as the labs grew.
Because this video streaming costs money. Many Universities do something similar already, but charge to actually take the class remotely.
~kimmie
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it says the company was running terminal emulator software. I know that Citrix charges per license for every user that would be accessing the server and using that software. Now granted, Citrix needs to run on top of something else, but wouldn't the company then be paying twice? The entire idea of marketting a server software like NT server etc is for similar purposes.
Well it seems if you are running Win2k with ie 5.55 you don't need this patch, at least thats what it tells me when i try to install it :)
This is not informative at all if you've read the article.
Isn't this redundant? this site was linked from the original article...
Look in your community for some sort of geek-type gathering. Pittsburgh holds something monthly called Geek Night; It is wonderful for networking, as well as good ol beer drinking and conversation with fellow male and female geeks about geek topics and non geek topics. And if your community doesn't have any events like this, why not get together with people from technology companies around your city, and get one started?
But then again, I could be completely off-base.
Btw... why does courtney love care if Napster's full of techno? Techno is good :)
How do you think technology advances? People learn by doing. How do you think some of the biggest jumps in medical and scientific technology were discovered? Playing around like this :P
Rembember the cute little rhesus monkey inserted with jellyfish genes? He was the first primate to receive inserted DNA. Eventually they can use this to insert human diseases into a monkey to create a better study of diseases like Alzheimers.
All of these gene studies are baby steps towards genetically engineered humans.
You're only too old if you quit keeping up with the growth of the field. I had a older boss who was still running OS/2 because hes stubborn and hates Microsoft but doesn't know unix and didn't want to learn. However, theres an old d00d working here who has surprised the hell out of me with his knowledge. When I say old i meant hes over 50. The IT field is constantly growing. There's many younger people involved because our generation grew up with the technology, whereas our parents didn't.
Yeah, I've got the same problem. What's worse is I'm a girl, so regardless of my age, it's still been difficult to gain respect from my colleagues. I've only recently graduated so it's hard to be taken seriously, but I am slowly gaining respect. If your acheivements haven't showed them anything, maybe it's time to find a new job? Good luck buddy... ~star
But again, this wasn't the point of the damn article/interview.
I'll give you this, children could probably do best by having both male and female role models. But then, so many children are being raised in single parents homes anymore, I don't think it's much different.
It's kind of a big deal when gay couples are allowed to adopt. Courts have been known to take children out of homes with same-sex parents. I believe that homosexuals should have the same basic rights as any other human being. Go read "Heather has Two Mommies" by Leslea Newman :P
So, let's get back on topic...
BTW I'm not off-topic, I'm just helpful :P
I really enjoyed reading this interview... It was interesting to hear their views on the homosexual and geek lifestyles. Not to mention, maybe their recognition will help break the stereotyping of gays in the geek community.
*cough*gnutella*cough*
Seriously tho, From what i've read, album sales have actually gone *up* since Napster has been around. Personally, I download music, listen to it for a week or so, and buy the album if I liked it. I've got the money, and I like to support artists I enjoy. Yes, not everyone has the money, especially the college kids with the bandwidth to abuse Napster. But would they be buying the albums anyway? Napster has been good to many artists in getting their music out to the audience, and getting them known. As for established artists like Metallica, I don't think they'll completely kill services like Gnutella. At least not for a while. I thought this article was fairly amusing.
survival of the fittest baybee...
Free does not sustain a business," Miller said. "Development costs money, QA (quality assurance) costs money, support costs money. Of course it does... which is why there is an open-source community. I'd much rather go in search of drivers for my hardware for my linux box than pay several hundred dollars (is that what it costs?) for a MS product.
Companies/politicians do this all the time... negative publicity about their competitors. Do we really have a need to be worried?
I know the point is more that the information is being sold but... am I correct in understanding that this software doesn't allow you to set the filters? So say a sex ed site was blocked because of the word sex in the meta tag or something, but it was actually educational, is there a way to change that if say, a health teacher, wants his/her students to be able to access it from the library?
Back on topic... I don't see much of a problem with selling the information to marketers, they claim its only anonymous aggregate data. If I'm going to get junkmail, I'd like it to at least be something I might be interested in... The problem I have is that it's still a privacy matter for people that are bothered by things like that, especially when they don't state up front that their application collects data for their profit. It's that whole Big Brother issue... I'd like to know who all is watching me when i websurf
*snip* And when I read the statements of those who claim to be both LDS and homosexual, trying to persuade the former community to cease making their membership contingent upon abandoning the latter, I wonder if they realize that the price of such "tolerance" would be, in the long run, the destruction of the Church. *snip*
How can someone who can create such a character as Ender who completely charmed me, sit there and talk about how tolerance in the church will destroy it. Isn't that what it's built around? Oh, well, i don't want to start a religious debate, only commenting. Bleah... sad. :(