To be honest, what unit scheme they use doesn't really matter. What matters is that if it says in big letters than the drive is 120 gig, then your favourite operating system should report the total size as 120 gig. Not something less.
I may being anal, but if that is what it says on the box, then that is what I expect to get.
It's obvious Ms. Highflied doesn't watch very much TV. Because the few times I do watch TV,I think how much crap is on the tube and wonder what happened the "real channels and programming."
I think that should read "It's obvious Ms. Highflied doesn't watch very much American TV.".
Take a look at UK television stations at some point if you can. Sure we pay a licence fee for BBC (no adverts and quality original programmes) and sure it sometimes gets slack for not having the budgets to purchase big name import programmes (eg. they run 2 year old Simpsons) - but it's still good.
Even the commercial stations run about 2 minutes of adverts every 15 minutes, don't start a programme and then slip a break in immediately after the credits, nor do they put one in just before the final credits roll and finally you don't get more than one plug for a programme on their station at the beginning and end of the advert slot.
Compaired to American stations, the adverts are still an annoyance but definately not as intruisive. This goes some way to explain why the Tivo hasn't taken off quite so well over here.
If it wasn't for the presence of Lara Croft and Xena Warrior Princess, techies around the world would have posters of Torvalds on their walls.
Yay! Linux manages to take one step forward in the acceptance of it by PHB's and CTO's in large organisations and two steps back by making it sound like it's hacked by a bunch of teenage nerds with no understanding of the "real world" (let alone "real women").
Image might not be everything - but its a big something.
Every new handset in the past 2-3 years has WAP as standard, these standards are constantly evolving and what we are seing is the evolution of WAP browsing into XHTML and HTML browsing which wasn't previously possible due to technology limitations.
What the article should really state here is that the WAP technology is dying, but not the idea (browsing the web - walled garden or not).
More evolving and changing than going the way of the Dodo. Although, granted, that's not quite so catchy as "WAP is dead!".
Except that Joe Luddite paid one of his son's friends $50 to configure his computer for him, and this friend turned off AutoRun, like any good person should.
Why should he? The only reasons I've seen for turning it off is the fact that in the dim dark mists of time Mac OS 9 got a virus and from then on it's considered a "bad thing"(tm).
Once you've stuck a CD into the PC, you're pretty much screwed if there is a virus on it because the chances are you'll run it anyway.
Plus, installing any application from any untrusted source (which, short of yourself, is pretty much everyone - source code open or not, because no one has 200 man hours to pour through every single detail) is opening you up almost as much as if you have autorun on. In fact, I'd say that is a far greater problem than some obscure virus which will get picked up by your virus scanner anyway.
So, I can see how it's a bad thing - but this just seems a little too tin foil hat. I'm happy with autorun enabled, i can always use SHIFT to turn it off (which is hardly ever) and I don't really see the need to get all worked up about it.
If my PC gets totalled tomorrow due to one of these viruses then I'll eat my words, but so far in about 8 years, I haven't seen one and to be honest, I don't really expect to be affected dramatically by one in another 8.
Does anyone have any bandwith available that could make an automated mirror for Slashdot stories?
It could just poll the site on a regular basis, pick up new stories and download a mirror of the links before it gets terminally slashdotted.
I think this would be a great idea (given that the/. authors are reluctant to do such a thing).
(Although having said that, we're talking Geocities here which may survive a slashdotting just fine - it just won't give you the content)
Hell, I'll happily write the code if no-one else will. I did Avantslash for viewing Slashdot on your PDA/WAP phone so I already have the code for parsing stories. Just need someone with a lot of bandwidth.
Now this just doesn't make sense. Sure, I'd agree with a need to upgrade from OS/2 - even finding a way to put new software on OS/2 is going to get hard as time goes on. But why the decision to go to Windows rather than a sensible decision like embedded Linux, QNX, heck ANYTHING but Windows...
It could be that there is already the software available to build up from.
If you went with something non-Windows, then the chances are you'd probably have to start from scratch. This costs significant time and money and reduces your time to market.
Which for all the pros of Linux, having to re-invent the wheel just to get something basic working may be enough reasons not to go with it.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
Given that there are countries outside of the USA have heard of and do use filesharing, P2P, Kazaa and the like, I doubt it what you suggest will happen.
The RIAA has no legal power in the UK and our equivilant (the BPI) has stated that it has "no intentions" of following the RIAA's move at this moment in time.
(Thats not to mean that they won't in the future, but they aren't right now)
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I've sent out 1001 resumes and received but one job offer...in Indiana (UGH!)!
If you really have sent out this many resumes then you could do a few things:
Look at your resume again. Why are people not interested in it? What can you do to make it better? Get advice from friends and family who aren't afraid of being critical.
Look at the roles you are going for. Are you being realistic? Can you do that role? Does your resume emphasise the fact you can do that role?
Look at the way you go to interviews. Do you dress smartly? Do you research the company beforehand? Do you make sure that (without looking like you're licking someones backside) you stand out from the crowd?
Look at the area you are trying to get a job. You may have to face the unfortunately reality that you have to move. I've never been to the US so I don't know - but is Indiana really that bad? How open are you to moving?
You've probably heard all this a million times. If you were based in the UK (and maybe even if you're not) check out a very good book called "Great answers to tough interview questions".
Just head on over to here and enter how much you earn.
It can be quite sobering to find out that you are in the top 0.9% richest people in the world. Thats a hell of a lot of people poorer than you.
I'm sure people will rip this apart because it's based on global data, doesn't take into account cost variations in countries and 101 other things - but give it a go anyway.
This is one reason why MS-Word is not a document exchange format even if both parties are using some flavor of MS-Word.
I've losely critiqued this before (mentioned in section 5.3) and got some good feedback from the author.
Whilst it has several many good points, the sad fact is that the alternatives are not good enough. Latex is too complex, PDF is read only, RTF doesn't have enough features and plain text even less so. You are therefore left with some other companies format, or Microsoft's.
Therefore I disagree with the statement "MS-Word is not a document exchange format". It should be "MS-Word is not the best document exchange format". However that isn't quite so snappy.
Because, like it or not, it is a document exchange format - same as if I wrote some specialised propriatory wierd-ass format, that too would be a document exchange format.
The difference being that mine wouldn't be easily (in the don't-have-to-install-anything-else) readable on quite so many computers.
I can't even send an word 2000 doc to my father in-law who has OfficeXP with out it getting screwed up.
If your father-in-law is having problems getting a 2000 document to open in OfficeXP then either you're saving it wrongly or he doesn't know how to use OfficeXP. Either way, it's a user problem.
Doc files saved in either version will open in the other. It's when you start trying to open 2000 documents in 95 and 98 then you run into problems.
Without sounding like a Linux zealot, of course he's going to say that.
No-one in their right mind would be quoted as saying "Naaah, we don't want to get involved in any standards. We'd far rather you use ours and be stuck with ours for the rest of your waking life. Mwah haha hahaa".
Or something like that.
(in all seriousness, they'll embrace it, add a few "extras" and break compatibility - in which case everyone else will end up having to change their product to make it work again)
Then I realized I was wasting my time for an ideal. I did this same thing all day at work on Linux servers. And when I got home the last thing I wanted to do was tweak my OS just so I could play a couple games with my friends.
Oh my god. Finally I've found someone on Slashdot that appreciated that the OS is a tool to help them get things done and that "things" is not tinkering with the OS to allow them to do other things that can't be done without the first "things" being done.
I agree whole-heartedly. This is 2003, and the biggest game of the year locks you down to a propriotary platform...
I hate to break it to you but with a very small number of exceptions, every game released in the last 10 years locks you down to a propriatory platform. I can't see this trend changing for the next couple of years at least.
This would be more news-worthy if there was going to be a Linux version - rather than there not being one.
I'm not a lawyer but I have heard from two sources (lawyer friend and woman in work who is involved in legal content issues) and in the UK you don't have the "fair use" right that is in the US.
Therefore even if you own the CD, you have absolutely no right to transfer it to a different format. With your CD, you purchase a right to listen to that music on that medium only. You do not have any rights to transfer it to any other medium. There is no provision in law to allow you to do so.
Having said that, MP3 players are sold and the BPI (our equivilant of the RIAA) have stated that they have "no plans" at the moment to go chasing people who do download and transfer music from CD's to other mediums.
I know Slashdot isn't a hot-bed of legal eagles, but does anyone know of anything different? This somewhat spooks me a little that the CD I purchased cannot be legally transfered to my mp3 player for the gym.
Pet Peeve #843287: SUV drivers that whine about the price of gas. You bought that overpriced penis extension, learn to live with the consequences.
Pet Peeve #1: All Americans who whine about the price of gas. If you really want to whine, come to the UK where our Government has turned taxing petrol into an art form.
Let's not forget that SCO is trying to hijack the work of thousands. They are trying to collect from all Linux users. That's rather disturbing. It's a little different than a smear campaign against Linux.
Lets not forget that they are trying. They haven't actually suceeded yet.
Or do you expect everyone from BT should have quit their jobs just because some idiot in legal tried to make a bit of money out of their supposid hyperlinks patent?
From Damage Studio's Point of View they are filtering their applicants based upon previous documented work ethics. You can filter applicants based on past history, without it being discrimination. For example, would the SEC hire someone from the financial department at Enron? Probably not, as they have a history of supporting false claims.
Same thing. SCO employees are supporting false claims, as well as bogus lawsuits.
No, it's not the same thing.
It would be the same thing if the SEC refused to hire someone who worked in a department completely unrelated to the finance department.
Damage don't care which division you work in, or whether you were even remotely involved in the whole debacle. They'll happily discriminate against you if you worked on something that didn't involve the "suspect" code in the slightest.
That is akin to the SEC rejecting an application from someone who used to do IT support for Enron. Their abilities at IT shouldn't detract from Enron's accountants ability to fudge the books.
As a side note: I hardly see that one (small) company refusing to employ SCO people is newsworthy. Even if chrisd is on the board and a geek website notible. Now if it was a fortune 100 or FTSE 100 company - then that would be something to talk about.
I looked at it and I'm a little confused. All it seems to be is a database of nfo's. There is nothing there to indicate how you get hold of the game, it does tell you who cracked it and how big it is, but save for a link to the EB store - you can't actually get hold of the thing.
If this is the case for the original site - why was it shut down?
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I may being anal, but if that is what it says on the box, then that is what I expect to get.
I think that should read "It's obvious Ms. Highflied doesn't watch very much American TV.".
Take a look at UK television stations at some point if you can. Sure we pay a licence fee for BBC (no adverts and quality original programmes) and sure it sometimes gets slack for not having the budgets to purchase big name import programmes (eg. they run 2 year old Simpsons) - but it's still good.
Even the commercial stations run about 2 minutes of adverts every 15 minutes, don't start a programme and then slip a break in immediately after the credits, nor do they put one in just before the final credits roll and finally you don't get more than one plug for a programme on their station at the beginning and end of the advert slot.
Compaired to American stations, the adverts are still an annoyance but definately not as intruisive. This goes some way to explain why the Tivo hasn't taken off quite so well over here.
If Bill G and Steve J actually did any development any more then you could make this a valid comparison.
Yay! Linux manages to take one step forward in the acceptance of it by PHB's and CTO's in large organisations and two steps back by making it sound like it's hacked by a bunch of teenage nerds with no understanding of the "real world" (let alone "real women").
Image might not be everything - but its a big something.
What the article should really state here is that the WAP technology is dying, but not the idea (browsing the web - walled garden or not).
More evolving and changing than going the way of the Dodo. Although, granted, that's not quite so catchy as "WAP is dead!".
Why should he? The only reasons I've seen for turning it off is the fact that in the dim dark mists of time Mac OS 9 got a virus and from then on it's considered a "bad thing"(tm).
Once you've stuck a CD into the PC, you're pretty much screwed if there is a virus on it because the chances are you'll run it anyway.
Plus, installing any application from any untrusted source (which, short of yourself, is pretty much everyone - source code open or not, because no one has 200 man hours to pour through every single detail) is opening you up almost as much as if you have autorun on. In fact, I'd say that is a far greater problem than some obscure virus which will get picked up by your virus scanner anyway.
So, I can see how it's a bad thing - but this just seems a little too tin foil hat. I'm happy with autorun enabled, i can always use SHIFT to turn it off (which is hardly ever) and I don't really see the need to get all worked up about it.
If my PC gets totalled tomorrow due to one of these viruses then I'll eat my words, but so far in about 8 years, I haven't seen one and to be honest, I don't really expect to be affected dramatically by one in another 8.
Replying to my own posts, how sad.
Might as just well use Google.
It could just poll the site on a regular basis, pick up new stories and download a mirror of the links before it gets terminally slashdotted.
I think this would be a great idea (given that the /. authors are reluctant to do such a thing).
(Although having said that, we're talking Geocities here which may survive a slashdotting just fine - it just won't give you the content)
Hell, I'll happily write the code if no-one else will. I did Avantslash for viewing Slashdot on your PDA/WAP phone so I already have the code for parsing stories. Just need someone with a lot of bandwidth.
It could be that there is already the software available to build up from.
If you went with something non-Windows, then the chances are you'd probably have to start from scratch. This costs significant time and money and reduces your time to market.
Which for all the pros of Linux, having to re-invent the wheel just to get something basic working may be enough reasons not to go with it.
Given that there are countries outside of the USA have heard of and do use filesharing, P2P, Kazaa and the like, I doubt it what you suggest will happen.
The RIAA has no legal power in the UK and our equivilant (the BPI) has stated that it has "no intentions" of following the RIAA's move at this moment in time.
(Thats not to mean that they won't in the future, but they aren't right now)
If you really have sent out this many resumes then you could do a few things:
- Look at your resume again. Why are people not interested in it? What can you do to make it better? Get advice from friends and family who aren't afraid of being critical.
- Look at the roles you are going for. Are you being realistic? Can you do that role? Does your resume emphasise the fact you can do that role?
- Look at the way you go to interviews. Do you dress smartly? Do you research the company beforehand? Do you make sure that (without looking like you're licking someones backside) you stand out from the crowd?
- Look at the area you are trying to get a job. You may have to face the unfortunately reality that you have to move. I've never been to the US so I don't know - but is Indiana really that bad? How open are you to moving?
You've probably heard all this a million times. If you were based in the UK (and maybe even if you're not) check out a very good book called "Great answers to tough interview questions".Best of luck.
It can be quite sobering to find out that you are in the top 0.9% richest people in the world. Thats a hell of a lot of people poorer than you.
I'm sure people will rip this apart because it's based on global data, doesn't take into account cost variations in countries and 101 other things - but give it a go anyway.
I've losely critiqued this before (mentioned in section 5.3) and got some good feedback from the author.
Whilst it has several many good points, the sad fact is that the alternatives are not good enough. Latex is too complex, PDF is read only, RTF doesn't have enough features and plain text even less so. You are therefore left with some other companies format, or Microsoft's.
Therefore I disagree with the statement "MS-Word is not a document exchange format". It should be "MS-Word is not the best document exchange format". However that isn't quite so snappy.
Because, like it or not, it is a document exchange format - same as if I wrote some specialised propriatory wierd-ass format, that too would be a document exchange format.
The difference being that mine wouldn't be easily (in the don't-have-to-install-anything-else) readable on quite so many computers.
If your father-in-law is having problems getting a 2000 document to open in OfficeXP then either you're saving it wrongly or he doesn't know how to use OfficeXP. Either way, it's a user problem.
Doc files saved in either version will open in the other. It's when you start trying to open 2000 documents in 95 and 98 then you run into problems.
No-one in their right mind would be quoted as saying "Naaah, we don't want to get involved in any standards. We'd far rather you use ours and be stuck with ours for the rest of your waking life. Mwah haha hahaa".
Or something like that.
(in all seriousness, they'll embrace it, add a few "extras" and break compatibility - in which case everyone else will end up having to change their product to make it work again)
Oh my god. Finally I've found someone on Slashdot that appreciated that the OS is a tool to help them get things done and that "things" is not tinkering with the OS to allow them to do other things that can't be done without the first "things" being done.
You head directly to my friends list :o)
I hate to break it to you but with a very small number of exceptions, every game released in the last 10 years locks you down to a propriatory platform. I can't see this trend changing for the next couple of years at least.
This would be more news-worthy if there was going to be a Linux version - rather than there not being one.
Therefore even if you own the CD, you have absolutely no right to transfer it to a different format. With your CD, you purchase a right to listen to that music on that medium only. You do not have any rights to transfer it to any other medium. There is no provision in law to allow you to do so.
Having said that, MP3 players are sold and the BPI (our equivilant of the RIAA) have stated that they have "no plans" at the moment to go chasing people who do download and transfer music from CD's to other mediums.
I know Slashdot isn't a hot-bed of legal eagles, but does anyone know of anything different? This somewhat spooks me a little that the CD I purchased cannot be legally transfered to my mp3 player for the gym.
You don't have to pay for Norton Wipeinfo if you're on Windows.
I'm told that both Scrub and Eraser are pretty good - although I haven't used them.
Both of which are free (in the "don't have to pay any money" sense)
Pet Peeve #1: All Americans who whine about the price of gas. If you really want to whine, come to the UK where our Government has turned taxing petrol into an art form.
For that comment, you've made my (crappy) day :o)
Lets not forget that they are trying. They haven't actually suceeded yet.
Or do you expect everyone from BT should have quit their jobs just because some idiot in legal tried to make a bit of money out of their supposid hyperlinks patent?
Same thing. SCO employees are supporting false claims, as well as bogus lawsuits.
No, it's not the same thing.
It would be the same thing if the SEC refused to hire someone who worked in a department completely unrelated to the finance department.
Damage don't care which division you work in, or whether you were even remotely involved in the whole debacle. They'll happily discriminate against you if you worked on something that didn't involve the "suspect" code in the slightest.
That is akin to the SEC rejecting an application from someone who used to do IT support for Enron. Their abilities at IT shouldn't detract from Enron's accountants ability to fudge the books.
As a side note: I hardly see that one (small) company refusing to employ SCO people is newsworthy. Even if chrisd is on the board and a geek website notible. Now if it was a fortune 100 or FTSE 100 company - then that would be something to talk about.
I have a 64 meg GeForce 4. In DirectX mode, everything looks really pretty but when I hit escape to go back to the menu I get a black screen.
In OpenGL mode, transparency is shot to pieces and where there should be text, I get square blocks.
I wouldn't call myself a self-respecting HL player - but I have to stick with software rendering.
I looked at it and I'm a little confused. All it seems to be is a database of nfo's. There is nothing there to indicate how you get hold of the game, it does tell you who cracked it and how big it is, but save for a link to the EB store - you can't actually get hold of the thing.
If this is the case for the original site - why was it shut down?