In all fairness, there are lots and lots of incompetent parents. Being possibly one of the most important jobs there are, parenting is unique in not requiring any skills or competence whatsoever.
Submitter could at least have made the smallest of efforts by writing something of his own. Now it appears he only clicked the "Submit to Slashdot"-button at the bottom of the article.
And then CmdrTaco just clicked the "Post-MS-Bashing-comment to story"-button in his editor control panel:)
Of course, recovering from tape is a more cumbersome since you can't just plug it in a start browsing the files. But then again, it's better to minimize the effort on something you do often (creating the backup) rather than something you do seldom (recovering from a backup).
The concept and the format was created by a British production company. Mark Burnett simply purchased a license to it. The first show produced using this format was the Swedish Expedition Robinson.
> I think they also spend way too much time on ideas that are aimed to hurt Microsoft (Such as the online spreadsheet idea) - these things are cool, but will anyone really pay for them?
They don't have to make money, they just have to make sure that Microsoft isn't making money. This was the no. 1 reason behind StarOffice from Sun; kill the biggest MS cash-cow of them all - Office. With less profits from that direction, MS have to spend less to compete with Sun in Sun's core market. Same with Google, it's a little investment with a possible huge return.
> I think google executives know that the money train will stop someday soon, since they are selling their shares like crazy.
They're selling their shares because it's unwise to have that much money in a single stock. If you look carefully you'll see that despite selling off stocks, they're vested more (in $$$) rather than less every year compared to the previous year.
Re:What a ridiculous trend... CORBA to WebServices
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Different people need different things. For many companies being productive - i.e. having appropriate tools - is everything. In many cases tt doesn't matter if you have to roll your own or use a non-standards compliant protocol, as long as you can get the functionality out the door in a matter of months, not years.
Like the article said, CORBA is a niche product for those who absolutely need it.
What it all boils down to is still the quality of the comments that the users post. Nothing else. There are dozens and dozens of story submission sites with some sort of social networking thingie, but it's really uninteresting unless there is a userbase with knowledge, experience, diversity and some degree of communication skills.
That is why sites like Digg et al is a miserable failure from that aspect; the comment section is entirely uninteresting and the intolerance and mob-mentality is mind-numbing. As a tool for staying within a 24hrs of the technology (hype) curve it is successful.
I read Slashdot for the comments and Digg/Playboy for the articles...
Fair enough, a party (country) could be effectively "submarining" an easily cracked technology/method into a standard. But to be useful as a backdoor it had to stay 100% a secret or else it would be meaningless for said party - they have be sure that it wouldn't be used against themselves. Seeing that as practically impossible, I still consider an open standard to be without backdoors; known or later discovered flaws would be just that - flaws, not backdoors.
> Google is a publicly-traded American corporation. This means it is under a legal obligation to make business decisions that maximize the value of the stock to its shareholders.
Not so. It is obliged to act in the interest of its shareholders, but 1) the law leave a lot of wiggle room when interpreting the common interest of the shareholders and 2) I'm sure there are shareholders that think 'do no evil' is a standard that should be upheld.
> with only Yahoo and MS raking in huge profits for Chinese search traffic (Yahoo having been notably more cooperative with the People's Republic in quashing dissenting voices than Google ever was).
First, in what way has Google not been cooperative. Second, "everyone else does it" is a poor excuse for kids even. People, companies and countries are doing whatever they can get away with, that doesn't mean it's right and that they shouldn't be criticized for it.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google has always been available in China--as Google.com. Google.cn just makes it more language- and user-friendly for the Chinese consumer.
Google.com has been banned altogether.
> Additionally, every time the Chinese engine returns censored results, isn't there a note to the effect that the document has been redacted? This would seem, in my mind, to contribute to a heightened public awareness in China as to just how pervasive the censorship regime is. This will in turn spawn more, not less, dissent, tending more towards democratic reform in the long term.
True, although one must wonder whether the gov't is notified with IP:s and such of the searching persons. I hope not.
I built a custom web application for this, with wiki, blogging, uploads, gallerys etc. It was fun, but really a hassle because of the two-step process of first identifying the file(s) and then downloading them to your machine if you wanted to work on it. The web GUI was great for browsing files, not so great for directly accessing them (apart from viewing pictures, maybe).
So instead I set up a simple file server with a strict structure (backups, archive, work area, private, pictures, movies, music, incoming etc) and then shared it on the network. Then I installed Hamachi ( dead simple VPN-ish software http://hamachi.cc/ ) on all machines that my extended family has and voila! They get the familiar gui of Explorer and easy copy/paste/edit etc. With some thinking and permissions, it just works with a minimal effort.
> more deserving people will happily seize the juicy gap in the market with both hands, and you'll have your precious programming anyway.
That's an assumption that isn't necessarily true. Here's a relevation: there may not be a juicy gap in the market. In a world where the content producers are at the mercy of the consumers with regards to whether or not the consumers elect to pay for the content, the margins may be too small to produce quality content. What we'll have is content that attract the largest possible paying amount of consumers, a least common wallet denominator. We've already seen it in Hollywood, where suckage is rampant. Luckily, well-written TV drama has stepped up to fill the void lately, but soon when they can't make any money either, we're back with TV for the idiotic masses.
Is the bad part that you have to pay ? I think it sounds great to have another option, legal at that. And with a nice home theater system in the range of hundreds if not thousands, $4 isn't much for new releases. I'm sure this would fit perfectly for many Hollywood movie lovers.
I can't say that *I* would be thrilled to have yet another box in my living room though, and I'm sure tehre are plenty of points of failures in the system. And I woldn't dream of paying a dime for allowing them to stream films to it. And if they're sending on PBS frequencies... which I pay for... shouldn't I get something back ?
Unfortunately, online fraud is low priority since it mostly hurts people, not corporations. Have you seen 50 cops raid a spammer or a botnet owner ? Whatabout 50 cops raiding an ISP that host a torrent site ?
Here's a crazy thought. How about allowing each user to choose which way they want to see it. Slashdot could jump to the forefront of web-technology and market this ability as something totally new and original and come up with a new name for it like "skins" or "themes". They already have a "preferences" page.
Apart from the C++ part, a former employer of mine did this back in, oh... 2000 or so. Numerous projects were started to move the monolitic behemoth of a product to a componentized Java version.
A complete waste. Tens of thousands of man-hours and millions later, only miniscule parts were rewritten, albeit without the possibility to interoperate with the legacy code.
Just like it sounds from you, this is a internally triggered initiative, not something that came from sales or marketing. Chances are noone wants the product when you're half-done in a few years.
My advice: start looking for another employer. Maybe after you've taken all the Java training and certifications...
Yesterday I tried to sign up for something and entered 1/1/1900 as my d.o.b., selecting the values from dropdown boxes. For some reason, I received the error "incorrect date" until I upped the year to 1920. Strange.
> The food at google is said to be one of the finest you can get anywhere.
That statement says alot about the eating habits of geeks and also the power of Google lore. I'm sure the trash at Google HQ smells like roses and that their staff is so clean and tidy that the restrooms never needs cleaning, but nevertheless Google employs 99 virgins that clean them after every visit there.
...which became "Spectrum User" IIRC. Fav part was the programs that came as page up and page down of machine code that you had to painstakingly enter without a single error.
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In all fairness, there are lots and lots of incompetent parents. Being possibly one of the most important jobs there are, parenting is unique in not requiring any skills or competence whatsoever.
You mean that you'll use it "unless" Hell freezes over.
Submitter could at least have made the smallest of efforts by writing something of his own. Now it appears he only clicked the "Submit to Slashdot"-button at the bottom of the article.
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And then CmdrTaco just clicked the "Post-MS-Bashing-comment to story"-button in his editor control panel
If you have a Mini-DV camera you can get between 10 and 20 GB per tape, and a DV-tape is about the same or cheaper than a blank DVD.
Article here
Of course, recovering from tape is a more cumbersome since you can't just plug it in a start browsing the files. But then again, it's better to minimize the effort on something you do often (creating the backup) rather than something you do seldom (recovering from a backup).
The concept and the format was created by a British production company. Mark Burnett simply purchased a license to it. The first show produced using this format was the Swedish Expedition Robinson.
> I think they also spend way too much time on ideas that are aimed to hurt Microsoft (Such as the online spreadsheet idea) - these things are cool, but will anyone really pay for them?
They don't have to make money, they just have to make sure that Microsoft isn't making money. This was the no. 1 reason behind StarOffice from Sun; kill the biggest MS cash-cow of them all - Office. With less profits from that direction, MS have to spend less to compete with Sun in Sun's core market. Same with Google, it's a little investment with a possible huge return.
> I think google executives know that the money train will stop someday soon, since they are selling their shares like crazy.
They're selling their shares because it's unwise to have that much money in a single stock. If you look carefully you'll see that despite selling off stocks, they're vested more (in $$$) rather than less every year compared to the previous year.
Different people need different things. For many companies being productive - i.e. having appropriate tools - is everything. In many cases tt doesn't matter if you have to roll your own or use a non-standards compliant protocol, as long as you can get the functionality out the door in a matter of months, not years.
Like the article said, CORBA is a niche product for those who absolutely need it.
What it all boils down to is still the quality of the comments that the users post. Nothing else. There are dozens and dozens of story submission sites with some sort of social networking thingie, but it's really uninteresting unless there is a userbase with knowledge, experience, diversity and some degree of communication skills.
That is why sites like Digg et al is a miserable failure from that aspect; the comment section is entirely uninteresting and the intolerance and mob-mentality is mind-numbing. As a tool for staying within a 24hrs of the technology (hype) curve it is successful.
I read Slashdot for the comments and Digg/Playboy for the articles...
> Goatees are stupid, especially on effeminate, pudgy computer nerds; they didn't even look good in the 1990s.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Fair enough, a party (country) could be effectively "submarining" an easily cracked technology/method into a standard. But to be useful as a backdoor it had to stay 100% a secret or else it would be meaningless for said party - they have be sure that it wouldn't be used against themselves. Seeing that as practically impossible, I still consider an open standard to be without backdoors; known or later discovered flaws would be just that - flaws, not backdoors.
There are no "backdoors" in standards, only in implementations.
> Google is a publicly-traded American corporation. This means it is under a legal obligation to make business decisions that maximize the value of the stock to its shareholders.
Not so. It is obliged to act in the interest of its shareholders, but 1) the law leave a lot of wiggle room when interpreting the common interest of the shareholders and 2) I'm sure there are shareholders that think 'do no evil' is a standard that should be upheld.
> with only Yahoo and MS raking in huge profits for Chinese search traffic (Yahoo having been notably more cooperative with the People's Republic in quashing dissenting voices than Google ever was).
First, in what way has Google not been cooperative. Second, "everyone else does it" is a poor excuse for kids even. People, companies and countries are doing whatever they can get away with, that doesn't mean it's right and that they shouldn't be criticized for it.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google has always been available in China--as Google.com. Google.cn just makes it more language- and user-friendly for the Chinese consumer.
Google.com has been banned altogether.
> Additionally, every time the Chinese engine returns censored results, isn't there a note to the effect that the document has been redacted? This would seem, in my mind, to contribute to a heightened public awareness in China as to just how pervasive the censorship regime is. This will in turn spawn more, not less, dissent, tending more towards democratic reform in the long term.
True, although one must wonder whether the gov't is notified with IP:s and such of the searching persons. I hope not.
I built a custom web application for this, with wiki, blogging, uploads, gallerys etc. It was fun, but really a hassle because of the two-step process of first identifying the file(s) and then downloading them to your machine if you wanted to work on it. The web GUI was great for browsing files, not so great for directly accessing them (apart from viewing pictures, maybe).
So instead I set up a simple file server with a strict structure (backups, archive, work area, private, pictures, movies, music, incoming etc) and then shared it on the network. Then I installed Hamachi ( dead simple VPN-ish software http://hamachi.cc/ ) on all machines that my extended family has and voila! They get the familiar gui of Explorer and easy copy/paste/edit etc. With some thinking and permissions, it just works with a minimal effort.
> more deserving people will happily seize the juicy gap in the market with both hands, and you'll have your precious programming anyway.
That's an assumption that isn't necessarily true. Here's a relevation: there may not be a juicy gap in the market. In a world where the content producers are at the mercy of the consumers with regards to whether or not the consumers elect to pay for the content, the margins may be too small to produce quality content. What we'll have is content that attract the largest possible paying amount of consumers, a least common wallet denominator. We've already seen it in Hollywood, where suckage is rampant. Luckily, well-written TV drama has stepped up to fill the void lately, but soon when they can't make any money either, we're back with TV for the idiotic masses.
Is the bad part that you have to pay ? I think it sounds great to have another option, legal at that. And with a nice home theater system in the range of hundreds if not thousands, $4 isn't much for new releases. I'm sure this would fit perfectly for many Hollywood movie lovers.
I can't say that *I* would be thrilled to have yet another box in my living room though, and I'm sure tehre are plenty of points of failures in the system. And I woldn't dream of paying a dime for allowing them to stream films to it. And if they're sending on PBS frequencies... which I pay for... shouldn't I get something back ?
Unfortunately, online fraud is low priority since it mostly hurts people, not corporations. Have you seen 50 cops raid a spammer or a botnet owner ? Whatabout 50 cops raiding an ISP that host a torrent site ?
That's exactly the terminology my mother use. And when she says "the computer" she means the monitor, usually.
It's funny because it's true...
What do you think this is, 1999 or something ?
Apart from the C++ part, a former employer of mine did this back in, oh... 2000 or so. Numerous projects were started to move the monolitic behemoth of a product to a componentized Java version.
A complete waste. Tens of thousands of man-hours and millions later, only miniscule parts were rewritten, albeit without the possibility to interoperate with the legacy code.
Just like it sounds from you, this is a internally triggered initiative, not something that came from sales or marketing. Chances are noone wants the product when you're half-done in a few years.
My advice: start looking for another employer. Maybe after you've taken all the Java training and certifications...
Yesterday I tried to sign up for something and entered 1/1/1900 as my d.o.b., selecting the values from dropdown boxes. For some reason, I received the error "incorrect date" until I upped the year to 1920. Strange.
Yeah and while your at it, move them out of your /Uploads directory as well. We're tired of laughing at your book keeping skillz.
> The food at google is said to be one of the finest you can get anywhere.
That statement says alot about the eating habits of geeks and also the power of Google lore. I'm sure the trash at Google HQ smells like roses and that their staff is so clean and tidy that the restrooms never needs cleaning, but nevertheless Google employs 99 virgins that clean them after every visit there.
Doh! It was the "Your Sinclair" magazine that became "Your Spectrum". "Sinclair User" kept its name. Anyway, great magazines both of them.
...which became "Spectrum User" IIRC. Fav part was the programs that came as page up and page down of machine code that you had to painstakingly enter without a single error.