I owned one for years. $0 maintenance. Even when stuff breaks, its essentially free parts. In Canada there were (are?) a couple of parts whoesalers where even NEW parts are so cheap it is unbelievable.
There's a ton of unique engineering solutions at every turn with that vehicle. Even normal stuff, like seatbelts, and the engine being mounted totally on the passenger side.
It could perform too.. like you wouldn't believe.
I really miss my Niva. So cheap.. I often imagine I will buy another one sometime soon.
It was based purely on "defect density" - the number of errors per throusand lines of code.
MySQL had a defect density of 0.09 and the industry standard was found to be 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code.
The MySQL development team has since fixed all of the 'defects' that were found in the study. (which ranged from a few uninitialized variables prior to usage to memory leaks).
Unless your research topic is somehow directly related to the job, I would given other candidates serious consideration before hiring you.
There's also a stigma that Ph.Ds are too accustomed to the life of academia. While sometimes you need to impress to get a research grant or whatever, it is much different than industry in terms fo goals and objectives - and thus, would you really be a good fit in my company after having spent all of that time in academics?
You're also specialized. You've focussed yourself on a single research topic and closed a lot of doors by doing it. This, of course, can also happen in industry with years spent in the same position. You close some doors - but you have the key to that one specific area - just make sure you choose the area wisely!
Did I mention Ph.Ds are convinced they are deserving of higher salaries than others?
I'm sure you've heard all of the above arguments before. I don't neccesarily prescribe to them myself, but they do hold some merit.
If it came time to fill a position I can't imagine ever seeking a Ph.D - if an application rolled in from one, I would give it the same consideration as any other, only it might be tainted by the above mentioned negatives.
I/know/ I wouldn't pay more for a Ph.D candidate in IT - unless, like I said, the position was somehow related to their research topics.
CleanFilms.com and others like it lost-out when MPAA said it was illegal for them to edit the copyrighted material and distribute it (by rental or sale) to 'customers'. They've since operated by not 'distributing to customers' but by 'sharing with co-owners'.
Essentially they operate as a co-operative. On the surface, it is the same as paying a membership fee - but on paper it is a different story (i.e. Snapster would be just like Napster on the surface, but largely different on paper).
is it legal to edit movies? Yes. CleanFilms is a Co-operative rental club. All subscribers to our service become members of the Co-op. The Co-op collectively purchases original, unedited DVD movies then has them edited - always maintaining a 1 to 1 ratio of edited and non-edited originals.
As owners of the original, unedited movies, the Co-op has the right to edit out content that is objectionable to its members - similar to how you might press mute to avoid hearing objectionable language today. Accordingly, you must subscribe as a member of the rental club before you can rent edited movies.
you're kidding me, right? There is NO benefit to MS to award this cert. (read every other comments here to learn a million reasons why).
It gives them more fire power in court when it comes to nailing people with mochips.
Bah. You don't understand how the legal system (especially U.S.) works, do you? MONEY and POWER - and they got plenty of both. If they want to stop mod chip manufacturers, they can. period. It doesn't matter what arguments the accused has, MS can bankrupt the guy in short order. Roght or wrong.
There is no way MS grants this team a cert. MS wants to make money, and here's the facts:
1) They take a loss on the console in order to make profit on the games console owners would buy. - they don't want you to buy an xBox for the purpose of running linux and doing whatever (email, server, etc) - they want you to buy xbox games!
2) Allowing another OS on the xbox creates piracy. - MS needs to sell games to make money. If these guys get their cert. it would be used to play games. Be it TuxRacer or a pirated copy of an actual xBox game. It would happen. The cert could be used to boot, and then load a pirated copy of a game on an unmodified xBox. Bad for business.
3) This is not in the grand scheme of things. Consider the xBox the first stage in a modular sort of computer (this being the gaming module) with DRM and total MS control. - there's no benefit to award this cert. the hardcore linux nerds of the world aren't going to stop and say "hey, mayeb MS ain't so bad. I'm going to go to the store and buy Windows, Office, etc"
With no benefits at all for MS I see no reason in the world why they would award a cert. here. The reward money is not a benefit, it is a joke to a company the size of MS.
Could be worse I guess.. I could live in Canada.. eh?
No joke here folks. I worked in the U.S. for a while, and I paid a lot less taxes (your situation may vary) than I do in Canada.
Of course, in Canada we don't mind so much - we implement silly things like free healthcare (getting sick in the U.S. was one of the worst experiences of my life. who wants to argue with insurance companies when you're bed ridden?).
aside: Honestly, people always talk about how great our healthcare system is in Canada. Guys, I experienced Canada's [a lot] and the U.S. [a bit], there is a HUGE difference. The hype is true.
The U.S. has better roads though - can't argue with that.
Interestingly enough, I dislike silly law suits, but I like this one.
I think this has been in the making for a long time.
These days, software makers are quick to inform you that you have purchased a license for use, nothing more and nothing less.
Now we all know [nearly] nobody actually reads those EULAs, but it is (the manufacturer would have us believe) part of our licensing agreement we've just purchased.
This is a big deal. This woman is absolutley correct - certainly she will not be given a refund after opening the boxes - and she certainly didn't know what she was buying until she opened the boxes.
She might have a case, but if not, she's at least got a really good point.
I've had this same viewpoint for a very long time. I for one am glad to see someone doing something about it.
First.. how did this make the front page on slashdot? Is it THAT slow of a news day?
And wouldn't Slackware users just stumble upon it instead of anouncing it to hundreds of thousands of dorks on slashdot who will promptly go trolling there now (especially given that it is apparently newsworthy).
Holy christ! We legalized weed!! I just heard about it now on slashdot
He must be one of those people too stoned to realize it wasn't a total victory. This is straying from the topic, but here's what's going on.
Canada is decriminalizing weed. We are not legalizing weed. There is a quantity you may posess (I can't recall, but heard it compared to a couple of packs of cigarettes worth) where it is not criminal - but it is still illegal!
You won't get a criminal record. But you will be fined (and should you neglect to pay, you must appear in court). Basically the same as any other non-criminal fines (speeding tickets for example).
Don't be mistaken. This is not a step towards legalizing weed in Canada - quite the opposite in fact. Here's the reason they are doing it: Cop's are ignoring and not arresting or pressing ciminal charges on people who posess small quantities of weed. A big study was done and it showed they do this because it has such long-lasting effects (criminal record) and such harsh punishment (potential jail time). Basically the cops think these small poseesors are not a threat to society or don't deserve such a harsh punishment.
The decriminalization plan is coming to light so that cops will do their jobs - comphiscate the weed and fine the offender. Now they can do it without the guilt of having 'ruined a life' over something so 'harmless'.
It is still illegal to possess weed in Canada - just now you are MORE likely to get in trouble for it (read: as opposed to overlooking it, they'll write you a ticket).
For Opera to get it's "Fastest browser on earth" title, it caches EVERYTHING. Even things that aren't supposed to be cached like SSL pages.
Opera also renders super fast. Even going through local pages or cache, the difference is noticeable to me (admittedly, on an outdated machine - but saying I should need a P4 to browse the web is silly).
Opera isn't worse. It's better. Definitley less bloat. It CAN render faster. And if I understand the article correctly (I actually read it) then it means this:
IE retrieves faster from IIS servers.
IE retrieves SLOWER from all non-IIS servers.
Common slashdot propoganda suggests MOST servers are not IIS. This would mean Opera can retrieve faster on average.. and I'm fairly certain it can render the page for display quite a bit faster.
P.S. You can turn off caching in the options if it really bother you.
As strange as the parent may seem to some, my father also [claims to] remembers his birth.
When I was in the 5th grade or so, we had a project to document our families earliest memories. To my great surprise, my Dad claimed to remember his birth.
Years later, I did a little bit of research and discovered that some very small percentage of people make similar such claims.
To me it sounds crazy, but my Dad stands by his word. For me, my earliest memory was a embarrasing moment at a playground when I was 4 years old.
Some park program I visited daily held a little "bring your pet" day. My pet was a decomposing goldfish held in a blob of wax. I remember being laughed at horribly and running home in tears. In this run, I fell and scraped me knee. Nobody was home (they expected me to be at this program) and I sat on my own doorstep for hours crying and bleeding and holding my dead goldfish.
Back to my father. He claims that he so vividly remembers his birth that he could identify the voice of the delivering doctor if he heard it again. I have never gone through the efforts to put this to the test:)
I guess it has finally gotten to the point where there is no need to link the article as history shows noone ever reads them!:)
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This is simply because technology has reached the point where amateurs can make as good a recording as the professionals.
This is not entirely true. I know two people who have small independant record labels, and let me tell you it is VERY expensive to put out albums even when the majority of work is done in-house. There are a lot of stages to making a good quality album - for example, mastering can cost thousands of dollars for a small collection of tracks. Mastering studios are in business for a reason - because the indi's cannot (for the most part) do this themselves.
We're not that far from a time when artists and writers can distribute their own work and make a living doing so, which makes the current literary and music establishments a lot less necessary.
I'd sooner compare a PC with great audio software to a typewriter of 50 years ago. And guess what.. 'literary establishments' are STILL necessary for widespread ditribution. The problem is really all in the distribution. Let's face it, if we wanted to we could affordably publish text in a comparible quality format to that of which appears in book stores today. The technology is certainly available, but it's not really replacing the big publishing/distributers at all.
Also, the article has the tone "P2P is here to stay and nobody will ever be willing to pay for a P2P file-sharing service", which I somewhat agree with.. but he does not offer support for the above quote, specifically "and make a living doing so". It seems to contradict the overall tone - how can the indi's make a living distributing their own music if people are unwilling to pay for it? Please enlighten us.
and because people won't take tablet computers with them to the bathroom.
Lets say that Massachusetts ends up getting everything that Open Source advocates, Linux users, etc want in terms of penalties against Microsoft. Does this apply to all states after they have settled?
Yes. They are not opening a new can of worms or anything here. In fact, they are not even appealing the decision - MS was found guilty! They are appealing the punishment [for violating anti-trust and consumer laws] and the revised punishment would apply to all states.
Or would Microsoft have to have seperate product lines and "features", depending on the legal conditions in each state?
No. But since MA happens to have its head screwed on straight (at least with respect to this matter) they could feasibly invoke state laws which would, of course, only apply to MA.
Could MA get away with a law to the effect of "All OS's sold in the state must also release the source" - I don't know. But if even if they did, you can rest assured MS would either ignore the law or just stop selling their OS in MA.
Why are all of theses comments so negative about MA and their efforts?
I know/. bashes MS for sport. Aside from all of the childish MS bashing, a REAL problem DOES exist. The practices of MS DO threaten other software makers.
Think about how far along MS has come in a short time. Where will it end? If they are not stopped - it won't end. It sounds cliche, but MS is clearly on the path to world domination (ok, that was maybe just added for dramatic effect).
MS will control "digital currency", "digital passports", etc. Mostly because of naive public acceptance.. but nobody else will ever gain a voice with that same public if MS can continue on their path as they have been.
In the end, I think logic and common sense will sweep the masses - but I don't see that end for many years (if not decades). Good for MA if they can impose some restrictions on MS early in the game (or maybe we are about mid-game).
Maybe you can say to yourself "MS can't decide what I can and cannot do" - and you may be right (for the time being). But you are a minority and MS is quickly moving into a position to decide what the general public can and cannot do with PC's, what hardware manufacturers can and cannot do (corporate politics), what software makers can and cannot do (neophyte strangling). Outside of the technology sector, MS has a great deal of pull in the media and even in politics.
Please, don't sluff off the efforts of MA as "wasted" or "useless" - instead, you should show support for their efforts as MA really is looking for a solution in the interest of the public. (and I know, there is always political motives involved)
I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?
That's essentially all he did. It still needs to be plugged into an independant power source (he just snaked the alarm clocks wire out the back of the case). How this is news, I do not know.
On second thought, he did manage to cut a hole in a piece of plastic - I suppose that does deserve some attention. pfft.
all your explanations of how pool balls move about a pool table are really basic physics.
Rather than accusing the smart table of failing because you think it is too complicated, wouldn't it be safer to assume these guys have a clue!
I mean, the system can do thousands of complex calculations per second - trust me, getting the angles right is trivial. (getting the player to properly execute the shot, however, is another story).
I don't think anyone would invest as much time as they likely did in creating a 'smart table' without realizing the balls have spin. I would guess their understanding of it all goes far deeper than your own.
you've been browsing porn sites haven't you? "cum" is a vulgar slang version of the word "come".
Sexually speaking, one "comes" - it is NOT "cum". So there would, by measures of "proper english" be even more connotations if the kid wrote "please come".
A lesson to all of those who get their english education from internet porn.:)
I say "btw" (for those who don't know.. that's 'by the way') out loud fairly often. It is always followed by something of added significance (hence the expression.. by the way).
Nobody has ever asked me what I meant. They either know what it is, are too embarrassed to ask, or it is irrelevant as the following sentance seems complete without it:)
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I owned one for years. $0 maintenance. Even when stuff breaks, its essentially free parts. In Canada there were (are?) a couple of parts whoesalers where even NEW parts are so cheap it is unbelievable.
There's a ton of unique engineering solutions at every turn with that vehicle. Even normal stuff, like seatbelts, and the engine being mounted totally on the passenger side.
It could perform too.. like you wouldn't believe.
I really miss my Niva. So cheap.. I often imagine I will buy another one sometime soon.
It was based purely on "defect density" - the number of errors per throusand lines of code.
MySQL had a defect density of 0.09 and the industry standard was found to be 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code.
The MySQL development team has since fixed all of the 'defects' that were found in the study. (which ranged from a few uninitialized variables prior to usage to memory leaks).
Unless your research topic is somehow directly related to the job, I would given other candidates serious consideration before hiring you.
/know/ I wouldn't pay more for a Ph.D candidate in IT - unless, like I said, the position was somehow related to their research topics.
There's also a stigma that Ph.Ds are too accustomed to the life of academia. While sometimes you need to impress to get a research grant or whatever, it is much different than industry in terms fo goals and objectives - and thus, would you really be a good fit in my company after having spent all of that time in academics?
You're also specialized. You've focussed yourself on a single research topic and closed a lot of doors by doing it. This, of course, can also happen in industry with years spent in the same position. You close some doors - but you have the key to that one specific area - just make sure you choose the area wisely!
Did I mention Ph.Ds are convinced they are deserving of higher salaries than others?
I'm sure you've heard all of the above arguments before. I don't neccesarily prescribe to them myself, but they do hold some merit.
If it came time to fill a position I can't imagine ever seeking a Ph.D - if an application rolled in from one, I would give it the same consideration as any other, only it might be tainted by the above mentioned negatives.
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Essentially they operate as a co-operative. On the surface, it is the same as paying a membership fee - but on paper it is a different story (i.e. Snapster would be just like Napster on the surface, but largely different on paper).
Here's a snip from their about page:
I'll go ahead an say the University of Saskatchewan (in Canada) uses Mozilla as default browser and mail client in the student computer labs.
There's about 25,000 students I think.. not sure how many stations, but plenty (hundreds at the very least).
/. really needs a mirroring system or at least ask guys like this and/or give them fair warning to prepare.
2 comments so far and its already down. What's the point? The article might as well be yanked all together.
Bah. You don't understand how the legal system (especially U.S.) works, do you? MONEY and POWER - and they got plenty of both. If they want to stop mod chip manufacturers, they can. period. It doesn't matter what arguments the accused has, MS can bankrupt the guy in short order. Roght or wrong.
There is no way MS grants this team a cert. MS wants to make money, and here's the facts:
1) They take a loss on the console in order to make profit on the games console owners would buy.
- they don't want you to buy an xBox for the purpose of running linux and doing whatever (email, server, etc) - they want you to buy xbox games!
2) Allowing another OS on the xbox creates piracy.
- MS needs to sell games to make money. If these guys get their cert. it would be used to play games. Be it TuxRacer or a pirated copy of an actual xBox game. It would happen. The cert could be used to boot, and then load a pirated copy of a game on an unmodified xBox. Bad for business.
3) This is not in the grand scheme of things. Consider the xBox the first stage in a modular sort of computer (this being the gaming module) with DRM and total MS control.
- there's no benefit to award this cert. the hardcore linux nerds of the world aren't going to stop and say "hey, mayeb MS ain't so bad. I'm going to go to the store and buy Windows, Office, etc"
With no benefits at all for MS I see no reason in the world why they would award a cert. here. The reward money is not a benefit, it is a joke to a company the size of MS.
No joke here folks. I worked in the U.S. for a while, and I paid a lot less taxes (your situation may vary) than I do in Canada.
Of course, in Canada we don't mind so much - we implement silly things like free healthcare (getting sick in the U.S. was one of the worst experiences of my life. who wants to argue with insurance companies when you're bed ridden?).
aside: Honestly, people always talk about how great our healthcare system is in Canada. Guys, I experienced Canada's [a lot] and the U.S. [a bit], there is a HUGE difference. The hype is true.
The U.S. has better roads though - can't argue with that.
Interestingly enough, I dislike silly law suits, but I like this one.
I think this has been in the making for a long time.
These days, software makers are quick to inform you that you have purchased a license for use, nothing more and nothing less.
Now we all know [nearly] nobody actually reads those EULAs, but it is (the manufacturer would have us believe) part of our licensing agreement we've just purchased.
This is a big deal. This woman is absolutley correct - certainly she will not be given a refund after opening the boxes - and she certainly didn't know what she was buying until she opened the boxes.
She might have a case, but if not, she's at least got a really good point.
I've had this same viewpoint for a very long time. I for one am glad to see someone doing something about it.
First.. how did this make the front page on slashdot? Is it THAT slow of a news day?
And wouldn't Slackware users just stumble upon it instead of anouncing it to hundreds of thousands of dorks on slashdot who will promptly go trolling there now (especially given that it is apparently newsworthy).
He must be one of those people too stoned to realize it wasn't a total victory. This is straying from the topic, but here's what's going on.
Canada is decriminalizing weed. We are not legalizing weed. There is a quantity you may posess (I can't recall, but heard it compared to a couple of packs of cigarettes worth) where it is not criminal - but it is still illegal!
You won't get a criminal record. But you will be fined (and should you neglect to pay, you must appear in court). Basically the same as any other non-criminal fines (speeding tickets for example).
Don't be mistaken. This is not a step towards legalizing weed in Canada - quite the opposite in fact. Here's the reason they are doing it:
Cop's are ignoring and not arresting or pressing ciminal charges on people who posess small quantities of weed. A big study was done and it showed they do this because it has such long-lasting effects (criminal record) and such harsh punishment (potential jail time). Basically the cops think these small poseesors are not a threat to society or don't deserve such a harsh punishment.
The decriminalization plan is coming to light so that cops will do their jobs - comphiscate the weed and fine the offender. Now they can do it without the guilt of having 'ruined a life' over something so 'harmless'.
It is still illegal to possess weed in Canada - just now you are MORE likely to get in trouble for it (read: as opposed to overlooking it, they'll write you a ticket).
Opera isn't worse. It's better. Definitley less bloat. It CAN render faster. And if I understand the article correctly (I actually read it) then it means this:
Common slashdot propoganda suggests MOST servers are not IIS. This would mean Opera can retrieve faster on average.. and I'm fairly certain it can render the page for display quite a bit faster.
P.S. You can turn off caching in the options if it really bother you.
As strange as the parent may seem to some, my father also [claims to] remembers his birth.
:)
When I was in the 5th grade or so, we had a project to document our families earliest memories. To my great surprise, my Dad claimed to remember his birth.
Years later, I did a little bit of research and discovered that some very small percentage of people make similar such claims.
To me it sounds crazy, but my Dad stands by his word. For me, my earliest memory was a embarrasing moment at a playground when I was 4 years old.
Some park program I visited daily held a little "bring your pet" day. My pet was a decomposing goldfish held in a blob of wax. I remember being laughed at horribly and running home in tears. In this run, I fell and scraped me knee. Nobody was home (they expected me to be at this program) and I sat on my own doorstep for hours crying and bleeding and holding my dead goldfish.
Back to my father. He claims that he so vividly remembers his birth that he could identify the voice of the delivering doctor if he heard it again. I have never gone through the efforts to put this to the test
I guess it has finally gotten to the point where there is no need to link the article as history shows noone ever reads them! :)
I'd sooner compare a PC with great audio software to a typewriter of 50 years ago. And guess what.. 'literary establishments' are STILL necessary for widespread ditribution. The problem is really all in the distribution. Let's face it, if we wanted to we could affordably publish text in a comparible quality format to that of which appears in book stores today. The technology is certainly available, but it's not really replacing the big publishing/distributers at all.
Also, the article has the tone "P2P is here to stay and nobody will ever be willing to pay for a P2P file-sharing service", which I somewhat agree with.. but he does not offer support for the above quote, specifically "and make a living doing so". It seems to contradict the overall tone - how can the indi's make a living distributing their own music if people are unwilling to pay for it? Please enlighten us.
if I had a Tablet PC, I would!
No. But since MA happens to have its head screwed on straight (at least with respect to this matter) they could feasibly invoke state laws which would, of course, only apply to MA.
Could MA get away with a law to the effect of "All OS's sold in the state must also release the source" - I don't know. But if even if they did, you can rest assured MS would either ignore the law or just stop selling their OS in MA.
Disclaimer: INAL.
Why are all of theses comments so negative about MA and their efforts?
/. bashes MS for sport. Aside from all of the childish MS bashing, a REAL problem DOES exist. The practices of MS DO threaten other software makers.
I know
Think about how far along MS has come in a short time. Where will it end? If they are not stopped - it won't end. It sounds cliche, but MS is clearly on the path to world domination (ok, that was maybe just added for dramatic effect).
MS will control "digital currency", "digital passports", etc. Mostly because of naive public acceptance.. but nobody else will ever gain a voice with that same public if MS can continue on their path as they have been.
In the end, I think logic and common sense will sweep the masses - but I don't see that end for many years (if not decades). Good for MA if they can impose some restrictions on MS early in the game (or maybe we are about mid-game).
Maybe you can say to yourself "MS can't decide what I can and cannot do" - and you may be right (for the time being). But you are a minority and MS is quickly moving into a position to decide what the general public can and cannot do with PC's, what hardware manufacturers can and cannot do (corporate politics), what software makers can and cannot do (neophyte strangling). Outside of the technology sector, MS has a great deal of pull in the media and even in politics.
Please, don't sluff off the efforts of MA as "wasted" or "useless" - instead, you should show support for their efforts as MA really is looking for a solution in the interest of the public. (and I know, there is always political motives involved)
That's essentially all he did. It still needs to be plugged into an independant power source (he just snaked the alarm clocks wire out the back of the case). How this is news, I do not know.
On second thought, he did manage to cut a hole in a piece of plastic - I suppose that does deserve some attention. pfft.
uhg. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
The guy took apart an alarm clock and shoved it into an even larger casing. This is news?
all your explanations of how pool balls move about a pool table are really basic physics.
Rather than accusing the smart table of failing because you think it is too complicated, wouldn't it be safer to assume these guys have a clue!
I mean, the system can do thousands of complex calculations per second - trust me, getting the angles right is trivial. (getting the player to properly execute the shot, however, is another story).
I don't think anyone would invest as much time as they likely did in creating a 'smart table' without realizing the balls have spin. I would guess their understanding of it all goes far deeper than your own.
Another proof, if any more was needed, that US laws don't apply to US citizens only...
Yes, only because we let them. Not because they should. I am extremley bothered by the U.S. governing the world. They don't. period.
It becomes quite questionable when Lik-Sang ships to US consumers.
The reality is, right or wrong, not many people/companies can afford a legal battle with MicroSoft.
you've been browsing porn sites haven't you? "cum" is a vulgar slang version of the word "come".
:)
Sexually speaking, one "comes" - it is NOT "cum". So there would, by measures of "proper english" be even more connotations if the kid wrote "please come".
A lesson to all of those who get their english education from internet porn.
btw, I know it takes longer to say "bee tee double-you" than "by the way". not sure why I do it at all, but it has become a habbit.
I say "btw" (for those who don't know.. that's 'by the way') out loud fairly often. It is always followed by something of added significance (hence the expression.. by the way).
:)
Nobody has ever asked me what I meant. They either know what it is, are too embarrassed to ask, or it is irrelevant as the following sentance seems complete without it