when I see it. Besides different file systems inherent in the two OS's, they have different enough hierachial architectures that something that will affect Windows one way will not affect Linux in the same way. Any virus will become malicious if the user is irresponsible wiht their own system (e.g. logging in as root).
Way to go, NCR! Nice business model! Sue the shit out of people to get revenue! Nice innovation! I mean, with all the NCR "portable personal terminals" out there in use, how could Palm and Handspring be so dumb?
And never mind WindowsCE devices, they're not made for transactions, per se. And not going after Microsoft has *nothing* to do with the fact that MS's lawyers would beat NCR's lawyers to a pulp.
you said:
"I've kinda considered WinCE handhelds to be way
ahead in the game, but it looks like the score may be evening up. "
p
Well, yes, WinCE *are* way ahead of their time - in feature overload!
How many people realistically, on the go, need the MSWord formatting features when writing a quick note? How many people on the go *really* need to watch that Pr0n MPEG? People whose power and feature needs are that high usually have laptops anyway.
slackware had the right idea all along
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By not overboating a company to distribute an open-sourced OS, and by keeping a tight, compentent team of core developers and business partners, Slackware will be around for a while.
With so many companies (established and dot-coms) laying off people, I think it's a common enough ocurrence to earn its own logo. Maybe one of a box of personal belongings on a desk, or an axe.
but you must keep in mind the economies of scale. Eventually, the mbox protocol will not suffice, and they will have to switch to a scalable popular service.
So the question is when will they change?
Most of the "distance learning" (DL) solutions currently out on the market are mediocre, at best.
First, the technology issue. Most teleconferencing solutions are based on H.323 products, servers and clients. However, when people think DL, they think "one teacher cam, many student cams, one application." However, this is one undertaking that is not yet mature, and is quite expensive. The only way one can get the many-to-many ("hollywood squares") video conferencing result is to purchase a multipoint conference unit (MCU). These are a central IP that every client connects to, and routes H.323 data. These easily start at $10K for as a license of as little as 5 users. for a full-fledged classroom-quality presentation, this is going to run much higher. And that's only the server software. Client software that is capable of displaying the "hollywood squares" effect of video is currently limited to about 10 squares with the best software out there right now (Cu-SeeMe), and costs good money as well. When it comes to hardware, look to spend at least $100 per workstation, per camera (assuming you already have well-configured workstations). Plus the net work & bandwidth issue - how will you run your MCU? On a LAN? Behind a firewall? How will the clients connect to the MCU? Dialup? DSL?
Then, there are the administrative headaches.
Who will run the set up? How will it be run? Who will install and test the software? What platform will you use? How many people are you willing to support? What is your budget?
AlthoughI do not endorse any one company, the
only company that I see with end-to-end solutions for these types of problems are companies like
WhitePine software. Though they are very expensive, and will try to sell you stuff you don't need.
I am not biased. I like certain MS products, true; I love windows 2000, and I love Office 2000, I think DirectX (from a standardization perspective...."
Did you realize you just negated your initial statement?
Ear Phanton stated:
"Microsoft aside, we face an even bigger problem that 1) blacks and Hispanics live in poorer neighborhoods, 2) blacks and Hispanics are more likely to have undereducated parents..."
Yes, but it is true that my Hispanic parents had an 8th grade education and held shitty jobs, but I did not hold that against them and feel sorry for myself. They taught me VALUES and WORK ETHIC. To this day, i can't hold just one job - I need at least two, else I feel lazy.
Since my parents couldn't do it, I owed it to them to make it in life. They didn't risk their lives coming to this country illegally just for their kids to be lazy, fuck up in school, join a gang, get my teenage GF pregnant, and become part of the functional underclass.
If I learned anything in life, I didnt feel like a "minority" until I got to college - when the looney leftist Latino-power students made me feel like one. It was the "cultural" student groups who always had something to say about how I am not equal to the rest of the school (75% white) because of my skin color. I saw myself as a CS student first, researcher second, and never gave anyone a reason to look at me as a Latino first. To this day, I relate more to people with similar ethic and interests as me, rather than race.
Yes, there is racism out there. But people are going to hate you for the first thing they see about you. If you have big ears, there's bound to be someone who's gonna hate you for your big ears. Got a birthmark on your face? Someone's bound to make fun of you because of it. People are forever going to have biases. It's a matter of how you deal with those people.
Yes, racism *does* exist, no arguing that. But to say that racism is the sole reason someone is not getting the promotion they feel they are entiteled to, or the "special" treatment they want, is absolutely wrong.
In a time when the technology sector is short on *any* type of skilled labor, race is not an issue in hiring a person. However, other factors, such as personality, demeanor, and emotional intelligence *do* matter.
People who see racism as an obstacle should see is as just that - an obstacle, which is, after all, something you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
btw: I am a Latino who grew up in a f*cked-up Chicago neighborhood, attended the Chicago Public School System, who made the most of things. When I got to college, I was *glad* to be surrounded by more "priveleged" kids. I didnt envy them - I thrived on their arrogance and background, because i proved I was twice as smart - not only did I have to KEEP UP in CS classes, I had to CATCH UP. Your peers set your threshold of achievement - if I had gone to a community college or DeVRY, I wouldn't have had the ambition I have now as a software engineer.
"Ever embed a Trojan embedded in a video in a Word 2000 file while drinking a venti half-caf low fat frappucino? You will."
Ack! Just remember! Just don't accept any attachment files sent you by someone in a Starbucks!
Desiring compatibility? How rogue!!!
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The article stated:
"The motive behind the break-in isn't known...either to improve its own products or make those products more compatible with Microsoft's best-selling operating systems. "
What??? Trying to make one's software compatible with Microsoft's OS? How rogue of them!!!!! How dare they!!!!
This establishes today, 10/10/2000, the idea for making secure Internet transactions (buying, selling, trading) via secure means using the newly passed U.S.laws making digital signatures legal. The transaction would involve the first consumer (buyer or seller) entity to interact with the second consumer(buyer or seller) entity, and then using the consumer's (or the seller)digital signature which is to be linked to a database with his/her credit card, debit account, checking account, or any other kind of account in which the user has funds or other comodities to trade with, and use an electronic tablet and stylus or any other stored representation of the consumer's signature to transfer the consumer's handwriting to electronic prints, and be processed over a network for verfication and to transfer funds or authority, to complete the transaction.
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See you, space cowboy...
I remember reading this in the Sun-Times, which referref to the graffiti as "hearts, peace signs, and fat birds."
Did somebody say SNMP?
This sounds alot like what people have been saying all along as one of the uses for SNMP - people have always joked about Refrigerator MIBs.
That's fuckin' Goofy...
when I see it. Besides different file systems inherent in the two OS's, they have different enough hierachial architectures that something that will affect Windows one way will not affect Linux in the same way. Any virus will become malicious if the user is irresponsible wiht their own system (e.g. logging in as root).
There are no bad virii, just bada users.
Way to go, NCR! Nice business model! Sue the shit out of people to get revenue! Nice innovation! I mean, with all the NCR "portable personal terminals" out there in use, how could Palm and Handspring be so dumb?
And never mind WindowsCE devices, they're not made for transactions, per se. And not going after Microsoft has *nothing* to do with the fact that MS's lawyers would beat NCR's lawyers to a pulp.
you said:
"I've kinda considered WinCE handhelds to be way ahead in the game, but it looks like the score may be evening up. "
p
Well, yes, WinCE *are* way ahead of their time - in feature overload!
How many people realistically, on the go, need the MSWord formatting features when writing a quick note? How many people on the go *really* need to watch that Pr0n MPEG? People whose power and feature needs are that high usually have laptops anyway.
By not overboating a company to distribute an open-sourced OS, and by keeping a tight, compentent team of core developers and business partners, Slackware will be around for a while.
So the question is when will they change?
Most of the "distance learning" (DL) solutions currently out on the market are mediocre, at best.
First, the technology issue. Most teleconferencing solutions are based on H.323 products, servers and clients. However, when people think DL, they think "one teacher cam, many student cams, one application." However, this is one undertaking that is not yet mature, and is quite expensive. The only way one can get the many-to-many ("hollywood squares") video conferencing result is to purchase a multipoint conference unit (MCU). These are a central IP that every client connects to, and routes H.323 data. These easily start at $10K for as a license of as little as 5 users. for a full-fledged classroom-quality presentation, this is going to run much higher. And that's only the server software. Client software that is capable of displaying the "hollywood squares" effect of video is currently limited to about 10 squares with the best software out there right now (Cu-SeeMe), and costs good money as well. When it comes to hardware, look to spend at least $100 per workstation, per camera (assuming you already have well-configured workstations). Plus the net work & bandwidth issue - how will you run your MCU? On a LAN? Behind a firewall? How will the clients connect to the MCU? Dialup? DSL?
Then, there are the administrative headaches. Who will run the set up? How will it be run? Who will install and test the software? What platform will you use? How many people are you willing to support? What is your budget?
AlthoughI do not endorse any one company, the only company that I see with end-to-end solutions for these types of problems are companies like WhitePine software. Though they are very expensive, and will try to sell you stuff you don't need.
Good luck.
I am not biased. I like certain MS products, true; I love windows 2000, and I love Office 2000, I think DirectX (from a standardization perspective...."
Did you realize you just negated your initial statement?
Ear Phanton stated: "Microsoft aside, we face an even bigger problem that 1) blacks and Hispanics live in poorer neighborhoods, 2) blacks and Hispanics are more likely to have undereducated parents..."
Yes, but it is true that my Hispanic parents had an 8th grade education and held shitty jobs, but I did not hold that against them and feel sorry for myself. They taught me VALUES and WORK ETHIC. To this day, i can't hold just one job - I need at least two, else I feel lazy.
Since my parents couldn't do it, I owed it to them to make it in life. They didn't risk their lives coming to this country illegally just for their kids to be lazy, fuck up in school, join a gang, get my teenage GF pregnant, and become part of the functional underclass.
If I learned anything in life, I didnt feel like a "minority" until I got to college - when the looney leftist Latino-power students made me feel like one. It was the "cultural" student groups who always had something to say about how I am not equal to the rest of the school (75% white) because of my skin color. I saw myself as a CS student first, researcher second, and never gave anyone a reason to look at me as a Latino first. To this day, I relate more to people with similar ethic and interests as me, rather than race.
Yes, there is racism out there. But people are going to hate you for the first thing they see about you. If you have big ears, there's bound to be someone who's gonna hate you for your big ears. Got a birthmark on your face? Someone's bound to make fun of you because of it. People are forever going to have biases. It's a matter of how you deal with those people.
Remember: Assholes come in every color.
Yes, racism *does* exist, no arguing that. But to say that racism is the sole reason someone is not getting the promotion they feel they are entiteled to, or the "special" treatment they want, is absolutely wrong.
In a time when the technology sector is short on *any* type of skilled labor, race is not an issue in hiring a person. However, other factors, such as personality, demeanor, and emotional intelligence *do* matter.
People who see racism as an obstacle should see is as just that - an obstacle, which is, after all, something you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
btw: I am a Latino who grew up in a f*cked-up Chicago neighborhood, attended the Chicago Public School System, who made the most of things. When I got to college, I was *glad* to be surrounded by more "priveleged" kids. I didnt envy them - I thrived on their arrogance and background, because i proved I was twice as smart - not only did I have to KEEP UP in CS classes, I had to CATCH UP. Your peers set your threshold of achievement - if I had gone to a community college or DeVRY, I wouldn't have had the ambition I have now as a software engineer.
"Ever embed a Trojan embedded in a video in a Word 2000 file while drinking a venti half-caf low fat frappucino? You will."
Ack! Just remember! Just don't accept any attachment files sent you by someone in a Starbucks!
"The motive behind the break-in isn't known...either to improve its own products or make those products more compatible with Microsoft's best-selling operating systems. "
What??? Trying to make one's software compatible with Microsoft's OS? How rogue of them!!!!! How dare they!!!!
Photo of the device on a cute chick here: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20001003/en/jap
This establishes today, 10/10/2000, the idea for making secure Internet transactions (buying, selling, trading) via secure means using the newly passed U.S.laws making digital signatures legal. The transaction would involve the first consumer (buyer or seller) entity to interact with the second consumer(buyer or seller) entity, and then using the consumer's (or the seller)digital signature which is to be linked to a database with his/her credit card, debit account, checking account, or any other kind of account in which the user has funds or other comodities to trade with, and use an electronic tablet and stylus or any other stored representation of the consumer's signature to transfer the consumer's handwriting to electronic prints, and be processed over a network for verfication and to transfer funds or authority, to complete the transaction.