I recall my dad holding me in his arms -still I couldn't walk- in our kitchen while warming milk in a saucepan (presumably for me to drink but I don't know that for sure.) To be extra convincing I have to add that my dad died when I was two years old so the recollection is in any way "early".
Short after birth I got hit by a severe pneumonia that -as my mom says- almost killed me. I was fed pure oxygen -of which we had plenty as our family used to have an industrial gas redistribution company- for a month so here's an instance of oxygen/early memory.
I also recall having diner with the complete family (damned good chicken my mom used to make.)
I still know fairly accurate how the furniture in our house used to look like I lived mostly with my grandparents and my mom sold the house when I was five years of age.) I could draw a map.
XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.
My experience tells me that with user/group/other protection attributes on a file you can solve practically 95% of the situations you encounter in an ACL protection schema.
The remaining 5% of the cases are likely to include a) a truly twisted
protections schema implementation or b) file access protection as part of a larger badly designed application that relies on file system protection where it should have relied on a professional authentication/authorization/audit system.
That is, by far, one of the worst ideas I've heard of in a long time.
How does the resource/effect ratio compares to say DRM?
Epic invested $3.99 and covered 95% of their area. DRM would be more like $3.99G / 97%.
Most geeks would love to crack this mom-and-pop security. Just for the fun of it. My first try would probably involve of three tiny needles. A second, a couple of mikes. A third,...
Most reviewers would just do the review and return the player afterwards.
stick it into your PC and start ripping and recompressing, and burn the movie onto your DVD-R
This is exactly what the MPAA wants you to believe. Come on!
I'm an "older youth". In my times I did copy vinyl to compact cassettes but nowadays I cannot be bothered to even rip CDs.
The market influencing mass will be coming from the regular "younger elderly" people. They'll produce DVDs and share them with friends and family. Main topics will be: 1) Kids at the playground and 2) "Elderly kids" at the "elderly playground".
Joe Truck Driver wanting adult movies did change the video market, not the 16 year olds making illegal copies of Cheers.
A similar scientific experiment has been conducted by putting 9 women to work on the birth of one child.
It was only after approximately 9 months that the average throughput raised in an almost discontinuous way from 0 to a staggering 0.95 kids/month. Also, the complementary 8 kids were considered very-cute-but-not-quite-planned.
High amounts of resources accelerate production processes. Creative processes (like software development) are less affected by mass.
There's no such thing as...
on
Is Linux Dead?
·
· Score: 1
There's no such thing as......bad publicity. Thanks MSNBC! (Load of psychological pseudo-theory omitted deliberately.)
Underpayment is a sign of bad people management. Bad management will not turn into good management over night. Hence histroy will definately repeat itself.
IMHO changing is always a positive thing. It forces your mind to deal with again a new reality, thus improving your social job skills which as a techy may not be your strongest asset.
Should you stay then let your current employer outbid your prospect.
A large-scale shift to open-source, free software will do little in terms of affecting Microsoft's sales.
In Free Software terms, the user base is a more significant factor than economic size. If a country like Taiwan can do this other countries will follow certainly.
..the story was: More music on the CD and much a more expensive production process hence double album prices. Promises were made that should production costs drop then of course album prices would follow...
Ha! Production costs did drop dramatically and album prices never followed.
Back in.nl I recall final LP prices of around USD 9-11 and the uniform CD introduction price of USD 20 (exactly NLG 39.90).
Sorry I don't know where to obtain independent figures to back this up. Anyone else had/has this perception?
it means that Linux-only mobos are gonna come to market faster and cheaper
Whoaaaahaha!! Like any PC hardware manufacturer will ever (well, in the coming 5 years) contemplate to produce hardware that is 'incompatible' with Windows!
Thanks pal, this is the best laugh I had over a/. posting in the last week!
Good to hear this is really what tech is surposed to do.
I understand and appreciate your positive statement.
However, I disagree on your words. IMO tech is supposed to be constructive. Both the mines and the robot aren't.
Although it's a good thing that probably less people will get mutilated by mines with this robot, I dread the instant where laying mines becomes a less severe crime because of the robot.
I want to use the nifty features but still have my privacy.
Didn't it ever occur to you that using a mobile phone makes you very trackable regardless of whether you have GPS or not?
Mobile phone services have area based access points and calls are logged with the area information. Hence, most mobile calls can be tracked and the accuracy depends on the granularity of the area partitioning. That's one way to catch (trendy, vain and silly) crooks nowadays. Analysis and correlation of the logs may (will or does already) result in usable marketing info for companies.
I agree that GPS is more accurate but any feeling of privacy on a mobile phone nowadays is merely a deception.
Think practical! The chance of being haunted down my an obscure moralist group is small. Most groups that contemplate this are small and lack resources.
Its the spammers that will get to you. They have the resources and infrastructure to 'convince' the camera operators to deliver data to them. Before you know every face will have an email address.
etc... etc...
The article provides a peek into the middle management's psychology. Apparently, middle managers are capable at applying simple heuristics to get 'a job done' but are incapable at truly understanding the organizational problem they have gotten themselves into.
Fact is that managers are in full control of their 'resources'. And come on, you know exactly when you have a wonder(boy|girl) programmer.
The question middle management should ask itself is: "What to do with such a 'resource'?!" Chances are that the middle manager thought/expected that the wonder-coder would talk to clients, analyze the application, do the software engineering, plan a project, write all documentation, do the testing and also code the stuff. Chances are that the middle management either doesn't understand the phases in software development or that it wasn't able to convince upper management to hire the lot of required people. And then, when the programmer _has_ done most of the stuff, he/she will be blamed for being a sloppy communicator.
Middle management creates prima donna programmers. When put into the right organizational context, prima donna programmer simply won't happen. Doing that may be as simple as telling the programmer what you expect to be done and to assess him/her by those standards, as complex as setting up a quality organization (ISO 9[0-9]{3}, CMM, the works) or somewhere in-between.
So let's be realistic and face it. Most middle managers are mediocre at best*. However, they excel in blaming others for their incompetence and in diverting the attention away from their personal challenges. Indeed, the cookbook recipes provided to deal with a prima donna programmer will almost always result in the sacking of the programmer.
In most cases, prima donna programmers should be able to counter an attack from middle management. However, most prima donna programmers will simply not see the holes in the middle management's defense.
Yes, prima donna programmers are prone to firing. Such an occasion is best used to gain experience and as an opportunity to accept a new challenge.
* Hold back your flame! Most programmers too are mediocre at best. Everywhere you look there's room for improvement.
Slashdot Mirror
I recall my dad holding me in his arms -still I couldn't walk- in our kitchen while warming milk in a saucepan (presumably for me to drink but I don't know that for sure.) To be extra convincing I have to add that my dad died when I was two years old so the recollection is in any way "early".
Short after birth I got hit by a severe pneumonia that -as my mom says- almost killed me. I was fed pure oxygen -of which we had plenty as our family used to have an industrial gas redistribution company- for a month so here's an instance of oxygen/early memory.
I also recall having diner with the complete family (damned good chicken my mom used to make.)
I still know fairly accurate how the furniture in our house used to look like I lived mostly with my grandparents and my mom sold the house when I was five years of age.) I could draw a map.
XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.
My experience tells me that with user/group/other protection attributes on a file you can solve practically 95% of the situations you encounter in an ACL protection schema.
The remaining 5% of the cases are likely to include a) a truly twisted protections schema implementation or b) file access protection as part of a larger badly designed application that relies on file system protection where it should have relied on a professional authentication/authorization/audit system.
ACLs are also harder to administer.
That is, by far, one of the worst ideas I've heard of in a long time.
How does the resource/effect ratio compares to say DRM?
Epic invested $3.99 and covered 95% of their area. DRM would be more like $3.99G / 97%.
Most geeks would love to crack this mom-and-pop security. Just for the fun of it. My first try would probably involve of three tiny needles. A second, a couple of mikes. A third,...
Most reviewers would just do the review and return the player afterwards.
IMHO Epic plays quite fair.
but she was impressed by the fact that I can ssh in to her box now and do stuff on it without making her get up from her seat
Thanks for sharing that with us.
stick it into your PC and start ripping and recompressing, and burn the movie onto your DVD-R
This is exactly what the MPAA wants you to believe. Come on!
I'm an "older youth". In my times I did copy vinyl to compact cassettes but nowadays I cannot be bothered to even rip CDs.
The market influencing mass will be coming from the regular "younger elderly" people. They'll produce DVDs and share them with friends and family. Main topics will be: 1) Kids at the playground and 2) "Elderly kids" at the "elderly playground".
Joe Truck Driver wanting adult movies did change the video market, not the 16 year olds making illegal copies of Cheers.
A similar scientific experiment has been conducted by putting 9 women to work on the birth of one child.
It was only after approximately 9 months that the average throughput raised in an almost discontinuous way from 0 to a staggering 0.95 kids/month. Also, the complementary 8 kids were considered very-cute-but-not-quite-planned.
High amounts of resources accelerate production processes. Creative processes (like software development) are less affected by mass.
There's no such thing as... ...bad publicity. Thanks MSNBC!
(Load of psychological pseudo-theory omitted deliberately.)
Underpayment is a sign of bad people management. Bad management will not turn into good management over night. Hence histroy will definately repeat itself.
IMHO changing is always a positive thing. It forces your mind to deal with again a new reality, thus improving your social job skills which as a techy may not be your strongest asset.
Should you stay then let your current employer outbid your prospect.
All the luck!
A large-scale shift to open-source, free software will do little in terms of affecting Microsoft's sales.
In Free Software terms, the user base is a more significant factor than economic size. If a country like Taiwan can do this other countries will follow certainly.
..the story was: More music on the CD and much a more expensive production process hence double album prices. Promises were made that should production costs drop then of course album prices would follow...
.nl I recall final LP prices of around USD 9-11 and the uniform CD introduction price of USD 20 (exactly NLG 39.90).
Ha! Production costs did drop dramatically and album prices never followed.
Back in
Sorry I don't know where to obtain independent figures to back this up. Anyone else had/has this perception?
...makers of movies with uinrealistically low M-pole-ratios.
it means that Linux-only mobos are gonna come to market faster and cheaper
/. posting in the last week!
Whoaaaahaha!! Like any PC hardware manufacturer will ever (well, in the coming 5 years) contemplate to produce hardware that is 'incompatible' with Windows!
Thanks pal, this is the best laugh I had over a
Good to hear this is really what tech is surposed to do.
I understand and appreciate your positive statement.
However, I disagree on your words. IMO tech is supposed to be constructive. Both the mines and the robot aren't.
Although it's a good thing that probably less people will get mutilated by mines with this robot, I dread the instant where laying mines becomes a less severe crime because of the robot.
IMHO IP belongs to a distinct intellect and not generally to a corporation. Also, unlike the soul, intellect cannot be sold.
You elaborate!
Just my $0.10 on the subject.
Hardware:
Linux box
Video/sound out
TV card
Satellite card
Or, one or more video/audio in to use with TV tuner and sat. receiver
IR out to control TV tuner/sat receiver
IR in to control the FreeVo from your couch
Software:
Nifty program selection GUI
Video stream storage
IR controlable playback tool
External tuner control
Service:
A shared DB where anyone can insert program info
Humans:
Charismatic PL
Loads of volunteers
I believe Stark wil come true!
I want to use the nifty features but still have my privacy.
Didn't it ever occur to you that using a mobile phone makes you very trackable regardless of whether you have GPS or not?
Mobile phone services have area based access points and calls are logged with the area information. Hence, most mobile calls can be tracked and the accuracy depends on the granularity of the area partitioning. That's one way to catch (trendy, vain and silly) crooks nowadays. Analysis and correlation of the logs may (will or does already) result in usable marketing info for companies.
I agree that GPS is more accurate but any feeling of privacy on a mobile phone nowadays is merely a deception.
Think practical! The chance of being haunted down my an obscure moralist group is small. Most groups that contemplate this are small and lack resources.
Its the spammers that will get to you. They have the resources and infrastructure to 'convince' the camera operators to deliver data to them. Before you know every face will have an email address.
etc... etc...
I was merely playing with my new state of the art toy and wasn't remotely interested in the lady's white-with-pink-flowers-and-lace panties. Honest!
The article provides a peek into the middle management's psychology. Apparently, middle managers are capable at applying simple heuristics to get 'a job done' but are incapable at truly understanding the organizational problem they have gotten themselves into.
Fact is that managers are in full control of their 'resources'. And come on, you know exactly when you have a wonder(boy|girl) programmer.
The question middle management should ask itself is: "What to do with such a 'resource'?!" Chances are that the middle manager thought/expected that the wonder-coder would talk to clients, analyze the application, do the software engineering, plan a project, write all documentation, do the testing and also code the stuff. Chances are that the middle management either doesn't understand the phases in software development or that it wasn't able to convince upper management to hire the lot of required people. And then, when the programmer _has_ done most of the stuff, he/she will be blamed for being a sloppy communicator.
Middle management creates prima donna programmers. When put into the right organizational context, prima donna programmer simply won't happen. Doing that may be as simple as telling the programmer what you expect to be done and to assess him/her by those standards, as complex as setting up a quality organization (ISO 9[0-9]{3}, CMM, the works) or somewhere in-between.
So let's be realistic and face it. Most middle managers are mediocre at best*. However, they excel in blaming others for their incompetence and in diverting the attention away from their personal challenges. Indeed, the cookbook recipes provided to deal with a prima donna programmer will almost always result in the sacking of the programmer.
In most cases, prima donna programmers should be able to counter an attack from middle management. However, most prima donna programmers will simply not see the holes in the middle management's defense.
Yes, prima donna programmers are prone to firing. Such an occasion is best used to gain experience and as an opportunity to accept a new challenge.
* Hold back your flame! Most programmers too are mediocre at best. Everywhere you look there's room for improvement.