If my friends ever get an RIAA suit I'll just suggest they settle, then pay in "Dave Recites Computer Code" CDs valued at $1000 each. That's 150 per violation at the full price, or only 2 if they drop it down.
I've had the best success when I approached a class a a 'new game' rather than an opportunity to learn. If you think that college is a citadel of learning, you are in for a big reality check. I have a pal who holds several degrees (BS, MS, going for the MBA) and he put it best, "Professors are not there to teach you. They are there to give you a grade. And I mean 'give you' the grade they feel you deserve."
They are people just like you and I, no more and no less. Imagine yourself as a professor for a moment.
Ok, so it's a game. The object of the game is to get a professor to give you a good grade. Learn who they are, how they operate, what they expect, and do some work.
My favorite example is a Socio-cultural Anthropology class I took (requirement filler). The prof. was about as PC as they get. We had two texts and an autobiography to read. I managed a B without opening any of them (just to see if I could do it I think.) I just answered the insanely easy multiple-guess exams in the most PC way I could. I hit it right on the head, that's what she wanted us to "learn" - the PC crap, not any real anthropology methodology (hint: we had movies to watch ever other week, that was a dead givaway we were not going to 'learn' anything).
Anyway, enough of my ramblings... remember, college is a big new game to you. One that you haven't learned the rules to yet, that you haven't mastered yet, that's rather difficult and many people can't master. It's the grade game ultimately, with a side bet on if you manage to make a few close friends there and learn a bit from it as you go. Go win it if you think you can;)
p.s. I'm a hotshot developer with a good job I enjoy, and I almost finished my BS (got enticed by the boom, or more precisely, the money that was available back in the 90's). I may still get that degree yet !
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing... but there may be some gray area since many companies encourage the sharing of commercials (probably not though!).
On the other hand, the Kellner argument says that ads are our way of "paying" for the otherwise free content, so I guess by listening to "music ads" all day, we would really be paying the RIAA extra !
// TODO: Finishing validation of terminating conditions // TODO: Write function to calculate R // TODO: Write function to output lp // TODO: Include dimension params // TODO: Verify that funky conditional branch // TODO: Write script to pull these TODOs together // TODO: Patent that code ! // TODO: Almost forgot, 3. Profit
Comcast is a sanctioned monopoly here in Baltimore. I finally got completely fed up a few years ago after the tried to (in my opinion) scam me twice in two months, First, they tried slamming tactics to get me to sign up for cable moden (the typical one where the salesperson says one thing and the recording you say 'yes' to says another). The next time someone called and the first thing they said was, "Do you have a computer ?" My wife being the savy character that she is asked, "Who the hell are you and why are you asking me about the contents of my home!" She told the idiot telemarketer from Comcast that it was an inappropriate question and the sucker hung up on her (bad mistake). One complaint to the FCC, and a letter to the local Comcast PHBs copied to our county rep later, and they agreed to never call us again (on paper).
I signed up for DirectTV, then, rather than spend an hour on hold just to wait between '8am and 4pm' for a tech one day, I climbed the side of my house and with a pair of side cutters, and cut the cord (literally and figuratively) with the Evil Empire that is Comcast.
Questionable sales techniques, monopoly deals that overide local govt. (they are fed regulated BTW), higher prices, horrible customer service, receive-only "Internet connections", policies that are anti-customer and dare I say, anti-American ! - why would anyone give these rats a red cent ! At least if they bought Disney I could have focused my distain on one entity for a while;)
I can only hope we see the return of TechTV on DirectTV one day... Access provider monopolies mixed with content giants is a recipe for disaster.
Case of Post-It notes to plaster office: $74
650 Ballons for birthday prank: $55
1 air pump: $20/day rental
Advertising one last fun place to work to a million potential candidates on/.: Priceless
Seriously though, it great to see that there are cool places to work still. One more sign of the IT recovery @!
I got about half way through the summary, lost the train of thought, had to start over... is that a bad sign or proof that caffeine improves the brain ?
Next project - determine is Slurpy "Brain Freeze" can overclock the wetware;)
Yes. If word got out they put in a backdoor so that some guy named Sisco at Cisco could root your box, their reputation would be ruined. They would essentially be the microsoft of routers, only they don't have 95% market share so they can't just flip everyone off. (Or maybe they do have 95% market share, I don't know)
POSTED: 8:32 a.m. EST April 1, 2004
UPDATED: 2:46 p.m. EST April 1, 2004
You know about e-mail, but are you ready for Gmail?
Online search provider Google is introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail. Do you think you will sign up for an account?YesNo
Online search provider Google said in a news release that it is introducing a free e-mail service as it raises the stakes in its battle against Yahoo! and Microsoft.
The company is promising to provide up to 500 times more storage space for users than the market-leading e-mail services provided by Yahoo! and Microsoft Hotmail. Gmail will offer 1 gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of e-mail.
Hoping to make money from the service, dubbed Gmail, Google has told its computers to mine the topics in the e-mails and then deliver text-based ads related to those subjects.
For instance, an e-mail from one friend to another discussing an upcoming concert might prompt Google to include an advertising link from a ticketing agency.
For now, Google is only opening up the service to invited users but expects to make it accessible to everyone within a few weeks. People interested in signing up for an account are being encouraged to register at Gmail.com.
In the news release, Google cofounder Larry Page said that the company developed the project after e-mail users complained about having to stay under storage limits on other web-based e-mail systems.
There was some speculation on technology related message boards that the plan was an April Fool's Day prank.
Google representatives later said that an online job listing for a position at a lunar station was a prank, but that the e-mail service is a legitimate project.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Ok, so what happens the first time someone 'steals' a 'virtual' diamond ring on this service... I mean, do you call out the virtual police, perform a virtual investigation, put virtual handcuffs on the virtual criminal, call the virtual judge... you get the idea.
You just *know* it's going to happen. What sort of crazy conversion laws do you think they'll try to apply ?
Man, I would really hate to have to tell the inmate next to me that I'm in for "stealing a bunch of diamond icons for my cyber-girlfriend"
Given the large viewership here, and the fact that there is a sucker born every minute, how many of you are going to buy one of those laptops anyway ? Seriously, how many of you might buy one "just in case it's true";)
Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.
First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")
Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.
Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !
Hehehe... maybe he should have updated the content he hosted and created a 'sucks' site. Imagine what the Sheriff would have done to him in that case !!!
To all of you posters claiming he should have had a contract, I say why... he offered to run the site for free, a site the HE OWNS and worked on. Was he supposed to contract with himself ? Or maybe a contract that states that he would work for free until such time as he didn't want to any longer ?
I don't get it ? Is there really any legal reason he can't pull down HIS OWN website ? If he approaches the Sheriff and suggests that he need money for bandwidth or he's turning HIS WEBSITE off, how is that extorting ?
An arrest, possible prison sentence, confiscation of equipment... if anyone doesn't see this as a small-town Sheriff abusing their position they are missing the point.
It's not illegal to ask for money to support YOUR website...
Wouldn't that make Slashdot guilty of extorting money by withholding stories from non-subscribers ?
Slashdot Mirror
If my friends ever get an RIAA suit I'll just suggest they settle, then pay in "Dave Recites Computer Code" CDs valued at $1000 each. That's 150 per violation at the full price, or only 2 if they drop it down.
The next time I hear about a spammer spilling his guts, I expect *real* guts from a real spammer.
Oh yeah, screenshots included !
The shift key on Windows machines...
or for that matter, any computer anywhere that has an input and an output device.
From a fellow INTP, been there, done that...
I've had the best success when I approached a class a a 'new game' rather than an opportunity to learn. If you think that college is a citadel of learning, you are in for a big reality check. I have a pal who holds several degrees (BS, MS, going for the MBA) and he put it best, "Professors are not there to teach you. They are there to give you a grade. And I mean 'give you' the grade they feel you deserve."
They are people just like you and I, no more and no less. Imagine yourself as a professor for a moment.
Ok, so it's a game. The object of the game is to get a professor to give you a good grade. Learn who they are, how they operate, what they expect, and do some work.
My favorite example is a Socio-cultural Anthropology class I took (requirement filler). The prof. was about as PC as they get. We had two texts and an autobiography to read. I managed a B without opening any of them (just to see if I could do it I think.) I just answered the insanely easy multiple-guess exams in the most PC way I could. I hit it right on the head, that's what she wanted us to "learn" - the PC crap, not any real anthropology methodology (hint: we had movies to watch ever other week, that was a dead givaway we were not going to 'learn' anything).
Anyway, enough of my ramblings... remember, college is a big new game to you. One that you haven't learned the rules to yet, that you haven't mastered yet, that's rather difficult and many people can't master. It's the grade game ultimately, with a side bet on if you manage to make a few close friends there and learn a bit from it as you go. Go win it if you think you can
p.s. I'm a hotshot developer with a good job I enjoy, and I almost finished my BS (got enticed by the boom, or more precisely, the money that was available back in the 90's). I may still get that degree yet !
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing... but there may be some gray area since many companies encourage the sharing of commercials (probably not though!).
On the other hand, the Kellner argument says that ads are our way of "paying" for the otherwise free content, so I guess by listening to "music ads" all day, we would really be paying the RIAA extra !
I'm not sharing a music file... I'm sharing a commercial !
Okay, Googled it, can't find the law, but I did find several interesting sites with commercials !
Anyone know the relevant laws ??? (Yeah, IANAFL).
Sorry, pal, but I have a patent on using a labotomy to avoid being a criminal under the current patent regime...
Expect a letter from my lawyers later this week.
I wonder what DC Comics (and the other owners?) have to say about NetGear using their copyrighted character in a commercial product ?
Ok, here's my plan... I'll hang a painting I made on the house with a disclaimer that it's not to be reproduced...
then, after they take the picture, I'll demand access to the content database since I know they have my IP in there...
if they refuse, I'll lobby Congess to pass a law that has the DOJ go after them for me !
Oh yeah, I almost forgot (this is
Step 4: Profit !
Satellite Dish
Comcast is a sanctioned monopoly here in Baltimore. I finally got completely fed up a few years ago after the tried to (in my opinion) scam me twice in two months, First, they tried slamming tactics to get me to sign up for cable moden (the typical one where the salesperson says one thing and the recording you say 'yes' to says another). The next time someone called and the first thing they said was, "Do you have a computer ?" My wife being the savy character that she is asked, "Who the hell are you and why are you asking me about the contents of my home!" She told the idiot telemarketer from Comcast that it was an inappropriate question and the sucker hung up on her (bad mistake). One complaint to the FCC, and a letter to the local Comcast PHBs copied to our county rep later, and they agreed to never call us again (on paper).
I signed up for DirectTV, then, rather than spend an hour on hold just to wait between '8am and 4pm' for a tech one day, I climbed the side of my house and with a pair of side cutters, and cut the cord (literally and figuratively) with the Evil Empire that is Comcast.
Questionable sales techniques, monopoly deals that overide local govt. (they are fed regulated BTW), higher prices, horrible customer service, receive-only "Internet connections", policies that are anti-customer and dare I say, anti-American ! - why would anyone give these rats a red cent ! At least if they bought Disney I could have focused my distain on one entity for a while
I can only hope we see the return of TechTV on DirectTV one day... Access provider monopolies mixed with content giants is a recipe for disaster.
But it's not that it doesn't sell a ton. And would we consider the movies a form of marketing...
I'm no Tolkien expert, but I hear the The Lost Road has a great Elvish Etymology.
Case of Post-It notes to plaster office: $74
650 Ballons for birthday prank: $55
1 air pump: $20/day rental
Advertising one last fun place to work to a million potential candidates on
Seriously though, it great to see that there are cool places to work still. One more sign of the IT recovery @!
Don't miss out on the Wild Arse Guess contest each day on the SCOX stock price... It's a whole new ball game now
I got about half way through the summary, lost the train of thought, had to start over... is that a bad sign or proof that caffeine improves the brain ?
Next project - determine is Slurpy "Brain Freeze" can overclock the wetware
Yes. If word got out they put in a backdoor so that some guy named Sisco at Cisco could root your box, their reputation would be ruined. They would essentially be the microsoft of routers, only they don't have 95% market share so they can't just flip everyone off. (Or maybe they do have 95% market share, I don't know)
Ummmm, word did get out...
I'm sure they do extensive checking against this sort of thing.
Checking to make certain that it doesn't happen, or checking that it's in there and kept quiet ?
"Google Says E-Mail Plan No Hoax"
Search Giant Plans To Offer 1 Gigabyte Storage
POSTED: 8:32 a.m. EST April 1, 2004
UPDATED: 2:46 p.m. EST April 1, 2004
You know about e-mail, but are you ready for Gmail?
Online search provider Google is introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail. Do you think you will sign up for an account?YesNo
Online search provider Google said in a news release that it is introducing a free e-mail service as it raises the stakes in its battle against Yahoo! and Microsoft.
The company is promising to provide up to 500 times more storage space for users than the market-leading e-mail services provided by Yahoo! and Microsoft Hotmail. Gmail will offer 1 gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of e-mail.
Hoping to make money from the service, dubbed Gmail, Google has told its computers to mine the topics in the e-mails and then deliver text-based ads related to those subjects.
For instance, an e-mail from one friend to another discussing an upcoming concert might prompt Google to include an advertising link from a ticketing agency.
For now, Google is only opening up the service to invited users but expects to make it accessible to everyone within a few weeks. People interested in signing up for an account are being encouraged to register at Gmail.com.
In the news release, Google cofounder Larry Page said that the company developed the project after e-mail users complained about having to stay under storage limits on other web-based e-mail systems.
There was some speculation on technology related message boards that the plan was an April Fool's Day prank.
Google representatives later said that an online job listing for a position at a lunar station was a prank, but that the e-mail service is a legitimate project.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Ok, so what happens the first time someone 'steals' a 'virtual' diamond ring on this service... I mean, do you call out the virtual police, perform a virtual investigation, put virtual handcuffs on the virtual criminal, call the virtual judge... you get the idea.
You just *know* it's going to happen. What sort of crazy conversion laws do you think they'll try to apply ?
Man, I would really hate to have to tell the inmate next to me that I'm in for "stealing a bunch of diamond icons for my cyber-girlfriend"
Sorry, no Janet Jackson or swimsuit pics in this article.
Read it anyway, neat tech, plenty of details ! (ACDSee is an old favorite of mine)
It's so fashionable these days for to have articles like this one declaring the 'end' of stuff like the iPod.
I'll believe it when I see it. Seems these "journalists" have been taking tips from the various trolls.
(When was the last time your neighborhood lost water?)
Ummmm, today. Schools shut down and everything. Towson lost water a couple month ago...
Given the large viewership here, and the fact that there is a sucker born every minute, how many of you are going to buy one of those laptops anyway ? Seriously, how many of you might buy one "just in case it's true"
Stranger things can happen !
Obviously, you are an email admin, not a developer.
First... Notes is more than just email, in fact email is just a tiny part of it. Consider that the record-breaking websites for several Olympic Games were run on Notes/Domino. ("The Nagano Olympics and Wimbledon sites served record numbers of hits per day (630 million).")
Notes/Domino has been a model for incorporating standards into a development platform. They were one of the first to start using OLE/DDE over a decade ago and one of the first 4GLs to incorporate HTML and Java in the 90's. Right now, it has everything from XML/HTML/Java/J2EE to actually being an LDAP server when you want it to. Oh, and they don't implement these standards the way Microsoft does, they are actually very, very open. Which reminds me, they support Linux, OSS and there are even personal efforts on that front.
Oh, and I think you misrepresent what your article link states.... Notes is not 'hard to get rid of' because of thick clients, it's hard to get rid of such a valuable development platform.
p.s. Websphere Portal was moved UNDER the Lotus Software division, it's not dead, it's growing !
Please learn a bit more, then get back to me
Hehehe... maybe he should have updated the content he hosted and created a 'sucks' site. Imagine what the Sheriff would have done to him in that case !!!
To all of you posters claiming he should have had a contract, I say why... he offered to run the site for free, a site the HE OWNS and worked on. Was he supposed to contract with himself ? Or maybe a contract that states that he would work for free until such time as he didn't want to any longer ?
I don't get it ? Is there really any legal reason he can't pull down HIS OWN website ? If he approaches the Sheriff and suggests that he need money for bandwidth or he's turning HIS WEBSITE off, how is that extorting ?
All you William Hung fansites take note... don't take them down or else !
An arrest, possible prison sentence, confiscation of equipment... if anyone doesn't see this as a small-town Sheriff abusing their position they are missing the point.
It's not illegal to ask for money to support YOUR website...
Wouldn't that make Slashdot guilty of extorting money by withholding stories from non-subscribers ?
Nuts...