Seriously, queue the obfuscation != security thing. If your email address is carefully protected, it is not displayed on a web page, obfuscated or not.
Well, I'm glad you got that tiresome drivel out of the way. Hopefully no one else will post this type of statement.
Of course you are right -- everyone knows that you are right. The most effective way to secure anything is to hide it away and never use it.
That fact now out of the way, we can now proceed with productive discussions.
Film stock has always been DESIGNED to be temporary. In fact, I can't imagine that the film studios ever expected to get their prints back from the theaters in usable condition and they considered themselves lucky if they did.
In fact, film studios only recently have taken any interested at all in archiving. They are awful at it.
It is not film but digital preservation that is bad shape right now.
Yes, 80% of the movies ever made are gone for good.
The topic of computer data preservation pops up about every six months on Slashdot and no one yet has solved the problem by any meaning definition of the term.
Without a groundbreaking change, a similar figure for digital media will be about 100%.
About twenty years ago, my home air conditioner stopped blowing cold. I called a heating/cooling company to check out the problem and it turned out that ants had crawled into the compressor unit outside my house and mucked up a relay.
The technician's work consisted of:
1. identify that little burnt ant bodies were gumming up the works 2. brush the relay clean.
At about the same time, my son was two or three years old. He had the worst luck being stung by these little bastards. If you've ever seen a child attacked by these ants, you know that it can be pretty sickening.
Ever since, anytime I walk past an ant mound I give it a kick just to make their lives unpleasant for a little while.
I was in your position. I got my CS degree in 2003 when I was 43 years old. I don't recommend it.
It's kinda like a really fat woman asking aloud if she should enter a beauty contest: there are attractive big women but -- to be honest -- it isn't something that I can encourage, not with dozens of young, lean 21 year olds around. Could Big Bertha win? Yes. Will she win? No.
That you even ask aloud is a sign that you already know the answer.
I enjoyed all my CS classes (well, not assembly) but was I never able to find programming work in Silicon Gulch. My degree remains disused.
> IE7 doesn't measure up to w3c standards, but it's a de facto > "standard" nontheless. People wrote lots of websites to deal > with the way IE7 renders pages.
I hate it when people start taking about "de facto"... it's like we suddenly have a license to wrong and stupid and lazy.
Excise this from your mind, go forth, and make the world a better place.
To quote one of the great thinking minds of the last 100 years:
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people.
> Now, if they're involved in something illegal - not annoying/immoral - > then I'd like to see that argument made; however, the argument KnujOn > currently makes is "we don't agree with how you're running your > business, so we think you should be put out of business."
In a lot of places, spam and other forms of service/resource theft ARE illegal.
Just thought I'd point that out.
It's like retail shoplifting.... you and I both pay higher prices so retail stores can cover their shoplifting losses. Spammers steal, too, and you and I (again) pay our service providers to cover those expenses.
Apparently, I don't have nearly as much tolerance for being ripped off as you have.
> Is this serious? An iPhone able to replace satellite radio? > Lets start with battery life, as in, there is none. Using WiFi > to stream music on the iPhone will kill the battery in less > than an hour or so depending on conditions. To solve that, I > guess I could plug the thing in.
I just streamed audio across WiFi for an hour on my iPhone while it was running on its battery and its battery status indicator is still pegged out.
If you iPhone is still under warranty you should contact Apple for service. Your device is defective.
> But unlike the article, I never thought the iPhone/Touch were chosen > based on frugality; rather, I think they are status symbols, vulgar > displays of wealth like knock-off designer clothes and cheap bling. > There are much cheaper devices, or combination of devices, available.
Apple is doomed! Doomed, I say. No one will use these things!
Mark my word: with the introduction of these ridiculous computers, Apple will be out of business by May of 2009.
What's really going to happen is that in another year Apple will have billions of dollars more than they have now and no one will care about your carefully crafted points. Sorry.
Okay, geeks: Raise you hands if you've ever opened the hood of your car? Next, who here has ever personally changed the oil in their own car? A tire?
Don't feel bad. This subject has been brought up the in wrong place. It's as if I walked into the service bay of an auto repair establishment and started asking computer-related questions.
This problem is not about technical qualifications. In fact, you see this sort of thing in food service, sports, journalism (real journalism, not blogs), photography, building construction... you name it.
You are pretty much screwed. You've been had cheap and people's perceptions are so, so hard to change.
Prospective employers only want you for what you have done and aren't interested in anything else.
I recommend that you omit your employment history from your job applications and resumes. Explain that your parent's financed your education and provided your food and housing. You never had to work.
After you get up to a couple megabits a second of download speed, who cares?
What I would REALLY appreciate is some upload speed. I understand why the situation is the way that it is ("All your base are belong to us.") but I'd love to be able to do really high quality voice conferencing.
Also, I notice that no one here is complaining about quality, per se. That's good and it's a pretty big difference from attitudes ten years ago.
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Seriously, queue the obfuscation != security thing. If your email address is carefully protected, it is not displayed on a web page, obfuscated or not.
Well, I'm glad you got that tiresome drivel out of the way. Hopefully no one else will post this type of statement.
Of course you are right -- everyone knows that you are right. The most effective way to secure anything is to hide it away and never use it.
That fact now out of the way, we can now proceed with productive discussions.
--Richard
> Film stock is extremely unstable.
Apples to oranges, dude.
Film stock has always been DESIGNED to be temporary. In fact, I can't imagine that the film studios ever expected to get their prints back from the theaters in usable condition and they considered themselves lucky if they did.
In fact, film studios only recently have taken any interested at all in archiving. They are awful at it.
It is not film but digital preservation that is bad shape right now.
Yes, 80% of the movies ever made are gone for good.
The topic of computer data preservation pops up about every six months on Slashdot and no one yet has solved the problem by any meaning definition of the term.
Without a groundbreaking change, a similar figure for digital media will be about 100%.
--Richard
> this is not a sign of anything. the article is being used by the submitter in an
> attempt to prove a point that he wants to make.
Man, I agree completely. I'm surprised that this was posted as is. I guess there's no editorial process operating here at all.
In 60 years, hold up a Kodachrome slide next to a compact optical disk and see which was is still usable.
I call digital photography "temporary photography."
I shoot digital myself, occasionally, but I'm not kidding myself about it.
--Richard
About twenty years ago, my home air conditioner stopped blowing cold. I called a heating/cooling company to check out the problem and it turned out that ants had crawled into the compressor unit outside my house and mucked up a relay.
The technician's work consisted of:
1. identify that little burnt ant bodies were gumming up the works
2. brush the relay clean.
At about the same time, my son was two or three years old. He had the worst luck being stung by these little bastards. If you've ever seen a child attacked by these ants, you know that it can be pretty sickening.
Ever since, anytime I walk past an ant mound I give it a kick just to make their lives unpleasant for a little while.
--Richard
(Austin)
I was in your position. I got my CS degree in 2003 when I was 43 years old. I don't recommend it.
It's kinda like a really fat woman asking aloud if she should enter a beauty contest: there are attractive big women but -- to be honest -- it isn't something that I can encourage, not with dozens of young, lean 21 year olds around. Could Big Bertha win? Yes. Will she win? No.
That you even ask aloud is a sign that you already know the answer.
I enjoyed all my CS classes (well, not assembly) but was I never able to find programming work in Silicon Gulch. My degree remains disused.
That's my 2-cents.
--Richard
> IE7 doesn't measure up to w3c standards, but it's a de facto
> "standard" nontheless. People wrote lots of websites to deal
> with the way IE7 renders pages.
I hate it when people start taking about "de facto"... it's like we suddenly have a license to wrong and stupid and lazy.
Excise this from your mind, go forth, and make the world a better place.
> And by 2020, the study predicts, 30 percent of all industrial output
> should come from high-tech manufacturing.
They should be careful what they wish for -- high-tech manufacturing is not all it's cracked up to be.
To quote one of the great thinking minds of the last 100 years:
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people.
--Ferris Bueller
> Now, if they're involved in something illegal - not annoying/immoral -
> then I'd like to see that argument made; however, the argument KnujOn
> currently makes is "we don't agree with how you're running your
> business, so we think you should be put out of business."
In a lot of places, spam and other forms of service/resource theft ARE illegal.
Just thought I'd point that out.
It's like retail shoplifting.... you and I both pay higher prices so retail stores can cover their shoplifting losses. Spammers steal, too, and you and I (again) pay our service providers to cover those expenses.
Apparently, I don't have nearly as much tolerance for being ripped off as you have.
--Richard
HDHomeRun
I have one -- it's great.
Two tuners; both do either digital broadcast or unencrypted digital cable. Run one tuner one way and one the other.
It's a network-based device so it can my used by one or two computers on your home network (simultaneously!)
Very different from a simple USB tuner.
What, another review of an unreleased produce that the reviewer hasn't even seen?
--Richard
> Is this serious? An iPhone able to replace satellite radio?
> Lets start with battery life, as in, there is none. Using WiFi
> to stream music on the iPhone will kill the battery in less
> than an hour or so depending on conditions. To solve that, I
> guess I could plug the thing in.
I just streamed audio across WiFi for an hour on my iPhone while it was running on its battery and its battery status indicator is still pegged out.
If you iPhone is still under warranty you should contact Apple for service. Your device is defective.
--Richard
> But unlike the article, I never thought the iPhone/Touch were chosen
> based on frugality; rather, I think they are status symbols, vulgar
> displays of wealth like knock-off designer clothes and cheap bling.
> There are much cheaper devices, or combination of devices, available.
I think that I weigh far less than I really do.
So much for "thinking."
To summarize you: fucking bullshit crapload Pisses Assmonkeys
It reads like poetry.
> Failtastic in so many ways
Apple is doomed! Doomed, I say. No one will use these things!
Mark my word: with the introduction of these ridiculous computers, Apple will be out of business by May of 2009.
What's really going to happen is that in another year Apple will have billions of dollars more than they have now and no one will care about your carefully crafted points. Sorry.
> Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter $29
>
> Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter $29
Best Buy sells each, 3rd party, for $15.
> ...if you buy the $30 adapter for it.
I bought one of those adapters recently at Best Buy. It cost $15.
I had to sell my car.
"...is there a technical solution to the potential danger?"
Education. Lots of films. Let's get a grant.
I'm calling "bullsh*t" on almost everyone here.
Okay, geeks: Raise you hands if you've ever opened the hood of your car? Next, who here has ever personally changed the oil in their own car? A tire?
Don't feel bad. This subject has been brought up the in wrong place. It's as if I walked into the service bay of an auto repair establishment and started asking computer-related questions.
Big humorous component....
If we're really lucky, this will destroy the SMS market completely and SMS will become only a quaint memory, like CB radios.
--Richard
Entering the keywords "porn" into it in 2001 generates 4,490,000 hits vs 236,000,000 hits in
2008
We are much more highly sexed now then we were back then.
This problem is not about technical qualifications. In fact, you see this sort of thing in food service, sports, journalism (real journalism, not blogs), photography, building construction... you name it.
You are pretty much screwed. You've been had cheap and people's perceptions are so, so hard to change.
Prospective employers only want you for what you have done and aren't interested in anything else.
I recommend that you omit your employment history from your job applications and resumes. Explain that your parent's financed your education and provided your food and housing. You never had to work.
We're not talking about too much time, here.
Yes, we need more carbon dioxide to protect us from global freezing.
After you get up to a couple megabits a second of download speed, who cares?
What I would REALLY appreciate is some upload speed. I understand why the situation is the way that it is ("All your base are belong to us.") but I'd love to be able to do really high quality voice conferencing.
Also, I notice that no one here is complaining about quality, per se. That's good and it's a pretty big difference from attitudes ten years ago.
--Richard
You must be referring to our complete dependence on Saudi Arabian coal.
--Richard