To me one of the most disgusting goals in one's live is the raw pursuit of wealth. I guess it comes from growing up with Star Trek TNG and hearing Picard go on about self betterment.
Cox is also testing with AOL in one city as well. Other cities like Las Vegas and Gainseville use Cox Express, where there is no content just a cable modem and a connection to the net. Most of the routing goes through UUNet or some other backbone provider. Vegas only uses the @Home backbone for some of their traffic.
I hate my soulless Win2k PC. I have to use it, there is no other choice.
*NIX puts me in awe just by it power and efficiency.
But I love my Mac and I am not a cheap bastard so I don't mind paying for something that looks good and in a way is a piece of art in an industrial design sense.
Working for a cable company that does sell @Home I can tell you that we are not loosing customers no matter how crappy our service gets. Last week we installed 10,962 disconected 2,876 making a gain of 8,086. Not bad for the failing e-conomey. Anyone who uses a broadband connection knows that you cant go back to dial-up its worse than crack.
When i was a kid i was amazed by the computers on star trek (next generation) you didn't have to boot them or really know how to use them you just did paper was a thing of the past and a book was something read for pure enjoyment not to hold crap found in a text book and growing up on star trek i expected computers to be like the ones on star trek and now that i am older i am kind of disappointed that they are not and i have to type and click instead of issuing a voice command like i would to my waiter. the problem is simple this is still a young industry the first computers where only invented a little over 50 years ago and the average person has only been interacting with pc for around 6 years maybe less just give it time
Just as the senior watching the local news gets a little worried about some script kiddie making the latest vb virus that only works on outlook so does the majority of/.
Most of the post have been preching doom from biotech but it is just a matter of that this site is full of geeks that work with eletron flow devices and have no real sense of control over biotech like the kind we have over those electron devices and the result is fear but the the same can be said about a doctor when it comes to his computer and i think that is why i see so many doctors use a mac
Personaly give me GM foods new replacement parts grown in pigs a virus that infects pests and a giant bug that can blow up planets its all hacking no matter what kind of material you are working with
Napster and ISP are not the ones committing the illegal activity but their users are. The way things are going the service provider if Napster or a Usenet provider have to police their content. A bar can be shut down for allowing illegal activity to take place.
I like this sort of hybrid CLI/GUI. I use a GUI to read my email and do the communication stuff and some of the work that I do I have multiple xterms open and Im hopping around different windows doing my thing. It is easier to type tar -zxvf bob.tar.gz than to double click on the file then a windows pops up with the stuff in listed since it uncompressed it to a temp file then select the directory where I want to put it by clicking through some crap. When the Nevada DMV switched from a terminal based interface to a nice easy to use GUI the lines suddenly became insanely long the DMV used to be a 1.5 - 2 hour trip now it is a full day event just because of the user interface. My current employer has a beautiful CLI program that has been around since the 80's its fast and powerful but it does require some training.
Just make the insurance companies non-profit. It gives freedom and flexability of insurance companies but without the greed of shareholders wanting a profit.
I consider my self a geek, and as a true geek I got picked on. My feelings of revenge against my oppressors are blocked by my sense of honor. If someone does not know something it is because they are better at something else. Knowledge is power and it is not wise to abuse your power.
Take this example.
A Korean woman got a computer and as a show of respect for her computer she gave it an offering of rice by putting it in the floppy drive. She wanted to the computer to work properly so she did the best thing she knew how to make the thing run better, a common goal we all have.
This will also help with the splicing of genes that make vitamins like golden rice that gives a person their daily requirement on beta carotene Imagine a day where al of your dietary needs are in a rice cake.
Industrialized nations have a negative population growth or very low growth rate. The problem is the uneducated third world. Statistics show that the more educated a country's female population the lower the birth rate. These techniques would only be used in the industrialized nations where birthrates are dropping.
One day I was dong my thing and someone who was already A+ and was going through their MSCE training asked me what a partiton was. I was stund but did not want to be rude answered and the person's question. Now the thought crosses my mind. Doesen't a MSCE think that a cluster is a new thing that microsoft came up with the release of Windows 2000 Advanced Server for the Data Center?
But seriously, if you have a class of high school students this could be a good teaching tool. Some teachers are using linux to teach with. You know, it is free and it has some logic to it.
My brother is 5th generation sheet metal worker and so are my cousins, needless to say it is a family tradition. They are not teamsters or just general labor. To become a journeyman you have to go through the apprenticeship program that lasts four years. During the day you are assigned to a journeyman and 3 times a week you go to class to learn things from bending a flat piece of metal into anything you can think of to drafting and cad. I feel the IT industry could learn from this approach, the union could handle things like training, certification, and maintain professional competence. This approach could also eliminate the need for a bunch of certifications from different organizations and companies by bringing standardization. As it stands now either someone has a degree or they have a wallet filled with certs and everyone knows how qualified a MSCE is, or better yet, the ultimate ubergeek "The A+ Certified Tech." Who knows maybe I'm being an elitist.
On the benefits side, I like my company but I would rather have a decent matching 401K like the rest of my family. Stock options that are just an incentive to make me work harder because I am an owner of my company but not a big enough shareholder to change my work environment. And on the statistics side of things union workers make more money. I had a decent childhood we had vacations, nice clothes, safe neighborhood, and strangely enough my mom was a housewife in the 80's and 90's.
The nice thing about for profit is that they have the cash to spend on style. Apple's titium powerbook is a styln' machine and Apple does not sell computers they sell style. Like the kind of style that Sara Jescia Parker has when she is typing her sex in the city coloum on a powerbook. And when you are going to spend money on looks you cant be seen with a cdr with a black marker label. You need something pimpin like the yellow dog linux case. and as most people know nonprofit is not know for good looks but i have to give credit to the linuxdoc.org site.
My digi box has a "VCR Comander" it works with almost and VCR and works like a universal remote. The cable box turs on the VCR sets the channel starts recording and when its done it powers down the VCR. With HDTV i think things like Tivo will become more popular since cable companies have a standard that they have to use for their digi systems making it easy for an open market on cable boxes.
I cant understand why people are so cynical about cable companies. I love Cox (works on more than one level) my cable modem has been up ever since I got it and if they want to get rid of analog channels to make more effecient use of their network let them go for it.
This is all just another step in that thing we call convergance. I am looking forwrd to the day where there is little difference between a tv, vcr, and telephone. I think video phones and video on demand wil be cool.
Cable companies are already switching to digital systems with digital set-top boxes. This will free up bandwidth insted of using a 6Mhz chunk for an analog channel they can broadcast 36 Mbps. Several HDTV channels can be sent down with that more if you use MPEG4 now most are MPEG2.
THX certification for pc's is part of the plan to make theaters fully digital. If the equiptment is cheep it is more likely that the theaters will upgrade. Just think movies without the little circles discribed in Fight Club or when geeks go see Antitrust they can notice that the taskbar is showing during the movie. Worse case senrerio is people acualy start making movies with their iMacs like the guy from The Fly does.
People are getting to worked up. You must remember that Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Intel, Alpha, AMD, Solaris, and Sparc are just tools to do a job. The question is the tool good enough to do the job and that depends on the job. Like taking a bunch of iMacs removing the hard drive to reduce cost and then having the boot off a server is an ideal application for a school where the OS is easy to use and the teachers don?t have to have a degree in computer science. Another idea is at the mall I saw a internet kiosk it was a keyboard mouse and a nice flat screen monitor it had a striped down GNOME interface that didn?t let you do much besides get on the web it was secure it couldn?t be compromised easily like a windows system could have been and finally lets get to windows if it is behind a firewall you can do some neat internal corporate network stuff with it. Like little AvtiveX controls to make time sheets that connect directly to the supervisor?s spreadsheet. It?s all about the tools and the job that has to be done. Linux cant die its too much like Apple there are too many damn hippies living on openness, community, and just plain coolness of Mac. But one thing you don?t here is the phrase "Windows community" or anything similar.
The building that I am in now can opperate normaly off a back up diesel generator for 5 days with out refuleing. That also goes for some of the casinos here in Vegas. The only way you can tell if the power on the strip is out is if the street lights are off.
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To me one of the most disgusting goals in one's live is the raw pursuit of wealth. I guess it comes from growing up with Star Trek TNG and hearing Picard go on about self betterment.
Travis
Cox is also testing with AOL in one city as well. Other cities like Las Vegas and Gainseville use Cox Express, where there is no content just a cable modem and a connection to the net. Most of the routing goes through UUNet or some other backbone provider. Vegas only uses the @Home backbone for some of their traffic.
I hate my soulless Win2k PC. I have to use it, there is no other choice.
*NIX puts me in awe just by it power and efficiency.
But I love my Mac and I am not a cheap bastard so I don't mind paying for something that looks good and in a way is a piece of art in an industrial design sense.
Travis
Working for a cable company that does sell @Home I can tell you that we are not loosing customers no matter how crappy our service gets. Last week we installed 10,962 disconected 2,876 making a gain of 8,086. Not bad for the failing e-conomey. Anyone who uses a broadband connection knows that you cant go back to dial-up its worse than crack.
Travis
When i was a kid i was amazed by the computers on star trek (next generation) you didn't have to boot them or really know how to use them you just did paper was a thing of the past and a book was something read for pure enjoyment not to hold crap found in a text book and growing up on star trek i expected computers to be like the ones on star trek and now that i am older i am kind of disappointed that they are not and i have to type and click instead of issuing a voice command like i would to my waiter. the problem is simple this is still a young industry the first computers where only invented a little over 50 years ago and the average person has only been interacting with pc for around 6 years maybe less just give it time
Travis
Just as the senior watching the local news gets a little worried about some script kiddie making the latest vb virus that only works on outlook so does the majority of /.
Most of the post have been preching doom from biotech but it is just a matter of that this site is full of geeks that work with eletron flow devices and have no real sense of control over biotech like the kind we have over those electron devices and the result is fear but the the same can be said about a doctor when it comes to his computer and i think that is why i see so many doctors use a mac
Personaly give me GM foods new replacement parts grown in pigs a virus that infects pests and a giant bug that can blow up planets its all hacking no matter what kind of material you are working with
Travis
but they are providing a place where illegal activity can take place
Travis
Napster and ISP are not the ones committing the illegal activity but their users are. The way things are going the service provider if Napster or a Usenet provider have to police their content. A bar can be shut down for allowing illegal activity to take place.
Travis
AMEN! Nothing but touchscreens!
I like this sort of hybrid CLI/GUI. I use a GUI to read my email and do the communication stuff and some of the work that I do I have multiple xterms open and Im hopping around different windows doing my thing. It is easier to type tar -zxvf bob.tar.gz than to double click on the file then a windows pops up with the stuff in listed since it uncompressed it to a temp file then select the directory where I want to put it by clicking through some crap. When the Nevada DMV switched from a terminal based interface to a nice easy to use GUI the lines suddenly became insanely long the DMV used to be a 1.5 - 2 hour trip now it is a full day event just because of the user interface. My current employer has a beautiful CLI program that has been around since the 80's its fast and powerful but it does require some training.
Travis
Just make the insurance companies non-profit. It gives freedom and flexability of insurance companies but without the greed of shareholders wanting a profit.
Travis
I consider my self a geek, and as a true geek I got picked on. My feelings of revenge against my oppressors are blocked by my sense of honor. If someone does not know something it is because they are better at something else. Knowledge is power and it is not wise to abuse your power. Take this example. A Korean woman got a computer and as a show of respect for her computer she gave it an offering of rice by putting it in the floppy drive. She wanted to the computer to work properly so she did the best thing she knew how to make the thing run better, a common goal we all have.
This will also help with the splicing of genes that make vitamins like golden rice that gives a person their daily requirement on beta carotene Imagine a day where al of your dietary needs are in a rice cake.
"Flesh does what flesh is told" Morden after Sheridan nuked Z'ha'dum
Industrialized nations have a negative population growth or very low growth rate. The problem is the uneducated third world. Statistics show that the more educated a country's female population the lower the birth rate. These techniques would only be used in the industrialized nations where birthrates are dropping.
Travis
One day I was dong my thing and someone who was already A+ and was going through their MSCE training asked me what a partiton was. I was stund but did not want to be rude answered and the person's question. Now the thought crosses my mind. Doesen't a MSCE think that a cluster is a new thing that microsoft came up with the release of Windows 2000 Advanced Server for the Data Center?
But seriously, if you have a class of high school students this could be a good teaching tool. Some teachers are using linux to teach with. You know, it is free and it has some logic to it.
My brother is 5th generation sheet metal worker and so are my cousins, needless to say it is a family tradition. They are not teamsters or just general labor. To become a journeyman you have to go through the apprenticeship program that lasts four years. During the day you are assigned to a journeyman and 3 times a week you go to class to learn things from bending a flat piece of metal into anything you can think of to drafting and cad. I feel the IT industry could learn from this approach, the union could handle things like training, certification, and maintain professional competence. This approach could also eliminate the need for a bunch of certifications from different organizations and companies by bringing standardization. As it stands now either someone has a degree or they have a wallet filled with certs and everyone knows how qualified a MSCE is, or better yet, the ultimate ubergeek "The A+ Certified Tech." Who knows maybe I'm being an elitist.
On the benefits side, I like my company but I would rather have a decent matching 401K like the rest of my family. Stock options that are just an incentive to make me work harder because I am an owner of my company but not a big enough shareholder to change my work environment. And on the statistics side of things union workers make more money. I had a decent childhood we had vacations, nice clothes, safe neighborhood, and strangely enough my mom was a housewife in the 80's and 90's.
Travis
The nice thing about for profit is that they have the cash to spend on style. Apple's titium powerbook is a styln' machine and Apple does not sell computers they sell style. Like the kind of style that Sara Jescia Parker has when she is typing her sex in the city coloum on a powerbook. And when you are going to spend money on looks you cant be seen with a cdr with a black marker label. You need something pimpin like the yellow dog linux case. and as most people know nonprofit is not know for good looks but i have to give credit to the linuxdoc.org site.
Travis
My digi box has a "VCR Comander" it works with almost and VCR and works like a universal remote. The cable box turs on the VCR sets the channel starts recording and when its done it powers down the VCR. With HDTV i think things like Tivo will become more popular since cable companies have a standard that they have to use for their digi systems making it easy for an open market on cable boxes.
I cant understand why people are so cynical about cable companies. I love Cox (works on more than one level) my cable modem has been up ever since I got it and if they want to get rid of analog channels to make more effecient use of their network let them go for it.
This is all just another step in that thing we call convergance. I am looking forwrd to the day where there is little difference between a tv, vcr, and telephone. I think video phones and video on demand wil be cool.
Travis
Cable companies are already switching to digital systems with digital set-top boxes. This will free up bandwidth insted of using a 6Mhz chunk for an analog channel they can broadcast 36 Mbps. Several HDTV channels can be sent down with that more if you use MPEG4 now most are MPEG2.
Travis
What about our job security? I dont know about you but if grandma can build an enterprise network why is she going to pay for a geek? Travis
THX certification for pc's is part of the plan to make theaters fully digital. If the equiptment is cheep it is more likely that the theaters will upgrade. Just think movies without the little circles discribed in Fight Club or when geeks go see Antitrust they can notice that the taskbar is showing during the movie. Worse case senrerio is people acualy start making movies with their iMacs like the guy from The Fly does.
Travis
People are getting to worked up. You must remember that Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Intel, Alpha, AMD, Solaris, and Sparc are just tools to do a job. The question is the tool good enough to do the job and that depends on the job. Like taking a bunch of iMacs removing the hard drive to reduce cost and then having the boot off a server is an ideal application for a school where the OS is easy to use and the teachers don?t have to have a degree in computer science. Another idea is at the mall I saw a internet kiosk it was a keyboard mouse and a nice flat screen monitor it had a striped down GNOME interface that didn?t let you do much besides get on the web it was secure it couldn?t be compromised easily like a windows system could have been and finally lets get to windows if it is behind a firewall you can do some neat internal corporate network stuff with it. Like little AvtiveX controls to make time sheets that connect directly to the supervisor?s spreadsheet. It?s all about the tools and the job that has to be done. Linux cant die its too much like Apple there are too many damn hippies living on openness, community, and just plain coolness of Mac. But one thing you don?t here is the phrase "Windows community" or anything similar.
The building that I am in now can opperate normaly off a back up diesel generator for 5 days with out refuleing. That also goes for some of the casinos here in Vegas. The only way you can tell if the power on the strip is out is if the street lights are off. Travis
Bla ck Lab Linux
I grew up on the Mac and UNIX
Travis