Indeed, one day perhaps every web surfer will thank him for trying to enforce his patent.
I mean, honestly, web ads (even popups) don't bring in very much money for the most part. If companies have to pay this guy a royalty for every popup, well, the pie is pretty small already.
Here's hoping for the extinction of popup ads! Long live non-intrusive, non-annoying ads!
I hope he enforces his patent on sound ads which can't be turned off. We don't want those either!
Actually still rather sick to my stomach from the first one. The image of the machine cruelly ripping the brain out of a persons skull after the person begged for their life pretty well turned me off from the whole thing.
Guess I really don't like anime.. I've tried watching a several different anime movies/shows, and each time I've found the violence to exceed what even most R rated movies contain.
I don't mind the animation style of anime, though I find the sharp edges and harsh, abrasive lines a little irritating. Just to me it feels like the over the top violence seems like some kind of pent up childish nerd/geek angst. I just find it hard to connect with that, I feel like I've matured beyond the need for cruel retribution.
And yes, end of humanity and/or the world scenarios do tend to be depressing.
I'm sure the wrath of the anime zealots will burn my karma.. Oh well, screw 'em - I'm a computer geek and I think anime sucks.
An intriging post, leading me to pose the following interesting question:
"Is that which has intellegence capable of knowing whether another has intellegence?"
And along similar lines:
"Is intellegence measurable?"
And, of course:
"WTF is intellegence, anyway?"
It would seem an answer the last question would make answering either of the former questions much easier. In fact, answering the former questions may be impossible without the answer to the former. Throughout history, it would seem that humanity has generally assumed that the answer to the first two questions is "yes". Seems to me that the answer could very well be no as easily as yes.
In concluding, I guess what I'm trying to get at is that we don't really understand our own intellegence. How then, are we to evaluate the intellegence of another?
So there are a few worthless bits for your brain to chew on...
The moderators so far have fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "Never moderate up a slashdot catch phrase which is no longer popular." But only slightly less well known is this, "Never moderate up a troll when RIAA is on topic!"
Don't forget to moderate this post as "-1 unfunny". Thanks.
Hey, maybe that rediculous diamonds commercial from a few years back will become a reality? You know, that cheesy one where the guy takes his girl to a movie, they're the only ones in the theater, and its their wedding video?
I mean, it is realistic, of course the theater would be empty - who is going to watch someone elses wedding video? (Now their honeymoon video, that might be a different story:)
As an aside, I always like to come up with a "moral" for cheesy commercials. Mine for that one is: "Only incredibly rich guys who have the money rent an entire theater can afford to buy our diamonds."
The United States, quite frankly, has a right to protect its own interests (i.e. American workers having jobs) in cases where companies are hiring workers who will work and live in its own borders. All this about it being justified because third world developers will work for less is a bunch of crap, quite frankly.
Your argument holds if the company is based in some other country, and is told by its government to hire only American workers. Obviously there is no justice there.
I'll say again, the United States government has a right, perhaps even a mandate, to protect American jobs for Americans. After all, if our government is not out to protect the interests of its people, what good is it? The United States government was _founded_ on the very idea that the reason for its existence is to serve the interests of its people. Clearly allowing jobs generated by American companies, on American soil to be given to foreigners when qualified American workers are available would not be protecting the interests of the American people.
I also disagree with your assessment "...the quality of american programmers going down...". Though a number of unqualified American programmers exist after the.com bust, those people are gradually returning to other lines of work, and I'd say the quality of the average American programmer is actually going up because of this. I can attest after having had to find a new job a year ago (and a tough time doing so even with a CS degree from an accredited U. and 2 years exp.), there are a large number of very qualified American high tech workers available.
Overall, I'd say your post is tainted by your own bias. Consider if the same situation were occurring in your own country. Would you want your government to allow jobs in your country to be filled by low paid foreigners, or would you rather your government protected your interests?
"...I look back and realize my favorite teachers are the ones that made me bust ass. I couldn't stand them when I was under their totalitarian rule but I learned whether I liked it or not. Sure, I had plenty of teachers whose classes were a joke. Nothing was expected of me and so I did as little as I could get away with...what else would a teenager do? I despise those teachers now, as I realize that their insistence on being my friend and not working hard was a disservice to me."
Though cramming it down the little SOBs throats and treating them like the subordinates they are might be going a bit extreme, I completely agree with the above excerpt from the parent post.
I remember distinctly a reading teacher I had in 5th grade who required her students to learn more than 20 words per week in order to expand their vocabulary. And by learn, I mean that I had to know the meaning of each word when tested at the end of the week. I remember at the beginning of that year, thinking it was impossible to learn all these words in one week! The list was several times longer than any I had ever been asked to learn in previous grades. I was angry, and thought the task impossible. But I found that as I went through the year, that even though the list gradually got longer each week, that I had less and less trouble learning all the words.
I began to find that reading books was suddenly not so difficult, and that it was in fact, very often fun. I still attribute this discovery to that one teacher, the one who gave me the impossible task and proved to me that we could do it. The one who gave me the vocabulary that I needed as a basis to read with decent speed and propensity.
For that, I shall be eternally grateful to Mrs. Terrentino.
I find that the biggest barrier to anyone who has trouble with computers / home stereos / tvs / dvd players / etc / etc / etc is that they are afraid to experiment, fearing they'll break it.
The second largest barrier is the "I give up" issue, which is similar but not quite the same. Many users will attempt to set things up, then when it doesn't work on the first try, give up. Computer geeks, for better or worse, are quite used to the first, second, third, ad neauseum try not working, and trying again. And perhaps, some times, even reading whatever documentation is available. But only as a last resort.:)
Computer geeks by their very nature are unafraid to experiment with electrical machines more advanced than a toaster, otherwise they could not be computer geeks.
I almost crapped my pants the first time I booted XP. Where was everything? The desktop had a recycle bin, and that was all. Very frightening. Did it even install correctly, I wondered?
Well, yes - and in my opinion, no. But XP can be fixed. (Or at least made backwards compatible for those of us who are used to the old style.)
First, change to the classic Start Menu:
To change to the "Classic" Start menu, right-click Start, and click Properties. Click the radio button in front of Classic Start menu, click Apply and OK. This will fix the Start menu to look the old skool style, and also fix the desktop to display My Computer, Network Neighborhood, etc. Why a Start Menu setting fixes the desktop I don't know.
Second, disable simple (crippled) file sharing:
Open Windows explorer. Go to Tools | Folder Options | View. Scroll to the bottom of the list of advanced settings and un-check Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended). Click OK. This will fix the OS so that you can see the permissions on each folder.
Those two things should go a long way. I also change the windows explorer to Explore mode by default (so much faster to see the whole tree), and show file extensions. These are more advanced settings, so perhaps only suggest them to more computer literate people. Still, at least you won't get: "this file doesn't work" and ask them what kind of file it is. They have no clue because the extensions are hidden. The problem being that truly clueless users will strip the extensions off when renaming, rendering a file useless until the extension is re-added.
Or maybe you should just ignore this post so that you don't have to repair a family members broken OS:)
I'm actually not saying anything of the sort. Certainly people are not going to magically regenerate parts, thats rediculous.
What I'm saying is that there will be a likely be a psychological effect on the person. The Placebo Effect is widely regarded to be a psychological effect triggered by the perception of an active treatment.
So my point is a persons personalities, memory, and a mirad of other brain functions could be affected even though the new hippocampus works exactly the same as the old. The perception of the person that a different hippocampus is present may actually cause them to exhibit different behavior. For this reason, I think it will be very difficult to tell whether a behavioral change after a surgery such as this is caused by the by the replacement part itself, or merely the persons perception of that new part.
As I said before, the only way to truly assess effects due to the part itself would be to replace the part without the persons knowledge, and that event is unlikely to take place.
Java was considered slow long before swing came out. Its speed has improved over the years, as a result of better core classes and other software improvements, as well as the obvious hardware speed increases.
Swing is, admittedly, slow. But I'd like to point out that swing is relatively* new, and, assuming Sun sticks with it, should speed up as development continues.
* Note that relatively is a relative term.
Java also has the advantage of being able to run on quite a number of platforms, including phones and the like, and the promise of being able to run on any platform that should come along, Microsoft or not. Whether that promise is fulfilled is a whole other story...
Oh, and adding two instances of the Integer class together would just be dumb. Think of the overhead - better to use the primative for math puposes. No, the real use is the following:
"In addition, this class provides several methods for converting an int to a String and a String to an int, as well as other constants and methods useful when dealing with an int." - from java.sun.com
The star of the show being the static method Integer.ParseInt, in my opinion.
I'd also like to note that I probably come off as something of a Java zealot, and I suppose I am in a way. But I'll admit that I'm currently the technical lead on a.Net project, and I'm loving it. C# is a good language, I like working with it.
Oh, and has anyone else noticed that the Visual Studio.Net IDE is incredibly similar to Oracle JDeveloper? It struck me a few days ago as I was working with it. I can't fully decide who copied who. Did MS copy JDeveloper? Or did JDeveloper copy an earlier version of Visual Studio? Or maybe even both? Anyway, the properties pane, compile pane, and objects pane and their relative arrangement are so similar, I was having deja vu from 3 years ago when I was working on a Java project using JDeveloper. But nobody cares about all that, and no one is going to read this, so I'll just shut up now.
"It will be really interesting once this sort of prostetic brain surgery happens - to be able to interview the patients and see if they really feel as if their mental states are different as a result of the new 'tissue'."
The problem with that is the following: it'll have a percieved effect regardless of whether it has an actual effect.
To make things a bit more clear, I'll use the "placebo effect". It is commonly known that during studies, people who are given a placebo, a treatment that should have no effect whatsoever, often respond to this "treatment" with slightly positive results. The idea that they might be getting a treatment actually causes them to get better, in some cases.
My point being that if the new hippocampus is inserted into a persons brain and they have knowledge of it, there will be an effect on that person regardless of whether the hippocampus is actually different or not.
The only way to know for sure would be to replace the hippocampus without the persons knowledge, and I can't imagine there are too many places where that would be legal for humans.
So we're going to have to live with the fact that people who undergo this sort of surgery may not be the same after it is complete.
The thing I find funny is that everybody pissed and moaned (and still do, to some degree) about how slow Java was. Yet.Net comes out, using almost the exact same ideas, and I don't hear a peep. All I hear is how great it is.
Now, mind you,.Net is nice. It does work. Its a good product.
That doesn't change the fact that Java did it all before. And a number of things that have been done in Java are only a twinkle in the eye of a.Net developer. And Java is fast, reliable, pretty well solid at this point.
Corel fell victim to one of the classic blunders. You know about that war in Asia thing, and sicilians when death is on the line, but you forgot about "Boredom with technology during implementation when its no longer bleeding edge"!
I'll agree, especially if you are in your first few years of college. Honestly, the odds you'll get an internship in your first few years are pretty slim. Rightfully so, who wants to hire a person who's just cutting their teeth on programming?
My advice would be to look for the following: A good paying job which seasonally requires unskilled labor. There are a lot of these out there.
I worked 3 summers doing maintainence work at a golf course. The pay was almost as good as the in-industry internship I got in my last college summer, and I got a lot better tan. Of course, I had to get up way too early and worked my ass off, but those things build character:)
Since clearly no one is going to bother reading it, here is a relevant sample from the article:
"Laurie Garrett, after all, has a copyright in her written works. One can argue about the terms on which she licensed her email -- she did, after all, send it, without disclaimer, to an undisclosed list of friends -- but the baseline assumption would still be that she retains copyright to her words. Every subsequent forward was a prima facie infringement on her copyright. And by the familiar copyright legal logic of the last few years, she should -- in theory -- be able to cease-and-desist her way into having that letter redacted from every web site, deleted from every errant inbox.
To state this possibility is to refute it. From Garrett's perspective, the damage is already done. None of the unkind comments will be retracted, no one who has read the letter will unread it. Cease-and-desist letters are a great way to lose old friends and make new enemies. An email is so small, so easy to encode and disguise, so close to a pure meme, that she doesn't stand a chance even of identifying all the copies out there, let alone of enjoining them out of existence. Copyright law is not about to solve Laurie Garrett's problems. It's just the wrong tool for the job."
There is more, too - a lot more. I'll say again that this is something you should read if you are even remotely interested in the topic.
For the billionth time RTFA.. This point (and many other interesing ideas/questions/comments) are brought up in the _very_ insightful article by James Grimmelmann. Furthermore, he goes into more thought provoking depth about this issue and brings up some points you may not have thought of yet.
Trust me, this is one you definitely want to read if you are even mildly intested in this topic.
Or maybe you're just a troll..
Oh well, I'll light the fuse and burn in my own karma.
The worm spread around the entire globe in minutes. And Symmantec didn't know about the worm in advance, they are simply saying that they knew about it before anyone else. (Which other posters have pointed out is BS - apparently journalists and corporate managers don't understand time zones)
Which leaves us with this simple fact: even if a sysadmin had gotten and read symmantec's message immediately, it is unlikely they would have had time to block the port and/or patch their server in time anyway! They may have already been hit in the time it took them to read the virus alert.
The fact that symmantec noticed it was happening is hardly surprising, they make money by detecting and stopping viruses. Of course they would notice when a ton of traffic on a certain port started inundating the internet.
This whole story is a load of crap. Hopefully wired will be more do a little more research in the future into the stories they display, but somehow I doubt it.
If it displays e-books, which the article suggests it will, count me in. A $40 e-book reader? Even if it did nothing else it'd be worth it for some of us who have GBAs, but haven't gotten a PDA yet.
Unfortunately I'll probably have to wait until at least 2005 before having any chance of buying one.
It can't do PVR. (Crowd groans) You currently need a xbox mod chip.
If they can get all the functionality working without having to mod chip the xbox, as they say they will soon, it'll still be pretty cool. And I'll be sure to install it on my xbox:)
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Indeed, one day perhaps every web surfer will thank him for trying to enforce his patent.
I mean, honestly, web ads (even popups) don't bring in very much money for the most part. If companies have to pay this guy a royalty for every popup, well, the pie is pretty small already.
Here's hoping for the extinction of popup ads! Long live non-intrusive, non-annoying ads!
I hope he enforces his patent on sound ads which can't be turned off. We don't want those either!
Actually still rather sick to my stomach from the first one. The image of the machine cruelly ripping the brain out of a persons skull after the person begged for their life pretty well turned me off from the whole thing.
Guess I really don't like anime.. I've tried watching a several different anime movies/shows, and each time I've found the violence to exceed what even most R rated movies contain.
I don't mind the animation style of anime, though I find the sharp edges and harsh, abrasive lines a little irritating. Just to me it feels like the over the top violence seems like some kind of pent up childish nerd/geek angst. I just find it hard to connect with that, I feel like I've matured beyond the need for cruel retribution.
And yes, end of humanity and/or the world scenarios do tend to be depressing.
I'm sure the wrath of the anime zealots will burn my karma.. Oh well, screw 'em - I'm a computer geek and I think anime sucks.
An intriging post, leading me to pose the following interesting question:
"Is that which has intellegence capable of knowing whether another has intellegence?"
And along similar lines:
"Is intellegence measurable?"
And, of course:
"WTF is intellegence, anyway?"
It would seem an answer the last question would make answering either of the former questions much easier. In fact, answering the former questions may be impossible without the answer to the former. Throughout history, it would seem that humanity has generally assumed that the answer to the first two questions is "yes". Seems to me that the answer could very well be no as easily as yes.
In concluding, I guess what I'm trying to get at is that we don't really understand our own intellegence. How then, are we to evaluate the intellegence of another?
So there are a few worthless bits for your brain to chew on...
If ever a slashdot post deserved to be followed by a rimshot...
Could somebody mod the parent post up as +1 interesting? I seem to be fresh out.
And also "dangit I was gonna post that!"
Note that the parent post forgot to mention the fictional fault line and volcano were in Los Angeles, leaving out crucial irony.
And realism in the movie? Um, lets just forget about that.
So to hell with the parent, mod me up!
The moderators so far have fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "Never moderate up a slashdot catch phrase which is no longer popular." But only slightly less well known is this, "Never moderate up a troll when RIAA is on topic!"
Don't forget to moderate this post as "-1 unfunny". Thanks.
Hey, maybe that rediculous diamonds commercial from a few years back will become a reality? You know, that cheesy one where the guy takes his girl to a movie, they're the only ones in the theater, and its their wedding video?
:)
I mean, it is realistic, of course the theater would be empty - who is going to watch someone elses wedding video? (Now their honeymoon video, that might be a different story
As an aside, I always like to come up with a "moral" for cheesy commercials. Mine for that one is: "Only incredibly rich guys who have the money rent an entire theater can afford to buy our diamonds."
The United States, quite frankly, has a right to protect its own interests (i.e. American workers having jobs) in cases where companies are hiring workers who will work and live in its own borders. All this about it being justified because third world developers will work for less is a bunch of crap, quite frankly.
.com bust, those people are gradually returning to other lines of work, and I'd say the quality of the average American programmer is actually going up because of this. I can attest after having had to find a new job a year ago (and a tough time doing so even with a CS degree from an accredited U. and 2 years exp.), there are a large number of very qualified American high tech workers available.
Your argument holds if the company is based in some other country, and is told by its government to hire only American workers. Obviously there is no justice there.
I'll say again, the United States government has a right, perhaps even a mandate, to protect American jobs for Americans. After all, if our government is not out to protect the interests of its people, what good is it? The United States government was _founded_ on the very idea that the reason for its existence is to serve the interests of its people. Clearly allowing jobs generated by American companies, on American soil to be given to foreigners when qualified American workers are available would not be protecting the interests of the American people.
I also disagree with your assessment "...the quality of american programmers going down...". Though a number of unqualified American programmers exist after the
Overall, I'd say your post is tainted by your own bias. Consider if the same situation were occurring in your own country. Would you want your government to allow jobs in your country to be filled by low paid foreigners, or would you rather your government protected your interests?
"...I look back and realize my favorite teachers are the ones that made me bust ass. I couldn't stand them when I was under their totalitarian rule but I learned whether I liked it or not. Sure, I had plenty of teachers whose classes were a joke. Nothing was expected of me and so I did as little as I could get away with...what else would a teenager do? I despise those teachers now, as I realize that their insistence on being my friend and not working hard was a disservice to me."
Though cramming it down the little SOBs throats and treating them like the subordinates they are might be going a bit extreme, I completely agree with the above excerpt from the parent post.
I remember distinctly a reading teacher I had in 5th grade who required her students to learn more than 20 words per week in order to expand their vocabulary. And by learn, I mean that I had to know the meaning of each word when tested at the end of the week. I remember at the beginning of that year, thinking it was impossible to learn all these words in one week! The list was several times longer than any I had ever been asked to learn in previous grades. I was angry, and thought the task impossible. But I found that as I went through the year, that even though the list gradually got longer each week, that I had less and less trouble learning all the words.
I began to find that reading books was suddenly not so difficult, and that it was in fact, very often fun. I still attribute this discovery to that one teacher, the one who gave me the impossible task and proved to me that we could do it. The one who gave me the vocabulary that I needed as a basis to read with decent speed and propensity.
For that, I shall be eternally grateful to Mrs. Terrentino.
Exactly.
:)
I find that the biggest barrier to anyone who has trouble with computers / home stereos / tvs / dvd players / etc / etc / etc
is that they are afraid to experiment, fearing they'll break it.
The second largest barrier is the "I give up" issue, which is similar but not quite the same. Many users will attempt to set things up, then when it doesn't work on the first try, give up. Computer geeks, for better or worse, are quite used to the first, second, third, ad neauseum try not working, and trying again. And perhaps, some times, even reading whatever documentation is available. But only as a last resort.
Computer geeks by their very nature are unafraid to experiment with electrical machines more advanced than a toaster, otherwise they could not be computer geeks.
I almost crapped my pants the first time I booted XP. Where was everything? The desktop had a recycle bin, and that was all. Very frightening. Did it even install correctly, I wondered?
:)
Well, yes - and in my opinion, no. But XP can be fixed. (Or at least made backwards compatible for those of us who are used to the old style.)
First, change to the classic Start Menu:
To change to the "Classic" Start menu, right-click Start, and click Properties. Click the radio button in front of Classic Start menu, click Apply and OK. This will fix the Start menu to look the old skool style, and also fix the desktop to display My Computer, Network Neighborhood, etc. Why a Start Menu setting fixes the desktop I don't know.
Second, disable simple (crippled) file sharing:
Open Windows explorer. Go to Tools | Folder Options | View.
Scroll to the bottom of the list of advanced settings and un-check Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended).
Click OK. This will fix the OS so that you can see the permissions on each folder.
Those two things should go a long way. I also change the windows explorer to Explore mode by default (so much faster to see the whole tree), and show file extensions. These are more advanced settings, so perhaps only suggest them to more computer literate people. Still, at least you won't get: "this file doesn't work" and ask them what kind of file it is. They have no clue because the extensions are hidden. The problem being that truly clueless users will strip the extensions off when renaming, rendering a file useless until the extension is re-added.
Or maybe you should just ignore this post so that you don't have to repair a family members broken OS
I'm actually not saying anything of the sort. Certainly people are not going to magically regenerate parts, thats rediculous.
What I'm saying is that there will be a likely be a psychological effect on the person. The Placebo Effect is widely regarded to be a psychological effect triggered by the perception of an active treatment.
So my point is a persons personalities, memory, and a mirad of other brain functions could be affected even though the new hippocampus works exactly the same as the old. The perception of the person that a different hippocampus is present may actually cause them to exhibit different behavior. For this reason, I think it will be very difficult to tell whether a behavioral change after a surgery such as this is caused by the by the replacement part itself, or merely the persons perception of that new part.
As I said before, the only way to truly assess effects due to the part itself would be to replace the part without the persons knowledge, and that event is unlikely to take place.
Capiche?
Java was considered slow long before swing came out. Its speed has improved over the years, as a result of better core classes and other software improvements, as well as the obvious hardware speed increases.
.Net project, and I'm loving it. C# is a good language, I like working with it.
.Net IDE is incredibly similar to Oracle JDeveloper? It struck me a few days ago as I was working with it. I can't fully decide who copied who. Did MS copy JDeveloper? Or did JDeveloper copy an earlier version of Visual Studio? Or maybe even both? Anyway, the properties pane, compile pane, and objects pane and their relative arrangement are so similar, I was having deja vu from 3 years ago when I was working on a Java project using JDeveloper. But nobody cares about all that, and no one is going to read this, so I'll just shut up now.
Swing is, admittedly, slow. But I'd like to point out that swing is relatively* new, and, assuming Sun sticks with it, should speed up as development continues.
* Note that relatively is a relative term.
Java also has the advantage of being able to run on quite a number of platforms, including phones and the like, and the promise of being able to run on any platform that should come along, Microsoft or not. Whether that promise is fulfilled is a whole other story...
Oh, and adding two instances of the Integer class together would just be dumb. Think of the overhead - better to use the primative for math puposes. No, the real use is the following:
"In addition, this class provides several methods for converting an int to a String and a String to an int, as well as other constants and methods useful when dealing with an int." - from java.sun.com
The star of the show being the static method Integer.ParseInt, in my opinion.
I'd also like to note that I probably come off as something of a Java zealot, and I suppose I am in a way. But I'll admit that I'm currently the technical lead on a
Oh, and has anyone else noticed that the Visual Studio
"It will be really interesting once this sort of prostetic brain surgery happens - to be able to interview the patients and see if they really feel as if their mental states are different as a result of the new 'tissue'."
The problem with that is the following: it'll have a percieved effect regardless of whether it has an actual effect.
To make things a bit more clear, I'll use the "placebo effect". It is commonly known that during studies, people who are given a placebo, a treatment that should have no effect whatsoever, often respond to this "treatment" with slightly positive results. The idea that they might be getting a treatment actually causes them to get better, in some cases.
My point being that if the new hippocampus is inserted into a persons brain and they have knowledge of it, there will be an effect on that person regardless of whether the hippocampus is actually different or not.
The only way to know for sure would be to replace the hippocampus without the persons knowledge, and I can't imagine there are too many places where that would be legal for humans.
So we're going to have to live with the fact that people who undergo this sort of surgery may not be the same after it is complete.
I'm gonna connect the dots here to explain why the Grimace Testicles crack could show up should McDonalds proceed with this WiFi thing:
Next time look carefully at the plasma menu - you can see the mouse pointer.
Thus, each McD's with these plasma driven menus likely has a "menu server".
I'm thinking McD's would connect these same servers to their network. At the very least for menu/software updates.
Some cracker buys 14 big mac meals and stays in the joint until they've cracked the server and put "Big Crack" and other junk like that up there.
I can just see some old lady come up to the counter: "I'd like to try the Grimace Testicles please."
The thing I find funny is that everybody pissed and moaned (and still do, to some degree) about how slow Java was. Yet .Net comes out, using almost the exact same ideas, and I don't hear a peep. All I hear is how great it is.
.Net is nice. It does work. Its a good product.
.Net developer. And Java is fast, reliable, pretty well solid at this point.
Now, mind you,
That doesn't change the fact that Java did it all before. And a number of things that have been done in Java are only a twinkle in the eye of a
Corel fell victim to one of the classic blunders. You know about that war in Asia thing, and sicilians when death is on the line, but you forgot about "Boredom with technology during implementation when its no longer bleeding edge"!
"Initiating enforcement action against such companies is not a problem for the FTC."
Appears the FTC are officially calling themselves badasses.
I'll translate:
We find out you mess with us, we kick your ass, no problem.
Just my take.
I'll agree, especially if you are in your first few years of college. Honestly, the odds you'll get an internship in your first few years are pretty slim. Rightfully so, who wants to hire a person who's just cutting their teeth on programming?
:)
My advice would be to look for the following:
A good paying job which seasonally requires unskilled labor. There are a lot of these out there.
I worked 3 summers doing maintainence work at a golf course. The pay was almost as good as the in-industry internship I got in my last college summer, and I got a lot better tan. Of course, I had to get up way too early and worked my ass off, but those things build character
"star wars - LOTR, etc, will big name actors shun the roles?"
Not when they stand to make a boatload of money.
Since clearly no one is going to bother reading it, here is a relevant sample from the article:
"Laurie Garrett, after all, has a copyright in her written works. One can argue about the terms on which she licensed her email -- she did, after all, send it, without disclaimer, to an undisclosed list of friends -- but the baseline assumption would still be that she retains copyright to her words. Every subsequent forward was a prima facie infringement on her copyright. And by the familiar copyright legal logic of the last few years, she should -- in theory -- be able to cease-and-desist her way into having that letter redacted from every web site, deleted from every errant inbox.
To state this possibility is to refute it. From Garrett's perspective, the damage is already done. None of the unkind comments will be retracted, no one who has read the letter will unread it. Cease-and-desist letters are a great way to lose old friends and make new enemies. An email is so small, so easy to encode and disguise, so close to a pure meme, that she doesn't stand a chance even of identifying all the copies out there, let alone of enjoining them out of existence. Copyright law is not about to solve Laurie Garrett's problems. It's just the wrong tool for the job."
There is more, too - a lot more. I'll say again that this is something you should read if you are even remotely interested in the topic.
For the billionth time RTFA.. This point (and many other interesing ideas/questions/comments) are brought up in the _very_ insightful article by James Grimmelmann. Furthermore, he goes into more thought provoking depth about this issue and brings up some points you may not have thought of yet.
Trust me, this is one you definitely want to read if you are even mildly intested in this topic.
Or maybe you're just a troll..
Oh well, I'll light the fuse and burn in my own karma.
When the dupe story directly follows the original story. We came so close this time!!
It will happen. Its only a matter of time.
Another important point is this:
The worm spread around the entire globe in minutes. And Symmantec didn't know about the worm in advance, they are simply saying that they knew about it before anyone else. (Which other posters have pointed out is BS - apparently journalists and corporate managers don't understand time zones)
Which leaves us with this simple fact: even if a sysadmin had gotten and read symmantec's message immediately, it is unlikely they would have had time to block the port and/or patch their server in time anyway! They may have already been hit in the time it took them to read the virus alert.
The fact that symmantec noticed it was happening is hardly surprising, they make money by detecting and stopping viruses. Of course they would notice when a ton of traffic on a certain port started inundating the internet.
This whole story is a load of crap. Hopefully wired will be more do a little more research in the future into the stories they display, but somehow I doubt it.
If it displays e-books, which the article suggests it will, count me in. A $40 e-book reader? Even if it did nothing else it'd be worth it for some of us who have GBAs, but haven't gotten a PDA yet.
Unfortunately I'll probably have to wait until at least 2005 before having any chance of buying one.
The issues with doing this:
:)
It can't do PVR. (Crowd groans)
You currently need a xbox mod chip.
If they can get all the functionality working without having to mod chip the xbox, as they say they will soon, it'll still be pretty cool. And I'll be sure to install it on my xbox