I signed up on the class action suit against MS (in CA) and still have not gotten anything (they were supposed to mail it). Some good winning a lawsuit against these guys does.
I enlisted in the Air Force for 4 years. I had a guaranteed job of Computer Operations Technician. People in this career field generally do basic PC repair, networking, help desk, and communications center staffing. Lucky me, I spent most of my time in the comm center "monitoring" computers all hours of the night. It was basically 2.5 years of 12 hour shifts.
I also spent 6 months in computer security. It was interesting, but basically all we did after the schooling was make sure base unclassified systems were "compliant." It was a bogus check and a real waste of time, since we weren't granted access to the systems in question. We basically had to take the owner's word on whether they installed all the patches, etc.
The nice thing is that I spent the down time learning perl, php, mysql, etc., and now I've got a good web development job. But most people there weren't so motivated (and thus, are still in and making $1500/month gross).
I also spent 4 months in England doing network support. It was the most fun I had during those 6 months.
So in short, the training was bad, the job was bad, and virtually nobody in my squadron knew wtf they were talking about. I guess that's why the squadron was decommissioned a few years ago!
I think they outsourced everything to civilian contractors (except the 24 hour comm center, of course!).
Now the spammers can use this perl script to get around all my spam filters... until we can find a way to teach the computer how to figure out the word even if it has scrambled middle middle letters. Unless someone makes a spam filter that requires >50% of words to be spelled correctly... 'course, I may get too many false-positives in that case!
On top of that, your core audience is people who have old versions of the original project and aren't willing to upgrade to the new "official" version.
Stop selling all those hotmail addresses to spammers, that might help reduce spam!
Seriously, it's like the phone company. They sell your phone number to a zillion telemarketing lists and then they charge you to buy a box that blocks telemarketers (as if they're doing you some huge favor by offering it). They are profiting on both sides here, it's disgusting.
The question is about teaching in a classroom that has a bunch of computers, not about teaching over the internet. The question is asking: "What can I do to take advantage of the computers that will be in front of every student?"
Let's assume for a while that someone from inside IBM actually did take code directly from something SCO owned but IBM was leasing. Let's also assume that SCO has browsed the cvs commits (or whatever source control linux uses) and can prove that it was someone from inside IBM that actually did the copying.
If SCO can't be held responsible for releasing linux (and thus their own code that was copied into linux) under the GPL, how the hell can IBM as a company be held responsible for something illegal that an employee of theirs did? Why are they going after the company instead of the person who actually did the commits? How do we know he did it while at work, as opposed to on his free time?
Shouldn't the goal of any lawsuit be to remove the offending code from linux? I'm sure a ton of people would be willing to rewrite something similar for linux to make this all go away.
It just seems silly... The police don't go after my employer if I get a speeding ticket. They wouldn't blame my employer if I stole some code they had licensed from someone else and put it on the internet (they would blame me!). Unless, of course, they somehow have proof that this was a company sponsored action (which I doubt), or they could prove negligence.
And have yet another something sitting in her systray taking up cpu cycles? No thanks. After I removed all the crap from there, her computer booted in 30 seconds (up from 3 minutes). Yes, it works flawlessly with Flash and Java. Obviously, it won't work with activeX plugins. IE is always there if she needs it, but to save the frustration on 99% of the sites she visits, she loves it.
I still contend that the reason *most* people don't switch browsers is because they simply don't know that other (better) alternatives exist.
My girlfriends friend, who is also a girl, was having problems with her Windows computer. I went over to her house, fixed all her windows problems, and when I was making sure her cable modem worked, I opened up IE. The default home page was the cable company's home page with **5** popup windows. I asked her very politely if she liked popup windows. She of course said "hell no." I told her I could install a browser that was small, fast, and didn't accept popups. She was very, very surprised that there was such a thing. I installed MozillaFirebird and put a shortcut on her desktop called "Better Internet Browser." Her whole family now uses it.
The browser wars will only be over when everyone agrees on what a "better browser" is.
The book publishers will realize that they can make more money by licensing the book content similar to how MS licenses software. So when you buy a book, you will have to agree to a license agreement before you open the package. At that point, they will prohibit you from re-distributing it more than once (again, similar to MS license agreements). You are, of course, free to use said book to start your camp fire.
I have lived in Mason County since 1990 or so. Mason County is the poorest county in Washington. They have been advertising this service for years and have yet to deliver. Mason county has a very small population, and the few areas that this service is actually available are "downtown" in these little ho-dunk towns that got their first mcdonalds just a few years ago. The downtown businesses are a hardware store, some antique (junk) shops, some bars, a pet salon... not much else. A bunch of gas stations. A few weeks ago we got our first chain pizza place (a papa murphey's). Hell, look at their map of areas that are covered:
Do you realize that that's a SINGLE road? Do you have any idea how few people live along that stretch of road? Look to the upper left of that map, where the big group of streets are all clustered - that's where people actually live. This isn't for the consumer -- it's paid for by our taxes (well, higher electricity bills), but only available to maybe 1% of the population in the county. I think the county would have appreicated lower electricity bills more than a fiber connection that's nothing but a pipe dream.
Hell, I was surprised that they were offering cable internet in my neighborhood... They advertise it and promote it, but guess what? I've been waiting for over a month for a "servicability" survey (which was supposed to take 3 business days). Please don't let your community model their infrastructure and service on that of mason county.
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is my all-time favorite author. About half his stuff is fantasy, but the really good sci-fi includes:
The Parafaith War Gravity Dreams Timegod's World
Another AWESOME sci-fi author is Michael Flynn. He has one series that deals with near-future space exploration. The first book is 'Firestar' but I don't remember the rest of them offhand. They were all excellent.
If you like science fiction you should check you 'Firestar' by Michael Flynn. It addresses the social and economic impact of near-future space exploration. It deals a lot with figuring out what to do in case of an asteroid on a collision course with earth.
What about a decent software installer/uninstaller? On Linux, every time I install some software from source, it places various files/configs/links/etc. all over the system. If I don't like the software, how the hell do I get rid of it? I can't. I try to find all the files it installed all over the place, but 99% of the time, I end up running across related files a month later when I'm working on something else.
How about *this* for a concept: install all the files related to that program in a directory created just for that program! That way, if I don't like it, I can just delete the damn thing.
The biggest problem with all the PHP books out there is that they don't talk about software design or good coding practice. They show you some syntax and some functions and leave you on your way. Most do not discuss things like database abstraction, HTML templates, or even object-oriented programming. Without thought to design considerations such as these, most PHP programs end up being hacks full of HTML code mixed with PHP code mixed with native database calls. This might be well and good for a small script on a personal site, but when you're talking about a commercial-grade application, you really need to have all this separate. You can't expect someone to learn PHP just to change the design of their web site which uses your PHP scripts.
Don't do it! I joined the Air Force and I was guaranteed a "computer" job. At that time, they had two computer fields - "operator" and "programmer" - I'm pretty sure they don't have programmers anymore. Most people just joining get stuck at a communications center (which is basically the manual processing of email) or answering calls at a help desk. It's not worth wasting 4 years of your life in HOPES that you'll get a decent gig once you get assigned somewhere.
Does anybody else remember valve's last effort called PowerPlay? It promised to make gaming over dialup as good as gaming over broadband... As far as I know, only one ISP ever came out with "support" for PowerPlay and it was generally a big flop (because it didn't DO anything?). Run a search at Bluesnews.com news for "PowerPlay" and you'll read about all the hype... but nothing ever came of it.
As for steam, I'm always wary of this server-side stuff, especially in gaming (where there's really no point). What does this do? Well, when your internet connection goes down (and it happens a lot around here), you don't get to play? What a sham.
I've been disabling flash plugins in all my browsers for a year now - plus I use Opera so I never deal with popups. I can stand regular banners, even the big ones down the sides of sites nowadays, but the intrusive ones never show up - and I've still never found anything so good that makes me want to re-enable the nightmare that is flash.
No no, those at the top have been there a long time (depending on what you search for). The boxes in question (at least, the ones referenced as the "right side" are pictured here:
http://www.google.com/ads/images/ads-homepage.gi f
Looks like that option is down, because a week ago I searched for "snowboard" and got 5 boxes down the right hand side, now I can't get any to show up... strange.
This is such a non-issue. They're not intermingling these sponsored links among your search results - rather, they're completely separate from the content (as they've always been). This doesn't affect users of the service, it affects advertisers (who may have to pay more to be listed at the top of the RIGHT HAND COLUMN). Big deal.
1. How many of the Linux vulnerabilities are in services that aren't linux? IE: sendmail, apache, ftp servers, and whatnot? Just because something is packaged with linux doesn't make it linux. Do the windows bugs count IE bugs and every other MS software running on the system? What about other packaged software such as AOL and whatever other links they provide?
2. Sheer number of vulnerabilities mean nothing - are they counting the severity of the vulnerabilities?
3. Are they counting the time it took before A) someone discovered the vulnerability and B) a patch was issued?
4. If there are comparable numbers of linux vs. win2k servers out there, which actually had more break-ins? (This question not valid if there is a wide gap in numbers since then the lower of the two probably benefits from that "security through obscurity").
5. I think having full source code availability leads to people actually FINDING the bugs, whereas Windows could have way more, but we don't know about them unless people are actually TRYING to crack the system (as opposed to finding them working on source or whatever).
According to their web site, a phone is required to operate the machine. So you're telling me it's possible to just buy it, not pay a monthly fee, and never plug it to the phone line?
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I signed up on the class action suit against MS (in CA) and still have not gotten anything (they were supposed to mail it). Some good winning a lawsuit against these guys does.
I enlisted in the Air Force for 4 years. I had a guaranteed job of Computer Operations Technician. People in this career field generally do basic PC repair, networking, help desk, and communications center staffing. Lucky me, I spent most of my time in the comm center "monitoring" computers all hours of the night. It was basically 2.5 years of 12 hour shifts.
I also spent 6 months in computer security. It was interesting, but basically all we did after the schooling was make sure base unclassified systems were "compliant." It was a bogus check and a real waste of time, since we weren't granted access to the systems in question. We basically had to take the owner's word on whether they installed all the patches, etc.
The nice thing is that I spent the down time learning perl, php, mysql, etc., and now I've got a good web development job. But most people there weren't so motivated (and thus, are still in and making $1500/month gross).
I also spent 4 months in England doing network support. It was the most fun I had during those 6 months.
So in short, the training was bad, the job was bad, and virtually nobody in my squadron knew wtf they were talking about. I guess that's why the squadron was decommissioned a few years ago!
I think they outsourced everything to civilian contractors (except the 24 hour comm center, of course!).
Now the spammers can use this perl script to get around all my spam filters... until we can find a way to teach the computer how to figure out the word even if it has scrambled middle middle letters. Unless someone makes a spam filter that requires >50% of words to be spelled correctly... 'course, I may get too many false-positives in that case!
On top of that, your core audience is people who have old versions of the original project and aren't willing to upgrade to the new "official" version.
Stop selling all those hotmail addresses to spammers, that might help reduce spam!
Seriously, it's like the phone company. They sell your phone number to a zillion telemarketing lists and then they charge you to buy a box that blocks telemarketers (as if they're doing you some huge favor by offering it). They are profiting on both sides here, it's disgusting.
The question is about teaching in a classroom that has a bunch of computers, not about teaching over the internet. The question is asking: "What can I do to take advantage of the computers that will be in front of every student?"
Let's assume for a while that someone from inside IBM actually did take code directly from something SCO owned but IBM was leasing. Let's also assume that SCO has browsed the cvs commits (or whatever source control linux uses) and can prove that it was someone from inside IBM that actually did the copying.
If SCO can't be held responsible for releasing linux (and thus their own code that was copied into linux) under the GPL, how the hell can IBM as a company be held responsible for something illegal that an employee of theirs did? Why are they going after the company instead of the person who actually did the commits? How do we know he did it while at work, as opposed to on his free time?
Shouldn't the goal of any lawsuit be to remove the offending code from linux? I'm sure a ton of people would be willing to rewrite something similar for linux to make this all go away.
It just seems silly... The police don't go after my employer if I get a speeding ticket. They wouldn't blame my employer if I stole some code they had licensed from someone else and put it on the internet (they would blame me!). Unless, of course, they somehow have proof that this was a company sponsored action (which I doubt), or they could prove negligence.
Ah well, what a big mess.
And have yet another something sitting in her systray taking up cpu cycles? No thanks. After I removed all the crap from there, her computer booted in 30 seconds (up from 3 minutes). Yes, it works flawlessly with Flash and Java. Obviously, it won't work with activeX plugins. IE is always there if she needs it, but to save the frustration on 99% of the sites she visits, she loves it.
I still contend that the reason *most* people don't switch browsers is because they simply don't know that other (better) alternatives exist.
It's not her bookmark, it's the default set by the cable company when you install their software...
My girlfriends friend, who is also a girl, was having problems with her Windows computer. I went over to her house, fixed all her windows problems, and when I was making sure her cable modem worked, I opened up IE. The default home page was the cable company's home page with **5** popup windows. I asked her very politely if she liked popup windows. She of course said "hell no." I told her I could install a browser that was small, fast, and didn't accept popups. She was very, very surprised that there was such a thing. I installed MozillaFirebird and put a shortcut on her desktop called "Better Internet Browser." Her whole family now uses it.
The browser wars will only be over when everyone agrees on what a "better browser" is.
The book publishers will realize that they can make more money by licensing the book content similar to how MS licenses software. So when you buy a book, you will have to agree to a license agreement before you open the package. At that point, they will prohibit you from re-distributing it more than once (again, similar to MS license agreements). You are, of course, free to use said book to start your camp fire.
I have lived in Mason County since 1990 or so. Mason County is the poorest county in Washington. They have been advertising this service for years and have yet to deliver. Mason county has a very small population, and the few areas that this service is actually available are "downtown" in these little ho-dunk towns that got their first mcdonalds just a few years ago. The downtown businesses are a hardware store, some antique (junk) shops, some bars, a pet salon... not much else. A bunch of gas stations. A few weeks ago we got our first chain pizza place (a papa murphey's). Hell, look at their map of areas that are covered:
m ap .jpg
http://www.masonpud3.org/Telecom/Where/Belfair-
Do you realize that that's a SINGLE road? Do you have any idea how few people live along that stretch of road? Look to the upper left of that map, where the big group of streets are all clustered - that's where people actually live. This isn't for the consumer -- it's paid for by our taxes (well, higher electricity bills), but only available to maybe 1% of the population in the county. I think the county would have appreicated lower electricity bills more than a fiber connection that's nothing but a pipe dream.
Hell, I was surprised that they were offering cable internet in my neighborhood... They advertise it and promote it, but guess what? I've been waiting for over a month for a "servicability" survey (which was supposed to take 3 business days). Please don't let your community model their infrastructure and service on that of mason county.
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is my all-time favorite author. About half his stuff is fantasy, but the really good sci-fi includes:
The Parafaith War
Gravity Dreams
Timegod's World
Another AWESOME sci-fi author is Michael Flynn. He has one series that deals with near-future space exploration. The first book is 'Firestar' but I don't remember the rest of them offhand. They were all excellent.
If you like science fiction you should check you 'Firestar' by Michael Flynn. It addresses the social and economic impact of near-future space exploration. It deals a lot with figuring out what to do in case of an asteroid on a collision course with earth.
What about a decent software installer/uninstaller? On Linux, every time I install some software from source, it places various files/configs/links/etc. all over the system. If I don't like the software, how the hell do I get rid of it? I can't. I try to find all the files it installed all over the place, but 99% of the time, I end up running across related files a month later when I'm working on something else.
How about *this* for a concept: install all the files related to that program in a directory created just for that program! That way, if I don't like it, I can just delete the damn thing.
The biggest problem with all the PHP books out there is that they don't talk about software design or good coding practice. They show you some syntax and some functions and leave you on your way. Most do not discuss things like database abstraction, HTML templates, or even object-oriented programming. Without thought to design considerations such as these, most PHP programs end up being hacks full of HTML code mixed with PHP code mixed with native database calls. This might be well and good for a small script on a personal site, but when you're talking about a commercial-grade application, you really need to have all this separate. You can't expect someone to learn PHP just to change the design of their web site which uses your PHP scripts.
Crap, sorry. When I made the comment, it said ZERO posts on this on the front page... or else I wouldn't have put it again...
Are these from this year? The movies seem old :P
**WARNING: SPOILERS**
Best Male:
WINNER Will Smith Ali
Best Female:
WINNER Nicole Kidman Moulin Rouge!
Best Team:
WINNER The Fast and the Furious Vin Diesel, Paul Walker
Best Villain:
WINNER Denzel Washington Training Day
Best Musical Sequence:
WINNER Moulin Rouge! Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman
Best Kiss:
WINNER American Pie 2 Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott
Best Action Sequence:
WINNER Pearl Harbor The Attack Scene
Best Fight:
WINNER Rush Hour 2 Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan versus The Hong Kong Gang
Best Breakthrough Male (whatever that means):
WINNER Orlando Bloom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Breakthrough Female:
WINNER Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember
Best Movie:
WINNER The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Don't do it! I joined the Air Force and I was guaranteed a "computer" job. At that time, they had two computer fields - "operator" and "programmer" - I'm pretty sure they don't have programmers anymore. Most people just joining get stuck at a communications center (which is basically the manual processing of email) or answering calls at a help desk. It's not worth wasting 4 years of your life in HOPES that you'll get a decent gig once you get assigned somewhere.
Does anybody else remember valve's last effort called PowerPlay? It promised to make gaming over dialup as good as gaming over broadband... As far as I know, only one ISP ever came out with "support" for PowerPlay and it was generally a big flop (because it didn't DO anything?). Run a search at Bluesnews.com news for "PowerPlay" and you'll read about all the hype... but nothing ever came of it.
As for steam, I'm always wary of this server-side stuff, especially in gaming (where there's really no point). What does this do? Well, when your internet connection goes down (and it happens a lot around here), you don't get to play? What a sham.
I've been disabling flash plugins in all my browsers for a year now - plus I use Opera so I never deal with popups. I can stand regular banners, even the big ones down the sides of sites nowadays, but the intrusive ones never show up - and I've still never found anything so good that makes me want to re-enable the nightmare that is flash.
No no, those at the top have been there a long time (depending on what you search for). The boxes in question (at least, the ones referenced as the "right side" are pictured here:
i f
http://www.google.com/ads/images/ads-homepage.g
Looks like that option is down, because a week ago I searched for "snowboard" and got 5 boxes down the right hand side, now I can't get any to show up... strange.
This is such a non-issue. They're not intermingling these sponsored links among your search results - rather, they're completely separate from the content (as they've always been). This doesn't affect users of the service, it affects advertisers (who may have to pay more to be listed at the top of the RIGHT HAND COLUMN). Big deal.
1. How many of the Linux vulnerabilities are in services that aren't linux? IE: sendmail, apache, ftp servers, and whatnot? Just because something is packaged with linux doesn't make it linux. Do the windows bugs count IE bugs and every other MS software running on the system? What about other packaged software such as AOL and whatever other links they provide?
2. Sheer number of vulnerabilities mean nothing - are they counting the severity of the vulnerabilities?
3. Are they counting the time it took before A) someone discovered the vulnerability and B) a patch was issued?
4. If there are comparable numbers of linux vs. win2k servers out there, which actually had more break-ins? (This question not valid if there is a wide gap in numbers since then the lower of the two probably benefits from that "security through obscurity").
5. I think having full source code availability leads to people actually FINDING the bugs, whereas Windows could have way more, but we don't know about them unless people are actually TRYING to crack the system (as opposed to finding them working on source or whatever).
According to their web site, a phone is required to operate the machine. So you're telling me it's possible to just buy it, not pay a monthly fee, and never plug it to the phone line?