Aparently the trolls have mod points today, as someone found a troll post insightful.
Back up your data. If you're not smart enough to know that, you're not really qualified to have a conversation on this subject. In fact, you're not really qualified to discuss anything related to technology.
Out of curiousity, when you buy direct from an artist as opposed to buying a CD, what format do you get it in? Do they come play it in your living room? And what do you do to ensure a fire or theft doesn't remove your access to the CDs?
Unlike some games *cough*doom*cough*, I think the Halo "universe" and story has enough depth to make a real good, real interesting movie. There's more to it than running around blowing shit up in the dark.
Now, that said, they probably won't touch on any of that. But it could happen.
That must use dilithium crystals to push warp plasma through etched conduits to cause a graviton compression wave creating a warp field bubble at each black pixel, forming a microscopic black hole ensuring the pixel is perfectly black.
Seriously though, I close my eyes and things aren't perfectly black, so I'm not sure 10^6:1 is all that useful.
You do realize there are more than one group at Microsoft, and not all of them have the same priorities, right?
Its funny how some people fixate on this PS3 vs XBox360 thing, as if it matters in the slightest in this debate.
According to a quick google search, 42 million PS2 consoles worldwide.
14 million XBox. Worldwide.
There are over 90 million DVD players. *IN THE US ALONE*
None of these companies cares in the least about the TINY market for game consoles as compared to the sales of pre-recorded media and standalone players.
Well, by "they" I mean our presidential candidate... wait, I mean governor... aparently wants to buy them for all the students in MA schools.
Of course, he's really just campaigning right now, not really trying to do anything in MA so it'll never happen, but they did mention it on the news this morning.
Read up on the history of the shuttle program, and what alternatives were dumped in favor of it. Make note that they knew perfectly well the numbers they were telling congress for flight costs were wrong.
Then read up on the history of the ISS. A lot of people here were probably not born when they first started making those plans, and don't remember the fiasco around it -- the ISS has been a political project that was known was going to never be productive since day one. Its a technical corporate welfare program meant to keep defense contractors in business, really nothing more. They've known for a decade it would never get constructed to the size required to do productive science, but science was the bedtime story told to the American public to keep support for it.
Some people tend to look at the manned space program through rose-tinted glasses and think everything is so romantic, man in space. Its been a collossal failure since the end of Apollo, and from a science standpoint even Apollo was really a failure. NASA and the Government killed the program once the political goal of beating the Soviets was done -- science was never a primary goal, or even in the top ten. Even Skylab was intended to develop technologies with military use.
NASA, in general, has always been better at non-manned science. You get 100x your bang for your buck doing that, so thats a good decision on their part. The problem is more the public's misguided belief that the manned space program existed for anything more than military applications and keeping companies critical to the defense industry afloat. Science is just the shiny thing to keep the public's ADD distracted from the real motivations.
If China wasn't rattling its space saber right now, Bush wouldn't be getting a boner over getting man back on the moon. Its not a coincidence its planned to use so much of the Shuttle components -- the research is done on them, and production of those components are pure profit for the contractors that build them.
Liberal arts is about teaching you how to think. It always has been. One can argue most science degrees are the same.
An engineering degree is about one thing -- the technical details you learn. There's already an assumption you can think going into that sort of program. Thats true of software engineering just as it is of chemical or mechanical engineering -- you have specific things you must know to do that job, and specific skills you must have.
Now Slashdot has always seemed heavily biased towards the "software rockstar", dynamic language, bang this out, I'm so great kind of crowd... those people are by very definition not engineers, so I suspect the majority here don't necessarily see how important the specific skills and procedures that the word "engineer" brings with it, but they're there. Those of us who spend our professional lives designing the systems the engineers are building, however, can immediately tell the difference between the two.
I'm sorry your professor convinced you that "thinking" was the point of your engineering degree. While it may not have obviously affected you, thats probably not true of everyone.
The issue is.NET 1.1 and the java web services stacks have different defaults when it comes to structuring a web services message -- Java stacks are RPC-oriented, Microsofts are (correctly) doc/lit oriented. Websphere's stack has the same issue the Axis stack and other Java stacks have. (In fact, I haven't looked, it may be Axis)
The WS security interoperability and general inability for Java and.NET to pass collections over SOAP are problems that are fixed with a combination of Axis 2 and.NET 2, so I suspect that this is mostly a PR annoucement on both sides. Hibernate already works well with SQL server, so my guess is thats nothing more than them assisting with SQL Server 2005 support.
No, you've just made the common mistake (on Slashdot) of replacing "illegal" with "not illegal".
When you break the law stealing from a store, you're still breaking the law violating copyright. Just like you're breaking the law if you jaywalk, spit on the sidewalk in many New England towns or murder someone.
Your opinion of what ought to be illegal and what ought to not be illegal is, suprising to say, irrelevant, particularly in the eyes of, say, the courts.
While I may agree with you that the RIAA actions are rediculous, they're in fact both perfectly legal and in fact their responsibility -- they are an organization that represents the publishers and by proxy, the artists. Their sole reason for existing is to do precisely this. As such, you can't fault them for that -- fault the members of the RIAA for creating an organization and mandating it protect their assets if you want to fault someone.
Actually I think the real issue for who computing is "de-geeking" is not because people are being trained on the EZ-2-USE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF THE WEEK, its because the hard number of truely qualified engineers hasn't really changed in the last 30 years. The number of people in IT may be ten times higher, but 90% of people who claim to be engineeers have fundamental (and fatal, from a professional standpoint) gaps in their experience, and make an assumption that those in the 10% who stick with the tried and true and scoff at newer "fads" are "dinosaurs". (hello? AOP? What real engineer doesn't get the heeby-jeebies from the thought of a "typical" engineer pointing THAT gun at their head?)
Give it ten or fifteen years and you'll start to see the problem that represents is a lot more serious than you even thought. There's a fundamental problem in software engineering today with people understanding what the real priorities must be when writing software. Too many people want to blame that on the "PHB", which is a deliberately degrading way of putting down people who have a different set of priorities than the engineers.
The problem the older employees have isn't a culture where the company doesnt' value their expertise, its that they, by the mere fact they're still doing technical work, stayed out of management... and their managers are probably engineers from that 90% pool that didn't "get it" when they were writing software and definitely don't get it once promoted. And those managers are responsible for communicating their needs and priorities up the chain.
To be more accurate, game consoles are sold at a loss. Cell phones are not sold at a loss. Verizon and Cingular may sell them to the customer at a loss, but they're not the ones building the phone. Nokia, SE and Motorola do not sell them at a loss.
If you're talking about physical goods sold at a loss by a third party service provider, there are lots of other examples beyond cell phones of that -- satellite resellers, some of the "free PC" companies, the satellite radio companies, etc.
It'll probably take a bit longer than that. The oldies at the local ARRL club which administered the test when I got mine clearly took their merry time submitting the paperwork. It was a number of weeks before I got mine.
I've barely used my license. I have my Yaseu 5R but none of my local friends or family have their licenses, so it doesn't get used much. Mostly when working races, or if I'm going somewhere I know there's no cell coverage (like my basement, thanks Cingular!) I'll bring it with me just-in-case.
I have two cars. One doesn't go out even when it rains, much less some emergency going on. There's pleanty of power sources around to keep a little Yaseu radio powered.
If civilization itself is melting down, I think I'll have other concerns...
While there may be value to hearing whats going on in an emergency, I'd be able to actually call for help should I need it.
A technicians-class FCC license is very easy to get, and small handheld tranceivers are not very expensive.
Thats MUCH more useful in an emergency than a TV. I can hear the weater broadcasts, radio, and emergency bands and much more usefully, I can actually transmit.
Not to discredit the people playing around with that at MIT or anything... but claiming a little robot climbing up a ribbon is a test of the technology needed for a space elevator is sort of like standing in a parking lot with one of those pneumatic water-filled plastic rockets we all had when we were kids and claiming it was the first test of the technology you need to go to the moon.
Technically correct, but so far from the finish line, I'm not sure its really fair to claim it as progress.
As a math teacher, it may not be as obvious to you, but as someone who learned trigonometry in school and isn't a math teacher now I can say for certain. When people say they'll never use that in the real world, they're absolutely right.
Now sometimes while slogging through my day, paying bills, shopping, working and things like that I sometimes say "Man I really should calculate the cosine of this electric bill", but as of yet I haven't been harmed by not actually doing that.
You have no right to access, and I have no obligation to ensure you have it.
And cellular service would get excellent if there just plain wasn't copper.
I've been in rural China and seen farmers standing in the middle of rice paddies a hundred miles from any town of any significance chatting away on their cell phones. Their cell phones they get 3G internet access over, as well. (That was a shocker, finding satellite TV and computers in cinder block houses that didn't even have windows!)
Thats how much of the world works where you either have very low population density or didn't have legacy infrastructure.
I think I got moderated into oblivion last time the USF came up on here, but I'm going to reply again and take my chances again.
The USF is an outmoded concept and should be eliminated. It was a tolerable idea in the time where the only option to get communications into rural locations was physically running expensive wires. Now we have satellite, cellular, cable and other sources for telecommunications.
Yes, maybe your phone service will cost you $100/month and your internet $200/month in rural farm country Kansas. Maybe phone and internet together runs someone in downtown Boston $30/month. The people in Kansas need to get over it. Their houses don't cost $1000/sq ft either. The cost of living in a city is high, but your access to everything is very easy. Your cost of living in the country is low, and your access to everything may also be expensive. Thats the trade-off. People who choose one lifestyle over another should not have any requirement to support those who made the other choice or be supported by those who made the other choice. Thats just rediculous.
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Aparently the trolls have mod points today, as someone found a troll post insightful.
Back up your data. If you're not smart enough to know that, you're not really qualified to have a conversation on this subject. In fact, you're not really qualified to discuss anything related to technology.
Out of curiousity, when you buy direct from an artist as opposed to buying a CD, what format do you get it in? Do they come play it in your living room? And what do you do to ensure a fire or theft doesn't remove your access to the CDs?
Unlike some games *cough*doom*cough*, I think the Halo "universe" and story has enough depth to make a real good, real interesting movie. There's more to it than running around blowing shit up in the dark.
Now, that said, they probably won't touch on any of that. But it could happen.
That must use dilithium crystals to push warp plasma through etched conduits to cause a graviton compression wave creating a warp field bubble at each black pixel, forming a microscopic black hole ensuring the pixel is perfectly black.
Seriously though, I close my eyes and things aren't perfectly black, so I'm not sure 10^6:1 is all that useful.
You do realize there are more than one group at Microsoft, and not all of them have the same priorities, right?
Its funny how some people fixate on this PS3 vs XBox360 thing, as if it matters in the slightest in this debate.
According to a quick google search, 42 million PS2 consoles worldwide.
14 million XBox. Worldwide.
There are over 90 million DVD players. *IN THE US ALONE*
None of these companies cares in the least about the TINY market for game consoles as compared to the sales of pre-recorded media and standalone players.
If you did, you'd know the drinking age is 18 there, which was cause for frequent road trips when I was at RIT.
Well, by "they" I mean our presidential candidate... wait, I mean governor... aparently wants to buy them for all the students in MA schools.
Of course, he's really just campaigning right now, not really trying to do anything in MA so it'll never happen, but they did mention it on the news this morning.
How does tripwire handle detecting something that inserts a kernel module which is working to actively hide itself?
Tripwire depends on the kernel to see the filesystem.
I disagree.
Read up on the history of the shuttle program, and what alternatives were dumped in favor of it. Make note that they knew perfectly well the numbers they were telling congress for flight costs were wrong.
Then read up on the history of the ISS. A lot of people here were probably not born when they first started making those plans, and don't remember the fiasco around it -- the ISS has been a political project that was known was going to never be productive since day one. Its a technical corporate welfare program meant to keep defense contractors in business, really nothing more. They've known for a decade it would never get constructed to the size required to do productive science, but science was the bedtime story told to the American public to keep support for it.
Some people tend to look at the manned space program through rose-tinted glasses and think everything is so romantic, man in space. Its been a collossal failure since the end of Apollo, and from a science standpoint even Apollo was really a failure. NASA and the Government killed the program once the political goal of beating the Soviets was done -- science was never a primary goal, or even in the top ten. Even Skylab was intended to develop technologies with military use.
NASA, in general, has always been better at non-manned science. You get 100x your bang for your buck doing that, so thats a good decision on their part. The problem is more the public's misguided belief that the manned space program existed for anything more than military applications and keeping companies critical to the defense industry afloat. Science is just the shiny thing to keep the public's ADD distracted from the real motivations.
If China wasn't rattling its space saber right now, Bush wouldn't be getting a boner over getting man back on the moon. Its not a coincidence its planned to use so much of the Shuttle components -- the research is done on them, and production of those components are pure profit for the contractors that build them.
Thats bullshit.
Liberal arts is about teaching you how to think. It always has been. One can argue most science degrees are the same.
An engineering degree is about one thing -- the technical details you learn. There's already an assumption you can think going into that sort of program. Thats true of software engineering just as it is of chemical or mechanical engineering -- you have specific things you must know to do that job, and specific skills you must have.
Now Slashdot has always seemed heavily biased towards the "software rockstar", dynamic language, bang this out, I'm so great kind of crowd... those people are by very definition not engineers, so I suspect the majority here don't necessarily see how important the specific skills and procedures that the word "engineer" brings with it, but they're there. Those of us who spend our professional lives designing the systems the engineers are building, however, can immediately tell the difference between the two.
I'm sorry your professor convinced you that "thinking" was the point of your engineering degree. While it may not have obviously affected you, thats probably not true of everyone.
No its not nothing to do with IBM or FOSS.
.NET 1.1 and the java web services stacks have different defaults when it comes to structuring a web services message -- Java stacks are RPC-oriented, Microsofts are (correctly) doc/lit oriented. Websphere's stack has the same issue the Axis stack and other Java stacks have. (In fact, I haven't looked, it may be Axis)
.NET to pass collections over SOAP are problems that are fixed with a combination of Axis 2 and .NET 2, so I suspect that this is mostly a PR annoucement on both sides. Hibernate already works well with SQL server, so my guess is thats nothing more than them assisting with SQL Server 2005 support.
The issue is
The WS security interoperability and general inability for Java and
OT but if you think building inspectors are the good guys, you've clearly never done any major remodelling.
Instead of "unsung hero", lets instead call them "territorial demon-spawn".
And yes, moderators. Thats "insightful" or "funny (in a sad kind of way)" if you've been through that before. "off-topic" if you haven't.
No, you've just made the common mistake (on Slashdot) of replacing "illegal" with "not illegal".
When you break the law stealing from a store, you're still breaking the law violating copyright. Just like you're breaking the law if you jaywalk, spit on the sidewalk in many New England towns or murder someone.
Your opinion of what ought to be illegal and what ought to not be illegal is, suprising to say, irrelevant, particularly in the eyes of, say, the courts.
While I may agree with you that the RIAA actions are rediculous, they're in fact both perfectly legal and in fact their responsibility -- they are an organization that represents the publishers and by proxy, the artists. Their sole reason for existing is to do precisely this. As such, you can't fault them for that -- fault the members of the RIAA for creating an organization and mandating it protect their assets if you want to fault someone.
;-)
Seriously, they talk about that in the article. Its a little bit of modernized hardware in essentially the identical satellite.
Actually I think the real issue for who computing is "de-geeking" is not because people are being trained on the EZ-2-USE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF THE WEEK, its because the hard number of truely qualified engineers hasn't really changed in the last 30 years. The number of people in IT may be ten times higher, but 90% of people who claim to be engineeers have fundamental (and fatal, from a professional standpoint) gaps in their experience, and make an assumption that those in the 10% who stick with the tried and true and scoff at newer "fads" are "dinosaurs". (hello? AOP? What real engineer doesn't get the heeby-jeebies from the thought of a "typical" engineer pointing THAT gun at their head?)
Give it ten or fifteen years and you'll start to see the problem that represents is a lot more serious than you even thought. There's a fundamental problem in software engineering today with people understanding what the real priorities must be when writing software. Too many people want to blame that on the "PHB", which is a deliberately degrading way of putting down people who have a different set of priorities than the engineers.
The problem the older employees have isn't a culture where the company doesnt' value their expertise, its that they, by the mere fact they're still doing technical work, stayed out of management... and their managers are probably engineers from that 90% pool that didn't "get it" when they were writing software and definitely don't get it once promoted. And those managers are responsible for communicating their needs and priorities up the chain.
Forget being the beer baron, I'm going to be the poop baron!
To be more accurate, game consoles are sold at a loss. Cell phones are not sold at a loss. Verizon and Cingular may sell them to the customer at a loss, but they're not the ones building the phone. Nokia, SE and Motorola do not sell them at a loss.
If you're talking about physical goods sold at a loss by a third party service provider, there are lots of other examples beyond cell phones of that -- satellite resellers, some of the "free PC" companies, the satellite radio companies, etc.
It'll probably take a bit longer than that. The oldies at the local ARRL club which administered the test when I got mine clearly took their merry time submitting the paperwork. It was a number of weeks before I got mine.
I've barely used my license. I have my Yaseu 5R but none of my local friends or family have their licenses, so it doesn't get used much. Mostly when working races, or if I'm going somewhere I know there's no cell coverage (like my basement, thanks Cingular!) I'll bring it with me just-in-case.
I have two cars. One doesn't go out even when it rains, much less some emergency going on. There's pleanty of power sources around to keep a little Yaseu radio powered.
If civilization itself is melting down, I think I'll have other concerns...
While there may be value to hearing whats going on in an emergency, I'd be able to actually call for help should I need it.
A technicians-class FCC license is very easy to get, and small handheld tranceivers are not very expensive.
Thats MUCH more useful in an emergency than a TV. I can hear the weater broadcasts, radio, and emergency bands and much more usefully, I can actually transmit.
Phsaw...
Pirate jokes are SOOOO two days ago.
There's cities.
Then there's the burbs
Then there's the rest of the US
Then there's the Bush supporting areas.
Google can cover all the important stuff by hitting the top two.
Not to discredit the people playing around with that at MIT or anything... but claiming a little robot climbing up a ribbon is a test of the technology needed for a space elevator is sort of like standing in a parking lot with one of those pneumatic water-filled plastic rockets we all had when we were kids and claiming it was the first test of the technology you need to go to the moon.
Technically correct, but so far from the finish line, I'm not sure its really fair to claim it as progress.
As a math teacher, it may not be as obvious to you, but as someone who learned trigonometry in school and isn't a math teacher now I can say for certain. When people say they'll never use that in the real world, they're absolutely right.
Now sometimes while slogging through my day, paying bills, shopping, working and things like that I sometimes say "Man I really should calculate the cosine of this electric bill", but as of yet I haven't been harmed by not actually doing that.
Then move.
You have no right to access, and I have no obligation to ensure you have it.
And cellular service would get excellent if there just plain wasn't copper.
I've been in rural China and seen farmers standing in the middle of rice paddies a hundred miles from any town of any significance chatting away on their cell phones. Their cell phones they get 3G internet access over, as well. (That was a shocker, finding satellite TV and computers in cinder block houses that didn't even have windows!)
Thats how much of the world works where you either have very low population density or didn't have legacy infrastructure.
I think I got moderated into oblivion last time the USF came up on here, but I'm going to reply again and take my chances again.
The USF is an outmoded concept and should be eliminated. It was a tolerable idea in the time where the only option to get communications into rural locations was physically running expensive wires. Now we have satellite, cellular, cable and other sources for telecommunications.
Yes, maybe your phone service will cost you $100/month and your internet $200/month in rural farm country Kansas. Maybe phone and internet together runs someone in downtown Boston $30/month. The people in Kansas need to get over it. Their houses don't cost $1000/sq ft either. The cost of living in a city is high, but your access to everything is very easy. Your cost of living in the country is low, and your access to everything may also be expensive. Thats the trade-off. People who choose one lifestyle over another should not have any requirement to support those who made the other choice or be supported by those who made the other choice. Thats just rediculous.