Of course, I'm the opposite of you, the lower that number is, most likely the more I'm enjoying my driving.
I saw it hit 4mpg coming into the back straight at New Hampshire International Speedway last year. That works out to less than three minutes a gallon, on average!:)
I've been using online banking since the whole thing started... using the web for probably seven years, with SFNB (the first online bank, showing off S1's software), to RBC and now RBC/Centura. They've always listed such-and-such browser version requirements, and I've never had a problem using another browser before.
How many banks really *block* a given browser? And if they do, how many really wouldn't work if you masqueraded your user agent?
It sucks that these places don't officially support other browsers, but if anyone here has ever worked on an externally-facing web-based software package, you know that there is just so many combinations of things your QA department can test, and a good company will only say they support those, even if they know others would work. Its not responsible to say you support Mozilla if you've only ever tested Netscape 6, officially.
Why are there still any of these people working for/.? The dot-com boom is over, its easy to fire people these days. Its even easier to find competant replacements.
And yet, time after time the same stories get posted over and over again. Look at your page hits, guys... there's probably 100,000 people who knew this story was posted (yesterday?!). Shitcan all those bumbling idiots who work there, and hire one or two of those hundred thousand people who are unemployed. Quality of this site would go way up, and you'll be helping to prevent any more repeat stories about the meltdown of Generation X.
I have CDR discs I burned seven years ago on my old 1x CDR drive that are still fine today. In fact, I've never had a disc go bad, out of several hundred I've burned since then.
We haven't done enough exploring in this universe to really know the simplest explanation. If life, in fact, arises with some regularity (at least microbial life) throughout the universe, then life may in fact be the simplest explanation. Until we have actually thoroughly investigates enough regions of various planets and moons to determine that even life that functions the way we expect (with chemistries we can see and study here on Earth) does or does not exist with any specific regularity, then you guessing it isn't life is just as meaningless as them guessing it is. In fact, it may be worse odds, since we know for a fact that there are thermophile microbes on Earth that can exist in conditions found on Venus, and would produce those sort of emissions. I would probably argue that Occam's Razor should fall on the assumption that its life, not the assumption its not, since we have specific statistics for the extistance of life that could work that way, and no statistics , and no statistics to suggest it couldn't be.
You have it backwards. Radio carbon dating is good for maybe 40,000 or 50,000 years, nothing older than that. The closer we are to when it died, by a long shot the more accurate the dating is.
This would've been done by dating the strata they were found in. Dating rock strata is a very accurate method of determining age.
Well, although some posts on here have suggested otherwise (hopefull thinking maybe?) college degrees don't mean jack right now -- experience does.
For what its worth, if there is real skills and a good amount of real professional experience (and isn't socially inept), at least here in the Boston area, your friend wouldn't have a problem finding a job. He might have to spend a couple weeks networking and pounding the pavement, but smart companies right now are shedding their dead weight and trading up the quality of their employees. If you're not among the dead weight, its not hard to find work.
The company I work for has had a "hiring freeze" for almost 18 months now, but it hasn't stopped some very good tech people from being hired. Its funny, I think a lot of companies are just starting to realize that now is the time to solve the problem they had for years of finding decent employees.
I think another part of the problem is a lot of GenX'ers don't realize that you actually have to work to find a job. For half a decade it was "send a resume, get a job". Virtually everyone I know who spent more than a month or two unemployed did not consider their unemployment and job search as important as a full-time job. They did not spend fixed hours, 40 or more a week networking, sending out resumes, calling companies, etc. Those who did, and weren't trying to get a position they weren't qualified for had no problem finding more work.
Well, for some techies...
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Flame suit on here, because this certainly isn't true of everyone, but people on/. tend to flame first and think later...
There was a certain size population of well-off, well-paid tech workers in existance well before the dot-com explosion. Tech work at that point took a reasonable amount of experience and skill. Not necessarily formal education, but skill sets were generally acceptable, and people were well paid.
I don't think the number of people in those positions is any lower now than it was pre-bubble. In fact, I think the number is quite a bit bigger. There are hundreds of thousands of tech workers right now who are not feeling the pinch of a "depression" or "recession".
What you see, particularly on places like/., is an extremely vocal majority of the pool of tech workers who only had jobs because of the bubble. In the peak of the internet craze, the quality of your average tech worker was in the toilet. These coffee-slingers-come-Java-developers were still only really qualified for coffee slinging. Every joe-blow who sent out a resume because they read HTML For Dummies wasn't a qualified web developer. As we all saw, every tech visionary wasn't a qualified CTO. There were an order of magnitude more unqualified people in high paying positions than there were qualified people.
When the bubble burst, there were a lot of people who thought that a position they once had was still owed to them because of their "experience" and "history". But, the fact is that when push comes to shove, they didn't have real marketable skills. Anyone who has hired anyone in the last year or two has seen that -- 100 B.S. resumes come over your desk for every qualified one, and for the most part those qualified people are not having any problem finding jobs.
Now, again, before people start to flame like crazy, thats not true of everyone. People who were truely talented web developers, for example, are still having a hard time. Companies can't easily pick the gems out of the rest of the dirt, and some of the people who really are qualified aren't going a good job networking with people who know that, or selling themselves. But most of my friends who have lost their jobs in the last two years and haven't been able to find anything, honestly aren't as qualified as they think they are. One or two are, but they are in the vast minority.
Thats the real shock that most people are having -- that they really aren't as good as they and others spent four years telling them. They don't understand that you 99% of people can't be a senior anything with just two years of experience... They still are shooting way too high in their job search, and aren't realizing that there are people out there who are looking (and finding with little trouble) who *are* qualified.
Bone head jobs have the most job security because they aren't filled with people who think they are more important than they are.
Um, I was under the impression that "blogs" (what a stupid name that is) were trendy and cool four years ago, but are just derivative sources of meaningless drivel these days.
Do people actually still read and write these things?
So what does it mean if I'm still using an Mach32 card?
Undelete on linux isn't something new...
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Back in like '94 a friend of mine in school wrote an Ext2 undelete program, which of course I no longer can find online... He doesn't have it listed on his webpage any more.
I'm sitting here using my computer at work over Remote Desktop (yes, stuck using Windows crap, but as Windows goes, this remote desktop stuff is pretty trick). Wireless network is pretty much pegged between this and local stuff. I'm showing solid green (excellent signal), and I'm sitting here on my DSSS 2.4ghz cordless phone.
Now maybe if there were other phones or something in the area it'd be a problem, but I'm just not seeing it.
Unfortunately the link to the bugzilla entry about it is bookmarked on my computer at work, not here at home.
I was thought it might make it into 1.1, and will likely make it into 1.2. It doesn't appear to be in the alpha release, but the bug still says they're targeting 1.2 for it.
This may be obvious to some people, but I've had a whole pot of coffee this morning, and my brain is running past concepts too fast to actually figure anything out.
Is this doing anything special with the access point to make this work? I'm in the process of reconfiguring my wireless network at home because I have a need now to have wireless access to my internal network from a bridged lan, instead of the current setup which has the hub in a DMZ.
Right now its basically Linksys firewall/gateway onto a DMZ network, through a locked down linux box to the internal network, so I use SSH to get to internal boxes, and a couple services are accessed via SSL links using port forwarding. The wireless hub is in that network, so I have to SSH to internal boxes, which is fine because I don't use the wireless for anything but surfing 99% of the time.
In my new house, however, I need to bridge two different seperated internal networks, because its turned out to be a huge mess to try to run ethernet cables between my second floor office and the devices on the first floor that don't support wireless (Tivo, WebPlayers, Rio Players, etc). My plan had been to use FreeSWAN to run an IPSEC VLAN between the two subnets, so all the boxes in the office sit behind a wireless gateway, connected through the firewall thats plugged into the access point downstairs, to get access to the internal network on the first floor.
So my question, related to this article, is this... Would a box like this be easier to use, or would it be better to just find a linux-compatible PCI wireless card and pop it in whatever box is running the IPSEC tunnels upstairs? Has anyone seen any write ups of building a network with this sort of topology? (I'm wondering about any gotchas I'm not thinking of right now...)
This would be a lot easier if the joists between floors in my condo weren't two sandwiched 2x12's, preventing any possibility of running wires between floors through the walls...
It seems pretty obvious he's talking about why the hell a 1600x1200 LCD on a notebook computer is $1500, but no sane amount of money will get you the identical screen in the flat-panel monitor form factor.
In a good number of places (I'd almost say everywhere, but I can only say for certain everywhere I've ever lived), you in fact DID have to register bikes, but its not a widely enforced law.
In most places in the country, people pay individually for their garbage service, water and gas. If I'm paying by the bag, you better damn well not put your trash in my can.
The only service that can't be stolen is free service, and there simply isn't such a beast. Hell, even roads aren't free. If you have an unregistered car (and thus, have paid no taxes), you can't legally use the road.
Doesn't matter if they count them or not...
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Dealers have to follow the house rules no matter what they think the next card may be.
If they have a hand below 17, they have to hit, no matter what If the table's rule is hit on soft 17, they have to hit no matter what. Doesn't matter if they know you've got a blackjack, or they're positive the next card is going to bust them.
You're right, though, card counting is perfectly legal. Most casinos don't have a problem with it until you start to win a lot. At that point, they can't have to arrested, but they have no obligation to allow you to keep playing.
(Also, the house advantage isn't anywhere near 90%, its a couple percent at best, depending on the rules you end up playing with)
What really brought down the cost of 8mm and Super 8mm projectors in the 70's? Porn available on that format which you could watch in your home.
What finally got VCR sales high enough that prices started to come down? Porn videos becoming available in the early 80's.
What made online BBS's really take off in the mid to late 80's? Porn available on the BBS's.
What made Usenet really take off in the real early 90's? uuencoded porn available for download.
What made the e-commerce finally take off? What industry defined profitability on the net? Porn.
Why does DVD have multi-angle? Porn.
Its real simple, until you can get 3-D porn through these standards, they'll remain niche. Why do you all think virtual reality has never taken off? Its not lack of processing power. Its lack of inexpesive, private, immersive sexual virtual reality experiences.
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Of course, I'm the opposite of you, the lower that number is, most likely the more I'm enjoying my driving.
:)
I saw it hit 4mpg coming into the back straight at New Hampshire International Speedway last year. That works out to less than three minutes a gallon, on average!
The N.E.R.D.S. have a pretty good site about their time on the british show a couple years back.
http://www.the-nerds.org/
I've been using online banking since the whole thing started... using the web for probably seven years, with SFNB (the first online bank, showing off S1's software), to RBC and now RBC/Centura. They've always listed such-and-such browser version requirements, and I've never had a problem using another browser before.
How many banks really *block* a given browser? And if they do, how many really wouldn't work if you masqueraded your user agent?
It sucks that these places don't officially support other browsers, but if anyone here has ever worked on an externally-facing web-based software package, you know that there is just so many combinations of things your QA department can test, and a good company will only say they support those, even if they know others would work. Its not responsible to say you support Mozilla if you've only ever tested Netscape 6, officially.
Give this man a cupie doll!
Why are there still any of these people working for /.? The dot-com boom is over, its easy to fire people these days. Its even easier to find competant replacements.
And yet, time after time the same stories get posted over and over again. Look at your page hits, guys... there's probably 100,000 people who knew this story was posted (yesterday?!). Shitcan all those bumbling idiots who work there, and hire one or two of those hundred thousand people who are unemployed. Quality of this site would go way up, and you'll be helping to prevent any more repeat stories about the meltdown of Generation X.
I have CDR discs I burned seven years ago on my old 1x CDR drive that are still fine today. In fact, I've never had a disc go bad, out of several hundred I've burned since then.
Unless Apple is caching its graphics to disc before displaying them, it wouldn't make a different in your "eye-candy processing power".
Thats a 15% hit in disk performance, not system performance.
We haven't done enough exploring in this universe to really know the simplest explanation. If life, in fact, arises with some regularity (at least microbial life) throughout the universe, then life may in fact be the simplest explanation. Until we have actually thoroughly investigates enough regions of various planets and moons to determine that even life that functions the way we expect (with chemistries we can see and study here on Earth) does or does not exist with any specific regularity, then you guessing it isn't life is just as meaningless as them guessing it is. In fact, it may be worse odds, since we know for a fact that there are thermophile microbes on Earth that can exist in conditions found on Venus, and would produce those sort of emissions. I would probably argue that Occam's Razor should fall on the assumption that its life, not the assumption its not, since we have specific statistics for the extistance of life that could work that way, and no statistics , and no statistics to suggest it couldn't be.
You have it backwards. Radio carbon dating is good for maybe 40,000 or 50,000 years, nothing older than that. The closer we are to when it died, by a long shot the more accurate the dating is.
This would've been done by dating the strata they were found in. Dating rock strata is a very accurate method of determining age.
Well, although some posts on here have suggested otherwise (hopefull thinking maybe?) college degrees don't mean jack right now -- experience does.
For what its worth, if there is real skills and a good amount of real professional experience (and isn't socially inept), at least here in the Boston area, your friend wouldn't have a problem finding a job. He might have to spend a couple weeks networking and pounding the pavement, but smart companies right now are shedding their dead weight and trading up the quality of their employees. If you're not among the dead weight, its not hard to find work.
The company I work for has had a "hiring freeze" for almost 18 months now, but it hasn't stopped some very good tech people from being hired. Its funny, I think a lot of companies are just starting to realize that now is the time to solve the problem they had for years of finding decent employees.
I think another part of the problem is a lot of GenX'ers don't realize that you actually have to work to find a job. For half a decade it was "send a resume, get a job". Virtually everyone I know who spent more than a month or two unemployed did not consider their unemployment and job search as important as a full-time job. They did not spend fixed hours, 40 or more a week networking, sending out resumes, calling companies, etc. Those who did, and weren't trying to get a position they weren't qualified for had no problem finding more work.
Flame suit on here, because this certainly isn't true of everyone, but people on /. tend to flame first and think later...
/., is an extremely vocal majority of the pool of tech workers who only had jobs because of the bubble. In the peak of the internet craze, the quality of your average tech worker was in the toilet. These coffee-slingers-come-Java-developers were still only really qualified for coffee slinging. Every joe-blow who sent out a resume because they read HTML For Dummies wasn't a qualified web developer. As we all saw, every tech visionary wasn't a qualified CTO. There were an order of magnitude more unqualified people in high paying positions than there were qualified people.
There was a certain size population of well-off, well-paid tech workers in existance well before the dot-com explosion. Tech work at that point took a reasonable amount of experience and skill. Not necessarily formal education, but skill sets were generally acceptable, and people were well paid.
I don't think the number of people in those positions is any lower now than it was pre-bubble. In fact, I think the number is quite a bit bigger. There are hundreds of thousands of tech workers right now who are not feeling the pinch of a "depression" or "recession".
What you see, particularly on places like
When the bubble burst, there were a lot of people who thought that a position they once had was still owed to them because of their "experience" and "history". But, the fact is that when push comes to shove, they didn't have real marketable skills. Anyone who has hired anyone in the last year or two has seen that -- 100 B.S. resumes come over your desk for every qualified one, and for the most part those qualified people are not having any problem finding jobs.
Now, again, before people start to flame like crazy, thats not true of everyone. People who were truely talented web developers, for example, are still having a hard time. Companies can't easily pick the gems out of the rest of the dirt, and some of the people who really are qualified aren't going a good job networking with people who know that, or selling themselves. But most of my friends who have lost their jobs in the last two years and haven't been able to find anything, honestly aren't as qualified as they think they are. One or two are, but they are in the vast minority.
Thats the real shock that most people are having -- that they really aren't as good as they and others spent four years telling them. They don't understand that you 99% of people can't be a senior anything with just two years of experience... They still are shooting way too high in their job search, and aren't realizing that there are people out there who are looking (and finding with little trouble) who *are* qualified.
Bone head jobs have the most job security because they aren't filled with people who think they are more important than they are.
Thanks... with one simple comment on /., you've managed to make me feel old and ruin my day, and I haven't even had my coffee yet!
Um, I was under the impression that "blogs" (what a stupid name that is) were trendy and cool four years ago, but are just derivative sources of meaningless drivel these days.
Do people actually still read and write these things?
If your work is good, people will buy it. If it sucks, don't expect the public to subsidize you through the reduction of their rights.
So what does it mean if I'm still using an Mach32 card?
Back in like '94 a friend of mine in school wrote an Ext2 undelete program, which of course I no longer can find online... He doesn't have it listed on his webpage any more.
I'm sitting here using my computer at work over Remote Desktop (yes, stuck using Windows crap, but as Windows goes, this remote desktop stuff is pretty trick). Wireless network is pretty much pegged between this and local stuff. I'm showing solid green (excellent signal), and I'm sitting here on my DSSS 2.4ghz cordless phone.
Now maybe if there were other phones or something in the area it'd be a problem, but I'm just not seeing it.
Or at least something in hand.
Unfortunately the link to the bugzilla entry about it is bookmarked on my computer at work, not here at home.
I was thought it might make it into 1.1, and will likely make it into 1.2. It doesn't appear to be in the alpha release, but the bug still says they're targeting 1.2 for it.
This may be obvious to some people, but I've had a whole pot of coffee this morning, and my brain is running past concepts too fast to actually figure anything out.
Is this doing anything special with the access point to make this work? I'm in the process of reconfiguring my wireless network at home because I have a need now to have wireless access to my internal network from a bridged lan, instead of the current setup which has the hub in a DMZ.
Right now its basically Linksys firewall/gateway onto a DMZ network, through a locked down linux box to the internal network, so I use SSH to get to internal boxes, and a couple services are accessed via SSL links using port forwarding. The wireless hub is in that network, so I have to SSH to internal boxes, which is fine because I don't use the wireless for anything but surfing 99% of the time.
In my new house, however, I need to bridge two different seperated internal networks, because its turned out to be a huge mess to try to run ethernet cables between my second floor office and the devices on the first floor that don't support wireless (Tivo, WebPlayers, Rio Players, etc). My plan had been to use FreeSWAN to run an IPSEC VLAN between the two subnets, so all the boxes in the office sit behind a wireless gateway, connected through the firewall thats plugged into the access point downstairs, to get access to the internal network on the first floor.
So my question, related to this article, is this... Would a box like this be easier to use, or would it be better to just find a linux-compatible PCI wireless card and pop it in whatever box is running the IPSEC tunnels upstairs? Has anyone seen any write ups of building a network with this sort of topology? (I'm wondering about any gotchas I'm not thinking of right now...)
This would be a lot easier if the joists between floors in my condo weren't two sandwiched 2x12's, preventing any possibility of running wires between floors through the walls...
It seems pretty obvious he's talking about why the hell a 1600x1200 LCD on a notebook computer is $1500, but no sane amount of money will get you the identical screen in the flat-panel monitor form factor.
In a good number of places (I'd almost say everywhere, but I can only say for certain everywhere I've ever lived), you in fact DID have to register bikes, but its not a widely enforced law.
In most places in the country, people pay individually for their garbage service, water and gas. If I'm paying by the bag, you better damn well not put your trash in my can.
The only service that can't be stolen is free service, and there simply isn't such a beast. Hell, even roads aren't free. If you have an unregistered car (and thus, have paid no taxes), you can't legally use the road.
Dealers have to follow the house rules no matter what they think the next card may be.
If they have a hand below 17, they have to hit, no matter what If the table's rule is hit on soft 17, they have to hit no matter what. Doesn't matter if they know you've got a blackjack, or they're positive the next card is going to bust them.
You're right, though, card counting is perfectly legal. Most casinos don't have a problem with it until you start to win a lot. At that point, they can't have to arrested, but they have no obligation to allow you to keep playing.
(Also, the house advantage isn't anywhere near 90%, its a couple percent at best, depending on the rules you end up playing with)
Its real simple:
What really brought down the cost of 8mm and Super 8mm projectors in the 70's? Porn available on that format which you could watch in your home.
What finally got VCR sales high enough that prices started to come down? Porn videos becoming available in the early 80's.
What made online BBS's really take off in the mid to late 80's? Porn available on the BBS's.
What made Usenet really take off in the real early 90's? uuencoded porn available for download.
What made the e-commerce finally take off? What industry defined profitability on the net? Porn.
Why does DVD have multi-angle? Porn.
Its real simple, until you can get 3-D porn through these standards, they'll remain niche. Why do you all think virtual reality has never taken off? Its not lack of processing power. Its lack of inexpesive, private, immersive sexual virtual reality experiences.