Someone with a clue! Have you people who think people "write pages for IE" written a page in the last 2 years? My company does sites for a bunch of Fortune 100 companies, and we DO NOT write pages for IE. We write pages to the spec, and guess what, 95% of it works on IE and 80-90% of it works on NS6.X/Mozilla. What we do end up writing pages for are the 3% that won't jettison Netscape 4.X so we are left using a ton of spacer gif's and nested tables instead of lightweight CSS. The sad part is that this doesn't just affect the poor HTML coders but impacts templating and component design as well. Grr.
That's true, but not the whole truth. The real reason that guy is asking for 5 mil is because he thinks he's better than a guy making 4. To make it even more complicated you have teams from major markets paying guys 10 when they are really "worth" 5, because they can afford to outspend other teams. I'd like to say that the public loses in the end, but its hard to make that point when the Red Sox, with the highest ticket prices in baseball, sell out every game...
I'm not disagreeing with you here, but zealots typically believe that that the gods ARE avenging themselves, through the zealot. Unfortunately you can't argue that god(s) didn't tell them to do it any more successfully than they can argue that they were told, and so the argument continues forever...
I turned down a competitive counter-offer once (they actually offered more than the new job) because I was making the move to better position my career.
However, a friend of mine had an offer at $80,000 when his salary was at $45,000. He told his boss, thinking they wouldn't even consider matching it. They did, and the explanation they gave was that they were so happy with his performance they hadn't even kept tabs on what the market was bearing for his work. Three years later, he's still there, and has since been given increased responsibility.
Personally if salary is the ONLY factor it would take a hefty raise to make me shop around. There are certainly an appreciable number of people out there in jobs they love that don't make enough, and that is the hardest situation to be in.
I thought I saw a music video on unplugged or amp where they guy did this and they girl he had over to show it off to tipped a building over or something.
Regardless of its origins, its a hell of alot cooler than the nasty grass and 8-month-dead marigold I have in the flowerbox outside my kitchen window.
Well he did mention Stephen King as an example of the filthy rich author, I think he was just showing that there are fewer rock-star-authors than rock-star-musicians. In music it takes one song or album and if you play your cards right an don't blow it on jets and drugs you are set for a long time (think Vanilla Ice). In books you have to continue to put out best-sellers to make millions.
While I still believe that OSS shows a distinct lack of innovation (go ahead, mod me down you zealot), there are enough benevolent citizens in the open source community that if a truly life-threatening risk was identified it would be fixed within hours.
SVG already has most of the current Flash functionality, and is a truly open standard. One only has to look at the companies employing those writing the SVG spec to see that Macromedia is standing against the coming tide (yes they are on the list too). As soon as authoring tools mature the psuedo-programmers who make Flash movies now without the support of real programmers will migrate as the true developers push to the much more code-friendly SVG.
HBO is a example of this already. I subscribe to it when there is a good show on and cancel it when there isn't. Right now I have it for Six Feet Under. This weekend I'll check out The Wire, and if it sucks I'll cancel it after SFU's finale in two weeks. When Soprano's 4 comes on I'll get it again.
As far as I'm concerned pay-per-show will be nothing but a boon to society as a whole. It will lead to better shows and realistic measurement (instead of just recording the Neilsen families, keyword families). Why does Futurama keep getting pushed around? Because it has bad ratings because it appeals to the same people that Nielsen refuses to measure (the young and single).
What about a graduated expiration process?
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Its probably too complicated to be practical, but what about a process by which the original holder loses rights of control and profit over time. So for the first few years they are in absolute control, but after that people can start using it so long as they take care of the inventor some how? This would allow innovation to proceed while protecting the rights of the creators. Basically a compulsory license granting system.
The recession lasted ONE quarter in 1990? Now granted I'm not an economist and I was in my teens at the time, I seem to remember the economic troubles in the early 90's lasting alot longer than 3 months. Here's a link that says it lasted 8 (though it is from a possibly biased source):
"The most recent recession officially started in July 1990, bringing to a close the Nation's longest peacetime expansion on record. This recession officially ended about 8 months later in March 1991"
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/06/art1exc.htm
And I've yet to read a compelling argument that Reaganomics actually worked...
HotPOP is a free POP3 provider, and we have no plans to discontinue our free service. We currently have an optout option and will be adding several more plans in the next week or so. We have been around since 1998. Also, all of the servers are linux:)
Eric
Disclaimer: I work for HotPOP, I just figured you guys would like to know a free service still exists.
I cannpt give any figures or make any assertions, but anyone who knows anything about urban planning (even if you have played SimCity!) knows that the entertainment needs of the people must be met. Sure, it may seem unfair that the government gives money to football instead of whatever your favorite recreation is, but that's democracy. Most sports team owners don't own teams to make money, they do it because they probably have always wanted to, and now they can. Many lose money, some make money. This is just alot of naive anti-corporate BS. If you want to see problems with this evil corporate regime, ask why many ball players make more than the CEO of General Motors or Ford? These are 20-something year old punks while the others are intelligent businessmen responsible for thousands of livelihoods? Tell Michael Moore to put that in his pipe and smoke it!
Its about time Slashdot posted a problem with a Microsoft product. I'm so sick of seeing all the linux security problems posted here, its good to see they are being objective and not abusing the power of the press. It would really FUCKING SUCK if a k-rad 'log like/. abandoned its neutral stance and started posting EVERY GODDAMN PROBLEM with Windows for NO FREAKING REASON. I mean, SHIT, I would seriously think about not reading such a piece of shit journalistic work. Yeah, Mr. Rob Malda, that means you, do your fucking job and get a handle on these losers that you let post these days. Yeah, you don't see Anonymous Coward here do ya!
Here's my view: Should pot be illegal? I don't really care. I don't smoke it, and I'm pretty sure that my life is better because of it. Alcohol is not worse than pot, especially long term. If you want to go through life with a foggy look in your eyes, with low testosterone and a general sense of laziness, go ahead. After all someone has to be middle management with no ambition, and I'd rather it be you than me. All the hardcore pot smokers I've met are far worse off than the hardcore alcoholics I've met.
I've been using 95 since it came out, but let take the example of my current job. I have a Dell P2-450 with 64MB RAM. I have been using it for 4 months now. I use it all day every day. I always have Lotus Notes, telnets, IE, Vantive (crappy client/server system), Sonique, and MSN Messenger running. I also heavily use Office 97. How many times has my machine crashed since I got here (with the exception of a buggy Winamp I tried)? ZERO. Not one crash, hang, anything. I have not been so lucky at previous jobs, but I have never come close a daily crash. When someone complains about thier windows box crashing its usually because they have games and 3d drivers and all sorts of non-productive stuff. I have a feeling that if I was to go monkey around with Linux I would have far more problems than the author here has with Windows.
HotPOP is a Linux based solution that handles this kind of traffic easily and cleanly. Its probably the most cost effective solution too. Send me an email if you want more details.
Again, read the top line of my orginal post. If lower class people could walk around with fistfuls of $50 bills, you dont think they would? Try raising a family on $10/hr (thats 8 $50's a week pretax). People do it, and they do it by not wasting thier money on computers and instead buying food and heat. They also do it by growing up, maybe you should try it.
I am thoroughly dissapointed at how naive and ignorant most of the posts have been here. Katz is not saying that The Man is stopping minorites from getting on the net. He is saying that something is preventing them and nobody can quite figure it out. Race is pretty much a non-issue for using the net, so why the disparity in the numbers? The answer lies deep within the cultures involved here and has common threads with every other racial issue in recent times. A white person has the same number of hours in the day as a black person, so what is the black person doing with the hour or two the white person is spending on the net? Making an assumption would be nothing short of racist, so research must be done.
And for those of you that think these complex rebate offers are an economic emancipation, you are sorely mistaken. First of all, they will do a credit check, and most poor people have poor credit. Rebuilding an old 486 and finding old hardware and whatnot is not an option, because the people that can do that already have computers. These people work (often several jobs) and have families to raise and do not have time to mess around with computers so they can trade stocks the don't own and read the same news they get in the paper.
Though there is no easy solution here, keeping computers in the schools is the single best strategy at this point. The net has only been a reality at the cultural level for a few years, which is not enough time for it to be adopted. Luckily this is also not enough time for it to have developed strong negative trends. As most slashdot readers know, once you get the hang of computers they are alot easier than they seem (and don't think this is because you have some innate gift, they are actually pretty simple at the consumer level). If a child grows up with computers and learns to use them to improve his life and the life of those around him, he will prioritize it when he gets to the point in life where he has to make a decision. This is probably why white families have more computers, because white schools have had more computers for years, which leads to more computers at home. I think have have all been blinded by the bright flash or growth that has been burning and we must simply strive to make reasonable and sensible decisions about the next 25 years.
I don't know if MS was the first, but the first time I used a two button mouse, contextual menus or basically any else Windows does that Mac doesn't, that it was on a Windows box. The IDE of VB is unlike anything else. It allows you to code small apps faster and cleaner than any other DE available.
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Someone with a clue! Have you people who think people "write pages for IE" written a page in the last 2 years? My company does sites for a bunch of Fortune 100 companies, and we DO NOT write pages for IE. We write pages to the spec, and guess what, 95% of it works on IE and 80-90% of it works on NS6.X/Mozilla. What we do end up writing pages for are the 3% that won't jettison Netscape 4.X so we are left using a ton of spacer gif's and nested tables instead of lightweight CSS. The sad part is that this doesn't just affect the poor HTML coders but impacts templating and component design as well. Grr.
That's true, but not the whole truth. The real reason that guy is asking for 5 mil is because he thinks he's better than a guy making 4. To make it even more complicated you have teams from major markets paying guys 10 when they are really "worth" 5, because they can afford to outspend other teams. I'd like to say that the public loses in the end, but its hard to make that point when the Red Sox, with the highest ticket prices in baseball, sell out every game...
I'm not disagreeing with you here, but zealots typically believe that that the gods ARE avenging themselves, through the zealot. Unfortunately you can't argue that god(s) didn't tell them to do it any more successfully than they can argue that they were told, and so the argument continues forever...
I turned down a competitive counter-offer once (they actually offered more than the new job) because I was making the move to better position my career.
However, a friend of mine had an offer at $80,000 when his salary was at $45,000. He told his boss, thinking they wouldn't even consider matching it. They did, and the explanation they gave was that they were so happy with his performance they hadn't even kept tabs on what the market was bearing for his work. Three years later, he's still there, and has since been given increased responsibility.
Personally if salary is the ONLY factor it would take a hefty raise to make me shop around. There are certainly an appreciable number of people out there in jobs they love that don't make enough, and that is the hardest situation to be in.
Oh yeah, right there on the third page. Maybe I shouldn't post after midnight...
I thought I saw a music video on unplugged or amp where they guy did this and they girl he had over to show it off to tipped a building over or something.
Regardless of its origins, its a hell of alot cooler than the nasty grass and 8-month-dead marigold I have in the flowerbox outside my kitchen window.
Well he did mention Stephen King as an example of the filthy rich author, I think he was just showing that there are fewer rock-star-authors than rock-star-musicians. In music it takes one song or album and if you play your cards right an don't blow it on jets and drugs you are set for a long time (think Vanilla Ice). In books you have to continue to put out best-sellers to make millions.
While I still believe that OSS shows a distinct lack of innovation (go ahead, mod me down you zealot), there are enough benevolent citizens in the open source community that if a truly life-threatening risk was identified it would be fixed within hours.
SVG already has most of the current Flash functionality, and is a truly open standard. One only has to look at the companies employing those writing the SVG spec to see that Macromedia is standing against the coming tide (yes they are on the list too). As soon as authoring tools mature the psuedo-programmers who make Flash movies now without the support of real programmers will migrate as the true developers push to the much more code-friendly SVG.
HBO is a example of this already. I subscribe to it when there is a good show on and cancel it when there isn't. Right now I have it for Six Feet Under. This weekend I'll check out The Wire, and if it sucks I'll cancel it after SFU's finale in two weeks. When Soprano's 4 comes on I'll get it again.
As far as I'm concerned pay-per-show will be nothing but a boon to society as a whole. It will lead to better shows and realistic measurement (instead of just recording the Neilsen families, keyword families). Why does Futurama keep getting pushed around? Because it has bad ratings because it appeals to the same people that Nielsen refuses to measure (the young and single).
Its probably too complicated to be practical, but what about a process by which the original holder loses rights of control and profit over time. So for the first few years they are in absolute control, but after that people can start using it so long as they take care of the inventor some how? This would allow innovation to proceed while protecting the rights of the creators. Basically a compulsory license granting system.
or Piled Higher and Deeper
"I've seen Ph.D. level cleverness" - Ph. D and cleverness are only seen in the same sentence when its spoken by a Ph.D...
The recession lasted ONE quarter in 1990? Now granted I'm not an economist and I was in my teens at the time, I seem to remember the economic troubles in the early 90's lasting alot longer than 3 months. Here's a link that says it lasted 8 (though it is from a possibly biased source):
"The most recent recession officially started in July 1990, bringing to a close the Nation's longest peacetime expansion on record. This recession officially ended about 8 months later in March 1991"
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/06/art1exc.htm
And I've yet to read a compelling argument that Reaganomics actually worked...
HotPOP is a free POP3 provider, and we have no plans to discontinue our free service. We currently have an optout option and will be adding several more plans in the next week or so. We have been around since 1998. Also, all of the servers are linux :)
Eric
Disclaimer: I work for HotPOP, I just figured you guys would like to know a free service still exists.
I cannpt give any figures or make any assertions, but anyone who knows anything about urban planning (even if you have played SimCity!) knows that the entertainment needs of the people must be met. Sure, it may seem unfair that the government gives money to football instead of whatever your favorite recreation is, but that's democracy. Most sports team owners don't own teams to make money, they do it because they probably have always wanted to, and now they can. Many lose money, some make money.
This is just alot of naive anti-corporate BS. If you want to see problems with this evil corporate regime, ask why many ball players make more than the CEO of General Motors or Ford? These are 20-something year old punks while the others are intelligent businessmen responsible for thousands of livelihoods? Tell Michael Moore to put that in his pipe and smoke it!
Its about time Slashdot posted a problem with a Microsoft product. I'm so sick of seeing all the linux security problems posted here, its good to see they are being objective and not abusing the power of the press. It would really FUCKING SUCK if a k-rad 'log like /. abandoned its neutral stance and started posting EVERY GODDAMN PROBLEM with Windows for NO FREAKING REASON. I mean, SHIT, I would seriously think about not reading such a piece of shit journalistic work. Yeah, Mr. Rob Malda, that means you, do your fucking job and get a handle on these losers that you let post these days. Yeah, you don't see Anonymous Coward here do ya!
Metro Rack is a great choice for shelving computers. The shelves are relatively inexpensive and very strong, along with be adjustable.
Here's my view: Should pot be illegal? I don't really care. I don't smoke it, and I'm pretty sure that my life is better because of it. Alcohol is not worse than pot, especially long term. If you want to go through life with a foggy look in your eyes, with low testosterone and a general sense of laziness, go ahead. After all someone has to be middle management with no ambition, and I'd rather it be you than me. All the hardcore pot smokers I've met are far worse off than the hardcore alcoholics I've met.
I've been using 95 since it came out, but let take the example of my current job. I have a Dell P2-450 with 64MB RAM. I have been using it for 4 months now. I use it all day every day. I always have Lotus Notes, telnets, IE, Vantive (crappy client/server system), Sonique, and MSN Messenger running. I also heavily use Office 97. How many times has my machine crashed since I got here (with the exception of a buggy Winamp I tried)? ZERO. Not one crash, hang, anything. I have not been so lucky at previous jobs, but I have never come close a daily crash. When someone complains about thier windows box crashing its usually because they have games and 3d drivers and all sorts of non-productive stuff. I have a feeling that if I was to go monkey around with Linux I would have far more problems than the author here has with Windows.
HotPOP is a Linux based solution that handles this kind of traffic easily and cleanly. Its probably the most cost effective solution too. Send me an email if you want more details.
71.9% of the US is white non-hispanic.
From the Census.
Again, read the top line of my orginal post. If lower class people could walk around with fistfuls of $50 bills, you dont think they would? Try raising a family on $10/hr (thats 8 $50's a week pretax). People do it, and they do it by not wasting thier money on computers and instead buying food and heat. They also do it by growing up, maybe you should try it.
I am thoroughly dissapointed at how naive and ignorant most of the posts have been here. Katz is not saying that The Man is stopping minorites from getting on the net. He is saying that something is preventing them and nobody can quite figure it out. Race is pretty much a non-issue for using the net, so why the disparity in the numbers? The answer lies deep within the cultures involved here and has common threads with every other racial issue in recent times. A white person has the same number of hours in the day as a black person, so what is the black person doing with the hour or two the white person is spending on the net? Making an assumption would be nothing short of racist, so research must be done.
And for those of you that think these complex rebate offers are an economic emancipation, you are sorely mistaken. First of all, they will do a credit check, and most poor people have poor credit. Rebuilding an old 486 and finding old hardware and whatnot is not an option, because the people that can do that already have computers. These people work (often several jobs) and have families to raise and do not have time to mess around with computers so they can trade stocks the don't own and read the same news they get in the paper.
Though there is no easy solution here, keeping computers in the schools is the single best strategy at this point. The net has only been a reality at the cultural level for a few years, which is not enough time for it to be adopted. Luckily this is also not enough time for it to have developed strong negative trends. As most slashdot readers know, once you get the hang of computers they are alot easier than they seem (and don't think this is because you have some innate gift, they are actually pretty simple at the consumer level). If a child grows up with computers and learns to use them to improve his life and the life of those around him, he will prioritize it when he gets to the point in life where he has to make a decision. This is probably why white families have more computers, because white schools have had more computers for years, which leads to more computers at home. I think have have all been blinded by the bright flash or growth that has been burning and we must simply strive to make reasonable and sensible decisions about the next 25 years.
I don't know if MS was the first, but the first time I used a two button mouse, contextual menus or basically any else Windows does that Mac doesn't, that it was on a Windows box.
The IDE of VB is unlike anything else. It allows you to code small apps faster and cleaner than any other DE available.