Does anyone know if this guy was one of the people who tried to get the Lego Master Builder job awhile back? If not, then he probably missed out on a good chance. I looked at a bunch of the stuff they made during the "interview" for the master builder job, and they were quite amazing. So perhaps Eric wouldn't have blown away the competition, but he at least stands a shot.
I, however, will stick to building little houses and cars just like the directions indicate.:-)
Yeah, here's a good idea. Slashdot posts an article all about IMAGES on the front page. That won't do anything bad to the server will it? Seriously, it'll be hours before anyone can actually go vote now...
Any mirrors anyone? So we can at least see the images, even if we can't vote?
Seriously, G4Techtv sucks now...except for Kevin and his hot girl friend. Even Kevin seems to have been whipped into submission for the most part. He took a lesser job, and played it off as his choice on TSS. I dunno if this is really the case, but in all honesty he should just leave and go elsewhere. He is too good for the crap that is the new TSS.
Those fags at G4 have ruined the one thing I still liked to watch on cable...I would seriously ditch cable now if it weren't for the package deal for high speed internet.
Yeah, offtopic whatever....just replying to something late at night. Forgive me.
Better yet, my portable GPS device allows me to "set my location" temporarily in case the signal is not strong enough. This allows the device to at least estimate where I am if it has a weak signal somehow. I don't really get all the details...but it works so I don't complain.
So what's to stop someone from doing essentially the same thing with the laptop? Just tell it "you're still in the building" and you'd be all good. I think this is a pretty cheesy idea for security, you can always figure out a way to lie to a machine, regardless of what lie you're telling. This is less secure than a well-encrypted password if you ask me, or course I assume that the machine would still have the password as added security, so I guess that argument shouldn't carry any weight.
For years now we've all know it was big business. Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D just to name a couple. I've been running these ever since I had highspeed internet.
Two points: 1. Why not go to an hourly rate for playing these games? I would sign up for that. Say, about 20 cents/hr or whatever. You could still have the monthly option as well, or just go with an hourly rate instead if you wanted to. I think this would appeal to another segment of the population than it currently does...thus providing more players.
2. Well, in the scheme of things it isn't a huge fee. But on the other hand, when I go to a movie I pay the money. When I buy a DVD I pay the money. Whereas with WoW, even if I don't play at all in a given month (and let's face it we have all been that busy at work/school) then I still pay for the month no matter what. It's the same with EQ, and the reason I will never in my life play an MMoRPG. What if I want to take a month off and play something else? I still have to pay to keep my character active, even if I don't play.
I think Sony also has some expertise in the console market, afterall they do have two of the best selling consoles ever. And of course they are the current king of the console market, so I would think that should stand for somthing as far as "expertise" goes.
But yes, we will likely be underimpressed with the PS3 when it comes out. But all of the "non geeks" out there who never heard the five versions of the inflated specs that we were promised will still love the machine for what it is, a good game console.
So it won't ever have the most teraflops on the worlds' supercomputer list...who cares?
I didn't know a lot about the history of the iPod, so this was quite interesting to me. I really only started paying attention to the iPod when it was compatible with the PC.
But it would be more interesting to me to see an entire history of the Mp3 player...starting with the first little 32MB ones or whatever came out first, and going right up to the 80GB+ ones we have today. I remember being so excited when I got my first Rio Mp3 flash player. It had 64mb built in, and this was just amazing to me. I loved that thing to death. Now I look back and wonder how it was ever ok to only be able to carry a single album encoded at 128kbps around with me.:-)
Anyone have any links to articles that might have a more broad history of the MP3 player in general?
I can just see it now...I'm pouring fuel into my laptop and all of the sudden I have a pint of unleaded all over my keyboard. If my keyboard doesn't like soda, imagine how it is going to react to some kind of fuel.
And an aerosal type refill is crap, I have never seen one of those refills work more than a few times without getting jammed or broken or something.
I think this is a cool idea, but I think I will stick to solid state (more or less) when choosing my power source.
Yes, we all know you will not be running the games from the flash. Running "on the gamecube" I guess was just meant to imply that you would be running the game from disk, in the gamecube. Thus it is on the gamecube and not on the PC.
But anyway, thanks for the input...or was it mostly meant to insult us for wasting you time?
I have seen Iso's floating around out there, but how can you burn them to a mini DVD, when as far as I know they use a proprietary media for GameCube games? I know thus far they have been running them over the ethernet port (as mentioned in the post) but with the mod chip the theory is that you could run them right in the console...so how would you burn them? Is hardware modification required to boot from a regular DVD, or does the factory hardware read from regular discs once the mod chip is installed?
Probably breaking codes for some government or another. Someone with talent with numbers and such will catch the eye of someone out there. Could it be that this was just to show off his talent as a sort of "job interview"? Probably not, but I expect he will get some calls about it anyway.
So what...open source is free right? That means no commercials because there is nothing to pay for? Or is it going to be one long commercial for open source?
I don't think this is going to reach the right people...a big flashing banner on CNN.com or something with a cute little monkey that you're supposed to shoot for the "free OS" would get more people to switch.
I am not saying that the hardware is all of the best quality, but it will let me do what I need to do. With a $50 video card upgrade (not from Dell) and some extra RAM (also not from Dell) I can easily have a pretty rocking game/work machine for less than $1000.
Here at work (granted we get about 20% discount from the local computer shop) we get all intel machines, about 3Ghz, decent vid card, and at least 512 RAM all for about $800. This machine runs all but the mighteiest games with no problem. Now add a 17 inch flat panel on slickdeals for about $200 and we're back to the $1000 price point. And this is a high quality all Intel machine. Now I know that doesn't mean it is better hardware than the Mac, but it is a good solid machine that will do most everything that an owner would want, and for much cheaper than the Mac.
Unless you just don't like Windows (which I can understand for a lot of people) there is no real reason to pay the extra for the Mac other than their admittedly great style.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a Mac basher. They are great machines if you have extra money...but most of us do not.
For the same money I would spend on a top of the line Mac, I can get a hell of a lot more PC. Don't get me wrong, the Mac is beautiful and the hardware is great...but the cost is (in my mind) outrageous in the day and age where I can go to Dell and get a brand new 3Ghz PC with a 17 inch flat panel for less than $700.
My iPod is great, I love it to death. But I only had to pay a small amount more for it than for the competing Mp3 players...there is a larger price difference between a PC and a Mac.
Can anyone provide a link that actually has some useful info on this subject? The three links in the post essentially tell me nothing about the new service. How much will it cost? How does it work? Can we get some useful info other than "new mystery service coming soon!!" Slashdot must be partnered with them somehow...giving them free advertising.
Rather than write an OS, they will just buy someone out who already wrote an OS. Then they will take the code base and the technology and add some Google flare to it. They will make one hell of a search feature, to be sure. Oh wait, it's called Google desktop.
Just look at what they have done lately. Picaso anyone? Keyhole viewer anyone? They are just taking these little companies in for the base apps to their upcoming OS in my conspiracy theory. After all you can't have a good OS without the bloat that comes pre-installed with it.
Watch for Google to buy things like an IM chat client, some cheesy MineSweeper game, and some sort of CD burning software. That gives them basically the core of what you get when installing Windows. All they need is the OS...
Hey, I'd install it when it comes out. Then go straight back to Windows when I need to game. That's the key for anyone trying to contend...make sure you get 100% software compatability, games included. Without that you just won't take over.
Applying to a job you are not qualified for doesn't help you odds of getting a job. Trust me, I know several people who are responsible for sorting through resumes at various tech-related companies. And all of them say they pretty much avoid Monster for exactly the reason you point out. They do stuff like career fairs at universities, where people like you will not come up and talk to them unless you are actually qualified, or at least have something to say.
Seriously, why apply for a job writing C++ if you have never written code? Why apply for a job as a graphic designer if you are a programmer? There's a reason they post the job specifications on there. Just because it only takes you 10 seconds, don't think that they spend any more than 10 seconds throwing away your resume.
At the end of the "boom" times, most Monster job ads supposedly got around 100 resumes each.
Yeah, but the thing is, AFTER the boom time Monster ads were getting 1000's of submitted resumes, because no one had a job. I work for a small company (~40 people) and my boss put up a job desciption on Monster for a C++ programmer with experience...he got hundreds and hundreds of submissions (mostly unqualified) and a lot from over seas, asking to be flown in.
If you submit on Monster, at least only do it if you are qualified. And definitely research who the company is...our company can't afford to be flying people in from India for interviews...Monster works, but submit wisely if you really want to be considered.
How many downloads via torrents?
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I, for one, got FireFox 1.0 from a torrent. Are they counting the people who got it through torrents when they tell us how many downloads they have had since release? (or at least trying to guess)
I doubt it, which means that the number is likely much higher.
Also, consider that probably at least 50% of the slashdot crowd (conservative estimate) went and got it, I would say that we're a very good portion of those downloads...so is it really all that impressive??? How many average users are really getting it?
Let me be the first to say something other than I can't read the article because I can't see. (ha ha)
I wonder if the insurance companies are going to eventually look at us programmers and categorize us as "uninsurable" for eye care because we stare at the monitor all day? I mean, they can turn down or boost rates on smokers because smoking is very bad for your health. So why not boost rates or turn down us computer bound programmers because we will almost certainly suffer from carpal tunnel, or glaucoma or both? I know these are not nearly as expensive or deadly for the most part, but the costs will add up.
As the number of cases increase for people like us, will be be "uninsurable" at least as far as eyecare? Or even for our wrists (no funny Pr0n jokes) or hands, or necks because we sit and type and stare at a monitor for hours on end?
I can just imagine the questions...
1. Do you have a history of heart disease? 2. Do you smoke? 3. Do you have a history of cancer? 4. Are you a computer programmer?
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Actually, read the article. he does not consider himself a pirate at all, and makes no claim to the title. Here's the quote from the article.
"There are people that know about what I am doing and believe in it. I just want to be an historian, a gatekeeper. Anything but a pirate. I don't consider myself a pirate."
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Does anyone know if this guy was one of the people who tried to get the Lego Master Builder job awhile back? If not, then he probably missed out on a good chance. I looked at a bunch of the stuff they made during the "interview" for the master builder job, and they were quite amazing. So perhaps Eric wouldn't have blown away the competition, but he at least stands a shot.
I, however, will stick to building little houses and cars just like the directions indicate.
Yeah, here's a good idea. Slashdot posts an article all about IMAGES on the front page. That won't do anything bad to the server will it? Seriously, it'll be hours before anyone can actually go vote now...
Any mirrors anyone? So we can at least see the images, even if we can't vote?
ha! No, I was not but you have a valid point.
Seriously, G4Techtv sucks now...except for Kevin and his hot girl friend. Even Kevin seems to have been whipped into submission for the most part. He took a lesser job, and played it off as his choice on TSS. I dunno if this is really the case, but in all honesty he should just leave and go elsewhere. He is too good for the crap that is the new TSS.
Those fags at G4 have ruined the one thing I still liked to watch on cable...I would seriously ditch cable now if it weren't for the package deal for high speed internet.
Yeah, offtopic whatever....just replying to something late at night. Forgive me.
Better yet, my portable GPS device allows me to "set my location" temporarily in case the signal is not strong enough. This allows the device to at least estimate where I am if it has a weak signal somehow. I don't really get all the details...but it works so I don't complain.
So what's to stop someone from doing essentially the same thing with the laptop? Just tell it "you're still in the building" and you'd be all good. I think this is a pretty cheesy idea for security, you can always figure out a way to lie to a machine, regardless of what lie you're telling. This is less secure than a well-encrypted password if you ask me, or course I assume that the machine would still have the password as added security, so I guess that argument shouldn't carry any weight.
For years now we've all know it was big business. Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D just to name a couple. I've been running these ever since I had highspeed internet.
Ans this is front page news?
Two points:
1. Why not go to an hourly rate for playing these games? I would sign up for that. Say, about 20 cents/hr or whatever. You could still have the monthly option as well, or just go with an hourly rate instead if you wanted to. I think this would appeal to another segment of the population than it currently does...thus providing more players.
2. Well, in the scheme of things it isn't a huge fee. But on the other hand, when I go to a movie I pay the money. When I buy a DVD I pay the money. Whereas with WoW, even if I don't play at all in a given month (and let's face it we have all been that busy at work/school) then I still pay for the month no matter what. It's the same with EQ, and the reason I will never in my life play an MMoRPG. What if I want to take a month off and play something else? I still have to pay to keep my character active, even if I don't play.
I think Sony also has some expertise in the console market, afterall they do have two of the best selling consoles ever. And of course they are the current king of the console market, so I would think that should stand for somthing as far as "expertise" goes.
But yes, we will likely be underimpressed with the PS3 when it comes out. But all of the "non geeks" out there who never heard the five versions of the inflated specs that we were promised will still love the machine for what it is, a good game console.
So it won't ever have the most teraflops on the worlds' supercomputer list...who cares?
That all of that cheese up there would be the fuel that saved the Earth!
BTW, I thought cheese generally produced methane when broken down?
I didn't know a lot about the history of the iPod, so this was quite interesting to me. I really only started paying attention to the iPod when it was compatible with the PC.
But it would be more interesting to me to see an entire history of the Mp3 player...starting with the first little 32MB ones or whatever came out first, and going right up to the 80GB+ ones we have today. I remember being so excited when I got my first Rio Mp3 flash player. It had 64mb built in, and this was just amazing to me. I loved that thing to death. Now I look back and wonder how it was ever ok to only be able to carry a single album encoded at 128kbps around with me.
Anyone have any links to articles that might have a more broad history of the MP3 player in general?
And, refueling is faster than recharging.
I can just see it now...I'm pouring fuel into my laptop and all of the sudden I have a pint of unleaded all over my keyboard. If my keyboard doesn't like soda, imagine how it is going to react to some kind of fuel.
And an aerosal type refill is crap, I have never seen one of those refills work more than a few times without getting jammed or broken or something.
I think this is a cool idea, but I think I will stick to solid state (more or less) when choosing my power source.
Yes, we all know you will not be running the games from the flash. Running "on the gamecube" I guess was just meant to imply that you would be running the game from disk, in the gamecube. Thus it is on the gamecube and not on the PC.
But anyway, thanks for the input...or was it mostly meant to insult us for wasting you time?
I have seen Iso's floating around out there, but how can you burn them to a mini DVD, when as far as I know they use a proprietary media for GameCube games? I know thus far they have been running them over the ethernet port (as mentioned in the post) but with the mod chip the theory is that you could run them right in the console...so how would you burn them? Is hardware modification required to boot from a regular DVD, or does the factory hardware read from regular discs once the mod chip is installed?
Probably breaking codes for some government or another. Someone with talent with numbers and such will catch the eye of someone out there. Could it be that this was just to show off his talent as a sort of "job interview"? Probably not, but I expect he will get some calls about it anyway.
Or a torrent to the show in our sigs? (you gotta think more open source)
So what...open source is free right? That means no commercials because there is nothing to pay for? Or is it going to be one long commercial for open source?
I don't think this is going to reach the right people...a big flashing banner on CNN.com or something with a cute little monkey that you're supposed to shoot for the "free OS" would get more people to switch.
I am not saying that the hardware is all of the best quality, but it will let me do what I need to do. With a $50 video card upgrade (not from Dell) and some extra RAM (also not from Dell) I can easily have a pretty rocking game/work machine for less than $1000.
Here at work (granted we get about 20% discount from the local computer shop) we get all intel machines, about 3Ghz, decent vid card, and at least 512 RAM all for about $800. This machine runs all but the mighteiest games with no problem. Now add a 17 inch flat panel on slickdeals for about $200 and we're back to the $1000 price point. And this is a high quality all Intel machine. Now I know that doesn't mean it is better hardware than the Mac, but it is a good solid machine that will do most everything that an owner would want, and for much cheaper than the Mac.
Unless you just don't like Windows (which I can understand for a lot of people) there is no real reason to pay the extra for the Mac other than their admittedly great style.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a Mac basher. They are great machines if you have extra money...but most of us do not.
For the same money I would spend on a top of the line Mac, I can get a hell of a lot more PC. Don't get me wrong, the Mac is beautiful and the hardware is great...but the cost is (in my mind) outrageous in the day and age where I can go to Dell and get a brand new 3Ghz PC with a 17 inch flat panel for less than $700.
My iPod is great, I love it to death. But I only had to pay a small amount more for it than for the competing Mp3 players...there is a larger price difference between a PC and a Mac.
Can anyone provide a link that actually has some useful info on this subject? The three links in the post essentially tell me nothing about the new service. How much will it cost? How does it work? Can we get some useful info other than "new mystery service coming soon!!" Slashdot must be partnered with them somehow...giving them free advertising.
Rather than write an OS, they will just buy someone out who already wrote an OS. Then they will take the code base and the technology and add some Google flare to it. They will make one hell of a search feature, to be sure. Oh wait, it's called Google desktop.
....End Conspiracy Theory....
Just look at what they have done lately. Picaso anyone? Keyhole viewer anyone? They are just taking these little companies in for the base apps to their upcoming OS in my conspiracy theory. After all you can't have a good OS without the bloat that comes pre-installed with it.
Watch for Google to buy things like an IM chat client, some cheesy MineSweeper game, and some sort of CD burning software. That gives them basically the core of what you get when installing Windows. All they need is the OS...
Hey, I'd install it when it comes out. Then go straight back to Windows when I need to game. That's the key for anyone trying to contend...make sure you get 100% software compatability, games included. Without that you just won't take over.
Applying to a job you are not qualified for doesn't help you odds of getting a job. Trust me, I know several people who are responsible for sorting through resumes at various tech-related companies. And all of them say they pretty much avoid Monster for exactly the reason you point out. They do stuff like career fairs at universities, where people like you will not come up and talk to them unless you are actually qualified, or at least have something to say.
Seriously, why apply for a job writing C++ if you have never written code? Why apply for a job as a graphic designer if you are a programmer? There's a reason they post the job specifications on there. Just because it only takes you 10 seconds, don't think that they spend any more than 10 seconds throwing away your resume.
At the end of the "boom" times, most Monster job ads supposedly got around 100 resumes each.
Yeah, but the thing is, AFTER the boom time Monster ads were getting 1000's of submitted resumes, because no one had a job. I work for a small company (~40 people) and my boss put up a job desciption on Monster for a C++ programmer with experience...he got hundreds and hundreds of submissions (mostly unqualified) and a lot from over seas, asking to be flown in.
If you submit on Monster, at least only do it if you are qualified. And definitely research who the company is...our company can't afford to be flying people in from India for interviews...Monster works, but submit wisely if you really want to be considered.
I, for one, got FireFox 1.0 from a torrent. Are they counting the people who got it through torrents when they tell us how many downloads they have had since release? (or at least trying to guess)
I doubt it, which means that the number is likely much higher.
Also, consider that probably at least 50% of the slashdot crowd (conservative estimate) went and got it, I would say that we're a very good portion of those downloads...so is it really all that impressive??? How many average users are really getting it?
Let me be the first to say something other than I can't read the article because I can't see. (ha ha)
I wonder if the insurance companies are going to eventually look at us programmers and categorize us as "uninsurable" for eye care because we stare at the monitor all day? I mean, they can turn down or boost rates on smokers because smoking is very bad for your health. So why not boost rates or turn down us computer bound programmers because we will almost certainly suffer from carpal tunnel, or glaucoma or both? I know these are not nearly as expensive or deadly for the most part, but the costs will add up.
As the number of cases increase for people like us, will be be "uninsurable" at least as far as eyecare? Or even for our wrists (no funny Pr0n jokes) or hands, or necks because we sit and type and stare at a monitor for hours on end?
I can just imagine the questions...
1. Do you have a history of heart disease?
2. Do you smoke?
3. Do you have a history of cancer?
4. Are you a computer programmer?
Actually, read the article. he does not consider himself a pirate at all, and makes no claim to the title. Here's the quote from the article.
"There are people that know about what I am doing and believe in it. I just want to be an historian, a gatekeeper. Anything but a pirate. I don't consider myself a pirate."