To my knowledge, there are no longer any unix-like systems that have such a limit.... (Anyone know of a system that does?)
Not Unix-like, but Windows 2000 server does this very thing - it limits you to 2 active sessions through terminal services unless you pay to "upgrade". Wonderfully crippled multi-user functionality.
Imagine Microsoft coming out, guns blazing, against buggy software, vendor lock-in, software monopolies, immoral and anti-competitive tactics and sundry other things for which they've been (rightfully or not) crucified in the past. Would you say "bah, it's Microsoft, fuhgedaboudit"?
no console has sold for more then $199.99 (I might be mistaken on the ones that came with a game, but back in the 80's with the NES my parents got my sister and me the NES with Mario, Duck Hunt & Track & Field (or whatever it was called) with the light gun and power pad for $199.99, same with the SNES when it was released with 2 controllers & Super Mario World)
MANY consoles have sold for more than $199.99. The Atari VCS was $249.99 in the early days, for one. Your NES/SNES purchases happened well into the life of those consoles - people who bought them earlier paid well over $199.99 for them.
Hell, the 3D0 was well into the $700 range, even if it was a niche release.
An intelligent person is willing to adjust to some changes in life, make some sacrifices, and just about do anything to ensure they can continue to survive. A truly intelligent person is also willing to take a "normal" job, if it means paying the bills - if the alternative is to sit around moping about how unfair life is because there are no jobs suited for them.
Whether or not this correlates to a high IQ is another matter entirely.
Or, apparently as RIDICULOUS as trying to spell English words correctly.
Since it's April 1st, can I beat you mercilessly with a club until you remove that annoying fucking E from a word which never is spelled with an E, doesn't sound in the least like it has an E in it, and hell, just the presence of the E makes the Universe tremble in terror?
Others have mentioned the normal reason, that being the issue with patches being reverse-engineered in order to generate an exploit. Of course, that doesn't apply in a situation such as this, where we ALREADY HAVE AN EXPLOIT.
Work in a large enough company and you'll find the real reason: politics.
If Microsoft sticks to their once-a-month patch schedule, and your network gets hosed before the patch comes out, you can use the excuse "but there wasn't a patch available!". Everyone calms down, knowing that there simply isn't anything that could have been done.
If Microsoft releases patches immediately, and you don't patch THAT SECOND, your arse is on the line. If you wait until your monthly outage window (or whatever), and something nasty happens in the meantime, you're the bad guy. No matter what SLA you've set up, no matter what testing routine has been agreed upon, no matter what the business will and won't let you do: IT'S YOUR FAULT.
IT departments, and buyers, used to scream at Microsoft because of this. Microsoft switched to a regular, infrequent patch release schedule as a result. It's stupid, it's childish, and it's the way many (if not most) large corporations run.
True story: Zobot whacked us, hard. We knew about it, we had the patch, but weren't able to test and deploy in time. Regular maintenance windows, etc. The cost in terms of downtime was enormous. EVERYONE pointed at IT, saying we should patch ASAP from now on.
A few weeks later, a similar patch was released, with similarly dangerous implications. Tried to rush a patch cycle in that night, and were flat out refused. We even pointed to Zobot, and the clear written requests from management TELLING US TO PATCH ASAP next time. Still, they refused, as we didn't want to inconvenience users. Fortunately, no one brought an infected laptop in during the next week or two.
Needless to say, I'm overjoyed to not have to maintain Windows machines anymore;)
Excel is the best piece of software MS has ever released, hands down. I've weaned myself off of the MS teat and found that the alternatives are usually better, but NOTHING compared to Excel for what it's good for. It's up there in my all-time favourite list of software, from anyone.
Interestingly enough, the Excel team at MS is their own little entity. Years ago they were unhappy with the results of their builds, so they wrote their own compiler. These guys like to make sure their software is SOLID. This is also one of the reasons Excel has a thousand little quirks that make it feel just slightly different than the rest of the Office suite.
Plus, email compresses amazingly well. That 2GB (note: I'm fast approaching 3GB on mine, don't know if this is true for all) doesn't really translate into 2GB of disk space. Most email is still just text, or HTML, while webpages often are loaded with pictures which don't compress very well.
Also, gmail is a pain to use for bulk file storage/transfer between friends. Small attachment sizes, etc. Googlepages would be ideal for putting up say 2GB of mp3s to share, and all of that WOULD get used, and used often.
Post-dating cheques is (from what I understand) either illegal or just not useful in the US - due to exactly what we're talking about here. Your money must be present in the account when you write the cheque (barring overdraft protection, etc).
In Canada, post-dating cheques is very legal, and very common. The provincial insurance companies accept post-dated cheques for payments due in the future, so it's certainly legal at that level.
I ran into this years and years ago when I first computerized the books for a small business - the vendor didn't provide any functionality for tracking post-dated cheques (they were a US vendor, and we were their first Canadian customer). When we called to request this feature, their response was "but post-dating cheques is illegal!". Pretty funny at the time. It took them over a year to get this functionality working right, incidentally.
Oh, and the banks here WILL honour post-dates. If I cash a cheque earlier than the day it is dated for, it usually gets caught. If it goes through by accident, it will be reversed (not as an NSF) and it's up to me to collect the money from the cheque writer.
Calgary, Albeta - although nearly every major Alberta town and city is experiencing similar times. ESPECIALLY if you're willing to live in the middle of nowhere for a few years.
It's been interesting to see the parade of sob stories over the past few years, ever since the bubble burst. It amazes me how many people seem to have trouble finding work, yet there are posters always saying they can't find anyone decent to work for them. Guess what? We're all from different parts of the world, and things are different in different areas.
I can only speak for Canada (as it can be very difficult to emmigrate sometimes), but I see the same things certainly in the US. Some areas have jobs, others don't. So pack your bags and move! It's certainly more productive than whining about it for months, if not years at a stretch.
Here in Canada we have at least one city where no one can find enough people to work. McDonald's is paying $12/hour. Starting IT wages with a bachelor's degree are in the $50,000 range and up. Hell, construction workers make $30/hour for general labour. Take a 6 month course in certain fields, no previous education or experience required, and have fun turning down 6 figure job offers - and no, I'm not exaggerating these numbers. With our dollar fast approaching par with the greenback, the jokes about Canadian salaries don't make much sense anymore.
Yet millions of Canadians sit on their arse, bemoaning the lack of good-paying jobs. Guess what folks, sometimes you have to put a little bit of effort into getting ahead.
That, or you can sit and complain on Slashdot that you haven't found a job in 4 years.
Tattoos were trendy enough 10 years ago with the teen crowd that tattoo-removal shops are seeing a huge increase in business, mostly from (you guessed it!) women in their late 20s who are settling down, having children, and realizing precisely what you've stated.
10 years from now, it'll only be worse, because it seems like every single 18-21 year old female has a tattoo, navel ring, or (usually) both.
And yet like most Slashdot posters parroting this sentiment, you probably stood in line for hours to see Anakin get his limbs graphically sliced off and dunked in lava.
And like most Slashdotters, I would have stood in line for MANY MORE hours to see Anakin get his "limb" graphically inserted into Natalie Portman.
I honestly and truly have no idea which of those machines you'd consider "faster", or better for Half-Life 2. Last I remember, they're both roughly 2Ghz machines in terms of performance. They have different video cards, from different manufacturers, with model numbers that have long since stopped making any sense or indicating any progress line whatsoever.
Whatever happened to 100mhz > 66mhz, and 486 > 386?
You know this is why people are loosing interest in the space program! Useless findings after useless findings are boring people to death.
Honestly what impact will this find have on the scientific community?
No, it's flamebait because you're flaming. "Boring people to death?" Doubtful, considering how much news an event like this generates. There are plenty of people on Slashdot alone talking about this, never mind the thousands of others who don't visit Slashdot.
Having a difference in opinion, even a critical one, is not what makes your post flamebait.
The "wow this is teh ghey! stupid boring scientists, who cares" presentation is what makes it flamebait. Honestly, if you don't care about these stories, DON'T READ THEM. Whining that they don't interest you is pretty boring in and of itself.
To be fair, most all Canadians say "eh", we just don't realize it. It's not as noticable out west, but believe me - our American friends pick up on it almost immediately. Out west it's more of a subvocal grunt than a true spoken word, but it's there.
(Born and raised westerner, first Winnipeg, currently Calgary)
let's be honest, how many people actually look at the source of programs (updates) they install? I am a programmer, and I never looked the code of an Open Source program I installed
The point of open source is not that you PERSONALLY can look at the source to find problems (although you can if you like).
The point is that thousands of other people can. And usually, no one's stopping them from reporting a problem if they do find one.
Admittedly, this leaves gaps (what if no one else looks?), but it works pretty damn well, for the most part.
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To my knowledge, there are no longer any unix-like systems that have such a limit. ... (Anyone know of a system that does?)
Not Unix-like, but Windows 2000 server does this very thing - it limits you to 2 active sessions through terminal services unless you pay to "upgrade". Wonderfully crippled multi-user functionality.
Imagine Microsoft coming out, guns blazing, against buggy software, vendor lock-in, software monopolies, immoral and anti-competitive tactics and sundry other things for which they've been (rightfully or not) crucified in the past. Would you say "bah, it's Microsoft, fuhgedaboudit"?
:)
Yes.
You must be new here
no console has sold for more then $199.99 (I might be mistaken on the ones that came with a game, but back in the 80's with the NES my parents got my sister and me the NES with Mario, Duck Hunt & Track & Field (or whatever it was called) with the light gun and power pad for $199.99, same with the SNES when it was released with 2 controllers & Super Mario World)
MANY consoles have sold for more than $199.99. The Atari VCS was $249.99 in the early days, for one. Your NES/SNES purchases happened well into the life of those consoles - people who bought them earlier paid well over $199.99 for them.
Hell, the 3D0 was well into the $700 range, even if it was a niche release.
An intelligent person is willing to adjust to some changes in life, make some sacrifices, and just about do anything to ensure they can continue to survive. A truly intelligent person is also willing to take a "normal" job, if it means paying the bills - if the alternative is to sit around moping about how unfair life is because there are no jobs suited for them.
Whether or not this correlates to a high IQ is another matter entirely.
Attempting to speak it is as rediculous as
Or, apparently as RIDICULOUS as trying to spell English words correctly.
Since it's April 1st, can I beat you mercilessly with a club until you remove that annoying fucking E from a word which never is spelled with an E, doesn't sound in the least like it has an E in it, and hell, just the presence of the E makes the Universe tremble in terror?
Sorry.
I really hate people who can't spell that word.
how do I get my VHS VCR to work with the new HDTV?
You plug it into the composite video/s-video and audio jacks, just like we've been doing with regular TVs for over 2 decades.
Yeesh, are people seriously this ignorant about technology?
Others have mentioned the normal reason, that being the issue with patches being reverse-engineered in order to generate an exploit. Of course, that doesn't apply in a situation such as this, where we ALREADY HAVE AN EXPLOIT.
;)
Work in a large enough company and you'll find the real reason: politics.
If Microsoft sticks to their once-a-month patch schedule, and your network gets hosed before the patch comes out, you can use the excuse "but there wasn't a patch available!". Everyone calms down, knowing that there simply isn't anything that could have been done.
If Microsoft releases patches immediately, and you don't patch THAT SECOND, your arse is on the line. If you wait until your monthly outage window (or whatever), and something nasty happens in the meantime, you're the bad guy. No matter what SLA you've set up, no matter what testing routine has been agreed upon, no matter what the business will and won't let you do: IT'S YOUR FAULT.
IT departments, and buyers, used to scream at Microsoft because of this. Microsoft switched to a regular, infrequent patch release schedule as a result. It's stupid, it's childish, and it's the way many (if not most) large corporations run.
True story: Zobot whacked us, hard. We knew about it, we had the patch, but weren't able to test and deploy in time. Regular maintenance windows, etc. The cost in terms of downtime was enormous. EVERYONE pointed at IT, saying we should patch ASAP from now on.
A few weeks later, a similar patch was released, with similarly dangerous implications. Tried to rush a patch cycle in that night, and were flat out refused. We even pointed to Zobot, and the clear written requests from management TELLING US TO PATCH ASAP next time. Still, they refused, as we didn't want to inconvenience users. Fortunately, no one brought an infected laptop in during the next week or two.
Needless to say, I'm overjoyed to not have to maintain Windows machines anymore
Other than its existence, no. Developers at MS aren't exactly free to share proprietary code outside of the company.
Suffice it to say that there's a reason Excel is more stable, faster, and overall a cleaner application than the rest of the Office suite.
Excel is the best piece of software MS has ever released, hands down. I've weaned myself off of the MS teat and found that the alternatives are usually better, but NOTHING compared to Excel for what it's good for. It's up there in my all-time favourite list of software, from anyone.
Interestingly enough, the Excel team at MS is their own little entity. Years ago they were unhappy with the results of their builds, so they wrote their own compiler. These guys like to make sure their software is SOLID. This is also one of the reasons Excel has a thousand little quirks that make it feel just slightly different than the rest of the Office suite.
how the, um, bejeepers did your comment get posted?
i'm sorry, but i can't see where this is any kind of interesting comment on the tech world...
is it really "news for nerds"..."stuff that matters"?
Plus, email compresses amazingly well. That 2GB (note: I'm fast approaching 3GB on mine, don't know if this is true for all) doesn't really translate into 2GB of disk space. Most email is still just text, or HTML, while webpages often are loaded with pictures which don't compress very well.
Also, gmail is a pain to use for bulk file storage/transfer between friends. Small attachment sizes, etc. Googlepages would be ideal for putting up say 2GB of mp3s to share, and all of that WOULD get used, and used often.
Post-dating cheques is (from what I understand) either illegal or just not useful in the US - due to exactly what we're talking about here. Your money must be present in the account when you write the cheque (barring overdraft protection, etc).
In Canada, post-dating cheques is very legal, and very common. The provincial insurance companies accept post-dated cheques for payments due in the future, so it's certainly legal at that level.
I ran into this years and years ago when I first computerized the books for a small business - the vendor didn't provide any functionality for tracking post-dated cheques (they were a US vendor, and we were their first Canadian customer). When we called to request this feature, their response was "but post-dating cheques is illegal!". Pretty funny at the time. It took them over a year to get this functionality working right, incidentally.
Oh, and the banks here WILL honour post-dates. If I cash a cheque earlier than the day it is dated for, it usually gets caught. If it goes through by accident, it will be reversed (not as an NSF) and it's up to me to collect the money from the cheque writer.
Calgary, Albeta - although nearly every major Alberta town and city is experiencing similar times. ESPECIALLY if you're willing to live in the middle of nowhere for a few years.
It's been interesting to see the parade of sob stories over the past few years, ever since the bubble burst. It amazes me how many people seem to have trouble finding work, yet there are posters always saying they can't find anyone decent to work for them. Guess what? We're all from different parts of the world, and things are different in different areas.
I can only speak for Canada (as it can be very difficult to emmigrate sometimes), but I see the same things certainly in the US. Some areas have jobs, others don't. So pack your bags and move! It's certainly more productive than whining about it for months, if not years at a stretch.
Here in Canada we have at least one city where no one can find enough people to work. McDonald's is paying $12/hour. Starting IT wages with a bachelor's degree are in the $50,000 range and up. Hell, construction workers make $30/hour for general labour. Take a 6 month course in certain fields, no previous education or experience required, and have fun turning down 6 figure job offers - and no, I'm not exaggerating these numbers. With our dollar fast approaching par with the greenback, the jokes about Canadian salaries don't make much sense anymore.
Yet millions of Canadians sit on their arse, bemoaning the lack of good-paying jobs. Guess what folks, sometimes you have to put a little bit of effort into getting ahead.
That, or you can sit and complain on Slashdot that you haven't found a job in 4 years.
Guess which one of us is happier.
We called that series 'Firefly'.
You're right, it rocked.
Tattoos were trendy enough 10 years ago with the teen crowd that tattoo-removal shops are seeing a huge increase in business, mostly from (you guessed it!) women in their late 20s who are settling down, having children, and realizing precisely what you've stated.
10 years from now, it'll only be worse, because it seems like every single 18-21 year old female has a tattoo, navel ring, or (usually) both.
Do you get paid to post flamebait?
Seriously, it's all I've ever seen this account do.
And yet like most Slashdot posters parroting this sentiment, you probably stood in line for hours to see Anakin get his limbs graphically sliced off and dunked in lava.
And like most Slashdotters, I would have stood in line for MANY MORE hours to see Anakin get his "limb" graphically inserted into Natalie Portman.
I honestly and truly have no idea which of those machines you'd consider "faster", or better for Half-Life 2. Last I remember, they're both roughly 2Ghz machines in terms of performance. They have different video cards, from different manufacturers, with model numbers that have long since stopped making any sense or indicating any progress line whatsoever.
:(
Whatever happened to 100mhz > 66mhz, and 486 > 386?
I think I'm finally an old fart.
how mine sweeper is two player
You didn't know?
Bill is sitting on the other end of the Internet, rapidly moving the mines so that it's impossible to actually win!
He does this to kill time in between counting the emails you've forwarded.
You know this is why people are loosing interest in the space program! Useless findings after useless findings are boring people to death.
Honestly what impact will this find have on the scientific community?
No, it's flamebait because you're flaming. "Boring people to death?" Doubtful, considering how much news an event like this generates. There are plenty of people on Slashdot alone talking about this, never mind the thousands of others who don't visit Slashdot.
Having a difference in opinion, even a critical one, is not what makes your post flamebait.
The "wow this is teh ghey! stupid boring scientists, who cares" presentation is what makes it flamebait. Honestly, if you don't care about these stories, DON'T READ THEM. Whining that they don't interest you is pretty boring in and of itself.
Tactical nukes don't kill people, people kill people.
Still waiting for the NTNA to form.
What about Calvin peeing on a Ford/GM/Dodge logo?
To be fair, most all Canadians say "eh", we just don't realize it. It's not as noticable out west, but believe me - our American friends pick up on it almost immediately. Out west it's more of a subvocal grunt than a true spoken word, but it's there.
(Born and raised westerner, first Winnipeg, currently Calgary)
let's be honest, how many people actually look at the source of programs (updates) they install? I am a programmer, and I never looked the code of an Open Source program I installed
The point of open source is not that you PERSONALLY can look at the source to find problems (although you can if you like).
The point is that thousands of other people can. And usually, no one's stopping them from reporting a problem if they do find one.
Admittedly, this leaves gaps (what if no one else looks?), but it works pretty damn well, for the most part.