The details may be fudged a bit in my original post, but here are the facts:
He has applied for, and recieved, more scholarship money than he can spend in a semester (and subsequently actually gets money back for his pocket every December/May).
He has said more than once that some of the local organisations (a Catholic service club and nurse's union spring to mind) he was the only applicant in a given year, and hence one by default.
So while I'm not going to say that there are gazillions of dollars just waiting for a needy to write a few paragraphs, I do think it would be a good idea to apply to everything you can, even those small one-shot deals.
Although it may not be as bad as "consumer debt", student loans will deffinitly hurt you afterwards, especially if you've borrowed a lot. You really want as much free money as possible.
Like I said in another post, apply for all those paltry little scholarships; no one ever does, and you can "MAKE $$$ FAST" as the default winner. Someone also suggested using local resources, such as clubs & professional organisations your parents may belong to: church groups, VFWs, Elks Lodges, unions, all those entities often provide money to help put the squirts (read: you) through school.
No one actually applies for most of the schoolarships out there... I have a nephew that has won a ton of money by virtue of being the only entrant.
Write a generic, flexible essay and, well, crap-flood it everywhere. You'll be amazed at the checks you'll be cashing at the end of the semester, after all of your tuition, housing, and books have been paid by other people...
Mozilla (I'm running 1.4) does have a "threaded" view for email folders; I find it very handy for mailing lists.
So for the previous poster that asked "why doesn't a major email client support this yet?", the Once Great Lizard already does. If by "major email client" you mean an Outlook [Express] derivitive, the::plbbt:: to you.
If I were to say "Go down to the corner of 4th and MLK Blvd, and talk to the guy in the red stocking cap. Tell him Leroy sent you", then that would be an accessory to a crime (purchasing drugs).
<div style="voice:jayLeno">Didja ever wonder why "Martin Luther King Boulevard" is always in the scariest, most violent neighborhoods around the country? Why is that, huh?
Of course, since you think you are content, does any of it matter? Isn't that good enough?
I figured it out!
The original Matrix was so good that people started actually believeing that we are in a Matrix. In order to suppress those ideas, the Machines made sure that the two subsequent movies sucked so much ass that people would rebel against the truth-telling nature of the movies, and hence reject their message.
My god, the conspiracy grows... maybe it was AN AGENT that kill W. Richard Stevens to slow down would-be rebel hackers!!! Maybe Theo deRaddt is actually an Agent trying to harvest the best in human computer security ideas just to make their own systems un-crackable!!!
::shudder:: it boggles the mind... down right hurts to think of such things... and I think that pain is just further proof of a conspiracy... ouch
FWIW, Sprint PCS will do the same thing for you. Not that it matters much to me... with my low usage, I currently have a plan that is cheaper than anything offered. By anyone, in fact.
However, I'm hoping that number portability will lower prices and improve services all around. Despite mediocre reception at my last residence and my current job, I've stuck with Sprint as it has allowed me to keep the only mobile phone number I have ever had; I'm sure others have put up with poor service for a consistent point-of-contact. Now that people can jump ship at will, service providers should be tripping over each other to improve their competitiveness, both with better quality and lower prices.
For the love of gawd, this is a site of geeks and nerds... we tend to do things because we want to, to push boundaries, or just for the bloody hell of it. Who cares what about the usefulnees to other people, or the practical applications. No, Hemmingway's adventures weren't relayed in real time, but that's not the point. If their version of "sit back and enjoy the scenerey" involves also debugging conectivity problems, so be it.
Firing Squad is a gaming site, and their goal is to also make it a workstation, and a 1337 one at that. As such, they dumped money into silly things like LED displays, rounded cables, an uber kewl case, graphics card, DVD burner, etc., all of which upped the price with out improving the performance that one would look for in a "storage server".
First, the last thing I would want is someone doing daily work on such an important computer. I don't need Word or IE to crash & burn and eat the OS with it, rendering everybody else's work unavailable to them.
Second, no comments are made about the OS, or even about what the performance of their "Budget Storage Server" will be. It seems odd that they so blithely dismissed RAID, even though the performance and reliability improvements are known.
Finally, there's no mention of tape backup, pretty much the quickest and cheapest way to archive tons of data; why collect a terrabyte worth of information and leave it to the reliability of the HD?
Based on the title, I was hoping the article would be about a file server with high performance-to-cost ratio, something like integrating a BSD/Samba machine into an mixed NT, MAC, & UNIX enviornment, with some concreate numbers regarding sustained data transfer or multiple users in an office workspace. Instead, it was an article about stuffing 5 HDs into a gaming rig. BFD; I find the case mod articles to be more interesting than that.
Yeah, that's all well and good, but these people aren't really going to realize what the squiggly line means. Showing them the CPU utilization is a waste of time, let along rigging a demo. I can already see their eyes glazzing over as soon as there's something other than Word, "The Internet", or Solitare on the screen.
On the other hand, I don't think it's a crime to be intentionally vauge of what you're giving these charaties, esp. if you're going to the trouble of doing the installs & LAN set-ups. Once they see it in working order, I don't see anyone clamoring to have their new tools taken back from them.
Diebold did not respond to repeated calls for comment, but in an interview with Salon a few weeks ago, company spokesman Joseph Richardson denied the company applied any patches to the Georgia machines.
"We have analyzed that situation and have no indication of that happening at all," he said.
I read that as Diebold saying: "that may have happen, but like our machines, there's no paper trail. Suck it!".
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The loose data is helpful for fuzzy math.
VMS has a file system that automatically does file versioning: saving a file actually creates a new copy.
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Hmm, the holy grail that I seek will not loose any data on a suprise power-down.
Nor will it overwrite important data just because I told it to.
If it was really kick-ass, my file system of choice would also debug my code for me and produce valid HTML & CSS documents. And hide pr0n from my girlfriend.
As you say, it excludes others from making, using, offering to sell, or selling the invention. None of those is an "idea".
And that's where the analogy between the physical world and software breaks down. Patent a working perpetual motion motion machine, and you'll have exclusive rights to sell it for 20 years. But patent one-click internet shopping? What exactly did you invent? You certainly didn't invent the push-button, or it's electronic representation. Nor did you invent "stores", the process of exchanging goods, or their electronic equivalents. All you did was create a process to streamline your business; that is something you do for a competitive advantage, not to license for the good of man kind.
Frankly, I think the Amazon patent and this MS patent should be invalidated by prior art: every time I walk into the local pub the bartender greats me with an update on the local ball games, we talk about stock market activity, and he hands me a beer which goes on my tab (the epitome of no-click checkout).
No user has any business looking at what processes are running on their systems.
Or look at the files on their system, either:
In addition, SunnComm believes that Halderman has violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by disclosing unpublished MediaMax management files placed on a user's computer after user approval is granted.
That's like saying "well, the customer bought the damn horse statue, how dare he bitch about the 100 greek soliders hiding in it".
So, keep printing your old style counterfits. The public will begin to question their authenticity if they are in the minority. The public does that now with new redesigned bills when they are new.
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... I think that was covered in the sibling tic-tac thread.
The details may be fudged a bit in my original post, but here are the facts:
So while I'm not going to say that there are gazillions of dollars just waiting for a needy to write a few paragraphs, I do think it would be a good idea to apply to everything you can, even those small one-shot deals.
Although it may not be as bad as "consumer debt", student loans will deffinitly hurt you afterwards, especially if you've borrowed a lot. You really want as much free money as possible.
Like I said in another post, apply for all those paltry little scholarships; no one ever does, and you can "MAKE $$$ FAST" as the default winner. Someone also suggested using local resources, such as clubs & professional organisations your parents may belong to: church groups, VFWs, Elks Lodges, unions, all those entities often provide money to help put the squirts (read: you) through school.
No one actually applies for most of the schoolarships out there... I have a nephew that has won a ton of money by virtue of being the only entrant.
Write a generic, flexible essay and, well, crap-flood it everywhere. You'll be amazed at the checks you'll be cashing at the end of the semester, after all of your tuition, housing, and books have been paid by other people...
Mozilla (I'm running 1.4) does have a "threaded" view for email folders; I find it very handy for mailing lists.
So for the previous poster that asked "why doesn't a major email client support this yet?", the Once Great Lizard already does. If by "major email client" you mean an Outlook [Express] derivitive, the ::plbbt:: to you.
Great job, guys.
But with all the new found publicity, expect McDonald's laywers to be knocking on your door regarding the obvious trademark infringment...
<div style="voice:jayLeno">Didja ever wonder why "Martin Luther King Boulevard" is always in the scariest, most violent neighborhoods around the country? Why is that, huh?
I figured it out!
The original Matrix was so good that people started actually believeing that we are in a Matrix. In order to suppress those ideas, the Machines made sure that the two subsequent movies sucked so much ass that people would rebel against the truth-telling nature of the movies, and hence reject their message.
My god, the conspiracy grows... maybe it was AN AGENT that kill W. Richard Stevens to slow down would-be rebel hackers!!! Maybe Theo deRaddt is actually an Agent trying to harvest the best in human computer security ideas just to make their own systems un-crackable!!!
::shudder:: it boggles the mind... down right hurts to think of such things... and I think that pain is just further proof of a conspiracy... ouch
Man, can you even buy un-formatted floppy disks anywhere? What a PIA this is gonna be for floppy manufacturers, and end users.
FWIW, Sprint PCS will do the same thing for you. Not that it matters much to me... with my low usage, I currently have a plan that is cheaper than anything offered. By anyone, in fact.
However, I'm hoping that number portability will lower prices and improve services all around. Despite mediocre reception at my last residence and my current job, I've stuck with Sprint as it has allowed me to keep the only mobile phone number I have ever had; I'm sure others have put up with poor service for a consistent point-of-contact. Now that people can jump ship at will, service providers should be tripping over each other to improve their competitiveness, both with better quality and lower prices.
Hmmm... if there's one thing I've learned from this Ask Slashdot, it's to make sure that I remove all of the WS_FTP.LOG files from my website...
For the love of gawd, this is a site of geeks and nerds... we tend to do things because we want to, to push boundaries, or just for the bloody hell of it. Who cares what about the usefulnees to other people, or the practical applications. No, Hemmingway's adventures weren't relayed in real time, but that's not the point. If their version of "sit back and enjoy the scenerey" involves also debugging conectivity problems, so be it.
Funny, my girlfriend also rated me as a "Mild Disappointment". I too, cited a lack QA testing, but she just wasn't hearing it.
Man... if only I could find a whole community of QA testers...
Firing Squad is a gaming site, and their goal is to also make it a workstation, and a 1337 one at that. As such, they dumped money into silly things like LED displays, rounded cables, an uber kewl case, graphics card, DVD burner, etc., all of which upped the price with out improving the performance that one would look for in a "storage server".
First, the last thing I would want is someone doing daily work on such an important computer. I don't need Word or IE to crash & burn and eat the OS with it, rendering everybody else's work unavailable to them.
Second, no comments are made about the OS, or even about what the performance of their "Budget Storage Server" will be. It seems odd that they so blithely dismissed RAID, even though the performance and reliability improvements are known.
Finally, there's no mention of tape backup, pretty much the quickest and cheapest way to archive tons of data; why collect a terrabyte worth of information and leave it to the reliability of the HD?
Based on the title, I was hoping the article would be about a file server with high performance-to-cost ratio, something like integrating a BSD/Samba machine into an mixed NT, MAC, & UNIX enviornment, with some concreate numbers regarding sustained data transfer or multiple users in an office workspace. Instead, it was an article about stuffing 5 HDs into a gaming rig. BFD; I find the case mod articles to be more interesting than that.
Jebus, where is my "-2, Redundant AND Wrong" mod option?
Yeah, that's all well and good, but these people aren't really going to realize what the squiggly line means. Showing them the CPU utilization is a waste of time, let along rigging a demo. I can already see their eyes glazzing over as soon as there's something other than Word, "The Internet", or Solitare on the screen.
On the other hand, I don't think it's a crime to be intentionally vauge of what you're giving these charaties, esp. if you're going to the trouble of doing the installs & LAN set-ups. Once they see it in working order, I don't see anyone clamoring to have their new tools taken back from them.
parent should read: "I voted; like my /. posts, I expressed comfortable opinions that my internet peers agreed with. Yea followers!"
from the article:
I read that as Diebold saying: "that may have happen, but like our machines, there's no paper trail. Suck it!".
The loose data is helpful for fuzzy math.
VMS has a file system that automatically does file versioning: saving a file actually creates a new copy.
Hmm, the holy grail that I seek will not loose any data on a suprise power-down.
Nor will it overwrite important data just because I told it to.
If it was really kick-ass, my file system of choice would also debug my code for me and produce valid HTML & CSS documents. And hide pr0n from my girlfriend.
And that's where the analogy between the physical world and software breaks down. Patent a working perpetual motion motion machine, and you'll have exclusive rights to sell it for 20 years. But patent one-click internet shopping? What exactly did you invent? You certainly didn't invent the push-button, or it's electronic representation. Nor did you invent "stores", the process of exchanging goods, or their electronic equivalents. All you did was create a process to streamline your business; that is something you do for a competitive advantage, not to license for the good of man kind.
Frankly, I think the Amazon patent and this MS patent should be invalidated by prior art: every time I walk into the local pub the bartender greats me with an update on the local ball games, we talk about stock market activity, and he hands me a beer which goes on my tab (the epitome of no-click checkout).
Yeah, why isn't this in the "It's Funny. Laugh." category?
Or look at the files on their system, either:
That's like saying "well, the customer bought the damn horse statue, how dare he bitch about the 100 greek soliders hiding in it".
Bah. I implemented eXtream Programming just so I can save money on montiors & computers & crap.
... and the public does this now with $2 bills.
And to top that off, I have a bicentenial $2 bill that looks nothing like the other $2 bills out there.
Then there are those mysterious bills that say "sliver certificate". How the hell are we ever supposed to know what is money and what isn't?