I wish they had addressed the issue of reliability. I wouldn't have read the review if I had known that they skipped that. Frankly, we need a review of these flash drives that focuses -entirely- on reliability. What's the point of having a data storage device if when you need the data on it, you find the device broken beyond repair?
Taking this a step further, does anyone know if there are any hardware review sites that focus on reliability? Something like Tom's Hardware only for reliability instead of performance? Or maybe like a Consumer Reports for computers instead of cars? It seems more and more these days, people don't seem to give a flying f*ck about reliability, but only performance, and maybe that's okay when you are some gamer who's going to throw the old card out after three months because you upgrade, but some of us would like our purchase to last longer than the warranty.
And I don't know what the deal is in the US but in Europe it is illegal to ride a bike on the footpath. It is illegal and dangerous since pedestrians change their direction almost at random, an oncoming cyclist does not have time to avoid them.
Not sure if it's illegal here (in the USA), but it's definitely Not Reccomended, for the above reasons, not to mention that most sidewalks are barely wide enough for two pedestrians, nevermind a cyclist trying to pass a ped.
As it is, though, I see people riding their bike on the sidewalk, in the street (going the wrong way (on the wrong side)), etc. In other words, there's a lack of education, and it exists in both drivers and cyclists. I'm partially guilty of this as well.
For example, does anyone know if it's legal to use bike lanes to park in? Or as turn lanes? I generally avoid using bike lanes at all when I am not riding a bike, and I always grimace when I see another driver use them as "handy" passing, turning or parking lanes. My feeling is that they are not called turn lanes, they are not called passing lanes, and they are not called parking lanes. They are called BICYCLE LANES for a reason.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
How can you be so sure? I mean, computers (and the software to run them) are merely tools that can be innappropriately applied (as this book puts forth), but I have reason to believe that open source will help students to learn, at least more about computers.
Haven't you seen a nifty piece of software and wondered "how did they do that?"? With closed source, you may never know, but with open source you can easily get the source and learn from it.
He talked about how software packages make the outrageous claim that they can "make learning fun," when actual learning takes self-discipline, hard work, and effective human teachers.
Learning can - should - be fun. And actually, learning is a fairly natural skill and way of life for most people. It's just that our current education doesn't educate, it forces people to conform.
Does learning take self-discipline? Yes. Hard work? Sometimes. Effective human teachers? Not really, unless you mean examples to learn from. No one is "taught"; people can only learn, but they have to choose to do so and can't be forced to do it.
It isn't as though it would be idintifying the people, it would just know someone/thing passed there. I don't see any privacy issues with something like an IR beam that logs traffic on the trail.
That's not the point. The point is that a lot of people go to the great outdoors to get away from civilization and technology.
Do you remember "Star Trek 5" where Kirk turns off his communicator because he doesn't want to be disturbed? How much more "but it's not invading your privacy" will we have to take until there *is* no more great outdoors?
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I say, keep it anonymous. I know damn well what I'm getting into when I go outdoors (as should anyone who goes outdoors), and I can take care of myself, thank you. If I do something stupid like get lost or die due to lack of planning, that's my fault.
OTOH, I am not above helping people and donating my time to searching for hapless souls who didn't know better. Dead (wo)men don't tell tales; they also don't learn from their mistakes. Everyone should be free to enjoy the great outdoors, but it should also be known that it's not always a picnic, and part of the attraction of such an activity is getting away from it all - "it all" being civilization and all it's trappings, for better or for worse.
Explained the developer: Well, just like an "allegro" or "pianissimo" is just the historical way music is annotated, "switch" and "if" are, for historical reasons, the way code is written.
I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense now (IAAM (I Am A Musician)). "Da Capo" to GOTO the "head" of the musical piece, etc.
I've always thought that music and mathematics were two universal languages; perhaps programming could be the third?
Someone else also mentioned that French used to be the "lingua franca" for science (where do you think the term "lingua franca" came from?), and it reminds me that there have been four "lingua francas" in history: Greek, Latin, French and English. We use the Greek alphabet in mathematics all the time and no one seems to mind.
Seriously, this is fraud, plain and simple. First, call the company (Orbitz and MWI) and tell them to remove all unauthorized charges. Be adamant. Then call your credit card company and appraise them of the situation. When they ask whether you want to file charges for fraud (or something similar) say yes.
Don't let these fuckers have a penny. It's your hardearned money, not theirs.
People will hop over good evidence to read something that will support what they already believe,
Like the bible?
In fact, educated people suffer from this in a far worse manner. Their "facts" have support, and they feel justified in their beliefs because of their intillectual superiority and their education.
Anyone who does not question their beliefs on a daily basis is far from "intellectually superior". The best scientists are the ones that have no ego (or don't let it get in the way of research).
One has only to read about the history of scientific development to see that those most educated are also those most likely to hold on to false information. Stupid people will believe whatever new thing comes along that is more outlandish or spectacular than the last thing they believed.
The moral of the story? Question everything, including yourself and your beliefs.
Zinf Is Not FreeA*p! Just thought you'd like to know, since freeamp.org no longer exists (they had to change the name because of trademark issues or somesuch).
At least when I been into colocation facilities they had fairly rigorous check-in procedures.
Could have been social engineering. People get sloppy. Might also help to mention that where I used to colocate, they didn't have any kind of security like this. Sure, that was because it was a small hometown ISP, where everyone knew your face and name, but when I went to pick up my server, it was in the same room as an ex-employer's server. I could have easily pulled a couple of cables and walked off with it . ..
Fortunately, I have no ill will towards my previous employer (I am still nominally friends with my old boss), and even if I did, I wouldn't be so petty, or stupid. I mean, if I walked out of there with two servers (or even one that wasn't mine), the friendly secretary probably would have asked me to stop, and if I hadn't, I'm fairly sure she would have called the police.
Smart people DO still get respect if they're not smug about it and have other aspects to their personality.
I don't know where you went to school, but I have to call BULLFUCKINGSHIT! Where I went to school, if you were smart, your best bet was to hide it, or to stay as hidden as possible so as to not get harassed. I spent almost all of my lunches at school in the computer lab with other smart friends because it was dangerous to go to the cafeteria (and, no, it wasn't just because of the food).
Add in to this the fact that American institutionalized education today is not designed to educate, but rather to make people conform, and you have a recipe for the decline and fall of an empire.
Tell you what, Craig, you cut your salary and benefits instead of cutting jobs in the country that made you rich, then we might be more inclined to not call you a traitor.
If we started slapping "Return to sender" stickers on flyers and other unaddressed promotional garbage, would it actually make it back to the companies? Or would the postal service just dispose of it.
Actual story:
After filling out and mailing all the forms at Junkbuster's declaraion page and it not having enough of an effect, I tried this: everything I got in the mail that I didn't want I wrote "Return to sender" on and stuck in the out box. Some of it went back. Most of it the post office stuck back in my mailbox saying "we can't return bulk mail" or some other BS. I just kept writing "Return to sender" on it and sticking it back in the out box.
One day, I got a note in my mailbox from the post office. It said to come down to pick up my mail. So I went down to the post office. As soon as I handed over the note, the clerk took back to the offices. A little later a stern looking man came out and had a little "talk" with me about how they would have to discontinue delivering my mail if I continued to "abuse" the system (I was halfway tempted to continue;).
What it comes down to, even after getting off of all the junk mailing lists, and contacting all the companies that send you junk mail to tell them to FOAD, you will STILL get mail that you can't return to sender or have turned off. For me, it's the flyers I get from the local grocery store, cingular and the penny pincher, even though I never read them.
These ones never have return addresses, and I have been severely tempted to start a movement to get a bill passed in congress to disallow these kind of "mailings" anymore. But, I'm lazy, and most days there's not a thing in my mailbox anymore. Wish I could say the same for spam, but that will be fixed soon . ..
Oh yeah, that's about as do-it-yourself as a ricer putting an 'R' sticker on his Honda Civic to make it go faster (yes, I look down on ricers and case modders and overclockers. losers).
It's somewhat necessary to note that Fairlight is not just a warez group, but also is a famous demoscene participant, having produced leading demos/intros/graphics and music in c64 and pc sections.
Yeah, I was wondering about this, as I happen to consider some of Fairlight's music pretty darn good. It's sad to see this happen, and it makes one a little more paranoid and wondering: isn't it suspicious that a crackdown on these "pirates" will probably effectively eliminate a source of competition for other "intellectual property" groups (the RIAA). Are the BSA, RIAA and MPAA in collusion?
As in, testing potentially dangerous new products on poor (non caucasian, perhaps?) people is sooooo much cheaper in [insert favourite country here]?
Dude, I can't believe you brought up the race card. This isn't about race. As you and many other slashdotters seem to misunderstand (I remember someone with the sig "slashdot: where racism against Indians is ok"), this is not about race; it's about the common (wo)man against greedy soulless corporations.
It would be just as wrong to be testing potentially dangerous new products on rich white bankers as it would on poor southern rednecks, or Indians, or Guatemalans or any human being.
People always get so bent out of shape about it, but fundamentally it's rewarding the people/countries who are willing and able to do the same work for less.
I know many Americans who would be willing to do the same amount of work for less . . . if the cost of living was less.
Capitalism works both ways, you know. Why shouldn't apartments and food be as cheap in America as they are in other places in the world?
And really, all those companies doing outsourcing should move out of America. It's the working classes taxes that are paying for things that businesses take advantage of in America (including patents and trademarks . . . ).
but for everyone else, who just wants to get from point A to point B, reliably, comfortably, safely and in whatever style they prefer, it's great.
Then why don't these people use public transportation? Hell, with public transportation, you don't even have to pay attention to the road!
I just hope this never happens to computers. Or better yet, they should have two kinds of "cars": things which get you from point A to point B and you pay a bunch of money to have worked on because you're not allowed to touch the insides, and automobiles that can be repaired by anyone with some gumption, knowledge and the right tools.
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Taking this a step further, does anyone know if there are any hardware review sites that focus on reliability? Something like Tom's Hardware only for reliability instead of performance? Or maybe like a Consumer Reports for computers instead of cars? It seems more and more these days, people don't seem to give a flying f*ck about reliability, but only performance, and maybe that's okay when you are some gamer who's going to throw the old card out after three months because you upgrade, but some of us would like our purchase to last longer than the warranty.
Not sure if it's illegal here (in the USA), but it's definitely Not Reccomended, for the above reasons, not to mention that most sidewalks are barely wide enough for two pedestrians, nevermind a cyclist trying to pass a ped.
As it is, though, I see people riding their bike on the sidewalk, in the street (going the wrong way (on the wrong side)), etc. In other words, there's a lack of education, and it exists in both drivers and cyclists. I'm partially guilty of this as well.
For example, does anyone know if it's legal to use bike lanes to park in? Or as turn lanes? I generally avoid using bike lanes at all when I am not riding a bike, and I always grimace when I see another driver use them as "handy" passing, turning or parking lanes. My feeling is that they are not called turn lanes, they are not called passing lanes, and they are not called parking lanes. They are called BICYCLE LANES for a reason.
How can you be so sure? I mean, computers (and the software to run them) are merely tools that can be innappropriately applied (as this book puts forth), but I have reason to believe that open source will help students to learn, at least more about computers.
Haven't you seen a nifty piece of software and wondered "how did they do that?"? With closed source, you may never know, but with open source you can easily get the source and learn from it.
Learning can - should - be fun. And actually, learning is a fairly natural skill and way of life for most people. It's just that our current education doesn't educate, it forces people to conform.
Does learning take self-discipline? Yes. Hard work? Sometimes. Effective human teachers? Not really, unless you mean examples to learn from. No one is "taught"; people can only learn, but they have to choose to do so and can't be forced to do it.
That's not the point. The point is that a lot of people go to the great outdoors to get away from civilization and technology.
Do you remember "Star Trek 5" where Kirk turns off his communicator because he doesn't want to be disturbed? How much more "but it's not invading your privacy" will we have to take until there *is* no more great outdoors?
OTOH, I am not above helping people and donating my time to searching for hapless souls who didn't know better. Dead (wo)men don't tell tales; they also don't learn from their mistakes. Everyone should be free to enjoy the great outdoors, but it should also be known that it's not always a picnic, and part of the attraction of such an activity is getting away from it all - "it all" being civilization and all it's trappings, for better or for worse.
I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense now (IAAM (I Am A Musician)). "Da Capo" to GOTO the "head" of the musical piece, etc.
I've always thought that music and mathematics were two universal languages; perhaps programming could be the third?
Someone else also mentioned that French used to be the "lingua franca" for science (where do you think the term "lingua franca" came from?), and it reminds me that there have been four "lingua francas" in history: Greek, Latin, French and English. We use the Greek alphabet in mathematics all the time and no one seems to mind.
Don't let these fuckers have a penny. It's your hardearned money, not theirs.
Like the bible?
Anyone who does not question their beliefs on a daily basis is far from "intellectually superior". The best scientists are the ones that have no ego (or don't let it get in the way of research).
The moral of the story? Question everything, including yourself and your beliefs.
To get more page hits from frothing at the mouth Linux zealots?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Clam Anti-Virus yet. They even have a Windows port and a Windows GUI frontend.
Zinf Is Not FreeA*p! Just thought you'd like to know, since freeamp.org no longer exists (they had to change the name because of trademark issues or somesuch).
Could have been social engineering. People get sloppy. Might also help to mention that where I used to colocate, they didn't have any kind of security like this. Sure, that was because it was a small hometown ISP, where everyone knew your face and name, but when I went to pick up my server, it was in the same room as an ex-employer's server. I could have easily pulled a couple of cables and walked off with it . .
Fortunately, I have no ill will towards my previous employer (I am still nominally friends with my old boss), and even if I did, I wouldn't be so petty, or stupid. I mean, if I walked out of there with two servers (or even one that wasn't mine), the friendly secretary probably would have asked me to stop, and if I hadn't, I'm fairly sure she would have called the police.
I don't know where you went to school, but I have to call BULLFUCKINGSHIT! Where I went to school, if you were smart, your best bet was to hide it, or to stay as hidden as possible so as to not get harassed. I spent almost all of my lunches at school in the computer lab with other smart friends because it was dangerous to go to the cafeteria (and, no, it wasn't just because of the food).
Add in to this the fact that American institutionalized education today is not designed to educate, but rather to make people conform, and you have a recipe for the decline and fall of an empire.
Tell you what, Craig, you cut your salary and benefits instead of cutting jobs in the country that made you rich, then we might be more inclined to not call you a traitor.
Or is is some police surveillance thing, a 'mob logger', that keeps track of groups of insurgents?
Also, WTF is a 'zine'? Is it some type of italian dressing? Maybe a kind of pizza from the middle east?
You forgot to misgrammatize "closer".
Actual story:
After filling out and mailing all the forms at Junkbuster's declaraion page and it not having enough of an effect, I tried this: everything I got in the mail that I didn't want I wrote "Return to sender" on and stuck in the out box. Some of it went back. Most of it the post office stuck back in my mailbox saying "we can't return bulk mail" or some other BS. I just kept writing "Return to sender" on it and sticking it back in the out box.
One day, I got a note in my mailbox from the post office. It said to come down to pick up my mail. So I went down to the post office. As soon as I handed over the note, the clerk took back to the offices. A little later a stern looking man came out and had a little "talk" with me about how they would have to discontinue delivering my mail if I continued to "abuse" the system (I was halfway tempted to continue
What it comes down to, even after getting off of all the junk mailing lists, and contacting all the companies that send you junk mail to tell them to FOAD, you will STILL get mail that you can't return to sender or have turned off. For me, it's the flyers I get from the local grocery store, cingular and the penny pincher, even though I never read them.
These ones never have return addresses, and I have been severely tempted to start a movement to get a bill passed in congress to disallow these kind of "mailings" anymore. But, I'm lazy, and most days there's not a thing in my mailbox anymore. Wish I could say the same for spam, but that will be fixed soon . .
Then why isn't AXA suing the people who bought the ads? As far as I can tell, Google doesn't count as a competitor, detractor or freeloader to AXA.
This habit of suing the messenger is getting highly annoying.
Oh yeah, that's about as do-it-yourself as a ricer putting an 'R' sticker on his Honda Civic to make it go faster (yes, I look down on ricers and case modders and overclockers. losers).
Yeah, I was wondering about this, as I happen to consider some of Fairlight's music pretty darn good. It's sad to see this happen, and it makes one a little more paranoid and wondering: isn't it suspicious that a crackdown on these "pirates" will probably effectively eliminate a source of competition for other "intellectual property" groups (the RIAA). Are the BSA, RIAA and MPAA in collusion?
Dude, I can't believe you brought up the race card. This isn't about race. As you and many other slashdotters seem to misunderstand (I remember someone with the sig "slashdot: where racism against Indians is ok"), this is not about race; it's about the common (wo)man against greedy soulless corporations.
It would be just as wrong to be testing potentially dangerous new products on rich white bankers as it would on poor southern rednecks, or Indians, or Guatemalans or any human being.
I know many Americans who would be willing to do the same amount of work for less . . . if the cost of living was less.
Capitalism works both ways, you know. Why shouldn't apartments and food be as cheap in America as they are in other places in the world?
And really, all those companies doing outsourcing should move out of America. It's the working classes taxes that are paying for things that businesses take advantage of in America (including patents and trademarks . . . ).
Then why don't these people use public transportation? Hell, with public transportation, you don't even have to pay attention to the road!
I just hope this never happens to computers. Or better yet, they should have two kinds of "cars": things which get you from point A to point B and you pay a bunch of money to have worked on because you're not allowed to touch the insides, and automobiles that can be repaired by anyone with some gumption, knowledge and the right tools.