It's a great school, with incredible opportunities and a good support system, I loved it there.
Besides, in the long run it doesn't matter... once I got my first job, not a single person (other than CMU grads) has cared that I'm an alum. Some of my smartest colleagues have degrees from 'lesser' institutions, and some of the dumbest people I've ever met have degrees from 'better' institutions. It's just a name on a piece of paper once you're gone.
College is what you make of it. You can go to the best school in the country and get nothing out of it if you put nothing into it. Likewise, you can go to anywhere on earth and get a great education if you're willing to work for it.
Ahh, but it does. You see they are paying for the call, generally long distance.
but didn't you know? they only pay a buck for the first five minutes...
I have never, ever, EVER had UPS ring my doorbell. In any of three homes. The best was when I was waiting at home for a Palm that I ordered...
I was sitting downstairs, within *sight* of the front door all morning. Not a sound. Went upstairs to check the tracking info, and it said it was delivered 2 hours ago. Looked outside, nowhere to be seen. Checked the web again, delivered 2 hours ago. Looked out on the back porch... there's the poor little box, in POURING RAIN.
luckily the manufacturer's box was shrink-wrapped.
y'all realize that alpha *is* dead, don't you? the current processor being developed will be the last. intel bought the entire group that designs the chip, along with all the IP... the artist formerly known as compaq is porting tru64 & VMS to itanium, and that's that.
The score is a bit of voodoo they play with your credit report that not only checks your payment history, but your credit use history as well.
Perhaps you never carry a balance on any of your cards; fine, but you may end up with a higher interest rate, or reduced credit limit, because by not paying interest you don't generate enough profit for the lender.
Maybe you have a few cards hanging around with zero balances; fine, but that could be seen as a risk that you might decide to run them all up at once, then default.
Only have 1 credit card that you use? Looks like you don't really know how to manage credit all that well.
These are all things that could possibly impact your credit score negatively... only you'll never know, because the FICO Score is a proprietary algorithm, and the number itself is a secret only given to lenders. (who are then discouraged for giving it out to borrowers)
Luckily for us, unless I am mistaken, that should be changing soon, as the Fair, Isaac Co. is saying that it will release the scores, and what goes into them soon.
The media takes great delight in making and breaking heroes and zeros by basically being highly-paid ambulance-chasers. Choke, gasp, gulp. Highly paid? Highly paid? Not print journalists, that's for sure. How does $18K a year sound?
I imagine that the "highly paid" statement was referring to the people who actually *profit* from the newspaper... the owners, chairmen, etc.
If you know (or even suspect) that you'll be too busy to actually go and vote, get an absentee ballot! All the power of a regular vote, but less of the hassle.
if the author sent it directly to the security boys 'n' girls, how did it get into the wild? Either the author isn't on the side of the angels after all or there's a trojan horse in the anti-virus world. Which would be ironic.
I figure that if one person could figure out the hole, someone else could as well. Especially considering that there were enough "hints" in the various and sundry articles notifying the world of the existence of the hole in the first place. Conspiracies aren't necessarily everywhere.
We've got almost 40 years until the end of time as we know it. (or until 64-bit Unix, whichever comes first.) Actually, 64-bit UNIX already exists... Digital UNIX, now known as Tru64 UNIX. -t
The problem with your point of view is that you've never had to endure the scrutiny that the media subjects people to. Is there anything you've ever said that, taken out of context, would make you look bad? Now imagine that your job is at stake for that out-of-context statement. Now imagine that your statement is headlining the six o'clock news. Now you've got a Slashdot icon with your face because there have been so many links submitted about you.
It's not about honesty, it's about scale of exposure and the rabidity of the media/public scrutiny.
You are now officially one of the stereotypes being lampooned by the film. Only your knee-jerk reaction is in the opposite direction.
Not to mention that your "solutions" are completely ridiculous! Pirate the movie? Smuggle kids in? What could you possibly be thinking?
I saw "south park." I loved it. I howled my ass off... but is it really for kids? I'd say not. It's a brilliant satire, but if all you see is animation and a chance to hear little kids swear, you're missing 80% of the movie. And that's all that the younger set will get out of it.
From what I understand all messages from AIM user to AIM user have to go through the AOL machines, why should they have to support all of MS's users too?
As far as I can tell, it is not necessary to be an AOL subscriber to use AIM. In fact, I'm definitely *not* an AOL subscriber, and AIM seems to work just fine on my box. Same with my friends at school who use it.
I'm sure many of us who were at CMU during Declan's rule have memories and stories... Without going into detail, he seemed to be an extraordinarily self-absorbed and reckless kind of a guy....
Audio programming is stored digitally on a non-volatile medium, such as a hard drive, or in a flash EPROM, or other solid state non-volatile memory. The device includes a hard drive, a modem for connection to a data base via an on-line service, a keyboard, a display, and an audio system.
Since they previously state a few different forms of storage media, I doubt they'll have a major problem with just saying "hard drive" in the rest of the text. What I *do* suspect they'll have problems with is the connection... their patent seems to access an on-line database directly, not through a seperate computer or other storage device. We all know that Rio, Empeg, etc. grab the music from your home PC.
Slashdot Mirror
"Fill in the bubble completely" then fed into a scanner.
Double-sided legal sized paper.
Not anymore:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-viacom-20120711,0,3984016.story
It's a great school, with incredible opportunities and a good support system, I loved it there.
Besides, in the long run it doesn't matter... once I got my first job, not a single person (other than CMU grads) has cared that I'm an alum. Some of my smartest colleagues have degrees from 'lesser' institutions, and some of the dumbest people I've ever met have degrees from 'better' institutions. It's just a name on a piece of paper once you're gone.
College is what you make of it. You can go to the best school in the country and get nothing out of it if you put nothing into it. Likewise, you can go to anywhere on earth and get a great education if you're willing to work for it.
holy amway, batman!
:)
scary how similar they sound, minus the mind control.
-t
naw, Q already got rid of all of us DECies w/ the intel deal. at least, about half of us, anyway.
-t
Ahh, but it does. You see they are paying for the call, generally long distance.
but didn't you know? they only pay a buck for the first five minutes...
I have never, ever, EVER had UPS ring my doorbell. In any of three homes. The best was when I was waiting at home for a Palm that I ordered...
I was sitting downstairs, within *sight* of the front door all morning. Not a sound. Went upstairs to check the tracking info, and it said it was delivered 2 hours ago. Looked outside, nowhere to be seen. Checked the web again, delivered 2 hours ago. Looked out on the back porch... there's the poor little box, in POURING RAIN.
luckily the manufacturer's box was shrink-wrapped.
I hate UPS.
-t
y'all realize that alpha *is* dead, don't you? the current processor being developed will be the last. intel bought the entire group that designs the chip, along with all the IP... the artist formerly known as compaq is porting tru64 & VMS to itanium, and that's that.
-disgruntled alpha hardware designer
The score is a bit of voodoo they play with your credit report that not only checks your payment history, but your credit use history as well.
Perhaps you never carry a balance on any of your cards; fine, but you may end up with a higher interest rate, or reduced credit limit, because by not paying interest you don't generate enough profit for the lender.
Maybe you have a few cards hanging around with zero balances; fine, but that could be seen as a risk that you might decide to run them all up at once, then default.
Only have 1 credit card that you use? Looks like you don't really know how to manage credit all that well.
These are all things that could possibly impact your credit score negatively... only you'll never know, because the FICO Score is a proprietary algorithm, and the number itself is a secret only given to lenders. (who are then discouraged for giving it out to borrowers)
Luckily for us, unless I am mistaken, that should be changing soon, as the Fair, Isaac Co. is saying that it will release the scores, and what goes into them soon.
Feh. Bloody credit bandits.
The media takes great delight in making and breaking heroes and zeros by basically being highly-paid ambulance-chasers.
Choke, gasp, gulp. Highly paid? Highly paid? Not print journalists, that's for sure. How does $18K a year sound?
I imagine that the "highly paid" statement was referring to the people who actually *profit* from the newspaper... the owners, chairmen, etc.
-t
If you know (or even suspect) that you'll be too busy to actually go and vote, get an absentee ballot! All the power of a regular vote, but less of the hassle.
-t
I think this advisory kinda proves that people don't know this stuff. Seems to me that many people will be surprised by this one.
Time to deign to speak to lesser mortals, i think, so the word gets out.
-t
I figure that if one person could figure out the hole, someone else could as well. Especially considering that there were enough "hints" in the various and sundry articles notifying the world of the existence of the hole in the first place. Conspiracies aren't necessarily everywhere.
-t
We've got almost 40 years until the end of time as we know it. (or until 64-bit Unix, whichever comes first.) Actually, 64-bit UNIX already exists... Digital UNIX, now known as Tru64 UNIX. -t
The problem with your point of view is that you've never had to endure the scrutiny that the media subjects people to. Is there anything you've ever said that, taken out of context, would make you look bad?
Now imagine that your job is at stake for that out-of-context statement.
Now imagine that your statement is headlining the six o'clock news.
Now you've got a Slashdot icon with your face because there have been so many links submitted about you.
It's not about honesty, it's about scale of exposure and the rabidity of the media/public scrutiny.
-t
Thanks for an insightful comment...glad to see that not all Christians in this country are fanatics of the Christian Coalition variety
/. readers in this country are fanatics of the Columbine variety.
Thanks for an insightful comment... glad to see not all
I just wanted to point out the inherent prejudice and stereotyping in your statement to make you think.
You are now officially one of the stereotypes being lampooned by the film. Only your knee-jerk reaction is in the opposite direction.
Not to mention that your "solutions" are completely ridiculous! Pirate the movie? Smuggle kids in? What could you possibly be thinking?
I saw "south park." I loved it. I howled my ass off... but is it really for kids? I'd say not.
It's a brilliant satire, but if all you see is animation and a chance to hear little kids swear, you're missing 80% of the movie. And that's all that the younger set will get out of it.
Get a grip, Katz.
From what I understand all messages from AIM user to AIM user have to go through the AOL
machines, why should they have to support all of MS's users too?
As far as I can tell, it is not necessary to be an AOL subscriber to use AIM. In fact, I'm definitely *not* an AOL subscriber, and AIM seems to work just fine on my box. Same with my friends at school who use it.
Or did I somehow miss your point?
-t
I'm sure many of us who were at CMU during Declan's rule have memories and stories... Without going into detail, he seemed to be an extraordinarily self-absorbed and reckless kind of a guy....
From the text of the patent:
Audio programming is stored digitally on a non-volatile medium, such as a hard drive, or in a flash EPROM, or other solid state non-volatile memory. The device includes a hard drive, a modem for connection to a data base via an on-line service, a keyboard, a display, and an audio system.
Since they previously state a few different forms of storage media, I doubt they'll have a major problem with just saying "hard drive" in the rest of the text.
What I *do* suspect they'll have problems with is the connection... their patent seems to access an on-line database directly, not through a seperate computer or other storage device. We all know that Rio, Empeg, etc. grab the music from your home PC.
-t
This moderator doesn't have a clue why it's flamebait... Perhaps because of the naughty language? :)
Most likely the addresses were picked up by a spider program going through the web. I didn't get it, and I'm not on the RC-5 /. list.