Good for Kerry for voting Nay. I'm happy that he did, and I suppose if poor ole Ted Kennedy was able to, he would have done a Nay also. Make be proud to live in Massachusetts.
On the other hand. Obama, Yay? WTF. I'm incredibly disappointed about that. that really caught me off guard. Not like this will make me vote for McCain, but heck this does leave a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to vote for Obama later this year.:-(
I'd like to think that in large corporations in the US, race is usually not a factor in hiring/firing. Now inter-office politics, and employee friendships, race seems to play a bigger factor, but it seems to be less of an issue in hiring.
Makes me wonder about LGPL and other GPL-derivative licenses.. if those are also violating SOX. Things like this do need to be accounted for, but in this case, it might be far too much, for far too little of a return.
...But in reality, I'd say late 2006. Odds are that right after Vista is released, some show-stopper of a bug will be found, and suprise suprise, it will also have an Impact on XP. Something like that could hasten the release of the third service pack for XP. Either that, or some significant technolog change, that requires a large update to be pushed out promptly.
I've used a friends iBook off and on for a numbers of days. It has a great feel to it, and it seems fairly fast, and it's light weight. It fits my simple laptop needs, which is mostly just having WiFi, and being able to let me surf+Write. Plus, the OS is built on Unix and I can get a command prompt easily, and it is sort of nice looking.
So I'm a bit tempted to switch over. The lack of a right mouse button on the iBook itself is sort of stopping me. Along with the fact that if I really looked around, I could probably find a sturdy and lightweight PC laptop in near the same form factor, that would end up going for a cheaper price, and I could just put Linux on it.
Whatever happens, I have to let my HP Omnibook continue to die it's slow death first.
Ended in 1971? Then why in the hell do I have it (Born in 1976) And so does my older sister? (1972). Damn Pennsylvanian doctors, and their outdated methods. Probably learned it from the Amish.
Comcast sending out new remotes? Comcast actually spending money to actually better the customer experience? Oh good sir, you are suck a funny man. Oh my. How you made me laugh. Comcast spending money on their customers? What an absurd idea. If anything, they would charge more money for new remotes.
(Despite my gripes, I have Comcast, and I look forward to the New Tivo/Comcast system)
The grandest challenge would be inventing a portable LCD screen of some sort. OLED that unrolls, or a folding LCD, or whatever.. a portable color screen that consumes low amounts of power would really open the doorway to some very interestign and useful portable devices.
I've used both MCE 2005, and Snapstream's BeyondTV product. And for my needs, Snapstream ends up being a heck of a lot better. It's not perfect, and the interface leaves a bit to be desired when compared to MCE. (MCE's interface looks really good, and is really idiot-prrof and probably a bit better suited for Joe Consumer).
But Snapstream has a lot more features.. (being able to fiddle with the default quality features, plus schedule recompression, and batch jobs than can burn to CD/DVD and the ability to make chapters that will skip commercials.) I look forward to the product evolving a bit more in the future. And hopefully they can snazz up the interface a bit.
..One person (Or group) ruins things for the rest of us. It's only idle speculation on my part, but in such places as Europe, is there a similar sort of thing happening?
Tell me Euro slashdotters, do over-protective and often times fundie/church affiliated groups in your countries have so much clout and control over 'moral' values being shown on your media? Or is this a uniquely US travesty?
I love my country.. I just don't like how everyone else seems to think they need to crap it up with their perceived 'morals.'
Agreed. Jesus fucking bloody christ, I figured that a small amount of slashdotters would comment without reading.. Judging by these replies, a *lot* of people don't read the article, and the mods don't either, since they mod up their un-informative comments.
Shouldn't you also be shunning us, since we take your precious word "football" and use it describe a sport that is nothing like what the rest of the world considers football?
Yea, I'm sorry that we're that stupid too. Tell you what I'll vote for John Kerry to make up for our previous stupidity under the bush administration(s).
(Ok, I lied I would have voted for Kerry anyways..)
God, how incredibly pathetic our country is sometimes. We end up insulting someone (or at least trying to) by calling them trench looking. Ugh. I apologize profusely to the trench readers of slashdot for the idiocy of some parts of the US.
Well if French-looking-Kerry doesn't win, I'll probably pack my happy ass up and move to Canada or some nice German-speaking country in Europe.
Now that the Spell Checker for Firefox is almost as good as IeSpell is for IE (http://www.iespell.com) I've finally switched over to Firefox. And it's become my replacement on my primary Windows PC.
Good, and very informative article. Can't help but thinking that the guy had his heart and mind in the right place when he invented this. I don't think he envisioned big-brother style monitoring as a use...and I also liked the advertising on the side of the blog ("Reach Technologically savvy people"), and how it has anti Bush-Cheney books listed. Apparently those of us who are techno-literate are also anti-Bush...
Someone who reads the forums is "Behind this" it's not something made up to generate site hits/traffic. Anyways all of this was originally posted by a user on the forums...(Which is sort of it's own entity aside from the frontpage..) It's meant as something funny and I think everyone is pretty damn sure this isn't an elaborate scan by SA's owner to generate more pagehits. (Is this where we put the:rolleyes: smiley?)
Oh, you won't install flash! YOU REBEL! Sock it to em in the gnu/linux way. or whatever bizarre rationale that you're applying that won't let you install flash.
Geez. It's a flash ad. Either ignore it like 99% of the population does or configure your Proxomitron/Squid/Etc to strip the dern things out of the websites. Having a flash ad doesn't mean that they have sold their soul and abandoned all of their journalistic integrity.
Taking angry calls from people who think ie is the internet and trying to fix some computer completely loaded with spyware over the phone sounds like a 40 hour a week root cannel to me.
Gee, you make my job seem so horrible. Thanks a million buddy!:-)
Actually, having done tech support for ~50 hours a week for the meager sum of $11 per hour, I can say that exploiting the freelance tech support market is much much more lucrative. Is it consistent? No, not at all. But I'm lucky enough to have a bunch of friends at Northwestern, and the well moneyed college kids don't seem to balk at paying $25 per hour of Daddy's money, so I can fix Kazaa on their laptop.
But it's paying my rent so far. And I have enough left over to buy some cigarettes. Yay.
Yea, and unless you're running Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1, it ends up being a bizarre ritual that takes into the 3rd level of hell when you try to get everything working.
MythTV has more features, and it works slightly better, BUT.. It's a pain to config and setup, and don't even get me started on the hell of making LIRC work with MythTV, on Redhat.
Freevo is nice only because it puts everything together, in a slightly simpler package than MythTv. But it lacks features.. Hrm.
Recently my roommate and I each built PVR boxes, and in the end, I heard a lot less swearing, and cussing from him, because he went with a Windows (XP) solution. He's using the Snapstream 3.0 Beta.. Pretty much does everything that Freevo/Myth does.. except you don't go insane when installing it. But yeah, if you can't get beyond having to run windows, then try MythTv or Freevo.
Ok What I did after losing my beautiful Motorola Contracting job was to kind of be depressed for about 2 weeks. I mean I didn't ahve it bad or anything, but I felt sorry for 2 of my co-workers who had pregnant wives. So yeah it sucked for them. And I just uh kinda slept.
But After that I had 3 glorious months of over competition for every job out there. So I took myself out of the running for a corporate job, and applied at some small local ISP's. I got hired by one as a tech support worker for $10 per hour. Not enough to survive on my own with, but enough to share a house with 4 others.
It's Loud, the Dialup support calls were hell, and the roommate were messy. But they bumped my a the secondary Unix admin after 3 months. (see as how that was my previous job) So may pay went up agood amount. And I still live with 4 loud roommates, and I save all of my money.
I kinda hope to return to the corporate world eventually, but that's just for the money. I love my Small ISP, and it's employees, and my free SDSL access.
In the same boat. Age 26. No degree. But wishing I had one, and the college.
Why? College would have been good for picking up some programming skills, and for also having time to practice them in a non real world situation. I learned perl a few years back since I needed to. No time to dick around with it, I had to figure it out fast and accuratly, or potentially break somethng. No pressure, eh?
But I also miss the social aspects of college. I'd go see my friends at UT on the weekends, party with them, and think "hey this is great" and then realize I had a sendmail server that was paging me for a restart.
So go to college. Rack up some student loans, learn some code, party your ass off, and get a good edumacation.;-)
With the whole recessed tech market, that also makes having a degree more valuable. Althou if you take my Unix admin job away from me, I'll kill ya.;-)
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Good for Kerry for voting Nay. I'm happy that he did, and I suppose if poor ole Ted Kennedy was able to, he would have done a Nay also. Make be proud to live in Massachusetts.
On the other hand. Obama, Yay? WTF. I'm incredibly disappointed about that. that really caught me off guard. Not like this will make me vote for McCain, but heck this does leave a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to vote for Obama later this year. :-(
So long as its not fortran, you're in good hands.
So long as its not fortran, you're in good hands.
I'd like to think that in large corporations in the US, race is usually not a factor in hiring/firing. Now inter-office politics, and employee friendships, race seems to play a bigger factor, but it seems to be less of an issue in hiring.
Makes me wonder about LGPL and other GPL-derivative licenses.. if those are also violating SOX. Things like this do need to be accounted for, but in this case, it might be far too much, for far too little of a return.
...But in reality, I'd say late 2006. Odds are that right after Vista is released, some show-stopper of a bug will be found, and suprise suprise, it will also have an Impact on XP. Something like that could hasten the release of the third service pack for XP. Either that, or some significant technolog change, that requires a large update to be pushed out promptly.
Jesus holy metric Christ. /. for a long long time. I swear to god it was like being back on the SA forums.
Funniest post that I've read on
I've used a friends iBook off and on for a numbers of days. It has a great feel to it, and it seems fairly fast, and it's light weight. It fits my simple laptop needs, which is mostly just having WiFi, and being able to let me surf+Write. Plus, the OS is built on Unix and I can get a command prompt easily, and it is sort of nice looking.
So I'm a bit tempted to switch over. The lack of a right mouse button on the iBook itself is sort of stopping me. Along with the fact that if I really looked around, I could probably find a sturdy and lightweight PC laptop in near the same form factor, that would end up going for a cheaper price, and I could just put Linux on it.
Whatever happens, I have to let my HP Omnibook continue to die it's slow death first.
Ended in 1971?
Then why in the hell do I have it (Born in 1976) And so does my older sister? (1972). Damn Pennsylvanian doctors, and their outdated methods. Probably learned it from the Amish.
Comcast sending out new remotes?
Comcast actually spending money to actually better the customer experience?
Oh good sir, you are suck a funny man. Oh my. How you made me laugh. Comcast spending money on their customers? What an absurd idea. If anything, they would charge more money for new remotes.
(Despite my gripes, I have Comcast, and I look forward to the New Tivo/Comcast system)
Ninja.
Sheesh, you shouldn't even have to ask such a question. Ninjas are cooler, for at least the next 18 years.
The grandest challenge would be inventing a portable LCD screen of some sort. OLED that unrolls, or a folding LCD, or whatever.. a portable color screen that consumes low amounts of power would really open the doorway to some very interestign and useful portable devices.
I've used both MCE 2005, and Snapstream's BeyondTV product. And for my needs, Snapstream ends up being a heck of a lot better. It's not perfect, and the interface leaves a bit to be desired when compared to MCE. (MCE's interface looks really good, and is really idiot-prrof and probably a bit better suited for Joe Consumer).
But Snapstream has a lot more features.. (being able to fiddle with the default quality features, plus schedule recompression, and batch jobs than can burn to CD/DVD and the ability to make chapters that will skip commercials.) I look forward to the product evolving a bit more in the future. And hopefully they can snazz up the interface a bit.
..One person (Or group) ruins things for the rest of us. It's only idle speculation on my part, but in such places as Europe, is there a similar sort of thing happening?
Tell me Euro slashdotters, do over-protective and often times fundie/church affiliated groups in your countries have so much clout and control over 'moral' values being shown on your media? Or is this a uniquely US travesty?
I love my country.. I just don't like how everyone else seems to think they need to crap it up with their perceived 'morals.'
Agreed.
Jesus fucking bloody christ, I figured that a small amount of slashdotters would comment without reading.. Judging by these replies, a *lot* of people don't read the article, and the mods don't either, since they mod up their un-informative comments.
RTFA people. RTFA.
Shouldn't you also be shunning us, since we take your precious word "football" and use it describe a sport that is nothing like what the rest of the world considers football?
Yea, I'm sorry that we're that stupid too. Tell you what I'll vote for John Kerry to make up for our previous stupidity under the bush administration(s).
(Ok, I lied I would have voted for Kerry anyways..)
God, how incredibly pathetic our country is sometimes. We end up insulting someone (or at least trying to) by calling them trench looking. Ugh. I apologize profusely to the trench readers of slashdot for the idiocy of some parts of the US.
Well if French-looking-Kerry doesn't win, I'll probably pack my happy ass up and move to Canada or some nice German-speaking country in Europe.
Now that the Spell Checker for Firefox is almost as good as IeSpell is for IE (http://www.iespell.com) I've finally switched over to Firefox. And it's become my replacement on my primary Windows PC.
Good, and very informative article. Can't help but thinking that the guy had his heart and mind in the right place when he invented this. I don't think he envisioned big-brother style monitoring as a use. ..and I also liked the advertising on the side of the blog ("Reach Technologically savvy people"), and how it has anti Bush-Cheney books listed. Apparently those of us who are techno-literate are also anti-Bush...
And actually I am. Go Kerry! Lesser of two evils!
Someone who reads the forums is "Behind this" it's not something made up to generate site hits/traffic. Anyways all of this was originally posted by a user on the forums...(Which is sort of it's own entity aside from the frontpage..) It's meant as something funny and I think everyone is pretty damn sure this isn't an elaborate scan by SA's owner to generate more pagehits. (Is this where we put the :rolleyes: smiley?)
Oh, you won't install flash!
YOU REBEL! Sock it to em in the gnu/linux way. or whatever bizarre rationale that you're applying that won't let you install flash.
Geez. It's a flash ad. Either ignore it like 99% of the population does or configure your Proxomitron/Squid/Etc to strip the dern things out of the websites. Having a flash ad doesn't mean that they have sold their soul and abandoned all of their journalistic integrity.
Quit being so damn elitist.
Taking angry calls from people who think ie is the internet and trying to fix some computer completely loaded with spyware over the phone sounds like a 40 hour a week root cannel to me.
:-)
Gee, you make my job seem so horrible. Thanks a million buddy!
Actually, having done tech support for ~50 hours a week for the meager sum of $11 per hour, I can say that exploiting the freelance tech support market is much much more lucrative. Is it consistent? No, not at all. But I'm lucky enough to have a bunch of friends at Northwestern, and the well moneyed college kids don't seem to balk at paying $25 per hour of Daddy's money, so I can fix Kazaa on their laptop.
But it's paying my rent so far. And I have enough left over to buy some cigarettes. Yay.
Yea, and unless you're running Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1, it ends up being a bizarre ritual that takes into the 3rd level of hell when you try to get everything working.
MythTV has more features, and it works slightly better, BUT.. It's a pain to config and setup, and don't even get me started on the hell of making LIRC work with MythTV, on Redhat.
Freevo is nice only because it puts everything together, in a slightly simpler package than MythTv. But it lacks features.. Hrm.
Recently my roommate and I each built PVR boxes, and in the end, I heard a lot less swearing, and cussing from him, because he went with a Windows (XP) solution. He's using the Snapstream 3.0 Beta.. Pretty much does everything that Freevo/Myth does.. except you don't go insane when installing it. But yeah, if you can't get beyond having to run windows, then try MythTv or Freevo.
Ok What I did after losing my beautiful Motorola Contracting job was to kind of be depressed for about 2 weeks. I mean I didn't ahve it bad or anything, but I felt sorry for 2 of my co-workers who had pregnant wives. So yeah it sucked for them. And I just uh kinda slept.
But After that I had 3 glorious months of over competition for every job out there. So I took myself out of the running for a corporate job, and applied at some small local ISP's. I got hired by one as a tech support worker for $10 per hour. Not enough to survive on my own with, but enough to share a house with 4 others.
It's Loud, the Dialup support calls were hell, and the roommate were messy. But they bumped my a the secondary Unix admin after 3 months. (see as how that was my previous job) So may pay went up agood amount. And I still live with 4 loud roommates, and I save all of my money.
I kinda hope to return to the corporate world eventually, but that's just for the money. I love my Small ISP, and it's employees, and my free SDSL access.
In the same boat. Age 26. No degree. But wishing I had one, and the college.
;-)
;-)
Why? College would have been good for picking up some programming skills, and for also having time to practice them in a non real world situation. I learned perl a few years back since I needed to. No time to dick around with it, I had to figure it out fast and accuratly, or potentially break somethng. No pressure, eh?
But I also miss the social aspects of college. I'd go see my friends at UT on the weekends, party with them, and think "hey this is great" and then realize I had a sendmail server that was paging me for a restart.
So go to college. Rack up some student loans, learn some code, party your ass off, and get a good edumacation.
With the whole recessed tech market, that also makes having a degree more valuable. Althou if you take my Unix admin job away from me, I'll kill ya.
Finding beer pubs.
And idea who's time has finally come.
Ingenious, and tasty.