I've seen quite a few programmers, and I'm thinking
a good percentage will be adversely affected by
coffee LONG before they reproduce (and no, this
has nothing to do with the quantity of coffee they drink)
if more people would do this, we would have an
abundant supply of capable PC techs in the IT
industry instead of the morons that are now the
majority.
people need to learn to be flexible, and throwing
10 different systems at someone and telling them
to try to install (insert your OS here) on them
will force them to become flexible and creatively
resourceful.
ordering 100 Dells and handing them to students
could never inspire the same sort of learning
experience...
Comcast is snatching up large numbers of infrastructure-
type people in the Philadelphia area and Trenton,
NJ area to build this beast out. They have already
recruited two of my friends, and I was thinking
about trying to get my foot in the door, but the
commute is just too long for me =(
I really hope they create a nice, clean, SIMPLE
network that will beat the pants off most others...
it's YOUR responsibility to know what's in the
@home AUP, and since it specifically points out that
servers are NOT allowed, their actions were completely
justified. I personally think this sucks, but
hey, if you're gonna break rules, don;t complain
when you get caught.
On another front, please get a fucking clue before
spouting your "at-home is anti-gnu...waaaah".
the fact of the matter is, @home doesnt give a
flying fuck if you're running httpd and ftpd on
windows, linux, mac, etc. they do NOT allow it, period!
The music industry stands screaming about artists
royalties, and the fact that they created something
that everyone is trying to get for free.
The industry fails to tell you that typically less
than $1.00 of each $20 cd you buy goes to the
artist for their hard work, and we all know how
much blank cdr's cost (hence labels MUST be paying
a fraction of that cost at the gargantuan quantity
they buy).
Why can't they just come out and tell the world that
they are a bunch of greedy fucks that see their
world and their riches slipping by after decades
of putting out one-hit albums and screwing artists?
The world has fundamentally changed in that people
do NOT feel that the music is worth $20 per cd, and
do NOT feel it's fair to get home after buying
the majority of the cd's out there only to find
TEN filler songs for every hit! Music has become
free in minds, though not in fact.
$500 seems like quite a ripoff when I can meander
over to egghead.com or any other auction house
and get a nice HP refurb with great features for UNDER
$500...
I mean, I know HP's are not the greatest machine
in the world, but they are still 1000 times more
attractive and expandable to J. Random Buyer
than an appliance.
if you will notice that most of the more recent
SCSI devices have gone to the LVD technology...
this is due to the fact that every time a faster
SCSI standard emerged, the max cable length was
reduced to a fraction of the previous standard.
LVD and HVD were introduced to combat this problem
while maintaining speed. I'm not sure about the
max cable length of LVD, but HVD is at least 25
meters max length, which makes it more than sufficient for
future desktop devices should cable lengths start
to again shrink with future speed increases...
I find it extremely annoying that varying types
of SCSI terminators with the same number of pins
are not labeled by the OEM as HVD, LVD, etc...
I have a zillion terminators here for normal SCSI
devices and a few HVD for my tape libraries and
it's impossible to determine (to my knowledge)
which is which... ugh
If I were you, I would buy whatever car I wanted
and tell my friends to buy their own damned cars.
why should I have to drive around in a 4 mile-per-
gallon monstrosity when hockey equipment for one person
will fit in many nice little cars (*cough* Audi TT *cough*)
This should have been more appropriately called
"Top 50 games of the decade". I mean, I'm glad
they included Zork, Doom, and a few other "classics",
but where in the world were ground-breaking
games like Gauntlet, Pacman, Space Harrier,
AfterBurner, etc??
with the possible exception of Shrek?
on
Review: Rush Hour 2
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Maybe I was smoking crack during that movie, but
I found it to be minimally funny. The only value
I found it to truly possess was amazing computer
graphic rendition.
With that being said, I'm wondering how great Rush
Hour 2 could possibly be if you place it just
below Shrek in bang-for-buck...
You are right in that allowing me fair use probably does not bother the recording companies, and indeed does allow everyone and their brother to run amok with piracy...
the statement I will pose, though, was originally made by Courtney Love in her outlash against the industry's condemnation of Napster et al (paraphrased):
The recording industry has spent decades now
making music commodity, and now that it IS,
they're pissed!
I think that there is a significant portion of the world out there that no longer feels that music should cost money (or maybe it shouldn't cost $19 for a cd with two good songs on it)
I just *love* how anyone who wants to do any of the following is labeled a "pirate" by the music industry now:
-burn copies of cd's so it's not necessary to keep $1800 (100 disks) worth of original cd's in the car
-play cd's on high-end car audio head units that are really the more high-quality cd-rom drives and not the dumbed-down cd players that hav no problem with corrupt and missing data
-rip and encode 300 cd's and place on 30 mp3 cdr's for use with high-end car audio cd-mp3 players
-countless other activities
I would personally be very pissed of if I was one of the companies that have taken risks to bring portable mp3 players, cd copying software, car-audio mp3 players, and very high-end cd players to the market just to have them pissed on by the record industry's anti-piracy campaign of the week!!
what the hell ever happened to trying to please consumers??
Of dogs and ponies I just don't know,
but when I entered my last show,
upon the cart sat one great Sun,
to spew forth info, games, and fun.
It was to be our wad of cash,
our retirement coming in a flash,
but when turned on for all to see,
vapor it was shown to be!
obviously the broken link reflects on the careless
nature of the poster and not NASA...
but on the upside, I have worked personally with
both the Pricipal Investigator and a couple of
the Co-Investigators of this project in the past,
and I can tell you that if any NASA project has
ever had great possibilities and promise of
bringing home evidence capable of changing theories
it is this one. These people are all absolute
top-notch scientists that are capable of a
synergetic teamwork that can forever change
how people view the early universe.
the bottom line -- stay tuned for their results,
because if they succeed they will have hard
evidence for which to prove and/or disprove
many existing astrophysical theories...
first off, the majority of the world doesn't care
what The Right Thing is--no offense, but it's
true. they dont care about the linux cause.
I am putting forth the suggestion that until
linux has significantly gained popularity, it
will not flourish in the desktop arena (and yes,
I know that this is a chicken and egg problem).
there IS a need for a screwdriver and the hammer
to co-exist, and linux is certainly NOT monetarily
free when you count the number of hours a non-geek
would spend trying to figure out how to duplicate
the functions performed by just a core windows
system these days -- word, excel, outlook, power-
point, acrobat reader, IE...ad nauseum...
it just isn't going to happen soon! most people
come to the bring af an aneurysm just trying to
figure out how to access basic functionality
in MS office.
but yes, by my reasoning, very few people should
give up windows. *NIX simply was never designed
for non-geeks, and piling GUI tools on top of the
command line isnt doing anyone favors.
the command line is still there, and when the GUI
tools dont work (which is quite often), people
are truly stuck because they never bargained for
learning UNIX command line.
why pull someone who is perfectly happy with
their dell machine and preloaded win2k towards
linux? for 80+% of the people, it causes more
pain than gain. they just want to play games
and geek out with their yuppy friends on AOL.
I love linux, but here we face one of the most
common problems:
someone wants to play the latest games on the
latest hardware, and doesnt mind using Wine or
VMware to do it, or even binary-only games...
the logical conclusion is that if you are one
of these people, the time has not yet come for
you to give up windows! dual-boot or get another
machine if you want to run linux that badly.
one day, linux will probably be able to do all
of these things, but in the meantime, dont pick
up a hammer when you need a screwdriver!
to see for yourself, take a hot shower with
both sides of the curtain sealed to the wall
with water in a cool room. for obvious
reasons this works better in winter...
now watch how the curtain sucks inward.
then separate the curtain from both walls--
12 inches on the side farther from the shower
head and 6 inches on the side closer.
it no longer sucks in because the convection
currents have more area in that plane through
which to travel.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen quite a few programmers, and I'm thinking
;)
a good percentage will be adversely affected by
coffee LONG before they reproduce (and no, this
has nothing to do with the quantity of coffee they drink)
think about it, the caller is unknown and is asked
;)
to press "1" if he is a sales person and "2" if
he is not.
when he presses "1" you have the phone randonly
choose from a list of insulting songs to play for
our nice telemarketer
wonder how long before I'd get sued for infringing
on his right to not listen to south park tunes...
if more people would do this, we would have an
abundant supply of capable PC techs in the IT
industry instead of the morons that are now the
majority.
people need to learn to be flexible, and throwing
10 different systems at someone and telling them
to try to install (insert your OS here) on them
will force them to become flexible and creatively
resourceful.
ordering 100 Dells and handing them to students
could never inspire the same sort of learning
experience...
Bravo!!
Comcast is snatching up large numbers of infrastructure-
type people in the Philadelphia area and Trenton,
NJ area to build this beast out. They have already
recruited two of my friends, and I was thinking
about trying to get my foot in the door, but the
commute is just too long for me =(
I really hope they create a nice, clean, SIMPLE
network that will beat the pants off most others...
it's YOUR responsibility to know what's in the
@home AUP, and since it specifically points out that
servers are NOT allowed, their actions were completely
justified. I personally think this sucks, but
hey, if you're gonna break rules, don;t complain
when you get caught.
On another front, please get a fucking clue before
spouting your "at-home is anti-gnu...waaaah".
the fact of the matter is, @home doesnt give a
flying fuck if you're running httpd and ftpd on
windows, linux, mac, etc. they do NOT allow it, period!
The music industry stands screaming about artists
royalties, and the fact that they created something
that everyone is trying to get for free.
The industry fails to tell you that typically less
than $1.00 of each $20 cd you buy goes to the
artist for their hard work, and we all know how
much blank cdr's cost (hence labels MUST be paying
a fraction of that cost at the gargantuan quantity
they buy).
Why can't they just come out and tell the world that
they are a bunch of greedy fucks that see their
world and their riches slipping by after decades
of putting out one-hit albums and screwing artists?
The world has fundamentally changed in that people
do NOT feel that the music is worth $20 per cd, and
do NOT feel it's fair to get home after buying
the majority of the cd's out there only to find
TEN filler songs for every hit! Music has become
free in minds, though not in fact.
$500 seems like quite a ripoff when I can meander
over to egghead.com or any other auction house
and get a nice HP refurb with great features for UNDER
$500...
I mean, I know HP's are not the greatest machine
in the world, but they are still 1000 times more
attractive and expandable to J. Random Buyer
than an appliance.
if you will notice that most of the more recent
SCSI devices have gone to the LVD technology...
this is due to the fact that every time a faster
SCSI standard emerged, the max cable length was
reduced to a fraction of the previous standard.
LVD and HVD were introduced to combat this problem
while maintaining speed. I'm not sure about the
max cable length of LVD, but HVD is at least 25
meters max length, which makes it more than sufficient for
future desktop devices should cable lengths start
to again shrink with future speed increases...
I find it extremely annoying that varying types
of SCSI terminators with the same number of pins
are not labeled by the OEM as HVD, LVD, etc...
I have a zillion terminators here for normal SCSI
devices and a few HVD for my tape libraries and
it's impossible to determine (to my knowledge)
which is which... ugh
If I were you, I would buy whatever car I wanted
and tell my friends to buy their own damned cars.
why should I have to drive around in a 4 mile-per-
gallon monstrosity when hockey equipment for one person
will fit in many nice little cars (*cough* Audi TT *cough*)
I look to buy the one just below the major increase
in slope. there is ALWAYS this trend.
For example, the following is a highly viable price breakdown:
MHz - - - - price
------------------
900 - - - - -$65
1000 - - - - $85
1200 - - - - $100
1333 - - - - $130
1400 - - - - $175
It only makes sense that if you dont have unlimited
budget or a legitimate need for raw cpu performance
to buy the 1333 in the above graph.
just my $0.02
This should have been more appropriately called
"Top 50 games of the decade". I mean, I'm glad
they included Zork, Doom, and a few other "classics",
but where in the world were ground-breaking
games like Gauntlet, Pacman, Space Harrier,
AfterBurner, etc??
Maybe I was smoking crack during that movie, but
I found it to be minimally funny. The only value
I found it to truly possess was amazing computer
graphic rendition.
With that being said, I'm wondering how great Rush
Hour 2 could possibly be if you place it just
below Shrek in bang-for-buck...
You are right in that allowing me fair use probably does not bother the recording companies, and indeed does allow everyone and their brother to run amok with piracy...
the statement I will pose, though, was originally made by Courtney Love in her outlash against the industry's condemnation of Napster et al (paraphrased):
The recording industry has spent decades now
making music commodity, and now that it IS,
they're pissed!
I think that there is a significant portion of the world out there that no longer feels that music should cost money (or maybe it shouldn't cost $19 for a cd with two good songs on it)
I just *love* how anyone who wants to do any of the following is labeled a "pirate" by the music industry now:
-burn copies of cd's so it's not necessary to keep $1800 (100 disks) worth of original cd's in the car
-play cd's on high-end car audio head units that are really the more high-quality cd-rom drives and not the dumbed-down cd players that hav no problem with corrupt and missing data
-rip and encode 300 cd's and place on 30 mp3 cdr's for use with high-end car audio cd-mp3 players
-countless other activities
I would personally be very pissed of if I was one of the companies that have taken risks to bring portable mp3 players, cd copying software, car-audio mp3 players, and very high-end cd players to the market just to have them pissed on by the record industry's anti-piracy campaign of the week!!
what the hell ever happened to trying to please consumers??
Of dogs and ponies I just don't know,
but when I entered my last show,
upon the cart sat one great Sun,
to spew forth info, games, and fun.
It was to be our wad of cash,
our retirement coming in a flash,
but when turned on for all to see,
vapor it was shown to be!
the launch has been rescheduled to July 31, 12:30 p.m. EDT
obviously the broken link reflects on the careless
nature of the poster and not NASA...
but on the upside, I have worked personally with
both the Pricipal Investigator and a couple of
the Co-Investigators of this project in the past,
and I can tell you that if any NASA project has
ever had great possibilities and promise of
bringing home evidence capable of changing theories
it is this one. These people are all absolute
top-notch scientists that are capable of a
synergetic teamwork that can forever change
how people view the early universe.
the bottom line -- stay tuned for their results,
because if they succeed they will have hard
evidence for which to prove and/or disprove
many existing astrophysical theories...
I cannot count the number of newbies that kill
their windows partition by installing linux!
this is just supposed to make it more brainless...
why not take advantage of this wonderful event
and use it to help the population problem in
southern california...
think about the similarities: it's getting hotter
on mars, so much junk in the air you can barely
see the sun, and no electricity!
the californians would never realize they were
no longer on earth!
*grin*
I am very scared about their comment about
chickens with teeth!
I am becoming more and more fond of the saying:
"just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD!"
but seriously, people need to quit mucking with
nature before bad shit happens...
first off, the majority of the world doesn't care
what The Right Thing is--no offense, but it's
true. they dont care about the linux cause.
I am putting forth the suggestion that until
linux has significantly gained popularity, it
will not flourish in the desktop arena (and yes,
I know that this is a chicken and egg problem).
there IS a need for a screwdriver and the hammer
to co-exist, and linux is certainly NOT monetarily
free when you count the number of hours a non-geek
would spend trying to figure out how to duplicate
the functions performed by just a core windows
system these days -- word, excel, outlook, power-
point, acrobat reader, IE...ad nauseum...
it just isn't going to happen soon! most people
come to the bring af an aneurysm just trying to
figure out how to access basic functionality
in MS office.
but yes, by my reasoning, very few people should
give up windows. *NIX simply was never designed
for non-geeks, and piling GUI tools on top of the
command line isnt doing anyone favors.
the command line is still there, and when the GUI
tools dont work (which is quite often), people
are truly stuck because they never bargained for
learning UNIX command line.
why pull someone who is perfectly happy with
their dell machine and preloaded win2k towards
linux? for 80+% of the people, it causes more
pain than gain. they just want to play games
and geek out with their yuppy friends on AOL.
leave UNIX to the geeks.
I love linux, but here we face one of the most
common problems:
someone wants to play the latest games on the
latest hardware, and doesnt mind using Wine or
VMware to do it, or even binary-only games...
the logical conclusion is that if you are one
of these people, the time has not yet come for
you to give up windows! dual-boot or get another
machine if you want to run linux that badly.
one day, linux will probably be able to do all
of these things, but in the meantime, dont pick
up a hammer when you need a screwdriver!
my $0.02
I would sooner believe that it is thermal...
to see for yourself, take a hot shower with
both sides of the curtain sealed to the wall
with water in a cool room. for obvious
reasons this works better in winter...
now watch how the curtain sucks inward.
then separate the curtain from both walls--
12 inches on the side farther from the shower
head and 6 inches on the side closer.
it no longer sucks in because the convection
currents have more area in that plane through
which to travel.
just my two cents...
going by the humidity in this hellhole state (PA) in the past two weeks, I can't help but agree with you about an atmospheric water problem *grin*