I like this tool a lot as well since going offline/online doesn't matter to it and doesn't skip a whole backup cycle. Also, does nice versioning if you need to go back a few revisions (turn this off if you have limited server space however).
The other thing to keep in mind is that you need "thoughtful" input on what you are buying. Its one things to decide if laptops or desktops would be more cost effective IT wise, its another to ask people if they prefer a laptop or desktop but the real question is, what does it mean for your culture and work style.
Based on what tools people are given they will find different ways to work. In the most basic example, give them laptops and they will work in groups but also from home more. Give them desktops and they will come in but perhaps not be flexible enough. This applies to quite a few hardware and software purchese. When you save $1000 dollars by giving the two sales guys slower machines are you saying they are not as important as the 20 developers? Perhaps you should just spend the extra $1000...or perhaps not.
I only suggest you keep in mind that even decisions that seem totally IT or budget based can have wider implications.
Someone at a management level should be thinking though these questions as part of this process.
I must admit, when I see a degree from CMU I do trust the person more. In the long run, of course, work matters more but it does make a difference getting started.
Same thing was true when I was hired. I got talked to because of the CMU degree. After that, no one cared that much.
While some thought is, of course, necessary I have definitely seen the problem with new programming students of thinking too much.
Basically, they try to understand the whole problem fully before writing the first line of java or C. My feeling is that this is not possible for a new student. There is just too much. Rather you just have to write code at some point. Forcing yourself to try things in code is often the only way to really get started in your first programming language. (After the first one, you should be able to think as much as you want because you should have enough background not to get lost).
I have actually noticed this problem more in girl then guys. Guys tend to rush right in and try to hack it while girls try to understand it fully first. Sometimes the hacking approach is just the necessary one. (Of course this then flips in the second or third CS course where NOT fully thinking through the problem hurts more).
So I signed up for mailblocks (talked about on/. here) with it monitoring an almost unknown email address. While it did get all the spam I noticed that I was getting a huge amount of stuff in my pending verification mailbox.
I finally realized that mailblocks was responded to each email with a request to verify you a real person. Many spamers didn't even both to read the email, they just marked the address as valid and sold it to someone else. I "get" a lot of spam on that address but, of course, I don't read it. If this kind of whitelisting catches on (Earthlink is trying it out as well I think), this 1% could easly come true to at least some extent.
"Dan Leach, Microsoft's lead product manager for Office, said rights management features were built into the new Office based on ongoing discussions with customers."
The real problem is friends aren't necessary pope with the same interests. Rather it is the combination of similarities and differences that make a successfully friendship. While this might get you started I am not sure it will be that successful.
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Tivo will have to be careful that this doesn't hurt them. By removing a lot of the power of Tivo people might try it out, hate it, and leave.
They will have to make it clear what the added features will give you. (Perhaps a 30 day free trial of the upgraded service?) I know that once I saw the good stuff I would not willingly switch back.
I would think that something simple, like yahoo uses for account creation. Instead of "please say yes", it should be "please say XXXXX" where XXXX is randomly selected.
From a purely ease of use standpoint (ie. not trying to hack it or upgrade it or anything just use it) Tivo has so far won me over (and is the one I ended up getting).
Instead of a remote control with lots of little hard to see buttons, Tivo's remote is actually clean and neat. Just what you need, with buttons in the size and color that make them east to find and use. It even fits nicely in the hand.
Its on screen access is clean and neat as well. I have never had a technical problem with it or any problem trying to use it.
Finally, while I have never tried hacking my Tivo, I had seen several sites that seemed to give good, clean directions for adding another hard disk and so on.
I mean, given the size of space and all, the amount of dust it has passed through is probably negligable, let alone what could have stuck to the camera. I can't imagine it is anything other then frost and judging by the fact that the warming did help, it seems that is really the most likely answer.
I would only begin to worry if heating it a few more times doesn't clear it up totally.
For things like power (though now we do see power generation buy third parties) and water and even the phone where you have to run copper wires this is true. No one else could afford to run all this stuff and once one company has run it, getting it to give access to others will almost never work out (would you give it up if you had it).
However, while there are usually strong laws requiring these companies to provide good basic service, there is nothing requiring them to add new services. Sure it would be nice if they added DSL, and if every company had their own copper lines EVERYONE would be offering DSL because they would want the customers. But there is no drive for these companies to offer things like DSL until it is clear there is a HUGE market and it will be worth these while. They have no drive to start offering it until then.
So these monopolies are great for a while but at some point things break down. I am hoping the wireless world will fix this at some point. If you have a large amount of bandwidth that you can use without having to run actual cables but just have some central access points we could see other companies actually break in (ie. we do at least have some actual choice in wireless plans, not just having the same company providing the service regardless of which long distance company we choose).
So many people, so many egos (especially on a site like slashdot). Even when people have an opinion, or even know little about a topic, many post as if it was a fact. Often stating emphatically that whatever they think must be the truth.
I could imagine that these could, if read by say a jury that doesn't spend a lot of time online, come across as someone who seems to be stating a fact.
Perhaps we should all start using opinon tags:)
</OPINION>
Things the visitor can do besides surf the web
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· Score: 5, Interesting
There are things the user could use besides surf the web. For instance, a little app on your wireless device that let you check the length of lines at the rides, the reservations at a restaurant etc.
Still, just as is, it is cool.
If you talked to someone about an assignment in detail or saw a code fragment (say helping them debug something), anything you can still remember after an hour or two of going off and doing something else (ie. another homework, read a book, watch tv, or whatever) is fair game.
I have the blue card from amex (the one with the microchip) and use this payment numbers. I insert my card in its reader, enter my pin to authenticate and generate a card number. I have now used it for quite a few online purchases without problems. Personally I think it is one of the best things they have done.
Of course, I can also generate the random numbers by login into their site using my username and pw but hopefully they will add a restriction so i can limit login to my smart card.
Also, I just took a survey they sent out to gather feedback. In it they asked what of the additional features listed you found most interesting. They included several listed in the article, including generating a long term number you could put on file with someone like Amazon but if was stolen could not be used by someone else (only accepted charges from Amazon) and putting limits on generated numbers (ie. you can know a site cannot overcharge you, you can give the number to a child without worrying etc.)
once they have these I will be using Amex for all my online purchases.
Now I am just waiting for them to get rid of the number on the card itself so I can use it in a store without worrying. There is no reason at all to have a fixed number.
This, in turn, will save them billions in fraud that they do not recover (so long as the merchant follow the authorization procedure today they are not responsible for fraud charges). We can only hope that they will pass this saving on to us.
So if Yahoo has to do it, as we read Amazon, and ebay will probably as well. And then Google and altavista and all the free home page sites. Fairly soon no one is going to want to bother and they will just not allow anyone connecting from France to use their services.
Then every French user who points their browser at google.com gets a message explaning why they were blocked and who in the government to write to about it. Once this happens I can't imagine that the laws would not be soon changed.
As many have said before me, highsight is 20/20. We praise artists much as we do Comp Sci people, or ECE, or for that matter many other fields. Not for the ability to do something no one else can but for their vision to do it at all.
Most of us could write ebay in perl fairly quickly but the reason we like ebay is that they figured it out first and did it. An artist of decent skill could duplicate many of the great works out there today...but they didn't have the vision.
Feel free not to like the piece but don't put it down because you think it is too "easy" or "simple". After all, why didn't you do ebay first?
I work in a software company of over a 1000 people and most of us use laptops. The lastest build of our software is often sitting on our machine along with everything else. Most people take care of their machines but every week at least 1 is usually stolen. (ie. some weeks 4, other none but it averages out).
You can't force everyone to keep data on a central server because they often are traveling, working from home or other locations where they can't access their data. They all use totally different programs, dev tools etc for their work.
The only possible solution I see would be a system level encryption tool but it would require that everyone use it correctly. Even then it would probably annoy enough people that a certain percentage would just uninstall it.
Anyone have any other possible ideas that everyone (or close to everyone) could accept and some method to encorage the use (let along the correct use) of the solution?
There are lots of valid reasons to want to protect you data. Almost none, however, involve the NSA or other highly skilled adversary trying to break into you machine. Therefore pick a simple mechanism that will not slow down your work. Which ever one makes you happiest.
Guess what, if the government desperatly wants in, they will get in. If you make a enemy of Bruce Schneier you probably won't be safe. But most people aren't like that and don't care that much.
I will admit then when I generated my first PGP key I generated the biggest one possible. Then I did a quick reality check -- I had no state secrets to protect.
Don't forget to balance cost and need. There is no reason for every disk operation to take 50% longer if you are just trying to stop a roomate or random stranger from peeking at your files.
I have never been able to to avoid drooling over spy type stuff. Check out
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spyking/detection.ht ml
for neat bug detectors.
They also have a lot of other toys that would be neat to get for the holidays.
Lockpicks anyone? http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spyking/locksmithing.h tml
This was long coming. I expect we will see more and more levels of service on the internet allowing you to pay for certain better service or garentees (ie. for video conferencing etc). You will search for the ISP's will the best contracts.
Slashdot Mirror
I like this tool a lot as well since going offline/online doesn't matter to it and doesn't skip a whole backup cycle. Also, does nice versioning if you need to go back a few revisions (turn this off if you have limited server space however).
The other thing to keep in mind is that you need "thoughtful" input on what you are buying. Its one things to decide if laptops or desktops would be more cost effective IT wise, its another to ask people if they prefer a laptop or desktop but the real question is, what does it mean for your culture and work style.
Based on what tools people are given they will find different ways to work. In the most basic example, give them laptops and they will work in groups but also from home more. Give them desktops and they will come in but perhaps not be flexible enough. This applies to quite a few hardware and software purchese. When you save $1000 dollars by giving the two sales guys slower machines are you saying they are not as important as the 20 developers? Perhaps you should just spend the extra $1000...or perhaps not.
I only suggest you keep in mind that even decisions that seem totally IT or budget based can have wider implications.
Someone at a management level should be thinking though these questions as part of this process.
At least you know that there isn't some subtle meaning behind the ship name that you think you don't quite get as you read ;)
I must admit, when I see a degree from CMU I do trust the person more. In the long run, of course, work matters more but it does make a difference getting started.
Same thing was true when I was hired. I got talked to because of the CMU degree. After that, no one cared that much.
While some thought is, of course, necessary I have definitely seen the problem with new programming students of thinking too much.
Basically, they try to understand the whole problem fully before writing the first line of java or C. My feeling is that this is not possible for a new student. There is just too much. Rather you just have to write code at some point. Forcing yourself to try things in code is often the only way to really get started in your first programming language. (After the first one, you should be able to think as much as you want because you should have enough background not to get lost).
I have actually noticed this problem more in girl then guys. Guys tend to rush right in and try to hack it while girls try to understand it fully first. Sometimes the hacking approach is just the necessary one. (Of course this then flips in the second or third CS course where NOT fully thinking through the problem hurts more).
I finally realized that mailblocks was responded to each email with a request to verify you a real person. Many spamers didn't even both to read the email, they just marked the address as valid and sold it to someone else. I "get" a lot of spam on that address but, of course, I don't read it. If this kind of whitelisting catches on (Earthlink is trying it out as well I think), this 1% could easly come true to at least some extent.
"Dan Leach, Microsoft's lead product manager for Office, said rights management features were built into the new Office based on ongoing discussions with customers."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/194120 6&mode=nested
The real problem is friends aren't necessary pope with the same interests. Rather it is the combination of similarities and differences that make a successfully friendship. While this might get you started I am not sure it will be that successful.
Tivo will have to be careful that this doesn't hurt them. By removing a lot of the power of Tivo people might try it out, hate it, and leave.
They will have to make it clear what the added features will give you. (Perhaps a 30 day free trial of the upgraded service?) I know that once I saw the good stuff I would not willingly switch back.
I would think that something simple, like yahoo uses for account creation. Instead of "please say yes", it should be "please say XXXXX" where XXXX is randomly selected.
From a purely ease of use standpoint (ie. not trying to hack it or upgrade it or anything just use it) Tivo has so far won me over (and is the one I ended up getting).
Instead of a remote control with lots of little hard to see buttons, Tivo's remote is actually clean and neat. Just what you need, with buttons in the size and color that make them east to find and use. It even fits nicely in the hand.
Its on screen access is clean and neat as well. I have never had a technical problem with it or any problem trying to use it.
Finally, while I have never tried hacking my Tivo, I had seen several sites that seemed to give good, clean directions for adding another hard disk and so on.
I would only begin to worry if heating it a few more times doesn't clear it up totally.
However, while there are usually strong laws requiring these companies to provide good basic service, there is nothing requiring them to add new services. Sure it would be nice if they added DSL, and if every company had their own copper lines EVERYONE would be offering DSL because they would want the customers. But there is no drive for these companies to offer things like DSL until it is clear there is a HUGE market and it will be worth these while. They have no drive to start offering it until then.
So these monopolies are great for a while but at some point things break down. I am hoping the wireless world will fix this at some point. If you have a large amount of bandwidth that you can use without having to run actual cables but just have some central access points we could see other companies actually break in (ie. we do at least have some actual choice in wireless plans, not just having the same company providing the service regardless of which long distance company we choose).
So many people, so many egos (especially on a site like slashdot). Even when people have an opinion, or even know little about a topic, many post as if it was a fact. Often stating emphatically that whatever they think must be the truth.
I could imagine that these could, if read by say a jury that doesn't spend a lot of time online, come across as someone who seems to be stating a fact.
Perhaps we should all start using opinon tags
</OPINION>
There are things the user could use besides surf the web. For instance, a little app on your wireless device that let you check the length of lines at the rides, the reservations at a restaurant etc.
Still, just as is, it is cool.
This is what he always said.
If you talked to someone about an assignment in detail or saw a code fragment (say helping them debug something), anything you can still remember after an hour or two of going off and doing something else (ie. another homework, read a book, watch tv, or whatever) is fair game.
I have the blue card from amex (the one with the microchip) and use this payment numbers. I insert my card in its reader, enter my pin to authenticate and generate a card number. I have now used it for quite a few online purchases without problems. Personally I think it is one of the best things they have done.
Of course, I can also generate the random numbers by login into their site using my username and pw but hopefully they will add a restriction so i can limit login to my smart card.
Also, I just took a survey they sent out to gather feedback. In it they asked what of the additional features listed you found most interesting. They included several listed in the article, including generating a long term number you could put on file with someone like Amazon but if was stolen could not be used by someone else (only accepted charges from Amazon) and putting limits on generated numbers (ie. you can know a site cannot overcharge you, you can give the number to a child without worrying etc.) once they have these I will be using Amex for all my online purchases.
Now I am just waiting for them to get rid of the number on the card itself so I can use it in a store without worrying. There is no reason at all to have a fixed number.
This, in turn, will save them billions in fraud that they do not recover (so long as the merchant follow the authorization procedure today they are not responsible for fraud charges). We can only hope that they will pass this saving on to us.
So if Yahoo has to do it, as we read Amazon, and ebay will probably as well. And then Google and altavista and all the free home page sites. Fairly soon no one is going to want to bother and they will just not allow anyone connecting from France to use their services.
Then every French user who points their browser at google.com gets a message explaning why they were blocked and who in the government to write to about it. Once this happens I can't imagine that the laws would not be soon changed.
As many have said before me, highsight is 20/20. We praise artists much as we do Comp Sci people, or ECE, or for that matter many other fields. Not for the ability to do something no one else can but for their vision to do it at all.
Most of us could write ebay in perl fairly quickly but the reason we like ebay is that they figured it out first and did it. An artist of decent skill could duplicate many of the great works out there today...but they didn't have the vision.
Feel free not to like the piece but don't put it down because you think it is too "easy" or "simple". After all, why didn't you do ebay first?
I work in a software company of over a 1000 people and most of us use laptops. The lastest build of our software is often sitting on our machine along with everything else. Most people take care of their machines but every week at least 1 is usually stolen. (ie. some weeks 4, other none but it averages out).
You can't force everyone to keep data on a central server because they often are traveling, working from home or other locations where they can't access their data. They all use totally different programs, dev tools etc for their work.
The only possible solution I see would be a system level encryption tool but it would require that everyone use it correctly. Even then it would probably annoy enough people that a certain percentage would just uninstall it.
Anyone have any other possible ideas that everyone (or close to everyone) could accept and some method to encorage the use (let along the correct use) of the solution?
There are lots of valid reasons to want to protect you data. Almost none, however, involve the NSA or other highly skilled adversary trying to break into you machine. Therefore pick a simple mechanism that will not slow down your work. Which ever one makes you happiest.
Guess what, if the government desperatly wants in, they will get in. If you make a enemy of Bruce Schneier you probably won't be safe. But most people aren't like that and don't care that much.
I will admit then when I generated my first PGP key I generated the biggest one possible. Then I did a quick reality check -- I had no state secrets to protect.
Don't forget to balance cost and need. There is no reason for every disk operation to take 50% longer if you are just trying to stop a roomate or random stranger from peeking at your files.
I have never been able to to avoid drooling over spy type stuff. Check outt ml
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http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spyking/detection.h
for neat bug detectors.
They also have a lot of other toys that would be neat to get for the holidays.
Lockpicks anyone? http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spyking/locksmithing.
Voice Changers perhaps?
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spyking/voicechange
Anyway, anything in these catagories are neat and come in a price range for everyone.
Lets see.
They index all of yahoo's sites.
If you are searching from yahoo and see a yahoo link come up, chances are you like yahoo and would start by following that link.
Repeat for the millions og searches that occure on yahoo every day and yahoo will move up in the ranking.
This was long coming. I expect we will see more and more levels of service on the internet allowing you to pay for certain better service or garentees (ie. for video conferencing etc).
You will search for the ISP's will the best contracts.