You like the peanut remote? I hate it. The one that came with the original sony tivos was so much better. The new one has non-logically organized buttons that are difficult to find in the dark, and the channel number buttons are placed in a completely awkward position at that bottom of the remote that makes it very difficult to use in the dark.
And I can never find the power button at night either. I always end up hitting skip-back-5-seconds. Ugh.
This does happen a lot more than you think. I started a blog to document it at Orangelimey.blogs.com
NSI is currently claiming that the transfer was legitimate - somehow the hijacker got into the administrative contact's email and compromised the accounts - how we still don't know. However, the person that ended up with the domain seems to be willing to give it back.
Really, the whole domain security thing is ridiculous. For a domain (which is considered property under a ruling from the appeals court in the sex.com case) to be transfered with such lax legal proceedings is pathetic. Can I steal your car or your house by simply faking email and guessing passwords? Of course not.
Maybe panix can make enough of a stink about this to get someone to stand up and take notice - although who can do this I don't know. ICANN is toothless and only cares about trademark disputes.
Someone told me as a result of this that 40,000 domains were hijacked in the last year. I don't know where this data comes from, but really, obviously something is wrong.
Feel sorry for panix, I used them when I lived in NYC
Yeah. I never get modded up. Just because I was here before there was even a registration system shouldn't count for anything. Its like those people who used to think they were cool because they had really low ICQ numbers.
Now, if only the comments system was easier to read and have discussions on, I'd probably post more, but then, no one cares what I say anyway.
Negative film has way more lattitude than digital. Digital is closer to slide films, but still, the lattitude of the process is not quite the same.
And scanning Velvia 50 on a good scanner (not some awful $200 thing) will produce a better image than a DSLR in most cases (unless you hate Velvia colors). Scanners also let you composite two images if you have to by varying the exposure window.
But anyway, who cares. Its the picture thats important anyway. I scan lots of film and slides, but my favourite shots that everyone likes were actually taken with a coolpix 5400 that I was using to check the exposure. Doh.
If sun followed the linux model - and key engineers at sun reviewed each change and made sure that it was ok to add to the release, and followed through everything openly, then it would work.
Your argument doesn't hold water. Where are all the forks of linux? Just because its a language does not mean it will fork and fracture. Perl isn't forked to hell. Nor is python. Nor are many open source languages.
If sun truly believed in open source (and I don't believe they do), then this would be a great step forward for them.
And McNealy's challenge to IBM to open source db2 is silly too; sun makes no money from selling java licenses (duh, they're free), where as IBM does make money from db2.
Absolutely. Lost in Translation won the have-to-give-you-an-award prize in screenplay, but Bill gave a superb performance in this roll. His career is overlooked as an actor - I particularly like his other movie, Razor's Edge
They get half the work done that you expect? Count yourself lucky. My employer did a study on the productivity of our remote development team in Bangalore, and the most productive people in the valley were 4 times more productive than the most productive people in India. Of course, it was quietly hidden so as not to damage moral (not the the rank-and-file employees don't spend all day complaining about the poor state of affairs; unfortunately, those that have spoken up have quickly been seen to "pursue other opportunities"....)
The biggest problem is too many industry execs see software engineering (or whatever you want to call it, I don't particularly care) as a commodity that can be sent to the cheapest supplier. They unfortunately don't recognize talent.
Can't wait until the whole thing comes crashing down around them (a few more quarters....)
This is not true. There are no federal (US) subsidies, but there are state ones.
In california, there is a tax deduction you get for installing solar power, and you also get a rebate from one of the public utility commissions. This almost makes it worthwhile - if you pay for it with a tax-deductible loan you end up saving money, together with selling unused electricity back to the grid (assuming California's power prices stay inflated of course).
The real problem is that to do this you need an ideally located house, and need to cover a lot of your house with solar panels which don't exactly look good. Also, the companies that install them will frequently tell you that the rebates are going away (CA not having a lot of money right now), so as to try and get you to sign up ASAP (they of course fail to mention that if the rebates went away their business would be entirely uneconomic, so I doubt that is going to happen).
A solar system to provide power for my house was quoted at about $27k. This provided about 60% of my power needs, and paid for itself in about 5 years or so.
If this new technology pans out, the cost of the above will fall dramatically, and maybe we won't need subsidies to make installations worthwhile.
Yes, but did you consider that having the article on slashdot increases its media visibility significantly (several major media outlets frequently cite slashdot in articles), which means it might get taken up by the wall street journal or similar?
I remember a dispute I was having with expedia once; Microsoft didn't want to do anything until I posted the scenerio on a few websites; within a day or so, a Reuters reporter contacted me, and unsuprisingly a few hours later a Microsoft mid-level manager called me to find out what they could do to make the situation "right" (which they did, to their credit).
With the ease of publishing on the internet and the dissemination powers of a website such as slashdot, it would not be suprising if Dell did respond somehow.
When microsoft still can't get the registry right (which is an extrememly simple database) which still corrupts and still has tools in windows to recover it, do you really expect them to do a good job of a FS based on a file system? Now when you call microsoft support, instead of getting a response of "re-install the OS", it'll be "re-install the OS and reformat the drive".
Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software. This process is designed to monitor the security and ownership of intellectual property rights associated with the code.
Funny, I've never worked at a software company that works like that.
Memory is cheap, but the architectures to try and contain all of the memory certainly are not. Try telling your fortune 100 customer that they need to go buy a bigger sun/hp box because you need 80gb of ram to run your application and they start making you reduce memory consumption.
The "memory is cheap" thing is silly, and just encourages people to be lazy and not layout data structures in the optimal way, and/or use efficient data containers.
But once he checks his stuff in, no other developer in his team will have to go through the compile, since clearcase winks in all the object files from the first developer's view!
Actually, thats how it should work, but it doesn't. If a developer has himself modified that file when you rebase clearcase merges the new change back to the developers. Thus the braindead routines in clearmake decide that its different, thus don't wink anything in. Thus you immediately loose any productivity advantage.
One should also add that the "winkin" feature is itself disabled by the number of bugs in the system that make it crash ("vob not accesible. stop"), and the way it doesn't even work with other rational tools like purify/quantify. So all you really end up with is view servers filled with thousands of dervied objects that are impossible to manage and use up more disk space than you would have otherwise.
Oh geez. Please people. How does splitting your stock increase its value? It doesn't. It doesn't do anything (except maybe make momentum investors buy the stock because the general investment public has for some stupid reason the idea that a stock split means your stock is worth buying. Duh)
But you try telling anyone in the general public that and they don't believe you. I hate that movie precisely because the mathematics in it was overblown. I mean, getting all excited over cancelling variables in an equation? Is that what people think is difficult? Duh.
Uh, why not just use Akamai for images? Then you could use all the machines for web servers, and judging by the normal speed of slashdot, this would be an advantage!
Er, thats not web nfs, thats the automounter. web nfs is a java technology that allows you to use nfs in java. I think it uses nfs:// urls or something like that. Don't think anyone's actually ever used it though, other than the guy that demos it every year at JavaOne.
Guaranteed 100 % uptime eh? So what do they do when someone comes along and digs through the telco line? Ooops. The only way to have guaranteed 100% uptime is to have at least 2 connections to the internet, and big beeefy cisco routers to hold all the routing tables. But seriously, its much easier to use a 3rd party hosting service if you're that paranoid about uptime.
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You like the peanut remote? I hate it. The one that came with the original sony tivos was so much better. The new one has non-logically organized buttons that are difficult to find in the dark, and the channel number buttons are placed in a completely awkward position at that bottom of the remote that makes it very difficult to use in the dark.
And I can never find the power button at night either. I always end up hitting skip-back-5-seconds. Ugh.
This does happen a lot more than you think. I started a blog to document it at Orangelimey.blogs.com
NSI is currently claiming that the transfer was legitimate - somehow the hijacker got into the administrative contact's email and compromised the accounts - how we still don't know. However, the person that ended up with the domain seems to be willing to give it back.
Really, the whole domain security thing is ridiculous. For a domain (which is considered property under a ruling from the appeals court in the sex.com case) to be transfered with such lax legal proceedings is pathetic. Can I steal your car or your house by simply faking email and guessing passwords? Of course not.
Maybe panix can make enough of a stink about this to get someone to stand up and take notice - although who can do this I don't know. ICANN is toothless and only cares about trademark disputes.
Someone told me as a result of this that 40,000 domains were hijacked in the last year. I don't know where this data comes from, but really, obviously something is wrong.
Feel sorry for panix, I used them when I lived in NYC
Yeah. I never get modded up. Just because I was here before there was even a registration system shouldn't count for anything. Its like those people who used to think they were cool because they had really low ICQ numbers.
Now, if only the comments system was easier to read and have discussions on, I'd probably post more, but then, no one cares what I say anyway.
I disagree.
Negative film has way more lattitude than digital. Digital is closer to slide films, but still, the lattitude of the process is not quite the same.
And scanning Velvia 50 on a good scanner (not some awful $200 thing) will produce a better image than a DSLR in most cases (unless you hate Velvia colors). Scanners also let you composite two images if you have to by varying the exposure window.
But anyway, who cares. Its the picture thats important anyway. I scan lots of film and slides, but my favourite shots that everyone likes were actually taken with a coolpix 5400 that I was using to check the exposure. Doh.
I'm sorry, thats one of the most concise and to the point comments I've read on slashdot, but I don't have mod points today.
I think this is by far the better analysis of the issue.
If sun followed the linux model - and key engineers at sun reviewed each change and made sure that it was ok to add to the release, and followed through everything openly, then it would work.
Your argument doesn't hold water. Where are all the forks of linux? Just because its a language does not mean it will fork and fracture. Perl isn't forked to hell. Nor is python. Nor are many open source languages.
If sun truly believed in open source (and I don't believe they do), then this would be a great step forward for them.
And McNealy's challenge to IBM to open source db2 is silly too; sun makes no money from selling java licenses (duh, they're free), where as IBM does make money from db2.
Absolutely. Lost in Translation won the have-to-give-you-an-award prize in screenplay, but Bill gave a superb performance in this roll. His career is overlooked as an actor - I particularly like his other movie, Razor's Edge
and I thought mine was low :(
They get half the work done that you expect? Count yourself lucky. My employer did a study on the productivity of our remote development team in Bangalore, and the most productive people in the valley were 4 times more productive than the most productive people in India. Of course, it was quietly hidden so as not to damage moral (not the the rank-and-file employees don't spend all day complaining about the poor state of affairs; unfortunately, those that have spoken up have quickly been seen to "pursue other opportunities"....)
The biggest problem is too many industry execs see software engineering (or whatever you want to call it, I don't particularly care) as a commodity that can be sent to the cheapest supplier. They unfortunately don't recognize talent.
Can't wait until the whole thing comes crashing down around them (a few more quarters....)
I say lets unionize and stick it to them!
This is not true. There are no federal (US) subsidies, but there are state ones.
In california, there is a tax deduction you get for installing solar power, and you also get a rebate from one of the public utility commissions. This almost makes it worthwhile - if you pay for it with a tax-deductible loan you end up saving money, together with selling unused electricity back to the grid (assuming California's power prices stay inflated of course).
The real problem is that to do this you need an ideally located house, and need to cover a lot of your house with solar panels which don't exactly look good. Also, the companies that install them will frequently tell you that the rebates are going away (CA not having a lot of money right now), so as to try and get you to sign up ASAP (they of course fail to mention that if the rebates went away their business would be entirely uneconomic, so I doubt that is going to happen).
A solar system to provide power for my house was quoted at about $27k. This provided about 60% of my power needs, and paid for itself in about 5 years or so.
If this new technology pans out, the cost of the above will fall dramatically, and maybe we won't need subsidies to make installations worthwhile.
I remember a dispute I was having with expedia once; Microsoft didn't want to do anything until I posted the scenerio on a few websites; within a day or so, a Reuters reporter contacted me, and unsuprisingly a few hours later a Microsoft mid-level manager called me to find out what they could do to make the situation "right" (which they did, to their credit).
With the ease of publishing on the internet and the dissemination powers of a website such as slashdot, it would not be suprising if Dell did respond somehow.
And you don't get unemployment over the summer. Hardly worth your time volunteering, really.
When microsoft still can't get the registry right (which is an extrememly simple database) which still corrupts and still has tools in windows to recover it, do you really expect them to do a good job of a FS based on a file system? Now when you call microsoft support, instead of getting a response of "re-install the OS", it'll be "re-install the OS and reformat the drive".
That one was a bit of a bust too, wasn't it. Didn't Dubya win that?
Funny, I've never worked at a software company that works like that.
Mathematicians created iff because we're lazy. Thats it. Nothing to do with the english language.
Oh, and we like confusing people who know nothing about math by having our own syntax.
Memory is cheap, but the architectures to try and contain all of the memory certainly are not. Try telling your fortune 100 customer that they need to go buy a bigger sun/hp box because you need 80gb of ram to run your application and they start making you reduce memory consumption.
The "memory is cheap" thing is silly, and just encourages people to be lazy and not layout data structures in the optimal way, and/or use efficient data containers.
But once he checks his stuff in, no other developer in his team will have to go through the compile, since clearcase winks in all the object files from the first developer's view!
Actually, thats how it should work, but it doesn't. If a developer has himself modified that file when you rebase clearcase merges the new change back to the developers. Thus the braindead routines in clearmake decide that its different, thus don't wink anything in. Thus you immediately loose any productivity advantage.
One should also add that the "winkin" feature is itself disabled by the number of bugs in the system that make it crash ("vob not accesible. stop"), and the way it doesn't even work with other rational tools like purify/quantify. So all you really end up with is view servers filled with thousands of dervied objects that are impossible to manage and use up more disk space than you would have otherwise.
Its hardly vaporware. I have a compiler sitting on my PC that works quite well, thankyou.
You don't say and there's no link.... we're not all psychic you know.
Oh geez. Please people. How does splitting your stock increase its value? It doesn't. It doesn't do anything (except maybe make momentum investors buy the stock because the general investment public has for some stupid reason the idea that a stock split means your stock is worth buying. Duh)
But you try telling anyone in the general public that and they don't believe you. I hate that movie precisely because the mathematics in it was overblown. I mean, getting all excited over cancelling variables in an equation? Is that what people think is difficult? Duh.
Uh, why not just use Akamai for images? Then you could use all the machines for web servers, and judging by the normal speed of slashdot, this would be an advantage!
Er, thats not web nfs, thats the automounter. web nfs is a java technology that allows you to use nfs in java. I think it uses nfs:// urls or something like that. Don't think anyone's actually ever used it though, other than the guy that demos it every year at JavaOne.
Guaranteed 100 % uptime eh? So what do they do when someone comes along and digs through the telco line? Ooops. The only way to have guaranteed 100% uptime is to have at least 2 connections to the internet, and big beeefy cisco routers to hold all the routing tables. But seriously, its much easier to use a 3rd party hosting service if you're that paranoid about uptime.