Looking at that AIBO with the lights on, it seems a step or two away from being one of those deadly mechanical hounds from Fahrenheit 451. "The LEDs pulsate as AIBO becomes more excited"...and readies itself for the kill...
There's a good article at onlamp that talks about where all the IP's went and why things have gotten so stingy. A sad story about misallocation in the early days of the net (do companies like GE or Xerox really need 16 million addresses?)
This isn't a MST3K-type commentary where they make fun of the movie - it's the director (Ivan Reitman), writer/co-star (Harold Ramis), and a producer just talking about the movie as usual. Men in Black has a similar visual commentary track with Tommy Lee Jones and Barry Sonnenfeld. While certainly an homage to MST3K, in neither track do I see any of the participants getting up to do 'funny things' visually like MST3K did, either.
Among my favorites:
Joel getting up and running along the highway in Warrior of the Lost World.
Joel opening an umbrella to cover a nude scene in City Limits.
Timmy (the dark,evil Crow) coming in from the side of theater and slowly (over the course of minutes) sneaking over to attack Tom Servo.
When a DVD writer comes out that can handle a full episode on one disc, this is the first project I'd work on. I started recording MST3K back in the CC days - because I knew that due to the rights issues (and the fact that only 1/1000 people really 'get' the show), they'd probably never be rerun down the line.
Dude, that's Christopher 'Fu-Manchu' Lee! As in The Castle of Fu Manchu - one of the most incomprehensible movies ever to be shown on Mystery Science Theater.
Doubtlessly, after Episode I he was drawn to working with Lucas like a moth to flame...
I remember a few years back when Microsoft bought the Internet Gaming Zone site, it suddenly stopped accepting the Netscape browser as a client. It took many moons before MS let Netscape people back in by 'fixing it', but by then, I'm sure anyone really interested in the site had gone and installed IE to view it.
Personally the news source I trust the most online or off is Salon. An independent voice willing to get into the messy details with opinions from a variety of viewpoints.
I've got a Sony RM-VL900, which goes for about $60 retail. While it has limited macro capability (11 macros with 16 steps), it can control up to eight devices and each button is trainable. Plus, it's all hard buttons - no touchscreen (which is a huge plus for me since I don't want to look at the remote when I'm using it).
It's a well-known fact that Taco will only approve submissions with at least one glaring spelling/grammar mistake. That way his errors don't look quite as bad...
I dunno - can you honestly tell me that a competent IT person who patched IIS after Code Red wouldn't have either gotten the 'all-in-one' MS fix that fixed all of the post SP6A-issues or at least checked for other possible IIS problems?
Granted, there are plenty of ways a system and/or network could get infected despite the best efforts of a great IT staff, but it shouldn't have been through IIS, which was the easiest thing to fix. I don't see Gartner recommending people switch from Outlook to Pine or IE to Mozilla despite their roles in this.
"Gartner recommends that enterprises hit by both Code Red and Nimda immediately investigate alternatives to IIS..."
I think Gartner should be recommending an investment in competent IT staff if any enterprise was hit by both Code Red and Nimda, since the IIS exploits used in Nimda were the same as those in Code Red.
It's hard to construct an argument when we don't know who this guy is or what his job entails. It's much easier to talk to your boss about telecommuting when you've established that you are dependable and hard-working, because there's less 'grey-area' that they have to worry about.
It also depends largely on how 'social' your job is. Do you have to attend meetings on a daily basis? Are you working as a member of a team or largely on your own?
I've been telecommuting for about two and a half years, and I have to tell you that it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, it provides a more relaxed and flexible work environment because I don't have to commute and don't have to worry so much about appearances and distractions - I just have to focus on results. On the other hand, you really do miss the clear separation of home and work time (it's harder to feel 'off'), and your employer can take advantage of that as well.
Lastly, I'm lucky because I'm single, but I can tell you from other folks I know that you are kidding yourself if you think you are going to get a lot of work done if you have small kids around. Telecommuting does not equal free daycare.
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I think the major difference between/. and sites like CNN & MSNBC is the fact that it's completely dynamic - what makes/. what it is is the constant stream of viewer commentary. And everyone is viewing that content on gigantic-ass dynamic pages with different thresholds, sorts, etc. plus all of the other 'goodies' that add load to the server.
When I was in school one of my roommates was a physics major, and he was the exact opposite of what the article describes. He'd only take hardcore math and physics classes but did everything he could to avoid anything else (he wrote maybe one three-page paper in his whole undergraduate career). As a result, he had difficulty communicating (he could barely put together a coherent paragraph).
What's my point? It's that most of the time, college is no longer where folks go to broaden their minds. Instead, they go there to hyper-focus on their chosen field. The core requirements of most universities encourage this - there are always 'cheats' like an easy Human Sexuality class taking the place of real science course that let people avoid taking classes that would require them to broaden their perspectives (and possibly threaten their GPA's for grad school).
I hate to rag on Wired, but this article is a huge Linux puff piece that takes as fact everything that the people involved with the effort say. Why don't they have any responses from people at Microsoft or Apple (who in particular is hugely invested in the education market) to any of the issues brought up?
Welp, I've just tried changing the port to see how that will work (my connection has been up and down like a yo-yo for the past couple of days). Qworst doesn't have the 2.4.2 update available and for some reason Cisco doesn't want to make it available directly to customers.
On a lighter note, Qworst's support # had a 111 minute wait to talk to someone tonight...gotta love it...
If someone new to computers and the Internet buys a computer just to hook up to the web and then pays their monthly fee to AOL, Earthlink, etc., they probably think they are *already* paying for content.
While I'm happy Slashdot supports the little guy, I personally don't have any problem rooting for Salon again, especially considering their financial state. Their coverage IMHO is as in-depth as any of the best traditional media sources like the NYTimes, but they consistently ask questions and tackle topics that most papers & tv won't touch. They also follow up on stories that the majors report that turn out to be completely bogus (like the whole Clinton staff trashes White House offices on departure bit).
I've taught web basics to seniors before, and I think the most difficult aspect is the mouse. Not because they 'don't get it' but because with arthritis and other similar conditions, it's very difficult to use with any kind of precision. The same goes for the keyboard - it's very difficult to type a long URL when your hand is shaking.
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Yeah, I'm sure that the only applications of any merit on Windows are Office and the Sims.
Looking at that AIBO with the lights on, it seems a step or two away from being one of those deadly mechanical hounds from Fahrenheit 451. "The LEDs pulsate as AIBO becomes more excited"...and readies itself for the kill...
There's a good article at onlamp that talks about where all the IP's went and why things have gotten so stingy. A sad story about misallocation in the early days of the net (do companies like GE or Xerox really need 16 million addresses?)
Among my favorites:
When a DVD writer comes out that can handle a full episode on one disc, this is the first project I'd work on. I started recording MST3K back in the CC days - because I knew that due to the rights issues (and the fact that only 1/1000 people really 'get' the show), they'd probably never be rerun down the line.
Doubtlessly, after Episode I he was drawn to working with Lucas like a moth to flame...
Nope, check out http://www.mock.com/receiver/server/ for how to use the Rio Receiver with Linux.
I remember a few years back when Microsoft bought the Internet Gaming Zone site, it suddenly stopped accepting the Netscape browser as a client. It took many moons before MS let Netscape people back in by 'fixing it', but by then, I'm sure anyone really interested in the site had gone and installed IE to view it.
Embrace...extend...extinguish...
It's more like 'oh no - not *this* level again'. This game sure is repetitive...
Personally the news source I trust the most online or off is Salon. An independent voice willing to get into the messy details with opinions from a variety of viewpoints.
Here's a review at Remote Central:
It's a well-known fact that Taco will only approve submissions with at least one glaring spelling/grammar mistake. That way his errors don't look quite as bad...
I dunno - can you honestly tell me that a competent IT person who patched IIS after Code Red wouldn't have either gotten the 'all-in-one' MS fix that fixed all of the post SP6A-issues or at least checked for other possible IIS problems?
Granted, there are plenty of ways a system and/or network could get infected despite the best efforts of a great IT staff, but it shouldn't have been through IIS, which was the easiest thing to fix. I don't see Gartner recommending people switch from Outlook to Pine or IE to Mozilla despite their roles in this.
"Gartner recommends that enterprises hit by both Code Red and Nimda immediately investigate alternatives to IIS..."
I think Gartner should be recommending an investment in competent IT staff if any enterprise was hit by both Code Red and Nimda, since the IIS exploits used in Nimda were the same as those in Code Red.
It's hard to construct an argument when we don't know who this guy is or what his job entails. It's much easier to talk to your boss about telecommuting when you've established that you are dependable and hard-working, because there's less 'grey-area' that they have to worry about.
It also depends largely on how 'social' your job is. Do you have to attend meetings on a daily basis? Are you working as a member of a team or largely on your own?
I've been telecommuting for about two and a half years, and I have to tell you that it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, it provides a more relaxed and flexible work environment because I don't have to commute and don't have to worry so much about appearances and distractions - I just have to focus on results. On the other hand, you really do miss the clear separation of home and work time (it's harder to feel 'off'), and your employer can take advantage of that as well.
Lastly, I'm lucky because I'm single, but I can tell you from other folks I know that you are kidding yourself if you think you are going to get a lot of work done if you have small kids around. Telecommuting does not equal free daycare.
I think the major difference between /. and sites like CNN & MSNBC is the fact that it's completely dynamic - what makes /. what it is is the constant stream of viewer commentary. And everyone is viewing that content on gigantic-ass dynamic pages with different thresholds, sorts, etc. plus all of the other 'goodies' that add load to the server.
Originally he was sentenced to correct Taco's grammar and spelling for a year, but it was deemed cruel & unusual punishment...
When I was in school one of my roommates was a physics major, and he was the exact opposite of what the article describes. He'd only take hardcore math and physics classes but did everything he could to avoid anything else (he wrote maybe one three-page paper in his whole undergraduate career). As a result, he had difficulty communicating (he could barely put together a coherent paragraph).
What's my point? It's that most of the time, college is no longer where folks go to broaden their minds. Instead, they go there to hyper-focus on their chosen field. The core requirements of most universities encourage this - there are always 'cheats' like an easy Human Sexuality class taking the place of real science course that let people avoid taking classes that would require them to broaden their perspectives (and possibly threaten their GPA's for grad school).
I hate to rag on Wired, but this article is a huge Linux puff piece that takes as fact everything that the people involved with the effort say. Why don't they have any responses from people at Microsoft or Apple (who in particular is hugely invested in the education market) to any of the issues brought up?
Welp, I've just tried changing the port to see how that will work (my connection has been up and down like a yo-yo for the past couple of days). Qworst doesn't have the 2.4.2 update available and for some reason Cisco doesn't want to make it available directly to customers.
On a lighter note, Qworst's support # had a 111 minute wait to talk to someone tonight...gotta love it...
If someone new to computers and the Internet buys a computer just to hook up to the web and then pays their monthly fee to AOL, Earthlink, etc., they probably think they are *already* paying for content.
While I'm happy Slashdot supports the little guy, I personally don't have any problem rooting for Salon again, especially considering their financial state. Their coverage IMHO is as in-depth as any of the best traditional media sources like the NYTimes, but they consistently ask questions and tackle topics that most papers & tv won't touch. They also follow up on stories that the majors report that turn out to be completely bogus (like the whole Clinton staff trashes White House offices on departure bit).
I've taught web basics to seniors before, and I think the most difficult aspect is the mouse. Not because they 'don't get it' but because with arthritis and other similar conditions, it's very difficult to use with any kind of precision. The same goes for the keyboard - it's very difficult to type a long URL when your hand is shaking.
Actually it was Michael who posted the story, not Timothy...
If you lose money on every subscriber, how does your free ISP stay afloat?
Through volume...