I have no facts to back this up, but it seems to me like the reason that companies such as Dell and Gateway are not selling as hot as before is because they aren't getting repeat customers. Dell, Gateway, HP, etc... all appeal to first time computer buyers that know jack about computers. Once they have had a computer for a while, and it is starting to get too old for them, they realize something. They figure out that they can probably get a better deal from somewhere else, or they have learned how to build their own for much cheaper.
I also foresee a time when you buy a home based on whether or not it has a good server rack system and telecomms closet and what kind of networking media it has installed. I know i was upset when i realized that there was no good place to put servers in my house. ----------------------
I just got a better idea, if i owned a dot com with a questionable future, i would sell out to yahoo or AOLTM or some idiot with more money than brains, and then i would go retire. ----------------------
What Yahoo!, and some of the other dot com's need to do in order to stay afloat is to diversify. Sure, yahoo has their hands in just about everything internet. but what they don't have is some offline bussiness. I'm sure that if they got involved with OEM's and got them polluted with Yahoo instant messenger. Or got some sort of Yahoo brand crap selling in stores.
Not that i care what happens to Yahoo, it annoys me. (just as long as they don't sell out to AOLTM) ----------------------
Has anybody read Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6? They had a nifty little bit of software that would block cell calls within a cell unless the number was preceded by a specific sequence. They used it to keep terrorists outside a situation from calling the guys inside and telling them what the team was doing. Everybody else could use their phones if they knew the sequence. ----------------------
I really don't think that it will be anything special that is implemented on the CD, in hardware, or software. Their new antipiracy protocol goes like this:
you go into the store, and buy a cd, the clerk takes your money and hands you your cd in a bag (why the hell do they always insist on putting single items in bags anyway?) As you walk away, she will sneak up behind you and clamp a chain around your ankle. When you ask her why she did that, she will reply:
"this is our way of making sure that you won't pirate the songs on that cd." you will then notice that the chain is attached to a 7 foot tall 300 lb body builder named Crusher wearing a t-shirt that says "piracy" with a big red X over it. The clerk goes on to explain that he will follow you around forever and will umm encourage you to not make illegal copies of music.
Once the technology is perfected, the RIAA will probably just embed hypnotic suggestions in all their music therebye forcing us to give them all of our money in return for getting hypnotized to give them more money. ----------------------
and, you could beowulf them together. Especially if bluetooth, or some of the other wireless formats ever get off of the ground. You could have a base unit/server in a pocket or bag, and have a smaller client unit in your hand for easy access. That is one thing you have to give palm credit for, their designs are really efficient. (except for the redundant buttons) ----------------------
could not use knowledge that he gained at the company for 2 years
What kind of idiocy is that? Does that mean that, If during his time that the company, that company paid for a person to get training to be better able to do his job. Lets say that they paid for him to learn a whole bunch of stuff about WAN administration. Does this mean that if he ever left the company, he would never be allowed to configure a router again, or he would be legally required to forget all of his knowledge when he left?
I may be getting that wrong, but it seems extremely absurd to me. ----------------------
Re:A better question is answered by hardcopies
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I gonna march right down to the nearest computer stor and buy the best and fastest laser printer, a semi-truck load of paper, a messload of toner cartridges. Then i'm gonna start printing the kernel source. Then i'm gonna cat all the man pages to the printer, Then I'm gonna get a windows computer, and open IE, and go to the google web directory. Them i'm gonna click print, and select the "print all linked documents" option, and then OK. (it does really go forever if you let it.) ----------------------
yeah, i think that sounds right
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It's been a while, but that sounds like most of the basics are right. This concept is what Orson Scott Card used in the Ender books. They had some whatsit doohickey that carried split particles around the universe. However, that device was able to influence the spin of the particles, and it also assumed that the spin of on particle would affect the spin of the article on the other end. It's still cool. ----------------------
It's actually pretty hard to ignore some of the new types of ads that were mentioned in the article. For instance, I was reading this article on CNet, and when i first loaded the page, that ad was right in the middle of the content, and it is so huge that you can't ignore it.
I just checked, and all cnet stories have the same kind of huge ad right in the middle of the page. they are little flash applets with active content in them. If you look at this one the first thing that you see is a freakin' oracle add bogarting the window space. ----------------------
One thing I have noticed happen to several people that I know, is that they get offered administrative jobs that make a lot of money. Sure, there is a lot of money, but it is true about spending most of the day reading email. Most of it is from other buracrats and those above them. Upper level management has this strange habit of requiring 3d rendered streaming video Dolby 5.1 enabled status reports every couple of hours.
I'm sure that if CowboyNeal had his way, he would be off in a dark room doing what he really likes to do instead of responding to hundreds of meaningless questions, thousands of troll emails, and requests for @slashdot addresses.
I bet he's got a filter on his inbox that searches for troll related words(hot grits, etc.) and automatically signs the sender up for 20 spam mailing lists. ----------------------
did you even read the linked article in the original slashdot story? The article stated that human genes seem to be far to haphazard to have been created. "Jury-rigged" was even mentioned. That is the genetic evidence i was talking about.
the bible can be easily backed up by science. There are passages that speak of the "circle of the earth" thousands of years older than columbus or magellan. There have also been hundreds of archaological finds that prove the Bible's validity and age. As far as accuracy goes, for a long time there was practically a whole religeon formed around copying the Bible exactly. These guys invented the checksum, they had logs of the exact number of words and letters in each book and chapter of the Bible.
If I weren't at a place where I cant get to my library, i could dig up quotes from immenent scientists and mathemeticians such as Freeman Dyson, Sir Fred Hoyle, even Stephen Hawking has hinted at it. More and more scientists are starting to agree that the universe and life had to have a designer and creator.
one mathemetician (i think it was Hoyle) said that the odds against life arising spontaneously and evolving into what we know today, are greater than the total number of atoms in the universe to 1.
Just a note on Biblical descriptions of humanity. When God created man, he created us perfect. Yes that's right, humanity was perfect in every way. In order to let Adam and Eve know that they did have moral bounds that they had to stay within, God made the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. And you know the rest. (tree, satan, snake, fruit, eat). Anyway, their punishment was that they would no longer be perfect and live forever.
(by the way, other genetic studies have proven that humans should be able to live forever, and that the only thing that makes us grow old and die are telomeres which are attached to the end of DNA strands. Studies also show that telomeres are sort of stuck on to the end more like a code patch than a part of the strand)
Adam and Eve slowly drifted away from perfection and eventually died. However humanity didn't go from perfection to our condition over night. No according to biblical accounts, humanity continued to live lifespans of up to 965 years old (Methusela). Humans also had near perfect brains for a long time which sheds light on stuff like pyramids, etc. The bible also says that there was a time when God said "OK thats enough" and he limited humans to 70 or 80 years on average.
I submit that the genetic evidence does not indicate evolution, but devolution. Our genetic code has been unmaintained for over 6,000 years, and has slowly degenerated into our screwed up selves.
At my high school, it was all politics. Students were allowed on a sort of technology commitee. basically, they would sit around and go through their normal beauracratic nonsense, and not get anywhere. We would say something that was logical, and pertinent to the subject at hand. They would advance on us with red hot pokers, and we would run away. They administration at our school was evil, EVIL EVIL. Hell, we werent even able to use telnet. (it is a h4x0r1ng tool)
It seems that since the administration was EVIL most of us who can, left. I dropped out, got my GED, got a computer related job, and started college. Someone else, dropped out, and got a GED, and started college. Yet another person transferred to a less EVIL school.
You can ask Moath on #slashdot for more info. ----------------------
Right now, there are several F/free office suites that read M$ office file formats (e.g. StarOffice). what might happen is that in order to make itself the only office product, M$ will cause updates to change the format of files at every update. Everyone will be forced to use M$ because only other office products will be able to keep up with the forced encryption. ----------------------
However, I am a firm believer that Microsoft will always have a place in every bussiness, and home on the planet. "Hey, do you think that the coffee table is a little bit tilted?" "Yeah, just grab a coupla those windows CD's and stick 'em under the leg, that should straighten it out" ----------------------
If open source and F/free software stifles innovation, then the opposite should be true. Software that has it's source guarded by a horde of private S.S. guards, and is restricted, and expensive as hell should be just awesome!
That said, Microsoft's next operating system should be fast, powerful, easy to use, stable, and come with a crate of chips.
Since we all know that will happen about the time that Satan starts ordering longjohns, I just wanna tell Allachin where he can stick his "innovation" ----------------------
The punishment for being a script kiddie who initiates a DDoS attack should be this:
Tie him to a table. then get about 20 people to stand in a circle around him. Then they should all converge on him, and poke him repeatedly. Just hard enough to hurt a little bit, but not too much. One person doing it would be annoying, but not bad. Multiply it by 20, or more and BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.
punishment for more serious attacks could replace sticks with finger poking. Lets see how long DDoS attacks would keep happening.
Of course, all of that would require that they actually put some effort into trying to find out who is responsible. All you have to do is get an infiltrator into some kiddie group. they like to bragincessently about their latest enterprise, whether it be leeching the latest warez release, or using 31337 sk1llz (some program made by someone who was actually semi intelligent) to h4x0r some computers.
For the people who actively try to crack systems, there should be a different punishment. If they get caught, they should be required to submit to a colonostomy. (To those non-medical geeks, a colonostomy makes a prostate exam look like a walk in the proverbial park.)Basically, they would be violated, and examined in the same way that they did to whatever system they got into.
Mostly script kiddies should obey my sig: ----------------------
person:What happened to that building?
fireman:ohh, it was another one of them damn fusion powered spy bugs that went critical again, 3rd one this week.
Person: why do they keep doing that?
Fireman: they're all running WinCE, they segfault everytime that they fly by a microwave. ----------------------
In theory, the unverse could go two ways. It could have enough mass that after it overcame the force of the supposed big bang (the universe is expanding) then gravity would start to pull it back to where it came from and the universe would collapse. Of course that is probably many billion, even trillions, of years in the future.
Or the universe could just expand indefinetely to the point where it would be impossible to see other stars with the naked eye. Again, that is billions of years away.
Either way, we would have to be a class 4 civilisation to keep ourselves alive. That would probably mean that we would have to leave our universe and start on spreading human screwyness to other unverses.
Right now we are a class 0 civilization.(i think that this is the way it goes.)
Class 0=conquered our own planet
Class 1=conquered space (stuff outside of earth orbit would be common)
Class 2=conquered other planets(colonies)
Class 3=Conquered galaxy
Class 4=Conquered other galaxies
But it is cool to think about the fact that when the sun decides that it is gonna go, it will expand to roughly the size of earth orbit. When that happens, it will probably make the 3rd page of the galactic times "today the home system of the human race went up in a puff of ionized gas" ----------------------
At the medical center where i work in IT, there is an attached doctors clinic that we support. There are computers in every exam room. They run programs from a terminal server, and can record all kinds of stuff. They can even write up a subscription, and then walk over to the nearest laser printer and sign it. It's all really cool.
I think that some of the others are right though. The patients don't need access to all of this. Here, in our clinic, the doctors all have access to something called "image manager" basically, all records from the entire medical center are scanned into the system, and the doctors can look at them from just about anywhere. They can be hooked up with RAS, and can look at their patients' records from home.
Believe me, the security is rather good, and several layers deep. They even have to use a specific code number based on a predetermined algorithm. The security provider generates a number every minute, and a keychain that the doctor has generates the same number based on the same algorithm. the two have to match or else the doc doesnt get in. Sure the keychain could get stolen, but the doc's usually attach it to their lexus/mercedes/beamer keys.
Also They just want to pad their fees in order to squeeze yet more $$$ out of the insurance industry
this isn't exactly true. The computers that are in the exam rooms are only p75's it works just fine for the purposes that we use them for. They are just leftovers from when the rest of the hospital upgrades. Eventually they will all be up to 133mhz which will also be just fine for the terminal server junk that they do. ----------------------
first of all, it is obvious to everyone that the bind problem affects more than just linux boxen. Anyway any good linux admin, being like they are, would have upgraded just as fast as he could type apt-get update bindXXXXXX, or what ever packaging scheme their distro uses.
Second, i'm not sure exactly which "free" the article was talking about. From the way the quotes were phrased i think they were implying that "free beer" free is what the linux business model is based on and not "free speech" free.
It really bothers me when people base their arguments on things in which they choose to ignore whole chunks of evidence that is against their point of view.
As for all of that crap about linux not having the right kind of applications to operate in a bussiness environment, might i point out that M$ has had a whole lot longer to produce stuff than linux has. AND linux has only started real growth in the last few years. If you take into account how much really cool stuff linuz has accomplished in the amount of time that it has existed, versus how much M$ has accomplished in it's existence. Then it is obvious that linux has been growing much faster than M$. That is what they are afraid of. ----------------------
Re:We're talking about "Zero Tolerance" zealots!!
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None of this has anything to do with computers, the internet or anything. At my school there was no policy like i outlined because of power tripping buracratic (l)users. People are just morons. They have no sense in there heads at all.
It just makes me glad im not one. ----------------------
Re:What control of web viewing means...
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Yeah they can. I just forgot to include that The parents should sign the agreement as well. They tried to do that at my old school, but since they didn't have a proxy server, and all boxen could get directly onto the net they couldn't stop anybody who didn't have the permission slip. ----------------------
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I have no facts to back this up, but it seems to me like the reason that companies such as Dell and Gateway are not selling as hot as before is because they aren't getting repeat customers. Dell, Gateway, HP, etc... all appeal to first time computer buyers that know jack about computers. Once they have had a computer for a while, and it is starting to get too old for them, they realize something. They figure out that they can probably get a better deal from somewhere else, or they have learned how to build their own for much cheaper.
I also foresee a time when you buy a home based on whether or not it has a good server rack system and telecomms closet and what kind of networking media it has installed. I know i was upset when i realized that there was no good place to put servers in my house.
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I just got a better idea, if i owned a dot com with a questionable future, i would sell out to yahoo or AOLTM or some idiot with more money than brains, and then i would go retire.
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What Yahoo!, and some of the other dot com's need to do in order to stay afloat is to diversify. Sure, yahoo has their hands in just about everything internet. but what they don't have is some offline bussiness. I'm sure that if they got involved with OEM's and got them polluted with Yahoo instant messenger. Or got some sort of Yahoo brand crap selling in stores.
Not that i care what happens to Yahoo, it annoys me. (just as long as they don't sell out to AOLTM)
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prevent form wobbling, i thought that was what all those windows installation disks were for?
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Has anybody read Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6? They had a nifty little bit of software that would block cell calls within a cell unless the number was preceded by a specific sequence. They used it to keep terrorists outside a situation from calling the guys inside and telling them what the team was doing. Everybody else could use their phones if they knew the sequence.
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I really don't think that it will be anything special that is implemented on the CD, in hardware, or software. Their new antipiracy protocol goes like this:
you go into the store, and buy a cd, the clerk takes your money and hands you your cd in a bag (why the hell do they always insist on putting single items in bags anyway?) As you walk away, she will sneak up behind you and clamp a chain around your ankle. When you ask her why she did that, she will reply:
"this is our way of making sure that you won't pirate the songs on that cd." you will then notice that the chain is attached to a 7 foot tall 300 lb body builder named Crusher wearing a t-shirt that says "piracy" with a big red X over it. The clerk goes on to explain that he will follow you around forever and will umm encourage you to not make illegal copies of music.
Once the technology is perfected, the RIAA will probably just embed hypnotic suggestions in all their music therebye forcing us to give them all of our money in return for getting hypnotized to give them more money.
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and, you could beowulf them together. Especially if bluetooth, or some of the other wireless formats ever get off of the ground. You could have a base unit/server in a pocket or bag, and have a smaller client unit in your hand for easy access. That is one thing you have to give palm credit for, their designs are really efficient. (except for the redundant buttons)
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could not use knowledge that he gained at the company for 2 years
What kind of idiocy is that? Does that mean that, If during his time that the company, that company paid for a person to get training to be better able to do his job. Lets say that they paid for him to learn a whole bunch of stuff about WAN administration. Does this mean that if he ever left the company, he would never be allowed to configure a router again, or he would be legally required to forget all of his knowledge when he left?
I may be getting that wrong, but it seems extremely absurd to me.
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I gonna march right down to the nearest computer stor and buy the best and fastest laser printer, a semi-truck load of paper, a messload of toner cartridges. Then i'm gonna start printing the kernel source. Then i'm gonna cat all the man pages to the printer, Then I'm gonna get a windows computer, and open IE, and go to the google web directory. Them i'm gonna click print, and select the "print all linked documents" option, and then OK. (it does really go forever if you let it.)
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It's been a while, but that sounds like most of the basics are right. This concept is what Orson Scott Card used in the Ender books. They had some whatsit doohickey that carried split particles around the universe. However, that device was able to influence the spin of the particles, and it also assumed that the spin of on particle would affect the spin of the article on the other end. It's still cool.
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It's actually pretty hard to ignore some of the new types of ads that were mentioned in the article. For instance, I was reading this article on CNet, and when i first loaded the page, that ad was right in the middle of the content, and it is so huge that you can't ignore it.
I just checked, and all cnet stories have the same kind of huge ad right in the middle of the page. they are little flash applets with active content in them. If you look at this one the first thing that you see is a freakin' oracle add bogarting the window space.
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One thing I have noticed happen to several people that I know, is that they get offered administrative jobs that make a lot of money. Sure, there is a lot of money, but it is true about spending most of the day reading email. Most of it is from other buracrats and those above them. Upper level management has this strange habit of requiring 3d rendered streaming video Dolby 5.1 enabled status reports every couple of hours.
I'm sure that if CowboyNeal had his way, he would be off in a dark room doing what he really likes to do instead of responding to hundreds of meaningless questions, thousands of troll emails, and requests for @slashdot addresses.
I bet he's got a filter on his inbox that searches for troll related words(hot grits, etc.) and automatically signs the sender up for 20 spam mailing lists.
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did you even read the linked article in the original slashdot story? The article stated that human genes seem to be far to haphazard to have been created. "Jury-rigged" was even mentioned. That is the genetic evidence i was talking about.
the bible can be easily backed up by science. There are passages that speak of the "circle of the earth" thousands of years older than columbus or magellan. There have also been hundreds of archaological finds that prove the Bible's validity and age. As far as accuracy goes, for a long time there was practically a whole religeon formed around copying the Bible exactly. These guys invented the checksum, they had logs of the exact number of words and letters in each book and chapter of the Bible.
If I weren't at a place where I cant get to my library, i could dig up quotes from immenent scientists and mathemeticians such as Freeman Dyson, Sir Fred Hoyle, even Stephen Hawking has hinted at it. More and more scientists are starting to agree that the universe and life had to have a designer and creator.
one mathemetician (i think it was Hoyle) said that the odds against life arising spontaneously and evolving into what we know today, are greater than the total number of atoms in the universe to 1.
hehe, i love research
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Just a note on Biblical descriptions of humanity. When God created man, he created us perfect. Yes that's right, humanity was perfect in every way. In order to let Adam and Eve know that they did have moral bounds that they had to stay within, God made the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. And you know the rest. (tree, satan, snake, fruit, eat). Anyway, their punishment was that they would no longer be perfect and live forever.
(by the way, other genetic studies have proven that humans should be able to live forever, and that the only thing that makes us grow old and die are telomeres which are attached to the end of DNA strands. Studies also show that telomeres are sort of stuck on to the end more like a code patch than a part of the strand)
Adam and Eve slowly drifted away from perfection and eventually died. However humanity didn't go from perfection to our condition over night. No according to biblical accounts, humanity continued to live lifespans of up to 965 years old (Methusela). Humans also had near perfect brains for a long time which sheds light on stuff like pyramids, etc. The bible also says that there was a time when God said "OK thats enough" and he limited humans to 70 or 80 years on average.
I submit that the genetic evidence does not indicate evolution, but devolution. Our genetic code has been unmaintained for over 6,000 years, and has slowly degenerated into our screwed up selves.
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At my high school, it was all politics. Students were allowed on a sort of technology commitee. basically, they would sit around and go through their normal beauracratic nonsense, and not get anywhere. We would say something that was logical, and pertinent to the subject at hand. They would advance on us with red hot pokers, and we would run away. They administration at our school was evil, EVIL EVIL. Hell, we werent even able to use telnet. (it is a h4x0r1ng tool)
It seems that since the administration was EVIL most of us who can, left. I dropped out, got my GED, got a computer related job, and started college. Someone else, dropped out, and got a GED, and started college. Yet another person transferred to a less EVIL school.
You can ask Moath on #slashdot for more info.
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Right now, there are several F/free office suites that read M$ office file formats (e.g. StarOffice). what might happen is that in order to make itself the only office product, M$ will cause updates to change the format of files at every update. Everyone will be forced to use M$ because only other office products will be able to keep up with the forced encryption.
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However, I am a firm believer that Microsoft will always have a place in every bussiness, and home on the planet. "Hey, do you think that the coffee table is a little bit tilted?" "Yeah, just grab a coupla those windows CD's and stick 'em under the leg, that should straighten it out"
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If open source and F/free software stifles innovation, then the opposite should be true. Software that has it's source guarded by a horde of private S.S. guards, and is restricted, and expensive as hell should be just awesome!
That said, Microsoft's next operating system should be fast, powerful, easy to use, stable, and come with a crate of chips.
Since we all know that will happen about the time that Satan starts ordering longjohns, I just wanna tell Allachin where he can stick his "innovation"
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The punishment for being a script kiddie who initiates a DDoS attack should be this:
Tie him to a table. then get about 20 people to stand in a circle around him. Then they should all converge on him, and poke him repeatedly. Just hard enough to hurt a little bit, but not too much. One person doing it would be annoying, but not bad. Multiply it by 20, or more and BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.
punishment for more serious attacks could replace sticks with finger poking. Lets see how long DDoS attacks would keep happening.
Of course, all of that would require that they actually put some effort into trying to find out who is responsible. All you have to do is get an infiltrator into some kiddie group. they like to bragincessently about their latest enterprise, whether it be leeching the latest warez release, or using 31337 sk1llz (some program made by someone who was actually semi intelligent) to h4x0r some computers.
For the people who actively try to crack systems, there should be a different punishment. If they get caught, they should be required to submit to a colonostomy. (To those non-medical geeks, a colonostomy makes a prostate exam look like a walk in the proverbial park.)Basically, they would be violated, and examined in the same way that they did to whatever system they got into.
Mostly script kiddies should obey my sig:
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person:What happened to that building?
fireman:ohh, it was another one of them damn fusion powered spy bugs that went critical again, 3rd one this week.
Person: why do they keep doing that?
Fireman: they're all running WinCE, they segfault everytime that they fly by a microwave.
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In theory, the unverse could go two ways. It could have enough mass that after it overcame the force of the supposed big bang (the universe is expanding) then gravity would start to pull it back to where it came from and the universe would collapse. Of course that is probably many billion, even trillions, of years in the future.
Or the universe could just expand indefinetely to the point where it would be impossible to see other stars with the naked eye. Again, that is billions of years away.
Either way, we would have to be a class 4 civilisation to keep ourselves alive. That would probably mean that we would have to leave our universe and start on spreading human screwyness to other unverses.
Right now we are a class 0 civilization.(i think that this is the way it goes.)
Class 0=conquered our own planet
Class 1=conquered space (stuff outside of earth orbit would be common)
Class 2=conquered other planets(colonies)
Class 3=Conquered galaxy
Class 4=Conquered other galaxies
But it is cool to think about the fact that when the sun decides that it is gonna go, it will expand to roughly the size of earth orbit. When that happens, it will probably make the 3rd page of the galactic times "today the home system of the human race went up in a puff of ionized gas"
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At the medical center where i work in IT, there is an attached doctors clinic that we support. There are computers in every exam room. They run programs from a terminal server, and can record all kinds of stuff. They can even write up a subscription, and then walk over to the nearest laser printer and sign it. It's all really cool.
I think that some of the others are right though. The patients don't need access to all of this. Here, in our clinic, the doctors all have access to something called "image manager" basically, all records from the entire medical center are scanned into the system, and the doctors can look at them from just about anywhere. They can be hooked up with RAS, and can look at their patients' records from home.
Believe me, the security is rather good, and several layers deep. They even have to use a specific code number based on a predetermined algorithm. The security provider generates a number every minute, and a keychain that the doctor has generates the same number based on the same algorithm. the two have to match or else the doc doesnt get in. Sure the keychain could get stolen, but the doc's usually attach it to their lexus/mercedes/beamer keys.
Also They just want to pad their fees in order to squeeze yet more $$$ out of the insurance industry
this isn't exactly true. The computers that are in the exam rooms are only p75's it works just fine for the purposes that we use them for. They are just leftovers from when the rest of the hospital upgrades. Eventually they will all be up to 133mhz which will also be just fine for the terminal server junk that they do.
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first of all, it is obvious to everyone that the bind problem affects more than just linux boxen. Anyway any good linux admin, being like they are, would have upgraded just as fast as he could type apt-get update bindXXXXXX, or what ever packaging scheme their distro uses.
Second, i'm not sure exactly which "free" the article was talking about. From the way the quotes were phrased i think they were implying that "free beer" free is what the linux business model is based on and not "free speech" free.
It really bothers me when people base their arguments on things in which they choose to ignore whole chunks of evidence that is against their point of view.
As for all of that crap about linux not having the right kind of applications to operate in a bussiness environment, might i point out that M$ has had a whole lot longer to produce stuff than linux has. AND linux has only started real growth in the last few years. If you take into account how much really cool stuff linuz has accomplished in the amount of time that it has existed, versus how much M$ has accomplished in it's existence. Then it is obvious that linux has been growing much faster than M$. That is what they are afraid of.
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None of this has anything to do with computers, the internet or anything. At my school there was no policy like i outlined because of power tripping buracratic (l)users. People are just morons. They have no sense in there heads at all.
It just makes me glad im not one.
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Yeah they can. I just forgot to include that The parents should sign the agreement as well. They tried to do that at my old school, but since they didn't have a proxy server, and all boxen could get directly onto the net they couldn't stop anybody who didn't have the permission slip.
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