Seems like I remember a science fiction short story about a world in which people had little miniature houses inside shipping containers, with standard power/water/sewage hookups, and they just shipped themselves somewhere when they wanted to travel. Neat.
I don't think you've been inside an un-airconditioned steel Connex (i.e. 40 foot "shipping container") in a desert climate for any length of time, now have you? It gets pretty damn stifling hot in there.
Prediction: Gates's 286-page book mentions the World Wide Web on only four of its pages, and portrays the Internet as a subset of a much a larger "Information Superhighway." The Internet, wrote Gates, is one of "the important precursors of the information highway," along with PCs, CD-ROMs, phone networks, and cable systems, but "none represents the actual information highway.... today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway."
Verdict: Miss. Gates's notion that the Internet would play a supporting role in the information highway of the future, rather than being the highway itself, was out-of-date the day The Road Ahead was published. Even Gates realized it. Shortly before his book hit the stores, Gates reorganized Microsoft to focus more on the Internet, and he made major revisions to a second edition of The Road Ahead, adding material that highlighted the significance of the Internet. In many ways, Gates's cloudy crystal ball regarding the Internet amounted to wishful thinking.
^^^ I think the reviewer is the one who missed this one. Bill Gates was right--the Internet we see today is only the beginning. 25+ years from now we'll look back on these days and laugh at how things were back during the caveman days of the Internet. "'User interface protocol'? Bah, damned kids and your blinding ignorance! Back in my day, we had Flash, AJAX, IE6, and HTML and WE LIKED IT! Fie on your abominable makeshift semblance of a protocol. Righteous men use HTTP as God intended. Now off my lawn with your rigamarole and damned technological harlotry."
Apps are faster in Wine than VMWare. I tested Eve Online in both and it was noticeably faster in WINE. Both paled in comparison to running natively under WinXP on the same platform however.
The difference being today, hardly a single page, server or service goes up without someone profiting from it. Even good old/. has banners and adds.
I know, right? I ran a web forum from 2004 to recently. It wasn't huge, 1,000 or so members, but it was a sizeable and active community. I paid $20 a month to run this service and another $7/year for the domain. I never put a single advertisement of any kind on my site as there was no need. I ran Simple Machines Forum and later phpBB and both were completely free. Nowadays "the big lie" is that it costs a lot to run websites. It doesn't, yet every small-time webmaster on Earth will argue they "need" those ads to afford to run the site, and that they "need" that VBulletin license, and this and that. I guess it's because 90% of webmasters are college kids who think $20 is a lot of money.
So you are OK if, in a restaurant, other patrons eavesdrop and record your conversations with your SO/close friend? It is ok to do so in a public restaurant, right?
Would you also be OK for your neighbor to eavesdrop and record the noises coming out from your house, e.g. you arguing with your SO, or whatever noise coming out of the master bedroom at night? Even though they may need a sensitive microphone or a big parabolic dish to do so, from across the street to your house?
After all, not talking in codes or installing noise absorbing wall in your house is an invitation for anyone to passively listen to your conversations, right? What do you expect if you are broadcasting your sound waves on the air in the clear out into public space? Right?
The answer to all of the above questions is YES.
Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it should be illegal.
I propose the US Air Force and Sony draft up some kind of agreement whereby they agree to sell directly to USAF the hardware and software they need to continue supporting their supercomputing cluster, thereby bypassing the standard channels (and its restrictions) entirely, and all in exchange for an agreed price which is likely far less than the Air Force would pay otherwise. We could call this a....hmm I dunno, how about.."contract"? I like that. That's a good one. Say, I believe this is my carriage. Good day gentleman, I'm off to the patent office.
For those that don't know, "acting like a know-it-all" is just something that less knowledgeable people like to say about us more knowledgeable people, as if they are taking some moral high ground by being less knowledgeable.
No, they say that to people with poor social skills who act like know-it-alls. Trust me, if you act respectable nobody will call you a know-it-all.
That being said, when you are first starting out, and really anytime you are talking to someone higher in your chain of command, Just point out what you know and let others make the wrong decision. Don't ever clean up after someone else when you already told them what was the right way to do something, let people deal with their own messes.
Spoken like someone with poor social skills. The correct way to approach this is to help people clean up their messes, just as long as they are willing to watch and listen open-mindedly as you patiently explain where they went wrong. That's how you build rapport with your colleagues and become respected. When people respect you, then they will listen to your advice. When you're the asshole who just sits quietly in the corner of the room with his "I told you so" smirk every time disaster strikes, never offering to help, then you're just an anti-social dweeb and of course nobody will listen to you.
A little self-respect, and enough spine to refuse to be exploited into giving up your personal life to further your bosses ends. Every time you work long hours, you create expectations that your co-workers should work long hours too, and they will despise you for it.
My first (and last) experience in a cubicle farm was a pretty shocking one. We had three guys doing the work of 10. It was extremely stressful. My co-workers would routinely work 60-70+ hours a week, if not in the office then at home with the laptop dialed in. I mean this job was practically their entire lives, and for what? $35k/year? Fuck that. When 5 o'clock rolled around I rolled out. The boss called me up one Friday evening wanting me to come back in and restart a data conversion process that had failed (due to programmers not having the file structure figured out completely) and I said no. I'd rather stand in the sun and dig ditches all day, regardless of pay, cause at least ditch diggers know when they get to go home and forget about work. They called some other unlucky fool in to do the job and nobody ever said a word to me about it, but I could feel some people didnt like it at all. Fuck them. My life is too valuable to be spent slaving away for someone else's benefit.
The one who was made fun of, or the one who was on the receiving end of armed assault and battery?
That's not a victim, that's a bully. If you feel sorry for him or think he didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, you're part of what's wrong with America.
While the invasion of privacy is conveniently forgotten about. If someone sees you naked then jokes at your expense, is it your really insecurity if you get upset?
Yes, that is a very strong indicator of insecurity.
On that note, I wonder if iD used a commercial sound pack in Quake? There is one particular sound effect in Quake, a sound of water dripping in a dark dank place, that I have heard in countless movies and TV shows since.
Exactly. Mod parent up. How many of these same people who are always bitching about how much "Apple sucks" run XFCE on their desktop and dont bat an eye at having to edit configuration files to accomplish minor, trivial, everyday desktop tasks?
Personally, I believe that if we took anybody who didn't know how an engine, transmission, brakes and exhaust system work off the roads, the world would be a far better place. And if you're wondering, no I don't know the first thing about it, which is why I'm a happy pedestrian.
It's not "geekery" to know how to use the tools you own, it's simply being a rational human being and it's sad people are trying to pretend otherwise.
-1 for most laughably stupid comment of the day. You state your opinion on this subject as if anyone truly gives a damn, or should care, especially since you just admitted you don't know the first thing about the subject and thus are unqualified to have ANY opinion on it whatsoever.
I'm an expert mechanic so I understand full well how an engine, transmission, etc work. To expect your average driver to understand any more than the very basics is absurd, especially with how extraordinarily complicated today's cars are.
Likewise for expecting them to understand computers, for the same reasons. I assume that's where your analogy was heading. Your post is stupid and self-serving.
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I wonder what happens when the airbag deploys?
LOL
(Don't answer that!)
*snaps fingers*
dam
Seems like I remember a science fiction short story about a world in which people had little miniature houses inside shipping containers, with standard power/water/sewage hookups, and they just shipped themselves somewhere when they wanted to travel. Neat.
I don't think you've been inside an un-airconditioned steel Connex (i.e. 40 foot "shipping container") in a desert climate for any length of time, now have you? It gets pretty damn stifling hot in there.
Prediction: Gates's 286-page book mentions the World Wide Web on only four of its pages, and portrays the Internet as a subset of a much a larger "Information Superhighway." The Internet, wrote Gates, is one of "the important precursors of the information highway," along with PCs, CD-ROMs, phone networks, and cable systems, but "none represents the actual information highway. ... today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway."
Verdict: Miss. Gates's notion that the Internet would play a supporting role in the information highway of the future, rather than being the highway itself, was out-of-date the day The Road Ahead was published. Even Gates realized it. Shortly before his book hit the stores, Gates reorganized Microsoft to focus more on the Internet, and he made major revisions to a second edition of The Road Ahead, adding material that highlighted the significance of the Internet. In many ways, Gates's cloudy crystal ball regarding the Internet amounted to wishful thinking.
^^^ I think the reviewer is the one who missed this one. Bill Gates was right--the Internet we see today is only the beginning. 25+ years from now we'll look back on these days and laugh at how things were back during the caveman days of the Internet. "'User interface protocol'? Bah, damned kids and your blinding ignorance! Back in my day, we had Flash, AJAX, IE6, and HTML and WE LIKED IT! Fie on your abominable makeshift semblance of a protocol. Righteous men use HTTP as God intended. Now off my lawn with your rigamarole and damned technological harlotry."
Not right now. SSTO with chemical rockets is just plain impossible.
With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.
Apps are faster in Wine than VMWare. I tested Eve Online in both and it was noticeably faster in WINE. Both paled in comparison to running natively under WinXP on the same platform however.
The difference being today, hardly a single page, server or service goes up without someone profiting from it. Even good old /. has banners and adds.
I know, right? I ran a web forum from 2004 to recently. It wasn't huge, 1,000 or so members, but it was a sizeable and active community. I paid $20 a month to run this service and another $7/year for the domain. I never put a single advertisement of any kind on my site as there was no need. I ran Simple Machines Forum and later phpBB and both were completely free. Nowadays "the big lie" is that it costs a lot to run websites. It doesn't, yet every small-time webmaster on Earth will argue they "need" those ads to afford to run the site, and that they "need" that VBulletin license, and this and that. I guess it's because 90% of webmasters are college kids who think $20 is a lot of money.
Would you pay 3x as much for a trip to Australia if it got you there in half the time?
If I could afford it, damn right I would. Ever been on a 16+ hour flight? Especially in coach?
What a complete asshole who thinks he's so much better than everyone else.
When was the last time you founded a great company and led it on to introduce revolutionary products and make billions of dollars in sales?
Cream rises to the top.
So you are OK if, in a restaurant, other patrons eavesdrop and record your conversations with your SO/close friend? It is ok to do so in a public restaurant, right?
Would you also be OK for your neighbor to eavesdrop and record the noises coming out from your house, e.g. you arguing with your SO, or whatever noise coming out of the master bedroom at night? Even though they may need a sensitive microphone or a big parabolic dish to do so, from across the street to your house?
After all, not talking in codes or installing noise absorbing wall in your house is an invitation for anyone to passively listen to your conversations, right? What do you expect if you are broadcasting your sound waves on the air in the clear out into public space? Right?
The answer to all of the above questions is YES.
Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it should be illegal.
I hear the government keeps certain "dead" persons in cryogenic storage, to be revived in case of emergency or time of great need I suppose..
It's not hard to imagine what a planet infested with such things might soon look like...
the worst part is when they begin to hunger for YOUR dna... hey i think i have an idea for a new horror movie
Sony would never sign a Linux install.
I propose the US Air Force and Sony draft up some kind of agreement whereby they agree to sell directly to USAF the hardware and software they need to continue supporting their supercomputing cluster, thereby bypassing the standard channels (and its restrictions) entirely, and all in exchange for an agreed price which is likely far less than the Air Force would pay otherwise. We could call this a....hmm I dunno, how about.."contract"? I like that. That's a good one. Say, I believe this is my carriage. Good day gentleman, I'm off to the patent office.
For those that don't know, "acting like a know-it-all" is just something that less knowledgeable people like to say about us more knowledgeable people, as if they are taking some moral high ground by being less knowledgeable.
No, they say that to people with poor social skills who act like know-it-alls. Trust me, if you act respectable nobody will call you a know-it-all.
That being said, when you are first starting out, and really anytime you are talking to someone higher in your chain of command, Just point out what you know and let others make the wrong decision. Don't ever clean up after someone else when you already told them what was the right way to do something, let people deal with their own messes.
Spoken like someone with poor social skills. The correct way to approach this is to help people clean up their messes, just as long as they are willing to watch and listen open-mindedly as you patiently explain where they went wrong. That's how you build rapport with your colleagues and become respected. When people respect you, then they will listen to your advice. When you're the asshole who just sits quietly in the corner of the room with his "I told you so" smirk every time disaster strikes, never offering to help, then you're just an anti-social dweeb and of course nobody will listen to you.
A little self-respect, and enough spine to refuse to be exploited into giving up your personal life to further your bosses ends. Every time you work long hours, you create expectations that your co-workers should work long hours too, and they will despise you for it.
My first (and last) experience in a cubicle farm was a pretty shocking one. We had three guys doing the work of 10. It was extremely stressful. My co-workers would routinely work 60-70+ hours a week, if not in the office then at home with the laptop dialed in. I mean this job was practically their entire lives, and for what? $35k/year? Fuck that. When 5 o'clock rolled around I rolled out. The boss called me up one Friday evening wanting me to come back in and restart a data conversion process that had failed (due to programmers not having the file structure figured out completely) and I said no. I'd rather stand in the sun and dig ditches all day, regardless of pay, cause at least ditch diggers know when they get to go home and forget about work. They called some other unlucky fool in to do the job and nobody ever said a word to me about it, but I could feel some people didnt like it at all. Fuck them. My life is too valuable to be spent slaving away for someone else's benefit.
The end result of this is that I give him very quick, superficial advice, so that he, and the pen, will go away.
A better idea would be to tell him to quit clicking the goddamn pen.
why would he get mad about that?
logic fail
The one who was made fun of, or the one who was on the receiving end of armed assault and battery?
That's not a victim, that's a bully. If you feel sorry for him or think he didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, you're part of what's wrong with America.
While the invasion of privacy is conveniently forgotten about. If someone sees you naked then jokes at your expense, is it your really insecurity if you get upset?
Yes, that is a very strong indicator of insecurity.
LOL, I got modded flamebait...must have struck a nerve huh? resemble that much, moderators?
On that note, I wonder if iD used a commercial sound pack in Quake? There is one particular sound effect in Quake, a sound of water dripping in a dark dank place, that I have heard in countless movies and TV shows since.
Open-source fails at artistic tasks simply because the end result is designed by a committee, not a single vision.
No, it fails because artistic tasks are best handled by artists (i.e. designers), not programmers.
Exactly. Mod parent up. How many of these same people who are always bitching about how much "Apple sucks" run XFCE on their desktop and dont bat an eye at having to edit configuration files to accomplish minor, trivial, everyday desktop tasks?
Personally, I believe that if we took anybody who didn't know how an engine, transmission, brakes and exhaust system work off the roads, the world would be a far better place. And if you're wondering, no I don't know the first thing about it, which is why I'm a happy pedestrian.
It's not "geekery" to know how to use the tools you own, it's simply being a rational human being and it's sad people are trying to pretend otherwise.
-1 for most laughably stupid comment of the day. You state your opinion on this subject as if anyone truly gives a damn, or should care, especially since you just admitted you don't know the first thing about the subject and thus are unqualified to have ANY opinion on it whatsoever.
I'm an expert mechanic so I understand full well how an engine, transmission, etc work. To expect your average driver to understand any more than the very basics is absurd, especially with how extraordinarily complicated today's cars are.
Likewise for expecting them to understand computers, for the same reasons. I assume that's where your analogy was heading. Your post is stupid and self-serving.