Think about it for a second: if you insulate the floor of your attic, and not the roof/ceiling, then you are functionally keeping the hot outdoor air out of the house, and whatever's in the attic up in the attic. your AC stays indoors. Meanwhile, the heat of the sun beating down on your asphalt roof poors through the plywood and shingles, and gets functionally stuck between the roof and insulation.
If what you said were true, then roof shinglers wouldn't always have to worry about the intense heat radiating from the shingles - the cool air in the atticks would solve that problem for them.
I've always thought that it would be quite fun to do a conversion of a small, underpowered vehicle (like a VW Beetle) to something with a little more power - like a performance race car engine (porshe, something like that, I dunno. I'm not a car person, so it's just speculation:P). It would be the only modification to the vehicle: the body and interior would look the same, but under the hood you'd have performance parts. Imagine the looks on the faces of the people standing about the lot, all in their pimped out ricers (not bothering to drive them and back up their word) when you challenge the guy in the corvette (something those ricer kids would never think of doing) and actually waste him, because your '89 honda accord has a porshe engine. Be fun to race for pink slips:P
But, being as I know nothing about cars, I have no idea whether that's even possible (or something compareable).
Just like the the "60's" didn't start until half way through the decade, and the 70's didn't start until 73 or so, the 80's didn't either. (Culturally)
I wonder how many thousands of dollars this will cost the people hosting this gig+ of video. I certainly hope that if they get losses, they don't hesistate to sue the slashdot crew for their insollence and unthoughtfulness.
Or legal action from the gov't, even. A DDoS is a DDoS, regardless of whether the requests are valid or not: it's intentional.
128K ISDN is plenty of bandwidth, provided the latency is good and you're not a download whore (aka, a warez kiddie, someone that downloads every new demo, or someone that downloads music/videos, etc). IMO, the main problem with dialup is the latency, not the pipe size.
I'd almost always expect the employee getting trashed (at least in an industry that's as cutthroat as the tech industry currently is, where workers are in high supply and low demand). That is, unless it's a smaller firm where the boss and employees have tight relationships, or something like that.
Just think of how many teenagers could make a lot of money while participating in a favored American teen pasttime: cruising the drag (or loop, main, etc). No longer would they have to worry about gas money!
On the other hand, I wonder how legal something like, say, a physical solution to a digial problem would be, IE, they're stealing your bandwidth, you shoot out the tires on their 'getaway' vehicle while it's parked on the street. Were you stopping perpetrators? Would this be a reverse attack, were they attacking your Win2k file share? How about a simple, "drag them out of the car and beat them with a Model M" approach? Would this be justifiable under theft laws, or would it simply be assault?
Yes, but he -didn't- lose his position in the consulting firm! It was her word over his, and his notes saved his ass from being out on the street. It's possible the contracting boss would have fired him to save face with the printer company, so as to retain integrity of the contract (or to attempt it at least).
Does anyone know of any sites out there that fully outline MS's Licensing 6.0 and other various devious licensing schemes fully, in a point-by-point manner, for the average PHB? Or am I going to have to go digging through articles and EULAs to gleam the necessary information and compile it into a report myself?
I was actually thinking that we'd see more WinXP Embedded devices (ala the Xbox), or something similar. With hardware like transmeta's processors, and the performance difference between something like that and whatever CE runs on, plus the plethora of win32 applications that would run on the XP platform as opposed to the CE platform (full-fledged office, etc)... I see that being a much greater possibility.
The problem I have with devices like the toshiba e310 is that it's simply not capable of typing. Keyboard addon or not, it's still cumbersome to piece two parts together, potentially losing one, etc. Personally, something of the form factor of a small vaio or the fujitsu lifebook P1000 series (drool!) or for people with more strict typing restrictions would be the P2000 series would be more along the line of what I think would be more practical.
With the further advent of computers and digital databases, and the impending extinction of paper records, things like the alteration centers are not only less unrealistic (nobody could change that many records in real life, you'd need records of your records of your...), but it becomes a very distinct possibility: change $string to $string2 and you've altered history.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Take Star Wars for example. That was always intended as a Trilogy, and so Lucas made it into one after his first film was a wide success. And now he's making 3 more, since he'd always intended to. Right?
In my mind, the only things that make people upgrade their PCs at all are games. Most people use their computers for chatting, browsing, email, games, and a -little- word processing - probably in that order. The game, hardware, and OS industry knows this.
As a result, all three industries work together to an extent. OSes need upgrades when new hardware comes out, new hardware needs new OSes, and games need both. Thus, they end up making colateral income for each other, as one component advances, all the others must. Otherwise, each industry would probably have stagnated without the other.
Now, portables, however, don't really do the 'game' thing. They're really just fancy web appliances with word processors. For most people, a WinCE device with a couple hundred megs of storage and a decent display/keyboard would be more than sufficient for all that they do (legally): just include solitaire, IE, and a couple chat programs with your basic loadout. I see this working for a large extent, especially with the convention of WiFi. I'm thinking a family of 5 (with, say, 3 internet addicts) would much rather spend 1k$ on 3 portable devices than 1 large desktop device that only one person can use at a time.
Price would have to be quite competitive, of course, since most people want gaming, too. Personally, I see embedded WinXP (or whatever equivilant product MS comes out with next) being more common than WinCE. WinCE is for low-end stuff.
Every American is obligated to use free software. Restrictive licenses tied into obscene and obligatory upgrade paths are morally perverse and similar to modern-day slavery (as are restrictive non-disclosures).
Exactly how credible is a 'tech writer' that is using Windows 95, readily admits it, and doesn't really even think twice as it being a taboo to the general populace (most people would say it was an old POS), let alone a huge taboo in her field?
I say, "not very".
Additionally, she says:
Well, you shrieking geeks, I don't have a shelf full of Linux reference books, and I don't plan to buy them.
And neither do I. I've been using linux since '97 and have been administering an office network since around early '99. I've never run into any real problems and - guess what - I've never bought a book. I don't plan to buy any in the near future, either.
As I mentioned, I think a computer is a tool rather than a hobby.
I would like to start by stating that she isn't a terribly good tech writer if computers are not a hobby for her. It's evident that she's quite unskilled in her field. 'Computer' are nearly synonymous with 'technology' and has been for years. If this woman's employer is reading this, please let it be known that I am seeking employment as a technical writer. (Seriously.)
Furthermore, a tool is something that you use to perform a task. It's not an item that you wistfully expect to do the job for you. If you're the 'qualified individual' that is supposed to be able to operate a tool, you have to know how it operates. Computers should "just work" in the sense that they do what they're supposed to do. They do not, and never will, "just work" in the sense that they work flawlessly (as to the users' expectations). The world we live in has things like entropy and imperfection, after all. (This is yet another earmark of this woman's incompetence.)
If software is distributed in mass-market retail outlets, I expect it to work straight out of the box.
Likewise, I suspect you've never read the manual for your VCR, microwave, cell phone, or other 'tool' that you use to perform various tasks. (Maybe you haven't, who knows - some people never seem to grasp this 'technology' thing.) Nothing ever works "out of the box". This woman's entire arguement is a collection of faux pas statements that simply attribute themselves to various FUD techniques. They're not even genuine criticisms but gross generalizations that the general public would nominally agree with unless walked through the logic behind them.
I didn't even make it to the 3rd page of the 'review'. It was that bad.
The problem with MS software isn't that it's support-less, it's that it's just damned hard to support a GUI product without seeing exactly what the person is doing.
I personally find it infurriatingly frustrating to try and support any GUI, whether it's windows, or KDE.
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Your enemy's enemy is your friend. Simply put.
Do I hear you saying that they then use the information you give them to prosecute you anyway?
Two words: finger prints.
And you're calling all Americans "Yanks"? You're a funny man, oh yess you are! :P
Think about it for a second: if you insulate the floor of your attic, and not the roof/ceiling, then you are functionally keeping the hot outdoor air out of the house, and whatever's in the attic up in the attic. your AC stays indoors. Meanwhile, the heat of the sun beating down on your asphalt roof poors through the plywood and shingles, and gets functionally stuck between the roof and insulation.
If what you said were true, then roof shinglers wouldn't always have to worry about the intense heat radiating from the shingles - the cool air in the atticks would solve that problem for them.
I've always thought that it would be quite fun to do a conversion of a small, underpowered vehicle (like a VW Beetle) to something with a little more power - like a performance race car engine (porshe, something like that, I dunno. I'm not a car person, so it's just speculation :P). It would be the only modification to the vehicle: the body and interior would look the same, but under the hood you'd have performance parts. Imagine the looks on the faces of the people standing about the lot, all in their pimped out ricers (not bothering to drive them and back up their word) when you challenge the guy in the corvette (something those ricer kids would never think of doing) and actually waste him, because your '89 honda accord has a porshe engine. Be fun to race for pink slips :P
But, being as I know nothing about cars, I have no idea whether that's even possible (or something compareable).
Yeah, 2 years are all of a decade. Right?
Just like the the "60's" didn't start until half way through the decade, and the 70's didn't start until 73 or so, the 80's didn't either. (Culturally)
I wonder how many thousands of dollars this will cost the people hosting this gig+ of video. I certainly hope that if they get losses, they don't hesistate to sue the slashdot crew for their insollence and unthoughtfulness.
Or legal action from the gov't, even. A DDoS is a DDoS, regardless of whether the requests are valid or not: it's intentional.
You don't remember the 80's? How old are you, 16, 17? I'm 21 and I remember the 80's vividly.
128K ISDN is plenty of bandwidth, provided the latency is good and you're not a download whore (aka, a warez kiddie, someone that downloads every new demo, or someone that downloads music/videos, etc). IMO, the main problem with dialup is the latency, not the pipe size.
I wish I lived in your ideal world. :)
I'd almost always expect the employee getting trashed (at least in an industry that's as cutthroat as the tech industry currently is, where workers are in high supply and low demand). That is, unless it's a smaller firm where the boss and employees have tight relationships, or something like that.
Just think of how many teenagers could make a lot of money while participating in a favored American teen pasttime: cruising the drag (or loop, main, etc). No longer would they have to worry about gas money!
On the other hand, I wonder how legal something like, say, a physical solution to a digial problem would be, IE, they're stealing your bandwidth, you shoot out the tires on their 'getaway' vehicle while it's parked on the street. Were you stopping perpetrators? Would this be a reverse attack, were they attacking your Win2k file share? How about a simple, "drag them out of the car and beat them with a Model M" approach? Would this be justifiable under theft laws, or would it simply be assault?
Many important questions to ponder.
Dick Tracey walked from the computer and said, with scorn on his voice, "The irony is so thick I can cut it with a knife."
Yes, but he -didn't- lose his position in the consulting firm! It was her word over his, and his notes saved his ass from being out on the street. It's possible the contracting boss would have fired him to save face with the printer company, so as to retain integrity of the contract (or to attempt it at least).
Does anyone know of any sites out there that fully outline MS's Licensing 6.0 and other various devious licensing schemes fully, in a point-by-point manner, for the average PHB? Or am I going to have to go digging through articles and EULAs to gleam the necessary information and compile it into a report myself?
I was actually thinking that we'd see more WinXP Embedded devices (ala the Xbox), or something similar. With hardware like transmeta's processors, and the performance difference between something like that and whatever CE runs on, plus the plethora of win32 applications that would run on the XP platform as opposed to the CE platform (full-fledged office, etc)... I see that being a much greater possibility.
The problem I have with devices like the toshiba e310 is that it's simply not capable of typing. Keyboard addon or not, it's still cumbersome to piece two parts together, potentially losing one, etc. Personally, something of the form factor of a small vaio or the fujitsu lifebook P1000 series (drool!) or for people with more strict typing restrictions would be the P2000 series would be more along the line of what I think would be more practical.
Er, buddy, that's what I'm sayin'.
As opposed to how things are now, when there's limitted upgradeability and people do that anyway?
With the further advent of computers and digital databases, and the impending extinction of paper records, things like the alteration centers are not only less unrealistic (nobody could change that many records in real life, you'd need records of your records of your...), but it becomes a very distinct possibility: change $string to $string2 and you've altered history.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Take Star Wars for example. That was always intended as a Trilogy, and so Lucas made it into one after his first film was a wide success. And now he's making 3 more, since he'd always intended to. Right?
In my mind, the only things that make people upgrade their PCs at all are games. Most people use their computers for chatting, browsing, email, games, and a -little- word processing - probably in that order. The game, hardware, and OS industry knows this.
As a result, all three industries work together to an extent. OSes need upgrades when new hardware comes out, new hardware needs new OSes, and games need both. Thus, they end up making colateral income for each other, as one component advances, all the others must. Otherwise, each industry would probably have stagnated without the other.
Now, portables, however, don't really do the 'game' thing. They're really just fancy web appliances with word processors. For most people, a WinCE device with a couple hundred megs of storage and a decent display/keyboard would be more than sufficient for all that they do (legally): just include solitaire, IE, and a couple chat programs with your basic loadout. I see this working for a large extent, especially with the convention of WiFi. I'm thinking a family of 5 (with, say, 3 internet addicts) would much rather spend 1k$ on 3 portable devices than 1 large desktop device that only one person can use at a time.
Price would have to be quite competitive, of course, since most people want gaming, too. Personally, I see embedded WinXP (or whatever equivilant product MS comes out with next) being more common than WinCE. WinCE is for low-end stuff.
Every American is obligated to use free software. Restrictive licenses tied into obscene and obligatory upgrade paths are morally perverse and similar to modern-day slavery (as are restrictive non-disclosures).
I say, "not very".
Additionally, she says:
Well, you shrieking geeks, I don't have a shelf full of Linux reference books, and I don't plan to buy them.
And neither do I. I've been using linux since '97 and have been administering an office network since around early '99. I've never run into any real problems and - guess what - I've never bought a book. I don't plan to buy any in the near future, either.
As I mentioned, I think a computer is a tool rather than a hobby.
I would like to start by stating that she isn't a terribly good tech writer if computers are not a hobby for her. It's evident that she's quite unskilled in her field. 'Computer' are nearly synonymous with 'technology' and has been for years. If this woman's employer is reading this, please let it be known that I am seeking employment as a technical writer. (Seriously.)
Furthermore, a tool is something that you use to perform a task. It's not an item that you wistfully expect to do the job for you. If you're the 'qualified individual' that is supposed to be able to operate a tool, you have to know how it operates. Computers should "just work" in the sense that they do what they're supposed to do. They do not, and never will, "just work" in the sense that they work flawlessly (as to the users' expectations). The world we live in has things like entropy and imperfection, after all. (This is yet another earmark of this woman's incompetence.)
If software is distributed in mass-market retail outlets, I expect it to work straight out of the box.
Likewise, I suspect you've never read the manual for your VCR, microwave, cell phone, or other 'tool' that you use to perform various tasks. (Maybe you haven't, who knows - some people never seem to grasp this 'technology' thing.) Nothing ever works "out of the box". This woman's entire arguement is a collection of faux pas statements that simply attribute themselves to various FUD techniques. They're not even genuine criticisms but gross generalizations that the general public would nominally agree with unless walked through the logic behind them.
I didn't even make it to the 3rd page of the 'review'. It was that bad.
The problem with MS software isn't that it's support-less, it's that it's just damned hard to support a GUI product without seeing exactly what the person is doing.
I personally find it infurriatingly frustrating to try and support any GUI, whether it's windows, or KDE.
If you were "careful", you could kill opponents that way. :)