Surprisingly few single guys there. Mostly middle-aged couples. Mid-40s (like me) or older. Ones I talked to were, like me, Ex-Trekkers (we got lives...) who wanted to avoid the Damn Kids With Their Cell Phones going off, and loud cross-talk, and Hippity-Hoppity "music" and dammit I forgot my point, I knew I had one somewhere around here.
Oh, yeah, we just wanted to enjoy the movie on a big screen without distractions. Which is what the 9AM showing provided. Damn good movie.
If the digital price is lower than (what they pay now minus what they get on the resale market) they (the students, that is) come out ahead. Well, less far behind.
It's the partnerships with Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, and the University of Virginia. Textbooks on the Kindle. If the prices are substantially lower than the printed books, and if resale is allowed (or the prices are lower than new - used) then it's a win for students.
The newspapers only being available outside the dead tree delivery area is stupid. Christ, the WaPo, NYT, and others would save money if they delivered electronically rather than on dead tree. I wonder if the Teamsters had something to do with the decision?
Cloud computing services like Google Docs, and social networking sites like RealAge and Facebook, bring with them significant privacy and security risks over and above traditional computing models. Unlike data on my own computer, which I can protect to whatever level I believe prudent, I have no control over any of theses sites, nor any real knowledge of how these companies protect my privacy and security. I have to trust them.
But really, does anyone with sense think your data is secure when it's somewhere else that you don't control?
A boot floppy and stack of floppies, IIRC. Later, more bloated, distros required an entire CD. Getting X running with FVWM as a window manager required going into XF86.conf (or.config?) and hand tweaking mode lines.
Hand hacking the config file for the 28.8k external modem to get online. Downloading Netscape, or maybe still Mosaic?
Then came the fun of getting the USB mouse working by rewriting the USB drivers and running GCC.
Then building my own kernel (a 1.9.x, IIRC) to wring every last space cycle out of the processor, and every last byte out of 4MB.
Installing a second (!) internal hdd, a GB or so, so I could put the swap partition on the non-root drive. For greater performance.
Last week I fired up VMware on my Mac. Pointed it at the Ubuntu DVD ISO. Installed a new VM which worked fine without any tweaking.
It is useful for getting in the way of getting work done. Or if what you're doing is something you've done before, in exactly the same way. In which case, why don't you just use what you've already done?
God help you if some PM makes you use it when you're wringing out a new API on a new platform.
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I caught ToS on Channel 20 on afternoons after school in the 70's. During the first syndication reruns. TNG came out after I got out of the Army.
Never really liked Voyager. Loved DS9.
Surprisingly few single guys there. Mostly middle-aged couples. Mid-40s (like me) or older. Ones I talked to were, like me, Ex-Trekkers (we got lives...) who wanted to avoid the Damn Kids With Their Cell Phones going off, and loud cross-talk, and Hippity-Hoppity "music" and dammit I forgot my point, I knew I had one somewhere around here.
Oh, yeah, we just wanted to enjoy the movie on a big screen without distractions. Which is what the 9AM showing provided. Damn good movie.
If the digital price is lower than (what they pay now minus what they get on the resale market) they (the students, that is) come out ahead. Well, less far behind.
Checked out the price of college textbooks lately?
It's the partnerships with Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, and the University of Virginia. Textbooks on the Kindle. If the prices are substantially lower than the printed books, and if resale is allowed (or the prices are lower than new - used) then it's a win for students.
The newspapers only being available outside the dead tree delivery area is stupid. Christ, the WaPo, NYT, and others would save money if they delivered electronically rather than on dead tree. I wonder if the Teamsters had something to do with the decision?
There's lots of alternatives. Even in Soviet USia.
Brushfires burning the brush will release more CO2 than goats eating it.
have you?
I've been working for contractors for 10 years now, and am still surprised by the level of incompetence that some government IT folks demonstrate.
Some are good. NOAA OMAO really has its stuff together. DoJ? Not so much..
Or brush fires.
Other than the cost of parts being around $200 per unit.
Interestingly enough, the United States government and the Voice of America have financed some of the circumvention technology efforts,
Would that count as a cyber attack on Iran or China?
On a WinXP SP3 box here at work.
Space Invaders. Giant monkeys throwing barrels.
They've gone to plaid!
It's a spambotand scareware downloader.
...since Buddy Holly died.
From Bruce Schneier
But really, does anyone with sense think your data is secure when it's somewhere else that you don't control?
A boot floppy and stack of floppies, IIRC. Later, more bloated, distros required an entire CD. Getting X running with FVWM as a window manager required going into XF86.conf (or .config?) and hand tweaking mode lines.
Hand hacking the config file for the 28.8k external modem to get online. Downloading Netscape, or maybe still Mosaic?
Then came the fun of getting the USB mouse working by rewriting the USB drivers and running GCC.
Then building my own kernel (a 1.9.x, IIRC) to wring every last space cycle out of the processor, and every last byte out of 4MB.
Installing a second (!) internal hdd, a GB or so, so I could put the swap partition on the non-root drive. For greater performance.
Last week I fired up VMware on my Mac. Pointed it at the Ubuntu DVD ISO. Installed a new VM which worked fine without any tweaking.
I never though Linux would get boring.
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The NSA already has full privs on DoD systems.
in Army Basic Training.
Which is why I'm not in management...
It is useful for getting in the way of getting work done. Or if what you're doing is something you've done before, in exactly the same way. In which case, why don't you just use what you've already done?
God help you if some PM makes you use it when you're wringing out a new API on a new platform.
lorem ipsum and all that jazz.
The F-35 is barely out of R&D. It hasn't had a chance to "not deliver" yet.
Which does no good if the damn gun bunnies read the numbers off the computer wrong.