I knew a family once who had a 2nd cable connection for their kid just so their casual web browsing and email wouldn't affect his ping times.
What's that quote about a fool and his money?
As long as we measure ourselves with what we have, there will be fools ready to spend lots of money on the impression that they're better than anyone else.
I've worked a lot in Perl and enough in C# to know that your 1:21.6 ratio is more than just Perl vs. C#. Maybe you're a guru Perl coder and they're C# noobs? Maybe your problem domaim is lexical analysis?
Keep in mind, Schmidt was talking to the media. Ever try to explain something technical, knowing the other person probably doesn't have a clue what you're talking about, but will re-word it anyways to tell thousands of more people?
That's why that dumb 'geeky https' comment came out.
*BZZT* wrong. Google for Proposition 209. Or what, you think a student with the last name 'Ramirez' is evidence of affirmative action? Then you're just a moron. What, you didn't get in?
Like it or not, he makes more money than most reading slashdot.
My observation is that people who are not particularily intelligent, are good at lying through their teeth to appear friendly, and have no morals, make lots of money.
My understanding is that even the UNIX world sports several different flavors of regular expression in grep, egrep, fgrep, etc.
Er, well, not exactly. grep, extended (egrep) and fixed (fgrep) allow for different feature/speed tradeoffs, but they are consistent in their use of regular expressions. Where you will find differences is between the regex syntax of vi, perl, sed, grep, etc.
After ten+ years, I still consult a reference for all the escape codes and such. Used to be a book, now it's google.
I saw a letter to the editor that quoted a poll which asked what trait would make someone NOT vote for someone as president. That is, how many people would not vote for a candidate JUST because they were:
female black gay etc.
Most were under 50% Gay was I think over 50%, but not really by all that much.
athiest was 80 or 90%- would NOT vote for a candidate for president JUST because they were athiest.
I really wish I had the original poll. I'm just trusting some letter to the editor, which may very well have made it all up.
I seem to remember a biology teacher of mine who was a Jehova's Witness (I kid you not, I couldn't make that one up if I tried) who felt these creatures who lived in extreme but geographically limitted areas were proof of creation. They basically need their extreme heat/sulfer to survive, so how do they adapt 'into' such an extreme place? Was his point.
I once heard an interview with one of these types who did his act as a show. He said the only time he forgot an object somone in the audience asked him to remember, it was an egg. He foolishly placed it next to a white wall in his imaginary home town. When he walked back through town, he didn't see it against the wall.
Nothing was stolen from ChoicePoint. They sold data to person or persons they should not have. There was no 'break in' as has been reported elsewhere. The only 'hacking' involved was social.
You missed the part where IE opened on its own. Unless you have REMOVED IE from your system (good luck) or never had it in the first place (ya, ya, Mac and Linux and BSD are great) then you care about this.
in a corporate environment I've heard of _people_ getting rebates for corporate purchases
Heard of? I've heard of people using airmiles credit cards to make business purchases, and then use the points personally. I've heard of people fudging their time sheets. I've heard of people raiding the supply closet for back-to-school.
I'd like to see rebates go too, but that some people use them as a way to steal from their employer is hardly a reason.
I read the directions and send them in religiously. Got a card back from Belkin saying I hadn't sent in 'some required information'. Not enough info on the card to tell me what information, or what rebate, or when. So what the hell do I do? Stop buying Belkin is about all I can do.
I get 90% of my rebates back, but those that I don't- I really have no recourse, and it's a ripoff.
ok, so the differences bewteen wheat and inforamtion are:
Distribution cost, wheat expensive, information cheap (not free, someone put down that fiber).
Duplicatability. wheat canot be duplicated, information can.
The similarity I'm getting at is that whoever put time and energy and rescources into either one has needs too. So we pay the farmer for the wheat, but not the musician for her music?
What part of 'Industry Evilness' and 'some' did you not get?
Ya, sure, Disney didn't lobby to get "Peter and the Wolf" back into copyright RETROACTIVELY for the sake of Prokoviev's family, who sold the rights long ago.
But when people start talking about 'information wants to be free?' Gee, I think that wheat you just grew "wants to be free".
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We could capture your name, your Social Security number or any other information that you willingly pass to a Web site,
blah blah blah
But he said Omniture doesn't do this. The reason, he said, is that client companies don't authorize Omniture to do it.
What they can do and what they do are very different.
Nothing but FUD, move along.
I knew a family once who had a 2nd cable connection for their kid just so their casual web browsing and email wouldn't affect his ping times.
What's that quote about a fool and his money?
As long as we measure ourselves with what we have, there will be fools ready to spend lots of money on the impression that they're better than anyone else.
and of course the C# noobs usually have prior C++ experience
:-)
Unless they're VB hacks who want to develop their 7331 skilz
I was thinking about this more, and certainly Perl has a larger library of pre-written modules to draw on.
I've worked a lot in Perl and enough in C# to know that your 1:21.6 ratio is more than just Perl vs. C#. Maybe you're a guru Perl coder and they're C# noobs? Maybe your problem domaim is lexical analysis?
No, we're whining about _bad_ stories posted on April 1st. The signal:noise ration of /. varies, but it just seems like it's hit an all time low today.
.sig lines, so I'll do that now.
I've also never complained about the free crap
Or maybe I'm just cranky. Two complaints in one post.
Keep in mind, Schmidt was talking to the media. Ever try to explain something technical, knowing the other person probably doesn't have a clue what you're talking about, but will re-word it anyways to tell thousands of more people?
That's why that dumb 'geeky https' comment came out.
*BZZT* wrong. Google for Proposition 209. Or what, you think a student with the last name 'Ramirez' is evidence of affirmative action? Then you're just a moron. What, you didn't get in?
Like it or not, he makes more money than most reading slashdot.
My observation is that people who are not particularily intelligent, are good at lying through their teeth to appear friendly, and have no morals, make lots of money.
And they all seem to be in Sales.
What? I've read this half a dozen times, and I can't figure out what you're suggesting.
Do you mean all 2^128 verions of the file, based on all 2^128 possible encryptions?
That's like more atoms than there are in the planet or soemthing crazy.
My understanding is that even the UNIX world sports several different flavors of regular expression in grep, egrep, fgrep, etc.
Er, well, not exactly. grep, extended (egrep) and fixed (fgrep) allow for different feature/speed tradeoffs, but they are consistent in their use of regular expressions. Where you will find differences is between the regex syntax of vi, perl, sed, grep, etc.
After ten+ years, I still consult a reference for all the escape codes and such. Used to be a book, now it's google.
Hm, so my numbers were off. Had to go to the google cache.
Question: "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be a 'X' would you vote for that person?"
Factor 1937 1959 1978 1999
Atheist Not asked 22% 40% 49%
Baptist Not asked 94 Not asked 94
Black 37 49 77 95
Catholic 60 70 91 94
Homosexual Not asked Not asked 26 59
Jewish 46 72 82 92
Mormon Not asked Not asked 99
Woman 33 57 76 92
So basically, as of '99, 51% would not vote for an athiest, and 41 would not vote for a homosexual.
The same article has some interesting stats to dispute the Scientology claim that only 2% of the population doesn't like them.
Also surprising that 8% still wouldn't vote for a woman.
I saw a letter to the editor that quoted a poll which asked what trait would make someone NOT vote for someone as president. That is, how many people would not vote for a candidate JUST because they were:
female
black
gay
etc.
Most were under 50% Gay was I think over 50%, but not really by all that much.
athiest was 80 or 90%- would NOT vote for a candidate for president JUST because they were athiest.
I really wish I had the original poll. I'm just trusting some letter to the editor, which may very well have made it all up.
I seem to remember a biology teacher of mine who was a Jehova's Witness (I kid you not, I couldn't make that one up if I tried) who felt these creatures who lived in extreme but geographically limitted areas were proof of creation. They basically need their extreme heat/sulfer to survive, so how do they adapt 'into' such an extreme place? Was his point.
Some people aren't paid by how much the do, but being there to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done.
e.g. Firemen.
Granted, firemen are usually municipal not state workers. But they have lots of goof-off activities at the station to fight boredom.
Gee, nothing else to do since they took our T.V. and foosball away. Let's wash the shiny trucks AGAIN!
I once heard an interview with one of these types who did his act as a show. He said the only time he forgot an object somone in the audience asked him to remember, it was an egg. He foolishly placed it next to a white wall in his imaginary home town. When he walked back through town, he didn't see it against the wall.
recent data thefts from ChoicePoint
Nothing was stolen from ChoicePoint. They sold data to person or persons they should not have. There was no 'break in' as has been reported elsewhere. The only 'hacking' involved was social.
The question is: is the Sun Java RTE an attack vector for other OSes?
I don't know.
IE just happened to be the target. As many others have pointed out, the same thing could probably be used to affect other programs on your system.
OTOH, if you're smart enough to not get fooled into allowing random things to install themselves, then maybe you don't care.
OTOOH, if you are a family/friend IT support person, then maybe you do care again.
I've trained most of my family and friends to not click on things if the're not sure, but they still get fooled sometimes.
You missed the part where IE opened on its own. Unless you have REMOVED IE from your system (good luck) or never had it in the first place (ya, ya, Mac and Linux and BSD are great) then you care about this.
in a corporate environment I've heard of _people_ getting rebates for corporate purchases
Heard of? I've heard of people using airmiles credit cards to make business purchases, and then use the points personally. I've heard of people fudging their time sheets. I've heard of people raiding the supply closet for back-to-school.
I'd like to see rebates go too, but that some people use them as a way to steal from their employer is hardly a reason.
I read the directions and send them in religiously. Got a card back from Belkin saying I hadn't sent in 'some required information'. Not enough info on the card to tell me what information, or what rebate, or when. So what the hell do I do? Stop buying Belkin is about all I can do.
I get 90% of my rebates back, but those that I don't- I really have no recourse, and it's a ripoff.
ok, so the differences bewteen wheat and inforamtion are:
Distribution cost, wheat expensive, information cheap (not free, someone put down that fiber).
Duplicatability. wheat canot be duplicated, information can.
The similarity I'm getting at is that whoever put time and energy and rescources into either one has needs too. So we pay the farmer for the wheat, but not the musician for her music?
Thanks.
Quickie return lesson. My God didn't annoint anyone, and doesn't have a 'chosen people'. We're all his children.
What part of 'Industry Evilness' and 'some' did you not get?
Ya, sure, Disney didn't lobby to get "Peter and the Wolf" back into copyright RETROACTIVELY for the sake of Prokoviev's family, who sold the rights long ago.
But when people start talking about 'information wants to be free?' Gee, I think that wheat you just grew "wants to be free".
I've always wondered about that song "Our God is a Mighty God", which would kind of indicate 'other Gods'.