I don't know what you are expecting but my experience from college taught me that just because you are
$YOURAGE GREATER THAN $ADULTAGE
You are not an "adult". Why else would they go binge drink just because "mommy ain't around no more" or other such fun "college" activities.
Not that I don't mind the good mixer or two but I don't consider "partying" to be an important thing in life [though judging by how my after college life is starting I probably should have].
After I'm dead I don't think I'll "care" about any such things.. I am afterall dead at that point.
That being said can't yahoo show compasion? I mean the kid [*] died commiting war crimes for his country. Show a little patriotism or somesuch...
[*] Am I the only one sadden to see on the american local news the names of 21-23 yr olds who died only to realize "hey wait, I'm 23 and just finishing college... wtf is that kid doing fighting in a "war""?
At 18 it would have never crossed my mind to go overseas and invade a foreign nation [for which I wasn't at war against]. Well that and I was still in high school at 18 [we had 13 grades in my school district, where grade 13 was essentially first year university level material].
Well if he never emailed mother@isp.com then she can go suck a lemon.
Personally I don't see the big privacy issue. Yahoo [like hotmail and gmail] transfer your email from the client to their server via plaintext HTTP. Then it's sent through a dozen other boxes in plaintext, etc...
There is hardly any consideration of privacy there.
Not that I want people rummaging through my gmail account but I also don't work on the basis that my emails are private which is why I use GPG if I need to send private info.
If you're talking about the "Microsoft Academic Alliance" that's certainly not free.
One semester after my college rolled it out [fortunately that was my last semester] they raised tuition by $300.
They didn't hire new profs, or build a new wing or anything. Cost of living hasn't gone up that much and the government hasn't announced funding cutbacks [though maybe they're just not public].
So likely the $300 is to cover the extra super bonus MSFT AA crap.
Free or not Windows is crap. The sooner people realize that the better. I almost cried at hearing the "2600 fans" in my networking class cheer at "hey I got a free copy of WinXP"...
Why isn't t-mobile being charged for failing to protect the data?
I think "mr hacker" should be charged for breaking in and getting the data but I equally think the execs at T-Mobile should be responsible for making that information so accessible in the first place.
Why do people just let big corp USA (tm) walk over them and never fight back? Cell phones are already a "dime you to death" scam. Why put up with even more liabilities [like having your identity stolen].
The reason why those shows suck is that the robots are hella lame.
300 lbs "spinning thingies" aren't really intelligent nor particularly interesting. I mean theree basically two robots. The wedge, and the thingy with a huge, slow, weak hydraulic "pincer" of some sort that spins around.
Most matches are just attrition, e.g. who's robot will fail first and not which one will actually destroy the other.
A 1200 page guide on how to use redhat is practical?
Hey, how about this for a change,
developers, if you want to take "pride" in your mad OSS-fu and get your street props, mad sekret stage names and the babes then write a couple COMPLETE man pages for a change.
So many tools I've seen that may have technical merits up the wazoo but no documentation so they're useless.
I don't mind buying books on things like flex/yacc or bash scripting [etc] since there is more to them than just "invoking the tool" but an actual language and such...
But how to setup X, networking, etc... shouldn't be 1200 pages and should be part of the installed man pages...
Except I live in Canada and even if it were illegal that wouldn't stop me. If I'm going to be doing business on the phone [or in person] I'm gonna record it if I want.
Any server system where you can't litterally blow up one box and keep the overall system up is just plain pathetic.
It's not "l33t" or "impressive" to be running kernel 2.2 today just because you want 800 days of up time despite what people may think.
Simply bring down your machines one at a time, install the new kernel, bring it up internally and test it. Once it passes the testing cycle rotate it back into the live feed. Rinse, Repeat... for the other computers.
Of course that requires proper attention to detail and forethought... [and a bit of implementation craftyness].
Not entirely a bad idea. For the home user who doesn't know what VNC is I'm sure they'd be surprised to find some remote person installed it for them;-)
I know at the "School of Advanced Technology" college I went to they had zero [yup count them zero] places to sit down and use a laptop. We had to make due sitting in the cafe and steal from the wall outlets [of which there were a half dozen for a school of 14,000 people].
Just wondering, anyone else goto tech schools like that?
You could just as equally say "I didn't think that pistol round would go so high!" and shoot down a landing aircraft or something [well it would have to be low].
Point is, shining a laser at a plane [specially the cockpit] is just a mean thing to do and should be criminal.
You wouldn't believe it if I told ya but I will anyways. the spelling is intentional and meant to be pronounced as "genie-oh-us". I use it to signify people with particularly high smarts....
If I can't goto a local theater [note: there is an indy theater downtown ottawa on Rideau street for the tourists out there] or rental place [none in Kanata, outside of Ottawa] that has indy films, I won't see indy films.
If stupid 10x larger blockbusters didn't overshadow [in terms of mindspace via advertising] the indy films they wouldn't do as well.
"The market for movies already gets pretty saturated over christmas and summer. One big movie gets released and makes money on the first weekend, then the next big movie gets released and it cuts into the revenue of the first big movie."
That's because they're mostly [and effectively] hitting for the same market. Remember there is more than "pure action, pure trash" genre of movies out there. Love movies, dramas, documentaries, action [of course...], cartoons, kid crap, anime, etc, etc, etc,....
If the studios had 10 or 100x the staff they could make more than one type of movie and then the overlapping release cycle wouldn't be so bad.
And of course if a movie didn't cost 130$ million to produce [you know, 80 million for the big-name actors, 20 million for the producer and 30$ million to recreate the surface of mars on set B] they wouldn't lose money ona movie that only grosses $5 million or so in the box office...
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I don't know what you are expecting but my experience from college taught me that just because you are
$YOURAGE GREATER THAN $ADULTAGE
You are not an "adult". Why else would they go binge drink just because "mommy ain't around no more" or other such fun "college" activities.
Not that I don't mind the good mixer or two but I don't consider "partying" to be an important thing in life [though judging by how my after college life is starting I probably should have].
Tom
After I'm dead I don't think I'll "care" about any such things.. I am afterall dead at that point.
That being said can't yahoo show compasion? I mean the kid [*] died commiting war crimes for his country. Show a little patriotism or somesuch...
[*] Am I the only one sadden to see on the american local news the names of 21-23 yr olds who died only to realize "hey wait, I'm 23 and just finishing college... wtf is that kid doing fighting in a "war""?
At 18 it would have never crossed my mind to go overseas and invade a foreign nation [for which I wasn't at war against]. Well that and I was still in high school at 18 [we had 13 grades in my school district, where grade 13 was essentially first year university level material].
Tom
Well if he never emailed mother@isp.com then she can go suck a lemon.
Personally I don't see the big privacy issue. Yahoo [like hotmail and gmail] transfer your email from the client to their server via plaintext HTTP. Then it's sent through a dozen other boxes in plaintext, etc...
There is hardly any consideration of privacy there.
Not that I want people rummaging through my gmail account but I also don't work on the basis that my emails are private which is why I use GPG if I need to send private info.
I am teh SMRT!
If you're talking about the "Microsoft Academic Alliance" that's certainly not free.
One semester after my college rolled it out [fortunately that was my last semester] they raised tuition by $300.
They didn't hire new profs, or build a new wing or anything. Cost of living hasn't gone up that much and the government hasn't announced funding cutbacks [though maybe they're just not public].
So likely the $300 is to cover the extra super bonus MSFT AA crap.
Free or not Windows is crap. The sooner people realize that the better. I almost cried at hearing the "2600 fans" in my networking class cheer at "hey I got a free copy of WinXP"...
Tom
The dude is dead. It should be a simple matter of checking who he [dead dude] emails. If it's
mother@isp.com
and isp.com confirms the identity of mother then why not just go "oh, ok here ya go eh".
I swear, sometimes I think I'm a farking GENIOUS.
Tom
Why isn't t-mobile being charged for failing to protect the data?
I think "mr hacker" should be charged for breaking in and getting the data but I equally think the execs at T-Mobile should be responsible for making that information so accessible in the first place.
Why do people just let big corp USA (tm) walk over them and never fight back? Cell phones are already a "dime you to death" scam. Why put up with even more liabilities [like having your identity stolen].
Tom
Oh and fuck humanity!
The reason why those shows suck is that the robots are hella lame.
300 lbs "spinning thingies" aren't really intelligent nor particularly interesting. I mean theree basically two robots. The wedge, and the thingy with a huge, slow, weak hydraulic "pincer" of some sort that spins around.
Most matches are just attrition, e.g. who's robot will fail first and not which one will actually destroy the other.
Oh and fuck humanity!
A 1200 page guide on how to use redhat is practical?
...
Hey, how about this for a change,
developers, if you want to take "pride" in your mad OSS-fu and get your street props, mad sekret stage names and the babes then write a couple COMPLETE man pages for a change.
So many tools I've seen that may have technical merits up the wazoo but no documentation so they're useless.
I don't mind buying books on things like flex/yacc or bash scripting [etc] since there is more to them than just "invoking the tool" but an actual language and such
But how to setup X, networking, etc... shouldn't be 1200 pages and should be part of the installed man pages...
Tom
Very interesting reply,
Except I live in Canada and even if it were illegal that wouldn't stop me. If I'm going to be doing business on the phone [or in person] I'm gonna record it if I want.
Tom
Is it legal to tape the call [yourself] while they put you on hold?
I mean what license do you have to those classic 1983s hits?
Tom
Um, since when did you need their permission? You're a party of the conversation you can record it all you want.
Tom
quotas. If working and properly setup can "contain" such people.
Tom
All I have to say...
Any server system where you can't litterally blow up one box and keep the overall system up is just plain pathetic.
It's not "l33t" or "impressive" to be running kernel 2.2 today just because you want 800 days of up time despite what people may think.
Simply bring down your machines one at a time, install the new kernel, bring it up internally and test it. Once it passes the testing cycle rotate it back into the live feed. Rinse, Repeat... for the other computers.
Of course that requires proper attention to detail and forethought... [and a bit of implementation craftyness].
Tom
Not entirely a bad idea. For the home user who doesn't know what VNC is I'm sure they'd be surprised to find some remote person installed it for them ;-)
It's called heuristics for a reason.
Tom
I know at the "School of Advanced Technology" college I went to they had zero [yup count them zero] places to sit down and use a laptop. We had to make due sitting in the cafe and steal from the wall outlets [of which there were a half dozen for a school of 14,000 people].
Just wondering, anyone else goto tech schools like that?
Tom
Being stupid is no defense of the law.
You could just as equally say "I didn't think that pistol round would go so high!" and shoot down a landing aircraft or something [well it would have to be low].
Point is, shining a laser at a plane [specially the cockpit] is just a mean thing to do and should be criminal.
Tom
You wouldn't believe it if I told ya but I will anyways. the spelling is intentional and meant to be pronounced as "genie-oh-us". I use it to signify people with particularly high smarts. ...
It's sarcasm.
Tom
Pays to have a capable OS...
tombox ~ # lspci | grep -i brooktree
0000:00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
0000:00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
From this I know I have a 878 and I would read the appropriate PDF [or grep the net since google would have the PDF index anyways]...
I AM THE GENIOUS!
no, I would locate
... seems simple enough to me...
I'm smart and use descriptive names for files.
Instead of
congr.sxw
I say "Gracenote Contract.sxw"
I also use these things called directories...
I'm a fucking genious I swear...
Tom
locate?
;-)
I name files descriptively since I'm not locked to 8.3 case insensitive names
Tom
Why would they lie? They're responsible well-intentioned adults. Clearly they have a case.
Actually I saw only the last one in the theater and I rented them the other two.
;-)
I actually see very few movies a year [except when I'm on random road trips] on purpose, maybe 2-5 at most.
And, yeah I wouldn't pay 100$ to see a busker but if there were more downtown during the warmer months I wouldn't mind seeing the show.
Specially now that I'm done with college I have loads more free time.
Tom
If I can't goto a local theater [note: there is an indy theater downtown ottawa on Rideau street for the tourists out there] or rental place [none in Kanata, outside of Ottawa] that has indy films, I won't see indy films.
If stupid 10x larger blockbusters didn't overshadow [in terms of mindspace via advertising] the indy films they wouldn't do as well.
Tom
"The market for movies already gets pretty saturated over christmas and summer. One big movie gets released and makes money on the first weekend, then the next big movie gets released and it cuts into the revenue of the first big movie."
That's because they're mostly [and effectively] hitting for the same market. Remember there is more than "pure action, pure trash" genre of movies out there. Love movies, dramas, documentaries, action [of course...], cartoons, kid crap, anime, etc, etc, etc,....
If the studios had 10 or 100x the staff they could make more than one type of movie and then the overlapping release cycle wouldn't be so bad.
And of course if a movie didn't cost 130$ million to produce [you know, 80 million for the big-name actors, 20 million for the producer and 30$ million to recreate the surface of mars on set B] they wouldn't lose money ona movie that only grosses $5 million or so in the box office...
But I guess it pays to be lazy...
Tom
All i have to say is...
"If you're econ 101 classes are so right and I'm so wrong why are movie studios bitching about lost profits?"
Isn't the whole point of "econ 101" to learn how to adopt and change to market conditions?
Tom