There is no contradiction. A proper education, and the education system are linked, but not the same thing. The education system failed by not giving Ms. Ellsworth a proper education.
Maybe Bill Gates should have stayed in school and got a degree. He could have been rich, I tell you!
You sarcastic comment only holds if you believe that the only measure of achievement is money. Personaly I don't believe real achievement can be measured in money. Nor do I think Bill Gates has achieved anything meanifull.
here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
Your analogy is poor. (don't worry most analogies are pretty bad.)
Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Kia are all car companies that did break into the North American market. All four were also pretty big companies elsewhere in the world before setting their sights on the "big three." The other brands you list are just sub-brands. Geo and Saturn are GM. Lexus and Scion are Toyota. Kia is now part of Hyundai, but that acquisition took place after Kia broke into North America. The car companies want consumers to think that the subbrands are different. It is part of "branding." It gives consumers the sense that they have more options then they really do.
Just think what Ms. Ellsworth could have achieved with a proper education. If anything this story shows how the education system fails for smart people.
I can only assume that the submitter was talking about a different case. The case pictured in the article was made with cheap thin metal, with piss poor riveting, and sported a cheap looking insta-break plastic front bezel. Aesthetics is all about the fine details of a quality product. This case is just cheap gaudiness.
And those of us who read the documentation, and aren't affraid to break anything, learn the fastest.
At a minimum I will skim the docs. Even if the item is very simple. The item may use new features or have a different interface. I want to get the most out of anything I buy.
The sibling post's cd-rom or cup holder comment is true.
While/. may still post geeky stories on the front page, the readership is predominantly a pack of boring losers who don't have ideas of their own. These lamers are deeply jealous of those thinkers that do have interesting thoughts. Like any wild animal encountering something new and different the pathetic scum are affraid and feel the need to attack the thinkers and their ideas.
The exchanges will settle with the patent scum. The exchanges will pay a one time fee for a lifetime patent license. The license will cost far less then going to court. As an added bonus the patents will be ligitimized raising the cost of entry for any potential competitors.
Even if the exchanges do go to court the patent itself will be challenged not the patent system.
If there was a link to a site with high priced items then the prosecution would have to show that the warez and high priced items were connected. This is not trivial, but it is not that difficult either. If the warez downloader can figure out the connection then a judge or jury can figure it out too.
Alone a similar line, the profit probably does not need to be money. I am not familliar with the exact wording of Finnish law, but in most modern legal systems profit includes exchange of goods and trade (services). If you think about it, this includes upload/download ratios that reward (profit) users who upload more. Infact it could be argued that the administrators of any torrent tracking site "profit" from the site as it gives the administrators easy access to a vast quantity of warez (and similar). The cost of bandwidth and providing access to others is simply the cost of doing bussines.
Thanks. I hate how Apples insists that I enable the itunes store to watch the full screen trailer. And nothing pisses me off more then how the fullscreen version takes over the screen while it is downloading. Don't get me started on how I have to download it each and everytime I want to show it to someone. It is a movie trailer. Don't you want me to burn a CD and pass it around? Isn't reaching a greater audience the point of advertising?
It makes me want to just download the file in a loop all day. I wonder if it would actually cost apple anything, or if they pay a flat rate for bandwidth.
It is a pity that project is destined for obscurity. Forceing new users to go through hoops just to get some basic documentation is a sure fire way to kill a project.
If you setup a ps2pdf "printer" I believe you can script this from the command line. With make and an hourly cron or some other trigger you can easily keep you pdf files up to date.
All commodity computers (such as laptops) are built in Asian factories. I would go so far to say that all laptops, regardless of brand name, are built in the same dozen factories or less. Some laptops are designed by the manufacturer and simply rebadged. Higher end laptops usually get more input from the brand name owner (e.g. IBM, Dell). Some laptops are essentially built in Asian, but are "assembled" in North America, or Europe, for PR reasons. Now some companies will say everything is built in "our factory." Understand that the manufacturers are more then happy to let a brand name claim that a manufacturer's factory is owned by the brand name. And with a little creative contracting it almost true.
Now before anyone points to Apple and claims that Apple designs everything, let's get something clear: Apple gets alot of help from the manufactureres. They would be foolish otherwise. There is a big difference between an excellent design, and a design that is cheap an easy to build.
Many big servers are still built in North America and Europe. This is partly because of the lower volume. The other reason because there is a perceptions that the North American and European workforce is better educated and more capable at performing testing. Durring the manufacturing process commodity computers and parts get very little testing. (Testing is time consumeing and expensive.) Mid range servers and up will get more testing. Testing varies from checking that all components are properly attached, to a full system integration and power up with regression tests. Due to the cost of some servers it is sometimes worth while to fix manufacturing errors. If a commodity computer fails a test it is usually tossed.
Some commodity components will also be manufactured in North America early in the life cycle. For example my ATI card was built in North America while they worked out the bugs.
Except that Lenovo has already bought IBM's personal computer manufactureing. Yesterday's articles clearly stated that Lenovo already builds IBM's computers, and that IBM only oversees the design.
The sad truth (one that people don't want to face) is that the Chinese, Tiwanese, and Koreans have been supporting the US Dollar for a while now. The US Dollar is overvalued. The poor USD Dollar is the only the reason why the Canadian Dollar has been doing so well.
just a hope that the Chinese will decide to lock their currency against the CDN $ rather than the american one.
You have that backwards. If any country does any currency locking, it will be the Americans trying to tie their dollar to the Chinese Yuan.
Seriously though the Chinese are going to open up the Yuan to be traded more freely. It should float like most of the other major currencies. We will have to wait and see how well this works. I don't think anyone expects Bejing to open up the Yuan like the US dollar.
The m249 is not a GPMG. There is a GPMG that fires a 7.62Nato round, and is much heavier. It seems to me that this heavier machine gun has been relagated to static positions. In truth the usefullness of the light m249 is debatable. With ammunition it is much heavier then any of the standard 5.56Nato rifles. For all the extra weight the effective range, accurary, and penetration of the M249 is no better then standard rifles. The advantage is the high rate of fire. While some argue that the high rate of fire is a great advantage, just as many would argue that soldiers trained to shot accurately are better. The detrators of the M249 argue that if a machine gun is needed, it is better to take the heavier, more powerfull GPMG.
The USB memory stick also has the disadvantage of encryption: You need a password to access the passwords. There is also the risk of file corruption. The purpose of the passwords on paper or in a simple text file is for worst case recovery (admin dies, or immeditate access is required). Paper is often best as computer media is more prone to corruption. The physical security of the passwords is paramount. Total security is an impossible goal, instead one must manage the risks. (Manageing risk is a cliche, but it is true.) Adding encryption increases some risks. Improveing physical security usually does not increase the risk, but may be prohibitively expensive.
My glib example of leaving the passwords on a desk as sufficient security is a rare case. For most organizations a safe in the server room is probably sufficient. If an attacker has access to the safe, then the attacker could just as easily install keyloggers on all the servers.
I can guarantee that any password I write down on paper is far more secure then passwords in a "protected database." I would go so far to say that a company is negligent if it does not store a copy of critical passwords in an unencrypted form such as on paper or a simple file stored on removable media. Ideally one copy should be off site. Ofcourse the passwords must be physically secure. (Depending on where you work that may be in plain view on a desk.)
Your vendors can already run arbitrary code on your systems. You must trust them.
The standard practice of firewalls to restrict access, and lower priviledge accounts are all good (and important). But the proper protection should have been negotiated into the service contract in terms of access the vendor requires and liability. Durring that negotiation process the technical authority should have considered the security concerns (and added costs). If the technical authority was inept the best you can do is minimize the risks now, and use this example to raise security concerns for the next contracts.
You can enjoy the same experience with wildlife photography.
But you can't eat photographs.
There are thousands of other alternatives [to eating game].
Hunting deer and other game is more humane that eating cows or chickens. Compared to deer, cattle live a short and miserable life. Wild animals atleast get a chance to live wild and free.
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There is no contradiction. A proper education, and the education system are linked, but not the same thing. The education system failed by not giving Ms. Ellsworth a proper education.
Maybe Bill Gates should have stayed in school and got a degree. He could have been rich, I tell you!
You sarcastic comment only holds if you believe that the only measure of achievement is money. Personaly I don't believe real achievement can be measured in money. Nor do I think Bill Gates has achieved anything meanifull.
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here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
Your analogy is poor. (don't worry most analogies are pretty bad.)
Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Kia are all car companies that did break into the North American market. All four were also pretty big companies elsewhere in the world before setting their sights on the "big three." The other brands you list are just sub-brands. Geo and Saturn are GM. Lexus and Scion are Toyota. Kia is now part of Hyundai, but that acquisition took place after Kia broke into North America. The car companies want consumers to think that the subbrands are different. It is part of "branding." It gives consumers the sense that they have more options then they really do.
Just think what Ms. Ellsworth could have achieved with a proper education. If anything this story shows how the education system fails for smart people.
case aesthetics are top notch in our opinion
I can only assume that the submitter was talking about a different case. The case pictured in the article was made with cheap thin metal, with piss poor riveting, and sported a cheap looking insta-break plastic front bezel. Aesthetics is all about the fine details of a quality product. This case is just cheap gaudiness.
And those of us who read the documentation, and aren't affraid to break anything, learn the fastest.
At a minimum I will skim the docs. Even if the item is very simple. The item may use new features or have a different interface. I want to get the most out of anything I buy.
The sibling post's cd-rom or cup holder comment is true.
What the hell type of comment is that?
It was humour.
Your comment on the other hands sounds like someone trying justify your greed to ease your sense of guilt.
/.ers, the cutting edge of geekery
/. may still post geeky stories on the front page, the readership is predominantly a pack of boring losers who don't have ideas of their own. These lamers are deeply jealous of those thinkers that do have interesting thoughts. Like any wild animal encountering something new and different the pathetic scum are affraid and feel the need to attack the thinkers and their ideas.
/. audience are not geeks.
Well that was your first mistake.
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The parent is correct.
Sorry I should have put "ligitimized" in quotes.
Good point about the IP lawyers.
The exchanges will settle with the patent scum. The exchanges will pay a one time fee for a lifetime patent license. The license will cost far less then going to court. As an added bonus the patents will be ligitimized raising the cost of entry for any potential competitors.
Even if the exchanges do go to court the patent itself will be challenged not the patent system.
sorry.
If there was a link to a site with high priced items then the prosecution would have to show that the warez and high priced items were connected. This is not trivial, but it is not that difficult either. If the warez downloader can figure out the connection then a judge or jury can figure it out too.
Alone a similar line, the profit probably does not need to be money. I am not familliar with the exact wording of Finnish law, but in most modern legal systems profit includes exchange of goods and trade (services). If you think about it, this includes upload/download ratios that reward (profit) users who upload more. Infact it could be argued that the administrators of any torrent tracking site "profit" from the site as it gives the administrators easy access to a vast quantity of warez (and similar). The cost of bandwidth and providing access to others is simply the cost of doing bussines.
Thanks. I hate how Apples insists that I enable the itunes store to watch the full screen trailer. And nothing pisses me off more then how the fullscreen version takes over the screen while it is downloading. Don't get me started on how I have to download it each and everytime I want to show it to someone. It is a movie trailer. Don't you want me to burn a CD and pass it around? Isn't reaching a greater audience the point of advertising?
It makes me want to just download the file in a loop all day. I wonder if it would actually cost apple anything, or if they pay a flat rate for bandwidth.
It is a pity that project is destined for obscurity. Forceing new users to go through hoops just to get some basic documentation is a sure fire way to kill a project.
If you setup a ps2pdf "printer" I believe you can script this from the command line. With make and an hourly cron or some other trigger you can easily keep you pdf files up to date.
All commodity computers (such as laptops) are built in Asian factories. I would go so far to say that all laptops, regardless of brand name, are built in the same dozen factories or less. Some laptops are designed by the manufacturer and simply rebadged. Higher end laptops usually get more input from the brand name owner (e.g. IBM, Dell). Some laptops are essentially built in Asian, but are "assembled" in North America, or Europe, for PR reasons. Now some companies will say everything is built in "our factory." Understand that the manufacturers are more then happy to let a brand name claim that a manufacturer's factory is owned by the brand name. And with a little creative contracting it almost true.
Now before anyone points to Apple and claims that Apple designs everything, let's get something clear: Apple gets alot of help from the manufactureres. They would be foolish otherwise. There is a big difference between an excellent design, and a design that is cheap an easy to build.
Many big servers are still built in North America and Europe. This is partly because of the lower volume. The other reason because there is a perceptions that the North American and European workforce is better educated and more capable at performing testing. Durring the manufacturing process commodity computers and parts get very little testing. (Testing is time consumeing and expensive.) Mid range servers and up will get more testing. Testing varies from checking that all components are properly attached, to a full system integration and power up with regression tests. Due to the cost of some servers it is sometimes worth while to fix manufacturing errors. If a commodity computer fails a test it is usually tossed.
Some commodity components will also be manufactured in North America early in the life cycle. For example my ATI card was built in North America while they worked out the bugs.
Except that Lenovo has already bought IBM's personal computer manufactureing. Yesterday's articles clearly stated that Lenovo already builds IBM's computers, and that IBM only oversees the design.
The sad truth (one that people don't want to face) is that the Chinese, Tiwanese, and Koreans have been supporting the US Dollar for a while now. The US Dollar is overvalued. The poor USD Dollar is the only the reason why the Canadian Dollar has been doing so well.
just a hope that the Chinese will decide to lock their currency against the CDN $ rather than the american one.
You have that backwards. If any country does any currency locking, it will be the Americans trying to tie their dollar to the Chinese Yuan.
Seriously though the Chinese are going to open up the Yuan to be traded more freely. It should float like most of the other major currencies. We will have to wait and see how well this works. I don't think anyone expects Bejing to open up the Yuan like the US dollar.
The m249 is not a GPMG. There is a GPMG that fires a 7.62Nato round, and is much heavier. It seems to me that this heavier machine gun has been relagated to static positions. In truth the usefullness of the light m249 is debatable. With ammunition it is much heavier then any of the standard 5.56Nato rifles. For all the extra weight the effective range, accurary, and penetration of the M249 is no better then standard rifles. The advantage is the high rate of fire. While some argue that the high rate of fire is a great advantage, just as many would argue that soldiers trained to shot accurately are better. The detrators of the M249 argue that if a machine gun is needed, it is better to take the heavier, more powerfull GPMG.
The USB memory stick also has the disadvantage of encryption: You need a password to access the passwords. There is also the risk of file corruption. The purpose of the passwords on paper or in a simple text file is for worst case recovery (admin dies, or immeditate access is required). Paper is often best as computer media is more prone to corruption. The physical security of the passwords is paramount. Total security is an impossible goal, instead one must manage the risks. (Manageing risk is a cliche, but it is true.) Adding encryption increases some risks. Improveing physical security usually does not increase the risk, but may be prohibitively expensive.
My glib example of leaving the passwords on a desk as sufficient security is a rare case. For most organizations a safe in the server room is probably sufficient. If an attacker has access to the safe, then the attacker could just as easily install keyloggers on all the servers.
I can guarantee that any password I write down on paper is far more secure then passwords in a "protected database." I would go so far to say that a company is negligent if it does not store a copy of critical passwords in an unencrypted form such as on paper or a simple file stored on removable media. Ideally one copy should be off site. Ofcourse the passwords must be physically secure. (Depending on where you work that may be in plain view on a desk.)
Your vendors can already run arbitrary code on your systems. You must trust them.
The standard practice of firewalls to restrict access, and lower priviledge accounts are all good (and important). But the proper protection should have been negotiated into the service contract in terms of access the vendor requires and liability. Durring that negotiation process the technical authority should have considered the security concerns (and added costs). If the technical authority was inept the best you can do is minimize the risks now, and use this example to raise security concerns for the next contracts.
You can enjoy the same experience with wildlife photography.
But you can't eat photographs.
There are thousands of other alternatives [to eating game].
Hunting deer and other game is more humane that eating cows or chickens. Compared to deer, cattle live a short and miserable life. Wild animals atleast get a chance to live wild and free.