How many -good- artists do you know that -start- singing for the money? Sure a lot become overly engrossed with the money, but how many with true talent and zeal really start that way?
Just because a robot or satellite could do the job, I do think it's a far better thing to send a human once some semblance of a safety guarantee is established, even though the word guarantee is subject to things like the disasters that occurred with our two space shuttles. To allow someone to see the moon up close, or to see mars up close puts a whole new human light on things and sparks something that they could share with the world. A robot doesnt care, doesnt get excited, doesn't marvel at how we did it, or wonder if we're going to go back again. I think part of the thrill of space travel is the unknown element and then making it back in spite of it. I think Star Trek was successful for two very important reasons, namely the curiosity about space and what the universe is composed of (other life perhaps) and the thrill of 'boldy going where no one has gone before'. I think that at any cost, there is a need to go. Maybe waiting a few years for the technology to get less expensive, but going at some point none-the-less.
well ive been using basic long division in a few classes at the 300 and 400 level maths.. it seems that they like to take your calculators away from you eventually, and then like to make you do things like find primes, gcd's, lcm's etc.. They show you some algorithms to help, but still a lot of division without calculators!
if training is required, theyre not prepared to be your replacement. This is excluding things like familiarizing another sysadmin with the layout of systems within the organization. What i mean is, if you have to say "Now this is what we call linux..." you can tell your employer to go to #$#@
Some of those bidders look a little fishy.. check some of them, some have no feedback, and others have mostly bought items of several dollars.. strange
sort of in a continuation of another post i made, but mostly not.. Mainly, I'm largely dissatisfied with the overly reality tv directed content on TV and the overly sexually related content. I have a newborn on the way and with tv the way it is when you see Leave it to Beaver in the TV guide, it most likely isn't rated for family viewing.
The rating system has been a complete failure in every area except to show us that there is a decreasing array of family material and has shown us how far content providers and raters will go in order to stretch a rating as far as possible. Some things deemed T for Teen are probably something a college student would play/watch (games included).
Ratings based decision making has proven that what is popular isn't always best. Sure, people will be glued to their tv sets watching some things that maybe they shouldn't. Almost like being frozen in your tracks witnessing a gruesome murder. Maybe shows would get more ratings if people werent glued to things they shouldnt be. Basically, there's too -much- content out there, and not enough of it is where it should be. People are too busy on the extremes of things to notice the middle.
Maybe more socially up to date versions of Andy Griffith, Leave it To Beaver, Family Matters, Family Ties, Step By Step, Full House, etc need to be made. I remember when there was a time where a family could sit in front of the tv as a group and all find something in a particular show. Everything has become so specialized. There's a channel for everything and those channels are then broken down even further. Alligator hour on the Reptile Channel. Serial Murder hour on Classic Horror Movies.
There's just too much content to be decided by ratings. The TV paradigm outgrew itself. TV needs to move towards an interactive, choose your program setting. Maybe that will bring back the family content and the learning content.
I used to spend hours glued to Discovery Channel, History Channel and TLC. There was always something good on. Next Step, Beyond 2000, Junkyard wars, medical stuff, you name it. Those particular channels are still doing ok on providing good content, but still have strayed slightly although nowhere nearly as much as the mainstream.
I think sex and violence need to make their way back out of the mainstream media focus, and maybe the only way to accomplish that now is if the viewers are in control. Start by letting us pick the channels we get, then as technology allows, let us pick the shows too. Hopefully we'll pick the right things as we get sick of what's wrong with TV today.
The nice big windows media center edition ad in the middle of the windows to linux conversion article... granted the author of the article did not choose the ad.. but funny none the less.
yeah but it makes me hungry too often so i have to change the channel. plus it makes me jealous since my meals usually consist of pasta, pasta and more pasta with the occasional chicken, steak or burger and the stuff they show on tv just looks so damn good.
to add clarification, i am not saying that the courtoom is solely ruled by the dollar. It certainly increases your odds dramatically if you can afford Johnny Cochran, etc.. But the fact that the judicial/patent system is not designed to handle technical things and is ruled by people who dont understand technical things well enough to compensate makes the courtroom inept at justly resolving technical issues.
You can assert and assert and the courts believe you because as I've said before, the courtroom is not a technical place. It is ruled by the dollar and by an older generation that does not understand the technology it is ruling on. To a degree, the generation that rules the courtrooms is the one that grew big business and believes in it.
The big companies assert, and hope that settlements occur before someone with pockets or a voice can prove them wrong. They just hope to keep the only people with voices within the big business realm.
1. Participants (people living in a house, people building a house, etc). 1b. Making the people dumb is recommended but optional. Having them get arrested is a plus (real world, frat life, sorority life, etc) 1c. Scantily clad people recommended but optional. (ala survivor, road rules, real world, etc) 1d. Making the people compete for something is highly recommended. 2. Dependant on implementation of 1d: Judge(s) (selected from among the competitors or occasionally someone different, one or more people decide who stays and who goes, who gets the guy or girl, or who gets the house and who doesnt, etc). More aloof observer type shows may exclude this (frat life, sorority life, etc) 4. Lots of money involved, either towards snazzy houses/cars for participants or as rewards and greed fuel
Even Discovery/TLC/HGTV/etc are overloaded with Trading Spaces, Trading Spaces Home Free, House of Dreams, House Rules (or whatever the one where the couples each worked on a house and judges / the audience determined which couple got to keep the house), etc etc.. Even the 'educational' channels have gone to a sort of reality tv.
True about the reality thing... ever since big brother, the number of shows that are 'reality tv' have increased dramatically.. including a bagillion new shows and some older ones that have sort of intertwined with the reality tv format.
Back when i was in high school i used to watch X-Files and that was about it. When I got to college I watched a lot of simpsons and futurama. Then I discovered the campus network and realized I didnt have to turn on the TV at weird hours to watch my shows. Then I got further into my major and my tv became disconnected from everything but my home theater setup.
I'd rather be -in- the simpsons with Hit and Run on gamecube or watching the simpsons episodes with commentary or being able to pick an episode i like than having to watch it on tv when they tell me and sit through the ads.
Most of the time, even if i like a series on TV, ala West Wing, Alias, Osbournes, etc., I wait until they come out on DVD so I can watch at my leisure. I could buy a tivo, but the initial cash output is too high. Id rather have the special features, plus DVD sound and progressive scan is the only way to watch.
The day they have HD TV on Demand, where a show becomes available to watch at X time and Y date, and then you can pick from available shows any time, day or night (even if you have to sit through some commercials), I'm in. But I think theyll ultimately need to go commercial free subscription service on a pay per viewing scheme or an ulimited scheme for more money. Maybe pay by airtime. That way if I have a busy month and watch an hour of TV i only pay for an hour of TV plus some base monthly rate. Then if i watch a thousand hours, i fall into the X hours and over group and pay some flat rate.
The TV Industry and the music industry have a lot to learn and fast, about what the people want and what the people will tolerate and for how long.
They probably rent out one or two racks in a colo center somewhere with a megabit or two pipe and probably have 1 or 2 staff... Maybe thats unrealistic, but its certainly possible. I doubt their overhead is very high.
Somehow the 90% number seems substantially high. Is Windows -really- on > 90% of desktops? What about Mac? What about SGI/Sun workstations, etc? I have a very hard time believing that 90% number. UNIXes on desktop/workstation machines and macs have to have at least 30% share?
Yes, we -think- everything is going offshore, oh no! Lets quickly start dumping our program support, then we can make sure to force it offshore even faster!
drat, i made a typo.. but i remembered some of it.. i had said something about our current paradigm of IP space allocation with groupings and what not that are all but 100% filled up and how IP 6 or greated might provide enough ip space to facilitate the ASCII website name thing... i also i think i was saying 'this was back when < 1% of advertisments had URLs of any kind..
btw, i didnt use the ampersand lt and gt to do the < and > so between my < 1% and my IPvX > 6 everything was deleted....
oh well, my post had more meaning to it. sorry if it seems disconnected, it is =)
Some of my post seems to be missing.. i dont remember what was between when and = 6... but i had said something about IPv(X <= 6), that probably broke everything
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How many -good- artists do you know that -start- singing for the money? Sure a lot become overly engrossed with the money, but how many with true talent and zeal really start that way?
Just because a robot or satellite could do the job, I do think it's a far better thing to send a human once some semblance of a safety guarantee is established, even though the word guarantee is subject to things like the disasters that occurred with our two space shuttles. To allow someone to see the moon up close, or to see mars up close puts a whole new human light on things and sparks something that they could share with the world. A robot doesnt care, doesnt get excited, doesn't marvel at how we did it, or wonder if we're going to go back again. I think part of the thrill of space travel is the unknown element and then making it back in spite of it. I think Star Trek was successful for two very important reasons, namely the curiosity about space and what the universe is composed of (other life perhaps) and the thrill of 'boldy going where no one has gone before'. I think that at any cost, there is a need to go. Maybe waiting a few years for the technology to get less expensive, but going at some point none-the-less.
well ive been using basic long division in a few classes at the 300 and 400 level maths.. it seems that they like to take your calculators away from you eventually, and then like to make you do things like find primes, gcd's, lcm's etc.. They show you some algorithms to help, but still a lot of division without calculators!
if training is required, theyre not prepared to be your replacement. This is excluding things like familiarizing another sysadmin with the layout of systems within the organization. What i mean is, if you have to say "Now this is what we call linux..." you can tell your employer to go to #$#@
redundancy and repetition is the path to remembering.
makes sense, though im always wary of new bidders on expensive items. just a habit of a long time ebayer.
still im not sure my comment deserves 'troll' status. but oh well, karma to burn.
thats one of the best replies ive seen on slashdot in general. sounds like you really know your stuff. thank you!
Some of those bidders look a little fishy.. check some of them, some have no feedback, and others have mostly bought items of several dollars.. strange
Mostly just picking a big number without thinking =) I think my brain thought 1000 minutes like a cell phone.
sort of in a continuation of another post i made, but mostly not.. Mainly, I'm largely dissatisfied with the overly reality tv directed content on TV and the overly sexually related content. I have a newborn on the way and with tv the way it is when you see Leave it to Beaver in the TV guide, it most likely isn't rated for family viewing.
The rating system has been a complete failure in every area except to show us that there is a decreasing array of family material and has shown us how far content providers and raters will go in order to stretch a rating as far as possible. Some things deemed T for Teen are probably something a college student would play/watch (games included).
Ratings based decision making has proven that what is popular isn't always best. Sure, people will be glued to their tv sets watching some things that maybe they shouldn't. Almost like being frozen in your tracks witnessing a gruesome murder. Maybe shows would get more ratings if people werent glued to things they shouldnt be. Basically, there's too -much- content out there, and not enough of it is where it should be. People are too busy on the extremes of things to notice the middle.
Maybe more socially up to date versions of Andy Griffith, Leave it To Beaver, Family Matters, Family Ties, Step By Step, Full House, etc need to be made. I remember when there was a time where a family could sit in front of the tv as a group and all find something in a particular show. Everything has become so specialized. There's a channel for everything and those channels are then broken down even further. Alligator hour on the Reptile Channel. Serial Murder hour on Classic Horror Movies.
There's just too much content to be decided by ratings. The TV paradigm outgrew itself. TV needs to move towards an interactive, choose your program setting. Maybe that will bring back the family content and the learning content.
I used to spend hours glued to Discovery Channel, History Channel and TLC. There was always something good on. Next Step, Beyond 2000, Junkyard wars, medical stuff, you name it. Those particular channels are still doing ok on providing good content, but still have strayed slightly although nowhere nearly as much as the mainstream.
I think sex and violence need to make their way back out of the mainstream media focus, and maybe the only way to accomplish that now is if the viewers are in control. Start by letting us pick the channels we get, then as technology allows, let us pick the shows too. Hopefully we'll pick the right things as we get sick of what's wrong with TV today.
The nice big windows media center edition ad in the middle of the windows to linux conversion article... granted the author of the article did not choose the ad.. but funny none the less.
yeah but it makes me hungry too often so i have to change the channel. plus it makes me jealous since my meals usually consist of pasta, pasta and more pasta with the occasional chicken, steak or burger and the stuff they show on tv just looks so damn good.
to add clarification, i am not saying that the courtoom is solely ruled by the dollar. It certainly increases your odds dramatically if you can afford Johnny Cochran, etc.. But the fact that the judicial/patent system is not designed to handle technical things and is ruled by people who dont understand technical things well enough to compensate makes the courtroom inept at justly resolving technical issues.
You can assert and assert and the courts believe you because as I've said before, the courtroom is not a technical place. It is ruled by the dollar and by an older generation that does not understand the technology it is ruling on. To a degree, the generation that rules the courtrooms is the one that grew big business and believes in it.
The big companies assert, and hope that settlements occur before someone with pockets or a voice can prove them wrong. They just hope to keep the only people with voices within the big business realm.
oops, in editing, #3 became rolled in to other steps. Its only a 3 step recipe.
1. Participants (people living in a house, people building a house, etc).
1b. Making the people dumb is recommended but optional. Having them get arrested is a plus (real world, frat life, sorority life, etc)
1c. Scantily clad people recommended but optional. (ala survivor, road rules, real world, etc)
1d. Making the people compete for something is highly recommended.
2. Dependant on implementation of 1d: Judge(s) (selected from among the competitors or occasionally someone different, one or more people decide who stays and who goes, who gets the guy or girl, or who gets the house and who doesnt, etc). More aloof observer type shows may exclude this (frat life, sorority life, etc)
4. Lots of money involved, either towards snazzy houses/cars for participants or as rewards and greed fuel
and there you have it
but are you -watching- or is it just noise while coding/surfing?
Even Discovery/TLC/HGTV/etc are overloaded with Trading Spaces, Trading Spaces Home Free, House of Dreams, House Rules (or whatever the one where the couples each worked on a house and judges / the audience determined which couple got to keep the house), etc etc.. Even the 'educational' channels have gone to a sort of reality tv.
True about the reality thing... ever since big brother, the number of shows that are 'reality tv' have increased dramatically.. including a bagillion new shows and some older ones that have sort of intertwined with the reality tv format.
Back when i was in high school i used to watch X-Files and that was about it. When I got to college I watched a lot of simpsons and futurama. Then I discovered the campus network and realized I didnt have to turn on the TV at weird hours to watch my shows. Then I got further into my major and my tv became disconnected from everything but my home theater setup.
I'd rather be -in- the simpsons with Hit and Run on gamecube or watching the simpsons episodes with commentary or being able to pick an episode i like than having to watch it on tv when they tell me and sit through the ads.
Most of the time, even if i like a series on TV, ala West Wing, Alias, Osbournes, etc., I wait until they come out on DVD so I can watch at my leisure. I could buy a tivo, but the initial cash output is too high. Id rather have the special features, plus DVD sound and progressive scan is the only way to watch.
The day they have HD TV on Demand, where a show becomes available to watch at X time and Y date, and then you can pick from available shows any time, day or night (even if you have to sit through some commercials), I'm in. But I think theyll ultimately need to go commercial free subscription service on a pay per viewing scheme or an ulimited scheme for more money. Maybe pay by airtime. That way if I have a busy month and watch an hour of TV i only pay for an hour of TV plus some base monthly rate. Then if i watch a thousand hours, i fall into the X hours and over group and pay some flat rate.
The TV Industry and the music industry have a lot to learn and fast, about what the people want and what the people will tolerate and for how long.
They probably rent out one or two racks in a colo center somewhere with a megabit or two pipe and probably have 1 or 2 staff... Maybe thats unrealistic, but its certainly possible. I doubt their overhead is very high.
Somehow the 90% number seems substantially high. Is Windows -really- on > 90% of desktops? What about Mac? What about SGI/Sun workstations, etc? I have a very hard time believing that 90% number. UNIXes on desktop/workstation machines and macs have to have at least 30% share?
I remember hearing about e-ink a couple months ago, I had no idea it was this close to production stage.
Yes, we -think- everything is going offshore, oh no! Lets quickly start dumping our program support, then we can make sure to force it offshore even faster!
drat, i made a typo.. but i remembered some of it.. i had said something about our current paradigm of IP space allocation with groupings and what not that are all but 100% filled up and how IP 6 or greated might provide enough ip space to facilitate the ASCII website name thing... i also i think i was saying 'this was back when < 1% of advertisments had URLs of any kind..
btw, i didnt use the ampersand lt and gt to do the < and > so between my < 1% and my IPvX > 6 everything was deleted....
oh well, my post had more meaning to it. sorry if it seems disconnected, it is =)
Some of my post seems to be missing.. i dont remember what was between when and = 6... but i had said something about IPv(X <= 6), that probably broke everything