So if not for a draconian law that takes away fair use rights and introduces excessive and harsh penalties for minor infringements, we wouldn't have a buzzword laden technique for dynamically changing the content on a web page withuot a full refresh.
I don't think I've heard anything this absurd, even on slashdot, in quite some time.
(And yes I know I've over-simplified, but come on people!)
You obviously missed my point (and deflected with an elaborate straw man accusation and ridicule that I'm paranoid) so let me put it more simply: If you have a moral dilemma that's in a legal grey area and you resolve that by outright breaking the law with no doubt about it being unethical, that makes you a bafoon, not a good guy. The idea is to keep your integrity in tact so you can continue to work with an untarnished reputation, and to sleep at night knowing you've done no wrong.
Shortly afterwards, email the sites in question from a non-work friend's account and let them know (with specific information) the accounts and IP addresses that are violating their terms of service. Hopefully the accounts will be disabled, and/or your employer's IP range will be blocked.
If your contract includes a non-disclosure statement, and this is ever tracked back to you (and people do blab!) you're in deep doo doo. You've already said to go ahead and violate terms of service, now you're adding breaking the conditions of your employment contract to the mix??? Talk about falling on your sword for no good reason!
I bought the system in June, so around 5 months old. One had a bad block. I pulled it out and when I powered back on the other one started ticking. I have no idea what happened? Static discharge? One drive affecting the other? Who knows. Anyway they're very well ventilated (2 large case fans sitting in front of the 4 drives. Their temp had never exceeded 40 degrees (usually around 28-32 when chugging along and sat at 25 idle with some variation depending on the weather). This machine is always on though.
Anyway I was able to pull what little I hadn't backed up off the original drive, but the one that started ticking means I lost stuff I didn't consider important enough to back up (mostly VMWare images).
Thanks. Actually I usually get more abuse and derision than praise for it, but it's not wise to take too much to heart online. Not good for the old blood pressure!
I just had 2 fail over the weekend. I didn't lose anything vital because I had backups but everything I considered non-essential is gone (mostly just lots of VMWare images of various distros). At some point it beocmes a bitch to manage so much data.
....as JoeTheAnonymousCoward. Average Joe said over a cup of Joe today that he learnt about AC too late, but that maybe others could learn from his mistake.
How would a hard disk that appears blank have a virus on it? And why would I use a hard disk that I've bought but doesn't appear blank without reformatting it?
I guess you've got autorun switched off too? (oh look another risk that you haven't covered). I'm referring to a story a couple of years back where virii were appearing on new hard disks with and autorun enabled.
The right way to stop this is at the gate. An e-mail client runs your on-demand scanner right after it downloads the attachment.
Ah so that'd be another need to run an on demand scanner?
If you want to see child porn (read: sex), you have to go into dark corners of the internet. It is well hidden. You can't just stumble upon it "by accident".
Yes, but if you define porn as sex, and the authorities define porn as nudity, guess by which definition you'll get judged when you get taken to court and thrown in jail?
Well then it's a good thing we have people like you who can tell poor Indians that they're too stupid to make their own decis
What fucking decision? If me and my family are starving and someone offers us a loan, I take it. No decision or choice to make here. Never mind that the terms may stipulate ridiculous interest etc. and that the plan of the loaning company is to exploit us until we can no longer pay. Survive today, work out tomorrow when tomorrow comes.
It's not like the user will be doing anything for the first minute after the computer starts anyway. It's merely the act of waiting and not being able to interact while it boots. Once it boots up people will still *do nothing* of importance on it.
Speak for yourself. If I switch off my computer and decide last minute just as I'm about to rush out the door on my way to work that I wanted to look something up, a 3 second boot time is no problem, where a 3 minute boot time is a show stopper. I've solved this problem by having a machine always on - not very enviro friendly I know. My one concession is that I let the screen go to sleep. Even that's up to 7 seconds that can mean the difference between catching and missing my train.
Interface less intuitive, says mother + girlfriend.
Well I can tell you how to get rid of your girlfriend without ending up in prison or physically harming anyone, but I'm afraid you're on your own for your mother!
In my experience, a computer user really doesn't need real-time operation unless he's looking at pr0n (erotic web sites), downloading w4r3z (infringing copies of proprietary commercial software), or doing something comparably dangerous. A weekly full scan is enough.
Yeah, those activities do increase the risk, but they're not the only risky behaviour. There have been people who have found virii on hard disk they've bought, others have accidentally opened email attachments they shouldn't etc. etc. To say it's only doing "bad stuff" (ie illegal and possibly by your def immoral) plays right into the hands of cybercrooks. A weekly scan isn't going to be much good to you if your bank account details are keylogged.
I still use VMS today at work (on Alpha and Itanium). I'd like to point out that versioning like this works a hell of a lot better on small text files than larger binary files. You also tend to get initimate with the purge command (which leaves deletes old versions) otherwise your sysadmin gets narky when you run out of disk. Half the time you just end up running a purge of everything but the latest version, negating the benefit of having the versioning in the first place.
Note too that VMS lacks a lot of what Unix has, like decent command chaining. In fact the sytax is very clumsy but it's hard to hold that against a system that's so old (although backward compatible improvements would be very welcome). What's much worse is that as a developer, I still can't easily set up a system at home because it costs an arm and a leg and I need specialized hardware and hobbyist licenses though available require you to jump through hoops. VMS is very much a proprietary HP solution.
This is ridiculous. You're arguing that selling people phones so that they can take out more loans when they can't afford to eat or shelter themselves is good for these people. Give me a break. These "microloans" aren't charity. They're good for the lenders, not the poor. The reality is that the phones are just one more expense to pay off, and the interest on the micro-loan is yet another.
Take a look at the rest of the responses here. There is no way you can do this without making others jealous, which means there's no such thing as graceful. It's unfortunate that human nature works like this. (I've personally been affected by such silliness, though it has nothing to do with console games, and it's made my workplace experience much less pleasant. C'est la vie).
So either give them X-boxes to take home and call it a work bonus or as others have suggested put it in a common lounge area. Either will STILL result in some jealousy but particularly the take home solution won't have everyone in the office scrutinizing productivity and babbling about being paid to play games.
I honestly don't understand why the guilt. In those circumstances I think I'd have been shit scared for my life, and I probably wouldn't have been any calmer about drawing the gun, but if I had shot the boar, I'd feel great about it. Not because I like taking life, but because I'd done the right thing and survived in that situation.
To put this in perspective. I've only ever gone shooting once. On our honeymoon my wife and I were in New Zealand and there was a tourist attraction that was all about shooting. The gunes were tethered into tunnels in the gallery and they were only 22's. No kick-back, and a nice gentle introduction to shooting. My eyesight isn't the best so it wasn't surprising that my wife did better than me, (though I did get a a couple of bullseyes). (To get into shooting in Australia is a lot harder than NZ - certainly it'd cost more than the $20 we spent for the shells!).
I have no issues about killing an animal if it's for food. In fact I think I feel better about that than supermarket food - at least if you kill it yourself there's more of a motivation not to waste the meat, and the animal led a much better life than it's caged counterpart.
I'd like a job as a visionary. I once dreamt I would find a $20 bill on the street, and then several months later, I DID! Is that enough of a qualification?
No you can't have one.
You predicted/dreamt has actually happened (never mind that it's by pure chance). I believe you and therefore that is not acceptable and disqualifies you immediately. Now if you were a lying piece of scum and you'd found the $20 bill on the street then claimed that you'd predicted it earlier even though you hadn't you'd be in the running.
Also you didn't use any buzzwords in that sentence. You didn't actualize than monetization of your subconscious solicitation. You didn't monetize your vision. Hell you didn't even mention technology. No you found a $20 bill after dreaming you would. Way too concrete, you amateur!;-)
Its an intelligent design game marketed as a game about evolution. Must be selling like hotcakes in Kansas.
I prefer the following quote from the article:
You might think that Spore's fatal flaw would be that it supports intelligent design rather than Darwinian evolution. (That's what I initially thought.) But it turns out to be not even that interesting. "Spore is essentially a very impressive, entertaining, and elaborate Mr. Potato Head that uses the language of evolution but none of the major principles," conclude Gregory and Eldredge.
I'm Australian. Voting attendance is compulsory here. The last time I voted was for council elections. I knew neither candidate, but I did know one thing: Neither major candidate had any interest in making me happy. I won't tell you what I put on my ballot, I'll just tell you it was invalid.
Short of running myself I DON'T have an option regarding the quality of the candidates.
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So if not for a draconian law that takes away fair use rights and introduces excessive and harsh penalties for minor infringements, we wouldn't have a buzzword laden technique for dynamically changing the content on a web page withuot a full refresh.
I don't think I've heard anything this absurd, even on slashdot, in quite some time.
(And yes I know I've over-simplified, but come on people!)
How can you do that if your data is "in the cloud"?
Shhhh! Drugs man! Loads of weed! You didn't really think those were water vapour clouds did you?
From the moment it was named
Don't you mean re-named? It's just the thin-client model being sold under yet another name.
Oh come on, it's obligatory! You just wish you thought to post it first!
You obviously missed my point (and deflected with an elaborate straw man accusation and ridicule that I'm paranoid) so let me put it more simply: If you have a moral dilemma that's in a legal grey area and you resolve that by outright breaking the law with no doubt about it being unethical, that makes you a bafoon, not a good guy. The idea is to keep your integrity in tact so you can continue to work with an untarnished reputation, and to sleep at night knowing you've done no wrong.
Shortly afterwards, email the sites in question from a non-work friend's account and let them know (with specific information) the accounts and IP addresses that are violating their terms of service. Hopefully the accounts will be disabled, and/or your employer's IP range will be blocked.
If your contract includes a non-disclosure statement, and this is ever tracked back to you (and people do blab!) you're in deep doo doo. You've already said to go ahead and violate terms of service, now you're adding breaking the conditions of your employment contract to the mix??? Talk about falling on your sword for no good reason!
Yeah they're damn convenient to have. I just hope reliability doesn't prove to be as bad as I suspect it will.
I bought the system in June, so around 5 months old. One had a bad block. I pulled it out and when I powered back on the other one started ticking. I have no idea what happened? Static discharge? One drive affecting the other? Who knows. Anyway they're very well ventilated (2 large case fans sitting in front of the 4 drives. Their temp had never exceeded 40 degrees (usually around 28-32 when chugging along and sat at 25 idle with some variation depending on the weather). This machine is always on though.
Anyway I was able to pull what little I hadn't backed up off the original drive, but the one that started ticking means I lost stuff I didn't consider important enough to back up (mostly VMWare images).
Thanks. Actually I usually get more abuse and derision than praise for it, but it's not wise to take too much to heart online. Not good for the old blood pressure!
I just had 2 fail over the weekend. I didn't lose anything vital because I had backups but everything I considered non-essential is gone (mostly just lots of VMWare images of various distros). At some point it beocmes a bitch to manage so much data.
....as JoeTheAnonymousCoward. Average Joe said over a cup of Joe today that he learnt about AC too late, but that maybe others could learn from his mistake.
What is "virii"? (I'll assume viruses.)
Mommy, what's con-de-scend-ing mean?
How would a hard disk that appears blank have a virus on it? And why would I use a hard disk that I've bought but doesn't appear blank without reformatting it?
I guess you've got autorun switched off too? (oh look another risk that you haven't covered). I'm referring to a story a couple of years back where virii were appearing on new hard disks with and autorun enabled.
The right way to stop this is at the gate. An e-mail client runs your on-demand scanner right after it downloads the attachment.
Ah so that'd be another need to run an on demand scanner?
Please expand.
I'm eating as fast as I can, man!
If you want to see child porn (read: sex), you have to go into dark corners of the internet. It is well hidden. You can't just stumble upon it "by accident".
Yes, but if you define porn as sex, and the authorities define porn as nudity, guess by which definition you'll get judged when you get taken to court and thrown in jail?
Well then it's a good thing we have people like you who can tell poor Indians that they're too stupid to make their own decis
What fucking decision? If me and my family are starving and someone offers us a loan, I take it. No decision or choice to make here. Never mind that the terms may stipulate ridiculous interest etc. and that the plan of the loaning company is to exploit us until we can no longer pay. Survive today, work out tomorrow when tomorrow comes.
It's not like the user will be doing anything for the first minute after the computer starts anyway. It's merely the act of waiting and not being able to interact while it boots. Once it boots up people will still *do nothing* of importance on it.
Speak for yourself. If I switch off my computer and decide last minute just as I'm about to rush out the door on my way to work that I wanted to look something up, a 3 second boot time is no problem, where a 3 minute boot time is a show stopper. I've solved this problem by having a machine always on - not very enviro friendly I know. My one concession is that I let the screen go to sleep. Even that's up to 7 seconds that can mean the difference between catching and missing my train.
Interface less intuitive, says mother + girlfriend.
Well I can tell you how to get rid of your girlfriend without ending up in prison or physically harming anyone, but I'm afraid you're on your own for your mother!
(Just making a joke, not trying to be offensive).
In my experience, a computer user really doesn't need real-time operation unless he's looking at pr0n (erotic web sites), downloading w4r3z (infringing copies of proprietary commercial software), or doing something comparably dangerous. A weekly full scan is enough.
Yeah, those activities do increase the risk, but they're not the only risky behaviour. There have been people who have found virii on hard disk they've bought, others have accidentally opened email attachments they shouldn't etc. etc. To say it's only doing "bad stuff" (ie illegal and possibly by your def immoral) plays right into the hands of cybercrooks. A weekly scan isn't going to be much good to you if your bank account details are keylogged.
My grandmother could use spotlight. She won't be able to use find, locate and grep.
Sounds like find, locate and grep need a nice GUI, rather than being fatally flawed.
I still use VMS today at work (on Alpha and Itanium). I'd like to point out that versioning like this works a hell of a lot better on small text files than larger binary files. You also tend to get initimate with the purge command (which leaves deletes old versions) otherwise your sysadmin gets narky when you run out of disk. Half the time you just end up running a purge of everything but the latest version, negating the benefit of having the versioning in the first place.
Note too that VMS lacks a lot of what Unix has, like decent command chaining. In fact the sytax is very clumsy but it's hard to hold that against a system that's so old (although backward compatible improvements would be very welcome). What's much worse is that as a developer, I still can't easily set up a system at home because it costs an arm and a leg and I need specialized hardware and hobbyist licenses though available require you to jump through hoops. VMS is very much a proprietary HP solution.
This is ridiculous. You're arguing that selling people phones so that they can take out more loans when they can't afford to eat or shelter themselves is good for these people. Give me a break. These "microloans" aren't charity. They're good for the lenders, not the poor. The reality is that the phones are just one more expense to pay off, and the interest on the micro-loan is yet another.
Take a look at the rest of the responses here. There is no way you can do this without making others jealous, which means there's no such thing as graceful. It's unfortunate that human nature works like this. (I've personally been affected by such silliness, though it has nothing to do with console games, and it's made my workplace experience much less pleasant. C'est la vie).
So either give them X-boxes to take home and call it a work bonus or as others have suggested put it in a common lounge area. Either will STILL result in some jealousy but particularly the take home solution won't have everyone in the office scrutinizing productivity and babbling about being paid to play games.
Human nature's a son of a bitch sometimes.
I honestly don't understand why the guilt. In those circumstances I think I'd have been shit scared for my life, and I probably wouldn't have been any calmer about drawing the gun, but if I had shot the boar, I'd feel great about it. Not because I like taking life, but because I'd done the right thing and survived in that situation.
To put this in perspective. I've only ever gone shooting once. On our honeymoon my wife and I were in New Zealand and there was a tourist attraction that was all about shooting. The gunes were tethered into tunnels in the gallery and they were only 22's. No kick-back, and a nice gentle introduction to shooting. My eyesight isn't the best so it wasn't surprising that my wife did better than me, (though I did get a a couple of bullseyes). (To get into shooting in Australia is a lot harder than NZ - certainly it'd cost more than the $20 we spent for the shells!).
I have no issues about killing an animal if it's for food. In fact I think I feel better about that than supermarket food - at least if you kill it yourself there's more of a motivation not to waste the meat, and the animal led a much better life than it's caged counterpart.
I'd like a job as a visionary. I once dreamt I would find a $20 bill on the street, and then several months later, I DID! Is that enough of a qualification?
No you can't have one.
You predicted/dreamt has actually happened (never mind that it's by pure chance). I believe you and therefore that is not acceptable and disqualifies you immediately. Now if you were a lying piece of scum and you'd found the $20 bill on the street then claimed that you'd predicted it earlier even though you hadn't you'd be in the running.
Also you didn't use any buzzwords in that sentence. You didn't actualize than monetization of your subconscious solicitation. You didn't monetize your vision. Hell you didn't even mention technology. No you found a $20 bill after dreaming you would. Way too concrete, you amateur! ;-)
Its an intelligent design game marketed as a game about evolution. Must be selling like hotcakes in Kansas.
I prefer the following quote from the article:
You might think that Spore's fatal flaw would be that it supports intelligent design rather than Darwinian evolution. (That's what I initially thought.) But it turns out to be not even that interesting. "Spore is essentially a very impressive, entertaining, and elaborate Mr. Potato Head that uses the language of evolution but none of the major principles," conclude Gregory and Eldredge.
I'm Australian. Voting attendance is compulsory here. The last time I voted was for council elections. I knew neither candidate, but I did know one thing: Neither major candidate had any interest in making me happy. I won't tell you what I put on my ballot, I'll just tell you it was invalid.
Short of running myself I DON'T have an option regarding the quality of the candidates.