It's ok, you're just an f'in geek. You didn't expect to live any better than your neighbors who screwed off in school did you? You work because you LIKE it. Keep it up...
Should workers in Singapore have a competitive advantage over workers in other countries if their companies don't pay the legitimate costs of doing business?
Agreed... It is a bit ironic that getting recent Oracle products running on Linux is such an ordeal if that's becoming their preferred platform. They need to do a better job of documenting some things too - their OC4J standalone documentation seems pretty much nonexistent and the 9.0.3 Java-only version of 9iAS has an installer that can crash on XP pro. Tidy up!!
The full trackball embedded would be even better - would be nice to be able to control orientation of movement and orientation of POV independently with one hand...
As recordings have become more important than live performance, the skills of the people working in the studio and doing editing etc have more to do with the finish of the sound than the artist in many cases. Most of the popular music performers have very dubious performance skills and are a creation of the studio. The major record labels assume rightly that they play a bigger part in the music, especially recordings, than the performers do, and want their take. Tough, nobody wants to buy it but some 12-18'ers
The public is seeing through the crappy spray-cheese music and doesn't much want to pay for it anymore. Many of us would rather listen to a group/performer with some significant lyrics and something to say, even if production qualities are less than perfect. I don't listen to music for the face or breasts of the singer, and will not pay a dime to listen to a pop phenomena creation of the record industry. If they think that people want to do this in light of three years of worsening economic conditions, they ought to stop smoking for a little while...
I think you'd really want to do at least static analysis per this tool as well as dynamic analysis of the executable to get much confidence from results on a binary with no source. (Rational Purify seems to do a good job of locating dynamic buffer overwrites, etc.).
The static analysis may catch some code paths that aren't typically executed, while the dynamic analysis can catch problems not evident from the source code. You still can't prove an executable is safe, but you can show where it is clearly unsafe. Putting both of these functions into a single product might make more sense.
Agreed... if you have a real network behind your Internet link, rather than just one or two machines that serve non-conflicting services, it's pretty much a joke. TCP connections are defined as (host, port) to (host, port). You can't throw away 1/4 of the information without underspecifying the problem of routing - port mapping will not allow all of the actual combinations. If both boxes are NAT'ed and you only really have half of the information, it's hell...
All of the voting machines in Denver, perhaps in Colorado, are electronic. I remember that my mother used a mechanical machine when she voted in 1976. I've never seen a punch card ballot first-hand.
The electoral college is not stupid, laughable, or a joke. It's pretty much a necessity for any sort of fairness in a voting-based system where the geography is large and diverse enough to support both concentrated and sparse populations, if any respect for political differences relative to geographic location is had. Plans akin to the Senate only, ignoring population differences between regions, or the House only, ignoring regional differences between populations, were considered. The EC is an appropriate compromise for a place the size of the US.
More on the topic of too many remotes than the potential solution technology - Am I the only one who would like to have a "local positioning system" in my house? Wouldn't it be nice to have, for example, RFID tags on stuff and scanners in the house such that you could locate the remote under the sofa or your keys that got closed in a magazine, the wallet that you left in the freezer:) etc.?
Agreed. Well said. It's been this way since broadband opened up in the US. If you look at the pricing structures for broadband access versus dial-up, it's clear that prices don't scale with bandwidth. Customers who aggressively use their bandwidth are averaged out with customers who don't use much more bandwidth than they would on dial-up (seeking responsiveness). The greater the peak capacity, the greater the spread in bandwidth usage.
There's probably been an increase in aggressive bandwidth use since the popularization of P2P activity.:) This could threaten the viability of price structures and require increases, as you say. I think it might get difficult for providers who have tried to be cool about not placing caps in TOS but find their bandwidth costs gradually rising beyond their pricing structure. An inexpensive moderately capped account could relieve prices for some, but would require jacking up uncapped rates for aggressive users to near-business rates.
Agreed. There's little reason for an unemployed/underemployed/still decently employed IT worker to hope for any future here. They just used us to get the frameworks up and running so that they can profit from cheap maintenance and extension. This place is sick.
These companies don't deserve any benefits from being a "U.S." company if they're creating most of their jobs outside of the country. Our government should treat them as foreign entities and favor U.S. firms.
Exactly - it seems that fair use can be legally prevented if the publisher is technologically capable. The individual user can accomplish their public domain fair use only if they can overcome the copy protection, an activity that he seems to indicate is not necessarily prohibited. Seemingly, breaking the protection for access purposes would not be prosecutable after the work became public domain. However, trafficking in tools or technologies that would enable releasing public domain works from their prior protection would always be illegal.
The situation is an over-constrained problem with obvious paradoxes. They don't have this sh*t figured out yet...
Agreed. It's simply rude and disrespectful. It diverts your full attention for brief (or longer) periods of time, periods during which you CANNOT effectively be listening to the lecturer. Try disrespecting your lecturers in grad school and see how far you get... I'd warn once then kick them out of the lecture.
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It's ok, you're just an f'in geek. You didn't expect to live any better than your neighbors who screwed off in school did you? You work because you LIKE it. Keep it up...
Give it about another six to twelve months here without any relief in the tech job market - high tech crime is about to become VERY popular.
Should workers in Singapore have a competitive advantage over workers in other countries if their companies don't pay the legitimate costs of doing business?
tears in the eyes laughing...
Agreed... It is a bit ironic that getting recent Oracle products running on Linux is such an ordeal if that's becoming their preferred platform. They need to do a better job of documenting some things too - their OC4J standalone documentation seems pretty much nonexistent and the 9.0.3 Java-only version of 9iAS has an installer that can crash on XP pro. Tidy up!!
The full trackball embedded would be even better - would be nice to be able to control orientation of movement and orientation of POV independently with one hand...
Or they'll want $12 for a four song "super-single". What a deal...
Agreed...
As recordings have become more important than live performance, the skills of the people working in the studio and doing editing etc have more to do with the finish of the sound than the artist in many cases. Most of the popular music performers have very dubious performance skills and are a creation of the studio. The major record labels assume rightly that they play a bigger part in the music, especially recordings, than the performers do, and want their take. Tough, nobody wants to buy it but some 12-18'ers
The public is seeing through the crappy spray-cheese music and doesn't much want to pay for it anymore. Many of us would rather listen to a group/performer with some significant lyrics and something to say, even if production qualities are less than perfect. I don't listen to music for the face or breasts of the singer, and will not pay a dime to listen to a pop phenomena creation of the record industry. If they think that people want to do this in light of three years of worsening economic conditions, they ought to stop smoking for a little while...
We discussed this in-depth on comp.lang.c about a year ago. Please don't insult randomly.
I think you'd really want to do at least static analysis per this tool as well as dynamic analysis of the executable to get much confidence from results on a binary with no source. (Rational Purify seems to do a good job of locating dynamic buffer overwrites, etc.).
The static analysis may catch some code paths that aren't typically executed, while the dynamic analysis can catch problems not evident from the source code. You still can't prove an executable is safe, but you can show where it is clearly unsafe. Putting both of these functions into a single product might make more sense.
I prefer to initialize the first character of the destination buffer to '\0' and use strncat. Less paranoia about the ultimate null termination...
You could probably take care of the USB key with a big hammer. :)
It's OK. They don't deserve a free ride just because people pay for phone service.
Agreed... if you have a real network behind your Internet link, rather than just one or two machines that serve non-conflicting services, it's pretty much a joke. TCP connections are defined as (host, port) to (host, port). You can't throw away 1/4 of the information without underspecifying the problem of routing - port mapping will not allow all of the actual combinations. If both boxes are NAT'ed and you only really have half of the information, it's hell...
All of the voting machines in Denver, perhaps in Colorado, are electronic. I remember that my mother used a mechanical machine when she voted in 1976. I've never seen a punch card ballot first-hand.
The electoral college is not stupid, laughable, or a joke. It's pretty much a necessity for any sort of fairness in a voting-based system where the geography is large and diverse enough to support both concentrated and sparse populations, if any respect for political differences relative to geographic location is had. Plans akin to the Senate only, ignoring population differences between regions, or the House only, ignoring regional differences between populations, were considered. The EC is an appropriate compromise for a place the size of the US.
More on the topic of too many remotes than the potential solution technology - Am I the only one who would like to have a "local positioning system" in my house? Wouldn't it be nice to have, for example, RFID tags on stuff and scanners in the house such that you could locate the remote under the sofa or your keys that got closed in a magazine, the wallet that you left in the freezer :) etc.?
Agreed. Well said. It's been this way since broadband opened up in the US. If you look at the pricing structures for broadband access versus dial-up, it's clear that prices don't scale with bandwidth. Customers who aggressively use their bandwidth are averaged out with customers who don't use much more bandwidth than they would on dial-up (seeking responsiveness). The greater the peak capacity, the greater the spread in bandwidth usage.
There's probably been an increase in aggressive bandwidth use since the popularization of P2P activity. :) This could threaten the viability of price structures and require increases, as you say. I think it might get difficult for providers who have tried to be cool about not placing caps in TOS but find their bandwidth costs gradually rising beyond their pricing structure. An inexpensive moderately capped account could relieve prices for some, but would require jacking up uncapped rates for aggressive users to near-business rates.
What is your point? Unsecured debt is not my issue.
Agreed. There's little reason for an unemployed/underemployed/still decently employed IT worker to hope for any future here. They just used us to get the frameworks up and running so that they can profit from cheap maintenance and extension. This place is sick.
These companies don't deserve any benefits from being a "U.S." company if they're creating most of their jobs outside of the country. Our government should treat them as foreign entities and favor U.S. firms.
Not applicable when you've had a 40% cut imposed and can't get an interview because mobility has been destroyed.
Exactly - it seems that fair use can be legally prevented if the publisher is technologically capable. The individual user can accomplish their public domain fair use only if they can overcome the copy protection, an activity that he seems to indicate is not necessarily prohibited. Seemingly, breaking the protection for access purposes would not be prosecutable after the work became public domain. However, trafficking in tools or technologies that would enable releasing public domain works from their prior protection would always be illegal.
The situation is an over-constrained problem with obvious paradoxes. They don't have this sh*t figured out yet...
Agreed. It's simply rude and disrespectful. It diverts your full attention for brief (or longer) periods of time, periods during which you CANNOT effectively be listening to the lecturer. Try disrespecting your lecturers in grad school and see how far you get... I'd warn once then kick them out of the lecture.
Fortresses aren't much of a useful ANI. :)