Well, I wasn't really referring to playing with your buds, I was thinking of playing football like in Junior High and High School. Things there is a tad different than playing with your buds, however you do get a lot of people who don't know what they're doing or aren't any good. You don't start getting into that until college and after college the Pro's if you make it.
I remember playing football with my buds once, they were some farmers, big strong guys, but didn't have a clue how to play football. It was very funny playing with them because I was the only one who knew how to play "correctly". I knew how to hit, I knew how to roll out of being shirt tackled, I knew how to block, etc, because I played with people who knew how too. It was funny when they had a hell of a time catching me.:) They'd run around with the ball hanging out in the air and then you just strip the ball from 'em, things like that. Or when they'd go into to tackle you, you could easily roll out of being tackled pretty funny from a bunch of guys that are stronger than you and think you're just some city folk that don't know how to play a "rough" game. There's a science to it.:)
1: EDS, "Herding Cats". Need I say more? I suspect all tech people (and especially their bosses) "got" that one instantly. A lot more people, though, were probably scratching their heads. I loved it.
Actually, I just watched the commerical now, and I don't get it. I just see some guys herding cats instead of cattle. I still haven't "got" it yet.
I didn't watch the game either. From reading the comments it seems the RAMS played and then some other team. Also I didn't deliberately not watch the game. I really forgot the game was on today.:) Really, I did.:)
Me neither.. to tell you the truth, the idea of 15 seconds of so-called "action" with a minute of setup before the next move doesn't appeal to me. I dont realize what turns ppl on so much about football.
Actually football is *MUCH* more fun to play than watch(I think this with any sport). I mean, who wants to watch someone else have fun? It's like watching two people having sex but that's the closest you ever get.:)Pretty boring if you ask me.
I faked the whole thing. Look, everyone, the original post and most of the replies are from the same half-hour. And get Rob to check the logs -- they're all from the same IP address.
I did this to prove a point -- Slashdot moderators are complete morons that don't even bother to read before they moderate. I used the phrase "alternate hydrofusion techonology". Anyone who knows anything about the field will tell you that means ABSOLUTELY nothing! Veinluhg never existd, and Veinluhg isn't even a real name.
I'll include a few different Anonymous Cowards comments along with this one just to keep it all in the same comment, which is still under this thread.
I wouldn't exactly say that the Slashdot moderators are complete morons. I would have to say people who moderated this up were people who knew nothing of the chemistry field in the first place. Usually when I moderate I generally moderate things up that I KNOW something about. This is why it's good to have a moderation system such as this. It allows people who know something about the field to moderate something up when they have knowledge of the field. What happened here was people who knew nothing of the chemistry field decided this was a post worthy of moderating up. Which is a not so good thing and this case is a perfect example. People should stick to with what they know even if the post ends up being a score of 1.
Now, for the other comment, which could be from the same person for all we know:)
What I find most hilarious about this all is the pure power behind it. It must not be that hard to outsmart moderators when moderation privellages go to the 'Average/. user'. Who happens to be a bumbling idiot on average it seems. This almost supports my arguments against democracy itself.. An [un/mis]informed electorate out there, choosing those that will run the nation.
This doesn't support your argument at all. What you're saying is everyone is a complete idiot and can't think for themselves, also what you're saying is we need someone else to think for them. Having a moderation system such as this or a democracy is a great thing. It allows people to freely give information whether true or not true, then allow other people to read this information and IF they know something of this subject allow the post to be set at a higher level which allows people who view messages on a score of +2 or better to just skip the "junk". Now if everyone would stay within the bounds of moderating something up with a subject they know about, things would work great. Now, when you have freedom you always seem to have a few bad apples in the bunch that take advantage of that (like what you just did, you bad apple you). If I was a moderator I could have actually cross referenced to see if what you said was true about Fritz Veinluhg and to see his written paper and came up empty handed. If I actually KNEW something about this field I could have known that this person didn't exist and moderated it down. However I did neither since I have no moderation points and because I know nothing of the field, plus I don't feel like cross referencing something so it would have just gone unmoderated with a score of (1). Now as for a democracy and electing a person for president, everyone can lookup information about the person they're voting for, ask other people about the person they're voting for, be it the president, alderman, mayor or what have you. I do this, and I'm sure other people do this as well. So I find your comment about the general public insulting. Who are you to tell me or anyone else that they're stupid and can't make a decided vote? This is the EXACT reason why we have a democracy! It makes it so one group can't get stronger than another group and gas them in gas chambers or something.
Now mind you the second italics in here is from a different post from the same parent post, but this could possibly be from the same person, who knows? I just figured I'd throw this in the same post because it was on the same subject.:)
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I've seen this done lots before on Slashdot, this worked out so well it's kinda funny.:)
Hold on a second here. Comparing MS to AT&T is not really fair to MS. I dont like MS personally, but MS has succeeded on the strenght of it's product and the strengh of it's marketing and brand name. The reason MS is number one is because they have never stopped giving away free Web Browsers, they have never stopped improving the software to give people what they (seemingly) want, they have never stopped making their service easier or flashier. They sell their product for what it is, and people buy it for what it is. People are not forced to use MS, they choose to use MS. Any person with half a brain and a HOWTO can find more economical (if not not harder to use) Operating Systems for a fraction of what MS charges without losing one bit of functionality or interoperability with people who are using Microsoft Windows.
Gary Kildall was not willing to meet with IBM, and basically blew them off.
Actually, I thought that the lawyers told him not to sign some type of paper that said not to discusse anyone what you talked about with IBM and such? I might be all wet on this, but I thought that's how it went
There are many ways to read statistics. THINNK about these things. The male rate of computer and technology oriented graduates is dropping too. Universities are dropping their CSC departments because no one is graduating.
This is what I was expecting would start to happen after being in college myself (I'm a college dropout btw, I dropped out because I get paid more by working than going to school.:) ). I noticed a lot of the people, which were mostly female, figure about a 3 females to 1 male, were in there for the money. A lot of them just couldn't keep up with other people like me. Being in the IT industry seems to be something that you need to study a LOT and keep studying. It's not something you can just go learn and it'll stay the same until you retire. It changes so quickly that you need to endlessly study each day learning new things, learning things that were there but you never knew were there. I don't know about the rest of you, but I spend an incredible amount of time learning new things, and new ways of doing things, thinking of ways of doing new things, coming up with faster ways of doing things, coming up with faster/easier ways of doing things. It never seems to stop, and above all else, you have to love it, else you'll slip behind the rest of us, and be considered clueless. I think the money is there in the IT field not because it's hard or because not everyone can do it, but because it's something that you got to love and you have to spend a lot of time doing it. This is something that a lot of people don't want to spend a lot of time doing. Which is why I think there will be a good job market in the IT industry for a long time.:)
however, since we run NT servers we had to get an NT Workstation license for every seat. This ends up being about the same per seat cost as getting a Site License for the entire MS line. As a result, we also switched from WordPerfect, Lotus 123, and cc:Mail/Notes to MS Office and Outlook.
A clear example of MS leveraging its (hopefullly soon to be eroding) monopoly position.
No, you could have switched your NT servers to Linux or something, then kept WP, Lotus, and cc:Mail/Notes for the WS
This MS FORCED us to do this, is a bunch of bull, you're not obligated to run these products from them. If you don't like any of MS Licensing with NT Terminal Server, then don't run it. Then you have solved your problem
Likewise for the cat scratch, the malfunctioning furnace, etcetera: they're dangers of your own creation, and not risks undertaken on behalf of your employer over the course of your employment.
According to the artical my company is liable for my furnace:
Although the advisory does not provide specifics, in effect it means that employers are responsible for making sure an employee has ergonomically correct furniture, such as chairs and computer tables, as well as proper lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation systems in the home office.
This is why, it can hurt telecommuting, the fact that my employeer is responsible for things like that. I mean it's not my fault that I'm working at home and I really don't have the money to fork out for a new furnace this winter.
Which is why I said this is bullshit.:)
On a serious note, it's pretty obvious that I'm responsible for things like this(At lest to me), since of course it is my house. However, you could argue that it is the companies responsibility to provide me with a brand new furnace to keep me warm while I'm working, and because of the fact I have a greater chance of getting co2 poisoning or dieing (which I doubt unless I ignore the co2 detectors). So actually one could argue that I'm working in unsafe environment. When you read that artical it pretty much seems like they actually ARE responsible for things such as this. Which I think is utter bullshit. Of course it would be nice to have a new furnace with central air and such.:) So maybe not:)
The act of approving the home as a suitable worksite by a company makes them responsible for occupational injury there, just like it was any other jobsite - because it is just that, any other jobsite
My house needs a new furnace. It costs about $5,000.00 to have the furnace put in, so I'm hoping to make it past this winter before it dies. It's 25 years old, and has a pretty good chance of putting out CO2, but that's why I have the co2 detector. So if it does I just buy a new furnace. So if say my furnace starts putting out CO2 and I get sick, then I can sue my company because they didn't provide me with a safe furnace? The one here is 25 years old.
Also while I was working, my cat scratched me, left a pretty good scratch, almost looks like it needs stitches, my company is responsible right?
You know, we got a lot of snow last night, while I was walking to get my the fedex package that my company sent me, I fell on the ice because the driveway wasn't shovled. So my company is responsible right? How much can I sue them for?
Naming a product with a year in the title is NOT versioning. I'm quite sure people at Microsoft, or anywhere else, aren't version controlling using year numbers. The technical version number for Windows 95 original is 4.00.950, add service pack 1 and it is 4.00.950a. OSR2 is 4.00.950b (I believe). This makes sense because before Windows 95 there was Windows 3.1 (or 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups). The/title/ of a product doesn't have to have an accurate version number in it.
You're absolutely correct, You're the first person to actually say this.:)
Another perfect excample of this is also with Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.build.number.here]
If Microsoft didn't rename Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000, we'd have our version look like this:
Windows NT [Version 5.00.build.number.here]Not much diffrent.:)
Basiclly take any Microsoft product and go to the Help -> About and it'll give you the version number. Any of these excuses of "I don't know what version these people are running" is basiclly a bunch of bull on your part, just tell them to go to the Help -> About, and if you know your versions, nuff said.:)
Actually, I was in charge of Windows system images for a large corporation a few years ago. We would spend weeks configuring those systems too before they got ghosted onto hundreds of machines. And don't even get me started about the sheer and utter pain of installing a fully patched NT+Option Pack server.
Well first off the other Anonymous Coward was talking about Windows 2000. I assume he was talking about RIS(Remote Installation Services) for rapid deployment in a large corperation.
What's intresting with RIS is the fact you as an Administrator can set it up, configure it, and tell your user to install their own darn Operating System and have it automagicly detect all the hardware in their PC. It's that easy to use, I've seen it done, and it works(not a large deployment of course) and it's pretty simple to do too. So you could have compleatly diffrent types of PC's within your orginization and hopfully have it all work.:) That's what's cool about RIS in Win2k with rapid deployment.
Also as far as you installing Windows system images and taking weeks to do, I'm not quite sure what you were doing. I had a friend who recently did a deployment of 300 NT Servers for his coperation, which configured all the servers to the exact spefications they needed to be and it took him about 30 hours to do. Which really isn't all that bad considering that means he deployed a server every 10 minutes.:->
Actually, that's what you would call a stupid manager. If a manager is that stupid to not listen to his IT departments on purchases and have them research out what to get then just buys what ever he thinks he should get that's a stupid management decision.
Any place that I've worked at that has a successful IT department that drives the company and helps to make it succeed management listens to the IT people and gets what they think is the best solution for the application.
It happens all the time actually. No matter if it's computer related or not. My Dad works at a hospital and the management wants them to repair medical supplies that should be thrown away in the first place NOT repaired or fix thrown away. This opens up a huge lawsuit if anyone ever dies/gets sick and finds this out. There's plenty of these things going around. Another stupid thing is how management makes my Dad's department repair broken items that the cost of repairing them is more than buying the item brand new. Things like that, it's stupid management for not listening to the people that actually do that sort of thing.
Do you ever think Dilbert become so successful because no one could relate their boss to the Pointy Haired Boss? I think not.:>
It's not Microsoft's fault because some idiot didn't research the purchase out. It's like trying to tell me that you should get your money back on a car because you didn't have a mechanic look at it to tell you the engine was falling out.
"I'm not a lawyer, but perhaps someone can clarify me on this: is there any way to revert Toshiba's case and for them not to pay the 2.1 billion dollars?"
No, there's no way to revert Toshiba's case since they never went to court. They settled out of court. I suppose they could refuse to pay the money and then go to court.
Well I personally think technology that has been around awhile and doesn't continually change every few months will be "stable". Take the TV for instance, it's pretty much the same thing it was 40yrs ago. Although now you have bigger screens, color, and better quality of picture. Now this is where things get interesting take a look at the computer industry say 40 years ago. I don't think we really even had what we would call a computer to today standards.:> Even if we look at how computers have changed within the past 10 years it's pretty impressive. Just think of all the things we could be doing and are going to do in the future.
I think me using my house as an example was a poor example on the "stable" side of the discussion although it does make sense in the "ever changing" side of it. If you take my house for instance I just recently put in some wiring to be able to turn a light in front of my house from the front of the house, the back of the house or the Garage in back. I wanted this ability for convenience more than anything else. Now I used one four way switch and two three way switches and ran the wire. This is a pretty simple thing to do. Plus the only things involved that could be defective or broken is the switches or the copper wire itself. Now when I wired this I could have made a mistake. I could have put the red wire where the black wire is supposed to go and thus it wont work. Now lets take a look at this at a more complex thing such as a microprocessor. A microprocessor is a pretty complex thing(unless you actually make them:>). Now just think of all the millions of little transistors in them and during design think of the possible errors that could have been made. It's not that engineers making them don't know what they're doing it's just the fact that them being human can make an error. Now since we have such a complex thing, and being prone to errors(nothing is perfect) we now have something that could possibly fail or just not work. So this where we come into the problem of sometimes things just don't always work perfect and you'll always need someone to correct it. As the future progresses I believe things will just become more and more complex.
Now lets take this one step farther into the OS area of things. Take an operating system such Windows NT. Microsoft has millions of lines of code which we all know has lots of errors in it. Now I'm sure they can't possibly find ALL of the errors to make it work 100% of the time. Now say we throw in an Operating System such as Linux which has fewer lines of code(I think still in the millions) however it's free. You also get the code with Linux so anyone that knows anything about programming can look at this code and if they find errors correct them then tell the person who wrote it about the bugs. Then you get a bug fixed and no one will have to worry about it. Both of the Operating Systems are prone to errors but each one is given to the end user in a different way and if the end user knows any bit of programming can correct any errors s/he finds in Linux, however you can't in Windows NT.
Now if we look at this from a Star Trek point of view with their Operating Systems just working. In Star Trek it seems everyone helps everyone out. This is because in the future as Gene Roddenberry saw it, every one helped everyone out, there is no one homeless, hungry, etc. Now it would be safe to assume everyone does what they want to do. So perhaps looking at this aspect of things the OS(LCARS) that runs all of the computer in systems in the Federation(Well at lest in Starfleet systems ASFAIK) is maybe an "Open Source" type of thing allowing anyone in the Federation to view the code for LCARS and submit changes/bug fixes allowing things to just work.
Using Star Trek as a future reference is maybe a poor thing to do, but at lest we have some type of reference point on how things could be in the future. Like I said earlier I think in the future things will work better but we'll still have bugs and problems in them however things will probably work better than they do now or have ever worked before. You will still have people's needs changing and wanting more convenience(like me wanting the ability to flip a switch in 3 different locations). With these added conveniences we will still make errors and need to correct them. Large cooperation's such as Microsoft need to fix their bugs quickly and promptly without us having to wait ages to have the problems fixed. Companies also need to have better quality testing and management needs to allow programmers to spend more time fixing and checking for bugs. I think doing those things will improve the quality of our software and then maybe we will have everything just work.:> However computers are imperfect beings created by imperfect beings(Not an exact quote but close). :->
Are you sure technology will ever stabilize? Even on Star Trek they're always making some modification or repairing something or another.
Anyhow the thing I noticed the most about the technology industry is someone always wants something better or someone always wants some type of feature added into something. Even at work I would(almost) be out of a job if someone didn't want a change in something or another. I think it's perhaps the end users themselves that drive the speed at which technology moves. Perhaps one day no one would say, "Boy I wish this could do this" Perhaps one day no one will want anything new and be just content with they have. You're always going to have to change something, add something or remove something.
Take my house for example it's had little things added and removed in it's life span(25yrs) and it STILL isn't "completed"-- the way we like it. There's always something you wish you had on the house or something different. For instance you may think, "Gee, I wish I had a wall outlet there" or "You know I want to have Green walls in the dinning room instead of White walls" It's the same concept with computers, everyone wants something a tad more convenient or a tad different or something that does whatever entirely different.
So maybe our computers will work like they do on Star Trek. Although who's to say that when you're interfacing Data to the ships main computer something goes wrong? Just think of all the times they're modifying that stupid Doctor in Voyager? Or I could give you 100's or so of other eposides where life just ain't perfect.:)
So really you can't create a perfect system from people who are imperfect.:)
"The concept of aliens on the other side of the galaxy all looking alike, speaking fluent English, and efficiently use anarchisms and idioms just doesn't stand up in my mind"
Well for me, it's not so much that they do that in Voyager it's more of the fact that some of the episodes have gotten *REALLY* boring to be honest. Just tonight I was watching a rerun of Voyager. It was the one about Where Paris and Kim are playing in the holodeck as Capt. Proton, and the ship gets stuck in subspace and then some holodeck like aliens think the Capt. Proton people are real but the humans are fake. Which to me was really boring to watch because A)9999.9% of the episode was in Black and White, only the commericals were in color B) the whole Capt. Proton thing they show is compleatly boring. Then in the end it seems the episode was about nothing.
I've been disapointed with the show in general lately. You can usually figure out what's going to happen at the end within the first 15 minutes of watching the episode these days. It's pretty boring. Although I still seem to watch them hoping to see a good one, which you do sometimes.
So pretty much for Voyager it comes and goes. I never really had much of a problem watching ST:TNG though, I've probably seen each episode about 3 or 4 times, but only because a local TV station has been showing reruns of ST:TNG 5 days a week for about the last 2 years or so. They have a good time slot for it too because there's nothing else on TV.
So lately espically with Voyager it seems to come and go, but I think they could do a ton more with it than what they're doing it seems the writters just aren't there or something. DS9 was ok, I didn't like it in the begging but I started getting into it in the last 3 seasons of the show.
As for putting the show to rest, I think it would be weird not having a new episode of Star Trek on, seeing as the show has been on the air half my life. I've seen a new episode every week for pretty much half of my life. Which when you think about it is pretty impressive so maybe in the end it's best just to put it to rest for good? Who knows, either way I'll still watch the show as long as they don't get *REALLY* boring with it.
"And who will you vote for? A Democrat or Republican? If you elect either, do you think anything will change? And if you don't vote for either, do you think it likely that your choice will win?"
Actually, It's not so much which party you vote for, it's the PERSON you vote for. My respresentative in the House for the last term and was a very outstanding person. Really stood up for the area, and actually listened to the people who he represented. If we voted for more people like him, perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing? Would it not? I think that's the point he's trying to make with his last few postings.:)
It's not so much the Party that's bad, it's the people IN the party. If no one would vote for the bad apples would they still be in the party? No, they'd be working at Micky D's...:->
Really, it's the people who vote for these people to begin with. You ever hear people complaining about the goverment but then go and vote for the idiots over again? I mean come on now.:->
Well with IPv6 and the amount of IP addresses you can assign I think it will eventually end up being something similar to phone numbers. You got more than 1 PC in the home? It'll be the same as having more than one phone line at home or something similar. Your IP address will be no more private than your phone number is and there for your MAC address being private will be pointless. I think your IP address will pretty much become your home address/phone number all rolled into one. You'd figure everyone will eventually have one. Since you'll probably have everything coming into your home on one phone line or satellite or whatever. In the future it'll probably become almost impossible to be anonymous on the Internet. I'm sure you could probably do your spoofing or some sort to be "anonymous" but to get anything done in the future I believe you wont be able to get by not giving this information out. Everyone will have some sort of domain name or the like, which will point to your IP addresses. This is obviously speculation, of course, but with xDSL and cable modems assigning us static IP addresses you could almost assume it will become pretty much standard when IPv6 becomes common use.
"Since the person in question was specifically and knowingly pointing to pirated content, however, that's more like a go-between faciltating a transaction between a junkie and a dealer. He might not touch the drugs himself, ever, nor necessarily the money, but he's certainly a willing accomplice, and part of the racket; and I'm pretty sure most places would bust 'im."
I was actually thinking about that. Isn't putting a link in the web page the same as telling everyone, "You can get drugs at 9213 Dearborn, Ave. Some City, Some State"
I mean hey, I told you exactly where to get the drugs.:) Which in effect is the same as a link? To me all a link is, is telling someone the address of a site. Sort of like a street address.
I don't think I've ever heard of someone getting arrested for someone telling someone else where to get drugs.
Also wouldn't this also be the same as me telling you that you can get yourself stolen computer equiment from Joe Blow at 3124 Neato Street, Some City, some State.
Is it it illegal to tell people where they can do illegal things? I don't ever recall hearing someone getting arrested for telling someone else where to find some thing illegal.
- lakdjfalkdj -- Cuz all the good nicks were taken:)
I looked at the two webpages, seems this guy was born in India as well, I wonder if he copied where he was born from you too?:) Maybe perhaps we should all email him asking why he copied you?:)
- lakdjfalkdj - cuz all the good nicks were taken:)
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Well, I wasn't really referring to playing with your buds, I was thinking of playing football like in Junior High and High School. Things there is a tad different than playing with your buds, however you do get a lot of people who don't know what they're doing or aren't any good. You don't start getting into that until college and after college the Pro's if you make it.
:) They'd run around with the ball hanging out in the air and then you just strip the ball from 'em, things like that. Or when they'd go into to tackle you, you could easily roll out of being tackled pretty funny from a bunch of guys that are stronger than you and think you're just some city folk that don't know how to play a "rough" game. There's a science to it. :)
I remember playing football with my buds once, they were some farmers, big strong guys, but didn't have a clue how to play football. It was very funny playing with them because I was the only one who knew how to play "correctly". I knew how to hit, I knew how to roll out of being shirt tackled, I knew how to block, etc, because I played with people who knew how too. It was funny when they had a hell of a time catching me.
Actually, I just watched the commerical now, and I don't get it. I just see some guys herding cats instead of cattle. I still haven't "got" it yet.
I didn't watch the game either. From reading the comments it seems the RAMS played and then some other team. Also I didn't deliberately not watch the game. I really forgot the game was on today. :) Really, I did. :)
Actually football is *MUCH* more fun to play than watch(I think this with any sport). I mean, who wants to watch someone else have fun? It's like watching two people having sex but that's the closest you ever get. :)Pretty boring if you ask me.
I faked the whole thing. Look, everyone, the original post and most of the replies are from the same half-hour. And get Rob to check the logs -- they're all from the same IP address.
I did this to prove a point -- Slashdot moderators are complete morons that don't even bother to read before they moderate. I used the phrase "alternate hydrofusion techonology". Anyone who knows anything about the field will tell you that means ABSOLUTELY nothing! Veinluhg never existd, and Veinluhg isn't even a real name.
I'll include a few different Anonymous Cowards comments along with this one just to keep it all in the same comment, which is still under this thread.
I wouldn't exactly say that the Slashdot moderators are complete morons. I would have to say people who moderated this up were people who knew nothing of the chemistry field in the first place. Usually when I moderate I generally moderate things up that I KNOW something about. This is why it's good to have a moderation system such as this. It allows people who know something about the field to moderate something up when they have knowledge of the field. What happened here was people who knew nothing of the chemistry field decided this was a post worthy of moderating up. Which is a not so good thing and this case is a perfect example. People should stick to with what they know even if the post ends up being a score of 1.
Now, for the other comment, which could be from the same person for all we know:)
What I find most hilarious about this all is the pure power behind it. It must not be that hard to outsmart moderators when moderation privellages go to the 'Average /. user'. Who happens to be a bumbling idiot on average it seems. This almost supports my arguments against democracy itself.. An [un/mis]informed electorate out there, choosing those that will run the nation.
This doesn't support your argument at all. What you're saying is everyone is a complete idiot and can't think for themselves, also what you're saying is we need someone else to think for them. Having a moderation system such as this or a democracy is a great thing. It allows people to freely give information whether true or not true, then allow other people to read this information and IF they know something of this subject allow the post to be set at a higher level which allows people who view messages on a score of +2 or better to just skip the "junk". Now if everyone would stay within the bounds of moderating something up with a subject they know about, things would work great. Now, when you have freedom you always seem to have a few bad apples in the bunch that take advantage of that (like what you just did, you bad apple you). If I was a moderator I could have actually cross referenced to see if what you said was true about Fritz Veinluhg and to see his written paper and came up empty handed. If I actually KNEW something about this field I could have known that this person didn't exist and moderated it down. However I did neither since I have no moderation points and because I know nothing of the field, plus I don't feel like cross referencing something so it would have just gone unmoderated with a score of (1). Now as for a democracy and electing a person for president, everyone can lookup information about the person they're voting for, ask other people about the person they're voting for, be it the president, alderman, mayor or what have you. I do this, and I'm sure other people do this as well. So I find your comment about the general public insulting. Who are you to tell me or anyone else that they're stupid and can't make a decided vote? This is the EXACT reason why we have a democracy! It makes it so one group can't get stronger than another group and gas them in gas chambers or something.
Now mind you the second italics in here is from a different post from the same parent post, but this could possibly be from the same person, who knows? I just figured I'd throw this in the same post because it was on the same subject. :)
I've seen this done lots before on Slashdot, this worked out so well it's kinda funny. :)
Hold on a second here. Comparing MS to AT&T is not really fair to MS. I dont like MS personally, but MS has succeeded on the strenght of it's product and the strengh of it's marketing and brand name. The reason MS is number one is because they have never stopped giving away free Web Browsers, they have never stopped improving the software to give people what they (seemingly) want, they have never stopped making their service easier or flashier. They sell their product for what it is, and people buy it for what it is. People are not forced to use MS, they choose to use MS. Any person with half a brain and a HOWTO can find more economical (if not not harder to use) Operating Systems for a fraction of what MS charges without losing one bit of functionality or interoperability with people who are using Microsoft Windows.
Actually, I thought that the lawyers told him not to sign some type of paper that said not to discusse anyone what you talked about with IBM and such? I might be all wet on this, but I thought that's how it went
This is what I was expecting would start to happen after being in college myself (I'm a college dropout btw, I dropped out because I get paid more by working than going to school. :) ). I noticed a lot of the people, which were mostly female, figure about a 3 females to 1 male, were in there for the money. A lot of them just couldn't keep up with other people like me. Being in the IT industry seems to be something that you need to study a LOT and keep studying. It's not something you can just go learn and it'll stay the same until you retire. It changes so quickly that you need to endlessly study each day learning new things, learning things that were there but you never knew were there. I don't know about the rest of you, but I spend an incredible amount of time learning new things, and new ways of doing things, thinking of ways of doing new things, coming up with faster ways of doing things, coming up with faster/easier ways of doing things. It never seems to stop, and above all else, you have to love it, else you'll slip behind the rest of us, and be considered clueless. I think the money is there in the IT field not because it's hard or because not everyone can do it, but because it's something that you got to love and you have to spend a lot of time doing it. This is something that a lot of people don't want to spend a lot of time doing. Which is why I think there will be a good job market in the IT industry for a long time. :)
I dunno about the rest of you, but I found the artical on "The technology of the female orgasm" really intresting. ;)
A clear example of MS leveraging its (hopefullly soon to be eroding) monopoly position.
No, you could have switched your NT servers to Linux or something, then kept WP, Lotus, and cc:Mail/Notes for the WS
This MS FORCED us to do this, is a bunch of bull, you're not obligated to run these products from them. If you don't like any of MS Licensing with NT Terminal Server, then don't run it. Then you have solved your problem
According to the artical my company is liable for my furnace:
Although the advisory does not provide specifics, in effect it means that employers are responsible for making sure an employee has ergonomically correct furniture, such as chairs and computer tables, as well as proper lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation systems in the home office.This is why, it can hurt telecommuting, the fact that my employeer is responsible for things like that. I mean it's not my fault that I'm working at home and I really don't have the money to fork out for a new furnace this winter.
Which is why I said this is bullshit. :)
On a serious note, it's pretty obvious that I'm responsible for things like this(At lest to me), since of course it is my house. However, you could argue that it is the companies responsibility to provide me with a brand new furnace to keep me warm while I'm working, and because of the fact I have a greater chance of getting co2 poisoning or dieing (which I doubt unless I ignore the co2 detectors). So actually one could argue that I'm working in unsafe environment. When you read that artical it pretty much seems like they actually ARE responsible for things such as this. Which I think is utter bullshit. Of course it would be nice to have a new furnace with central air and such. :) So maybe not:)
My house needs a new furnace. It costs about $5,000.00 to have the furnace put in, so I'm hoping to make it past this winter before it dies. It's 25 years old, and has a pretty good chance of putting out CO2, but that's why I have the co2 detector. So if it does I just buy a new furnace. So if say my furnace starts putting out CO2 and I get sick, then I can sue my company because they didn't provide me with a safe furnace? The one here is 25 years old.
Also while I was working, my cat scratched me, left a pretty good scratch, almost looks like it needs stitches, my company is responsible right?
You know, we got a lot of snow last night, while I was walking to get my the fedex package that my company sent me, I fell on the ice because the driveway wasn't shovled. So my company is responsible right? How much can I sue them for?
This is why this is bullshit
You're absolutely correct, You're the first person to actually say this. :)
Another perfect excample of this is also with Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.build.number.here]
If Microsoft didn't rename Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000, we'd have our version look like this:
Windows NT [Version 5.00.build.number.here]Not much diffrent. :)
Basiclly take any Microsoft product and go to the Help -> About and it'll give you the version number. Any of these excuses of "I don't know what version these people are running" is basiclly a bunch of bull on your part, just tell them to go to the Help -> About, and if you know your versions, nuff said. :)
Actually, I was in charge of Windows system images for a large corporation a few years ago.
:) That's what's cool about RIS in Win2k with rapid deployment.
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We would spend weeks configuring those systems too before they got ghosted onto hundreds of machines. And don't even get me started about the sheer and utter pain of installing a fully patched NT+Option Pack server.
Well first off the other Anonymous Coward was talking about Windows 2000. I assume he was talking about RIS(Remote Installation Services) for rapid deployment in a large corperation.
What's intresting with RIS is the fact you as an Administrator can set it up, configure it, and tell your user to install their own darn Operating System and have it automagicly detect all the hardware in their PC. It's that easy to use, I've seen it done, and it works(not a large deployment of course) and it's pretty simple to do too. So you could have compleatly diffrent types of PC's within your orginization and hopfully have it all work.
Also as far as you installing Windows system images and taking weeks to do, I'm not quite sure what you were doing. I had a friend who recently did a deployment of 300 NT Servers for his coperation, which configured all the servers to the exact spefications they needed to be and it took him about 30 hours to do. Which really isn't all that bad considering that means he deployed a server every 10 minutes.
Actually they make light dimmers which don't interfear with any other devices. We picked those up for our old light dimmers and they actually worked.
Computer shopper had editorial content? :->
Actually, that's what you would call a stupid manager. If a manager is that stupid to not listen to his IT departments on purchases and have them research out what to get then just buys what ever he thinks he should get that's a stupid management decision.
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Any place that I've worked at that has a successful IT department that drives the company and helps to make it succeed management listens to the IT people and gets what they think is the best solution for the application.
It happens all the time actually. No matter if it's computer related or not. My Dad works at a hospital and the management wants them to repair medical supplies that should be thrown away in the first place NOT repaired or fix thrown away. This opens up a huge lawsuit if anyone ever dies/gets sick and finds this out. There's plenty of these things going around. Another stupid thing is how management makes my Dad's department repair broken items that the cost of repairing them is more than buying the item brand new. Things like that, it's stupid management for not listening to the people that actually do that sort of thing.
Do you ever think Dilbert become so successful because no one could relate their boss to the Pointy Haired Boss? I think not.
It's not Microsoft's fault because some idiot didn't research the purchase out. It's like trying to tell me that you should get your money back on a car because you didn't have a mechanic look at it to tell you the engine was falling out.
"I'm not a lawyer, but perhaps someone can clarify me on this: is there any way to revert Toshiba's case and for them not to pay the 2.1 billion dollars?"
No, there's no way to revert Toshiba's case since they never went to court. They settled out of court. I suppose they could refuse to pay the money and then go to court.
Well I personally think technology that has been around awhile and doesn't continually change every few months will be "stable". Take the TV for instance, it's pretty much the same thing it was 40yrs ago. Although now you have bigger screens, color, and better quality of picture. Now this is where things get interesting take a look at the computer industry say 40 years ago. I don't think we really even had what we would call a computer to today standards. :> Even if we look at how computers have changed within the past 10 years it's pretty impressive. Just think of all the things we could be doing and are going to do in the future.
:> However computers are imperfect beings created by imperfect beings(Not an exact quote but close).
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I think me using my house as an example was a poor example on the "stable" side of the discussion although it does make sense in the "ever changing" side of it. If you take my house for instance I just recently put in some wiring to be able to turn a light in front of my house from the front of the house, the back of the house or the Garage in back. I wanted this ability for convenience more than anything else. Now I used one four way switch and two three way switches and ran the wire. This is a pretty simple thing to do. Plus the only things involved that could be defective or broken is the switches or the copper wire itself. Now when I wired this I could have made a mistake. I could have put the red wire where the black wire is supposed to go and thus it wont work. Now lets take a look at this at a more complex thing such as a microprocessor. A microprocessor is a pretty complex thing(unless you actually make them:>). Now just think of all the millions of little transistors in them and during design think of the possible errors that could have been made. It's not that engineers making them don't know what they're doing it's just the fact that them being human can make an error. Now since we have such a complex thing, and being prone to errors(nothing is perfect) we now have something that could possibly fail or just not work. So this where we come into the problem of sometimes things just don't always work perfect and you'll always need someone to correct it. As the future progresses I believe things will just become more and more complex.
Now lets take this one step farther into the OS area of things. Take an operating system such Windows NT. Microsoft has millions of lines of code which we all know has lots of errors in it. Now I'm sure they can't possibly find ALL of the errors to make it work 100% of the time. Now say we throw in an Operating System such as Linux which has fewer lines of code(I think still in the millions) however it's free. You also get the code with Linux so anyone that knows anything about programming can look at this code and if they find errors correct them then tell the person who wrote it about the bugs. Then you get a bug fixed and no one will have to worry about it. Both of the Operating Systems are prone to errors but each one is given to the end user in a different way and if the end user knows any bit of programming can correct any errors s/he finds in Linux, however you can't in Windows NT.
Now if we look at this from a Star Trek point of view with their Operating Systems just working. In Star Trek it seems everyone helps everyone out. This is because in the future as Gene Roddenberry saw it, every one helped everyone out, there is no one homeless, hungry, etc. Now it would be safe to assume everyone does what they want to do. So perhaps looking at this aspect of things the OS(LCARS) that runs all of the computer in systems in the Federation(Well at lest in Starfleet systems ASFAIK) is maybe an "Open Source" type of thing allowing anyone in the Federation to view the code for LCARS and submit changes/bug fixes allowing things to just work.
Using Star Trek as a future reference is maybe a poor thing to do, but at lest we have some type of reference point on how things could be in the future. Like I said earlier I think in the future things will work better but we'll still have bugs and problems in them however things will probably work better than they do now or have ever worked before. You will still have people's needs changing and wanting more convenience(like me wanting the ability to flip a switch in 3 different locations). With these added conveniences we will still make errors and need to correct them. Large cooperation's such as Microsoft need to fix their bugs quickly and promptly without us having to wait ages to have the problems fixed. Companies also need to have better quality testing and management needs to allow programmers to spend more time fixing and checking for bugs. I think doing those things will improve the quality of our software and then maybe we will have everything just work.
Are you sure technology will ever stabilize?
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Even on Star Trek they're always making some modification or repairing something or another.
Anyhow the thing I noticed the most about the technology industry is someone always wants something better or someone always wants some type of feature added into something. Even at work I would(almost) be out of a job if someone didn't want a change in something or another. I think it's perhaps the end users themselves that drive the speed at which technology moves. Perhaps one day no one would say, "Boy I wish this could do this" Perhaps one day no one will want anything new and be just content with they have. You're always going to have to change something, add something or remove something.
Take my house for example it's had little things added and removed in it's life span(25yrs) and it STILL isn't "completed"-- the way we like it. There's always something you wish you had on the house or something different. For instance you may think, "Gee, I wish I had a wall outlet there" or "You know I want to have Green walls in the dinning room instead of White walls" It's the same concept with computers, everyone wants something a tad more convenient or a tad different or something that does whatever entirely different.
So maybe our computers will work like they do on Star Trek. Although who's to say that when you're interfacing Data to the ships main computer something goes wrong? Just think of all the times they're modifying that stupid Doctor in Voyager? Or I could give you 100's or so of other eposides where life just ain't perfect.
So really you can't create a perfect system from people who are imperfect.
"The concept of aliens on the other side of the galaxy all looking alike, speaking fluent English, and efficiently use anarchisms and idioms just doesn't stand up in my mind"
Well for me, it's not so much that they do that in Voyager it's more of the fact that some of the episodes have gotten *REALLY* boring to be honest. Just tonight I was watching a rerun of Voyager. It was the one about Where Paris and Kim are playing in the holodeck as Capt. Proton, and the ship gets stuck in subspace and then some holodeck like aliens think the Capt. Proton people are real but the humans are fake. Which to me was really boring to watch because A)9999.9% of the episode was in Black and White, only the commericals were in color B) the whole Capt. Proton thing they show is compleatly boring. Then in the end it seems the episode was about nothing.
I've been disapointed with the show in general lately. You can usually figure out what's going to happen at the end within the first 15 minutes of watching the episode these days. It's pretty boring. Although I still seem to watch them hoping to see a good one, which you do sometimes.
So pretty much for Voyager it comes and goes. I never really had much of a problem watching ST:TNG though, I've probably seen each episode about 3 or 4 times, but only because a local TV station has been showing reruns of ST:TNG 5 days a week for about the last 2 years or so. They have a good time slot for it too because there's nothing else on TV.
So lately espically with Voyager it seems to come and go, but I think they could do a ton more with it than what they're doing it seems the writters just aren't there or something. DS9 was ok, I didn't like it in the begging but I started getting into it in the last 3 seasons of the show.
As for putting the show to rest, I think it would be weird not having a new episode of Star Trek on, seeing as the show has been on the air half my life. I've seen a new episode every week for pretty much half of my life. Which when you think about it is pretty impressive so maybe in the end it's best just to put it to rest for good? Who knows, either way I'll still watch the show as long as they don't get *REALLY* boring with it.
"And who will you vote for? A Democrat or Republican? If you elect either, do you think anything will change? And if you don't vote for either, do you think it likely that your choice will win?"
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Actually, It's not so much which party you vote for, it's the PERSON you vote for. My respresentative in the House for the last term and was a very outstanding person. Really stood up for the area, and actually listened to the people who he represented. If we voted for more people like him, perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing? Would it not? I think that's the point he's trying to make with his last few postings.
It's not so much the Party that's bad, it's the people IN the party. If no one would vote for the bad apples would they still be in the party? No, they'd be working at Micky D's...
Really, it's the people who vote for these people to begin with. You ever hear people complaining about the goverment but then go and vote for the idiots over again? I mean come on now.
Just my two cents...
Well with IPv6 and the amount of IP addresses you can assign I think it will eventually end up being something similar to phone numbers. You got more than 1 PC in the home? It'll be the same as having more than one phone line at home or something similar. Your IP address will be no more private than your phone number is and there for your MAC address being private will be pointless. I think your IP address will pretty much become your home address/phone number all rolled into one. You'd figure everyone will eventually have one. Since you'll probably have everything coming into your home on one phone line or satellite or whatever. In the future it'll probably become almost impossible to be anonymous on the Internet. I'm sure you could probably do your spoofing or some sort to be "anonymous" but to get anything done in the future I believe you wont be able to get by not giving this information out. Everyone will have some sort of domain name or the like, which will point to your IP addresses. This is obviously speculation, of course, but with xDSL and cable modems assigning us static IP addresses you could almost assume it will become pretty much standard when IPv6 becomes common use.
"Since the person in question was specifically and knowingly pointing to pirated content, however, that's more like a go-between faciltating a transaction between a junkie and a dealer. He might not touch the drugs himself, ever, nor necessarily the money, but he's certainly a willing accomplice, and part of the racket; and I'm pretty sure most places would bust 'im."
:) Which in effect is the same as a link? To me all a link is, is telling someone the address of a site. Sort of like a street address.
I was actually thinking about that. Isn't putting a link in the web page the same as telling everyone, "You can get drugs at 9213 Dearborn, Ave. Some City, Some State"
I mean hey, I told you exactly where to get the drugs.
I don't think I've ever heard of someone getting arrested for someone telling someone else where to get drugs.
Also wouldn't this also be the same as me telling you that you can get yourself stolen computer equiment from Joe Blow at 3124 Neato Street, Some City, some State.
Is it it illegal to tell people where they can do illegal things? I don't ever recall hearing someone getting arrested for telling someone else where to find some thing illegal.
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I looked at the two webpages, seems this guy was born in India as well, I wonder if he copied where he was born from you too? :) Maybe perhaps we should all email him asking why he copied you? :)
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- lakdjfalkdj - cuz all the good nicks were taken