While they should be praised for making the correct move, their action was clearly underplayed and Alan Ralsky should have been arrested. If you can get arrested over breaking a girlfriend restraining order you ought to be arrested for suspicion of 2^10000 counts of felony fraud.
Time is a factor, but you just missed my reference to overclocking. I bought overclock capable parts, and my system runs at normal speeds, still twice as fast as the iMac. This keeps it cool and quiet, well it will be quiet when I get a fan-resistance controller.
You brought up a good point with all the wires hanging from the back, My notebook just can't do everything I need for fixing computers, formatting hard drives, programming small chips(serial port on that iMac by any chance?) etc. Who in their right mind would get an iMac when you can get a notebook for less? The iMac just doesn't fit the desktop computer profile, and likely the only reason it sells is because it's significantly less expensive than a (mac) notebook.
I just built a system with 2-3x power on all specs (except the hd, I'll be adding a raid array later), for 4-500 less than this system. The 17" LCD isn't very desirable at $130, but people do buy them at that price. Bottom line? There's no reason at all that you should be paying $1300 for a computer with under 1gb of ram, especially in this time of superbloat.
Semi-sane, yes. I'm just very happy with transparent case complete with overclock components, and all the extras.
What was the equivalent of GTA:SA that your parents needed to worry about being brought into the home?
You probably shouldn't assume this man is over 30. If he's my age, his parents might have been worrying about Vice city, or GTA3, or Quake 2, or Doom (came out over 10 years ago).
The whole problem with the recent witch hunt of video games is that they have been as violent as they are now for quite some time. Lawmakers are just now starting a war against video games to get parental approval while they are passing non-parental notification for abortions, or skewing the definition of a "family" by allowing civil unions or marriages for non-traditional relationships.
Your representative is no longer serving your interests, why cant you see this?
Well, there are certainly varying degrees of respect for the Linux Cathedral, but I'd say its still there. Back around Xfree 4.0 when DRM was being developed side-by-side, some of the developers messed up the DRM modules. Older modules in the kernel would keep new xfree compiled modules from running correctly, etc. The problem was bad enough that Linus went on a pretty long rant for how the Xfree guys were messing up the kernel and most of where they went wrong wasn't small mistakes, just things that should never be done.
Maybe if you want to say Linux isn't structured you should use the more broad sense of Linux, but then everyone knows with who knows how many distributions, Linux systems are not all centrally organized.
It's entirely stupid to ask the question this article addresses. Just because something is hard to do, or uses previous thoughts, technology etc doesn't mean it's a good idea. It doesn't even imply that its a good idea. Ebooks were only a good idea to save cost, and so seldom less expensive than buying from amazon or ebay. Is it worth all the trouble for a couple dollars?
What ebook proponents should be asking is not "When, or why", but "why not".
Just because every proprietary project is a dead-end (a perfectly possible phenemenon considering history) doesn't mean an open project must be large. Your "insightful" connective is just as bad as saying "Everyone doesn't ride a bike" instead of "Not everyone rides a bike"
False logic isn't insightful in my book, this post needs M2 seriously.
My post was kind of accusatory, however it is not explicitly required that either members of the organization or contractors be below average workers. People have trouble communicating all the time, and when these people are in school we say it's a learning disability. Incompetent might be a harsh word, but I think it captures the range of possibility pretty well.
If there's a difference in the goals of contractors and inside people I would place the blame on management. A contractor is to do what he is told, and as you said they did what they understood. As a result I still see that the contractor is not to be blamed for the problem. Maybe you ment to say the use of contractors for these projects was a bad idea, and I misread you.
As for your final argument, I can't really see what you're trying to say. Tech culture is often isolated from others, but maybe that's because techs don't get their due respect? I fail to see why you blame outsiders instead of planners. As for rigid software building methods, you are correct; working with others requires much more listening and openness to ideas that may not hold any value. Communication skills are required to be a excellent tech worker, and there's a lot of journeymen that dont have comm skills.
Your story only says that a particular group of contractors were incompetent. You could have hired a group of kindergartners (for less), but that would have been illogical (too many child labor laws). Instead your organization went with contractors that neither cared nor were able to meet your needs. That's not their fault, that's an organizational/planning fault. Responsibility can't just be transfered to someone else. If you dont trust someone to do something (right) in your place, you might as well do it yourself.
Yeah, unfortunatly when my first notebook battery went out I was greeted by AA width - longer length cells. I would have basically been stuck taping all the batteries in place. That, and the whole pack was soldered together in a line, and at the time I didn't have an iron. There's a few to watch for, I must say that story of your friend's digital camera is interesting though.
The real problem with the patent office is simple, they are understaffed. With too few people to review applications they simply grant many without looking them over at all. If you have seen the requirements to be hired at the USPTO you would agree, they require something like two bachelors and a PHD.
Seriously, even if the government was willing to pay 100-200 grand/year for that kind of an education there's no way they can increase their employment quickly. If next year you graduate High School you're looking at 6-10 years before you'll be able to work at the USPTO. Now, how many people will go through that rough a curriculum to get a government job?
There isn't even an incentive like the humanitarian "I'm helping people" feeling that teachers get from a government job. At this point patents are only hurting the market as a whole, so without immediate (* cough *) action by the government, their pool of workers will remain fairly empty.
I dont understand how this would be any different from doing another build? Build the box and load the OS, same way with Yoper, or even with slackware.
Inappropriate babble for a serious issue. Who's caring about those of us paying $3/gallon for gas in Florida? If you want help dont try to start a race war...
Checks and balances are for misinterpretations of laws, and for protecting constitutional rights. The DMCA was a recipe for extortion, and very purely unconstitutional. Saying that Clinton was thinking ahead by voting for the DMCA and for a judge to oppose it's extortion is definately a stretch. My guess is he liked the Judge for other reasons (who wouldn't, she has integrity) and figured the RIAA wouldn't notice.
The key word here is compared. The OP was likely trying to say that people are comparing nonlethal weapons (lightning, shock guns, poisonous gas) to lethal weapons (like a 45). In reality these nonlethal weapons are going to be used to a minimal extent, so what's the point of a nonlethal weapon?
Any weapon has its downside, and I think the OP realized that, most people who would appear to be blaming weapons aren't.
I think this is exactly what Linus is trying to avoid. By enforcing his trademark he can keep things (a little) cleaner. Nobody will make a perfect decision as to who can use a name, but the owner of that trademark gets the luxury of that decision.
Now stop thinking about inabling for a minute. Even a new linux distribution, or whatever we will be calling them in the future... will be able to reference the linux name as long as it is in a fashion that doesn't brand the product as linux. Think about what dell does with their PC's. They dont call them Intel Inspiron's, or try to market the Celeron 3500 galaxy edition, they simply put put the IO sticker on the front.
The same thing can be done with linux, and it might actually boost some originality of new products. Taking away the right to use linux as a brand name forces companies to be more original, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
The 3 prong controller is impossible to access all buttons readily. The trigger can be touched with your right index finger, but then you can no longer reach the 4 keypad with anything but unreliable fingers (if that). The N64 had a few good games and that's what made it successful as a console, basically everything else says it was junk (no cd's etc..)
With more tech there's just more stuff to pay for. OTOH, unless you live in a very rural area, your children can bike to school faster than the bus... that is unless they are too heavy.
Is homeschooling really a solution? First, this question isn't quite valid. Saying that schools aren't working, then countering that avoiding school altogether is a non-argument. The problem here is that students have no chance to learn things from their friends, be motivated by a peer group, or generally avoid insanity.
Dont get me wrong, I had 12 years of homeschooling, or maybe I should say 8 years of homeschooling, and 4 years independent study. After I got to high school my mathematics proficiency was as high as my mom's and she certainly wasn't going to learn topics ahead of me. Instead I got textbooks that didn't address the subjects I needed to learn. Honestly, most professors make poor textbook choices, how could you expect your mom to make a good one?
Everyone is different, so it would be wrong to assume your child will do well on his/her own, or the other way around. Their academic performance may improve if the student is a lazy kid at school and needs more personal attention(you dont have 2-3 younger kids who pretend they cant read), or it might degrade.
Here's the real problem though. Your highschool education will not help you. Without a scholarship and a university education path, all the work in highschool is a waste of time. Now try taking your A student homeschooler against a AP/IB program motivated kid from a public school. Any self respecting university will ignore your homeschooler. Even if they give you a method of getting in, you'd have to know ahead of time all they really want to see out of homeschoolers is high scores on SAT II's. Do you really expect most parents to plan that far ahead?
Since when did they become affordable? As long as marketing is so dominant a driving force in "mobile technology" affordability will not be the goal, and it certainly wont be possible.
Now take vonage, A company of their position is doing well to go with an IPO just for the publicity. With the success of google major news organizations will cover the IPO story and vonage gets free advertising.
An IPO may or may not be a good thing for users of their service (come to think of it I cant see how it could be good for their users), but it certainly will be good for vonage.
The only real problem here is power. Once your notebook gets 5 years old you wont be able to find a replacement battery at all, and even if you could it will be expensive because they're all virtually model specific. Then again, there's the 19.5V AC adapter that dell bundled with my notebook. Went out just about 120days after I bought it (suspiciously just past the 90 day warranty). Now I spent $40 (I was lucky it retails at $80+ship) for a power accessory that could have just as easily been $10.
All jokes aside no. Onboard video will slow down your whole system, and if your extra lucky your motherboard will not work with any other high end video cards. Oh yeah, that 256mb of ram for your "just put stuff on the screen" computer with XP will no longer be enough because 32mb is going to your slow video card.:)
Slashcache is just another name for mirrordot as far as I know. I'm sorry the cache wasn't very good. You'll probably have to wait for PC world or the WSJ to get the article before it can be used for academic educational purposes. I found pcworld invaluable when writing a cpu comparison for technical writing (it didn't turn out too well, not enough sources).
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While they should be praised for making the correct move, their action was clearly underplayed and Alan Ralsky should have been arrested. If you can get arrested over breaking a girlfriend restraining order you ought to be arrested for suspicion of 2^10000 counts of felony fraud.
Time is a factor, but you just missed my reference to overclocking. I bought overclock capable parts, and my system runs at normal speeds, still twice as fast as the iMac. This keeps it cool and quiet, well it will be quiet when I get a fan-resistance controller.
You brought up a good point with all the wires hanging from the back, My notebook just can't do everything I need for fixing computers, formatting hard drives, programming small chips(serial port on that iMac by any chance?) etc. Who in their right mind would get an iMac when you can get a notebook for less? The iMac just doesn't fit the desktop computer profile, and likely the only reason it sells is because it's significantly less expensive than a (mac) notebook.
I just built a system with 2-3x power on all specs (except the hd, I'll be adding a raid array later), for 4-500 less than this system. The 17" LCD isn't very desirable at $130, but people do buy them at that price. Bottom line? There's no reason at all that you should be paying $1300 for a computer with under 1gb of ram, especially in this time of superbloat. Semi-sane, yes. I'm just very happy with transparent case complete with overclock components, and all the extras.
"put the napkin on his lamp"
Adds whole new meaning to teh solar death ray article huh?
NO! slashdot as bad as chatrooms, who will the grammar nazi's execute violence against now?
You probably shouldn't assume this man is over 30. If he's my age, his parents might have been worrying about Vice city, or GTA3, or Quake 2, or Doom (came out over 10 years ago).
The whole problem with the recent witch hunt of video games is that they have been as violent as they are now for quite some time. Lawmakers are just now starting a war against video games to get parental approval while they are passing non-parental notification for abortions, or skewing the definition of a "family" by allowing civil unions or marriages for non-traditional relationships.
Your representative is no longer serving your interests, why cant you see this?
Well, there are certainly varying degrees of respect for the Linux Cathedral, but I'd say its still there. Back around Xfree 4.0 when DRM was being developed side-by-side, some of the developers messed up the DRM modules. Older modules in the kernel would keep new xfree compiled modules from running correctly, etc. The problem was bad enough that Linus went on a pretty long rant for how the Xfree guys were messing up the kernel and most of where they went wrong wasn't small mistakes, just things that should never be done.
Maybe if you want to say Linux isn't structured you should use the more broad sense of Linux, but then everyone knows with who knows how many distributions, Linux systems are not all centrally organized.
It's entirely stupid to ask the question this article addresses. Just because something is hard to do, or uses previous thoughts, technology etc doesn't mean it's a good idea. It doesn't even imply that its a good idea. Ebooks were only a good idea to save cost, and so seldom less expensive than buying from amazon or ebay. Is it worth all the trouble for a couple dollars?
What ebook proponents should be asking is not "When, or why", but "why not".
Just because every proprietary project is a dead-end (a perfectly possible phenemenon considering history) doesn't mean an open project must be large.
Your "insightful" connective is just as bad as saying "Everyone doesn't ride a bike" instead of "Not everyone rides a bike"
False logic isn't insightful in my book, this post needs M2 seriously.
My post was kind of accusatory, however it is not explicitly required that either members of the organization or contractors be below average workers. People have trouble communicating all the time, and when these people are in school we say it's a learning disability. Incompetent might be a harsh word, but I think it captures the range of possibility pretty well.
If there's a difference in the goals of contractors and inside people I would place the blame on management. A contractor is to do what he is told, and as you said they did what they understood. As a result I still see that the contractor is not to be blamed for the problem. Maybe you ment to say the use of contractors for these projects was a bad idea, and I misread you.
As for your final argument, I can't really see what you're trying to say. Tech culture is often isolated from others, but maybe that's because techs don't get their due respect? I fail to see why you blame outsiders instead of planners. As for rigid software building methods, you are correct; working with others requires much more listening and openness to ideas that may not hold any value. Communication skills are required to be a excellent tech worker, and there's a lot of journeymen that dont have comm skills.
Your story only says that a particular group of contractors were incompetent. You could have hired a group of kindergartners (for less), but that would have been illogical (too many child labor laws). Instead your organization went with contractors that neither cared nor were able to meet your needs. That's not their fault, that's an organizational/planning fault. Responsibility can't just be transfered to someone else. If you dont trust someone to do something (right) in your place, you might as well do it yourself.
Yeah, unfortunatly when my first notebook battery went out I was greeted by AA width - longer length cells. I would have basically been stuck taping all the batteries in place. That, and the whole pack was soldered together in a line, and at the time I didn't have an iron. There's a few to watch for, I must say that story of your friend's digital camera is interesting though.
The real problem with the patent office is simple, they are understaffed. With too few people to review applications they simply grant many without looking them over at all. If you have seen the requirements to be hired at the USPTO you would agree, they require something like two bachelors and a PHD.
Seriously, even if the government was willing to pay 100-200 grand/year for that kind of an education there's no way they can increase their employment quickly. If next year you graduate High School you're looking at 6-10 years before you'll be able to work at the USPTO. Now, how many people will go through that rough a curriculum to get a government job?
There isn't even an incentive like the humanitarian "I'm helping people" feeling that teachers get from a government job. At this point patents are only hurting the market as a whole, so without immediate (* cough *) action by the government, their pool of workers will remain fairly empty.
I dont understand how this would be any different from doing another build? Build the box and load the OS, same way with Yoper, or even with slackware.
Inappropriate babble for a serious issue. Who's caring about those of us paying $3/gallon for gas in Florida? If you want help dont try to start a race war...
Checks and balances are for misinterpretations of laws, and for protecting constitutional rights. The DMCA was a recipe for extortion, and very purely unconstitutional. Saying that Clinton was thinking ahead by voting for the DMCA and for a judge to oppose it's extortion is definately a stretch. My guess is he liked the Judge for other reasons (who wouldn't, she has integrity) and figured the RIAA wouldn't notice.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
If the advertisers are stupid enough to push flash garbage at you make them pay. Enough of the flashing 7 color disco styled ads.
The key word here is compared. The OP was likely trying to say that people are comparing nonlethal weapons (lightning, shock guns, poisonous gas) to lethal weapons (like a 45). In reality these nonlethal weapons are going to be used to a minimal extent, so what's the point of a nonlethal weapon?
Any weapon has its downside, and I think the OP realized that, most people who would appear to be blaming weapons aren't.
I think this is exactly what Linus is trying to avoid. By enforcing his trademark he can keep things (a little) cleaner. Nobody will make a perfect decision as to who can use a name, but the owner of that trademark gets the luxury of that decision.
Now stop thinking about inabling for a minute. Even a new linux distribution, or whatever we will be calling them in the future... will be able to reference the linux name as long as it is in a fashion that doesn't brand the product as linux. Think about what dell does with their PC's. They dont call them Intel Inspiron's, or try to market the Celeron 3500 galaxy edition, they simply put put the IO sticker on the front.
The same thing can be done with linux, and it might actually boost some originality of new products. Taking away the right to use linux as a brand name forces companies to be more original, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
The 3 prong controller is impossible to access all buttons readily. The trigger can be touched with your right index finger, but then you can no longer reach the 4 keypad with anything but unreliable fingers (if that). The N64 had a few good games and that's what made it successful as a console, basically everything else says it was junk (no cd's etc..)
With more tech there's just more stuff to pay for. OTOH, unless you live in a very rural area, your children can bike to school faster than the bus... that is unless they are too heavy.
Is homeschooling really a solution? First, this question isn't quite valid. Saying that schools aren't working, then countering that avoiding school altogether is a non-argument. The problem here is that students have no chance to learn things from their friends, be motivated by a peer group, or generally avoid insanity.
Dont get me wrong, I had 12 years of homeschooling, or maybe I should say 8 years of homeschooling, and 4 years independent study. After I got to high school my mathematics proficiency was as high as my mom's and she certainly wasn't going to learn topics ahead of me. Instead I got textbooks that didn't address the subjects I needed to learn. Honestly, most professors make poor textbook choices, how could you expect your mom to make a good one?
Everyone is different, so it would be wrong to assume your child will do well on his/her own, or the other way around. Their academic performance may improve if the student is a lazy kid at school and needs more personal attention(you dont have 2-3 younger kids who pretend they cant read), or it might degrade.
Here's the real problem though. Your highschool education will not help you. Without a scholarship and a university education path, all the work in highschool is a waste of time. Now try taking your A student homeschooler against a AP/IB program motivated kid from a public school. Any self respecting university will ignore your homeschooler. Even if they give you a method of getting in, you'd have to know ahead of time all they really want to see out of homeschoolers is high scores on SAT II's. Do you really expect most parents to plan that far ahead?
Since when did they become affordable? As long as marketing is so dominant a driving force in "mobile technology" affordability will not be the goal, and it certainly wont be possible.
Now take vonage, A company of their position is doing well to go with an IPO just for the publicity. With the success of google major news organizations will cover the IPO story and vonage gets free advertising.
An IPO may or may not be a good thing for users of their service (come to think of it I cant see how it could be good for their users), but it certainly will be good for vonage.
The only real problem here is power. Once your notebook gets 5 years old you wont be able to find a replacement battery at all, and even if you could it will be expensive because they're all virtually model specific. Then again, there's the 19.5V AC adapter that dell bundled with my notebook. Went out just about 120days after I bought it (suspiciously just past the 90 day warranty). Now I spent $40 (I was lucky it retails at $80+ship) for a power accessory that could have just as easily been $10.
Most of us having been looking that he done gets fired sometime too.
All jokes aside no. Onboard video will slow down your whole system, and if your extra lucky your motherboard will not work with any other high end video cards. Oh yeah, that 256mb of ram for your "just put stuff on the screen" computer with XP will no longer be enough because 32mb is going to your slow video card. :)
Slashcache is just another name for mirrordot as far as I know. I'm sorry the cache wasn't very good. You'll probably have to wait for PC world or the WSJ to get the article before it can be used for academic educational purposes. I found pcworld invaluable when writing a cpu comparison for technical writing (it didn't turn out too well, not enough sources).