I don't want a freaking CPU that knows it's running WindowsXP SP2, or linux, or anything else, I only want a processor that does processing. Let the software do the security stuff
OK, first... what's the problem? Bits fade out in digital media, what's the solution? (a) have bits not to fade, or... (b) have someone to prevent this by re-recording them. Since (a) is still not possible due restrinctions in current media, and (b) people are lazy. We need more choices.
Somebody sugested printing the image, or tape recording the music, that's ok, but anyway, it'll fade or have quality loss, but what about printing out the bytecode along a spec of how to read it? Let's think in a paper page full of tiny checkers, really tiny the size of a dot. They're the bits and with a good enough laser printer, paper and scanner you can convert from paper to digital back and forth easily. 1MB file can easily fit in a regular A4 page, and in the reverse side, you can print the instructions to decode it.
I had a job as senior project manager, my skills "helped" me to get into the business area as well as the technical, so at the end of the day I was doing the jobs of a sales engineer, manager of the IT crew and project manager. That was ok until my boss started to push to improve my sales!!!! c'mon...
Anyway... he went to southamerica to close a few deals and I was running the business here. We were about 10 people. The problem was when he starting to call the customers to force payments (they were late) and ruined all the negotiations I did. Projects started to collapse and 3 of the best employees left. I tried to, but my hands were tied with the responsibiliti. Finally the stress led me to the hospital and when the company refused to pay the bill and the extra expenses I decided to quit. Money was good, but considering the chores I was doing, I deserved the money of 3 or 4 management positions.
You and your health is the most important, also take time to live your life, don't live for work. Become necessary to your company, but don't solve others work. If you feel abused, talk, if nobody listens, then it's time to give the fsk salutation to your boss. Chances are they won't support you in easy times, lesser are while you're in troubles.
I live in a country where phony elections were common in the last 70 years. Paperless elections are much safer than paper. why? ballots are lost before elections, voting booths get stolen after election day, if they coudn't steal them they use the g'old tactic called the "green vote".
When ballots are cast in remote locations it's difficult to get the results fast, the votes need to arrive to the accounting facilities where the totals are certified and sent to the central accounting facilities.
When they use the "green vote" (because it originates in rural areas) they take advantage of that delay and claim fake results with the stolen votes and booths. If recounting is needed because of a dispute, accounting facilities and storage can be hijacked or burnt to ground (it's happened a few times).
At least with paperless voting you need something more sofisticated and educated that a horde of gorillas that can barely read and write their names
Being a comp sci. student at a large university, it would be really interesting to try gaming the system and have it make jokes or funny things to the new students. And believe me, all that bunch of technogeeks will have serious fun with the ghosts.
"hi, i'm are your ghost guardian and will assist you while you get familiar with the campus. Cheerleader's Stripshow at 7pm in womens changing room, just make sure to reserve your seat in advance at the administration. Having problems with your teachers? Dr. Berger just loves the patriots (as well as entrance tickets), Mrs. Allison favours basketball players, and Dr. Palmer is into... ehemmm.. umm... well, you'll find"
I have two subscriptions to XMRadio, one device is in my office (listening to it at this very moment) and the other is attached to my home theather. I pay $9.99 each, I don't rip the music, I know I could, it would be fairly easy, just plug the xm audio out -> linuxbox audio in and start encoding and chopping the files on the fly. Want mp3 tags? plug your linuxbox to musicbrainz.
Being able to listen the music I like at the moment I want is very attractive, you don't listen to the very song you want, but the categories of the channels are very well planned. No ads, no talk.
I think it could work for Napster. The problem I foresee is you need an internet connection, always on. If i just had wireless always on like in 3G phones that would be awsome, plug your cellphone to your car radio and listen to your favorite music. That would be real radio on demand.
Meanwhile... I'll stay with XM y my 160GB of 192kbps MP3's
For those who don't know... as I:
personal video recorder
A personal video recorder (PVR) is an interactive TV recording device, in essence a sophisticated set-top box with recording capability (although it is not necessarily kept on top of the television set). Vendors and media also refer to the units by these names: digital video recorder (DVR); personal TV receiver (PTR); personal video station (PVS); and hard disk recorder (HDR).
-BW
Who has used Win98 support lately anyway? Or who's gone to the store and buy a Win98 license.
SqlServer7? Well, that's different, it's installed on thousands of productive systems and those would certainly need upgrading to a supported platform if your apps are critical mission.
Don't know much about the roadmap for migration of SQLServer7 to 2000, does anyone has info about costs, technical dificulties, etc?
What is really frightening is the fact that these tools exist, they are sophisticated and are wreaking havoc.
I don't mind deleting 40 junk emails a day, it's just spam, yes, it takes bandwidth and storage, but that's all the harm. Just wonder what would happen if these tools are used against specific targets and act as vehicles for terrorism.
We could see, probably some day soon, a new strain of internet worm that suddenly dissapears, leaving infected millions of computers waiting for an instruction: wipe the hard drive, DOS the border routers of a whole country, bring to his knees a financial institution, alter databases, corrupt files... THAT would be a real critical problem. And that's the reason why is so important to create methods and mechanisms to stop this kind of threats, not just spam. Effects of spam are neglective if compared to a less appealing scenario.
Some of the greatest things i've seen in Lotus Notes that many other suites lack is Document Control.
At college used to attend to "virtual" classrooms, and doing exams, quizzes, homework and working with distant team members was pretty easy, and fully controlled and observed by the teacher. I don't remember using email for any of these tasks while using notes. It had everything to get you going.
Perhaps we could create a magnetic field pretty much like earth's to protect the spacecraft/station.
Leaded materials are not an option, unless mars has a source of minerals that could be used to build the shielding.
Anyway space research should be a priority. Many of the appliances and materials you use everyday use technology developed thanks to space research.
I wonder... I'm not from the US neither related to the US with a working permit, visa, etc... but let's assume that for any reason I receive a subpoena from a US based company, say SCO. I'd just say, WTF. Is this the case of Linus?
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Then let's get the +5 comments to see if we can get dupe mod points, hehe.
Anyways, my full fledge linux installation with Gnome is waaaaaay cooler than any crippled version of rightfuly paid software.
First of all, don't say were are you going after you sign your resignation. You are not bound to disclose that type of information.
I bet they were running Windows 2000 on those machines back in 1987.
Yes, I want to see a lawyer going to the moon just to deliver an eviction notice because you invaded his property.
Actually you can counter-sue and have him to stop the radiation of his property getting to yours.
PC != IBM-PC Compatible
I don't want a freaking CPU that knows it's running WindowsXP SP2, or linux, or anything else, I only want a processor that does processing. Let the software do the security stuff
OK, first... what's the problem? Bits fade out in digital media, what's the solution? (a) have bits not to fade, or... (b) have someone to prevent this by re-recording them. Since (a) is still not possible due restrinctions in current media, and (b) people are lazy. We need more choices.
Somebody sugested printing the image, or tape recording the music, that's ok, but anyway, it'll fade or have quality loss, but what about printing out the bytecode along a spec of how to read it? Let's think in a paper page full of tiny checkers, really tiny the size of a dot. They're the bits and with a good enough laser printer, paper and scanner you can convert from paper to digital back and forth easily. 1MB file can easily fit in a regular A4 page, and in the reverse side, you can print the instructions to decode it.
I'd bet archaeologist would be amuzed.
Anything that says "Microsoft" and "around your neck" gives me the creeps and makes me think of The Fortress
I think it's the right time to purchase licenses so we can sue SCO afterwards for hundreds of times what we paid for. (If they've got any money left)
I had a job as senior project manager, my skills "helped" me to get into the business area as well as the technical, so at the end of the day I was doing the jobs of a sales engineer, manager of the IT crew and project manager. That was ok until my boss started to push to improve my sales!!!! c'mon...
Anyway... he went to southamerica to close a few deals and I was running the business here. We were about 10 people. The problem was when he starting to call the customers to force payments (they were late) and ruined all the negotiations I did. Projects started to collapse and 3 of the best employees left. I tried to, but my hands were tied with the responsibiliti. Finally the stress led me to the hospital and when the company refused to pay the bill and the extra expenses I decided to quit. Money was good, but considering the chores I was doing, I deserved the money of 3 or 4 management positions.
You and your health is the most important, also take time to live your life, don't live for work. Become necessary to your company, but don't solve others work. If you feel abused, talk, if nobody listens, then it's time to give the fsk salutation to your boss. Chances are they won't support you in easy times, lesser are while you're in troubles.
My 2cents.
I live in a country where phony elections were common in the last 70 years. Paperless elections are much safer than paper. why? ballots are lost before elections, voting booths get stolen after election day, if they coudn't steal them they use the g'old tactic called the "green vote".
When ballots are cast in remote locations it's difficult to get the results fast, the votes need to arrive to the accounting facilities where the totals are certified and sent to the central accounting facilities.
When they use the "green vote" (because it originates in rural areas) they take advantage of that delay and claim fake results with the stolen votes and booths. If recounting is needed because of a dispute, accounting facilities and storage can be hijacked or burnt to ground (it's happened a few times).
At least with paperless voting you need something more sofisticated and educated that a horde of gorillas that can barely read and write their names
Being a comp sci. student at a large university, it would be really interesting to try gaming the system and have it make jokes or funny things to the new students. And believe me, all that bunch of technogeeks will have serious fun with the ghosts.
"hi, i'm are your ghost guardian and will assist you while you get familiar with the campus. Cheerleader's Stripshow at 7pm in womens changing room, just make sure to reserve your seat in advance at the administration. Having problems with your teachers? Dr. Berger just loves the patriots (as well as entrance tickets), Mrs. Allison favours basketball players, and Dr. Palmer is into... ehemmm.. umm... well, you'll find"
Hi, my name is creepy
I have two subscriptions to XMRadio, one device is in my office (listening to it at this very moment) and the other is attached to my home theather. I pay $9.99 each, I don't rip the music, I know I could, it would be fairly easy, just plug the xm audio out -> linuxbox audio in and start encoding and chopping the files on the fly. Want mp3 tags? plug your linuxbox to musicbrainz.
Being able to listen the music I like at the moment I want is very attractive, you don't listen to the very song you want, but the categories of the channels are very well planned. No ads, no talk.
I think it could work for Napster. The problem I foresee is you need an internet connection, always on. If i just had wireless always on like in 3G phones that would be awsome, plug your cellphone to your car radio and listen to your favorite music. That would be real radio on demand.
Meanwhile... I'll stay with XM y my 160GB of 192kbps MP3's
-BW
For those who don't know... as I: personal video recorder A personal video recorder (PVR) is an interactive TV recording device, in essence a sophisticated set-top box with recording capability (although it is not necessarily kept on top of the television set). Vendors and media also refer to the units by these names: digital video recorder (DVR); personal TV receiver (PTR); personal video station (PVS); and hard disk recorder (HDR). -BW
Who has used Win98 support lately anyway? Or who's gone to the store and buy a Win98 license.
SqlServer7? Well, that's different, it's installed on thousands of productive systems and those would certainly need upgrading to a supported platform if your apps are critical mission.
Don't know much about the roadmap for migration of SQLServer7 to 2000, does anyone has info about costs, technical dificulties, etc?
What is really frightening is the fact that these tools exist, they are sophisticated and are wreaking havoc.
I don't mind deleting 40 junk emails a day, it's just spam, yes, it takes bandwidth and storage, but that's all the harm. Just wonder what would happen if these tools are used against specific targets and act as vehicles for terrorism.
We could see, probably some day soon, a new strain of internet worm that suddenly dissapears, leaving infected millions of computers waiting for an instruction: wipe the hard drive, DOS the border routers of a whole country, bring to his knees a financial institution, alter databases, corrupt files... THAT would be a real critical problem. And that's the reason why is so important to create methods and mechanisms to stop this kind of threats, not just spam. Effects of spam are neglective if compared to a less appealing scenario.
Some of the greatest things i've seen in Lotus Notes that many other suites lack is Document Control.
At college used to attend to "virtual" classrooms, and doing exams, quizzes, homework and working with distant team members was pretty easy, and fully controlled and observed by the teacher. I don't remember using email for any of these tasks while using notes. It had everything to get you going.
Perhaps we could create a magnetic field pretty much like earth's to protect the spacecraft/station. Leaded materials are not an option, unless mars has a source of minerals that could be used to build the shielding. Anyway space research should be a priority. Many of the appliances and materials you use everyday use technology developed thanks to space research.
I wonder... I'm not from the US neither related to the US with a working permit, visa, etc... but let's assume that for any reason I receive a subpoena from a US based company, say SCO. I'd just say, WTF. Is this the case of Linus?