Did you RTFA? The books were given away free as review copies.
Did you even RTFA? That was ONE case. The law applies to all literature sales. The review copies was just one single case and it was unclear how the law might apply to used books. If it applies to used books then you can't sell a tattered, weathered copy of a book with missing pages for less than the value set by the publisher? Surely a review copy could count as a "Used" book. (taken literally of course) I wonder if that's the case?
I am waiting for a law that says that producers have a choice: they may a) allow consumers to back up their music/movies/games or b) agree to replace on demand and without charge any CD/DVD that has been damaged and is no longer playable.
Oh yeah, I've heard of this. It's the DMFC act. The Digital Media FAT CHANCE act right??? Right???
Spyware. It's nasty. But...(and I hate to say it), I make a pretty good amount of money removing it from client PCs. "Internet Optimizer" and "XXXToolBar" are 2 of the more particular nastier ones I come across. It makes it virtually impossible to use IE. When one finds out what these nasties do and how they do it, one gets surprised that they aren't illegal yet. I am all for making this stuff illegal but I sure will miss the extra income.
The BBC is running an article about a surfboard developed by Intel with an embedded, solar powered, wifi capable, laptop with web cam attached. It features a 1.7GHz processor and a 80GB hard drive.
I started out loving the IT field. Gradually, it was ripped out of me by the typical working conditions: rediculous deadlines, long hours, managers who didn't have a clue, being called in the middle of the night, etc....
It wasn't until the late 90's that I thought that I was being paid almost enough to deal with that horseshit. I know there's a few of you folks out there that thought we were overpaid. I guess that's where the system works. I felt I was underpaid - so I left. You feel you're being paid adaquately - so you stay. I honestly hope that enough people like me leave to give you guys a decent salary again. Because even if pay goes back up to the year 2000 level, I'm still not coming back.
I came into the field when I got tired of digging ditches and sweating my balls off for a living at $10/hr shortly after high school. Talk about being underpaid...I'll take rediculous deadlines and long (air conditioned) hours, and clueless managers in the IT field over the same conditions (sans air conditioning) working in a shitass labor job EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. Working conditions can be shitty in any field. I don't expect to make millions in the IT field but it's better that digging a fucking hole for shizel.
Well, more to the point: if stormfront.org or earthfirst.org didn't exist, it would be rather more difficult to know who the wackos are.
I'm less worried about their ability to recruit using the net, then I am about them being underground.
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-jcr
That's the same way I feel. Let them post their info on websites and paper, so I can know what they're thinking.
Imagine if "the terrorists" were announcing their plans on a messageboard on killtheus.com.
As a side note, the same thing can be said for christian fundementalists. I love that they have the trinity channel. That way I can keep up with the propaganda.
Almost all the hardware features can be utilised under Linux;
I love linux. I do. But I hate reading about a linux company putting out a linux machine with the sentence "Almost all the hardware features can be utilised under Linux;" What's with the "almost"? Why can't ALL of the hardware features be "utilised" under linux. C'mon this isn't BeOS we're talking about.
"Exactly! That's what I try to get across to my co workers - IIS with MSSQL will never be able to match the ability of a *nix system running a true database. (Though I tend to cringe when I think about writing DB/2 queries.)"
You're kidding right? You've got to be kidding.
I love *nix as much as the next guy but c'mon, to say that IIS and MSSQL will NEVER be able to match...blah blah blah is just a bunch of bullshit. It can, does and will continue to do so. Especially for a simple statistics site. Have you ever heard of eBay? I would say they get pretty good performance out of IIS yes?
Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product.
Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
Would you have the same opinion about the depth of my remarks if my post read...
"Maybe it's just me but I love this stuff. I just think it looks fantastic." instead of "Maybe it's just me but I hate this stuff. I just think it looks crappy. I know that it's just me though."
No, you wouldn't. So back off. I just don't like it, I didn't say it sucked, I just said I don't like it. I don't like Andy Warhol's work either, because I think his art looks crappy.
By introducing the term "least favorite" you are suggesting there was something comparative in his post. There wasn't. He said "manga is crappy."
Actually, I said I think Magna LOOKS crappy, not IS crappy. Then, everyone jumped on me for not having a basis for my opinion and so forth. BUT, I *bet* that if I said "I think Magna looks great", nobody would have given a shit about basis for my opinion. Right? So what's that tell ya...
Do you even have any familiarity with the field? Would you know the difference between Masamune Shirow and Rumiko Takahashi? Have you ever even seen an issue of "20th Century Boys?"
If you have actually looked into the genre, saying that you "hate this stuff" and are convinced it all "looks crappy," isn't sufficient. What about it is crappy? What is it that you hate that is common to ALL manga?
Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product.
Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
That was my point. I don't know why I think it looks crappy, I just do. It's like asking why a fart smells bad...it just does. (to me) I wasn't saying it *is* crappy, only that I think it looks crappy.
Expensive? I got a 12" iBook for ~$1300 (it was a custom - a normal one is $1099), and it's cheaper than just about any other laptop of the same size/weight, and probably not too much slower, either (especially vs. Transmetas, which is what I originally wanted). Plus it has better battery life.
Except you can get a comparable dell for half the price. So like...
The problem you are referring to is fashion. I have no problem using a 5 year old walkman. I have no problem wearing non-faggy rollerblades from 1997. But most people just buy things based on look. They don't even know how to use them.
The real thing you need to do is get over yourself. You're not special. There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you. Once you get over yourself, the world is your oyster. "unusually but non-traditionally 'bright' "...jesus...Kill me. Get over yourself.
Read the parent post dipshit. The limitations are set because the TCP/IP packets are pretty much hardcoded. There is nothing hard about reading an RFC and forming some canned packets with a scripting language.
Great then, let's see you do it with...say...COBOL. You have 2 hours.
Worthless when you're dealing with websites for people who don't know about websites. People who have never had a site and are in the market for one, are looking for the "oh...neat" factor provided by graphics, not performance. They usually want cool looks and don't care much about the backend workings. It should work, but more, it should look impressive. So, the key for code monkeys is to work together with a graphic artist or the like. That way, you can just code and not worry about looks. That's what I do anyways....
Why is that funny? "Hey look, there's Dino from the flintstones on my webcam..." Seems stupid to me and a waste of a slashdot article. I would rather read more about SCO.....wait...I take that back.
"Ask Slashdot has the same question about every two weeks: I've got some tightwads who have some obscure need, is anyone giving it away?
The thing to understand about "free" software is that it tends to focus on generally applicable tools that anyone can use, not verticals -- especially for end-user software. Thus you get dozens of web servers and RDBMSes and very few inventory or HR programs.
The other thing to understand (since the questioner is probably not a programmer), is that if someone did write a CMS/POS system for health clubs, that program could be their mealticket for a decade or more. It's awful hard to give away something like that."
Maybe so but it's still worth asking. There are lots of people out there with lots of time and know-how that don't know what they're worth. I mean...people develop entire operating systems for chist-sakes.
"Also, if your client isn't using barcodes, scanners, etc, you *might* actually be able to get by with this using nothing more than a LAMP solution."
You can use barcodes and scanners and printers and everything with LAMP these days. In fact, it's pretty simple what the the CLI version of PHP. Plus, the cost of development for something simple is fairly low. (~$2500)
I would switch out the "M" with "PG" but, it's possible.
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Did you RTFA? The books were given away free as review copies.
Did you even RTFA? That was ONE case. The law applies to all literature sales. The review copies was just one single case and it was unclear how the law might apply to used books. If it applies to used books then you can't sell a tattered, weathered copy of a book with missing pages for less than the value set by the publisher? Surely a review copy could count as a "Used" book. (taken literally of course) I wonder if that's the case?
"At 2Mbps you would use your phone as a modem for a laptop/pda jackass"
No, you wouldn't...jackass.
I am waiting for a law that says that producers have a choice: they may a) allow consumers to back up their music/movies/games or b) agree to replace on demand and without charge any CD/DVD that has been damaged and is no longer playable.
Oh yeah, I've heard of this. It's the DMFC act. The Digital Media FAT CHANCE act right??? Right???
Spyware. It's nasty. But...(and I hate to say it), I make a pretty good amount of money removing it from client PCs. "Internet Optimizer" and "XXXToolBar" are 2 of the more particular nastier ones I come across. It makes it virtually impossible to use IE. When one finds out what these nasties do and how they do it, one gets surprised that they aren't illegal yet. I am all for making this stuff illegal but I sure will miss the extra income.
The BBC is running an article about a surfboard developed by Intel with an embedded, solar powered, wifi capable, laptop with web cam attached. It features a 1.7GHz processor and a 80GB hard drive.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these...
I started out loving the IT field. Gradually, it was ripped out of me by the typical working conditions: rediculous deadlines, long hours, managers who didn't have a clue, being called in the middle of the night, etc ....
It wasn't until the late 90's that I thought that I was being paid almost enough to deal with that horseshit. I know there's a few of you folks out there that thought we were overpaid. I guess that's where the system works. I felt I was underpaid - so I left. You feel you're being paid adaquately - so you stay. I honestly hope that enough people like me leave to give you guys a decent salary again. Because even if pay goes back up to the year 2000 level, I'm still not coming back.
I came into the field when I got tired of digging ditches and sweating my balls off for a living at $10/hr shortly after high school. Talk about being underpaid...I'll take rediculous deadlines and long (air conditioned) hours, and clueless managers in the IT field over the same conditions (sans air conditioning) working in a shitass labor job EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. Working conditions can be shitty in any field. I don't expect to make millions in the IT field but it's better that digging a fucking hole for shizel.
Well, more to the point: if stormfront.org or earthfirst.org didn't exist, it would be rather more difficult to know who the wackos are.
I'm less worried about their ability to recruit using the net, then I am about them being underground. >
-jcr
That's the same way I feel. Let them post their info on websites and paper, so I can know what they're thinking.
Imagine if "the terrorists" were announcing their plans on a messageboard on killtheus.com.
As a side note, the same thing can be said for christian fundementalists. I love that they have the trinity channel. That way I can keep up with the propaganda.
Almost all the hardware features can be utilised under Linux;
I love linux. I do. But I hate reading about a linux company putting out a linux machine with the sentence "Almost all the hardware features can be utilised under Linux;" What's with the "almost"? Why can't ALL of the hardware features be "utilised" under linux. C'mon this isn't BeOS we're talking about.
"Exactly! That's what I try to get across to my co workers - IIS with MSSQL will never be able to match the ability of a *nix system running a true database. (Though I tend to cringe when I think about writing DB/2 queries.)"
You're kidding right? You've got to be kidding.
I love *nix as much as the next guy but c'mon, to say that IIS and MSSQL will NEVER be able to match...blah blah blah is just a bunch of bullshit. It can, does and will continue to do so. Especially for a simple statistics site. Have you ever heard of eBay? I would say they get pretty good performance out of IIS yes?
Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product.
Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
Would you have the same opinion about the depth of my remarks if my post read...
"Maybe it's just me but I love this stuff. I just think it looks fantastic." instead of "Maybe it's just me but I hate this stuff. I just think it looks crappy. I know that it's just me though."
No, you wouldn't. So back off. I just don't like it, I didn't say it sucked, I just said I don't like it. I don't like Andy Warhol's work either, because I think his art looks crappy.
By introducing the term "least favorite" you are suggesting there was something comparative in his post. There wasn't. He said "manga is crappy."
Actually, I said I think Magna LOOKS crappy, not IS crappy. Then, everyone jumped on me for not having a basis for my opinion and so forth. BUT, I *bet* that if I said "I think Magna looks great", nobody would have given a shit about basis for my opinion. Right? So what's that tell ya...
PS...Comic books *are* for kids.
Do you even have any familiarity with the field? Would you know the difference between Masamune Shirow and Rumiko Takahashi? Have you ever even seen an issue of "20th Century Boys?" If you have actually looked into the genre, saying that you "hate this stuff" and are convinced it all "looks crappy," isn't sufficient. What about it is crappy? What is it that you hate that is common to ALL manga? Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product. Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
That was my point. I don't know why I think it looks crappy, I just do. It's like asking why a fart smells bad...it just does. (to me) I wasn't saying it *is* crappy, only that I think it looks crappy.
Maybe it's just me but I hate this stuff. I just think it looks crappy. I know that it's just me though.
Expensive? I got a 12" iBook for ~$1300 (it was a custom - a normal one is $1099), and it's cheaper than just about any other laptop of the same size/weight, and probably not too much slower, either (especially vs. Transmetas, which is what I originally wanted). Plus it has better battery life.
Except you can get a comparable dell for half the price. So like...
The problem you are referring to is fashion. I have no problem using a 5 year old walkman. I have no problem wearing non-faggy rollerblades from 1997. But most people just buy things based on look. They don't even know how to use them.
*cough* Apple *cough*
go'head kill me.
Convergence though, kinda sweet. You can turn on your heated driveway from the comfort of your toilet remote control. That, my friend, is progress.
I must be getting old. People just don't get COBOL jokes anymore.
The real thing you need to do is get over yourself. You're not special. There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you. Once you get over yourself, the world is your oyster. "unusually but non-traditionally 'bright' "...jesus...Kill me. Get over yourself.
Read the parent post dipshit. The limitations are set because the TCP/IP packets are pretty much hardcoded. There is nothing hard about reading an RFC and forming some canned packets with a scripting language.
Great then, let's see you do it with...say...COBOL. You have 2 hours.
Detailed System Requirements.
Worthless when you're dealing with websites for people who don't know about websites. People who have never had a site and are in the market for one, are looking for the "oh...neat" factor provided by graphics, not performance. They usually want cool looks and don't care much about the backend workings. It should work, but more, it should look impressive. So, the key for code monkeys is to work together with a graphic artist or the like. That way, you can just code and not worry about looks. That's what I do anyways....
Why is that funny? "Hey look, there's Dino from the flintstones on my webcam..." Seems stupid to me and a waste of a slashdot article. I would rather read more about SCO.....wait...I take that back.
"Ask Slashdot has the same question about every two weeks: I've got some tightwads who have some obscure need, is anyone giving it away? The thing to understand about "free" software is that it tends to focus on generally applicable tools that anyone can use, not verticals -- especially for end-user software. Thus you get dozens of web servers and RDBMSes and very few inventory or HR programs. The other thing to understand (since the questioner is probably not a programmer), is that if someone did write a CMS/POS system for health clubs, that program could be their mealticket for a decade or more. It's awful hard to give away something like that."
Maybe so but it's still worth asking. There are lots of people out there with lots of time and know-how that don't know what they're worth. I mean...people develop entire operating systems for chist-sakes.
"Also, if your client isn't using barcodes, scanners, etc, you *might* actually be able to get by with this using nothing more than a LAMP solution."
You can use barcodes and scanners and printers and everything with LAMP these days. In fact, it's pretty simple what the the CLI version of PHP. Plus, the cost of development for something simple is fairly low. (~$2500)
I would switch out the "M" with "PG" but, it's possible.
Install *nix.