I'd advise you to just go to college and get it over with. You'll get your piece of paper quickly and will be able to get on with your life. That way, you're 22 and can travel all you want without any worries or stress.
If you go away for a couple of years you just wont be into it any more, especially having to put up with people who have just left high school and don't know anything of the world.
But whatever you may read here on slashdot, DO get that piece of paper, however worthless it may be, or you will be shitted on your whole life for not having it (unless you start your own business, but that's another story).
Just think long and hard when you design it. There's nothing annoying than having to overhaul your code becuase a function/class syntax has been changed.
If the price is lowered becuase it's distributed by bittorrent, of course I don't mind using it.
However, I can almost guarantee you that they wont lower prices because they're using bittorrent. That's what I have a problem with. This is a plus point for greedy distribution companies (talking about the big boys here), there is no plus point for us consumers, as the savings will probably not be passed down to us.
Have you actually tried downloading a DVD with bittorrent? As it now stands you could be spending days downloading something you paid for, and it will be eating your upstream. While bittorrent is great in that it empowers people to release whatever they want no matter how big, it's not so great when I'm paying to download something.
Am I the only one here who has a problem with bittorrent being used as a distribution medium for legally sold movies & albums?
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE bittorrent and don't mind using it for isos or distros. The problem I have is with someone makeing a big profit out of me AND using my upstream to limit their bandwidth costs.
The thing that pisses me off about articles like these is what they consitute for IT. A Marketing person is not IT. Human Relations is not IT. Higher Managment is not IT.
Seeing as when usually don't do real IT (by this I mean analists, coders, sysops etc.) what they are saying isn't accurate. There weren't that many women doing real IT in the first place, and this is a good thing. Before people start calling me sexist, here are my arguments:
People who are good at real IT are geeks. People who sleep, breathe and eat computers. People who spent their youths behind computers instead of dating. Woment don't usually fall into the above category (a lot of men don't either). A lot of women went into IT after 1996 because of the hype. Like a lot of men, they don't love computers, the love business. Therefore, good riddance more of these people are going.
I'm so sick and tired of having to work with people with no technical skills and no idea of how sytems work. It's these type of people who come up with horrible ideas, like running your companies intranet off access. The more we get rid of these women (and men), the better.
Maybe this is a bit off topic, but whatevery happened to the ARJ format? It used to be king. One of its best features was being able to arj something onto multiple floppy disks.
Can anyone enlighten me on the fate of this once most favoured compression algorithm?
This is true. But the one thing they must do is provide downloads for that price WITHOUT using bittorrent. It seems that bittorrent is the buzzword for commercial content, but why should I donate MY bandwidth fro someone else's profit?
No, it means that it's still only nerds and geeks that are downloading everything. Once RSS & Bittorrent become mainstream, easy to use and/or standard features on HD Recorders, THEN the shit will hit the fan.
Well, if you're working in a corporate box, you're kinda screwed. You could go the office space route (demolish wall and climb the corporate structure by being honest (bigger office)) but for most people that isn't an option.
Best thing to do is get a good desktop wallpaper/theme and keep your cubicle uncluttered. If you really wanna p1mp it bring your ibook/laptop and slideshow personal pictures or wath the Simpsons;-)
These days cds cost almost nothing to produce and can be made in very low series (you could even order just a couple of hundred from the factory).
There will always be a niche market for full alumbs with nice, unique booklets whatever happens. Probably the same people that now buy vinyl will later by cds.
You HAVE to watch Office Space as much as possible. Also read Dilbet daily.
Learn to be loud mouthed, arrogant and always follow the latest fad you read in your manager magazines (subscribe to at least three of these). Also you must never forget to half realistic deadlines to pressure people.
Hit your head on a wall a few hundred times until your IQ drops by, oh, say 50 points. Forget everything you know about anything and adopt a "You don't have to know anything about the subject matter to manage people dealing with the subjct matter" policy. Make every good thing your subbordinates achieve your personal doing, and blame their (and your own shortcomings) on them fully.
Doing the above should make you a "good" manager, and if you're lucky you will be one of the fine few that gets featured in the manager magazines. Oh yeay, and don't forget to steal someoned red stapler and send out TPS report guidlines.
BTW As you can read above I don't have a high opinion of managers. There are few good managers out there that actually "manage", but a lot of them think they're gods gift to business. They forget that often it's not them, but the people that are under them that make the profit.
Advice I would give, just respect the people you manage, and treat them like you would like to be treated. Don't bitch about peculiarities (listening to music while coding etc.) and make sure you have a full stock of fizzy drinks. Actually listen to advice they give and have them think along with important descisions. Also tell them what's going on and give them praise when they've done good. Just pretty much do the oposite of what I noted above;-)
I remember back in the day in 1996, one of the first things I did when I got my internet connection was downloaden phrack.
I am really sad to see it go. The articles were way better than those in 2600, and it was well written and funny too.
Seems that alle the good zines are gone or dying a similar death (Confidence remains high, B4B0, HUGI, Veracity and others). This seems to be the state of the hacker scene today as well. It's all become either commercial or totally lame.
This is a sad, sad day for me as it doens't look like anyone else is starting a zine of comparible quality. Please for the love of god start something not meant for lame ass high school newbies with "safe", cool hacking "tutorials". Telnetting to port 25 is NOT advanced. Phrack, you WILL be misses:-(
If you want your kids to be l33t hax0r dudez put a BBC Micro/Sinclair Spectrum/Commodore 64 in their bedroom ASAP.
Seing that coding properly on modern pcs is difficult to learn (visual basic/PHP are NOT real programming languages) your best bet is to get them an old school computer. Just getting games to run requires some BASIC knowledge (run "elite".....memories).
This way you know that if your kids use them, they're really interested in computers, and not in using computers (ie MSN). When they're older you can always get them a linux/bsd compatible PC;-).
While I agree it's important for kids to play outside and be kids, if your kid has a skill it's really a waste not for him to use it for the best of his ability.
In short, let your kid decide when as nature has it's own funny way of sorting this out on a per person basis.
It's one thing when people install and sustain their own computer. Of course then they can do what they want.
But whenever someone asks YOU (the technical guy) to look at their PC which breaks time and time again because of their software choices, I don't see why you should just say "OK" just because they "don't care".
We all know people like this. How come this level of stupidity is accepted in computers, but not in other things. There is not one insurance company that will insure someone that doesn't have a door in there house because it's "their choice".
It just comes down to this, if someone else causes a problem again and again you have every right to refuse to help them. It's that simple.
BTW Even though I agree with you with the idiotic sayings (don't put dog in microwave) I just don't think we should accept global stupidity in a soceity. That's one of the reasons the cilised world has made such strited in eradicating illitaracy.
Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean they're right. If someone want to jump of a building onto the sidewalk you don't just let them do it because "they just don't care".
Just tell hum "Install Firefox/Thunderbird or I will never touch your computer again". That usually makes people more open to change very quickly.
Stupid people need to be protected from themselves, and from the rest of us when there pc becomes infected with a trojan and becomes a spam bot because they use IE.....
That's the idea. The only thing stopping mere mortals is the bandwidth. Bittorrent helps a lot, but you still need a decent server to seed whatever you want to upload.
As soon as reliable hosting is provided for about $15,- / month with 1 terabyte bandwidth it will be very interesting for individuals to post there work.
Before that happens though film schools would do well to set up archives to show there students work.
I live here in Holland and can give you a few very good reasons tv piracy is going mainstream:
1)Bandwidth (duh). Seing how bandwidth has increased considerabely, tv shows are the new mp3s. Where before you would spend 20 minutes downloading the newest single from your dialup, you can now download the latest simpsons episode.
2) Compression Techniques. Thanks to divx you can now download series at very good quality with reasonable sizes (20 minutes is 140 MB with decent compression). With mpg you need at least double the size for decent looking compression.
3) Bittorrent. Your bandwidth is my bandwidth. Episodes can also be listed in sites/rss feeds and quality can be assured.
4) Commercials. Too many, too long, too irritating. Why should I have my viewing experience ruined by commercials? How come the BBC don't have any and still produce programs of superior quality to their American counterparts?
5) Release Dates. I wanna watch Sopranos and I wanna watch it now. Not tomorrow, not next week and definately not when the series are finally releases here in Holland (ie: Couple of years).
6) Quality of TV. Need I explain this? TV really is a waste of everyones time. Why should we have to sit through all those shity programs just to get to the couple of gems that are made? Much better to download the episodes and watch them when you get home from work to relax. That way you can spend the whole evening doing something useful instead of sitting in front of the boob tube.
These are just points from the top of my head. I'm sure I could think of a couple more if I had the time.
What is all comes down to is that the TV stations have to adapt. Suing everyone wont help. There will always be people distributing this over the internet.
A good compromise would be for the studios to set up portals where people can download the episodes direct, without commercials for a subscription fee. Fail on any of the above stated terms and people will download the episodes from bittorrent sites instead of from you.
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Well what about you now? what would you do?
Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a hundred dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
I'd advise you to just go to college and get it over with. You'll get your piece of paper quickly and will be able to get on with your life. That way, you're 22 and can travel all you want without any worries or stress.
If you go away for a couple of years you just wont be into it any more, especially having to put up with people who have just left high school and don't know anything of the world.
But whatever you may read here on slashdot, DO get that piece of paper, however worthless it may be, or you will be shitted on your whole life for not having it (unless you start your own business, but that's another story).
Just think long and hard when you design it. There's nothing annoying than having to overhaul your code becuase a function/class syntax has been changed.
This is true. But if you stop uploading people will stop uploading to you. You don't really have a choice in this matter.
If the price is lowered becuase it's distributed by bittorrent, of course I don't mind using it.
However, I can almost guarantee you that they wont lower prices because they're using bittorrent. That's what I have a problem with. This is a plus point for greedy distribution companies (talking about the big boys here), there is no plus point for us consumers, as the savings will probably not be passed down to us.
Have you actually tried downloading a DVD with bittorrent? As it now stands you could be spending days downloading something you paid for, and it will be eating your upstream. While bittorrent is great in that it empowers people to release whatever they want no matter how big, it's not so great when I'm paying to download something.
Am I the only one here who has a problem with bittorrent being used as a distribution medium for legally sold movies & albums?
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE bittorrent and don't mind using it for isos or distros. The problem I have is with someone makeing a big profit out of me AND using my upstream to limit their bandwidth costs.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
The thing that pisses me off about articles like these is what they consitute for IT. A Marketing person is not IT. Human Relations is not IT. Higher Managment is not IT.
Seeing as when usually don't do real IT (by this I mean analists, coders, sysops etc.) what they are saying isn't accurate. There weren't that many women doing real IT in the first place, and this is a good thing. Before people start calling me sexist, here are my arguments:
People who are good at real IT are geeks. People who sleep, breathe and eat computers. People who spent their youths behind computers instead of dating. Woment don't usually fall into the above category (a lot of men don't either). A lot of women went into IT after 1996 because of the hype. Like a lot of men, they don't love computers, the love business. Therefore, good riddance more of these people are going.
I'm so sick and tired of having to work with people with no technical skills and no idea of how sytems work. It's these type of people who come up with horrible ideas, like running your companies intranet off access. The more we get rid of these women (and men), the better.
Maybe this is a bit off topic, but whatevery happened to the ARJ format? It used to be king. One of its best features was being able to arj something onto multiple floppy disks.
Can anyone enlighten me on the fate of this once most favoured compression algorithm?
Or Python, or PERL.
.NET any day.
It really pisses me off how these Microsoft zealots just wont face reality and keep bringing out crappy web apps.
Having programmed in both PHP & ASP.NET extensivly, I'll take PHP & Smarty over
This is true. But the one thing they must do is provide downloads for that price WITHOUT using bittorrent. It seems that bittorrent is the buzzword for commercial content, but why should I donate MY bandwidth fro someone else's profit?
No, it means that it's still only nerds and geeks that are downloading everything. Once RSS & Bittorrent become mainstream, easy to use and/or standard features on HD Recorders, THEN the shit will hit the fan.
Well, if you're working in a corporate box, you're kinda screwed. You could go the office space route (demolish wall and climb the corporate structure by being honest (bigger office)) but for most people that isn't an option.
;-)
Best thing to do is get a good desktop wallpaper/theme and keep your cubicle uncluttered. If you really wanna p1mp it bring your ibook/laptop and slideshow personal pictures or wath the Simpsons
These days cds cost almost nothing to produce and can be made in very low series (you could even order just a couple of hundred from the factory).
There will always be a niche market for full alumbs with nice, unique booklets whatever happens. Probably the same people that now buy vinyl will later by cds.
Format c: ?
The level of these ask slashdot questions seem to be dubmed down more and more every week.....
You HAVE to watch Office Space as much as possible. Also read Dilbet daily.
;-)
Learn to be loud mouthed, arrogant and always follow the latest fad you read in your manager magazines (subscribe to at least three of these). Also you must never forget to half realistic deadlines to pressure people.
Hit your head on a wall a few hundred times until your IQ drops by, oh, say 50 points. Forget everything you know about anything and adopt a "You don't have to know anything about the subject matter to manage people dealing with the subjct matter" policy. Make every good thing your subbordinates achieve your personal doing, and blame their (and your own shortcomings) on them fully.
Doing the above should make you a "good" manager, and if you're lucky you will be one of the fine few that gets featured in the manager magazines. Oh yeay, and don't forget to steal someoned red stapler and send out TPS report guidlines.
BTW As you can read above I don't have a high opinion of managers. There are few good managers out there that actually "manage", but a lot of them think they're gods gift to business. They forget that often it's not them, but the people that are under them that make the profit.
Advice I would give, just respect the people you manage, and treat them like you would like to be treated. Don't bitch about peculiarities (listening to music while coding etc.) and make sure you have a full stock of fizzy drinks. Actually listen to advice they give and have them think along with important descisions. Also tell them what's going on and give them praise when they've done good. Just pretty much do the oposite of what I noted above
That's what I mean. The time between issues is getting longer and longer, ala phrack. Seems that in all the "scenes" everything is being dumbed down.
Oh yeah, for the people that can't get to the phrack content, check out http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/f745fb20b1d50ad22 90fb117e11a1465/index.html.
I remember back in the day in 1996, one of the first things I did when I got my internet connection was downloaden phrack.
:-(
I am really sad to see it go. The articles were way better than those in 2600, and it was well written and funny too.
Seems that alle the good zines are gone or dying a similar death (Confidence remains high, B4B0, HUGI, Veracity and others). This seems to be the state of the hacker scene today as well. It's all become either commercial or totally lame.
This is a sad, sad day for me as it doens't look like anyone else is starting a zine of comparible quality. Please for the love of god start something not meant for lame ass high school newbies with "safe", cool hacking "tutorials". Telnetting to port 25 is NOT advanced. Phrack, you WILL be misses
If you want your kids to be l33t hax0r dudez put a BBC Micro/Sinclair Spectrum/Commodore 64 in their bedroom ASAP.
;-).
Seing that coding properly on modern pcs is difficult to learn (visual basic/PHP are NOT real programming languages) your best bet is to get them an old school computer. Just getting games to run requires some BASIC knowledge (run "elite".....memories).
This way you know that if your kids use them, they're really interested in computers, and not in using computers (ie MSN). When they're older you can always get them a linux/bsd compatible PC
While I agree it's important for kids to play outside and be kids, if your kid has a skill it's really a waste not for him to use it for the best of his ability.
In short, let your kid decide when as nature has it's own funny way of sorting this out on a per person basis.
It's one thing when people install and sustain their own computer. Of course then they can do what they want.
But whenever someone asks YOU (the technical guy) to look at their PC which breaks time and time again because of their software choices, I don't see why you should just say "OK" just because they "don't care".
We all know people like this. How come this level of stupidity is accepted in computers, but not in other things. There is not one insurance company that will insure someone that doesn't have a door in there house because it's "their choice".
It just comes down to this, if someone else causes a problem again and again you have every right to refuse to help them. It's that simple.
BTW Even though I agree with you with the idiotic sayings (don't put dog in microwave) I just don't think we should accept global stupidity in a soceity. That's one of the reasons the cilised world has made such strited in eradicating illitaracy.
Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean they're right. If someone want to jump of a building onto the sidewalk you don't just let them do it because "they just don't care".
Just tell hum "Install Firefox/Thunderbird or I will never touch your computer again". That usually makes people more open to change very quickly.
Stupid people need to be protected from themselves, and from the rest of us when there pc becomes infected with a trojan and becomes a spam bot because they use IE.....
That's the idea. The only thing stopping mere mortals is the bandwidth. Bittorrent helps a lot, but you still need a decent server to seed whatever you want to upload.
As soon as reliable hosting is provided for about $15,- / month with 1 terabyte bandwidth it will be very interesting for individuals to post there work.
Before that happens though film schools would do well to set up archives to show there students work.
I live here in Holland and can give you a few very good reasons tv piracy is going mainstream:
1)Bandwidth (duh). Seing how bandwidth has increased considerabely, tv shows are the new mp3s. Where before you would spend 20 minutes downloading the newest single from your dialup, you can now download the latest simpsons episode.
2) Compression Techniques. Thanks to divx you can now download series at very good quality with reasonable sizes (20 minutes is 140 MB with decent compression). With mpg you need at least double the size for decent looking compression.
3) Bittorrent. Your bandwidth is my bandwidth. Episodes can also be listed in sites/rss feeds and quality can be assured.
4) Commercials. Too many, too long, too irritating. Why should I have my viewing experience ruined by commercials? How come the BBC don't have any and still produce programs of superior quality to their American counterparts?
5) Release Dates. I wanna watch Sopranos and I wanna watch it now. Not tomorrow, not next week and definately not when the series are finally releases here in Holland (ie: Couple of years).
6) Quality of TV. Need I explain this? TV really is a waste of everyones time. Why should we have to sit through all those shity programs just to get to the couple of gems that are made? Much better to download the episodes and watch them when you get home from work to relax. That way you can spend the whole evening doing something useful instead of sitting in front of the boob tube.
These are just points from the top of my head. I'm sure I could think of a couple more if I had the time.
What is all comes down to is that the TV stations have to adapt. Suing everyone wont help. There will always be people distributing this over the internet.
A good compromise would be for the studios to set up portals where people can download the episodes direct, without commercials for a subscription fee. Fail on any of the above stated terms and people will download the episodes from bittorrent sites instead of from you.
Anyway, these are just my $0,02