Beyond all of that, if you read the article (I know something few slasdotters actually do, you just open it in a seperate tab and forget about it...) the employees left for the new year and came back to no jobs.
That's fucking rude, and cold. Some of these people have spent their whole lives at this job only to be treated like garbage. I love at the end of the article the management wasn't available for comment. Which really said "Management is currently hiding for fear of getting a couple feet of steel pipe across the face by a mob of angry workers"
The other side of this is the question, If analog tape is on the way out... don't you think you'd look at some way of keeping yourself competative and transitioning into some other media type that you could produce?"
Or is this an alagory for why overspecialization breeds in weakness, i.e the Cheeta.
Yeah, that's why I wrote that last bit. I think it's just better to have nothing vs. rights limiting, easily crackable pointless encryption that isn't going to stop pirates anyway and prevent legitimate users from using a product they've purchased.
I agree. The MPAA is already walking a fine line selling an overpriced low quality product.
The other thing that these companies could do is make it so that the keys could be updated. You know that warrenty card that you throw away when you buy a piece of electronics... Those who actually send them in would get a DVD in the mail that they could pop in their DVD player that would automatically update the DVD player with a new key.
Ultimately, all of these stupid content schemes are pointless. The pirates will continue to pirate the content, the average consumer be damned. What the MPAA should do is just forget about Schemes all together and just use an open spec and call it a deal. Then instead of investing all this money in proprietary encoding schemes, etc. Spend the money on making better movies and going after those responsible for piracy.
I just think it's funny that your the first to defend your religion, but your unwilling todo it under your real name. Guess it proves how much you really care about your religion...
They've already got a quasi open standards thing going right now. All active directory is just LDAP with custom schemas and kerberos with some custom protocol code to make it quasi incompatible. If MS had half a brain they'd just take out the custom stuff and just advertise it as an LDAP/Kerberos authentication scheme and make it integrate with everything out of the box. The problem is that they've never been keen on that whole integration part, they're into the divide and conquer route...
Yeah, except I'm not sure the US emails went into explicit detail about the location of the Iraqi soldiers family's and what would be done to them if they decided to fight.
Innovate or die. Just because some disruptive technology hurts your bottom line doesn't make it wrong... It just proves that your current business model is wrong and/or stupid.
Actually one of my friends whose in the Army had something like this happen to one of people in his squad. He started getting harrassing emails from someone who identified themselves as part of the Iraqi resistance and then started naming his family members in the states that their assosiates would hurt if this person continued to serve. Last I knew the FBI got involved, etc. So, this sort of thing is already happening.
Well, with the appropiate appliaction of this NOW technology, the car would be smart enough to just move out of the way when you came up from behind.
Personally, I'd program my car to lie and tell all the other cars that they need to get off at the nearest exit because there's a huge traffic jam ahead. Or tell the other cars that the off ramp I want to take is closed and they should start computing alternative routes...
The trick would be programming it. You'd need some way of storing information. My thinking would be to use a chain with links denoting one and zero. Then you'd just need a mechanism to read and write the chain.
And you never thought that automata class was going to come in handy;-)
Okay, unless I'm mistaken, there's no KOTOR for PS2...
So, provided this isn't a shitty game, your telling me that the only non-shitty game for the PS2 is going to be a SW game that's totally based on using Lego models.
The utter wierdness and coolness of this hasn't even begun to set in...
So, a company builds a plant and generates a whole bunch of binders full of safety procedures.
They then hire people who've got experience in chemical manufacturing and train them on the excepted way to run the plant (based off of the safety procedures).
Now, when these people don't follow procedures, don't keep equipment properly maintained and an accident (such as not closing a value so that when the system was flushed out with water, water would inavertently enter a tank full of a chemical that reacts explosively with water, whose fault is it?
Is it the fault of the operators of the plant?
Is it the fault of the company for not doing enough oversight?
I don't know enough about the Bhopal accident, but I'm suspecting it was probably a bit inbetween.
We all know this is also a belated knee-jerk reaction to the fact that a whole bunch of the terrorists from the September 11th attacks had student visas and they want some way to corrilate who they give student visas to vs. who's actually attending college.
One could argue that a better solution would be to actually fix the INS, you know, have them actually call the school and see if the person is actually attending, and when their not, put a warrant out for their arrest (because now their an illegal alien). When this person is found, throw them out of the country and firmly remind them that if they attempt to enter this country again, they'll learn about of the federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison system.
At 20, I was a very productive software engineer chose three world problems and solved them with software. At 21, I found slashdot. I was still productive but I found myself recompiling needlessly to I could surf slashdot. At 22, The reading slashdot to working was 50/50. Still managed to get stuff done. At 23, ration is more 80/20. Boss puts me on a performance plan. It doesn't work out. At 24, parents kick me out of house because I can't pay rent and surf slashdot all the time. At 25, selling myself on the street so I can use the money to buy time in cyber cafe to surf slashdot. At 26, killed terribly while attempting to hot wire a PC found dumpster diving so I can read slashdot...
Yet again, Slashdot has stolen another genius in their prime...
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Beyond all of that, if you read the article (I know something few slasdotters actually do, you just open it in a seperate tab and forget about it...) the employees left for the new year and came back to no jobs.
That's fucking rude, and cold. Some of these people have spent their whole lives at this job only to be treated like garbage. I love at the end of the article the management wasn't available for comment. Which really said "Management is currently hiding for fear of getting a couple feet of steel pipe across the face by a mob of angry workers"
The other side of this is the question, If analog tape is on the way out... don't you think you'd look at some way of keeping yourself competative and transitioning into some other media type that you could produce?"
Or is this an alagory for why overspecialization breeds in weakness, i.e the Cheeta.
Yeah, that's why I wrote that last bit. I think it's just better to have nothing vs. rights limiting, easily crackable pointless encryption that isn't going to stop pirates anyway and prevent legitimate users from using a product they've purchased.
I agree. The MPAA is already walking a fine line selling an overpriced low quality product.
The other thing that these companies could do is make it so that the keys could be updated. You know that warrenty card that you throw away when you buy a piece of electronics... Those who actually send them in would get a DVD in the mail that they could pop in their DVD player that would automatically update the DVD player with a new key.
Ultimately, all of these stupid content schemes are pointless. The pirates will continue to pirate the content, the average consumer be damned. What the MPAA should do is just forget about Schemes all together and just use an open spec and call it a deal. Then instead of investing all this money in proprietary encoding schemes, etc. Spend the money on making better movies and going after those responsible for piracy.
I just think it's funny that your the first to defend your religion, but your unwilling todo it under your real name. Guess it proves how much you really care about your religion...
They've already got a quasi open standards thing going right now. All active directory is just LDAP with custom schemas and kerberos with some custom protocol code to make it quasi incompatible. If MS had half a brain they'd just take out the custom stuff and just advertise it as an LDAP/Kerberos authentication scheme and make it integrate with everything out of the box. The problem is that they've never been keen on that whole integration part, they're into the divide and conquer route...
Yeah, except I'm not sure the US emails went into explicit detail about the location of the Iraqi soldiers family's and what would be done to them if they decided to fight.
Innovate or die. Just because some disruptive technology hurts your bottom line doesn't make it wrong... It just proves that your current business model is wrong and/or stupid.
Actually one of my friends whose in the Army had something like this happen to one of people in his squad. He started getting harrassing emails from someone who identified themselves as part of the Iraqi resistance and then started naming his family members in the states that their assosiates would hurt if this person continued to serve. Last I knew the FBI got involved, etc. So, this sort of thing is already happening.
I'd be interested in seeing the source for this comment.
Well, with the appropiate appliaction of this NOW technology, the car would be smart enough to just move out of the way when you came up from behind.
Personally, I'd program my car to lie and tell all the other cars that they need to get off at the nearest exit because there's a huge traffic jam ahead. Or tell the other cars that the off ramp I want to take is closed and they should start computing alternative routes...
Though what this guy is saying is that not only is the technology not there, nobody is doing enough bottom floor research for that technology.
Which was in turn adapted from the thirteen one hour episodes created by Micheal Sibley (in fact, Ian Holmes did the voice acting for Bilbo)...
So far, I've only watched the first episode, but I'm very unimpressed.
It is like watching "Harry Potter of the Rings", with some good old Dune mythology thrown in...
The plot thus far is old, forumlatic and clique.
The other tragedy is that CG isn't even that good. When they did the fly over of the city/village, it was very very VERY obviously CG...
Who knows, maybe it'll get better?
We could have transparent aluminum!!!
The trick would be programming it. You'd need some way of storing information. My thinking would be to use a chain with links denoting one and zero. Then you'd just need a mechanism to read and write the chain.
;-)
And you never thought that automata class was going to come in handy
Yeah, but unlike your iPod, I don't think it takes a couple yards of primacord and a bandsaw to replace the battery...
Great, so you get 5 hours if you don't turn on wifi.
But what if you do turn on wifi, what's the battery life drop to? 2.5 hours?
I'll have to check the first couple out. I checked out Battlefront and I felt like I was playing GTA.
I picked it up, I did a couple of missions and then put it down. It never pulled me in the way Ratchet & Clank did.
Okay, unless I'm mistaken, there's no KOTOR for PS2...
So, provided this isn't a shitty game, your telling me that the only non-shitty game for the PS2 is going to be a SW game that's totally based on using Lego models.
The utter wierdness and coolness of this hasn't even begun to set in...
I would bet that it's a calculated effort on the DVDCCA association.
Everybody knows that when a deep pocketed high end company comes out with a product, all the bottom feeders make cheap knockoffs.
This is specify aimed at scarying the cheap knockoff companies from putting out a competing product.
One of my co-workers has an instance of inbreeding in his family and due to this, he has extra teeth and his son has extra ribs.
I agree.
Here's a question to ask.
So, a company builds a plant and generates a whole bunch of binders full of safety procedures.
They then hire people who've got experience in chemical manufacturing and train them on the excepted way to run the plant (based off of the safety procedures).
Now, when these people don't follow procedures, don't keep equipment properly maintained and an accident (such as not closing a value so that when the system was flushed out with water, water would inavertently enter a tank full of a chemical that reacts explosively with water, whose fault is it?
Is it the fault of the operators of the plant?
Is it the fault of the company for not doing enough oversight?
I don't know enough about the Bhopal accident, but I'm suspecting it was probably a bit inbetween.
We all know this is also a belated knee-jerk reaction to the fact that a whole bunch of the terrorists from the September 11th attacks had student visas and they want some way to corrilate who they give student visas to vs. who's actually attending college.
One could argue that a better solution would be to actually fix the INS, you know, have them actually call the school and see if the person is actually attending, and when their not, put a warrant out for their arrest (because now their an illegal alien). When this person is found, throw them out of the country and firmly remind them that if they attempt to enter this country again, they'll learn about of the federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison system.
You left out an important part of the story.
At 20, I was a very productive software engineer chose three world problems and solved them with software.
At 21, I found slashdot. I was still productive but I found myself recompiling needlessly to I could surf slashdot.
At 22, The reading slashdot to working was 50/50. Still managed to get stuff done.
At 23, ration is more 80/20. Boss puts me on a performance plan. It doesn't work out.
At 24, parents kick me out of house because I can't pay rent and surf slashdot all the time.
At 25, selling myself on the street so I can use the money to buy time in cyber cafe to surf slashdot.
At 26, killed terribly while attempting to hot wire a PC found dumpster diving so I can read slashdot...
Yet again, Slashdot has stolen another genius in their prime...