How many Windows servers were sold, then stripped of their piece of shit toy OS?
My company bought a HP workstation with Windows preinstalled because it was cheaper than the exact same hardware with Linux. Then I slicked the hard drives and installed Linux. I'm sure the same thing happens with servers all the time.
I'm fed up with their shit. Not only are they incredibly slow at times, but their tech support has always been crap. Their CSRs will always, always spit back some irrelevant canned answer two or three times before you get anywhere with them.
The last straw for me was finding out that Yahoo! Groups allows the moderator of a group to completely alter the text of any message posted to it, without giving any indication to the readers that it has been altered. When the mod of one group started slanderously editing my messages, Yahoo! refused to acknowledge the problem, and repeatedly claimed that it would violate their privacy agreement to delete them. It wasn't until I emailed my former employer's legal team (the alterations made it look like I was making libelous statements against my former employer) and cc'd Yahoo! abuse department that they were willing to take action. And even then, their response was incompetent, asking me for email headers when I had already said that the messages were posted through their web interface.
Last week I registered a domain for my own private webmail. As soon as I have time to finish setting it up, I'm going to stop using Yahoo! But maybe I'll take one last jab at them, and tell them that this article was the reason I'm not using their services anymore.:o)
"Some poor guy working three minimum wage jobs could be an investor."
Yeah... that's one of the more insidious ways the robber barons have insulated themselves against public outcry. The poor guy working three jobs is still dirt poor, but because of his insignificant little stock portfolio, he naively believes that what's good for big business is good for him.
If you were an investor, I'd say shut the hell up. You have no say in the matter. The interests of the employees, the customers, and the community come before yours.
I've used REXX on Windows. There's a terminal emulator called ZOC with a built-in REXX emulator. After it became widely used as a scripted helper for Trade Wars 2002, REXX support was incorporated into other TW helpers, including SWATH and (I think) TWX.
Pretty sure there's also a standalone REXX for Windows. I'll let somebody else do the Googling and leech the +1, Informative.
If you've ever tried to come up with a name for a domain (or MMO character), you know how hard it is to find a good one that isn't already taken.
I have a knack this, as long as I don't try too hard and just let the names percolate up through my subconscious. Last night I thought of the perfect domain name, and this morning I registered it. It's short, easy to remember, and fits what I want to do with it perfectly.
No, I won't say what it is.
Let the inevitable gay sex jokes from ACs commence.
No. Normal digital camera sensors will pick up IR just outside the visible spectrum, but they're not sensitive enough to pick up differences in heat.
There are digital imagers available that can do thermographs without cryogenic cooling. Unfortunately, they cost tens of thousands of dollars, last time I checked.
Example: http://www.ir55.com/
They don't exactly use long exposures. They take a long series of photos and use specialized stacking software to average them, eliminating any random noise that wasn't caught by their dark noise control images.
Maybe the most common digital camera hack is removing the IR cut filter to allow for better IR photography. High-speed IR film is awkward to use because it has to be loaded in a dark bag, it's difficult to get the exposure right, and you can't see the image in the viewfinder if you're using a visually opaque IR-pass filter. Digitals hacked for IR are awesome, because with a visually opaque filter over the lens, you can still preview the image.
The only problem is that, because the IR cut filter is typically behind the lens (right in front of the sensor), you have to replace it with a IR-transparent filter with similar refractive properties, or the camera can't focus properly. I took my Nikon Coolpix 2200 apart and replaced the IR cut filter, but I guess the optical glass I replaced it with isn't quite right, because it doesn't focus well. I never got around to finding a suitable substitute.
"shallow and fictionalized " are about all elementary school age kids should be expected to learn.
What. The. Fuck. You actually believe that? Kids are a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. They're better off being exposed to complex ideas from the start, even if they don't fully grasp them right away, than to be fed a bunch of dumbed-down, half-assed over-simplifications that they have to forget before they can gain a deeper understanding of anything. Your kind of thinking is the product of second- and third-generation stupidity. No wonder this country is going to hell.
This has awesome potential. The article mentions that the slime mold also has sensory organelles for detecting prey. Some other type of robotic sensor could be used to stimulate those organelles, and the slime's predatory activities could be fed back into some giant robotic claws or something.
Sounds like lazy teaching to me. I don't know about everybody else, but the one day a week I got to spend half an hour playing Oregon Trail never piqued my interest in anything except slacking off.
Seriously, though... I think the do this all the time. They've been testing the public and the media for decades to see who calls bullshit. Their lies and obfuscation have slowly gotten more outrageous, and people have been conditioned to think nothing of scandals that just a generation or two ago would have resulted in civil war.
"The deeper issue, [spam lord Trevor] Hughes said, is the way online advertising is handled. Many companies let a third party take care of their advertising and that company may delegate even further, involving many people and companies before an ad gets placed."
This isn't just an issue for spamvertisers. Delegating fundamental business processes (e.g., customer billing) to third parties seems to be a popular with all sorts of companies as a means of obfuscating procedures and dodging responsibility for mistakes. I call bullshit on all of it!
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My company bought a HP workstation with Windows preinstalled because it was cheaper than the exact same hardware with Linux. Then I slicked the hard drives and installed Linux. I'm sure the same thing happens with servers all the time.
The last straw for me was finding out that Yahoo! Groups allows the moderator of a group to completely alter the text of any message posted to it, without giving any indication to the readers that it has been altered. When the mod of one group started slanderously editing my messages, Yahoo! refused to acknowledge the problem, and repeatedly claimed that it would violate their privacy agreement to delete them. It wasn't until I emailed my former employer's legal team (the alterations made it look like I was making libelous statements against my former employer) and cc'd Yahoo! abuse department that they were willing to take action. And even then, their response was incompetent, asking me for email headers when I had already said that the messages were posted through their web interface.
Last week I registered a domain for my own private webmail. As soon as I have time to finish setting it up, I'm going to stop using Yahoo! But maybe I'll take one last jab at them, and tell them that this article was the reason I'm not using their services anymore. :o)
Yeah... that's one of the more insidious ways the robber barons have insulated themselves against public outcry. The poor guy working three jobs is still dirt poor, but because of his insignificant little stock portfolio, he naively believes that what's good for big business is good for him.
Exactly. I am a socialist. (Watch the capitalization.)
I know exactly how it works: exactly the opposite of how it should.
If you were an investor, I'd say shut the hell up. You have no say in the matter. The interests of the employees, the customers, and the community come before yours.
Pretty sure there's also a standalone REXX for Windows. I'll let somebody else do the Googling and leech the +1, Informative.
I have a knack this, as long as I don't try too hard and just let the names percolate up through my subconscious. Last night I thought of the perfect domain name, and this morning I registered it. It's short, easy to remember, and fits what I want to do with it perfectly.
No, I won't say what it is.
Let the inevitable gay sex jokes from ACs commence.
Now that is damn cool.
There are digital imagers available that can do thermographs without cryogenic cooling. Unfortunately, they cost tens of thousands of dollars, last time I checked. Example: http://www.ir55.com/
They don't exactly use long exposures. They take a long series of photos and use specialized stacking software to average them, eliminating any random noise that wasn't caught by their dark noise control images.
The only problem is that, because the IR cut filter is typically behind the lens (right in front of the sensor), you have to replace it with a IR-transparent filter with similar refractive properties, or the camera can't focus properly. I took my Nikon Coolpix 2200 apart and replaced the IR cut filter, but I guess the optical glass I replaced it with isn't quite right, because it doesn't focus well. I never got around to finding a suitable substitute.
I'd hate to see Stranger in a Strange Land butchered like Starship Troopers was.
What. The. Fuck. You actually believe that? Kids are a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. They're better off being exposed to complex ideas from the start, even if they don't fully grasp them right away, than to be fed a bunch of dumbed-down, half-assed over-simplifications that they have to forget before they can gain a deeper understanding of anything. Your kind of thinking is the product of second- and third-generation stupidity. No wonder this country is going to hell.
This has awesome potential. The article mentions that the slime mold also has sensory organelles for detecting prey. Some other type of robotic sensor could be used to stimulate those organelles, and the slime's predatory activities could be fed back into some giant robotic claws or something.
So in other words, you learned shallow and fictionalized versions of the above. Well, good. At least you're in good company.
Sounds like lazy teaching to me. I don't know about everybody else, but the one day a week I got to spend half an hour playing Oregon Trail never piqued my interest in anything except slacking off.
I don't know if people are taking this comment as a joke, but the Farnsworth fusor has nothing to do with Futurama. It's a real device.
No thanks, I'll just wait for the pirated version.
sh has aged very well, thank you very much.
Seriously, though... I think the do this all the time. They've been testing the public and the media for decades to see who calls bullshit. Their lies and obfuscation have slowly gotten more outrageous, and people have been conditioned to think nothing of scandals that just a generation or two ago would have resulted in civil war.
If the company abuses it and it becomes a privacy concern, hey... I have a pocket knife.
This isn't just an issue for spamvertisers. Delegating fundamental business processes (e.g., customer billing) to third parties seems to be a popular with all sorts of companies as a means of obfuscating procedures and dodging responsibility for mistakes. I call bullshit on all of it!
So... does Second Life have killing people with swords?
Of course, living in your mom's basement, you'll never have to worry about that.