Exactly my friend! I was using a dual PII 300 system that used a TON of power. I replaced it with a 100$ linksys, and while its not as versatile as my gentoo installation -- it's cheaper. I figure it was costing at *least* 100$ a year to run the PII system.
Actually, it's very cool. Why hire someone who is dumb enough not only to have continued working for SCO, but also to put it on their resume?
That's a pretty bad attitude there. Don't you think there are alot of talented people who worked for scum companies like Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia and SCO? You have to remember those companies were some of the most prestigious companies in the world right until the went to shit:)
I'm not saying that these guys did indeed produce cold fusion -- but sometimes weird shit happens
I point you to a (true) story my history teacher told us in college (if someone could sorce this that would be awesome). This scientist had produced a laser that turned out to have some special property. It's not important what the property is -- only that the laser had it, and it was unusual. The scientist published papers about his unusual lasers and the scientific community rushed to build them. Low and behold -- none of their lasers worked, but his did. Some called him a fraud, and others came to study how the lasers were made. It turned out that one of the scientists assistants had an unusual way of working with the laser tube glass -- she closed them by using the normal technique *WHILE* jumping off her stool. It turned out this was what gave the lasers their special properties.
My point is that these guys were probably wrong about cold fusion, but stranger things have happened.
this is NOT a troll. This guy is spot on point. Shame on the mods who voted so.
I wish I could take credit for this idea, but have you ever noticed how republicans and conservatives are always inventing deragatory terms for anyone who disagres with them? "Crade to grave democrats", "activist judges" etc? Someone came up with the idea to use their own BS against them and call republicans "cheap-labor republicans". Try it out sometime:)
oh common, I hate the RIAA to but their business model isn't outdated.
I still want CDs, everyone I know still wants CDs (if not only to make mp3s from them). The problem is that the RIAA represents an oligipoly (a market controlled by a few large companies). And people don't want to *pay* 25$ for a cd (walked into a wherehouse or sam good latley? thats about what they cost).
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. PIRACY IS PRICE-COMPETITION IN A MONOPOLY MARKET. I'm willing to pay for windows XP, but not 200$, I'm willing to buy cds, but not for 25$, I'm willing to buy a dvd, but not for 25$.
I can shop around for cars, clothes, computers, food, medical care, insurance, you can even shop around for CHILDREN to adopt or sperm to have a baby with. But If you want music, an OS, or a movie, YOU'RE STUCK WITH THESE COMPANIES which have *already* been convicted of being monopolists (MS), and of price fixing (record companies) etc etc.
Record companies would have a business model problem if people were saying "We don't want your music." What people are saying is, "we don't wanna pay for your music." What the RIAA companies should be doing is focusing on leveraging the internet to sell more albums, trying to provide *MORE* value to their customers with lower prices, and higher quality goods -- thats what would happen in a normal market.
But they are a oligipoly, so instead they've raised their prices (someone PLEASE tell me why the donnie darko DVD is 11$ and the SOUNDTRACK is 14$), and use extortion, law suits, bribes, and other dirty tactics to accomplish their goals.
Epilogue: What companies *should be doing*. Developing active internet communities, allowing people to preview albums/songs online, giving customers extra value. Let me tell you about an *EXCELLENT* use of digital audio -- I am a steely dan nut, and their new album came out a couple months ago... I bought it on amazon, and amazon gave me immediate access to 5 or 6 low quality tracks streaming wma tracks (which I promptlty ripped to MP3) to listen to while I waited for the CD to show up. Keep in mind I pre-ordered the CD, so I was listening to it a few weeks before the cd was even avaliable.
I don't think there is such a good thing as a "too good" price.
One thing that constantly pisses me off about windows/mac is everyone wants money for *ANY* little VB app they write.
The author needs to make it easier to pay for the software then to pirate it. But I think the real folly is this: Image viewers are mostly used by pornographers. Pornographers are already pirating porn off the usenet, what makes you think they're going to pay for software?
I always thought they were much cooler then lava lamps. I used to have the formula when I was a kid. But my mother threw it out just because it was toxic!
Well... I realize the situation is more complicated then my one line analysis... However, reports like this are often funded to justify self-serving public policy. The parent and I were both remarking that this report *reaks* of cheap-labor-Republicans double speak.
I actually don't doubt that cells do this. Alot stranger things have happened our bodies have a mechanism that defends against (low doses) of nerve agents, toxic chemicals don't seem out of the question or even out of the ordinary...
I was really using the opportunity to make a statement:)
Agreed! Fundamental business model changes are at hand, but I think they'll be a tad bit different then what you suggest.
What has been the trend in all entertainment venues right now? Movies? One of the worst years for movies, average drop of is HUGE. Games? Things could be better. Music? Teetering on bankrupcy.
For whatever reason (bad economy?), consumers are a *little* smarter about what they're purchasing. People are tired of mindless teen movies, boring first person shooters, and bullshit pop music. Now I'm not claiming that every last consumer has wisened up, but that enough are atleast to reduce profits to critical levels.
We are at a low low LOW for creativity on all of these mediums. Normally, companies expect a ceartin ammount of idiots will buy a shitty product no matter what. But now, people hop on the internet, talk to their friends, and now you only need to know someone who knows someone who tells you a game is bad. "Yea dude, this guy I know bought red faction, its fucking lame."
I think what is going to happen is a market is going to be created for Independant movies/games/music. independant music is already here. I'm hearing *good* new inovative music and it just takes a little work to find it. I get to reject corpratism, I get to hear *good* music cheaper then I would, and good artists get my money directly.
A few years from now? I expect independant games / movies should start to show up. However, thats just my hope. It could be that once the economy loosens up, people will go right back to buying shit. But I have hope:)
No SHIT! That was my first thought. We're gonna fix Iraq/Afghanistan by blowing it up, we're gonna save the forest by turning into paper, we're gonna save the economy by giving money to people who've already got alot of it, and now the best lie ever, toxic chemicals are good for you.
Tell me something, how the fuck did humans live without toxic chemicals for the last 100,000 years then?
hlt doesn't help. All hlt does is tell the CPU that it doesn't have to do anything.
Thats exactly the point AC. Heat is generated when power is consumed, power is consumed when gates change. "telling the cpu it doesn't have anything to do" prevents gates from flipping, and thus heat dissapation. Thats what they taught us in my cpu design course anyways...
Actually, if you run any of the NT kernel OS's (NT4, 2k, XP, etc) your computer is already "sleeping". Its been awhile since I've done any assembley, but IIRC the command is called "hlt" (halt), aptly named because it halts all cpu activity until the next hardware interrupt or some timeout value. Thats how it worked in the early 90's, theres probably a more sophisticated instruction now, but the fundamentals should be the same.
Mobile processors can usually alter their clock on the fly, but this requires tight intergration with the motherboard circuitry which is traditionally responsible for generating the CPU clock (which could probably also be programmed to overclock).
I was under the impression that the recent Verbatim CD-Rs aren't dark blue, but rather a pale yellowish-green color?
Apparently. They seem to have switched from the "metal azo" dye to "super azo" whatever the fuck that means. Too bad, I hate to see a good product die like that, hopefully the blues are still avaliable (bulk orders maybe?).
Thanks for the heads up. I still have a cache of them I got 3 or 4 years ago when they were on sale:)
This is where you scream and yell at me:) It was from verbatim sales literature:) It sure as hell matches my observations though. *None* of my greens still work, some of my yellows work, and all of my blues do:)
yes sir. Forgive me for this information is all off the top of my head, but I did quite alot of research for my work when we needed to choose a brand of cdr's to backup with. CD-R Life is measured in Something-hours. I forget what "something" is, but its the name of the lazer that reads the cds, and what it means is the disc can be exposed to so many hours of that laser light before it is unreadable.
Long story short the rule of thumb was like this: Green CDs have a life of ~5 hours. Yellow CDs ~20 hours. The DARK DARK Blue cd's (not light blue, the only brand I know of like this is Verbatim) *600* hours.
The price increases correspondingly as well. I found the best solution was to use blue's for backups and critical things, and regular commodity cd-r's stuff for day to day things.
I agree the admin has some serious explaining to do. But have you ever worked as an administrator?
The "typical" administration job is exactly what you'd expect -- you're understaffed, underpaid, your budget is abysmal, and you have a gaggle of retarded secretaries calling you up asking the *same questions* constantly because they're too lazy to use the help system!
Most of your day is spent putting out fires. Fixing critical systems before all hell breaks loose, keeping your web/nfs/mail/compute servers running when they have a load average of *5*, fixing viruses, fixing shitty HP machines because your boss wouldn't listen to you and buy a cheaper machine made of quality parts.
Luxuries like patching systems, and preemptive security measures are things there aren't time for.
So my question would be... is their IT department critically underfunded and that CAUSED the problem, or was someone just lazy?
I have a serious aside to your funny comment. Could this "leaked" code not be some kind of manipulation? Maybe intended to waste the time of red hats / ibm's lawyers by by misdirecting them ?
The reason I say this -- I can't believe SCO's is this fucking stupid. And they happen to leave us obscured but decodeable text? why not just delete it?
Here's why: Card counting is essentially playing the optimal strategy. When the odds are in your favor, you bet high, when they aren't, you bet low. Thats also how you get caught, because most people bet randomly. In regular 1 deck blackjack, card counting gives you a 1 to 2% advantadge over the house. This doesn't sound like much, but it's enough to make the game unproffitable, and it's enough to make professional gamblers wealthy--Which is why most casinos use 6 decks at blackjack. which lowers your odds of winning even with card counting signifigantly.
If you want to read a *great* article on the subject written by a professional gambler, click here.
I remember once when I was in high school a long time ago, this van was parked behind a building. I noticed one of the vans rims was held on by only two nuts! I get into the building, and it turns out that I know the guy who the van belongs to. Long story short, I tell him about it, and this is why I remember it to this day -- he gave me a look of just absolute disgust and disdain and said, "so?"
He died 3 weeks later on a dangerous strech of road called the "cajon pass".
Actually, I made that last part up, his assmonkeyage continued for many years. But the actual point of the story is that to some people, ignorance is not only bliss, but, they are hostile to the messenger.
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Exactly my friend! I was using a dual PII 300 system that used a TON of power. I replaced it with a 100$ linksys, and while its not as versatile as my gentoo installation -- it's cheaper. I figure it was costing at *least* 100$ a year to run the PII system.
That's a pretty bad attitude there. Don't you think there are alot of talented people who worked for scum companies like Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia and SCO? You have to remember those companies were some of the most prestigious companies in the world right until the went to shit :)
ok, points 1 3 and 4, no problem. But current or voltage inducing addictive euphoria???
I point you to a (true) story my history teacher told us in college (if someone could sorce this that would be awesome). This scientist had produced a laser that turned out to have some special property. It's not important what the property is -- only that the laser had it, and it was unusual. The scientist published papers about his unusual lasers and the scientific community rushed to build them. Low and behold -- none of their lasers worked, but his did. Some called him a fraud, and others came to study how the lasers were made. It turned out that one of the scientists assistants had an unusual way of working with the laser tube glass -- she closed them by using the normal technique *WHILE* jumping off her stool. It turned out this was what gave the lasers their special properties.
My point is that these guys were probably wrong about cold fusion, but stranger things have happened.
Did you goto UC Riverside to? :) I swear I was given that *exact* assignment. But thats why its funny eh? :)
I wish I could take credit for this idea, but have you ever noticed how republicans and conservatives are always inventing deragatory terms for anyone who disagres with them? "Crade to grave democrats", "activist judges" etc? Someone came up with the idea to use their own BS against them and call republicans "cheap-labor republicans". Try it out sometime :)
I still want CDs, everyone I know still wants CDs (if not only to make mp3s from them). The problem is that the RIAA represents an oligipoly (a market controlled by a few large companies). And people don't want to *pay* 25$ for a cd (walked into a wherehouse or sam good latley? thats about what they cost).
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. PIRACY IS PRICE-COMPETITION IN A MONOPOLY MARKET. I'm willing to pay for windows XP, but not 200$, I'm willing to buy cds, but not for 25$, I'm willing to buy a dvd, but not for 25$.
I can shop around for cars, clothes, computers, food, medical care, insurance, you can even shop around for CHILDREN to adopt or sperm to have a baby with. But If you want music, an OS, or a movie, YOU'RE STUCK WITH THESE COMPANIES which have *already* been convicted of being monopolists (MS), and of price fixing (record companies) etc etc.
Record companies would have a business model problem if people were saying "We don't want your music." What people are saying is, "we don't wanna pay for your music." What the RIAA companies should be doing is focusing on leveraging the internet to sell more albums, trying to provide *MORE* value to their customers with lower prices, and higher quality goods -- thats what would happen in a normal market.
But they are a oligipoly, so instead they've raised their prices (someone PLEASE tell me why the donnie darko DVD is 11$ and the SOUNDTRACK is 14$), and use extortion, law suits, bribes, and other dirty tactics to accomplish their goals.
Epilogue: What companies *should be doing*. Developing active internet communities, allowing people to preview albums/songs online, giving customers extra value. Let me tell you about an *EXCELLENT* use of digital audio -- I am a steely dan nut, and their new album came out a couple months ago ... I bought it on amazon, and amazon gave me immediate access to 5 or 6 low quality tracks streaming wma tracks (which I promptlty ripped to MP3) to listen to while I waited for the CD to show up. Keep in mind I pre-ordered the CD, so I was listening to it a few weeks before the cd was even avaliable.
Mozilla is updated every few months ;)
hopefully they'll do a good job this time so we won't need as many service packs.
One thing that constantly pisses me off about windows/mac is everyone wants money for *ANY* little VB app they write.
The author needs to make it easier to pay for the software then to pirate it. But I think the real folly is this: Image viewers are mostly used by pornographers. Pornographers are already pirating porn off the usenet, what makes you think they're going to pay for software?
I always thought they were much cooler then lava lamps. I used to have the formula when I was a kid. But my mother threw it out just because it was toxic!
I actually don't doubt that cells do this. Alot stranger things have happened our bodies have a mechanism that defends against (low doses) of nerve agents, toxic chemicals don't seem out of the question or even out of the ordinary...
I was really using the opportunity to make a statement :)
What has been the trend in all entertainment venues right now? Movies? One of the worst years for movies, average drop of is HUGE. Games? Things could be better. Music? Teetering on bankrupcy.
For whatever reason (bad economy?), consumers are a *little* smarter about what they're purchasing. People are tired of mindless teen movies, boring first person shooters, and bullshit pop music. Now I'm not claiming that every last consumer has wisened up, but that enough are atleast to reduce profits to critical levels.
We are at a low low LOW for creativity on all of these mediums. Normally, companies expect a ceartin ammount of idiots will buy a shitty product no matter what. But now, people hop on the internet, talk to their friends, and now you only need to know someone who knows someone who tells you a game is bad. "Yea dude, this guy I know bought red faction, its fucking lame."
I think what is going to happen is a market is going to be created for Independant movies/games/music. independant music is already here. I'm hearing *good* new inovative music and it just takes a little work to find it. I get to reject corpratism, I get to hear *good* music cheaper then I would, and good artists get my money directly.
A few years from now? I expect independant games / movies should start to show up. However, thats just my hope. It could be that once the economy loosens up, people will go right back to buying shit. But I have hope :)
Tell me something, how the fuck did humans live without toxic chemicals for the last 100,000 years then?
Thats exactly the point AC. Heat is generated when power is consumed, power is consumed when gates change. "telling the cpu it doesn't have anything to do" prevents gates from flipping, and thus heat dissapation. Thats what they taught us in my cpu design course anyways...
Mobile processors can usually alter their clock on the fly, but this requires tight intergration with the motherboard circuitry which is traditionally responsible for generating the CPU clock (which could probably also be programmed to overclock).
Apparently. They seem to have switched from the "metal azo" dye to "super azo" whatever the fuck that means. Too bad, I hate to see a good product die like that, hopefully the blues are still avaliable (bulk orders maybe?).
Thanks for the heads up. I still have a cache of them I got 3 or 4 years ago when they were on sale :)
This is where you scream and yell at me :) It was from verbatim sales literature :) It sure as hell matches my observations though. *None* of my greens still work, some of my yellows work, and all of my blues do :)
Long story short the rule of thumb was like this: Green CDs have a life of ~5 hours. Yellow CDs ~20 hours. The DARK DARK Blue cd's (not light blue, the only brand I know of like this is Verbatim) *600* hours.
The price increases correspondingly as well. I found the best solution was to use blue's for backups and critical things, and regular commodity cd-r's stuff for day to day things.
My god man, this rant is one of the best things I've read on slashdot, ever. May I start some kind of religion in your honor?
The "typical" administration job is exactly what you'd expect -- you're understaffed, underpaid, your budget is abysmal, and you have a gaggle of retarded secretaries calling you up asking the *same questions* constantly because they're too lazy to use the help system!
Most of your day is spent putting out fires. Fixing critical systems before all hell breaks loose, keeping your web/nfs/mail/compute servers running when they have a load average of *5*, fixing viruses, fixing shitty HP machines because your boss wouldn't listen to you and buy a cheaper machine made of quality parts.
Luxuries like patching systems, and preemptive security measures are things there aren't time for.
So my question would be ... is their IT department critically underfunded and that CAUSED the problem, or was someone just lazy?
The reason I say this -- I can't believe SCO's is this fucking stupid. And they happen to leave us obscured but decodeable text? why not just delete it?
If you want to read a *great* article on the subject written by a professional gambler, click here.
I remember once when I was in high school a long time ago, this van was parked behind a building. I noticed one of the vans rims was held on by only two nuts! I get into the building, and it turns out that I know the guy who the van belongs to. Long story short, I tell him about it, and this is why I remember it to this day -- he gave me a look of just absolute disgust and disdain and said, "so?"
He died 3 weeks later on a dangerous strech of road called the "cajon pass".
Actually, I made that last part up, his assmonkeyage continued for many years. But the actual point of the story is that to some people, ignorance is not only bliss, but, they are hostile to the messenger.
I read somewhere that they don't, but it could have been FUD