My only real question in all of this is where is it headed?(mind the pun there) Are all of us tech geeks going to be required to be able to "jack" into the computer systems we administrate in the near future? Will programmers start designing software that allows us to see the layout of our network graphicly in our heads as we sit semi-concious in chairs? Maybe not, but it is a possibilty.
My curiousity is when will this sort of thing become competitve enough that it will start to be asked for on job applications? When will it get to the point that it is no longer an option but a requirement in order to administer large networks?
This sort of thing is straight out of movies, like Johny Mnemonic even from role playing games like Shadowrun.
If this sort of thing comes to fruition would you have a chip installed in your head?
I know I would.
But I don't know many others that would comprimise their bodies for a career. Would you?
But that is the problem with todays music. It's all produced crap.
That's why I buy indie bands. Or I download the music to test it out before I buy it. You never know when you could be supporting the next Back Street Boys.
Amen Brother....
I'm with you. there's nothing wrong with wanting a fair pay/pay for overtime/protection from retaliation.
I want to be treated fairly as much as the next guy. Now I can negotiate a contract. And I have and I believe I am being payed fairly. But at the same time. Some people aren't. I know guys who are working for pennies to do some jobs that are more complicated than my own.
I know you'll say "quit" and get a new job. but it's not that easy.
A union would help greatly....
Why don't we all for a union of technological workers to stop this sh!t from happening to our brothers in arms. No one should be working 70-80 hour weeks. Factory workers wouldn't do it. Why should we?
Seriously, we need something to protect our interests...
Negative the point of this thing is that if you are touched you can charge it and zap them.
if someone touches me without my permission I'd feel threatened. I'd love to be able to send some volts through them. And I'm a guy. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH A WOMAN WITHOUT PERMISSION.
The largest problem I forsee is to many kids getting into this field simply because they are being told by there colleges that it is easy money, easy to get a job, and easy way to hot cars and big houses.
There are entirely way to many people out there getting into this field. Everywhere I look there are 1 year programs that are churning out thousands of people yearly into a market that doesn't have room for that growth. In my town alone I can think of about 6-7 institutions that trun out "qualified" IT people yearly. Programers, Net Admins, Web Developers, the list goes on and on.
These people flood the market and make the jobs more and more scarce. The number of jobs isn't going to double. The number of people that want the jobs is going to more than triple.
Seriously. I don't know anyone who's kid isn't "going into computers".
it's a scarey world we live in.
The only solace I can find in all of this is that the majority of these kids don't even know what linux is. They don't know a server from a workstation. And they don't know C from java. They know enough to fake it. And it is this incompetence that will continue to make me look better and keep me employed...I hope...;)
90% of them drive like a$$holes. They will cut you off. They do not check blind spots. They Tail gate. They all asume they are the most powerful thing on the road.
The sad fact with these people is that their car is no better than anyone elses. I drive a 1996 Dodge Neon(please hold your laughter) becuase of these moron's folger's can mufflers they lack the horsepower to take me off the line(even if they do edge their enitre car into the intersection). I can blow away civics any day of the week.
mostly these guys just irritate me. It wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't drive like complete dicks when on the road. Any time I see these guys I instantly go into super defensive driving mode. I constantly watch them because I know that the guy is going to cut me off or cut someone else off.
My point is anyone can drive like an ass. You don't need a monstrous muffler to do it. And purchasing a civic with a huge muffler does not give you a license to drive like that. It's not that you're faster than everyone else and hence are able to drive faster and manouver better. It's that you're driving like an ass and other people don't drive like that because you risk your life and the lives of others when you do that.
and one other thing...BLINKERS PEOPLE! Firstly, Use them. Secondly, don't change their colors to blue or pink or whatever. Those are set colors. It is illegal to change them I have met people who have been fined for having them different colors. In fact many of the after market parts actually list on the packaging. "FOR SHOW USE ONLY" or "NOT STREET LEGAL". Heed these warning you will get fined. And it'll be me laughing at you when you do.
Did you see the picture of the two cops riding along on these things? I already routinely point and laugh at bicycle cops. I'd probably fall over in luaghter if I saw these guys riding towards me!
"they're very slowly gaining on us...quick get a taxi!"
I switched over recently. At least I switched my servers at work. (Can't really switch at home the gf would beat me with a stick!) It wasn't an easy task. Before now I had only haphazardly used Linux here and there and knew enough of the commands to get by. It's hard to learn new things especially new OS's getting my samba working and getting IP Tables to act the way I want was a hell of alot harder than simply turning on file sharing and installing some firewall software.
I think for the majority of the users it's a case of the roadblock of pride. It's easier to use what you are used to then it is to ask for help all the time.
Most of us are tech savvy enough to not ask for help with our computers at all. In fact for the most part we hate people asking us for help. I mean, how many users have you wanted to slap? It's hard to take that large step backward and put yourself into a situation where you know very little and in many cases have to ask for help.
I've quickly picked up the linux stuff now and feel I am competent with it. It's a good solid OS and it doesn't die like my NT box did..
It's not that I didn't want to switch it's that I didn't want to be a n00b!
I mean seriously. When I was in High School I knew not to use street slang when writing an essay.
I mean think about it when in a school essay did you say things like cool in reference to something being good. Picture this...
"Hamlet was cool cause' it had ghosts and stuff dude."
That's not a generational gap. Or a technological gap for that matter. That's plain old stupidity. I use chat programs and never, and I meen NEVER, would I use slang of any sort in a submission to my boss.
so 4ll j00 l177l3 n00bs w17 p00r Wr171nG Sk1lz...LEARN TO USE ENGLISH!
Hey this is Vern yah that music was at an obscene level. I wanted to shoot that DJ. WHY FUNK?????
I'm thinking about going to the next one. I suppose my nervousness around the whole thing will have faded by then. What about you guys?
All I can say is what can you expect when you get a bunch of geeks together in one room. I mean we aren't well known for our social skills!
And I assume from the post that this Jon my fellow RCC alumnus. I'm so pleased you remebered my name.
It's not about going to jail for life. It's about the fact that they are allowed to invade my privacy.
If I make a joke to my friend about how I'm going to break his leg and they can wire tap me?
c'mon!
All of this stuff can be grabbed without a court order now: telephone number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information. This is BS if we don't have the right to free speach what do we have the right to? It means to me that I now have to watch every word I say in an e-mail or fear that I will be tapped by the government.
If we're not protectig our rights what's the point to protecting anything?
Can anyone say 1984?
Orwell was a little off on the date
It says right on the linked page that this is old news.
" Editor's note: On July 27, 2001, the results reported below were retracted through a correspondence with Physical Review Letters."
July 27 2001....c'mon where's the current news. Slow news day up there in the/. office?
I love that I've been trolled because I replied to a thread that someone else posted and then one of your moderators deleted.
The thread in question was lude and crude and I was simply asking how it applies.
as you can see the RE in my subject line it was not I who posted this comment.
had I known that this comment would be deleted as I replied to it i would never have hit the submit button. however now I have been trolled for defending the integrity of these forums.
Slashdot Mirror
My only real question in all of this is where is it headed?(mind the pun there) Are all of us tech geeks going to be required to be able to "jack" into the computer systems we administrate in the near future? Will programmers start designing software that allows us to see the layout of our network graphicly in our heads as we sit semi-concious in chairs? Maybe not, but it is a possibilty.
My curiousity is when will this sort of thing become competitve enough that it will start to be asked for on job applications? When will it get to the point that it is no longer an option but a requirement in order to administer large networks?
This sort of thing is straight out of movies, like Johny Mnemonic even from role playing games like Shadowrun.
If this sort of thing comes to fruition would you have a chip installed in your head?
I know I would.
But I don't know many others that would comprimise their bodies for a career. Would you?
GOOD CALL!!!
But that is the problem with todays music. It's all produced crap.
That's why I buy indie bands. Or I download the music to test it out before I buy it. You never know when you could be supporting the next Back Street Boys.
Begin the Flaming now.
yay for unbiased slashdot!
*CLAPS* well spoken brother!
Okay if it works one way...
Can it work in another to create super coffee plants?
The slogan can be:
"Who needs speed just slam back a cup of WAMMMO brand coffee"
Amen Brother.... I'm with you. there's nothing wrong with wanting a fair pay/pay for overtime/protection from retaliation. I want to be treated fairly as much as the next guy. Now I can negotiate a contract. And I have and I believe I am being payed fairly. But at the same time. Some people aren't. I know guys who are working for pennies to do some jobs that are more complicated than my own. I know you'll say "quit" and get a new job. but it's not that easy. A union would help greatly....
Why don't we all for a union of technological workers to stop this sh!t from happening to our brothers in arms. No one should be working 70-80 hour weeks. Factory workers wouldn't do it. Why should we?
Seriously, we need something to protect our interests...
Negative the point of this thing is that if you are touched you can charge it and zap them.
if someone touches me without my permission I'd feel threatened. I'd love to be able to send some volts through them. And I'm a guy. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH A WOMAN WITHOUT PERMISSION.
GOOD CALL...
holy crap someone actually read the article instead of instantly shooting holes in a good idea!
here almost a year ago Friday May 24, @02:44PM 2002
I seriuosly doubt that claim.
The largest problem I forsee is to many kids getting into this field simply because they are being told by there colleges that it is easy money, easy to get a job, and easy way to hot cars and big houses.
There are entirely way to many people out there getting into this field. Everywhere I look there are 1 year programs that are churning out thousands of people yearly into a market that doesn't have room for that growth. In my town alone I can think of about 6-7 institutions that trun out "qualified" IT people yearly. Programers, Net Admins, Web Developers, the list goes on and on.
These people flood the market and make the jobs more and more scarce. The number of jobs isn't going to double. The number of people that want the jobs is going to more than triple.
Seriously. I don't know anyone who's kid isn't "going into computers".
it's a scarey world we live in.
The only solace I can find in all of this is that the majority of these kids don't even know what linux is. They don't know a server from a workstation. And they don't know C from java. They know enough to fake it. And it is this incompetence that will continue to make me look better and keep me employed...I hope...;)
brace yourselves...
BEGIN RANT
I HATE HONDA CIVIC DRIVERS!!!
90% of them drive like a$$holes. They will cut you off. They do not check blind spots. They Tail gate. They all asume they are the most powerful thing on the road.
The sad fact with these people is that their car is no better than anyone elses. I drive a 1996 Dodge Neon(please hold your laughter) becuase of these moron's folger's can mufflers they lack the horsepower to take me off the line(even if they do edge their enitre car into the intersection). I can blow away civics any day of the week.
mostly these guys just irritate me. It wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't drive like complete dicks when on the road. Any time I see these guys I instantly go into super defensive driving mode. I constantly watch them because I know that the guy is going to cut me off or cut someone else off.
My point is anyone can drive like an ass. You don't need a monstrous muffler to do it. And purchasing a civic with a huge muffler does not give you a license to drive like that. It's not that you're faster than everyone else and hence are able to drive faster and manouver better. It's that you're driving like an ass and other people don't drive like that because you risk your life and the lives of others when you do that.
and one other thing...BLINKERS PEOPLE! Firstly, Use them. Secondly, don't change their colors to blue or pink or whatever. Those are set colors. It is illegal to change them I have met people who have been fined for having them different colors. In fact many of the after market parts actually list on the packaging. "FOR SHOW USE ONLY" or "NOT STREET LEGAL". Heed these warning you will get fined. And it'll be me laughing at you when you do.
END RANT
what happens when you type a nastey word into the viewer.
Being as that I am at work and don't feel like cleaning my firewall's cache. I didn't try it...
I think you mean Insurrection....
Did you see the picture of the two cops riding along on these things? I already routinely point and laugh at bicycle cops. I'd probably fall over in luaghter if I saw these guys riding towards me!
"they're very slowly gaining on us...quick get a taxi!"
I actually own a copy of your movie the Kingdom of the Spiders.
Now, my reason's for owning such a thing are my own but what I want to know is why you would have down such a horrible movie. Were you broke?
I switched over recently. At least I switched my servers at work. (Can't really switch at home the gf would beat me with a stick!) It wasn't an easy task. Before now I had only haphazardly used Linux here and there and knew enough of the commands to get by. It's hard to learn new things especially new OS's getting my samba working and getting IP Tables to act the way I want was a hell of alot harder than simply turning on file sharing and installing some firewall software.
I think for the majority of the users it's a case of the roadblock of pride. It's easier to use what you are used to then it is to ask for help all the time.
Most of us are tech savvy enough to not ask for help with our computers at all. In fact for the most part we hate people asking us for help. I mean, how many users have you wanted to slap? It's hard to take that large step backward and put yourself into a situation where you know very little and in many cases have to ask for help.
I've quickly picked up the linux stuff now and feel I am competent with it. It's a good solid OS and it doesn't die like my NT box did..
It's not that I didn't want to switch it's that I didn't want to be a n00b!
I mean seriously. When I was in High School I knew not to use street slang when writing an essay.
I mean think about it when in a school essay did you say things like cool in reference to something being good. Picture this...
"Hamlet was cool cause' it had ghosts and stuff dude."
That's not a generational gap. Or a technological gap for that matter. That's plain old stupidity. I use chat programs and never, and I meen NEVER, would I use slang of any sort in a submission to my boss.
so 4ll j00 l177l3 n00bs w17 p00r Wr171nG Sk1lz...LEARN TO USE ENGLISH!
it's bull KAKA!
check the img url's!
Somebody get this off slashdot. Your given yourselves and all your readers a bad name!
GET THIS OFF THE SITE!
Hey this is Vern yah that music was at an obscene level. I wanted to shoot that DJ. WHY FUNK????? I'm thinking about going to the next one. I suppose my nervousness around the whole thing will have faded by then. What about you guys? All I can say is what can you expect when you get a bunch of geeks together in one room. I mean we aren't well known for our social skills! And I assume from the post that this Jon my fellow RCC alumnus. I'm so pleased you remebered my name.
That's alot of space.
That can hold one heck of alot of spyware!
It's not about going to jail for life. It's about the fact that they are allowed to invade my privacy. If I make a joke to my friend about how I'm going to break his leg and they can wire tap me? c'mon! All of this stuff can be grabbed without a court order now: telephone number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information. This is BS if we don't have the right to free speach what do we have the right to? It means to me that I now have to watch every word I say in an e-mail or fear that I will be tapped by the government. If we're not protectig our rights what's the point to protecting anything? Can anyone say 1984? Orwell was a little off on the date
It says right on the linked page that this is old news. " Editor's note: On July 27, 2001, the results reported below were retracted through a correspondence with Physical Review Letters." July 27 2001....c'mon where's the current news. Slow news day up there in the /. office?
I love that I've been trolled because I replied to a thread that someone else posted and then one of your moderators deleted.
The thread in question was lude and crude and I was simply asking how it applies.
as you can see the RE in my subject line it was not I who posted this comment.
had I known that this comment would be deleted as I replied to it i would never have hit the submit button. however now I have been trolled for defending the integrity of these forums.
whatever....
Yah I could've spelt it "Babylon 5" or perhaps "WWF"