I may sound like an idiot for saying this, but does anyone ever get the impression that p2p is going to be the new conduit for the oppressed ( oppressed being everyone subject to coorprate america).
I'm sorry but not being able to get music and movies for free is not oppression.
Go away to a national park for a week and come back to a major city. holy moly you'll go crazy.
When I was in college, I drove way out to the middle of nowhere in a friend's POS car that was really, really noisy, plus we blasted music all the way. When we stopped the car, turned off the music, and got out, I experienced an epiphany with regards to what "the silence is deafening" meant.
When I was a teenager, I worked in a wood processing plant during the summer. It was really loud and everyone wore hearing protection. I started using a walkman and played it really loud to cover the noise. I was quickly warned that anecdotal evidence (experience of people working at that particular plant) suggested that that was a very bad idea. I switched to ear plugs.
As for the world being noisier, I think it is. Get a pair of Bose noise reduction headphones and try them in your office. Once the drone of your computer, any other office machines and the HVAC goes away, it gets pretty quiet. The difference between wearing the headphones turned off (no noise reduction) and turned on (with noise reduction) is amazing. Plus, if you have an ipod, I can't imagine the sound being worse for you than having earbuds jammed in your ear. In addition, the noise reduction allows you to listen at a lower volume. The downside is they cost $300 but I say worth every cent.
In Washington state, it is "employment at will". However, if you get fired without cause, you can get unemployment benefits even though you were fired. This is true in other states as well - I knew a guy who worked at Pfizer in Delware who got fired for a pratical joke. The company would not disclose why they fired him and he got unemployment. There was nothing he could do about the firing legally, unemployment was just a slim consolation prize. He wasn't a peon either, he held a high level position and if he could, he would have sued because one month's lost pay was many times the total unemployement payout.
And though this is not the case with most people, I negotiated a very hefty severance package in my contract if my company fires me without cause. (I brought significant IP to the company, they weren't getting it the cheap way.)
Wouldn't that breach company privacy/non-disclosure agreements somehow?
Maybe at Megacorp, but I work at a company of 15 people of which I am number 3. I know all the policies and there is nothing that prohibits it. If such a policy was ever enacted, I would stop.
As an aside, I know two people who were fired for "abuse of email." Let me tell you, abuse of email was the justification for termination, the CYA if you will, but definitely not the reason.
And by forward, I mean have a copy sent. I still use my work email client to reply to most email. Another upside, is that if you ever get fired, you still have access to all your mail.
I have all my email forwarded to a gmail account. If I get something personal that I wouldn't want anyone to know about or something sketchy at work, I reply from gmail.
I am a little confused here... why the switch to OpenOffice on Windows first, then to Linux second? Is that not an extra step, that could be totally done away with?
Explain to me how the switch from Office on Windows to Open Office on Linux is not two steps to beging with. I would say going to Open Office first, then to Linux would more easing into OSS then the other way around. Switching your OS is a much bigger step than switching your word processor/office suite software. And if you switch your OS to Linux, you would be forced to switch your office suite package. I think it would be easier for someone to switch to a Mac and still be able to use Office rather than switch to a foreign OS and a foreign office suite all at once.
Get off it dude. I am talking about people who work in data centers whose job it is to go to your server and do stuff for you over the phone. You'd think these people would have some basic knowledge of various OSes. You'd think it would be a job requirement. From my experience, they have absolutly no unix experience, down to the simplest commands and they are of absolutely no fucking help even though the data centers can charge you hundreds of dollars an hour for it. And even if you don't require their help, your still paying for it as some part of your monthly bill.
Yes, bit torrent users are assholes. At least the ones who use it to steal movies, music and software. Don't kid yourself, bit torrent would be nothing, practically unknown and probably dead, if it weren't for all that free stuff that you'd normally have to pay for.
Funnily enough I've submitted two papers. One is definitely true, I'm mostly convinced by the other. I do know of incorrect papers in my field, but that usually turns out to be correct data bad interpretation (or lack of correct experiments).
I've actually been a co-author on a paper that had to be retracted. Also, in the lab that I worked in, we had a post-doc who did such terrible interpretation of data for a particular manuscript that it bordered on falsification. The guy was too smart to be so stupid. We had to retract that one too.
I worked nearly two years on a project involving a cell cycle receptor. Had some manuscripts ready to go, even had a drug company interested in the potential. Turned out we were wrong. We had based a lot of the research on some commercial antibodies, that despite all appearances, were not working correctly. (Sh)It happens.
It's that I'd have to ride on busy streets to get there, and I'm too young to die (or worse).
I have ridden 2-3,000 miles a year on the streets of Seattle for the last 15 years. I've wreked a number of times, but I'm obviously not dead and have never been seriously hurt. You just have to be very aware of your surroundings and sometimes choose routes that are longer but safer.
On a side note, I have actually noticed a decrese in the number of bike commuters this summer. Usually, there is a big spike in the summer but it has not happened this year (my wife noticed the same thing independently). My theory is all those fair weather riders bought bus passes and are too lazy to ride if it isn't saving them gas money.
Agreed. As long as people live in the fantasy land of "OSS is the only solution", it will always remain just that - a fantasy. No matter how eloquently you write that sentiment, it always comes across as "oss rulz, proprietary drulz" or however that phrase goes. If people with domain knowledge design and write software, it can be good regardless of what licensing scheme it is released under.
Yes, let's not. The world is made up of more than simple web hosting and mysql and blogs. Some businesses use more computing power in 1 minute than you will in your entire life. And sometimes it make senses to rent a huge amount of processor time for a short interval rather than setting up the infrastructure to accomplish the same task. It's the same as you renting space in hosting company rather than colocating your own box. Only on a much larger scale.
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I may sound like an idiot for saying this, but does anyone ever get the impression that p2p is going to be the new conduit for the oppressed ( oppressed being everyone subject to coorprate america).
I'm sorry but not being able to get music and movies for free is not oppression.
From the publishers of "Worstest Book Titling 3".
Doing it yourself is the best method I know of (ending sentence with a preposition).
Go away to a national park for a week and come back to a major city. holy moly you'll go crazy.
When I was in college, I drove way out to the middle of nowhere in a friend's POS car that was really, really noisy, plus we blasted music all the way. When we stopped the car, turned off the music, and got out, I experienced an epiphany with regards to what "the silence is deafening" meant.
When I was a teenager, I worked in a wood processing plant during the summer. It was really loud and everyone wore hearing protection. I started using a walkman and played it really loud to cover the noise. I was quickly warned that anecdotal evidence (experience of people working at that particular plant) suggested that that was a very bad idea. I switched to ear plugs.
As for the world being noisier, I think it is. Get a pair of Bose noise reduction headphones and try them in your office. Once the drone of your computer, any other office machines and the HVAC goes away, it gets pretty quiet. The difference between wearing the headphones turned off (no noise reduction) and turned on (with noise reduction) is amazing. Plus, if you have an ipod, I can't imagine the sound being worse for you than having earbuds jammed in your ear. In addition, the noise reduction allows you to listen at a lower volume. The downside is they cost $300 but I say worth every cent.
I thought they misspelled Google.
In Washington state, it is "employment at will". However, if you get fired without cause, you can get unemployment benefits even though you were fired. This is true in other states as well - I knew a guy who worked at Pfizer in Delware who got fired for a pratical joke. The company would not disclose why they fired him and he got unemployment. There was nothing he could do about the firing legally, unemployment was just a slim consolation prize. He wasn't a peon either, he held a high level position and if he could, he would have sued because one month's lost pay was many times the total unemployement payout.
And though this is not the case with most people, I negotiated a very hefty severance package in my contract if my company fires me without cause. (I brought significant IP to the company, they weren't getting it the cheap way.)
Wouldn't that breach company privacy/non-disclosure agreements somehow?
Maybe at Megacorp, but I work at a company of 15 people of which I am number 3. I know all the policies and there is nothing that prohibits it. If such a policy was ever enacted, I would stop.
As an aside, I know two people who were fired for "abuse of email." Let me tell you, abuse of email was the justification for termination, the CYA if you will, but definitely not the reason.
And by forward, I mean have a copy sent. I still use my work email client to reply to most email. Another upside, is that if you ever get fired, you still have access to all your mail.
I have all my email forwarded to a gmail account. If I get something personal that I wouldn't want anyone to know about or something sketchy at work, I reply from gmail.
I am a little confused here... why the switch to OpenOffice on Windows first, then to Linux second? Is that not an extra step, that could be totally done away with?
Explain to me how the switch from Office on Windows to Open Office on Linux is not two steps to beging with. I would say going to Open Office first, then to Linux would more easing into OSS then the other way around. Switching your OS is a much bigger step than switching your word processor/office suite software. And if you switch your OS to Linux, you would be forced to switch your office suite package. I think it would be easier for someone to switch to a Mac and still be able to use Office rather than switch to a foreign OS and a foreign office suite all at once.
Anywhere between $0 and $150,000 or more.
Get off it dude. I am talking about people who work in data centers whose job it is to go to your server and do stuff for you over the phone. You'd think these people would have some basic knowledge of various OSes. You'd think it would be a job requirement. From my experience, they have absolutly no unix experience, down to the simplest commands and they are of absolutely no fucking help even though the data centers can charge you hundreds of dollars an hour for it. And even if you don't require their help, your still paying for it as some part of your monthly bill.
Man, I am tired of those reboot monkeys not knowing jack shit about unix.
They're assholes.
Yes, bit torrent users are assholes. At least the ones who use it to steal movies, music and software. Don't kid yourself, bit torrent would be nothing, practically unknown and probably dead, if it weren't for all that free stuff that you'd normally have to pay for.
Funnily enough I've submitted two papers. One is definitely true, I'm mostly convinced by the other. I do know of incorrect papers in my field, but that usually turns out to be correct data bad interpretation (or lack of correct experiments).
I've actually been a co-author on a paper that had to be retracted. Also, in the lab that I worked in, we had a post-doc who did such terrible interpretation of data for a particular manuscript that it bordered on falsification. The guy was too smart to be so stupid. We had to retract that one too.
I worked nearly two years on a project involving a cell cycle receptor. Had some manuscripts ready to go, even had a drug company interested in the potential. Turned out we were wrong. We had based a lot of the research on some commercial antibodies, that despite all appearances, were not working correctly. (Sh)It happens.
Their is a 50% chance that that's not true.
What happened to the article about 50% of science articles being wrong and whatnot.
Turned out, it was wrong.
Wouldn't satellite signals be affected by rain and wind?
Yeah, they don't work if they get wet and the wind can really screw with their frequencies.
It's that I'd have to ride on busy streets to get there, and I'm too young to die (or worse).
I have ridden 2-3,000 miles a year on the streets of Seattle for the last 15 years. I've wreked a number of times, but I'm obviously not dead and have never been seriously hurt. You just have to be very aware of your surroundings and sometimes choose routes that are longer but safer.
On a side note, I have actually noticed a decrese in the number of bike commuters this summer. Usually, there is a big spike in the summer but it has not happened this year (my wife noticed the same thing independently). My theory is all those fair weather riders bought bus passes and are too lazy to ride if it isn't saving them gas money.
Agreed. As long as people live in the fantasy land of "OSS is the only solution", it will always remain just that - a fantasy. No matter how eloquently you write that sentiment, it always comes across as "oss rulz, proprietary drulz" or however that phrase goes. If people with domain knowledge design and write software, it can be good regardless of what licensing scheme it is released under.
More sounds to come from my officemates' computers. Great.
Also - please dont say cell phone. If you are far enough to not have power - you problably wont have cell signarl.
What about hikers? I have been on backpacking trips long enough for my cell to die and have had signal during them.
And let's not be naive
Yes, let's not. The world is made up of more than simple web hosting and mysql and blogs. Some businesses use more computing power in 1 minute than you will in your entire life. And sometimes it make senses to rent a huge amount of processor time for a short interval rather than setting up the infrastructure to accomplish the same task. It's the same as you renting space in hosting company rather than colocating your own box. Only on a much larger scale.