Look ma, a really expensive, impractical alternative to walkie-talkies and cell phones.
Seriously, I saw a demo of somebody using Ipaq's with WiFi cards as walkie-talkies. Couldn't figure the point. The setup was about $700/per, only worked when you were within range of an 802.11b base station, and had several seconds of lag (which could probably be reduced with dedicated hardware). Seemed like a technology destined to be stillborn.
You obviously do not play a piano. While it may seem like a simple interface, there's a lot of technique that goes into how you hit the keys, not just how hard. The Disklavier Pro system is supposed to be able imitate many of these features, but I still don't think it will be good enough to capture all the subtlties of a great concert pianist.
I have a digital piano at home (far less sophisticated than these), and let me tell you, there's a lot of stuff that I just can't do. Not that I'm actually good enough to do it, but still.
Obviously from somebody who's never actually had a job.
Jobs require books for reference. Documents provided by your outside contacts that you haven't scanned in (or aren't allowed to scan in). Toys are required to keep you sane (heck, my boss steals my slinky on a daily basis, helps keep him happy).
It's also really nice to know where your coworkers are. Do you want to have to figure out where your boss is sitting if you have an important issue? What if the guy you working with is on the other side of the building today instead of next door?
This is a stupid policy and is going to come back and bite Sun firmly in the ass.
Why do you have sympathy for Hamidi? Should you be able to go into the lobby of a company that you don't like and distribute things to their employees? You'd be walked out faster than you could say "please fire me again". You shouldn't expect to use the companies resources to defame it, no matter how much you hate them. Go do it with your own resources, on your own property, and your own time.
Uh, you came to this site and asked to download the news. Seems you were the one originating the action. How could you claim damages? Now, if Slashdot forced your machine to read news, then you might have a claim.
I agree, this isn't the kind of thing where Open Source seems to work.
Open Source seems to work best where the programmers have a use for the program they're developing. Air Traffic Control systems are not the kind of thing that anybody, except governments, has any reason to set up, so the impetus for somebody to work on a Open Source air traffic control system doesn't exist. Even if somebody was crazy enough to say "I can do this better", who would devote the time to a project without any idea that the Air Traffic Control centers would ever adopt your program?
Furthermore, from the governments point of view, I'm sure this stuff is basically open source. I'm sure they get the source code, not just binary drops. I'm sure they can change the system if they so desire, but since it's undoubtably an extremely complex system with extremely bad things happening if they fail, I highly doubt they fix their own bugs.
At this point in your life, you really don't know what you want to do. You may think you want to be a Sys Admin, but do you really want that as a career? Do you want to spend your life supporting others and making sure systems run, or do you want to have a chance to move up and be the one being supported?
College is a place to learn lots of things. Don't just go expecting to get a degree that will help you get a job. Learn new and interesting things that you didn't know anything about. Learn to speak a foreign language, to appreciate art, take an economics course, or a music course. My biggest regret in college is that I was too focused on my CS degree, and I didn't see the need to do something like study abroad. Use the opportunities like that, they won't come back.
Also, sign up for things like a coop/intern program. Go be a sysadmin for a summer, see if you really enjoy it.
But, if you have a chance to go to college, do it, and use it to expand your world. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. It's not just about getting a job afterwards, it's about providing you with the basis to become a more interesting person, and to have a more fulfilling life.
Back in college, I was in one of the highrise dorms in Berkeley when a 5.x hit nearby. I was up on the 5th floor at the time, and after it finished, the RA came running out of the bathroom, saying "What am I supposed to do, I was on the crapper".
During the same quake, a friend of mine was in flagrante delecto with her boyfriend at the time. Said it was the first time the earth moved for her.
I live in Oregon, and work in one of those lovely Intel buildings (designed to Oregon design codes, rather than California) and the Olympia quake produced quite a good rolling here. Lasted quite a while too. Felt to be greater than a 5, but we're over 100 miles from the epicenter.
Being a California native myself, it didn't feel like much to me. However, it was great fun to watch the guy from Bulgaria react, not to mention the guy from Utah. I don't think they were used to having the earth move beneath their feet.
Why even bother to report a 5.2 in California? I've slept through 5.2's. It's only people from Boston who worry about earthquakes that small. Now a 5.2 in Boston(where all the buildings would probably fall down), that would be news. But a 5.2 in California, yawn. It's not worth getting out of bed for anything beneath a 6.
Well, technically, under the law, corporations are people. At least they have all the rights of people without any of the responsibilities or reprecussions (eg, you can't send them to jail).
After going to the Dallas Morning News' front page, I can see cleary that it's not designed to allow you to actually find news stories. Gotta be one of the uglier designs in history. Makes CNN look easy to read and navigate.
Can't blame people for wanting deep links, the front page is worthles.
From belo.com's website, their contact address is: blc@belo.com. Let them know you think their policies are idiotic. If you're in Dallas, tell them that you're going to consider cancelling your newspaper subscription, and stop reading their articles. They'll get the clue.
Geez, what an incoherent, nonsensical ramble. All the more reason to not put his software on my machine. If his arguments are this incoherent, I'd hate to see his source code.
Basically, Sanders got up and parroted what Gates told him to say. My favorite quote in the article: "You agreed without knowing what you would be testifying to other than the characterization that Mr. Gates gave you?"
Looks like Microsoft's brilliant legal team is at it again. Maybe Microsoft is trying to set up an inadequate defense appeal.
Actually, a correctly used one-time pad is unbreakable. The true randomness of the pad cannot be calculated, and if it's never reused, you have no clues as to how to calculate the encryption.
However, this scheme isn't a one-time pad. It's a function, with parameters encrypted with a standard encryption algorithm. If you break the algorithm used to exchange the parameters, you've broken the whole code. It's certainly no better than anything else out there.
Another advantage of Serial ATA is that, from a software point of view, it's supposed to look exactly like current ATA/IDE. You don't need to change your software stack at all.
Personally, the only C book necessary for a good, experienced programmer is C: A Reference Manual by Harbison and Steele. Best book on C out there. Skip K&R. It's awkward, poorly organized, and primarily interesting from a historical point of view.
From Doubleclick's Website, the number to call for information about DARTMail is 866-459-7606 (toll free). Feel free to give them a call and give them a piece of your mind. Remember to be polite, you'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If enough people call to complain and ask to be kept off all of their lists, the following will happen. 1: They'll rethink their position, 2: they'll be forced to remove you, and 3: their phone lines will be clogged and they won't be able to make any sales.
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Look ma, a really expensive, impractical alternative to walkie-talkies and cell phones.
Seriously, I saw a demo of somebody using Ipaq's with WiFi cards as walkie-talkies. Couldn't figure the point. The setup was about $700/per, only worked when you were within range of an 802.11b base station, and had several seconds of lag (which could probably be reduced with dedicated hardware). Seemed like a technology destined to be stillborn.
You obviously do not play a piano. While it may seem like a simple interface, there's a lot of technique that goes into how you hit the keys, not just how hard. The Disklavier Pro system is supposed to be able imitate many of these features, but I still don't think it will be good enough to capture all the subtlties of a great concert pianist.
I have a digital piano at home (far less sophisticated than these), and let me tell you, there's a lot of stuff that I just can't do. Not that I'm actually good enough to do it, but still.
Obviously from somebody who's never actually had a job.
Jobs require books for reference. Documents provided by your outside contacts that you haven't scanned in (or aren't allowed to scan in). Toys are required to keep you sane (heck, my boss steals my slinky on a daily basis, helps keep him happy).
It's also really nice to know where your coworkers are. Do you want to have to figure out where your boss is sitting if you have an important issue? What if the guy you working with is on the other side of the building today instead of next door?
This is a stupid policy and is going to come back and bite Sun firmly in the ass.
Yeah, and China Mieville also wrote a version around 2000. Your point?
All ads will become pop-ups, not pop-unders. And they're even more obnoxious.
Why do you have sympathy for Hamidi? Should you be able to go into the lobby of a company that you don't like and distribute things to their employees? You'd be walked out faster than you could say "please fire me again". You shouldn't expect to use the companies resources to defame it, no matter how much you hate them. Go do it with your own resources, on your own property, and your own time.
Uh, you came to this site and asked to download the news. Seems you were the one originating the action. How could you claim damages? Now, if Slashdot forced your machine to read news, then you might have a claim.
No, because you purchased a product which was known to include a logo, and you didn't receive anything that you didn't expect to receive.
Besides, the chips don't have a logo. The only printing on the package is things like copyright, and die number. No Intel Inside logo.
Hamidi managed to get a non-public list of every employee in the company and spam it. Such a list is not public.
I agree, this isn't the kind of thing where Open Source seems to work.
Open Source seems to work best where the programmers have a use for the program they're developing. Air Traffic Control systems are not the kind of thing that anybody, except governments, has any reason to set up, so the impetus for somebody to work on a Open Source air traffic control system doesn't exist. Even if somebody was crazy enough to say "I can do this better", who would devote the time to a project without any idea that the Air Traffic Control centers would ever adopt your program?
Furthermore, from the governments point of view, I'm sure this stuff is basically open source. I'm sure they get the source code, not just binary drops. I'm sure they can change the system if they so desire, but since it's undoubtably an extremely complex system with extremely bad things happening if they fail, I highly doubt they fix their own bugs.
At this point in your life, you really don't know what you want to do. You may think you want to be a Sys Admin, but do you really want that as a career? Do you want to spend your life supporting others and making sure systems run, or do you want to have a chance to move up and be the one being supported?
College is a place to learn lots of things. Don't just go expecting to get a degree that will help you get a job. Learn new and interesting things that you didn't know anything about. Learn to speak a foreign language, to appreciate art, take an economics course, or a music course. My biggest regret in college is that I was too focused on my CS degree, and I didn't see the need to do something like study abroad. Use the opportunities like that, they won't come back.
Also, sign up for things like a coop/intern program. Go be a sysadmin for a summer, see if you really enjoy it.
But, if you have a chance to go to college, do it, and use it to expand your world. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. It's not just about getting a job afterwards, it's about providing you with the basis to become a more interesting person, and to have a more fulfilling life.
Back in college, I was in one of the highrise dorms in Berkeley when a 5.x hit nearby. I was up on the 5th floor at the time, and after it finished, the RA came running out of the bathroom, saying "What am I supposed to do, I was on the crapper".
During the same quake, a friend of mine was in flagrante delecto with her boyfriend at the time. Said it was the first time the earth moved for her.
I live in Oregon, and work in one of those lovely Intel buildings (designed to Oregon design codes, rather than California) and the Olympia quake produced quite a good rolling here. Lasted quite a while too. Felt to be greater than a 5, but we're over 100 miles from the epicenter.
Being a California native myself, it didn't feel like much to me. However, it was great fun to watch the guy from Bulgaria react, not to mention the guy from Utah. I don't think they were used to having the earth move beneath their feet.
Why even bother to report a 5.2 in California? I've slept through 5.2's. It's only people from Boston who worry about earthquakes that small. Now a 5.2 in Boston(where all the buildings would probably fall down), that would be news. But a 5.2 in California, yawn. It's not worth getting out of bed for anything beneath a 6.
Well, technically, under the law, corporations are people. At least they have all the rights of people without any of the responsibilities or reprecussions (eg, you can't send them to jail).
After going to the Dallas Morning News' front page, I can see cleary that it's not designed to allow you to actually find news stories. Gotta be one of the uglier designs in history. Makes CNN look easy to read and navigate.
Can't blame people for wanting deep links, the front page is worthles.
From belo.com's website, their contact address is: blc@belo.com. Let them know you think their policies are idiotic. If you're in Dallas, tell them that you're going to consider cancelling your newspaper subscription, and stop reading their articles. They'll get the clue.
Geez, what an incoherent, nonsensical ramble. All the more reason to not put his software on my machine. If his arguments are this incoherent, I'd hate to see his source code.
I nominate this guy for "Twit of the Year".
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Sanders basically admits that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and was only up there because Gates asked him to be.
Basically, Sanders got up and parroted what Gates told him to say. My favorite quote in the article: "You agreed without knowing what you would be testifying to other than the characterization that Mr. Gates gave you?"
Looks like Microsoft's brilliant legal team is at it again. Maybe Microsoft is trying to set up an inadequate defense appeal.
What I've always wondered is where all these spamming losers get their toll-free voice mailboxes. Who runs these services?
As an aside, everybody should call these numbers and tell them that they're losers. It costs quite a bit for somebody to receive a toll-free call....
Actually, a correctly used one-time pad is unbreakable. The true randomness of the pad cannot be calculated, and if it's never reused, you have no clues as to how to calculate the encryption.
However, this scheme isn't a one-time pad. It's a function, with parameters encrypted with a standard encryption algorithm. If you break the algorithm used to exchange the parameters, you've broken the whole code. It's certainly no better than anything else out there.
Another advantage of Serial ATA is that, from a software point of view, it's supposed to look exactly like current ATA/IDE. You don't need to change your software stack at all.
Personally, the only C book necessary for a good, experienced programmer is C: A Reference Manual by Harbison and Steele. Best book on C out there. Skip K&R. It's awkward, poorly organized, and primarily interesting from a historical point of view.
From Doubleclick's Website, the number to call for information about DARTMail is 866-459-7606 (toll free). Feel free to give them a call and give them a piece of your mind. Remember to be polite, you'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If enough people call to complain and ask to be kept off all of their lists, the following will happen. 1: They'll rethink their position, 2: they'll be forced to remove you, and 3: their phone lines will be clogged and they won't be able to make any sales.