I think it's important that you know that height is a more important determinant of salary in the US than education. Management is hired by American "upper management" who's appointed by American boards of directors, who are appointed by the American (majority) stockholders, who are, in general, dumb-shit, protect-my-money-no-matter-what rich people.
What makes American management irreplaceable is their attractiveness to American capital. Pure and simple. They are unlikely to be replaced by our offshore cousins, because they're too attractive (and too close) to the stockholders. Capitalism creates the framework, but rich grammies and grampas vote for those tall, "effective" managers. I ain't gonna change.
>> I do not see how creating a 'world economy' helps anyone but the rich.
But don't you see? Those companies are owned and controlled by the rich. It's that simple. The companies that farm out jobs overseas because it's cheaper, are run by the rich, and in fact, are legally obligated to maintain the "best interests" of stockholders, who are also the rich. It's not going to change while there's still monopoly capital. It's that simple. Revolting, but simple.
Now just who do you think should do your censoring, Mr. No-Qualms, MBA? The Internet is a fucking protocol, and not a movie theatre. People who mess with it (by censoring it) are messing with the medium. Don't go to those places (and don't link them nerdnic! Jeeze). Once they mess with it, you won't be able to make a fortune off of it.
I hate the sites you mention as much as you do, but dude, I hate censorship more, because it's always promulgated by dweebs (and Christians) who don't know their asshats from their elbows, and as soon as you give them the power to control what you don't want to see, they're controlling what you DO want to see.
Mmmm... Now, tell us this is compatible with the manure conversion technology from the "cow-shit to electricity" article I just read and you've got a (+5 Interesting) post. Otherwise, I think you're the troll your sig warns us against.
In other words, I shit on you!
Oh, how do I describe the joy of trolling to the troll? Is it a shitty experience? You bet! But WTF? It's only karma, right?
Just a note: there's a lot more cow manure being produced nowadays than coal. The concept of "renewable" is a big deal to anyone who thinks there will be a world in the next 100 years.
>>Second, and most importantly, the size of the file is dependent on the size of the bytes within the file.
The concept of "the size of the bytes" is such a incredible misapprehension of so much it's not clear where to even start. Bytes can have many values, but they're all the same size. Period. No matter how much you understand object code.
godaddy sells "used domain names" here. I thought it was a joke. Lots of interesting choices, and they seem to include the balance of the previous term (like transferring the manufacturer's warranty on a used car).
Who modded this interesting? This is a shill to sell the information that is so tantalizingly described in the first three pages of the linked website. Then they tell you you've got to pay (and the pay page is in German!). Other than that, there's no content besides that satisfying MS dyspepsia that is so well received here. Go ahead and read the parent post again. See? Nothing there!
This (parent) post is SPAM and nothing more! I hope I get to meta-mod this! Moderators... please read the articles, read the posts, and READ THE LINKS! (well, unless the link is to that horrid goatsx site!)
The reason the masses buy overpowered PC's is because they're the best price-point at the store. There's some perversity in the computer products market where the cheapest components are the most recent ones (bigger, faster, better), and hence if you go to Best Buy for a computer and see 2.4 Ghz for $900 and 1.7 for $850, which would you buy? I've seen catalogs that sold 40 Gig drives for the same price as 20 Gig drives. It's the market. RAM is the same way. The cheapest RAM nowadays is 133 Mhz SDRAM, because it's mainstream. The older, smaller, and slower stuff is MORE expensive.
I have no doubt that if (when) Intel sells 64 bit systems into the home/SoHo market (the desktop), they will dominate the market because (and when) they have the great price-point. And wait and see how happy the masses are when they can just plug in their digital camcorder and download-edit/overlay titles/add a sound-track to their home movies!
The home/SoHo market is made on price points, not technology requirements. They'll still mostly use their computer to check email, browse the web, and play the occasional MP3. They don't need the power, but that's all they'll be able to buy.
Could be the very, very end of the "bubble"
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Salon Asks for Help
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I remember reading Salon 6 or 7 years ago. This was in the relative "infancy" of the WWW, when suck.com was still independent, and most print magazines were nowhere to be found. It was wonderful how much content they had, when there were few other "serious" journalism sites. They had an advice column written by Garrison Keillor, and another by Susie Bright, and they had a lot of interesting commentators. Good stuff for the time, and all online. I remember also being very impressed because they were the first online publisher I'd ever seen/heard referrred to in the "traditional" journalism outlets (quoted and referenced by The New Yorker and NPR and network TV news, among others, as well as print media).
I got pretty disenchanted about the time leading up to the Clinton impeachment, when they were spearheading a "conservative conspiracy" theory (they even broke some news stories, though I forgot what, exactly), when they basically seemed to become just one shrill party-line voice. I was glad they tried to smear Ken Starr, but concerned for their growing narrowness (hahahaha a neologism!). After that, despite attempts to increase their diversity by hiring conservatives to write for them, they lost had their focus. When I last went there and they shilled to get me to pay to read all the way to the end of their articles, I realized I didn't care anymore. Sometime in the last few years, they bought the Well in San Francisco (another early Internet experiment which didn't scale well past their telnet BBS beginning), which cemented their loss of relevance for me.
Now they've become a media outlet for which there's no audience, and though their passing is notable, it's not likely to be much mourned by anyone outside of a very small group. Salon is Dead. Long Live Salon.
My 1974 Volvo 164 had EFI. I wish I still had it, but it had too many miles. The diagnostic manual suggested the only way to diagnose whether the electronics was at fault was swapping the built-in computer (under the passenger-side front-seat) with another one that was known to function correctly.
A transfer station is what replaced the landfill (aka "dump", where formerly trash was deposited and buried) here in northern New England, USA. A transfer station has a similar "user interface" (drive trash to same place, and drop it off), but the trash goes into a large metal container which, when full, is trucked away to a trash processing plant, and which, to stay on topic, has dealt more than once with my fritzed hard drives.
The problem with all these hard drive clearing programs is that they require a hard drive which is responding to the OS! As long as it's still responding, I have no desire to clear it. When it's not responding, it's too late to clear it. Slagging it seems a bit over-the-top, though effective. And, as the poster who apparently wrote the article pointed out, it's "Cool!"
So what I'd like is a solution to use on a dead drive, short of thermite (none in my garage) or shooting it with a.44 Magnum (also not an option). My solution has been to take off the cover (voiding the warranty), and dropping into the transfer station. Security through obscurity, though I know that's not really secure.
That was the V2 rocket program that contributed to the current space program, not the V1 rocket program (which was pretty much a wimpy-- and noisy-- jet engine with a bomb hanging off it).
Aside from that minor quibble, I'm in agreement with your post.
Does getting flamed by a Microsoft Troll on a "bad medication day" qualify me as a l337 linuX haXor? I hope so. Hey, I once edited my.bash profile...
Thank you/., I have arrived!
Re:*please* read the f**king memo before posting
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Even Sun Can't Use Java
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Agreed! Even more, and the reason I think it's an internal memo (if that's what it is), is it appears to be a plea for funding for the same kind of internal regression testing and software QC as the rest of SUN's software has:
(last paragraph)
Correcting the Java Problem
We strongly recommend that management require Java to conform to the Software Development Framework (corporate-speak for expensive corporate QC program. ed.) especially from the standpoint of ARCreview. We believe that the next release of the Sun Java implementation should be brought to ARC while still in the prototype phase. Both PSARC and LSARC have dealt with the Java issues peripherally, recognizing numerous problems but unable to effect change in the underlying source of the difficulties - namely Java. By bringing the Sun Java implementation through ARC, these issues can be resolved.
This was written by some engineers who want to run the program through a slow (and I'm sure costly), corporate QC program. I've written memos like this myself when it seemed my supervisor didn't have the wherewithal to resolve an issue on his own, sometimes at my supervisor's request. I can't help but think that it's a possible start to SUN addressing the stated problems responsibly. (Memory usage, version clash, and poor performance on the "native" (Solaris) platforms are all huge issues). Alternatively, SUN could just decide the extra cost for QC will make the JAVA project prohibitively expensive and take another direction. Either way, it seems like this document is not some screed on the viability of JAVA but a plea for funding to make it better.
Ummm... your post is right on, and I agree, but I wonder what the "surrounding areas," to which you referred, might be? The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? Canada?
It looks like as long as you've got the little dongle-thingy your drive will work; without it you're toast. So aside from any concern about the (only) 40-bit encryption, it seems like you'd have to make sure you hid the key (and not forget where you hid it). And if the key or its socket were to, ummmm... break or something (it's an external enclosure, so it could fall and the wires break), well you wouldn't have any data at all. And if the key got stolen, well then the thief only has to stick the thing into the drive and voila, there's your data.
I know a lot of corporate IT types will think this is exciting, especially as new data security laws keep hitting the books. Full time encryption seems pretty secure. And the price seems fair, especially since it seems to take any EIDE drive and secure it, and (quoted from the article), "capable of maneuvering 66MByte/ sec throughput without taking any system resources." Just don't lose that darn key! And maybe they'll develop an internal version that would be more secure from bumps, knocks, and falls.
Now, I've gotta get one of them new-fangled firewire (or USB 2.0) ports. And a hook to hang the little dongle from.
Maybe Ashton-Tate 1-2-3 is a little dated, but it works
Ummmm... Ashton Tate was the publisher of dBASE (II, III, and IV) and not 1,2,3 (which was published by Lotus, Inc.). They (A-T) tanked when dBase IV came out about the time of Win 3.0, after huge delays, and it didn't have a pretty GUI interface, and couldn't run SQL queries that were repeatable. Borland bought their assets.
I used them all for quite awhile, and all were useful and no less flawed than their current replacements (though they were a lot less resource-hungry than Access, FoxPro, Excel or their ilk). I still have licensed copies of dBase III and IV, and Lotus 2.2, but unfortunately they're on 5 1/4 diskettes, and hence useless. One of the windows upgrades broke my last working dBASE III program.
Good post otherwise... could be a troll, though... hmmmm
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Oops, I found the "right" link about height, and it's here
I think it's important that you know that height is a more important determinant of salary in the US than education. Management is hired by American "upper management" who's appointed by American boards of directors, who are appointed by the American (majority) stockholders, who are, in general, dumb-shit, protect-my-money-no-matter-what rich people.
What makes American management irreplaceable is their attractiveness to American capital. Pure and simple. They are unlikely to be replaced by our offshore cousins, because they're too attractive (and too close) to the stockholders. Capitalism creates the framework, but rich grammies and grampas vote for those tall, "effective" managers. I ain't gonna change.
>> I do not see how creating a 'world economy' helps anyone but the rich.
But don't you see? Those companies are owned and controlled by the rich. It's that simple. The companies that farm out jobs overseas because it's cheaper, are run by the rich, and in fact, are legally obligated to maintain the "best interests" of stockholders, who are also the rich. It's not going to change while there's still monopoly capital. It's that simple. Revolting, but simple.
Now just who do you think should do your censoring, Mr. No-Qualms, MBA? The Internet is a fucking protocol, and not a movie theatre. People who mess with it (by censoring it) are messing with the medium. Don't go to those places (and don't link them nerdnic! Jeeze). Once they mess with it, you won't be able to make a fortune off of it.
I hate the sites you mention as much as you do, but dude, I hate censorship more, because it's always promulgated by dweebs (and Christians) who don't know their asshats from their elbows, and as soon as you give them the power to control what you don't want to see, they're controlling what you DO want to see.
Mmmm... Now, tell us this is compatible with the manure conversion technology from the "cow-shit to electricity" article I just read and you've got a (+5 Interesting) post. Otherwise, I think you're the troll your sig warns us against.
In other words, I shit on you! Oh, how do I describe the joy of trolling to the troll? Is it a shitty experience? You bet! But WTF? It's only karma, right?
Just a note: there's a lot more cow manure being produced nowadays than coal. The concept of "renewable" is a big deal to anyone who thinks there will be a world in the next 100 years.
>>Second, and most importantly, the size of the file is dependent on the size of the bytes within the file.
The concept of "the size of the bytes" is such a incredible misapprehension of so much it's not clear where to even start. Bytes can have many values, but they're all the same size. Period. No matter how much you understand object code.
Or is this a troll?
godaddy sells "used domain names" here. I thought it was a joke. Lots of interesting choices, and they seem to include the balance of the previous term (like transferring the manufacturer's warranty on a used car).
Jeff Bezos will patent the sales pitch, and then the close!! --Profit!!
Who modded this interesting? This is a shill to sell the information that is so tantalizingly described in the first three pages of the linked website. Then they tell you you've got to pay (and the pay page is in German!). Other than that, there's no content besides that satisfying MS dyspepsia that is so well received here. Go ahead and read the parent post again. See? Nothing there!
This (parent) post is SPAM and nothing more! I hope I get to meta-mod this! Moderators... please read the articles, read the posts, and READ THE LINKS! (well, unless the link is to that horrid goatsx site!)
Sure I'll take the FP
The reason the masses buy overpowered PC's is because they're the best price-point at the store. There's some perversity in the computer products market where the cheapest components are the most recent ones (bigger, faster, better), and hence if you go to Best Buy for a computer and see 2.4 Ghz for $900 and 1.7 for $850, which would you buy? I've seen catalogs that sold 40 Gig drives for the same price as 20 Gig drives. It's the market. RAM is the same way. The cheapest RAM nowadays is 133 Mhz SDRAM, because it's mainstream. The older, smaller, and slower stuff is MORE expensive.
I have no doubt that if (when) Intel sells 64 bit systems into the home/SoHo market (the desktop), they will dominate the market because (and when) they have the great price-point. And wait and see how happy the masses are when they can just plug in their digital camcorder and download-edit/overlay titles/add a sound-track to their home movies! The home/SoHo market is made on price points, not technology requirements. They'll still mostly use their computer to check email, browse the web, and play the occasional MP3. They don't need the power, but that's all they'll be able to buy.
I remember reading Salon 6 or 7 years ago. This was in the relative "infancy" of the WWW, when suck.com was still independent, and most print magazines were nowhere to be found. It was wonderful how much content they had, when there were few other "serious" journalism sites. They had an advice column written by Garrison Keillor, and another by Susie Bright, and they had a lot of interesting commentators. Good stuff for the time, and all online. I remember also being very impressed because they were the first online publisher I'd ever seen/heard referrred to in the "traditional" journalism outlets (quoted and referenced by The New Yorker and NPR and network TV news, among others, as well as print media).
I got pretty disenchanted about the time leading up to the Clinton impeachment, when they were spearheading a "conservative conspiracy" theory (they even broke some news stories, though I forgot what, exactly), when they basically seemed to become just one shrill party-line voice. I was glad they tried to smear Ken Starr, but concerned for their growing narrowness (hahahaha a neologism!). After that, despite attempts to increase their diversity by hiring conservatives to write for them, they lost had their focus. When I last went there and they shilled to get me to pay to read all the way to the end of their articles, I realized I didn't care anymore. Sometime in the last few years, they bought the Well in San Francisco (another early Internet experiment which didn't scale well past their telnet BBS beginning), which cemented their loss of relevance for me.
Now they've become a media outlet for which there's no audience, and though their passing is notable, it's not likely to be much mourned by anyone outside of a very small group. Salon is Dead. Long Live Salon.
My 1974 Volvo 164 had EFI. I wish I still had it, but it had too many miles. The diagnostic manual suggested the only way to diagnose whether the electronics was at fault was swapping the built-in computer (under the passenger-side front-seat) with another one that was known to function correctly.
I don't know how the thing booted...
AMEN.... My thoughts exactly, even though I agreed about the apostrophe misuse.
A transfer station is what replaced the landfill (aka "dump", where formerly trash was deposited and buried) here in northern New England, USA. A transfer station has a similar "user interface" (drive trash to same place, and drop it off), but the trash goes into a large metal container which, when full, is trucked away to a trash processing plant, and which, to stay on topic, has dealt more than once with my fritzed hard drives.
The problem with all these hard drive clearing programs is that they require a hard drive which is responding to the OS! As long as it's still responding, I have no desire to clear it. When it's not responding, it's too late to clear it. Slagging it seems a bit over-the-top, though effective. And, as the poster who apparently wrote the article pointed out, it's "Cool!"
.44 Magnum (also not an option). My solution has been to take off the cover (voiding the warranty), and dropping into the transfer station. Security through obscurity, though I know that's not really secure.
So what I'd like is a solution to use on a dead drive, short of thermite (none in my garage) or shooting it with a
That was the V2 rocket program that contributed to the current space program, not the V1 rocket program (which was pretty much a wimpy-- and noisy-- jet engine with a bomb hanging off it).
Aside from that minor quibble, I'm in agreement with your post.
Does getting flamed by a Microsoft Troll on a "bad medication day" qualify me as a l337 linuX haXor? I hope so. Hey, I once edited my .bash profile...
/., I have arrived!
Thank you
This was written by some engineers who want to run the program through a slow (and I'm sure costly), corporate QC program. I've written memos like this myself when it seemed my supervisor didn't have the wherewithal to resolve an issue on his own, sometimes at my supervisor's request. I can't help but think that it's a possible start to SUN addressing the stated problems responsibly. (Memory usage, version clash, and poor performance on the "native" (Solaris) platforms are all huge issues). Alternatively, SUN could just decide the extra cost for QC will make the JAVA project prohibitively expensive and take another direction. Either way, it seems like this document is not some screed on the viability of JAVA but a plea for funding to make it better.
could this be one of those microprocessor controlled washers running embedded Linux, and could it then be open source beer? where's mine?
Ummm... your post is right on, and I agree, but I wonder what the "surrounding areas," to which you referred, might be? The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? Canada?
I can't believe they allow ads for Spam on TV!!
It looks like as long as you've got the little dongle-thingy your drive will work; without it you're toast. So aside from any concern about the (only) 40-bit encryption, it seems like you'd have to make sure you hid the key (and not forget where you hid it). And if the key or its socket were to, ummmm... break or something (it's an external enclosure, so it could fall and the wires break), well you wouldn't have any data at all. And if the key got stolen, well then the thief only has to stick the thing into the drive and voila, there's your data.
I know a lot of corporate IT types will think this is exciting, especially as new data security laws keep hitting the books. Full time encryption seems pretty secure. And the price seems fair, especially since it seems to take any EIDE drive and secure it, and (quoted from the article), "capable of maneuvering 66MByte/ sec throughput without taking any system resources." Just don't lose that darn key! And maybe they'll develop an internal version that would be more secure from bumps, knocks, and falls.
Now, I've gotta get one of them new-fangled firewire (or USB 2.0) ports. And a hook to hang the little dongle from.
Ummmm... Ashton Tate was the publisher of dBASE (II, III, and IV) and not 1,2,3 (which was published by Lotus, Inc.). They (A-T) tanked when dBase IV came out about the time of Win 3.0, after huge delays, and it didn't have a pretty GUI interface, and couldn't run SQL queries that were repeatable. Borland bought their assets.
I used them all for quite awhile, and all were useful and no less flawed than their current replacements (though they were a lot less resource-hungry than Access, FoxPro, Excel or their ilk). I still have licensed copies of dBase III and IV, and Lotus 2.2, but unfortunately they're on 5 1/4 diskettes, and hence useless. One of the windows upgrades broke my last working dBASE III program.
Good post otherwise... could be a troll, though... hmmmm