First they let X-Files run on 3 seasons too long and it gets just stupid. Then they cancel a show like Firefly. Next thing you know they will axe the best show on tv......24.
George Allen did alot to push technology and its funding as governor of Virginia, so I feel like I can actually trust him to push something like this through. It also helps that congressman Rick Boucher D-Va and he see eye to eye alot on technology. Babs Boxer supposedly knows alot about tech as well, but that remains to be seen.
I guess my point here is that maybe people should focus on talking to representative such as Allen, Boucher, and maybe Boxer when it comes to overturning laws such as the DMCA and to defeating the upcoming ones that are far worse.
I went to college in Harrisonburg. It is the home of James Madison University. JMU's CS curriculum teaches people on the UNIX platform. Most all of the programming assignments are submitted via one of the Sun boxes there. There are a couple programming classes for MS applications but they are by far not the most popular.
Also, they teach simple networking based on UNIX and linux as well.
So if the city really wanted someone to support the infrastructure they built in the public schools, all they would need to do is form some sort of joint program with the college to have students come over and support it. Maybe give them Internship/CO-OP credits for it. The reality is that if more schools would work with colleges in a format like this then there stands the great possibility of major advancement in technology curriculum on BOTH sides.
Excuse me! I come from a redneck tech area. I now run the IT dept for a Biotech, and I'm damn good at it. The high school I went to had old 386 computers and were peer-2-peered with twisted pair cable running Windows 3.1 when I attended. I learned BASIC, Pascal, AND C++ while attending there and I also maintained the network.
We actually had a good computer curriculum and it wasn't because MS or Dell came in and just gave us a bunch of useless machines that weren't going to get used. It was because we had good teachers who were willing to teach us the things we wanted to learn.
Tech education is EXACTLY the point of PC's in schools (from the school standpoint) even if the corporate standpoint on it is to gain a tax break. But I think it is deeper than that. I think tech companies are trying to increase what American students learn about computers partially to replace the people who work for them now but wont in the future and partially because many companies are tired of hiring below-par foreign workers and having to sponsor them in this country.
I live in a pretty packed section of LA (Hollywood Hills) and I have noticed over the two years I have been here that my cell phone has always been between 1 and 2 bars in my apt. out of 4 (signal strength) yet I used to be able to make phone calls and now I spend half the time not even on the network. The cell towers have gotten so crowded that when you call AT&T they tell you that only about 68% of all calls made from that area are able to get through due to overcrowding. Yet they have no plans to expand in our area for the next year.
Aww...cmon....it wasnt the same title. They capitalized Really and Big whereas you didnt. That is a difference of two ASCII characters. It was also improper use of capitalization when used in conjunction with a title.
Just pointing it out.
Question: What happens when other groups decide to start doing this?
Right now it is just JBoss. But what happens when Apache starts this, then RedHat, then Jakarta, then various other groups. If I have to pay $5k just to be certified and approved for JBoss then these other groups start charging similar fees, it wont be very long before half your yearly salary is eaten up in cert fees and stuff....just so you can say you are certified.
The price of this seems rather escalated. I can understand taking a Cisco cert...you pay $2k...take the test...and thats it...you are certified until they come out with a superior cert. Same with oracle. But what if JBoss doesnt come out with a new version with substantially new features in a year and you still have to pay $5k. This makes no sense to me.
Sure, it may make them look more professional in they eyes of say....some managment people somewhere, but with the fees they are charging, it makes them look less credible to me.
Im already a serious culprit of drive by printing here in LA. I just drive up....find a printer...install a generic HP driver....and print out a 50-60 page document of fluff.
Uh...who printed the entire Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series on the HP 4100 in full duplex?
I just needed a cheaper solution for keeping my apartment warm. Instead of running the heat now...I just put GeForce Vid cards and Athlon XPs in my computers and let the BTU's fly out and keep my apt. warm.
Now if I could just find a way to turn the things into Air Conditioners.
Some bastard out there is gonna file a patent saying he 'discovered' the makeup of air and is gonna try to push that through a court system somewhere. Kinda like the freak who filed this stupid patent. Next thing you know I'll be paying for the air I breathe.
Not that the RIAA will ever read this (are you reading this Hilary Rosen?) but here is an interesting thing that crossed my mind:
I bought the System of a Down CD at Tower Hollywood last week for $17.99. It is an hour long CD that took the guys from the band a reported 13 days in the studio to make.
Contrast
I also bought 'The Fellowship of the Ring' DVD at the same store for $19.99. For a measly two dollars more I got a three hour DVD epic and possibly one of the greatest movies ever made not to mention the over two and a half hours of extras that came on the second DVD.
Thought
Did it ever cross anybody's mind that it cost over $100 million dollars to produce market and distribute 'The Fellowship of the Ring' yet it probably cost the recording studio that produced, marketed, and distributed the System CD under $20 million dollars to do the same thing, yet, the CD costs $2 less than the movie i purchased. That is totally ridiculous. THAT is why I never buy CD's. THAT is why I have a DVD collection of over 400 DVDs yet I only own maybe 30 CD's. Truth be told...if I want entertainment at home...I'd rather watch a movie anyways. If I'm in the car...I put on KROQ (its free ya know).
Record companies are greedy conniving bastards who screw over the bands and entertainers they sign by not sharing as much of the profits as they should and then turn around and screw over the people they are trying to entertain by raising the prices so high that nobody will buy the music and when they do...they see absolutely no reason why not to share it with their friends. Just a thought, but maybe when 256 million fans are screaming that music is overpriced and not worth the investment you would realized that your business practices are old, antiquidated, and generally repellant to the public you are pushing them on.
Well...there are a couple points here.
A) I'm already running a GeForce Ti4600
B) I'm already running an Athlon 2200+XP
C) The reason I did it was to reduce the noice and adequately cool the system in the first place.
The last thing a computer needs nowadays is more fans. And if you do the system right...there are no leaks. I havent had a single leak in mine and its been running over a month.
My watercooling kit can bless and revive your dead kittens and grant them a +14 to vit.
I actually bought the $300 system from Innovatek for my gaming rig. It keeps the proc around 32 degrees C. They are kind of expensive and for most people completely over the top useless. In my situation it was perfect because my computer sits in a dead air section of my apt. and just kept recycling the hot air pumping the cpu temp up to about 60....which is too warm for my tastes.
The install hassles for a system like this are too much for most people. You have to drill and clean your case and you have to remove and reinstall all the equipment from it. Then you have to spend the time to connect all the hoses and bleed air out of the system. Then...about 7 hours later (yeah...if you do it right...it can take that long) when you finally boot the PC, you get your just rewards....a nice water cooled system that now is about 10lbs. heavier than it was the day before and has about zero functionality added to it.
Like I said...its a little too much of an ornate system for most people.
some hood is gonna figure out how to tag these things with porn images and give full length porn movies to subway riders.
"Yeah Joe....we just arrested another bum for pleasuring himself on the subway. We really need to get the public works dept. down there to clean the spray paint off those ads."
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It's called TiVo.
If us men scientists aren't careful...they wont have much of a use for us anymore. Imagine the self-recharging vibrator that never dies.
Well...see...that would have been patent infringement on Blizzard Entertainment, because they would have been Hippograph Riders you see.
SO...who is up for starting that MPAA/RIAA boycott this morning?
First they let X-Files run on 3 seasons too long and it gets just stupid. Then they cancel a show like Firefly. Next thing you know they will axe the best show on tv......24.
George Allen did alot to push technology and its funding as governor of Virginia, so I feel like I can actually trust him to push something like this through. It also helps that congressman Rick Boucher D-Va and he see eye to eye alot on technology. Babs Boxer supposedly knows alot about tech as well, but that remains to be seen.
I guess my point here is that maybe people should focus on talking to representative such as Allen, Boucher, and maybe Boxer when it comes to overturning laws such as the DMCA and to defeating the upcoming ones that are far worse.
Dunno, it's just a thought.
Of course it will work with debian. Everything works with debian. Did you know God installed Earth version 1.0 with apt-get?
I went to college in Harrisonburg. It is the home of James Madison University. JMU's CS curriculum teaches people on the UNIX platform. Most all of the programming assignments are submitted via one of the Sun boxes there. There are a couple programming classes for MS applications but they are by far not the most popular. Also, they teach simple networking based on UNIX and linux as well. So if the city really wanted someone to support the infrastructure they built in the public schools, all they would need to do is form some sort of joint program with the college to have students come over and support it. Maybe give them Internship/CO-OP credits for it. The reality is that if more schools would work with colleges in a format like this then there stands the great possibility of major advancement in technology curriculum on BOTH sides.
Excuse me! I come from a redneck tech area. I now run the IT dept for a Biotech, and I'm damn good at it. The high school I went to had old 386 computers and were peer-2-peered with twisted pair cable running Windows 3.1 when I attended. I learned BASIC, Pascal, AND C++ while attending there and I also maintained the network. We actually had a good computer curriculum and it wasn't because MS or Dell came in and just gave us a bunch of useless machines that weren't going to get used. It was because we had good teachers who were willing to teach us the things we wanted to learn. Tech education is EXACTLY the point of PC's in schools (from the school standpoint) even if the corporate standpoint on it is to gain a tax break. But I think it is deeper than that. I think tech companies are trying to increase what American students learn about computers partially to replace the people who work for them now but wont in the future and partially because many companies are tired of hiring below-par foreign workers and having to sponsor them in this country.
Are you still trying to get that musical version of Julius Caesar off the ground?
I live in a pretty packed section of LA (Hollywood Hills) and I have noticed over the two years I have been here that my cell phone has always been between 1 and 2 bars in my apt. out of 4 (signal strength) yet I used to be able to make phone calls and now I spend half the time not even on the network. The cell towers have gotten so crowded that when you call AT&T they tell you that only about 68% of all calls made from that area are able to get through due to overcrowding. Yet they have no plans to expand in our area for the next year.
It kinda sucks. And I'm locked in by a contract.
Does that mean that they won't have any more PornDex either?
Aww...cmon....it wasnt the same title. They capitalized Really and Big whereas you didnt. That is a difference of two ASCII characters. It was also improper use of capitalization when used in conjunction with a title. Just pointing it out.
Question: What happens when other groups decide to start doing this?
Right now it is just JBoss. But what happens when Apache starts this, then RedHat, then Jakarta, then various other groups. If I have to pay $5k just to be certified and approved for JBoss then these other groups start charging similar fees, it wont be very long before half your yearly salary is eaten up in cert fees and stuff....just so you can say you are certified.
The price of this seems rather escalated. I can understand taking a Cisco cert...you pay $2k...take the test...and thats it...you are certified until they come out with a superior cert. Same with oracle. But what if JBoss doesnt come out with a new version with substantially new features in a year and you still have to pay $5k. This makes no sense to me.
Sure, it may make them look more professional in they eyes of say....some managment people somewhere, but with the fees they are charging, it makes them look less credible to me.
But thats just my opinion.
The LENGTH of the hair is twice as thick as a human hair.....
Stick some Big Red in your eye and 'read a little closer'.
Im already a serious culprit of drive by printing here in LA. I just drive up....find a printer...install a generic HP driver....and print out a 50-60 page document of fluff.
Uh...who printed the entire Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series on the HP 4100 in full duplex?
I just needed a cheaper solution for keeping my apartment warm. Instead of running the heat now...I just put GeForce Vid cards and Athlon XPs in my computers and let the BTU's fly out and keep my apt. warm.
Now if I could just find a way to turn the things into Air Conditioners.
Some bastard out there is gonna file a patent saying he 'discovered' the makeup of air and is gonna try to push that through a court system somewhere. Kinda like the freak who filed this stupid patent. Next thing you know I'll be paying for the air I breathe.
Not that the RIAA will ever read this (are you reading this Hilary Rosen?) but here is an interesting thing that crossed my mind: I bought the System of a Down CD at Tower Hollywood last week for $17.99. It is an hour long CD that took the guys from the band a reported 13 days in the studio to make.
Contrast
I also bought 'The Fellowship of the Ring' DVD at the same store for $19.99. For a measly two dollars more I got a three hour DVD epic and possibly one of the greatest movies ever made not to mention the over two and a half hours of extras that came on the second DVD.
Thought
Did it ever cross anybody's mind that it cost over $100 million dollars to produce market and distribute 'The Fellowship of the Ring' yet it probably cost the recording studio that produced, marketed, and distributed the System CD under $20 million dollars to do the same thing, yet, the CD costs $2 less than the movie i purchased. That is totally ridiculous. THAT is why I never buy CD's. THAT is why I have a DVD collection of over 400 DVDs yet I only own maybe 30 CD's. Truth be told...if I want entertainment at home...I'd rather watch a movie anyways. If I'm in the car...I put on KROQ (its free ya know).
Record companies are greedy conniving bastards who screw over the bands and entertainers they sign by not sharing as much of the profits as they should and then turn around and screw over the people they are trying to entertain by raising the prices so high that nobody will buy the music and when they do...they see absolutely no reason why not to share it with their friends. Just a thought, but maybe when 256 million fans are screaming that music is overpriced and not worth the investment you would realized that your business practices are old, antiquidated, and generally repellant to the public you are pushing them on.
But thats just my opinion!
This brings a WHOLE new light to the idea of the family jewels.
Well...there are a couple points here. A) I'm already running a GeForce Ti4600 B) I'm already running an Athlon 2200+XP C) The reason I did it was to reduce the noice and adequately cool the system in the first place. The last thing a computer needs nowadays is more fans. And if you do the system right...there are no leaks. I havent had a single leak in mine and its been running over a month.
My watercooling kit can bless and revive your dead kittens and grant them a +14 to vit.
I actually bought the $300 system from Innovatek for my gaming rig. It keeps the proc around 32 degrees C. They are kind of expensive and for most people completely over the top useless. In my situation it was perfect because my computer sits in a dead air section of my apt. and just kept recycling the hot air pumping the cpu temp up to about 60....which is too warm for my tastes.
The install hassles for a system like this are too much for most people. You have to drill and clean your case and you have to remove and reinstall all the equipment from it. Then you have to spend the time to connect all the hoses and bleed air out of the system. Then...about 7 hours later (yeah...if you do it right...it can take that long) when you finally boot the PC, you get your just rewards....a nice water cooled system that now is about 10lbs. heavier than it was the day before and has about zero functionality added to it.
Like I said...its a little too much of an ornate system for most people.
but can I hack my DirecTV with it? and if so....will it tell DirecTV that I am using it for hacking?
it brings a whole new spin to the idea of mowing your hot neighbors lawn.
some hood is gonna figure out how to tag these things with porn images and give full length porn movies to subway riders.
"Yeah Joe....we just arrested another bum for pleasuring himself on the subway. We really need to get the public works dept. down there to clean the spray paint off those ads."