Sounds like you're talking about Moanin' Liza. Badly digitized picture of the Mona Lisa regurgiating things you said in question form. I wish I had all those programs from back in the day...
Great. Now I'll have conversations with my girlfriend AND my computer that go something like...
--- You're mad at me.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are. Don't lie. I can tell when you lie.
I'm not lying. And I'm not mad at you.
I can tell you're getting angry.
And somehow I was in a perfectly good mood before this conversation...
You used to love me so much...
WTF. I still love... GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
---
I work at my computer to get away from that every once in a while.:)
If they use md5sum hashing, which the RIAA has already admitted to, all I have to do is change the comment entry in the ID3 tag of an Mp3 and I have a brand-new hash that they'll not be able to identify. That is unless they download it, test it for copyright (listening to it), and then add that hash to their md5sum DB.
But I can change my ID3 tags all day. Can they match me (hypothetically, of course;)) md5sum to ID3? I highly doubt it.
Bah, I think you're right. I've been too long in the "nothing surprising" mode when it comes to this unfortunate aspect of the industry in which I work.
"The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools."
Well had I had this man's ear while he was making this argument, I would politely scream at the top of my lungs that we're simply unable to work for "the minimum wage or lower" in the U.S. The cost of living in this country far outstrips many other places I've heard of.
Anyone who would have seen me at 12 playing Mega Man 2 would realize I was phobic of heights. Remember AirMan? The one that would fling little tornados at you? Hell. His level was terrifying for me. I just couldn't handle falling.
And the first level of Dr. Wily's castle where you were forced by the bastard scrolling to time jumps fluidly so you could get to the robotic dragon? I fell for an hours on end.
But as therapy for phobics? Hah. Am I getting in an airplane anytime soon? Hell no. Knock me out like Mr. T in the A-Team and I'll consider it.
I've been using IE *gulp* for years and years now. Browsing using the program has gotten to the point where its so frustrating and pathetic due to all the bugs that I've downloaded Mozilla and started using it more and more often.
As much as I despise M$, everyone coded for IE, so I gave in. Now Mozilla is making ground in my mind if I want to get stuff done and that can only mean good things if I'm not the only one (and I don't think I am).
Well you can't out-and-out ignore anyone, particularly management. But you can (tell|remind) them that tracking the problem in a good system is as important as writing the code or altering the configuration to suit the needs of management. If you're not tracking the little problems, then you're contributing to that problem's environment, and its future existence on a larger scale.
If they ask me via phone, email or IM, I ignore them until they add the task to DCL. Backed by a simple, yet effective agreement between management and staff to which all people can understand that if its not in DCL its not a trackable problem.
Of course it helps to pitch the idea of what DCL can do for the organization, but past the agreement, let DCL be set in stone.
Something which I think would go a long way to murder MS Office and speed adoption in commercial organizations would be the beginning/progression of a server-side office. Not in the vein of an Exchange replacement, but a bit more fundamental, keying toward interoperability. It would be nice, because I haven't seen any open-source applications that do this, to reduce the Save As functionality in Open Office to a series of command line tools or a good API which would take any arbitrary form of data (XML, YAML, text, etc.) and convert the data to an Office-usable format (doc, xls, etc.)
It would then be desirable to be able to use this as part of my Perl, PHP, C, Java, and Python programs which I have to run a lot at work. That way I can, for instance, write custom forms to input timesheets, generate the timesheets on the fly as *.xls, store them to disk, send them via email, and generally decrease the amount of time it takes to get common clerical tasks completed for the employees, and (hopefully) they'd better spend the 5-10 minutes a week we saved by... I dunno... working.
If there's any tools out there that do this already, and I've just missed the boat (or several), I'd love to know. But if there's nothing out there, I'd love to do it myself. It's the doing that gives me pause.;)
Yes, but you don't get your bills through FedEx. You can't put the USPS out of business because they have the only right to parcel mail. That's federal law, and none would contest it (heh, unfortunately).
Sure the law gets bent every now and again by sending papers through UPS and FedEx (usually for businesses), but the USPS is supposed to be the sole provider of letter-based communications in the United States, period.
Its pretty easy, regardless of the lack of technology in place, to contact recipients whose mail has gone through a particular facility, based simply on the address. Mail sent to location A,B,&C will always be routed through location X. D,E,&F thru Y.
Most likely what has happened is that the process of getting in touch with recipients pulled a fat, gigantic 0 in terms of useful information. That would explain why they want to roll the technology out, and why you haven't heard much, if anything, about it since.
What would potential Anthrax recipients know anyway? Particularly if the attack was random? They need to keep track of who sends the mail. If the technology mentioned at minimum keeps track of senders, receivers, and class, it should be harder at least to anonymously send mail.
And if the Unabomber has taught us anything, its that its easier to keep track of recipients than senders.:)
In some of the early lectures, me and a few others were doing some backchanneling. Sometimes it got goofy, but I thought it a pariticularly good way of being active during the session without forcing the speaker to lose his rhythm by answering a bunch of questions.
As long as noone in the chat or IM is writing diatribes of information, and keeping thoughts in small bite-sized chunks, it's not difficult to keep your eyes, ears and mind on the speaker and your eyes and mind on the chat/IM.
That is only if you can handle doing a few things at once...
HD speed comes from the rotational speed of the seperate disks. With minimal fragmentation, the disk heads don't need to do a lot of moving inward and outward.
So they flip this one on its head (essentially AND no pun intended:)). The disk speed doesn't necessarily matter, but the head speed will need to increase expontentially to account for the loss in RPMs. The head will need to be reinforced to keep from head crashes, which will slow it down further. AND it will require a minimum quality assurance, which hell, it's a corporation. QA isn't going to factor into the first few HD rollouts. If it does I'll be shocked.
Expect seek times to magnify by 10X at least, and far less hours of lifetime. And if you ARE going to be running one of these fresh-off-the-manufacturing-line devices, be sure to have solid DVD-R(W) backups of all your stuff. I'd expect a high-fraction of head crashes in the first few rollouts.
"As IBM executives know, a significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code that comes in from those many different software developers. If source code is code copied from protected Unix code, there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact," the suit said. "As a result, a very significant amount of Unix protected code is currently found in Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.5.x releases in violation of SCO's contractual rights and copyrights."
Hate to say it people, but the executive rag newsmagazines are touting this point as the big point to be had by all of this mess. The people who run your company are now concerned. Hell, my boss asks me on a daily basis how things with SCO is doing.
The problem, though, is that with a few minor exceptions--SysV being one of them--the code which potentially infringes someone's IP is usually... *sigh*....
How the hell is anyone--INCLUDING LINUS--going to be able to know without a shadow of a doubt if contributions to the Linux kernel code potentially treads heavily on someone else's IP. It's impossible.
No one else gets pissed off if/when M$ steals other people's work and incorporates it into their OS. Why? It's closed. They don't know. Unless M$ pulls a dumb blonde like they did with the Stacker code, no one's going to know.
Did a !@#$ing Democrat write the artible commented upon and presented to us here?
Cigarette taxes will stop cigarette use, they say. And while some people are quitting, most are ponying up the cash (which do not go for cancer treatments like they should), or getting cigarettes from different states.
In California, they want to put a similar tax on soda. Because it's unhealthy for you.
They tax the crap out of beer and liquor to protect you. To bolster their revenues which should go to the police to get people for DUIs, but go to any number of things.
Spam is the primordial sin of the Internet. And as with any sin, they want to tax it. And like any sin, they want to tax the !@#$ out of it. Then make promises like, "The proceeds to out to build a better, stronger Internet." What? Are you people !@#$ing kidding me? The Internet is run by telecoms and bureaucrats who don't need anymore of my money than they already get.
Don't worry, it's a progressive tax, so you don't have to pay. Horse!@#$. You're only spanking the small businesses in the country, who definitely don't need another $500.00 a year taken out of their increasingly shrinking revenues thanks to mega-conglomerate corporations playing the "I have more money than you" game.
Not to speak of the fact that if you tax these !@#$heads, you legitimize the whole !@#$ing industry. They can lobby with a purpose (read: vengeance) at that point. They've already got the association ready to go... The only reason why they've survived so long is because the other slice of capitalism gone seriously, seriously wrong, telemarketers, have fended the Government off of them because it could indirectly spank the telemarketing industry.
I think I speak for the majority of Americans on the issue: !@#$ you. Get out of my wallet and get back to your !#@$ing jobs. Figure it out or be honest and quit.
You know, some geeks smoke pot. Given the insanity-to-reality ratio of your post, well... makes me wonder if pot wouldn't a minor plus in your life.:)
C'mon. Be thoroughly interested in how your left hand twitches that certain way when you get pissed off.;) Before you know it you won't realize just what you were pissed off about.:)
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"...and the National Rifle Association says, ah, that guns don't kill people; people do. But I think the gun helps."
-Eddie Izzard
Dammit, in my job I don't survive without 3 or 4 dozen.
Sounds like you're talking about Moanin' Liza. Badly digitized picture of the Mona Lisa regurgiating things you said in question form. I wish I had all those programs from back in the day...
---
You're mad at me.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are. Don't lie. I can tell when you lie.
I'm not lying. And I'm not mad at you.
I can tell you're getting angry.
And somehow I was in a perfectly good mood before this conversation...
You used to love me so much...
WTF. I still love... GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
:)
---
I work at my computer to get away from that every once in a while.
But I can change my ID3 tags all day. Can they match me (hypothetically, of course ;)) md5sum to ID3? I highly doubt it.
Bah, I think you're right. I've been too long in the "nothing surprising" mode when it comes to this unfortunate aspect of the industry in which I work.
Well had I had this man's ear while he was making this argument, I would politely scream at the top of my lungs that we're simply unable to work for "the minimum wage or lower" in the U.S. The cost of living in this country far outstrips many other places I've heard of.
And the first level of Dr. Wily's castle where you were forced by the bastard scrolling to time jumps fluidly so you could get to the robotic dragon? I fell for an hours on end.
But as therapy for phobics? Hah. Am I getting in an airplane anytime soon? Hell no. Knock me out like Mr. T in the A-Team and I'll consider it.
As much as I despise M$, everyone coded for IE, so I gave in. Now Mozilla is making ground in my mind if I want to get stuff done and that can only mean good things if I'm not the only one (and I don't think I am).
Well you can't out-and-out ignore anyone, particularly management. But you can (tell|remind) them that tracking the problem in a good system is as important as writing the code or altering the configuration to suit the needs of management. If you're not tracking the little problems, then you're contributing to that problem's environment, and its future existence on a larger scale.
It is an extremely good project. One that can handle its current job well and has a lot of promise in its roadmap for the future.
'Nuff said.
If they ask me via phone, email or IM, I ignore them until they add the task to DCL. Backed by a simple, yet effective agreement between management and staff to which all people can understand that if its not in DCL its not a trackable problem.
Of course it helps to pitch the idea of what DCL can do for the organization, but past the agreement, let DCL be set in stone.
It would then be desirable to be able to use this as part of my Perl, PHP, C, Java, and Python programs which I have to run a lot at work. That way I can, for instance, write custom forms to input timesheets, generate the timesheets on the fly as *.xls, store them to disk, send them via email, and generally decrease the amount of time it takes to get common clerical tasks completed for the employees, and (hopefully) they'd better spend the 5-10 minutes a week we saved by... I dunno... working.
If there's any tools out there that do this already, and I've just missed the boat (or several), I'd love to know. But if there's nothing out there, I'd love to do it myself. It's the doing that gives me pause. ;)
Sure the law gets bent every now and again by sending papers through UPS and FedEx (usually for businesses), but the USPS is supposed to be the sole provider of letter-based communications in the United States, period.
Most likely what has happened is that the process of getting in touch with recipients pulled a fat, gigantic 0 in terms of useful information. That would explain why they want to roll the technology out, and why you haven't heard much, if anything, about it since.
What would potential Anthrax recipients know anyway? Particularly if the attack was random? They need to keep track of who sends the mail. If the technology mentioned at minimum keeps track of senders, receivers, and class, it should be harder at least to anonymously send mail.
And if the Unabomber has taught us anything, its that its easier to keep track of recipients than senders. :)
To those who have mod'ed my post as a troll, is it because you think I am lying and/or spreading FUD, or does the truth hurt that much?
Trust me, it is not FUD or lies. Sun is desperate in making money any way possible, and this is their OS strategy.
Their strategy? Pick a popular flavor of Linux to sell with their hardware. Hook them on the H/W, then upsell the "more powerful" Solaris.
They're just using Linux as the free enterprise OS drug to get potential customers hooked, then sell them the expensive stuff and keep 'em locked.
As long as noone in the chat or IM is writing diatribes of information, and keeping thoughts in small bite-sized chunks, it's not difficult to keep your eyes, ears and mind on the speaker and your eyes and mind on the chat/IM.
That is only if you can handle doing a few things at once...
So they flip this one on its head (essentially AND no pun intended :)). The disk speed doesn't necessarily matter, but the head speed will need to increase expontentially to account for the loss in RPMs. The head will need to be reinforced to keep from head crashes, which will slow it down further. AND it will require a minimum quality assurance, which hell, it's a corporation. QA isn't going to factor into the first few HD rollouts. If it does I'll be shocked.
Expect seek times to magnify by 10X at least, and far less hours of lifetime. And if you ARE going to be running one of these fresh-off-the-manufacturing-line devices, be sure to have solid DVD-R(W) backups of all your stuff. I'd expect a high-fraction of head crashes in the first few rollouts.
The impression the words give is as important as the words themselves...
Are you stoned, stupid, or just that optimistic? *sigh* I wish they thought differently...
Hate to say it people, but the executive rag newsmagazines are touting this point as the big point to be had by all of this mess. The people who run your company are now concerned. Hell, my boss asks me on a daily basis how things with SCO is doing.
The problem, though, is that with a few minor exceptions--SysV being one of them--the code which potentially infringes someone's IP is usually... *sigh*....
CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSED!
How the hell is anyone--INCLUDING LINUS--going to be able to know without a shadow of a doubt if contributions to the Linux kernel code potentially treads heavily on someone else's IP. It's impossible.
No one else gets pissed off if/when M$ steals other people's work and incorporates it into their OS. Why? It's closed. They don't know. Unless M$ pulls a dumb blonde like they did with the Stacker code, no one's going to know.
It's a villification of open source.
It's a violation of our ways of life.
Worry. Get pissed off. And help fight.
Cigarette taxes will stop cigarette use, they say. And while some people are quitting, most are ponying up the cash (which do not go for cancer treatments like they should), or getting cigarettes from different states.
In California, they want to put a similar tax on soda. Because it's unhealthy for you.
They tax the crap out of beer and liquor to protect you. To bolster their revenues which should go to the police to get people for DUIs, but go to any number of things.
Spam is the primordial sin of the Internet. And as with any sin, they want to tax it. And like any sin, they want to tax the !@#$ out of it. Then make promises like, "The proceeds to out to build a better, stronger Internet." What? Are you people !@#$ing kidding me? The Internet is run by telecoms and bureaucrats who don't need anymore of my money than they already get.
Don't worry, it's a progressive tax, so you don't have to pay. Horse!@#$. You're only spanking the small businesses in the country, who definitely don't need another $500.00 a year taken out of their increasingly shrinking revenues thanks to mega-conglomerate corporations playing the "I have more money than you" game.
Not to speak of the fact that if you tax these !@#$heads, you legitimize the whole !@#$ing industry. They can lobby with a purpose (read: vengeance) at that point. They've already got the association ready to go... The only reason why they've survived so long is because the other slice of capitalism gone seriously, seriously wrong, telemarketers, have fended the Government off of them because it could indirectly spank the telemarketing industry.
I think I speak for the majority of Americans on the issue: !@#$ you. Get out of my wallet and get back to your !#@$ing jobs. Figure it out or be honest and quit.
You know, some geeks smoke pot. Given the insanity-to-reality ratio of your post, well... makes me wonder if pot wouldn't a minor plus in your life. :)
C'mon. Be thoroughly interested in how your left hand twitches that certain way when you get pissed off. ;) Before you know it you won't realize just what you were pissed off about. :)
Me at 12: Uh-huh.
Me: Then you append to that curse-word a noun or or verb-plus-"er" at the end of it.
Me at 12: Okay...
Me: And the bigger-sounding that last word is, the cooler the put-down will be. Like "ass-master".
Me at 12: Ass-master.
Me: Cool. Butt-lord.
Me at 12: Butt-lord!
Me: Now those kids won't have any put-downs better than yours.
Hey, I would have had a much smoother time in junior high. :)