Like most "debates", those who best frame the discussion for their own purposes will "seem" to be winning.
Realisticly, it's not just the number of vulnerablities that an operating system or program has, but also how the creator deals with them. There will always be bugs, and we should thus judge software creators not only by how few bugs they have, but also by how quickly they respond to bugs.
I don't think that real guitarists have anything to fret about...it's like Roger Waters says in the film "Live in Pompei" "Give a man a Les Paul, and he doesn't become an Eric Clapton".
It won't be able to compose a Layla, or anything of that caliber...it may be able to *play* Layla, but not create it.
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Farrell
guitarist, among other things...
Back Channel Marketing maybe?
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So, someone in the TV industry clues in to what Microsoft and a few others have know for a long time...Windows and other programs like Word, Autocad, etc are as popular as they are now not by quality, but by the fact that they are freely copied and thus everyone, even poor people learn them, and if they ever are in a situation where they can buy it, they do. Piracy thus creates a vast pre-made audience for a product, be it software, music, books or now TV shows. For all we really know, this release of the show could actually be a test of back-channel marketing. To sell a show, you need to know how popular it is, and only then can you sell commercials for it.
In today's 500+ channel universe, getting "eyeballs" can be hard for a new show on TV...but on the Internet, it's a good chance if you get even a small part of one percent, you will get more viewers than the average new show on network TV. As various groups track P2P transfers, you can get a more accurage accounting of viewership than you can with a random sampling of TV viewers such as Neilson does.
All in all, P2P distribution seems to be a more economical way to judge the possible success of a new show.
Storing it in a fireproof safe will not save it from a fire as "fireproof" simply means that no flames will get in...but if it heats up to 200+ degrees (F or C) the disc will be damaged.
Fireproof safes were designed for protecting *paper*, which has a fairly high ignition point as long as they are not in contact with a flame, a fact which Mr. Bradbury used once as a title.
This past weekend, I was at a Pizza Pizza with der Mouse (yes, that der Mouse), when we were complaining about the cluelessness of HR people about computers and related skills, when a person beside us introduced herself as an HR person with the Canadian Federal Government, and totally agreed with us. Her degree was in Biology and Genetics, but because of the cluelessness of the HR people, she couldn't find a job, although lots were advertised. So, she figured she would "fix it from within", and became an HR person, and found out the hell that HR is.
Appearlently, very, very few HR people last more than 5 years, and it's more like a 2-3 year career for most. The turnover rate is increadable. Companies and The Government need people with technical skills, and put increadable pressure on the HR people, expecting them to deliver really fast. And this pressure burns people out very quickly. So at best, people can learn the buzzwords, and search for them. And this is also a "cover your ass" move, as if you send someone to a company that they don't like, and they gripe to yoru boss about it, you loose your job.
So, ultimately, it's an artificial shortage, causd by companies who don't get good HR people, or spend the time to train them properly...and these people are then clueless about the field they are hiring for, and thus cannot find the people their organization needs.
Think about it...if a virus could never read it's code out of memory, you would never suffer from it...worms would die, and all malware would stop working! It would be great!
Better yet, you can use the Signetics chips in both PCs *AND* Macs!
The shortage is with companies being too picky in hiring!
I know a half dozen types of Unix, but I don't know "X" Unx. Unless I lie and say I know "X" Unix, they won't even look at my resume! And knowing at least half a dozen flavours of Unix, I can probably pick up any reasonable type of Unix in a few weeks.
Or, if you know, say Java, C, Pascal and a few otehr langauges...and they are looking for C++, chances are, you can pick it up in a few weeks.
Companies are looking for too many "exact" matches since they have had the cream of the crop from the Dot-Busts period. Now that those who couldn't get jobs have moved on to something else, they are still too picky in recruiting...so although there is a surplus of techies, they can't find enough people to hire with the "exact" skill set they want. STOOOPPIIIDDDDD!!!!!
ttyl
Farrell...one of those "underemployed" types with qualifications out the yingyang!
Great, the people who sold me the Gigabyte AMD64 motherboard will possibly admit there is a 64 bit operating system now...I had a Gigabyte motherboard that as soon as it got out of the bootloader and went 64 Bit, it would reboot! I should have stuck to ASUS originally.
I swapped out the Gigbyte MB, put in an ASUS...same CPU, Memory, everything and I pass the 64 bit transition, and away I went to load 64Bit Linux! Cool.
He did an excellent job of predicting huge bits of today's world...but don't forget, he based it all upon the work of Heidi and Alvin Toffler...The Shockwave Rider is named after the Toffler's "Future Shock"...and if Brunner is God, then they are the Mother and Father dieties of God.
ttyl
Farrell
Sorry if that offends you monotheists, I'm a Druid.
Having ADD, and my share of Dyslexic problems with numbers and writing, I was able to teach myself to look at words as pictures, rather than collections of sqigly marks. Not everyone can do that, and it has lead some people to also suspect that I am also mildly autistic. I am very good at music, and that is what helps me type well, as I treat words like guitar chords and "runs"...I can't write longhand worth a damn.
You can't "cure" problems like ADD and Dyslexia, but you can use your other skills to work around them...It is like any disablity, just because someone can't walk up a set of stairs doesn't mean they are not a genius and great scientist...ask Mr. Hawking! One of my heros...I mean, the man can barely live, but with lots of help and his talents, he has become one of the formost scientists on the planet today, whose name ranks up there with Einstien, Netwon and Darwin in terms of their name being known. Heck, he can probably give Brittny Spears a run for the money in terms of the number of people who knows who they are!
Don't try and "fix" us, help us by building ramps around our problems!
In doing some benchmarking Pentium III's against Pentium 4s a long time ago, it was very obvious the P3 seemed to be much faster than the P4 at similar clockspeed. About the only place that the P4 did much better was 3d graphics. And nowadays, we are moving to snazzy graphics cards with gobs of memory and processing power, so we don't need as much specialized 3d processing on the CPU.
I am guessing that the Centrino has more in common with the P3, as I haven't had time to dig into the Centrino...but those ratios of clock speeds generating similar results do look familar...
They also have an office in Ottawa, out in Bells Corners, across from the Shoppers Drugmart & Loeb Grocery; and next to a Pizza Pizza, Beer Store and LCBO...It's a wonder if the workers there ever go home?
A friend of mine who is a certain well know West Coast fazine fan once ended up at a party where Berman was at, and talk about a glory hog. He actually was confused that she did want his autograph...
Berman is a cancer in the Star Trek universe, and the sooner he is removed, the better for Trek. I mean, there is a good reason that Majel Barrett (Gene Roddenbury's wife) has had very little to do with Trek since Next Gen....
Now, getting JMS to take over Trek...that is as you said, too sensable, so it would never happen. [sigh]
Back in the 1990s, I used to develop Kiosk Software using IBM's Audio-Visual Connection language. The next generation of that software was called Ultim-Media Builder. At the same time, IBM came out with an extension to DB2 that would allow you to do queries against a database of images...you could say "Find all pictures with a red ball and a tree", and it would find them in the database by "looking" at the pictures, not because of any captions or notes. I never heard if that tech became well know, or if it even still exists. I just thought it was very cool at the time.
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Like most "debates", those who best frame the discussion for their own purposes will "seem" to be winning.
Realisticly, it's not just the number of vulnerablities that an operating system or program has, but also how the creator deals with them. There will always be bugs, and we should thus judge software creators not only by how few bugs they have, but also by how quickly they respond to bugs.
ttyl
Farrell
Not this decade...Back in the 1960's, when the Roger Waters quote is from, he played a Les Paul.
ttyl
Farrell
I don't think that real guitarists have anything to fret about...it's like Roger Waters says in the film "Live in Pompei" "Give a man a Les Paul, and he doesn't become an Eric Clapton".
It won't be able to compose a Layla, or anything of that caliber...it may be able to *play* Layla, but not create it.
ttyl
Farrell
guitarist, among other things...
So, someone in the TV industry clues in to what Microsoft and a few others have know for a long time...Windows and other programs like Word, Autocad, etc are as popular as they are now not by quality, but by the fact that they are freely copied and thus everyone, even poor people learn them, and if they ever are in a situation where they can buy it, they do. Piracy thus creates a vast pre-made audience for a product, be it software, music, books or now TV shows. For all we really know, this release of the show could actually be a test of back-channel marketing. To sell a show, you need to know how popular it is, and only then can you sell commercials for it.
In today's 500+ channel universe, getting "eyeballs" can be hard for a new show on TV...but on the Internet, it's a good chance if you get even a small part of one percent, you will get more viewers than the average new show on network TV. As various groups track P2P transfers, you can get a more accurage accounting of viewership than you can with a random sampling of TV viewers such as Neilson does.
All in all, P2P distribution seems to be a more economical way to judge the possible success of a new show.
ttyl
Farrell
Storing it in a fireproof safe will not save it from a fire as "fireproof" simply means that no flames will get in...but if it heats up to 200+ degrees (F or C) the disc will be damaged.
Fireproof safes were designed for protecting *paper*, which has a fairly high ignition point as long as they are not in contact with a flame, a fact which Mr. Bradbury used once as a title.
ttyl
Farrell
Sci-Fi is not Science Fiction.
Sci-Fi is pronounced "Skiffy", and rhymes with "Jiffy".
It describes things that are like Science Fiction, but have little to do with science...for example, Star Wars is Sci-Fi.
Sometimes it is a term used to describe bad SF as in "Battlefield Earth is just Sci-Fi".
"Sci-Fi is the crutch for those who can't handle real SF!" - nancybuttons.com
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Farrell
Nah, just get an electric furnace, it's more efficient than using 11/84's to heat your place in the winter... :-)
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Farrell
True, but LJ is about community, something we used to have here on Slashdot...
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Farrell
Was suddenly pruned...
Come on, JWZ asked the people not to run to Slashdot about it, kindly honour his privacy request.
ttyl
Farrell
As well, the HR people are Clueless!
This past weekend, I was at a Pizza Pizza with der Mouse (yes, that der Mouse), when we were complaining about the cluelessness of HR people about computers and related skills, when a person beside us introduced herself as an HR person with the Canadian Federal Government, and totally agreed with us. Her degree was in Biology and Genetics, but because of the cluelessness of the HR people, she couldn't find a job, although lots were advertised. So, she figured she would "fix it from within", and became an HR person, and found out the hell that HR is.
Appearlently, very, very few HR people last more than 5 years, and it's more like a 2-3 year career for most. The turnover rate is increadable. Companies and The Government need people with technical skills, and put increadable pressure on the HR people, expecting them to deliver really fast. And this pressure burns people out very quickly. So at best, people can learn the buzzwords, and search for them. And this is also a "cover your ass" move, as if you send someone to a company that they don't like, and they gripe to yoru boss about it, you loose your job.
So, ultimately, it's an artificial shortage, causd by companies who don't get good HR people, or spend the time to train them properly...and these people are then clueless about the field they are hiring for, and thus cannot find the people their organization needs.
ttyl
Farrell
Think about it...if a virus could never read it's code out of memory, you would never suffer from it...worms would die, and all malware would stop working! It would be great!
Better yet, you can use the Signetics chips in both PCs *AND* Macs!
ttyl
Farrell
Yes, I used to be in a Druid grove with de Mouse...Silver Fox Grove, ADF. He's a Cool Frood!
ttyl
Farrell
The shortage is with companies being too picky in hiring!
...one of those "underemployed" types with qualifications out the yingyang!
I know a half dozen types of Unix, but I don't know "X" Unx. Unless I lie and say I know "X" Unix, they won't even look at my resume! And knowing at least half a dozen flavours of Unix, I can probably pick up any reasonable type of Unix in a few weeks.
Or, if you know, say Java, C, Pascal and a few otehr langauges...and they are looking for C++, chances are, you can pick it up in a few weeks.
Companies are looking for too many "exact" matches since they have had the cream of the crop from the Dot-Busts period. Now that those who couldn't get jobs have moved on to something else, they are still too picky in recruiting...so although there is a surplus of techies, they can't find enough people to hire with the "exact" skill set they want. STOOOPPIIIDDDDD!!!!!
ttyl
Farrell
Wow, another Microsoft public Beta!
Great, the people who sold me the Gigabyte AMD64 motherboard will possibly admit there is a 64 bit operating system now...I had a Gigabyte motherboard that as soon as it got out of the bootloader and went 64 Bit, it would reboot! I should have stuck to ASUS originally.
I swapped out the Gigbyte MB, put in an ASUS...same CPU, Memory, everything and I pass the 64 bit transition, and away I went to load 64Bit Linux! Cool.
ttyl
Farrell
He did an excellent job of predicting huge bits of today's world...but don't forget, he based it all upon the work of Heidi and Alvin Toffler...The Shockwave Rider is named after the Toffler's "Future Shock"...and if Brunner is God, then they are the Mother and Father dieties of God.
ttyl
Farrell
Sorry if that offends you monotheists, I'm a Druid.
Lexx makes Red Dwarf seem like a *normal* show...Lexx is...strange....a word that seems to understate the idea...
Now you will be forcing more people to move over to Linux and Mac computers!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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Farrell
Right....sure.....Believe them, for they tell you what to believe...I bet you probably use Windows...How typical.
ttyl
Farrell
HEAR HEAR!!!!!!
Having ADD, and my share of Dyslexic problems with numbers and writing, I was able to teach myself to look at words as pictures, rather than collections of sqigly marks. Not everyone can do that, and it has lead some people to also suspect that I am also mildly autistic. I am very good at music, and that is what helps me type well, as I treat words like guitar chords and "runs"...I can't write longhand worth a damn.
You can't "cure" problems like ADD and Dyslexia, but you can use your other skills to work around them...It is like any disablity, just because someone can't walk up a set of stairs doesn't mean they are not a genius and great scientist...ask Mr. Hawking! One of my heros...I mean, the man can barely live, but with lots of help and his talents, he has become one of the formost scientists on the planet today, whose name ranks up there with Einstien, Netwon and Darwin in terms of their name being known. Heck, he can probably give Brittny Spears a run for the money in terms of the number of people who knows who they are!
Don't try and "fix" us, help us by building ramps around our problems!
ttyl
Farrell
In doing some benchmarking Pentium III's against Pentium 4s a long time ago, it was very obvious the P3 seemed to be much faster than the P4 at similar clockspeed. About the only place that the P4 did much better was 3d graphics. And nowadays, we are moving to snazzy graphics cards with gobs of memory and processing power, so we don't need as much specialized 3d processing on the CPU.
I am guessing that the Centrino has more in common with the P3, as I haven't had time to dig into the Centrino...but those ratios of clock speeds generating similar results do look familar...
ttyl
Farrell
They also have an office in Ottawa, out in Bells Corners, across from the Shoppers Drugmart & Loeb Grocery; and next to a Pizza Pizza, Beer Store and LCBO...It's a wonder if the workers there ever go home?
ttyl
Farrell
Rick Berman is scum.
A friend of mine who is a certain well know West Coast fazine fan once ended up at a party where Berman was at, and talk about a glory hog. He actually was confused that she did want his autograph...
Berman is a cancer in the Star Trek universe, and the sooner he is removed, the better for Trek. I mean, there is a good reason that Majel Barrett (Gene Roddenbury's wife) has had very little to do with Trek since Next Gen....
Now, getting JMS to take over Trek...that is as you said, too sensable, so it would never happen. [sigh]
Ack, now people will think I am a Media fan...
ttyl
Farrell
Back in the 1990s, I used to develop Kiosk Software using IBM's Audio-Visual Connection language. The next generation of that software was called Ultim-Media Builder. At the same time, IBM came out with an extension to DB2 that would allow you to do queries against a database of images...you could say "Find all pictures with a red ball and a tree", and it would find them in the database by "looking" at the pictures, not because of any captions or notes. I never heard if that tech became well know, or if it even still exists. I just thought it was very cool at the time.
ttyl
Farrell
You forgot fattening...
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Farrell
IBM must have some tanj smart people in their upper eschelons to be willing to do something like this!
...information wants to be free!
IBM
You BM
We All BM
For IBM!!!
Now all we need is some other companies to come to their senses and join in.
ttyl
Farrell