ofcourse it was natural... but google went from the standard 2-10 megs(of hotmail and others), past the 100 mark (payed-for yahoo email) and went to 1000 megs... unheard of size increase, THAT is what makes it interesting.
I am about to enter college to study computer networking, and am wondering how slashdotters that are in-the-know, think of my plan/situation:
I have just recently graduated highschool(this month), and have finished 1/2 of the CCNA(v. 3.xx), I have 2 internships, 1 a 9-month(school year) desktop support intership troubleshooter high school staffer machines, printers, etc. The other, a 3 month(june-august) that I am currently in, is a networking intership with the school district's VERY competant Tech department, including cable management stuff, Avaya switch and layer 3 config at the Avaya CLI, etc..
For college, I plan on going to the comm. college's network degree that offers a CCNA, CCNP, Cisco WLAN and Cisco Security(yes, an associates that is based on Cisco classes, i know). I will be eligable to take all those tests, with reasonable assurance of passing.
So I will be a Networker, with about 1 years experience, with as high as a CCNP, and some limited but hands-on experience with Avaya equipment, as well. If I want, in the next 2 years(as I attend the community college's program) to get myself to be 'more attractive' to a potential emploter for being a networkin admin, or similar, what should i focus on? Part-time intership, passing the cert tests, getting non-networking certs as well(A+ and Net+ would not, I am told, be difficult for my knowledge, though studying would be required)?
Any suggestions on what you would want me to do in the next 2 years, so that I would be more valuable to a future employer?
I think his point was 'why the hell does every hotel room have to have a bible?'... and i agree. It is pointless and a waste of money 99 times out of a 100.. People are competant enough to go buy, checkout or borrow scripture if they so choose. It just seems like a waste...
And for that matter, why not have the Kuran in there along with the Mormon's additional Testament?
Yes, you can leave windows and still run every Windows program you want, have it look like Windows, and even upload your password and user account preferences to ease migration... o, wait..
This is BeOS, not Windows. You don't run Winamp5 for Windows on a machine that doesn't have Windows installed. Why do you need "winamp5" specifically, when player X is just as capable? Because it is different, you don't want to change? Then why leave Windows for a new OS.
When you leave Windows and migrate to a new OS, things change. You find replacement applications, software and utilities to fill the holes you have. You don't get to keep everything Windows, and pick and choose what you don't want. Life doesn't work like that, and Zeta, Linux and Mac should not cater to that market. People like that don't want to switch, because they don't want to leave Windows.
just for reference, AOL claims something like 100 million AIM screennames registered, half or one-third in regular use... and AOL claims 30-35 million customers of its ISP... so lets be generous and say 150 million screennames... why not do mock emails?
john@AIM.com != john@AOL.com, for instance... @icq would work too..
Those who try it, will install linux, try to get the sound card to work, and will fail... try to get their HP or Epson printer to work, fail, and decide: "hey, this looks neat, and all, but I don't know how to add software, I don't want to learn this text command thingy, and I can't hear or print anything"... they leave linux, never wanting to try it again, and are thankful they have winodws... it would be DETRIMENTAL to linux, for Microsoft to bundle in linux..
and yes, it is virtually impossible to really use a linux box without openning a command line... regularly.
I wonder if Panasonic would make a PalmOS-based PDA ToughPalm, or similar? I mean, Garmin has a good PDA, with GPS and mapping software, Could you throw a thicker case around the PDA, put a cover over the screen(a la sony viao laptops) and seal it from water leakaged?
atleast they wrote down some form of regulation to impede a company leveraging their monopoly. Microsoft got off with virtually no regulation, and neither AOL or Microsoft have to actually DO anything that will impede their monopolies.
because discovering things about the big bang, the inner works of a star, or other science stuff, while critical, is not nearly as glamorous as developing a pod fit for longterm mars habitation.
But the ad doesn't just win fans to Avril, or what have you. It goes on the charts as being more popular, and thus gets higher Billboard listings, which in turn sells records...
The popularity then becomes a price war, not a listener's choice thing... If the RIAA can pay to have a song essentially raised X number of spots on the Billboard charts, and that new Y ranking improves sales to the point that it outpays the cost of raising it X, then the RIAA profits from this guaranteed, and the charts become just crap.
assume you have a shoutcast/peercast radio station...
I wonder if you could write a scipt that automaticly builds a.mp3(or.ogg, ofcourse) of "And now, ARTIST_OR_BAND_NAME's SONG_TITLE, presented by RECORD_COMPANY." then play the song? How would that work with the RIAA?
They have it... showcased it last year(2) at a expo... it is a pad like 1.5' by 2' and lil whatevers put into pdas or cell phones charge while resting on the pad... cool tech.
Yes, I know. It's usable, although they could be doing a better job with it.
Agreed, and I hope that Apple will improve X, I think it is a great product and offers me(a mac user) and mac os x a lot of power.
As for "Quartz Extreme", there is nothing particularly powerful or novel about it--it's just a stripped down, less featureful version of NeXT's DisplayPostscript from the 1980's--20 year old technology.
I realize, this isn't innovation, sadly, many companies 'reinvent' things... not that it is bad, it is just wrong that they claim to 'be the first' or whatever... I Do think, however, that in the Windows/X11/Mac enviroment, the acceleration and power of Quartz is formitable, esspecially compared to Windows, with the Avalon GUI being one of the few BIG improvements Microsoft is claiming.
I do not, unfortunately, know as much as I would like to about X11. I didn't realize it had hardware acceleration. Does it, like Quartz, offload it's processing to the GPU, or is it just an option. And if it does, it is commonplace for linux distros to use this feature? I had never heard it was capable of offloading the processing power and thought it did its processing on the main CPU.
substantial? I wouldn't go that far, but important nontheless. If a developer writes a program, and open sources it, that developer has no right to be upset when a company or individual uses that program under the terms of the open source liscense used, and does not pay for it. The GPL says you can give it away for free, or charge, but improvements must also be put out under the GPL(essentially). Apple, if they make improvements, which often they do, abides by the license and acts accordingly..
If a developer wants to make a living off a product's sales that he writes, giving it away for free is pretty stupid. Now if he wants to make a living off of support, customization or maintenance for a company off of that product, maybe giving it away for free isn't so bad.
Apple has contributed back to open source software that they encorporate, in many situations... KHTML, for instance, is the best example of Apple using Konq's rendering engine for Safari, hiring multiple fulltime programmers, and then releasing TONS of bugfixes and improvements to the open source community, that were fed into KHTML.
Apple uses OS as a tool, to improve their product, it is open source, it was INTENDED to be able to do that, but they arn't completely ungrateful about it.
I liked the idea of a surplus hummer with retofittings. If a hummer can't get you where you need to be, then you have a problem, not your car.
On that note, is there a chance for a unified software system? Could the schools try an open source AI system for input from monitors(varrying types, depending on the vehicle's equipment) and output into stearing and accel/deceleration?
"No. Clusters are only good for doing tasks that "parallelize". Compiling is too linear. Besides, it's not like you hook up 8 machines to a 10/100 switch, start up a few "cluster daemons", and end up with a single virtual machine."
That, would be AWESOME, though.
"No. Clusters are only good for doing tasks that "parallelize". Compiling is too linear."
Not that you are wrong, but Apple has a technology built into their development suite(which comes free with os X), that lets you use their rondevous networking technology to distributed compiling jobs across the LAN.
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ofcourse it was natural... but google went from the standard 2-10 megs(of hotmail and others), past the 100 mark (payed-for yahoo email) and went to 1000 megs... unheard of size increase, THAT is what makes it interesting.
I am about to enter college to study computer networking, and am wondering how slashdotters that are in-the-know, think of my plan/situation:
I have just recently graduated highschool(this month), and have finished 1/2 of the CCNA(v. 3.xx), I have 2 internships, 1 a 9-month(school year) desktop support intership troubleshooter high school staffer machines, printers, etc. The other, a 3 month(june-august) that I am currently in, is a networking intership with the school district's VERY competant Tech department, including cable management stuff, Avaya switch and layer 3 config at the Avaya CLI, etc..
For college, I plan on going to the comm. college's network degree that offers a CCNA, CCNP, Cisco WLAN and Cisco Security(yes, an associates that is based on Cisco classes, i know). I will be eligable to take all those tests, with reasonable assurance of passing.
So I will be a Networker, with about 1 years experience, with as high as a CCNP, and some limited but hands-on experience with Avaya equipment, as well. If I want, in the next 2 years(as I attend the community college's program) to get myself to be 'more attractive' to a potential emploter for being a networkin admin, or similar, what should i focus on? Part-time intership, passing the cert tests, getting non-networking certs as well(A+ and Net+ would not, I am told, be difficult for my knowledge, though studying would be required)?
Any suggestions on what you would want me to do in the next 2 years, so that I would be more valuable to a future employer?
I think his point was 'why the hell does every hotel room have to have a bible?'... and i agree. It is pointless and a waste of money 99 times out of a 100.. People are competant enough to go buy, checkout or borrow scripture if they so choose. It just seems like a waste...
And for that matter, why not have the Kuran in there along with the Mormon's additional Testament?
easy solution: have your 10meg email box fill up in 57 seconds, and just let the next 11 months and 30 days go by without any new spam:)
i realize this is a joke, but come on... replace the cable.
Yes, you can leave windows and still run every Windows program you want, have it look like Windows, and even upload your password and user account preferences to ease migration... o, wait..
This is BeOS, not Windows. You don't run Winamp5 for Windows on a machine that doesn't have Windows installed. Why do you need "winamp5" specifically, when player X is just as capable? Because it is different, you don't want to change? Then why leave Windows for a new OS.
When you leave Windows and migrate to a new OS, things change. You find replacement applications, software and utilities to fill the holes you have. You don't get to keep everything Windows, and pick and choose what you don't want. Life doesn't work like that, and Zeta, Linux and Mac should not cater to that market. People like that don't want to switch, because they don't want to leave Windows.
just for reference, AOL claims something like 100 million AIM screennames registered, half or one-third in regular use... and AOL claims 30-35 million customers of its ISP... so lets be generous and say 150 million screennames... why not do mock emails?
john@AIM.com != john@AOL.com, for instance... @icq would work too..
heavan forbid, @msn and @yahoo?
Those who try it, will install linux, try to get the sound card to work, and will fail... try to get their HP or Epson printer to work, fail, and decide: "hey, this looks neat, and all, but I don't know how to add software, I don't want to learn this text command thingy, and I can't hear or print anything"... they leave linux, never wanting to try it again, and are thankful they have winodws... it would be DETRIMENTAL to linux, for Microsoft to bundle in linux..
and yes, it is virtually impossible to really use a linux box without openning a command line... regularly.
I wonder if Panasonic would make a PalmOS-based PDA ToughPalm, or similar? I mean, Garmin has a good PDA, with GPS and mapping software, Could you throw a thicker case around the PDA, put a cover over the screen(a la sony viao laptops) and seal it from water leakaged?
atleast they wrote down some form of regulation to impede a company leveraging their monopoly. Microsoft got off with virtually no regulation, and neither AOL or Microsoft have to actually DO anything that will impede their monopolies.
because discovering things about the big bang, the inner works of a star, or other science stuff, while critical, is not nearly as glamorous as developing a pod fit for longterm mars habitation.
But the ad doesn't just win fans to Avril, or what have you. It goes on the charts as being more popular, and thus gets higher Billboard listings, which in turn sells records...
The popularity then becomes a price war, not a listener's choice thing... If the RIAA can pay to have a song essentially raised X number of spots on the Billboard charts, and that new Y ranking improves sales to the point that it outpays the cost of raising it X, then the RIAA profits from this guaranteed, and the charts become just crap.
sure you can, but it still won't be legal:)
assume you have a shoutcast/peercast radio station...
.mp3(or .ogg, ofcourse) of "And now, ARTIST_OR_BAND_NAME's SONG_TITLE, presented by RECORD_COMPANY." then play the song? How would that work with the RIAA?
I wonder if you could write a scipt that automaticly builds a
well we do have Intel, so it isn't like we don't have any tech claim-to-fame.
They have it... showcased it last year(2) at a expo... it is a pad like 1.5' by 2' and lil whatevers put into pdas or cell phones charge while resting on the pad... cool tech.
Has anyone considered throwing RSS specs and code and whatnot onto a sourceforge project and fork RSS?
"And on another note, how cool will it be to have links like Phone Me! on websites - how long until we have that I wonder?"
Isn't Spam in my Inbox bad enough? Why move it to my phone as well?
Should read: The user changing a DEFAULT password and thereby CHANGING the DEFAULT ACCOUNT is a good idea.
The company changing a backdoor password into another but keeping the backdoor is a bad idea.
Don't forget, the backdoor isn't just a defualt username and password, rather, it is hardcoded in, you CAN'T change it.
Agreed, and I hope that Apple will improve X, I think it is a great product and offers me(a mac user) and mac os x a lot of power. As for "Quartz Extreme", there is nothing particularly powerful or novel about it--it's just a stripped down, less featureful version of NeXT's DisplayPostscript from the 1980's--20 year old technology.
I realize, this isn't innovation, sadly, many companies 'reinvent' things... not that it is bad, it is just wrong that they claim to 'be the first' or whatever... I Do think, however, that in the Windows/X11/Mac enviroment, the acceleration and power of Quartz is formitable, esspecially compared to Windows, with the Avalon GUI being one of the few BIG improvements Microsoft is claiming. I do not, unfortunately, know as much as I would like to about X11. I didn't realize it had hardware acceleration. Does it, like Quartz, offload it's processing to the GPU, or is it just an option. And if it does, it is commonplace for linux distros to use this feature? I had never heard it was capable of offloading the processing power and thought it did its processing on the main CPU.
substantial? I wouldn't go that far, but important nontheless. If a developer writes a program, and open sources it, that developer has no right to be upset when a company or individual uses that program under the terms of the open source liscense used, and does not pay for it. The GPL says you can give it away for free, or charge, but improvements must also be put out under the GPL(essentially). Apple, if they make improvements, which often they do, abides by the license and acts accordingly..
If a developer wants to make a living off a product's sales that he writes, giving it away for free is pretty stupid. Now if he wants to make a living off of support, customization or maintenance for a company off of that product, maybe giving it away for free isn't so bad.
Apple has contributed back to open source software that they encorporate, in many situations... KHTML, for instance, is the best example of Apple using Konq's rendering engine for Safari, hiring multiple fulltime programmers, and then releasing TONS of bugfixes and improvements to the open source community, that were fed into KHTML.
Apple uses OS as a tool, to improve their product, it is open source, it was INTENDED to be able to do that, but they arn't completely ungrateful about it.
You are trying to convince tech-savvy readers that quartz extreme, a pretty powerful, video card powered graphics engine is equal to x11?
You, my friend, must not own a mac.
BTW: Apple offers a free, optimized and integrated version of X11, for running apps natively on a mac as well.
I liked the idea of a surplus hummer with retofittings. If a hummer can't get you where you need to be, then you have a problem, not your car.
On that note, is there a chance for a unified software system? Could the schools try an open source AI system for input from monitors(varrying types, depending on the vehicle's equipment) and output into stearing and accel/deceleration?
"No. Clusters are only good for doing tasks that "parallelize". Compiling is too linear. Besides, it's not like you hook up 8 machines to a 10/100 switch, start up a few "cluster daemons", and end up with a single virtual machine."
That, would be AWESOME, though.
"No. Clusters are only good for doing tasks that "parallelize". Compiling is too linear."
Not that you are wrong, but Apple has a technology built into their development suite(which comes free with os X), that lets you use their rondevous networking technology to distributed compiling jobs across the LAN.