The bigger problem isn't that US Steel companies use offshore labor... it's that US companies buy Steel from offshore Steel companies because US Steel is so damn expensive to make as US workers demand high wages and benefits. So if US Steel can reduce the cost of manufacturing then they can keep producing steel and compete with foreign steel companies. OF course this won't last long as foreign companies will soon discover or recreate the technology and then it will once again be a wage war.
Totally off-topic but isn't that the biggest security hole ever? I mean you just reset the local admin password remotely... was there any security before you were allowed to do this? Could anyone do this who knew the ip address?
bush doesn't need any more money. In any case I'm waiting for it to go up on Ebay... I wonder if I buy my contribution at $10 today can I auction it off later at $200 right before the primaries are finalized?
I have the feeling that the Freedom of Information Act will have something to say about this. Anything to do with law itself is public record. Lexis and Info America own their database and access to it but the public info in the database is still public, you just have to get it from somewhere else unless you pay the access fee.
You could conceivably pay for access, gather all the data somehow through normal queries.. I don't think they have a 'list all records' function though, and put it in your own database with your own schema and query logic.
This wouldn't be at all easy though and then you'd have to arrange for it to get it updated periodically through your own channels cause Lexis, etc would cut you off the minute they heard about you. If you have your own channels for updates why would you bother using Lexis for anything anyways?
If you need a reminder of your experience go buy a poster or have a large format print or even just an 8 x 10 print made up and hang it on your wall of victory or shame as the case may be.
Dude! Why'd you have to bring Johnny 5 into this? I know that Indian CS has been news lately but going all the way back to Short Circuit? It's too much;-p
Actually as far as I know using an MD5 hash (128 bit) for every file in the known digital universe would give you something like 10 to -9 chance of a collision.
Using a 256 bit hash would get you 10 to -17 chance of collision.
e to -m(m-1)/2n where m items are drawn from a pool of n.
from this presentation:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/talks/ssr97/ssr9 7. pdf
"Using Content Derived Names for Configuration Management"
You give people too much credit regarding their cars. Very few people use cruise control or even know it exists... ditto for the channel presets other than the six buttons they can see. These features are middle tech and as we all know from the ubiquitous VCR time set fiasco of the 80s and 90s, 90% of people can't figure out middle tech. It's unfortunate that Windows in particular has fallen into this realm of User Unfriendly where some of the most important features and tools are pseudo-hidden from them. As with all technology, Manuals for Use are available but most people just can't be bothered to read them.
I avoided this whole debacle and self taught. There's nothing in a University system that can not be found outside. They are delapidated institutions riddled with hypocrisy and inefficiency whose only purpose is to line their own coffers with your parents money and whatever grants or 'donations' government and special interests care to give them. The only thing Universities have to offer is resources and peer review. If you plan to be a biochemist or nuclear physicist you're out of luck, otherwise you don't need anything more than a normal consumer grade PC and some motivation as resources. Peer review? Find some semi-intelligent friends, you'll be better off than what the University has to offer.
The truth is that unless you're a lawyer or a broker you won't be making enough money to need a degree/piece of paper until you're 28-30 years old... no matter what. Strangely enough that is when you're also old enough to be taken seriously as an adult and profs, administrators, etc won't be a quick to try to push you around. So if you really need a degree graduate or post graduate, wait until it counts.
Ultimately my advice is to go out and make $15-$20 an hour doing something you really enjoy for awhile, take people on balloon rides or push them off a bridge with a bungie attached, there's no need to get stuck sitting in a desk while you're in your physical prime... plenty of time for that later.
What's really odd is that this is the type of situation that is supposed to happen at home with your family and extended family, low-stress low apprehension interaction that is. Apparently with today's nuclear families and constantly working parents, kids just don't get the normal socialization at home that they're supposed to. Introducing the new extended family... the internet. Very interesting indeed.
when will we just drop the apostrophe altogether? probably because it still has meaning. dLink and eMachine and mLife have implied meaning. that first letter stands for something but contracts the label and makes it stand out from normal sentence fragments you might see in everday situations.
How about when law firms and accounting firms just string together the senior partner's names? Ernst, Young, Jacoby and Myers anyone? It still has meaning but would you do the same thing with a technology company or a dry cleaner or a chemical company? well maybe a chemical company (Johnson and Johnson) but when you see those four names together, most people assume it's either a law firm or accounting firm. Tradition and cultural context... they never cease to amaze me.
Surely the online download stores don't have just one copy of a song from which you download. Imagine the bottleneck of queued up downloads for a top song. So how many copies do they pay for in order to provide this service?
hmmm one BIG problem I see is that anything organic in nature would seem to require the things we only have here, on Earth. So 'growing' something in the vacuum of space seems like a very difficult proposition.
Nope, it means that you may already be inhaling caffeine along with millions of other nanoparticles... straight into your brain, that is if caffeine is a small enough particle.
One of the problems we're having with our own planet is the very fact that yes we can colonize the oceans and deserts, but at what cost? I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about the environment and how fragile some of those ecosystems are. All i ever see in the news is how we are ruining our planet by over-developing it and expanding into environments which can't sustain our needs. Mars is already a wasteland... we can't make it any worse for human habitation and there's not current evidence of other life and if there is other life we could only make it better.
Point is that one day we're gonna run out of land and our planet is really gonna start to feel the impact of our expanding poplulation.
Is it me or is the latest use for technology enforcing ethics where in the past it was left up to the individual to decide if he/she thought it was worth the risk to flout conventions in society? Anyone who already lives ethically isn't going to complain too much about this stuff but there has always been a segment of society that felt that some areas of ethics were a little more grey than the rest of us. It will be interesting to see how this really affects life as we know it. How many things in life have been dependent on activities that the ethical/just among us would rather not know about but which have been vital in maintaining our standard of living nontheless?
I go with DirecTV as my healthcare provider that I'll be limited to PPO 10 or PPO 20 medical plans? I mean HMOs are so much cheaper these days and I'm young so I don't really need more than emergency care and the occaxional flu shot anyways...
Do you know anything about DirecTV's Dental or Vision plans that we/.ers need to know before we get locked in?
The article you reference has some good points I'm sure. You're own statement on the other hand,
"Anyone who thinks we can just teraform mars into a habitable planet in the next 300 years when we can't even keep the ISS leak-free is seriously deluded..."
isn't nearly as well thought out. To be sure Mars or the Moon are inhospitable places but the fact is that the most inhospitable , uninhabitable hardest to maintain environment imaginable is the cold vacuum of Space.
We humans are very adept at adapting to our environment but space isn't an environment, it is the total lack of one. In space we have nothing but what we bring with us. We need someplace with a 'ground' to walk on, build on, dig into and otherwise adapt to our needs.
Gravity is really cool because it means that when you put something somewhere it generally stays there, which means you can drop off supplies, raw materials for building things, on the moon or on Mars over decades of launches... and they'll be there long enough for us to use them later when we arrive.
To sum up:
The Moon provides an ideal location for building a colony - it has plenty of mass, pre-existing raw materials, enough gravity to be useful and most importantly it is close enough that we could send anything we need for colonization there on unmanned missions over a short period of time and for a reasonable amount of capital.
Mars on the other hand has everything plus more adequate gravity but is inordinately far away at this time for our current level of tech. Maybe in another 20 years we'll be ready. Other than distance though it is just fine for colonization and ultimately a better destination than the moon or any other planet in our system.
I wonder how well that does when it's dropped from more than 6 inches... I'm imagining the elastic acting like a bungie cord that's been strung too low, making what would have been one impact into a succession of lesser but still damaging impacts;-p
You should consider buying a used G5 or G4 machine and installing Linux on it. By buying used you can forego the OS tax. If you wait about 4 months there should be some good G5 deals available through the usual channels, eBay, etc.
As a Machead, what do I care if Apple sells *more* machines? The shareholders maybe should be a little pissed or at least concerned... but as a User of the technology I have absolutely nothing to complain about, what Jobs has let slip in sales he has more than made up for in innovation, bringing me and my peers argueably the best OS and Hardware available to anyone.
We've nothing to complain about and everything to be excited about.
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The bigger problem isn't that US Steel companies use offshore labor... it's that US companies buy Steel from offshore Steel companies because US Steel is so damn expensive to make as US workers demand high wages and benefits. So if US Steel can reduce the cost of manufacturing then they can keep producing steel and compete with foreign steel companies. OF course this won't last long as foreign companies will soon discover or recreate the technology and then it will once again be a wage war.
Totally off-topic but isn't that the biggest security hole ever? I mean you just reset the local admin password remotely... was there any security before you were allowed to do this? Could anyone do this who knew the ip address?
bush doesn't need any more money. In any case I'm waiting for it to go up on Ebay... I wonder if I buy my contribution at $10 today can I auction it off later at $200 right before the primaries are finalized?
I have the feeling that the Freedom of Information Act will have something to say about this. Anything to do with law itself is public record. Lexis and Info America own their database and access to it but the public info in the database is still public, you just have to get it from somewhere else unless you pay the access fee.
You could conceivably pay for access, gather all the data somehow through normal queries.. I don't think they have a 'list all records' function though, and put it in your own database with your own schema and query logic.
This wouldn't be at all easy though and then you'd have to arrange for it to get it updated periodically through your own channels cause Lexis, etc would cut you off the minute they heard about you. If you have your own channels for updates why would you bother using Lexis for anything anyways?
If you need a reminder of your experience go buy a poster or have a large format print or even just an 8 x 10 print made up and hang it on your wall of victory or shame as the case may be.
"Also, I'm a little disappointed they're only focused on the enterprise world."
They've got to start somewhere. May as well be somewhere they can make some money to put back into the investment... hopefully they will.
Dude! Why'd you have to bring Johnny 5 into this? I know that Indian CS has been news lately but going all the way back to Short Circuit? It's too much;-p
Actually as far as I know using an MD5 hash (128 bit) for every file in the known digital universe would give you something like 10 to -9 chance of a collision.
9 7. pdf
Using a 256 bit hash would get you 10 to -17 chance of collision.
e to -m(m-1)/2n where m items are drawn from a pool of n.
from this presentation:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/talks/ssr97/ssr
"Using Content Derived Names for Configuration Management"
You give people too much credit regarding their cars. Very few people use cruise control or even know it exists... ditto for the channel presets other than the six buttons they can see. These features are middle tech and as we all know from the ubiquitous VCR time set fiasco of the 80s and 90s, 90% of people can't figure out middle tech. It's unfortunate that Windows in particular has fallen into this realm of User Unfriendly where some of the most important features and tools are pseudo-hidden from them. As with all technology, Manuals for Use are available but most people just can't be bothered to read them.
I avoided this whole debacle and self taught. There's nothing in a University system that can not be found outside. They are delapidated institutions riddled with hypocrisy and inefficiency whose only purpose is to line their own coffers with your parents money and whatever grants or 'donations' government and special interests care to give them. The only thing Universities have to offer is resources and peer review. If you plan to be a biochemist or nuclear physicist you're out of luck, otherwise you don't need anything more than a normal consumer grade PC and some motivation as resources. Peer review? Find some semi-intelligent friends, you'll be better off than what the University has to offer.
The truth is that unless you're a lawyer or a broker you won't be making enough money to need a degree/piece of paper until you're 28-30 years old... no matter what. Strangely enough that is when you're also old enough to be taken seriously as an adult and profs, administrators, etc won't be a quick to try to push you around. So if you really need a degree graduate or post graduate, wait until it counts.
Ultimately my advice is to go out and make $15-$20 an hour doing something you really enjoy for awhile, take people on balloon rides or push them off a bridge with a bungie attached, there's no need to get stuck sitting in a desk while you're in your physical prime... plenty of time for that later.
What's really odd is that this is the type of situation that is supposed to happen at home with your family and extended family, low-stress low apprehension interaction that is. Apparently with today's nuclear families and constantly working parents, kids just don't get the normal socialization at home that they're supposed to. Introducing the new extended family... the internet. Very interesting indeed.
when will we just drop the apostrophe altogether? probably because it still has meaning. dLink and eMachine and mLife have implied meaning. that first letter stands for something but contracts the label and makes it stand out from normal sentence fragments you might see in everday situations.
How about when law firms and accounting firms just string together the senior partner's names? Ernst, Young, Jacoby and Myers anyone? It still has meaning but would you do the same thing with a technology company or a dry cleaner or a chemical company? well maybe a chemical company (Johnson and Johnson) but when you see those four names together, most people assume it's either a law firm or accounting firm. Tradition and cultural context... they never cease to amaze me.
Surely the online download stores don't have just one copy of a song from which you download. Imagine the bottleneck of queued up downloads for a top song. So how many copies do they pay for in order to provide this service?
hmmm one BIG problem I see is that anything organic in nature would seem to require the things we only have here, on Earth. So 'growing' something in the vacuum of space seems like a very difficult proposition.
Ah HA! I've been waiting a long time for this... my new sig!
Thanks mate.
Nope, it means that you may already be inhaling caffeine along with millions of other nanoparticles... straight into your brain, that is if caffeine is a small enough particle.
One of the problems we're having with our own planet is the very fact that yes we can colonize the oceans and deserts, but at what cost? I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about the environment and how fragile some of those ecosystems are. All i ever see in the news is how we are ruining our planet by over-developing it and expanding into environments which can't sustain our needs. Mars is already a wasteland... we can't make it any worse for human habitation and there's not current evidence of other life and if there is other life we could only make it better.
Point is that one day we're gonna run out of land and our planet is really gonna start to feel the impact of our expanding poplulation.
How's that for a reason?
Is it me or is the latest use for technology enforcing ethics where in the past it was left up to the individual to decide if he/she thought it was worth the risk to flout conventions in society? Anyone who already lives ethically isn't going to complain too much about this stuff but there has always been a segment of society that felt that some areas of ethics were a little more grey than the rest of us. It will be interesting to see how this really affects life as we know it. How many things in life have been dependent on activities that the ethical/just among us would rather not know about but which have been vital in maintaining our standard of living nontheless?
I go with DirecTV as my healthcare provider that I'll be limited to PPO 10 or PPO 20 medical plans? I mean HMOs are so much cheaper these days and I'm young so I don't really need more than emergency care and the occaxional flu shot anyways...
/.ers need to know before we get locked in?
Do you know anything about DirecTV's Dental or Vision plans that we
The article you reference has some good points I'm sure. You're own statement on the other hand,
"Anyone who thinks we can just teraform mars into a habitable planet in the next 300 years when we can't even keep the ISS leak-free is seriously deluded..."
isn't nearly as well thought out. To be sure Mars or the Moon are inhospitable places but the fact is that the most inhospitable , uninhabitable hardest to maintain environment imaginable is the cold vacuum of Space.
We humans are very adept at adapting to our environment but space isn't an environment, it is the total lack of one. In space we have nothing but what we bring with us. We need someplace with a 'ground' to walk on, build on, dig into and otherwise adapt to our needs.
Gravity is really cool because it means that when you put something somewhere it generally stays there, which means you can drop off supplies, raw materials for building things, on the moon or on Mars over decades of launches... and they'll be there long enough for us to use them later when we arrive.
To sum up:
The Moon provides an ideal location for building a colony - it has plenty of mass, pre-existing raw materials, enough gravity to be useful and most importantly it is close enough that we could send anything we need for colonization there on unmanned missions over a short period of time and for a reasonable amount of capital.
Mars on the other hand has everything plus more adequate gravity but is inordinately far away at this time for our current level of tech. Maybe in another 20 years we'll be ready. Other than distance though it is just fine for colonization and ultimately a better destination than the moon or any other planet in our system.
You might check here
They organize potential bags/cases by dimension using the laptop's published specs as a cross-reference.
I wonder how well that does when it's dropped from more than 6 inches... I'm imagining the elastic acting like a bungie cord that's been strung too low, making what would have been one impact into a succession of lesser but still damaging impacts ;-p
You should consider buying a used G5 or G4 machine and installing Linux on it. By buying used you can forego the OS tax. If you wait about 4 months there should be some good G5 deals available through the usual channels, eBay, etc.
As a Machead, what do I care if Apple sells *more* machines? The shareholders maybe should be a little pissed or at least concerned... but as a User of the technology I have absolutely nothing to complain about, what Jobs has let slip in sales he has more than made up for in innovation, bringing me and my peers argueably the best OS and Hardware available to anyone.
We've nothing to complain about and everything to be excited about.
It's your imaginary girlfriend you should be worred about... sorry, I meant your 'virtual' girlfriend... ;-s