Due to a managerial dictate, I am installing internet monitoring software on a machine in the IS dept. With this software we can view the pages people frequent, and block things like ebay, etc. The logs are very comprehensive, and serve to only block sites of people that abuse their privlages at work. I don't really like the idea of censoring the content in any way. But this is a corporate enviornment, and company has a right to restrict employees from abusing the companies resources, just like they would if someone spent hours on the phone about personal matters every day. I guess I'm pretty hypocritical since i am posting on slashdot right now, during work:-) Of course, since I am the administrator, I can make sure that I don't block any sites that I want to access!
I argue that even in an open source/electronic publication certain biases will form based on the opinions/ideas that people who use the resource. Any major publication, even respectable ones, are judged to have certain editorial biases. The Washinton Post is regarded as a slightly "left-wing" publication, which is not to say that there are no "right-wing" editorals or articles. The source of this bias is not readily identifiable. It can be attributed to many factors, the editors, the owners (publishers), and of course the general readership. Though perhaps not as good an example, slashdot exhibits these same trends, a bias towards open source. Again, there are many reasons for this bias, primarily due to the readership it attracts, as well as the editors. It clearly exhibits targeted editorialization. This moderation system only serves to enhance such biases, I've never seen a post trashing linux and advocating windows, however eloquent, moderated UP:-) Modern scientific journals have the same type of bias present in the types of scientific information they publish. Again, this is due to the readership AND the editors. When forming an electronic publication, even one that is "moderated" by the readership, the same types of biases will eventually be formed. Especially as the site gains a reputation, people with similar interest in subjects will frequent the site. It is very nearly *impossible* to accurately represent many different scientific ideas, without forming some kind of bias in the publication, be it electronic or not. It then becomes an issue of finding a publication that suits your needs. Electronic publishing simply makes it easier (and cheaper) for less well known researches to publish their works, and also easier for researches to search works without browsing through years of paper journals. I heartily endorse electronic publications, and think that they help make editorial biases irrelevant by allowing users to better filter items THEY are interested, but I don't necessarily expect it to do much to eliminate reader/publisher biases.
I would have to say that if he stole your content with a perl script to embed it into his page, that it would be a geniune violation of copyright laws. Other then that, it is perfectly reasonable to make sure that your page is at the top, if only to ensure that your frames don't get broken (if you use 'em). This guy shouldn't complain. As for keeping it out of court, thats what you can expect big business to do, hopefully they won't change the way the rest of us work on the internet.
Using a traditional DVD player and a LCD projecter would yield very poor quality results when projected on to a very large screen. DVD resolution is around 500 lines the theoretical max of standard NTSC television (HDTV will of course enhance that). Even the highest HDTV (1080 vertical lines) standard does not have quite the resolution for a full movie theater screen (>20"). Star Wars will be recorded at something greater then 1600X1200, at 16:9 aspect ratio. I wish I could remember exactly what the resolution is, maybe someone else knows.
A 16.5 inch panel pretty much defeats the point of calling it a "notebook". Doing some simple math based on a diagonal size of 16.5" and an aspect ratio of 3:4, we discover that the width of the screen *alone* is 13.2" and 9.9" high. A "notebook" is only supposed to be a hair over 8.5" X 11" right? This portable will be at the very least 10.5" X 13.5", even if they manage to slim the whole notebook down to.7-.8" high thats still a large notebook, not to mention the heft they are going to add too it trying to fit a battery large enough to power a screen that size for a long time. Man, I bet some notebook/briefcases won't even fit something that big! Thanks, but no thanks, I'll keep screens that big on my desk, get me higher res for my lap.
It sure is a hell of a lot cheaper then the alternatives, which run on NT. Cost for Microsofts solution start at about $4.5k and move up from that, plus factor another 1.2k for NT server (or is that included, don't really know, either way...). And of course, the obligatory $30k quad processor, multi-nic server;-) Hey if if RedHat can make a buck, contribute to open source, and popularize Linux, I ain't complaining.
I think this is one of the most attractive computer cases I have ever seen. It has none of the gaudiness of an iMac and all the mod-style. From these pictures, it looks sturdy and well designed, those black boxes from Acer, etc, eminate cheapness. Its two tone dark grey reminds me of a high-end brushed aluminum appliance or stereo, ever seen high end audio gear from a company known as krell? Very cool. Hopefully they won't screw up the keyboard/mouse as much as Apple did on their new machines, thats a major dissapointment to me, esp. on the G3, tho a petite female friend of mine loves the keyboard/mouse on her iMac. Unfortunately for us computer geeks, the old Amiga is dead, this is clearly a consumer product, aimed at the same people who buy iMacs and cheap PCs, but it still looks great, I would love to have one for web surfing and light takes, and leave my ugly, mostrous and beige box for Linux.
In all seriousness, I'm not saying you *have* to move, but if there is a significant grievance, you *can* move. You don't need a union to decide if you have grievances or not. You may have significant reasons to not move, that is *always* a trade off of any such negotiation. Unions don't change that. All I'm saying is, as a high-tech worker, in an incredibly strong market, you don't need a union, and all the many problems associated it. Unions protect workers from companies that are in a position to take advantage of their workers, like the steel industry, etc. But we, as tech workers, aren't generally being taken advantage of (I know there are exceptions, and those are the people I am talking to when I say *move*), there is just too much demand. I don't want to see an obligatory union, I want to be able to make my own choices. But your point is well taken, as a 19 year old, my attachments are few, but 10 years from now, that could be different, moving is not always a good option, but it *is* an option.
The next Star Wars film (Episode 2) is being shot digitally. It will be the first movie to be completely digital. By the time it is released, more movie theaters will support digital projection of the movie as well, otherwise it still requires the digital images to be printed to an analog film strip. But when we get HDTV/DVD players, it will be easy to remaster the movie onto them.
Unfortunately private companies have a sole purpose of making a buck. If they can't see any useful return on their investments (space research is VERY expensive) they aren't going to invest in it. The benefits of space research are long term, and broad reaching, with no immediate incentive for investors. Does that mean they aren't valueable? Certainly not. The very silicon chip that you are running on right now is a spin-off of space research. In addition, I would argue that it is also a great benefit to have these technologies "open source". Much of NASA's research is publicly available and has helped to spin off many more technologies in recent years by private companies, like exotic lightweight alloys, etc. What's good for linux is good for research too!and we aren't going to get public research from private companies. Private space companies are not interested in the kind of scientific research that a gov't funded organization like NASA is. They build rockets and communication satellites, but if they can't make a buck off it, they aren't going to send it in to space, or build it. The problem is not so much that they are cutting 10% of NASA's budget, I'm sure that not all of the projects NASA is whining about will really be affected, presumably they will only be able to complete 90% of their projects. The problem is, its a step in the wrong direction. In another 5 years it will be another 10% cut. Support gov't funded NASA, its a small price to pay for great things down the road, and compared to other gov't projects, NASA is CHEAP!
But its this power to move, and the fact that you will probably be snatched up before you can say, "I sent you my resume, did you get it?", that gives you the power to make demands. You don't need a union to represent you. Like the article said, when the high-tech market levels out, maybe there will be a need for a union. But not now, and thats something to be thankful of. Spyky
I just want to provoke a discussion about the MPAA rating system, which is particularly ludicrous. A movie which has graphic violence, is often rated far less then a movie which has sexual content, or foul language. You may think that language and sexual content is disgusting and shouldn't be seen by children, and I will agree with you, for the most part, with one question: who decides who is "mature" enough? Isn't that the parents job? At any rate, what harm does sex or language really do to a young persons psyche. I am particularly concerned with the over 13 and less then 17 category who are restricted from seeing "R" movies without a parent. Trust me, at the age of 19, I *know* that every children knows what pretty much any sexual act is and various terms for them by the age of 13, and of course so called "dirty" language. The real problem is violence. You can turn on any TV show or cartoon and see graphic violence at the age of 2. Incredibly violent movies only receive a PG rating. The distinction between the violence of a PG movie is that it is slapstick, sometimes comedic. It shows no pain, or suffering as a result of the violence, thus the MPAA gives it a rating for general audience (practically anyone over the age of 5). I argue that this is far more dangerous violence then say, a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" which displays, graphically, the horror and disgusting nature of violence. In a PG movie, or a PG-13 movie, where some character is shot with a gun he falls to the floor and dies, with no blood, because that would give it an R rating. A fistfight or martial arts display always results in someone falling to the floor, "defeated". But from this kind of action, a young child learns nothing of the responsibility, or repercussions that result from violence. This reinforcement of non-effectual violence from an early age is what causes young people to idolize violent behavior. Banning them from seeing movies like "the Matrix" is too little, too late. They'll see it anyway, even if you don't think they should. I think the MPAA needs to seriously re-evaluate their rating scheme, but the religious right will continue to force them to give sexual but non-violent movies an R rating, while letting kids see so called harmless, yet very violent, movies. Ludicrous. Its up to the parents ultimately to decide what their children are ready for.
That is the most absurd statement I have ever heard. They are 14-15 years old, and there are 4 of them. They can walk into many many more dangerous places then a suburban movie theater. If they were younger, or one kid alone, I might be able to understand your concern, otherwise... If you think they are going to "disappear" or be molested you better not even let them out of their rooms, EVER! Being this paranoid is simply absurd.
I can write a malicious Macro Virus in Micro$oft Word just as I can use BO2K or even SMS to maliciously tamper with someone's machine. I argue that M$ security problems with Visual Basic in its Office apps are far more of a security problem then trojans like BO2K. Windows has a LOT of security problems, least of which is the "features" that cDc took advantage of to hide the trojan in other processes threads. Micro$oft needs to shut up and start fixing holes and stop pointing its fingers at people who exploit them. That's what people do, it might be wrong, but people are going to do it anyway. Shut your hole and start fixing security issues Bill.
If you just blatently call John Katz a moron and say that this whole thing is a load of horse shit, then you are going to get moderated down, write something critical and intelligent and you won't, and get a login name, maybe you can be a moderator too
I'm not particuarly concerned about giving my social security number out, but I know a lot of people who are, including my mother. Virginia passed a law that doesn't require your SSN on your drivers license, and my mom immediately got a new one, I don't care really, so I will leave mine on. My real question is, why be concerned? Sure someone with my SSN can perhaps look up tax records or whatever with my number, but seriously, who cares, so they know how much I make, and if I paid my taxes. Big deal! If you ask how much I ask, ask me in person, I'll tell you. This is not to say I don't care about my privacy, I certainly do. When surfing the web is no longer "anonymous" count me out, I dislike pages that require "free" registrations, but sometimes submit if there service is valuable enough. I just don't understand the paranoia that some people have about giving out their social security number, what about your address, I don't like giving that out either, and anyone who can get information about me based on my SSN can probably find the same information in reverse working from my name and address.
This is great technology, and at $300 for a hub and $100 for a card for an iBook, its damn cheap too. This isn't *new* exactly, the IEEE 802.11 standard has been out for a while, but not this cheap, or this fast. I really hope Apple will give this cool tech a kick start into the home market. The iBook has a built in antenna, to make this work with a PC or a G3 PowerBook, its going to require an external antena, which doesn't appear to be on the card Apple is selling for the iBook. Here is a card that does have it. As well as some cards for desktops (ISA, yuck:-(, at sub 10mbps speeds it doesn't matter I guess) The FAQ says that 11mbps will be available *soon*, I guess that means now, because Apple is releasing theirs, the web page is just not quite up to date. I imagine that it wouldn't be *too* difficult for someone to hack up a driver for Linux, especially if its for the ISA card Lucent offers, for those of you who want to network their home without running wires. At $300 for a 10 user hub, its probably cheaper then running wires, unless you REALLY enjoy that sort of thing.
Maybe I'm just out of the loop, because I don't even get cable, let alone watch VH1 or MTV, but does MTV own/control VH1? The press release says it will sell digital music on VH1.COM as well as MTV.COM and other sites they obviously own. Anyway, if they do own VH1, what is the point, don't they play the same overplayed, alternative/Top40 unoriginal @#%$? Which I assume is the same kind of stuff they are going to sell, so count me out.
I have a Palm III now, I'm thinking about selling it, and getting the Palm V, basically because of the size, were the Palm III fits in my pocket, the Palm V fits nicer. Contrary to your statement, the Palm V DOES have a cover, its pretty cool actually, it slides in the same slot that the pen slides into (there are slots on both sides, so you can hold both the pen and the cover, or switch the orientation if you are left handed). Its not as tough as the PalmIII hard cover perhaps, but its plenty tough enough to stop incidental damages that could occur while its in your pocket.
Oh, I see how it is. If I actually MAKE my own spray paint (mix all the pigments and stuff), and spray my symbol on someone else's wall, thats not vandalism. Whatever dude... Its all vandalism.
Good call, I'm 18, and able to vote in my first presidential election this coming year. I'm going to vote Libertarian, not because I expect such a candidate to win, but because Libertarians are the *only* party to have a sensible and well-defined high-tech related policies. I think its quite possible that a few districts may elect a Libertarian congressman for next term. After all we already have a socialist:-) Yay libertarians!
Actually I think it is quite reasonable to expect the slashdot community to "bash" new versions of Microsoft OSes before they are released. Microsoft has never completely fullfilled their promises of any of their OS releases, why should we expect this one to be any more? I don't buy (or get for free) a product for my IS dept based on who makes it either, thank you. I choose based on many factors, including performance and stability, ease of maintence, and very importantly cost. That last catagory NT 2000 Enterprise clearly falls far short of Linux, even if it does live up to the expectations set forth in the "white papers", and even *equal* the performance and stability of linux. I think you need to get a life and evaluate your options before you spend $1k+ on each installation of a server OS, and even more upgrading a server to meet its requirements.
I am a college student and work in the summer in Washington, DC for an hourly wage. I routinely work 5+ hours a week overtime, and since I am not salaried, DC law requires that I be payed overtime. Last summer, my hourly wage was lower, but I did recieve overtime. This summer, with a new HR director in my office, I have not been recieving overtime pay (time and a half). However, I haven't complained, because I would rather work 45 hours and get payed at regular wage then not be able to work those extra hours at all. They could limit me to only being able to work 40 hours a week like most of my friends in similar situations. So, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, I *should* be payed extra for the hours I work overtime, but I don't want to ask for fear of losing the privalege to work extra time at all. What should I do?
Here is an interesting paper about doing just that, generating power from your shoes. Here is another. And another from IBM. I believe that MIT media labs has this technology used to power their "wearable" computers. But this could certainly be extended to power an ordinary laptop
Slashdot Mirror
Due to a managerial dictate, I am installing internet monitoring software on a machine in the IS dept. With this software we can view the pages people frequent, and block things like ebay, etc. The logs are very comprehensive, and serve to only block sites of people that abuse their privlages at work. I don't really like the idea of censoring the content in any way. But this is a corporate enviornment, and company has a right to restrict employees from abusing the companies resources, just like they would if someone spent hours on the phone about personal matters every day. I guess I'm pretty hypocritical since i am posting on slashdot right now, during work :-) Of course, since I am the administrator, I can make sure that I don't block any sites that I want to access!
Spyky
I argue that even in an open source/electronic publication certain biases will form based on the opinions/ideas that people who use the resource. Any major publication, even respectable ones, are judged to have certain editorial biases. The Washinton Post is regarded as a slightly "left-wing" publication, which is not to say that there are no "right-wing" editorals or articles. The source of this bias is not readily identifiable. It can be attributed to many factors, the editors, the owners (publishers), and of course the general readership. Though perhaps not as good an example, slashdot exhibits these same trends, a bias towards open source. Again, there are many reasons for this bias, primarily due to the readership it attracts, as well as the editors. It clearly exhibits targeted editorialization. This moderation system only serves to enhance such biases, I've never seen a post trashing linux and advocating windows, however eloquent, moderated UP :-)
Modern scientific journals have the same type of bias present in the types of scientific information they publish. Again, this is due to the readership AND the editors. When forming an electronic publication, even one that is "moderated" by the readership, the same types of biases will eventually be formed. Especially as the site gains a reputation, people with similar interest in subjects will frequent the site. It is very nearly *impossible* to accurately represent many different scientific ideas, without forming some kind of bias in the publication, be it electronic or not. It then becomes an issue of finding a publication that suits your needs. Electronic publishing simply makes it easier (and cheaper) for less well known researches to publish their works, and also easier for researches to search works without browsing through years of paper journals. I heartily endorse electronic publications, and think that they help make editorial biases irrelevant by allowing users to better filter items THEY are interested, but I don't necessarily expect it to do much to eliminate reader/publisher biases.
Spyky
I would have to say that if he stole your content with a perl script to embed it into his page, that it would be a geniune violation of copyright laws. Other then that, it is perfectly reasonable to make sure that your page is at the top, if only to ensure that your frames don't get broken (if you use 'em). This guy shouldn't complain. As for keeping it out of court, thats what you can expect big business to do, hopefully they won't change the way the rest of us work on the internet.
Spyky
Using a traditional DVD player and a LCD projecter would yield very poor quality results when projected on to a very large screen. DVD resolution is around 500 lines the theoretical max of standard NTSC television (HDTV will of course enhance that). Even the highest HDTV (1080 vertical lines) standard does not have quite the resolution for a full movie theater screen (>20"). Star Wars will be recorded at something greater then 1600X1200, at 16:9 aspect ratio. I wish I could remember exactly what the resolution is, maybe someone else knows.
A 16.5 inch panel pretty much defeats the point of calling it a "notebook". Doing some simple math based on a diagonal size of 16.5" and an aspect ratio of 3:4, we discover that the width of the screen *alone* is 13.2" and 9.9" high. A "notebook" is only supposed to be a hair over 8.5" X 11" right? This portable will be at the very least 10.5" X 13.5", even if they manage to slim the whole notebook down to .7-.8" high thats still a large notebook, not to mention the heft they are going to add too it trying to fit a battery large enough to power a screen that size for a long time. Man, I bet some notebook/briefcases won't even fit something that big! Thanks, but no thanks, I'll keep screens that big on my desk, get me higher res for my lap.
Spyky
It sure is a hell of a lot cheaper then the alternatives, which run on NT. Cost for Microsofts solution start at about $4.5k and move up from that, plus factor another 1.2k for NT server (or is that included, don't really know, either way...). And of course, the obligatory $30k quad processor, multi-nic server ;-) Hey if if RedHat can make a buck, contribute to open source, and popularize Linux, I ain't complaining.
Spyky
I think this is one of the most attractive computer cases I have ever seen. It has none of the gaudiness of an iMac and all the mod-style. From these pictures, it looks sturdy and well designed, those black boxes from Acer, etc, eminate cheapness. Its two tone dark grey reminds me of a high-end brushed aluminum appliance or stereo, ever seen high end audio gear from a company known as krell? Very cool. Hopefully they won't screw up the keyboard/mouse as much as Apple did on their new machines, thats a major dissapointment to me, esp. on the G3, tho a petite female friend of mine loves the keyboard/mouse on her iMac. Unfortunately for us computer geeks, the old Amiga is dead, this is clearly a consumer product, aimed at the same people who buy iMacs and cheap PCs, but it still looks great, I would love to have one for web surfing and light takes, and leave my ugly, mostrous and beige box for Linux.
Spyky
-- They may call your bluff :-)
Learn how to bluff
In all seriousness, I'm not saying you *have* to move, but if there is a significant grievance, you *can* move. You don't need a union to decide if you have grievances or not. You may have significant reasons to not move, that is *always* a trade off of any such negotiation. Unions don't change that. All I'm saying is, as a high-tech worker, in an incredibly strong market, you don't need a union, and all the many problems associated it. Unions protect workers from companies that are in a position to take advantage of their workers, like the steel industry, etc. But we, as tech workers, aren't generally being taken advantage of (I know there are exceptions, and those are the people I am talking to when I say *move*), there is just too much demand. I don't want to see an obligatory union, I want to be able to make my own choices. But your point is well taken, as a 19 year old, my attachments are few, but 10 years from now, that could be different, moving is not always a good option, but it *is* an option.
Spyky
The next Star Wars film (Episode 2) is being shot digitally. It will be the first movie to be completely digital. By the time it is released, more movie theaters will support digital projection of the movie as well, otherwise it still requires the digital images to be printed to an analog film strip. But when we get HDTV/DVD players, it will be easy to remaster the movie onto them.
Spyky
Unfortunately private companies have a sole purpose of making a buck. If they can't see any useful return on their investments (space research is VERY expensive) they aren't going to invest in it. The benefits of space research are long term, and broad reaching, with no immediate incentive for investors. Does that mean they aren't valueable? Certainly not. The very silicon chip that you are running on right now is a spin-off of space research.
In addition, I would argue that it is also a great benefit to have these technologies "open source". Much of NASA's research is publicly available and has helped to spin off many more technologies in recent years by private companies, like exotic lightweight alloys, etc. What's good for linux is good for research too!and we aren't going to get public research from private companies.
Private space companies are not interested in the kind of scientific research that a gov't funded organization like NASA is. They build rockets and communication satellites, but if they can't make a buck off it, they aren't going to send it in to space, or build it.
The problem is not so much that they are cutting 10% of NASA's budget, I'm sure that not all of the projects NASA is whining about will really be affected, presumably they will only be able to complete 90% of their projects. The problem is, its a step in the wrong direction. In another 5 years it will be another 10% cut. Support gov't funded NASA, its a small price to pay for great things down the road, and compared to other gov't projects, NASA is CHEAP!
SPYKY
But its this power to move, and the fact that you will probably be snatched up before you can say, "I sent you my resume, did you get it?", that gives you the power to make demands. You don't need a union to represent you. Like the article said, when the high-tech market levels out, maybe there will be a need for a union. But not now, and thats something to be thankful of.
Spyky
I just want to provoke a discussion about the MPAA rating system, which is particularly ludicrous. A movie which has graphic violence, is often rated far less then a movie which has sexual content, or foul language. You may think that language and sexual content is disgusting and shouldn't be seen by children, and I will agree with you, for the most part, with one question: who decides who is "mature" enough? Isn't that the parents job?
At any rate, what harm does sex or language really do to a young persons psyche. I am particularly concerned with the over 13 and less then 17 category who are restricted from seeing "R" movies without a parent. Trust me, at the age of 19, I *know* that every children knows what pretty much any sexual act is and various terms for them by the age of 13, and of course so called "dirty" language.
The real problem is violence. You can turn on any TV show or cartoon and see graphic violence at the age of 2. Incredibly violent movies only receive a PG rating. The distinction between the violence of a PG movie is that it is slapstick, sometimes comedic. It shows no pain, or suffering as a result of the violence, thus the MPAA gives it a rating for general audience (practically anyone over the age of 5). I argue that this is far more dangerous violence then say, a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" which displays, graphically, the horror and disgusting nature of violence. In a PG movie, or a PG-13 movie, where some character is shot with a gun he falls to the floor and dies, with no blood, because that would give it an R rating. A fistfight or martial arts display always results in someone falling to the floor, "defeated". But from this kind of action, a young child learns nothing of the responsibility, or repercussions that result from violence. This reinforcement of non-effectual violence from an early age is what causes young people to idolize violent behavior. Banning them from seeing movies like "the Matrix" is too little, too late. They'll see it anyway, even if you don't think they should.
I think the MPAA needs to seriously re-evaluate their rating scheme, but the religious right will continue to force them to give sexual but non-violent movies an R rating, while letting kids see so called harmless, yet very violent, movies. Ludicrous. Its up to the parents ultimately to decide what their children are ready for.
Spyky
That is the most absurd statement I have ever heard. They are 14-15 years old, and there are 4 of them. They can walk into many many more dangerous places then a suburban movie theater. If they were younger, or one kid alone, I might be able to understand your concern, otherwise... If you think they are going to "disappear" or be molested you better not even let them out of their rooms, EVER! Being this paranoid is simply absurd.
Spyky
I can write a malicious Macro Virus in Micro$oft Word just as I can use BO2K or even SMS to maliciously tamper with someone's machine. I argue that M$ security problems with Visual Basic in its Office apps are far more of a security problem then trojans like BO2K. Windows has a LOT of security problems, least of which is the "features" that cDc took advantage of to hide the trojan in other processes threads. Micro$oft needs to shut up and start fixing holes and stop pointing its fingers at people who exploit them. That's what people do, it might be wrong, but people are going to do it anyway. Shut your hole and start fixing security issues Bill.
Spyky
If you just blatently call John Katz a moron and say that this whole thing is a load of horse shit, then you are going to get moderated down, write something critical and intelligent and you won't, and get a login name, maybe you can be a moderator too
Spyky
I'm not particuarly concerned about giving my social security number out, but I know a lot of people who are, including my mother. Virginia passed a law that doesn't require your SSN on your drivers license, and my mom immediately got a new one, I don't care really, so I will leave mine on. My real question is, why be concerned? Sure someone with my SSN can perhaps look up tax records or whatever with my number, but seriously, who cares, so they know how much I make, and if I paid my taxes. Big deal! If you ask how much I ask, ask me in person, I'll tell you. This is not to say I don't care about my privacy, I certainly do. When surfing the web is no longer "anonymous" count me out, I dislike pages that require "free" registrations, but sometimes submit if there service is valuable enough. I just don't understand the paranoia that some people have about giving out their social security number, what about your address, I don't like giving that out either, and anyone who can get information about me based on my SSN can probably find the same information in reverse working from my name and address.
Spyky
This is great technology, and at $300 for a hub and $100 for a card for an iBook, its damn cheap too. This isn't *new* exactly, the IEEE 802.11 standard has been out for a while, but not this cheap, or this fast. I really hope Apple will give this cool tech a kick start into the home market. :-(, at sub 10mbps speeds it doesn't matter I guess) The FAQ says that 11mbps will be available *soon*, I guess that means now, because Apple is releasing theirs, the web page is just not quite up to date.
The iBook has a built in antenna, to make this work with a PC or a G3 PowerBook, its going to require an external antena, which doesn't appear to be on the card Apple is selling for the iBook. Here is a card that does have it. As well as some cards for desktops (ISA, yuck
I imagine that it wouldn't be *too* difficult for someone to hack up a driver for Linux, especially if its for the ISA card Lucent offers, for those of you who want to network their home without running wires. At $300 for a 10 user hub, its probably cheaper then running wires, unless you REALLY enjoy that sort of thing.
Spyky
Maybe I'm just out of the loop, because I don't even get cable, let alone watch VH1 or MTV, but does MTV own/control VH1? The press release says it will sell digital music on VH1.COM as well as MTV.COM and other sites they obviously own. Anyway, if they do own VH1, what is the point, don't they play the same overplayed, alternative/Top40 unoriginal @#%$? Which I assume is the same kind of stuff they are going to sell, so count me out.
Spyky
I have a Palm III now, I'm thinking about selling it, and getting the Palm V, basically because of the size, were the Palm III fits in my pocket, the Palm V fits nicer. Contrary to your statement, the Palm V DOES have a cover, its pretty cool actually, it slides in the same slot that the pen slides into (there are slots on both sides, so you can hold both the pen and the cover, or switch the orientation if you are left handed). Its not as tough as the PalmIII hard cover perhaps, but its plenty tough enough to stop incidental damages that could occur while its in your pocket.
Spyky
Anyone planning on doing any kind of long term research on these reporters to see what happens to their brain while wearing these :-)
I can see it now, surgeon generals warning: discontinue use when your head starts to feel warm.
Spyky
Oh, I see how it is. If I actually MAKE my own spray paint (mix all the pigments and stuff), and spray my symbol on someone else's wall, thats not vandalism. Whatever dude... Its all vandalism.
Spyky
Good call, I'm 18, and able to vote in my first presidential election this coming year. I'm going to vote Libertarian, not because I expect such a candidate to win, but because Libertarians are the *only* party to have a sensible and well-defined high-tech related policies. I think its quite possible that a few districts may elect a Libertarian congressman for next term. After all we already have a socialist :-) Yay libertarians!
Spyky
Actually I think it is quite reasonable to expect the slashdot community to "bash" new versions of Microsoft OSes before they are released. Microsoft has never completely fullfilled their promises of any of their OS releases, why should we expect this one to be any more?
I don't buy (or get for free) a product for my IS dept based on who makes it either, thank you. I choose based on many factors, including performance and stability, ease of maintence, and very importantly cost. That last catagory NT 2000 Enterprise clearly falls far short of Linux, even if it does live up to the expectations set forth in the "white papers", and even *equal* the performance and stability of linux. I think you need to get a life and evaluate your options before you spend $1k+ on each installation of a server OS, and even more upgrading a server to meet its requirements.
Spyky
I am a college student and work in the summer in Washington, DC for an hourly wage. I routinely work 5+ hours a week overtime, and since I am not salaried, DC law requires that I be payed overtime. Last summer, my hourly wage was lower, but I did recieve overtime. This summer, with a new HR director in my office, I have not been recieving overtime pay (time and a half). However, I haven't complained, because I would rather work 45 hours and get payed at regular wage then not be able to work those extra hours at all. They could limit me to only being able to work 40 hours a week like most of my friends in similar situations. So, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, I *should* be payed extra for the hours I work overtime, but I don't want to ask for fear of losing the privalege to work extra time at all. What should I do?
Spyky
Here is an interesting paper about doing just that, generating power from your shoes. Here is another. And another from IBM. I believe that MIT media labs has this technology used to power their "wearable" computers. But this could certainly be extended to power an ordinary laptop
Spyky