And one of those companies (the one providing most of the software, and leading the sales team) is German. So as I said they're giving the contract to German company.
Think before you read.
I know TiVo can do that. I just don't want it to.
There are a few select shows that I want to watch. I have less than ten cron entries to record them.
I don't want it to make decisions for me or suggest that I watch some other show.
To the guy who modded me 'flamebait':
I meant that a German government organization might want to keep the contract as local as possible.
The same sort of thing happens here (in the US).
There are fewer competent GNU/Linux admins than MCSEs, sure, but probably not fewer competent GNU/Linux admins than competent winxp admins. System administration is not a good area to be skimpy on the talent (or salary).
Although many competent windows admins are MCSEs, most MCSEs are good at calling MS tech support or looking at msdn for answers. And very few of them deserve the term 'Engineer' in their title. (They're 'Engineers' after a six week course, when the rest of us spent years at an Engineering College to get that title.)
Bloated sure, but not horse shit.
The other gecko based browsers are pretty quick and render as well as Mozilla, Opera, or IE.
Personally, I use galeon, cuz I like the google, debian, and dictionary search boxes.
It's not too far from the truth.
MS is based on expansion.
They've stalled in the handheld/phone market (at a cost of billions).
They've stalled in the console market (more billions).
They've stalled in the online service market (billions...).
And IDG or Gartner or somebody predicted their server OS market share will go down next year.
All they have is desktops and office suites. They can't expand decently in any other market. MS is based on stock price, and the stock price is based on rampant growth. If they can't expand, the stock will slip. If they contract, the stock will plummet.
Kid's younger brother is constantly ridiculed by schoolmates for a deformity.
Kid is constantly ridiculed by schoolmates for his clothing and gait.
Kid has video games on his computer.
Kid allegedly hatches a plan to steal a car and kill former schoolmates.
Conclusion: Video games inspired his supposed killing spree.
Given his history is this the only possible cause? This article mentions the mother, sister, brother, and teasing, but never suggests that those might be causes.
The article also fail to mention that millions of people play video games without going on a killing spree. Just last night, I played Medieval: Total War, and I feel no urges to send an army of peasants into Aquitaine.
It looks like yet another example of the media drawing the conclusions for the reader.
I agree about the above post being a stereotype. But you're stereotyping westerners as xenophobes.
Being a resident of Phoenix, I'd say I'm familiar with its culture and I don't find it to be much different than most large cities in the US. Hell, given the massive growth from migration, most of the people here aren't natives.
And all the mormons around here that I've met are quite nice and friendly.
My [large hardware company] rep who is supplying me with neat technology including handhelds, laptops, tablets and Linux server appliances, is also the rep for SCO. He tells me he doesn't even want to touch SCO now that they've pulled their shenanigans. He even referenced McBride's comment that contracts are strong bases for lawsuits as a real chiller. Imagine being so reviled that sales people don't want your money...
Given how little money he probably makes from SCO's feeble sales, he probably wasn't very loyal to begin with. And if he knows you're a Linux supporter, why not make you think he is too? Remember salesmen make politicians look honest and trustworthy.
Unless convicted, they have the same right to privacy that any suspected murderer has. After all, the spam suspect could be innocent. The Feds have been known to make a mistake or two.
If convicted though...time to push the limits of the 8th Amendment.
Wouldn't it be easy to provide number portability if phone numbers were more of an alias?
If we had an equivalent to DNS for phones, you could have some character string represent your phone, the equivalent of an IP address represent the service contract you have with your provider, and the hardware address represent that particular piece of hardware.
Switching providers while retaining your number (and even your phone if they use the same protocols) would be as easy as switching slashdot.org's internet provider.
How long would it take for somebody to figure out how to fake the signal?
Master criminal Steve, drives around to several stations filling up, he records the signal transmitted by the odometer or gps unit and decodes it. He disables the government's unit and creates a fake transmitter that sends a message saying he's driven just a few miles.
If he fills up the car after only five or ten miles, who's to say that he's cheating? He might have only had a few dollars with him when he bought fuel the day before. And unless they put a privacy invading unique ID in each and track driving rates, there's no way to see that he puts in thirty gallons a week, but drives five miles a week.
Also how much would it cost to build and install all these units?
They wouldn't force existing cars to implement the system, and they want to still get money out of visitors (especially those truckers), so they'd have to have the infrastructure in place to run both systems, so more of the tax revenue would be lost to administration.
And since there are so many used cars out there, the bulk of the money for many years would be from the current tax system, so they'd build that entirely new infrastructure to take in a small amount of money.
An all around stupid idea.
They could just cut their budget...
Most of the states are claiming a budget crisis. But in reality tax revenues are up, but the political spending spree is up even more, causing a 'shortfall'.
Really? That's sad! (For the other people.)
When I went to school, Computer Engineering was part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, so we CEs learend a great deal about electronics.
There was a circuits or electronics class for each sophmore and junior year semester and there was a separate lab class that was designed to parallel the lecture course. I thought that method was effective.
I still haven't met another Software Engineer who had to design a 4th order Butterworth filter to graduate. (Just don't ask me to do it today).
I just hope MIT doesn't turn into a trade school where they're all practice no theory, that's even worse than all theory no practice, in my opinion.
we had an abacus and a pile of beads, and we were grateful for it...
Maybe it just seems that way, because I had an i386 with a whopping 1MB of RAM and a 9600baud modem.
I think a desktop is a good choice for writing papers and programs and net research, or a notebook if you like to go sit on the quad and do your homework.
But beware, too many people think that a computer is a magic device that improves educational quality with its presence. Don't let the computer get in the way.
Heh, heh...
In my Data Structures class, we started with 30+ people.
Eight of us finished.
Most of the rest went from Computer Engineering to Electrical Engineering.
The next semester a different professor taught the class and about 20 people finished.
The other guy evidently weeded too well, and showed how inadequate the preparatory classes were.
From my limited experience and talking to others:
Community colleges and for-profit schools tend to push microsoft, cuz ms gives them money and 'free' software.
Universities, especially the more research oriented ones, tend to push theories and concepts using a Unix(-like) system, cuz they have a clue.
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And one of those companies (the one providing most of the software, and leading the sales team) is German. So as I said they're giving the contract to German company.
Think before you read.
I know TiVo can do that. I just don't want it to.
There are a few select shows that I want to watch. I have less than ten cron entries to record them.
I don't want it to make decisions for me or suggest that I watch some other show.
$900 PVR, $50 TV card and cron...tough choice... Maybe in a few years when these things are a common appliance (and priced like today's VCRs).
To the guy who modded me 'flamebait':
I meant that a German government organization might want to keep the contract as local as possible.
The same sort of thing happens here (in the US).
There are fewer competent GNU/Linux admins than MCSEs, sure, but probably not fewer competent GNU/Linux admins than competent winxp admins. System administration is not a good area to be skimpy on the talent (or salary).
Although many competent windows admins are MCSEs, most MCSEs are good at calling MS tech support or looking at msdn for answers. And very few of them deserve the term 'Engineer' in their title. (They're 'Engineers' after a six week course, when the rest of us spent years at an Engineering College to get that title.)
Bloated sure, but not horse shit.
The other gecko based browsers are pretty quick and render as well as Mozilla, Opera, or IE.
Personally, I use galeon, cuz I like the google, debian, and dictionary search boxes.
It's not too far from the truth.
MS is based on expansion.
They've stalled in the handheld/phone market (at a cost of billions).
They've stalled in the console market (more billions).
They've stalled in the online service market (billions...).
And IDG or Gartner or somebody predicted their server OS market share will go down next year.
All they have is desktops and office suites. They can't expand decently in any other market. MS is based on stock price, and the stock price is based on rampant growth. If they can't expand, the stock will slip. If they contract, the stock will plummet.
I'd clean all the toilets in Redmond for a month to get tens of millions of dollars! But then I'm not the richest man in the world...
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the decision was based on giving the contract to a German company over an American one.
- Kid's mom dies.
- Kid's sister dies, a few months later.
- Kid's younger brother is constantly ridiculed by schoolmates for a deformity.
- Kid is constantly ridiculed by schoolmates for his clothing and gait.
- Kid has video games on his computer.
- Kid allegedly hatches a plan to steal a car and kill former schoolmates.
Conclusion: Video games inspired his supposed killing spree.Given his history is this the only possible cause? This article mentions the mother, sister, brother, and teasing, but never suggests that those might be causes.
The article also fail to mention that millions of people play video games without going on a killing spree. Just last night, I played Medieval: Total War, and I feel no urges to send an army of peasants into Aquitaine.
It looks like yet another example of the media drawing the conclusions for the reader.
I agree about the above post being a stereotype. But you're stereotyping westerners as xenophobes.
Being a resident of Phoenix, I'd say I'm familiar with its culture and I don't find it to be much different than most large cities in the US. Hell, given the massive growth from migration, most of the people here aren't natives.
And all the mormons around here that I've met are quite nice and friendly.
My [large hardware company] rep who is supplying me with neat technology including handhelds, laptops, tablets and Linux server appliances, is also the rep for SCO. He tells me he doesn't even want to touch SCO now that they've pulled their shenanigans. He even referenced McBride's comment that contracts are strong bases for lawsuits as a real chiller. Imagine being so reviled that sales people don't want your money...
Given how little money he probably makes from SCO's feeble sales, he probably wasn't very loyal to begin with. And if he knows you're a Linux supporter, why not make you think he is too? Remember salesmen make politicians look honest and trustworthy.
Unless convicted, they have the same right to privacy that any suspected murderer has. After all, the spam suspect could be innocent. The Feds have been known to make a mistake or two.
If convicted though...time to push the limits of the 8th Amendment.
Wouldn't it be easy to provide number portability if phone numbers were more of an alias?
If we had an equivalent to DNS for phones, you could have some character string represent your phone, the equivalent of an IP address represent the service contract you have with your provider, and the hardware address represent that particular piece of hardware.
Switching providers while retaining your number (and even your phone if they use the same protocols) would be as easy as switching slashdot.org's internet provider.
Great! Now the Department of Agriculture will want to implement a dental care programs for rural chickens.
How long would it take for somebody to figure out how to fake the signal?
Master criminal Steve, drives around to several stations filling up, he records the signal transmitted by the odometer or gps unit and decodes it. He disables the government's unit and creates a fake transmitter that sends a message saying he's driven just a few miles. If he fills up the car after only five or ten miles, who's to say that he's cheating? He might have only had a few dollars with him when he bought fuel the day before. And unless they put a privacy invading unique ID in each and track driving rates, there's no way to see that he puts in thirty gallons a week, but drives five miles a week.
Also how much would it cost to build and install all these units?
They wouldn't force existing cars to implement the system, and they want to still get money out of visitors (especially those truckers), so they'd have to have the infrastructure in place to run both systems, so more of the tax revenue would be lost to administration.
And since there are so many used cars out there, the bulk of the money for many years would be from the current tax system, so they'd build that entirely new infrastructure to take in a small amount of money.
An all around stupid idea.
They could just cut their budget...
Most of the states are claiming a budget crisis. But in reality tax revenues are up, but the political spending spree is up even more, causing a 'shortfall'.
Really? That's sad! (For the other people.)
When I went to school, Computer Engineering was part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, so we CEs learend a great deal about electronics.
There was a circuits or electronics class for each sophmore and junior year semester and there was a separate lab class that was designed to parallel the lecture course. I thought that method was effective.
I still haven't met another Software Engineer who had to design a 4th order Butterworth filter to graduate. (Just don't ask me to do it today).
I just hope MIT doesn't turn into a trade school where they're all practice no theory, that's even worse than all theory no practice, in my opinion.
we had an abacus and a pile of beads, and we were grateful for it...
Maybe it just seems that way, because I had an i386 with a whopping 1MB of RAM and a 9600baud modem.
I think a desktop is a good choice for writing papers and programs and net research, or a notebook if you like to go sit on the quad and do your homework.
But beware, too many people think that a computer is a magic device that improves educational quality with its presence. Don't let the computer get in the way.
Sesame Street: This email was brought to you by the letter--
Trend Micro: --Oh no you don't!
<shred>
It's not worthless. :)
I bet he gets way more chicks than any of us did.
And one day when he gets a PhD, he can teach Philosophy 101 to bored Math/Science/Engineering students who wonder why they have that as a pre-req.
For me it was when I discovered guys with MBAs ran most development teams. Now I hate some of what I do during the day, and do the fun stuff at home.
...
... /* Do some stuff */ ...
...
Oh...and the day I went to retrofit a C program and found this:
i = 0;
LOOP:
i++;
if (i < max) GOTO LOOP;
Hey mon,
I live in Kingston, but have a summer home in Calcutta. That be perfect for me, mon.
Where do I apply?
Heh, heh...
In my Data Structures class, we started with 30+ people.
Eight of us finished.
Most of the rest went from Computer Engineering to Electrical Engineering.
The next semester a different professor taught the class and about 20 people finished.
The other guy evidently weeded too well, and showed how inadequate the preparatory classes were.
From my limited experience and talking to others:
Community colleges and for-profit schools tend to push microsoft, cuz ms gives them money and 'free' software.
Universities, especially the more research oriented ones, tend to push theories and concepts using a Unix(-like) system, cuz they have a clue.