Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it.
Apparently, the regulators in Europe are NOT ninjas, or they wouldn't be thinking twice about letting it go uncensored.
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Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Ad-supported: no cache. Non ad-supported: cache, but only forward user to cache when server is slashdotted. Cache is cleared once the article leaves the front page. What is on the "slashdot front page" is defined by the default settings.
I tried a variation of that, called the "nitric acid trap" at my last job. And I do mean, my -last- job. Sigh. When will I learn. Some people have no sense of humor.
Nah, they did have a sense of humor. You just couldn't tell they were smiling since their lips had melted off.
I see so many of those particular professions are in the service or retail sectors - so what happens when the middle class is no longer able to afford many retail products, or eating out at places other than fast food joints (if even that much)? We can't exactly be a nation of food servers, cash-register-jockies, and appliance salespeople - such folks don't have a lot of disposable income, and the upper-crust will only shop so much.
That is EXACTLY the problem with outsourcing. It simply does not work in the long run. It works for 10-20 years, while the CEO's take in huge salaries, bonuses, and retirement packages. Then they retire, the company and the economy collapses, but they're still rich.
President Bush thinks this way also - very short term, very self-centered. It's no way to run a country.
Midwestern towns that saw their lifeline - factory jobs - shipped overseas 25 years ago are still desolate, poor, sad places. I personally don't experience it, working in IT in NYC. But now that other industries are following suit, what will happen?
I thought it was especially ironic to see post-secondary school teachers (anything after high school) on the future jobs list. What will they teach, advanced burger flipping?
Generally I find the programmer with experience gets his work done without the 60+ hour weeks. You save a lot of time if the first thing a programmer tries, works.
And you save a LOT of time if it not only works for the cases you tested, but also in cases you didn't plan for, and in future revisions. I'm a new developer myself and I'm seeing a lot of people put in some very short-sighted code.
A little off-topic, but is it possible to play FLAC encoded files in iTunes? I'm considering doing a Final Rip And Encoding (tm) of my CD collection, and FLAC seems the way to go
Flac doesn't provide a smaller enough file size to be worth it for an entire collection, imho... You get about 50% compression with flac (lossless, 10 minutes = 50 mb) but mp3 can give near 90% (lossy, 10 minutes = 10 mb) with great quality.
Using a camera to pirate movies has always struck me as being kind of desperate. It's a bit like taking a cassette recorder and a microphone round your friend's house to copy his CD collection. I don't think there's anything here to worry the serious film lover (and face it, the quality is so crap that everyone buys the DVD when it comes out 6 months later).
The real concern the MPAA has is that people will see it for free in low quality, hate it, and not go see it in the theaters for $10. This forces them to make movies good enough that, even after seeing it for free, you will want to pay to see it in all its glory on the big screen.
The MPAA and RIAA are nothing more than glorified distributers, trying to monopolize distribution. They're just upset that, for once, the world is fighting back.
"...according to their specs sheet (PDF warning), this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F). Processors burn hotter than that, how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?"
If they're using it to put out fires, it's a safe bet that it can handle your Athlon.
Not if it doesn't conduct heat very well. A cloud of scalding hot carbon dioxide gas would put out a fire, too, but it wouldn't do much for cooling your processor.
WinXP SP2 will supposedly change that, to increase security by decreasing the number of services enabled by default. I think this question is good now, but should also be revisited after WinXP SP2.
"You're {too|over}qualified" is a just modern AmeriSpeak for saying "you're too expensive". I've been there many times, and I've no degree at all. I'm sure many of the men in their 40s and 50s in IT have seen the same thing.
It's sickening how they lie to you from multiple fronts... At the interview, it's "sorry, you're too qualified for this job." Then, at the press conference, it's "there aren't enough well-educated skilled workers in America, so we must outsource."
All they ever mean is "there aren't enough skilled programmers in America who will work for $8,000 USD per year."
Their bottom line for the next quarter is more important to them than their bottom line in 10 years. Heck, in 10 years, most of the executive making these outsourcing plans will be retired and rich, so what do they care about nation-wide sustainability or viability when making their decisions?
So the question becomes--do you think that any of this year's crop of American Idol finalists can count themselves among the worlds best musicians?
Singers aren't musicians, they're singers. And the singers on American Idol all sound the same as every other pop singer these days. So while they may count themselves as the best, no serious musician or singer would ever agree.
Massive Attack, Zero 7, Bic Runga, Hooverphonic, Morcheeba, Delerium, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
With the slight exception of RHCP, those aren't exactly mainstream pop bands. And RHCP is not nearly as mainstream as they were in the early 90's (they still rule though;-) ). I try to stay away from crap-pop too, but the industry, including radio, tv, and record companies, embraces it.
In days gone by you could get Animals, or The Wall, and even albums that weren't that tightly bound often tended to be designed to at least have the tracks sit together as a collective whole - to have some sort of theme and order to the material presented on an album.
That stopped happening when corporations started using ghost writers for songs and supermodels for "musicians". A band is not a band in pop music these days, it's a corporate project.
Now instead of talented, inspired artists putting an album together that means something to them (Beatles Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon), you get a Stripper singing meaningless lyrics to a computerized drumbeat and bassline, while drinking a Pepsi.
Most albums have 0-1 decent songs on them. I wouldn't mine paying for single songs from albums like that. If the album is decent all the way through, I am going to jsut buy the CD.
Ummm...what sounds fine to you? The article says they may start bundling crappy songs with good songs. So, like buying an entire album, you have to pay for the bad track when all you wanted was the one good track.
For some specialized tasks, I'd agree with you, but for the general ones I listed (I guess excluding web development), there are plenty of capable applications for Linux.
It's true that application support is lacking in Linux when compared to Windows, but that doesn't mean the Linux OS itself is worse; and in time, that disadvantage should clear up. It's the old catch-22, though. Can't use linux without applications, and few companies want to write Linux apps until more people start using Linux.
Saying that linux is easy because a child can play games and mash the keyboard on it is ignorant and overlooks the broader issue of actually using the system to get work done.
What kind of work do you need to get done? Writing and printing documents, spreadsheets? Sending and receiving emails? Browsing web pages? Designing web applications? All can be done on Linux just as easily as on Windows, provided you're trained in the appropriate Windows or Linux programs.
Once configured properly (and both Windows and Linux machines need to be configured before the average user can use them), Linux is just as usable for most tasks as Windows. THAT'S what the point of the article was.
For an article on successfully using Linux to get professional work done, check out this PC World article.
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I suppose the good news is that these errors were caught before they could have really screwed things up.
Okay, but how many errors didn't get caught?
In Soviet Russia, video game censors you!
Ad-supported: no cache.
Non ad-supported: cache, but only forward user to cache when server is slashdotted. Cache is cleared once the article leaves the front page. What is on the "slashdot front page" is defined by the default settings.
Then, you could use that wall with the 3 gig as a bull's eye for target practice. When you hit it, you would send it to "the great gig in the sky".
I tried a variation of that, called the "nitric acid trap" at my last job. And I do mean, my -last- job. Sigh. When will I learn. Some people have no sense of humor.
Nah, they did have a sense of humor. You just couldn't tell they were smiling since their lips had melted off.
I see so many of those particular professions are in the service or retail sectors - so what happens when the middle class is no longer able to afford many retail products, or eating out at places other than fast food joints (if even that much)? We can't exactly be a nation of food servers, cash-register-jockies, and appliance salespeople - such folks don't have a lot of disposable income, and the upper-crust will only shop so much.
That is EXACTLY the problem with outsourcing. It simply does not work in the long run. It works for 10-20 years, while the CEO's take in huge salaries, bonuses, and retirement packages. Then they retire, the company and the economy collapses, but they're still rich.
President Bush thinks this way also - very short term, very self-centered. It's no way to run a country.
Midwestern towns that saw their lifeline - factory jobs - shipped overseas 25 years ago are still desolate, poor, sad places. I personally don't experience it, working in IT in NYC. But now that other industries are following suit, what will happen?
I thought it was especially ironic to see post-secondary school teachers (anything after high school) on the future jobs list. What will they teach, advanced burger flipping?
Generally I find the programmer with experience gets his work done without the 60+ hour weeks. You save a lot of time if the first thing a programmer tries, works.
And you save a LOT of time if it not only works for the cases you tested, but also in cases you didn't plan for, and in future revisions. I'm a new developer myself and I'm seeing a lot of people put in some very short-sighted code.
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That's a good point... I wasn't thinking of it from an archivist point of view.
A little off-topic, but is it possible to play FLAC encoded files in iTunes? I'm considering doing a Final Rip And Encoding (tm) of my CD collection, and FLAC seems the way to go
Flac doesn't provide a smaller enough file size to be worth it for an entire collection, imho... You get about 50% compression with flac (lossless, 10 minutes = 50 mb) but mp3 can give near 90% (lossy, 10 minutes = 10 mb) with great quality.
Using a camera to pirate movies has always struck me as being kind of desperate. It's a bit like taking a cassette recorder and a microphone round your friend's house to copy his CD collection. I don't think there's anything here to worry the serious film lover (and face it, the quality is so crap that everyone buys the DVD when it comes out 6 months later).
The real concern the MPAA has is that people will see it for free in low quality, hate it, and not go see it in the theaters for $10. This forces them to make movies good enough that, even after seeing it for free, you will want to pay to see it in all its glory on the big screen.
The MPAA and RIAA are nothing more than glorified distributers, trying to monopolize distribution. They're just upset that, for once, the world is fighting back.
Okay, chemistry geeks, it's:
3 -PENTANONE
1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-NONAFLUORO-4-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)-
Anyone know if that's conductive?
Wow, just like, uh, inert mineral oil. Stop the presses?
I think this thing doesn't even leave a drop, while mineral oil gets things all oily.
Mercury. May not be a good idea to submerge electronics in it though. And it's expensive, and toxic.
And conductive.
"...according to their specs sheet (PDF warning), this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F). Processors burn hotter than that, how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?"
If they're using it to put out fires, it's a safe bet that it can handle your Athlon.
Not if it doesn't conduct heat very well. A cloud of scalding hot carbon dioxide gas would put out a fire, too, but it wouldn't do much for cooling your processor.
"Linux has everything off by default"
WinXP SP2 will supposedly change that, to increase security by decreasing the number of services enabled by default. I think this question is good now, but should also be revisited after WinXP SP2.
"You're {too|over}qualified" is a just modern AmeriSpeak for saying "you're too expensive". I've been there many times, and I've no degree at all. I'm sure many of the men in their 40s and 50s in IT have seen the same thing.
It's sickening how they lie to you from multiple fronts... At the interview, it's "sorry, you're too qualified for this job." Then, at the press conference, it's "there aren't enough well-educated skilled workers in America, so we must outsource."
All they ever mean is "there aren't enough skilled programmers in America who will work for $8,000 USD per year."
Their bottom line for the next quarter is more important to them than their bottom line in 10 years. Heck, in 10 years, most of the executive making these outsourcing plans will be retired and rich, so what do they care about nation-wide sustainability or viability when making their decisions?
So the question becomes--do you think that any of this year's crop of American Idol finalists can count themselves among the worlds best musicians?
Singers aren't musicians, they're singers. And the singers on American Idol all sound the same as every other pop singer these days. So while they may count themselves as the best, no serious musician or singer would ever agree.
Massive Attack, Zero 7, Bic Runga, Hooverphonic, Morcheeba, Delerium, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
;-) ). I try to stay away from crap-pop too, but the industry, including radio, tv, and record companies, embraces it.
With the slight exception of RHCP, those aren't exactly mainstream pop bands. And RHCP is not nearly as mainstream as they were in the early 90's (they still rule though
In days gone by you could get Animals, or The Wall, and even albums that weren't that tightly bound often tended to be designed to at least have the tracks sit together as a collective whole - to have some sort of theme and order to the material presented on an album.
That stopped happening when corporations started using ghost writers for songs and supermodels for "musicians". A band is not a band in pop music these days, it's a corporate project.
Now instead of talented, inspired artists putting an album together that means something to them (Beatles Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon), you get a Stripper singing meaningless lyrics to a computerized drumbeat and bassline, while drinking a Pepsi.
Most albums have 0-1 decent songs on them. I wouldn't mine paying for single songs from albums like that. If the album is decent all the way through, I am going to jsut buy the CD.
Ummm...what sounds fine to you? The article says they may start bundling crappy songs with good songs. So, like buying an entire album, you have to pay for the bad track when all you wanted was the one good track.
For some specialized tasks, I'd agree with you, but for the general ones I listed (I guess excluding web development), there are plenty of capable applications for Linux.
It's true that application support is lacking in Linux when compared to Windows, but that doesn't mean the Linux OS itself is worse; and in time, that disadvantage should clear up. It's the old catch-22, though. Can't use linux without applications, and few companies want to write Linux apps until more people start using Linux.
Saying that linux is easy because a child can play games and mash the keyboard on it is ignorant and overlooks the broader issue of actually using the system to get work done.
What kind of work do you need to get done? Writing and printing documents, spreadsheets? Sending and receiving emails? Browsing web pages? Designing web applications? All can be done on Linux just as easily as on Windows, provided you're trained in the appropriate Windows or Linux programs.
Once configured properly (and both Windows and Linux machines need to be configured before the average user can use them), Linux is just as usable for most tasks as Windows. THAT'S what the point of the article was.
For an article on successfully using Linux to get professional work done, check out this PC World article.