A friend of mine went on to graduate school this summer, and his parting peice of advice was "A professor once told me that over 80% of the great jobs right out of college are by people who know people, not by credentials alone, and I believe it now". He went to grad school not because he really wanted to, but because at the time when he left, we didnt know anyone. Times have changed in one semester, but the advice rings true.
I sat in on a dinner party with people from IBM, Apple, and other companies and colleges one evening (it was after a Tech Fair that I helped put on). The discussion was about why college students download MP3s. I gave a few wise-sounding remarks, everyone nodded and agreed. Three days later I was contacted by the head of the IT department from the large university that was present. The email was favorable and asked for further information about the topics that we discussed as a group earlier that week. I replied that I could put on a presentation for their deparment and a month later did.
I found out as I walked up to the building to give my spiel that they werent interested in me coming to talk about mp3s or anything. They wanted me to see their staff and what they did. It was a job interview in disguise (and I recieved another email when I got home asking if I wanted a possition under the manager).
Its an example, but its a real one. I'm only a sophmore now, but I've been noticed, and people pay attention to me, so I'll believe it when someone says "its all in who you know and who knows you..."
Well they dont erase them. Who knows what else happens.
I came back from hawaii this last summer and had my digital camera in my backpack (which was scanned 6 or 7 times on the trip since I went to multipul islands) and all of the pictures came back fine.
"The story quotes 'Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft.'"
Well, considering that SCO is being supported by MS's money, this doesnt surprise me a whole hell of a lot. If my business aproval rating hovered arround loathing, I'd be keen on finding something that didnt make me look like the worst tech company in the universe.
The iRiver 20gb model that is under reason #4 for making high quality recordings plays ogg (which is part of what my search funciton was). Now if they just made a 40gb model I would have the perfect player. Go figure.;-p
This was the topic of my Economics class this afternoon, and I've heard about it from other faculty. The professors at UMPI are considering buying (or have the bookstore buy for them, which is actually an option if we specifically request for the bookstore to order from another place) all of the books for a few classes from Britian as a test run to see how well it works. Even with VAT, shipping, and import taxes, the books generally work out to be aproximately $30 cheaper per book. One example that has been tossed arround is a Systems Design and Analysis class:
I used the same ISBN number to get more acurate results, and this is based off of amazon's selling price, *NOT* some third party who you can get it from cheaper in the "New or used" section. granted, the American one is not availible at the moment, but the list price is still there.
Not every bookstore is like that. Amazon posts a price of $127 for my Systems Analysis book (Systems Analysis Design Methods by Whitten, Bentley, and Dittman), and I paid $131 in my bookstore for it. Thats average. Students at UMPI have looked on amazon, it doesnt help here. We have even had university and student senate committees dedicated to weather or not the bookstore is gouging and so far no book that the bookstore sells is marked up more then $5.
Yes, the markup happens at the bookstore, but at the same time, its not nearly as much as you say *everywhere*.
> If I was microsoft, I'd be paying real close attention and trying to fix the things that my customers were saying were wrong.
Bingo, thats marketing 101. Any company can survive as long as they look at a market segment that has a desire/need that can be addressed and sold. Thats why MS can get away with making XBoxes (not economically, but marketing wise, keep that in mind), there evidently was a desire for the console, so they made one and it sells.
Now if some large company that markets linux, such as IBM, or Red Hat really wanted to see linux become adopted, it could be done. Look at this type of research and see what users want. Do they want office compatability? Do they want an easy to use desktop? Do they want the cheapeast alternative possible? What do consumers want, from there, possition linux as an product that fits those needs and it will succeed. Also, while it may not be to the communities liking, if someone wanted to break into the consumer market, they could using marketing concepts. The catch is it would be marketed as an system for people who arnt computer literate. (aka, Lindows) Its not there to appease geeks, its there to target another market share and if others buy into it, thats cool, but its not there for them in a marketing perspective.
Another example is that Apple doesnt reduce their price on their machines, or why Starbucks coffee is priced so damned high (cause they are both products aimed at the connoisseur top end in some aspects). Because there actually are people are looking for that top end, and not a Wall-Mart PC. Because of that, Jobs has figured out that Apple can make enough money by appealing to that specific segment. Dive into another segment and you have to deal with more competition while the competition in that specific segment is so little that it is profitable to do just that one cause you have more choice what you want to do and how. Sometimes its not necessarily profitable to try and appease *everyone* as strange as it may sound, and both Starbucks and Apple have figured this out.
So when someone says "oh, M$ has 90% of the PC marketshare and they are evil" that is kinda true, but if you look at it with the idea of "Apple has over 50% of the top end marketshare" or "linux 0wn3$ j00 with 78% of the server marketshare" you start to see what market segments have been penetrated and where its already been determined to be profitable for business to push the product. Granted, there *could* (doesnt meen there are, just the possibility) be more markets, and thats for someone else to figure out with marketing research.
Ok, I'll plead ignorence on this one, but why hasnt any company utilized (what I believe to be) a right to a speedy trail and get the fucken thing over with.
Also, does anyone have a reason reason why the SEC hasnt gotten involved yet? I understand the paper trail, but you'd think that if/.'s crowd has actually sent in complaints just as much as they have b1tched about it here, that they would have atleast do some type of press release or something on the issue.
Unless its something native to their machines, they are on crack, I just launched both and I'm fine.
This sounds to me like Apple did a small mod to something in the underlying system and people who have haxies (which arnt supported) are now getting the brunt of the burn (like the guy above who noted about them). Not a garentee, but it is a though. I havnt modded my ibook at all cause I use it for work.
Will Canada border-hopping now include underage drinking and underage stealing?
Well, I know from experience with living next to the New Brunswick board that boarder hopping *IS* a big thing for drinking. As far as underage stealing... Its still stealing, age doesnt matter, and no I'm not refering to p2p, I'm just refering to the above comment. So boarder hopping to steal isnt an issue I dont think.
Connect it to p2p, and the ease of use prevents people from jumping the board in masses to get mp3s... I dont see it happening much if at all like ~60% of your (underage students at) college leaving for the weekend to go to canada and drink...
Personally, I havnt seen people jump the board to smoke cannibis, but at the same time, I dont live near Ontario. (which is where the issue started to my knowledge, havnt watched CBC in a while)
I work with the education program at my college and in the local school districts and their admins. The ibooks for the Maine program are locked down rather well, I'm still trying to tinker with one to get it to use something *other* then 802.11b. The only settings you can alter (other then the top row of Personal stuff) is keyboard, mouse, sound, and the universal access. Nothing else is even accessable. I can run terminal, but I'm also using a teachers image of OSX and not the student one. Everything was setup on a single unit by the Apple Maine rep and then imaged onto other machines. Kinda like nuetering a dog, but in this case, I can understand why. From there, training courses were taught (now how much they pay attention is a different issue) for all those who were interested and invitations were sent out for additional training to those involved. There isnt much excuse I can see not to understand how to use these machines.
I'll preface my remarks by saying that I was 4 years ahead of the 7th graders when it was implimented, and now go to college and know those in the northeastern part of the state that deal with this. Not a definitive answer, but its what I've seen personally.
You jest (and it was well receieved) but your very close to the truth.
I worked at one for almost 2 years and knew my branch inside and out. We did ours with TV, (but I have friends who work in the periodical section) with over 70 some odd stations covered and there are an average of 4 major networks with local news and other programming on in each city, it became really possible to find whatever was aired, somewhere.
If its on TV, its orderable, seriously... On that note, if your that worried maybe you should consider what your saying, before you say it.
We dont look for the hole first. Thats it right there, and its something which has saved us. My examples are from my WiFi scanning, but the general practice applies elsewhere also.
There is a business in my area (which will remain nameless) which contacted us in the MIS department about trying to poke a hole in their security to see how good it is. Not us finding a hole and telling them. That looks like your trying to get in. Think about it, your not real friendly with the guy who keeps scanning your machine and trying to get in without you first knowing about it, why shuold these companies think otherwise? I know that if I was middle aged, balding, and had a job which used tech that I understood half of, that if someone said "oh yeah, while driving by, we found this problem in your WiFi network" I'd question *why* they were looking at my business network. Its a stereotypical response, but you have to place yourself in their shoes.
What we have done at my college is that we first contact the houses and businesses in a given district, say what we are intending to do, how in some places there are services which charge for security analysis like this, and that as a service learning project we are doing it for free. Then we educate them on what it means to be secure all in a quick 5 minute speil and then ask their permission to report any flaws that we find to them and help them patch them. If denied (which so far has only happened once and it was a bank), we move along and dont report anything that we suspect from them. Remember, we are covering a district, so if someone says, "yes, we would like to know so we can better protect ourselves" we generally scan that area, and with WiFi, we havnt had an issue with it. Then we do up a report of whats vulerable as far as connections, and if there are any, we take it a step further. Everything is done with an option NDA agreement which if asked we will sign before hand, and what the limitations of what we will do and offer suggestions to ask outside consultants to check the machine logs after we leave to see if we held up our end.
This has worked very well for us, but the main point is that we are up front with these people and we dont go behind their proverbial back. We dont sneak arround at the dead of night (if they dont want us to, although we do night scans of districts as it provides another view), so it doesnt look suspicious.
The more up front before you do anything, the less trouble you are likely to get into (most of the time) with something like this.
And your telling me that publicising a blackout's cause as being one grid station, and then showing how its braught half of the northeast practically to a halt for a day or two isnt information in the wrong hands?
I'm just waiting for some half baked terrorist to whack off a couple of power grids now... Then our excuse of an administration will want to inspect everything about power right down the the electrons because of "national security"...;-p
On a larger note, I'm surprised that nobody has really taken it seriously that there are other things in America then commercial airplanes that can bring this nation to its knees (like power, water, lack of a starbucks...)
I did some research since i'm involved in marketing on my campus for the activities board, and we noticed a large change in the habits of this past years freshmen class. My advisor then gave a closed door talk to specifically invited people on the topic of the "mellinial generation" and how they have a tendency to act.
So I became rather interested in how this works, and did some research on the topic. Children born after/during 1982 up until 2002 (give or take a year on the ending, but the beginning is rather defined now) are more inclined to do many things, including, volunteerism, working harder, goal setting, etc. They are set to be the next workaholics based on their performance so far. These are the people who will strive to get straight-As in school (more so then other generations on average). This generation
To emphasize a point close to this artical, consider this:
"The net is their primary source of news. Eighty percent use the net frequently as an information source. The next closes sources are radio (fifty-seven percent) and television (fifty-five percent). Compare that with American adults in general who prefer TV (seventy-five percent) followed by radio, newspapers, magazines, and, last in line, the net. For them, this technology is a natural part of life. Where my daughters, who are a little older than Joanna, used to chat on the phone with friends, Joanna has added instant messaging and email to the ways she stays in touch. My kids wanted their own phone line, Joanna has her own cell phone." (www.mondaymemo.net)
This generation is the first really wired generation as a whole. If the baby boomers had technology attached as a foreign object, and generation x learned it, this generation breathes it...
So no, I dont see this as much of a surprise, but then again, I've spent a good month or two researching the underlying principles which lead to the same conclusion.
The more I read the comments, the more I think this might work. I can remember giving "power sessions" at our last technology fair, and as a whole, we had sessions that ranged from 5-10 people per room. Have everyone log in with Hydra, *INCLUDING* the speaker, so that any questions that come up, s/he can monitor how students are reacting to that, and incorperate that into their sessions.
It may be true that because of the current Bush administration appearing to favor corperate interests over the common good of the country may prevent them from interfering, but if IBM were to do any ammount of real lobbying, something would happen. I mean, look at it from the eyes of an elderly bumbling technologically incompetent public official. The odds they recognize IBM's muscle over whatever SCO appears to have seems to be a preatty clear cut answer IMHO, and with the appearance that "bigger is better" for corperation size to this administration, I think its rather evident who they would side with. Just sit back and watch the fireworks *if* it happens (doubtful, but interesting if it did).
> If you can't do that, then do what I did at my last job - squeeze it in. Park at the farthest point you can so you have to walk into/out of work. If there's public transportation you can use, do that - if you have to drive all the way in, then park far. Believe it or not, but my last job I parked about a good block away.
A report that was published in the last week or so gives more credence to the above then you would think at first. Walking from the back of the parking lot to and from work adds almost 1000 steps on average, and it only takes 2000 to keep off the 2-3lbs that Americans gain on average each year.
If you eat any bread products, go for wheet over white bread, I dont remember the scientific reason (less yeast? I dont remember, its early in the day for me...) but its worked well for those I know.
> Job's is going to freak when he figures this out.
Why? (Ok, yes, I know it was a joke, but I'll bite)
Considering (and this is unofficial, but it sure does seem it by the comments) that many on/. complain about how Apple PCs are too expensive, and the general reaction is that the above will be a sweet deal. Yes, they will be, but not for running OSX through emulation.
I guess my thought process runs like this: Anyone who really wants to run OSX (and thinks about it for a while) and is buying a new machine will run it on a dual-proc G5 instead of running MOL. Hell, I bet Jobs has more worries about the cracking of m4a (from iTMS) or piracy in general of Apple software (let alone the new Panther beta) then he does with MOL being a risk to their business.
Yes, I know it was a joke, but the whole argument of finding ways arround buying an Apple machine so people can run OSX irks me in some strange manner.
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> (7) A frog in an apron (According to the article everyone thinks it's a flying person!)
Better then mine. I saw an extra large green fairy bending over a sheep for his own bidding...
(and my list for completness sakes)
alien ??? draw bridge over red river with oil spill people dancing french guys spider large green fairy fucking a sheep pot smokers with little green hats muscle man with tiny head winged monster sitting on a bench.
Very true that the Redhad ISOs are a small minority, but look back at Bram's/. interview and make note of how the torrent system is being used by archive.org and etree to distribute content there, and thats gotten a real workout. There are many legitimate uses for the system that arn't just theory.
Granted, not one of them was present on either se.cx or bytemonsoon.
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A friend of mine went on to graduate school this summer, and his parting peice of advice was "A professor once told me that over 80% of the great jobs right out of college are by people who know people, not by credentials alone, and I believe it now". He went to grad school not because he really wanted to, but because at the time when he left, we didnt know anyone. Times have changed in one semester, but the advice rings true.
I sat in on a dinner party with people from IBM, Apple, and other companies and colleges one evening (it was after a Tech Fair that I helped put on). The discussion was about why college students download MP3s. I gave a few wise-sounding remarks, everyone nodded and agreed. Three days later I was contacted by the head of the IT department from the large university that was present. The email was favorable and asked for further information about the topics that we discussed as a group earlier that week. I replied that I could put on a presentation for their deparment and a month later did.
I found out as I walked up to the building to give my spiel that they werent interested in me coming to talk about mp3s or anything. They wanted me to see their staff and what they did. It was a job interview in disguise (and I recieved another email when I got home asking if I wanted a possition under the manager).
Its an example, but its a real one. I'm only a sophmore now, but I've been noticed, and people pay attention to me, so I'll believe it when someone says "its all in who you know and who knows you..."
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Well they dont erase them. Who knows what else happens.
I came back from hawaii this last summer and had my digital camera in my backpack (which was scanned 6 or 7 times on the trip since I went to multipul islands) and all of the pictures came back fine.
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"The story quotes 'Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft.'"
Well, considering that SCO is being supported by MS's money, this doesnt surprise me a whole hell of a lot. If my business aproval rating hovered arround loathing, I'd be keen on finding something that didnt make me look like the worst tech company in the universe.
"You cant handle the truth!"
The iRiver 20gb model that is under reason #4 for making high quality recordings plays ogg (which is part of what my search funciton was). Now if they just made a 40gb model I would have the perfect player. Go figure. ;-p
This was the topic of my Economics class this afternoon, and I've heard about it from other faculty. The professors at UMPI are considering buying (or have the bookstore buy for them, which is actually an option if we specifically request for the bookstore to order from another place) all of the books for a few classes from Britian as a test run to see how well it works. Even with VAT, shipping, and import taxes, the books generally work out to be aproximately $30 cheaper per book. One example that has been tossed arround is a Systems Design and Analysis class:
Amazon.com (USA) = 127.10 USD
Amazon.com (UK) = 37.99 BPS (british pounds sterling?)
Sources:
USA Amazon
UK Amazon
I used the same ISBN number to get more acurate results, and this is based off of amazon's selling price, *NOT* some third party who you can get it from cheaper in the "New or used" section. granted, the American one is not availible at the moment, but the list price is still there.
Not every bookstore is like that. Amazon posts a price of $127 for my Systems Analysis book (Systems Analysis Design Methods by Whitten, Bentley, and Dittman), and I paid $131 in my bookstore for it. Thats average. Students at UMPI have looked on amazon, it doesnt help here. We have even had university and student senate committees dedicated to weather or not the bookstore is gouging and so far no book that the bookstore sells is marked up more then $5.
Yes, the markup happens at the bookstore, but at the same time, its not nearly as much as you say *everywhere*.
> If I was microsoft, I'd be paying real close attention and trying to fix the things that my customers were saying were wrong.
Bingo, thats marketing 101. Any company can survive as long as they look at a market segment that has a desire/need that can be addressed and sold. Thats why MS can get away with making XBoxes (not economically, but marketing wise, keep that in mind), there evidently was a desire for the console, so they made one and it sells.
Now if some large company that markets linux, such as IBM, or Red Hat really wanted to see linux become adopted, it could be done. Look at this type of research and see what users want. Do they want office compatability? Do they want an easy to use desktop? Do they want the cheapeast alternative possible? What do consumers want, from there, possition linux as an product that fits those needs and it will succeed. Also, while it may not be to the communities liking, if someone wanted to break into the consumer market, they could using marketing concepts. The catch is it would be marketed as an system for people who arnt computer literate. (aka, Lindows) Its not there to appease geeks, its there to target another market share and if others buy into it, thats cool, but its not there for them in a marketing perspective. Another example is that Apple doesnt reduce their price on their machines, or why Starbucks coffee is priced so damned high (cause they are both products aimed at the connoisseur top end in some aspects). Because there actually are people are looking for that top end, and not a Wall-Mart PC. Because of that, Jobs has figured out that Apple can make enough money by appealing to that specific segment. Dive into another segment and you have to deal with more competition while the competition in that specific segment is so little that it is profitable to do just that one cause you have more choice what you want to do and how. Sometimes its not necessarily profitable to try and appease *everyone* as strange as it may sound, and both Starbucks and Apple have figured this out.
So when someone says "oh, M$ has 90% of the PC marketshare and they are evil" that is kinda true, but if you look at it with the idea of "Apple has over 50% of the top end marketshare" or "linux 0wn3$ j00 with 78% of the server marketshare" you start to see what market segments have been penetrated and where its already been determined to be profitable for business to push the product. Granted, there *could* (doesnt meen there are, just the possibility) be more markets, and thats for someone else to figure out with marketing research.
Marketing 101 people.
Ok, I'll plead ignorence on this one, but why hasnt any company utilized (what I believe to be) a right to a speedy trail and get the fucken thing over with.
/.'s crowd has actually sent in complaints just as much as they have b1tched about it here, that they would have atleast do some type of press release or something on the issue.
Also, does anyone have a reason reason why the SEC hasnt gotten involved yet? I understand the paper trail, but you'd think that if
Unless its something native to their machines, they are on crack, I just launched both and I'm fine.
This sounds to me like Apple did a small mod to something in the underlying system and people who have haxies (which arnt supported) are now getting the brunt of the burn (like the guy above who noted about them). Not a garentee, but it is a though. I havnt modded my ibook at all cause I use it for work.
... he will never *ever* get laid. Ever. Period.
Will Canada border-hopping now include underage drinking and underage stealing?
Well, I know from experience with living next to the New Brunswick board that boarder hopping *IS* a big thing for drinking. As far as underage stealing... Its still stealing, age doesnt matter, and no I'm not refering to p2p, I'm just refering to the above comment. So boarder hopping to steal isnt an issue I dont think.
Connect it to p2p, and the ease of use prevents people from jumping the board in masses to get mp3s... I dont see it happening much if at all like ~60% of your (underage students at) college leaving for the weekend to go to canada and drink...
Personally, I havnt seen people jump the board to smoke cannibis, but at the same time, I dont live near Ontario. (which is where the issue started to my knowledge, havnt watched CBC in a while)
Especially Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade...
They do for the most part.
I work with the education program at my college and in the local school districts and their admins. The ibooks for the Maine program are locked down rather well, I'm still trying to tinker with one to get it to use something *other* then 802.11b. The only settings you can alter (other then the top row of Personal stuff) is keyboard, mouse, sound, and the universal access. Nothing else is even accessable. I can run terminal, but I'm also using a teachers image of OSX and not the student one. Everything was setup on a single unit by the Apple Maine rep and then imaged onto other machines. Kinda like nuetering a dog, but in this case, I can understand why. From there, training courses were taught (now how much they pay attention is a different issue) for all those who were interested and invitations were sent out for additional training to those involved. There isnt much excuse I can see not to understand how to use these machines.
I'll preface my remarks by saying that I was 4 years ahead of the 7th graders when it was implimented, and now go to college and know those in the northeastern part of the state that deal with this. Not a definitive answer, but its what I've seen personally.
You jest (and it was well receieved) but your very close to the truth.
I worked at one for almost 2 years and knew my branch inside and out. We did ours with TV, (but I have friends who work in the periodical section) with over 70 some odd stations covered and there are an average of 4 major networks with local news and other programming on in each city, it became really possible to find whatever was aired, somewhere.
If its on TV, its orderable, seriously... On that note, if your that worried maybe you should consider what your saying, before you say it.
We dont look for the hole first. Thats it right there, and its something which has saved us. My examples are from my WiFi scanning, but the general practice applies elsewhere also.
There is a business in my area (which will remain nameless) which contacted us in the MIS department about trying to poke a hole in their security to see how good it is. Not us finding a hole and telling them. That looks like your trying to get in. Think about it, your not real friendly with the guy who keeps scanning your machine and trying to get in without you first knowing about it, why shuold these companies think otherwise? I know that if I was middle aged, balding, and had a job which used tech that I understood half of, that if someone said "oh yeah, while driving by, we found this problem in your WiFi network" I'd question *why* they were looking at my business network. Its a stereotypical response, but you have to place yourself in their shoes.
What we have done at my college is that we first contact the houses and businesses in a given district, say what we are intending to do, how in some places there are services which charge for security analysis like this, and that as a service learning project we are doing it for free. Then we educate them on what it means to be secure all in a quick 5 minute speil and then ask their permission to report any flaws that we find to them and help them patch them. If denied (which so far has only happened once and it was a bank), we move along and dont report anything that we suspect from them. Remember, we are covering a district, so if someone says, "yes, we would like to know so we can better protect ourselves" we generally scan that area, and with WiFi, we havnt had an issue with it. Then we do up a report of whats vulerable as far as connections, and if there are any, we take it a step further. Everything is done with an option NDA agreement which if asked we will sign before hand, and what the limitations of what we will do and offer suggestions to ask outside consultants to check the machine logs after we leave to see if we held up our end.
This has worked very well for us, but the main point is that we are up front with these people and we dont go behind their proverbial back. We dont sneak arround at the dead of night (if they dont want us to, although we do night scans of districts as it provides another view), so it doesnt look suspicious.
The more up front before you do anything, the less trouble you are likely to get into (most of the time) with something like this.
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And your telling me that publicising a blackout's cause as being one grid station, and then showing how its braught half of the northeast practically to a halt for a day or two isnt information in the wrong hands?
;-p
I'm just waiting for some half baked terrorist to whack off a couple of power grids now... Then our excuse of an administration will want to inspect everything about power right down the the electrons because of "national security"...
On a larger note, I'm surprised that nobody has really taken it seriously that there are other things in America then commercial airplanes that can bring this nation to its knees (like power, water, lack of a starbucks...)
...the generation involved.
I did some research since i'm involved in marketing on my campus for the activities board, and we noticed a large change in the habits of this past years freshmen class. My advisor then gave a closed door talk to specifically invited people on the topic of the "mellinial generation" and how they have a tendency to act.
So I became rather interested in how this works, and did some research on the topic. Children born after/during 1982 up until 2002 (give or take a year on the ending, but the beginning is rather defined now) are more inclined to do many things, including, volunteerism, working harder, goal setting, etc. They are set to be the next workaholics based on their performance so far. These are the people who will strive to get straight-As in school (more so then other generations on average). This generation
To emphasize a point close to this artical, consider this:
"The net is their primary source of news. Eighty percent use the net frequently as an information source. The next closes sources are radio (fifty-seven percent) and television (fifty-five percent). Compare that with American adults in general who prefer TV (seventy-five percent) followed by radio, newspapers, magazines, and, last in line, the net. For them, this technology is a natural part of life. Where my daughters, who are a little older than Joanna, used to chat on the phone with friends, Joanna has added instant messaging and email to the ways she stays in touch. My kids wanted their own phone line, Joanna has her own cell phone." (www.mondaymemo.net)
This generation is the first really wired generation as a whole. If the baby boomers had technology attached as a foreign object, and generation x learned it, this generation breathes it...
So no, I dont see this as much of a surprise, but then again, I've spent a good month or two researching the underlying principles which lead to the same conclusion.
The more I read the comments, the more I think this might work. I can remember giving "power sessions" at our last technology fair, and as a whole, we had sessions that ranged from 5-10 people per room. Have everyone log in with Hydra, *INCLUDING* the speaker, so that any questions that come up, s/he can monitor how students are reacting to that, and incorperate that into their sessions.
It may be true that because of the current Bush administration appearing to favor corperate interests over the common good of the country may prevent them from interfering, but if IBM were to do any ammount of real lobbying, something would happen. I mean, look at it from the eyes of an elderly bumbling technologically incompetent public official. The odds they recognize IBM's muscle over whatever SCO appears to have seems to be a preatty clear cut answer IMHO, and with the appearance that "bigger is better" for corperation size to this administration, I think its rather evident who they would side with. Just sit back and watch the fireworks *if* it happens (doubtful, but interesting if it did).
> If you can't do that, then do what I did at my last job - squeeze it in. Park at the farthest point you can so you have to walk into/out of work. If there's public transportation you can use, do that - if you have to drive all the way in, then park far. Believe it or not, but my last job I parked about a good block away.
A report that was published in the last week or so gives more credence to the above then you would think at first. Walking from the back of the parking lot to and from work adds almost 1000 steps on average, and it only takes 2000 to keep off the 2-3lbs that Americans gain on average each year.
If you eat any bread products, go for wheet over white bread, I dont remember the scientific reason (less yeast? I dont remember, its early in the day for me...) but its worked well for those I know.
> Job's is going to freak when he figures this out.
/. complain about how Apple PCs are too expensive, and the general reaction is that the above will be a sweet deal. Yes, they will be, but not for running OSX through emulation.
Why? (Ok, yes, I know it was a joke, but I'll bite)
Considering (and this is unofficial, but it sure does seem it by the comments) that many on
I guess my thought process runs like this: Anyone who really wants to run OSX (and thinks about it for a while) and is buying a new machine will run it on a dual-proc G5 instead of running MOL. Hell, I bet Jobs has more worries about the cracking of m4a (from iTMS) or piracy in general of Apple software (let alone the new Panther beta) then he does with MOL being a risk to their business.
Yes, I know it was a joke, but the whole argument of finding ways arround buying an Apple machine so people can run OSX irks me in some strange manner.
> (7) A frog in an apron (According to the article everyone thinks it's a flying person!)
Better then mine. I saw an extra large green fairy bending over a sheep for his own bidding...
(and my list for completness sakes)
alien
???
draw bridge over red river with oil spill
people dancing
french guys
spider
large green fairy fucking a sheep
pot smokers with little green hats
muscle man with tiny head
winged monster sitting on a bench.
Very true that the Redhad ISOs are a small minority, but look back at Bram's /. interview and make note of how the torrent system is being used by archive.org and etree to distribute content there, and thats gotten a real workout. There are many legitimate uses for the system that arn't just theory.
Granted, not one of them was present on either se.cx or bytemonsoon.