Or it could be Calvin and Hobbes Syndrome. Anyone remember the comic where Calvin is happy he got a low grade, because it kept people's expectations down.
This is especially true in a technical position. People pile on more and more work because they don't understand what is hard, what isn't, and what your breaking point might be. "Smart People" often have more technical jobs, or take more technical courses in school, etc etc.
"Not as smart" people might take more labour-oriented jobs. And of course, the view of "smart" is skewed anyhow, my mechanic can't fix my computer in the same way I can't fix his car... we're both smart in different ways.
I'm currently looking at moving to a country where the regular voltage runs in the >200V range. One thing I've wondered is if the PSU's are more or less efficient at greater voltage?
A good meal takes awhile to make, and so does good code. Many customers, most in fact, are demanding a product as fast as they can get it. Many settle for fast food, and even those getting large products (full meals) often end up with scorched or undercooked offerings because they can't wait...
And it's not that they always have the option. Sometimes they have to go "fast food" because they themselves are on a timeline, and just can't spare the time to wait on a solution they need now.
For others it's just the current mentality now. I'm a programmer. I used to be able to do wonders when I had more time to code. Now even when I have some time there are too many interruptions. If I had time to study up I could refine my technique/abilities and put my dreams into code. The problem is that by the time I did, my dream would be obsolete in the minds of consumers. Today's flashy graphics supertitles are tomorrow's bargain bin items. Of course, some of us (such as myself) rummage the bargain bind and find some real gems... despite being not of the flashiest graphics, but most ignore them entirely.
Fast food. The acceleration of technology means that you can't take time to truely streamline lest you be left behind. Enjoy your undercooked burgers... we earned them.
Hmm. That in itself might be a problem with XScreensaver.
Wouldn't it be better if XScreensaver started as root (no, don't kill me yet) and, as many daemons do, forked off to run in a user process? The root process wouldn't actually handle the screensavers itself, just the inter-user communication. Better, you wanted, you could even have the root process become an "xscreensaver" user and then allow any "xscreensaver-user" process started by logged-in users to communicate with the master. That way, you've got a master process (non-root) that can start the screensaver, and user processes that can tell it when to start the countdown (when all logged-in GUI users are idle).
There will be new room left for volume control settings so long as there is room for the evolution of audio.
As surround gets better, I can see more volume controls using a 3d environment for "speaker config" so as to configure sound settings as best suited to how the speakers are placed in a room. While it's hard to imagine more improvements in the realm of audio (other than more and more speakers are different angles) I'm sure that there will be surprising new concepts which will require new ways of being configured.
Don't doubt that they'll keep an eye on these guys. They might agree to drop charges to nail a bigger fish, but that doesn't mean that they can't nail these guys again in the future for another transgression.
Battle.net has "friends" capabilities. In WarIII this equals a buddy list on the right sidebar as well.
If you don't count the fact that a visible "list" was a more recent event, buddies for gaming contacts have been available since the early battle.net days:
How about the ones that have to take and archive the pictures of the deceased. I doubt most of the victims of such crimes are allowed to survive. Anything related to this field must be hell, though I'd expect the moral reward for nailing some of the sick bastards that do such things to childen comes as some compensation.
I've had this conflict with a lot of so-called professionals before.
One of the boundries seems to be the amount of human interaction. The pros think that only humans can create art.
But even that they tend to poo-poo at. Is a 3d rendered image art? How about these. From my perspective, some of these are extremely visually appealing, and no less art than a painting on the wall. A painter might disagree.
Music is also an artform. I've had musicians who state that the industry is going to hell, because nobody makes "real" music anymore. Computers add enhancements to an artist's voice, intruments, etc. A lot of the instruments are synth.
Certainly if they don't agree that electronic-assisted music is real, they wouldn't agree on something wholly computer generated.
In my opinion though, art is a result of both the care that has going into its creation, and the visual/audible/etc impact of the final presentation. "Canned" music artists that can't sing without enhancement nor play an instrument are posers. The machines are just making a lack of real skill more entertaining.
A band that gets on the stage, puts love and skill into their work, they're artists. But then, an electronica band that puts heart-and-soul into a real show are to me also artists.
A machine that does a painting on its own... it's not an artist, it's not art. The code behind a machine that renders realistic original paintings... that code to me is the art. The machine is just running through instructions and choices to produce a piece of visual output falling within certain parameters. The actual code put into the piece is a result of skill, passion, and in the end is truely a work of intellectual art.
The guys that do 3d renderings. Maybe they can't draw worth a damn with a pencil. But while I'm decent with a 3d program many put me to shame. The end result is still a product of skill and passion.
I think that to qualify as art you much have all or most of these requirements:
An acceptable resulting impact of the piece onobservers
A demonstratable amount of skill implemented as to the design of the product
Originality of the final product
Time and effort given to the product (just because you're a known artist does not mean what you product is art, a lot of them run on reputation or sheer arrogance after a time)
There are artists, entertainers, and people that are both. One is not always the other, but those who are both are truely gifted individuals.
Yes, but just as a password requires a predetermined combination of characters, so would a hardware "key." It would just be more convenient for saving longer passwords.
But here's where it goes wrong: if all services use the same key, then one being compromised can lead to all being compromised. Additionally, if you use a different key for each, well I've got enough crap on my keychain than you!
Take into account other things though, like medical benefits etc. A lot of what comes for free (or cheap) here comes at a cost elsewhere. You can't directly compare income.
br.
I could move a few cities over, be making a fair bit more than now, but be paying out the ass in living expenses and thus make less. That's just between two cities, the different between countries is obviously more.
I moved to a crappy small town and expected my connection to suffer. Thus far in the the last year I think that Telus has only once been at fault for a downed connection.
I think the parent is grousing that Telus assigns static IPs via DHCP. But hell, that's how I do it here at work (for those that are static).
Most large ISP's have moments of idiocy. Out of many, Telus has actually been decent by me.
Question: What's the best way to find out what makes a product popular?
Ask a bunch of people, or, use it yourself?
I'm going with the latter on this one. Formats aside, MS doesn't have a product that competes with the iPod... but if they wanted to make one they'd better know what they're competing with first, don't ya think?
Which means that, despite new laws, SPAM has steadily increased. This includes both legal and illegal SPAM. How many messages in your junkbox start with [ADV]? Most of mine is still for illegal V14G4R4, penile enhancements, and copies of XP.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the market being a little more "flooded" than usual. In that case it would compare well to the MPAA...
Fansubbers release subtitled versions of anime online. Fans download. More downloads/activity = more popularity. Anime companies use popularity to determine US sales.
Now, anime has caught on more in the USA. Anime factories want to release more anime, faster, and with less regard to quality. What previously sold well due to predetermined popularity will now sell by volume. But those that don't want to watch crap can download the fansubs and determine that it is, in fact, crap and not worth buying.
It's like theatre movies and shelved music. The good (or at least, popular) stuff is selling more than ever, but people are better prepared against the crud. Industry wants to sell both, so they fight against the evils of "piracy"
There are a lot of other ways to drag the case on and further drain SCO's finances. Involving an outside entity doesn't make sense, especially since doing so via supeona isn't exactly likely to promote good relations with Intel.
I think there's a bit more to this than we've seen... but if anything when the dust is cleared it will be very interesting to look back and say "ahhhh, I understand now"
Judging from the number of ssh attempted login scans, there are a fair number of comprimised Linux boxes out there
I may be getting this wrong, but that goes with the assumption that an attempting SSH login indicates it is a windows host that is attempting the breakin?
FYI, there are windows tools that can/will probe SSH as well as linux ones. Chances are better that it's an infected linux machine (maybe wormed) looking for a new friend, but that's not a certainty.
Yes. DRM has had it's trial period and often been shown wanting by restricting legitimate use. Steam just had its major showdown when HL2 went up, and if you think that a lot of people were against steam before you'd better believe that it will be even worse with any future releases.
And here I just ditched my notebook to avoid possible wrist damage and crotch-burn, now you're telling me I need to dump my PDA too?!
Seriously though, it's an issue of being smart about how you use such things. Give your wrist a rest, let your thumbs hang loose every now and then, and take the notebook off your lap before it gets hot enough to impair your child-producing abilities!
I haven't heard of anyone sueing keyboard manufacturers over RSI recently, so a little "Some experts believe that regular use of this device may cause thumb strain" should likely be sufficient.
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Or it could be Calvin and Hobbes Syndrome. Anyone remember the comic where Calvin is happy he got a low grade, because it kept people's expectations down.
This is especially true in a technical position. People pile on more and more work because they don't understand what is hard, what isn't, and what your breaking point might be. "Smart People" often have more technical jobs, or take more technical courses in school, etc etc.
"Not as smart" people might take more labour-oriented jobs. And of course, the view of "smart" is skewed anyhow, my mechanic can't fix my computer in the same way I can't fix his car... we're both smart in different ways.
While there are many ways in which Linux and Windows compete, in many ways they can also be complementary to each other.
In what ways could Microsoft see Linux working with windows (or for that matter with other MS products) as opposed to being a competing product.
I'm currently looking at moving to a country where the regular voltage runs in the >200V range. One thing I've wondered is if the PSU's are more or less efficient at greater voltage?
A good meal takes awhile to make, and so does good code. Many customers, most in fact, are demanding a product as fast as they can get it. Many settle for fast food, and even those getting large products (full meals) often end up with scorched or undercooked offerings because they can't wait...
And it's not that they always have the option. Sometimes they have to go "fast food" because they themselves are on a timeline, and just can't spare the time to wait on a solution they need now.
For others it's just the current mentality now. I'm a programmer. I used to be able to do wonders when I had more time to code. Now even when I have some time there are too many interruptions. If I had time to study up I could refine my technique/abilities and put my dreams into code. The problem is that by the time I did, my dream would be obsolete in the minds of consumers. Today's flashy graphics supertitles are tomorrow's bargain bin items. Of course, some of us (such as myself) rummage the bargain bind and find some real gems... despite being not of the flashiest graphics, but most ignore them entirely.
Fast food. The acceleration of technology means that you can't take time to truely streamline lest you be left behind. Enjoy your undercooked burgers... we earned them.
Been awhile since I've played D2, but I know that my "War3" buddies can see me when I'm in for "Frozen Throne"
Hmm. That in itself might be a problem with XScreensaver.
Wouldn't it be better if XScreensaver started as root (no, don't kill me yet) and, as many daemons do, forked off to run in a user process? The root process wouldn't actually handle the screensavers itself, just the inter-user communication. Better, you wanted, you could even have the root process become an "xscreensaver" user and then allow any "xscreensaver-user" process started by logged-in users to communicate with the master. That way, you've got a master process (non-root) that can start the screensaver, and user processes that can tell it when to start the countdown (when all logged-in GUI users are idle).
There will be new room left for volume control settings so long as there is room for the evolution of audio.
As surround gets better, I can see more volume controls using a 3d environment for "speaker config" so as to configure sound settings as best suited to how the speakers are placed in a room. While it's hard to imagine more improvements in the realm of audio (other than more and more speakers are different angles) I'm sure that there will be surprising new concepts which will require new ways of being configured.
Battle.net applies then:
Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo, to name a few I've played on there.
Don't doubt that they'll keep an eye on these guys. They might agree to drop charges to nail a bigger fish, but that doesn't mean that they can't nail these guys again in the future for another transgression.
Battle.net has "friends" capabilities. In WarIII this equals a buddy list on the right sidebar as well.
/f add phorm
/f list
If you don't count the fact that a visible "list" was a more recent event, buddies for gaming contacts have been available since the early battle.net days:
How about the ones that have to take and archive the pictures of the deceased. I doubt most of the victims of such crimes are allowed to survive. Anything related to this field must be hell, though I'd expect the moral reward for nailing some of the sick bastards that do such things to childen comes as some compensation.
One of the boundries seems to be the amount of human interaction. The pros think that only humans can create art.
But even that they tend to poo-poo at. Is a 3d rendered image art? How about these. From my perspective, some of these are extremely visually appealing, and no less art than a painting on the wall. A painter might disagree.
Music is also an artform. I've had musicians who state that the industry is going to hell, because nobody makes "real" music anymore. Computers add enhancements to an artist's voice, intruments, etc. A lot of the instruments are synth.
Certainly if they don't agree that electronic-assisted music is real, they wouldn't agree on something wholly computer generated.
In my opinion though, art is a result of both the care that has going into its creation, and the visual/audible/etc impact of the final presentation. "Canned" music artists that can't sing without enhancement nor play an instrument are posers. The machines are just making a lack of real skill more entertaining.
A band that gets on the stage, puts love and skill into their work, they're artists. But then, an electronica band that puts heart-and-soul into a real show are to me also artists.
A machine that does a painting on its own... it's not an artist, it's not art. The code behind a machine that renders realistic original paintings... that code to me is the art. The machine is just running through instructions and choices to produce a piece of visual output falling within certain parameters. The actual code put into the piece is a result of skill, passion, and in the end is truely a work of intellectual art.
The guys that do 3d renderings. Maybe they can't draw worth a damn with a pencil. But while I'm decent with a 3d program many put me to shame. The end result is still a product of skill and passion.
I think that to qualify as art you much have all or most of these requirements:
There are artists, entertainers, and people that are both. One is not always the other, but those who are both are truely gifted individuals.
Yes, but just as a password requires a predetermined combination of characters, so would a hardware "key." It would just be more convenient for saving longer passwords.
But here's where it goes wrong: if all services use the same key, then one being compromised can lead to all being compromised. Additionally, if you use a different key for each, well I've got enough crap on my keychain than you!
Take into account other things though, like medical benefits etc. A lot of what comes for free (or cheap) here comes at a cost elsewhere. You can't directly compare income.
br. I could move a few cities over, be making a fair bit more than now, but be paying out the ass in living expenses and thus make less. That's just between two cities, the different between countries is obviously more.
I moved to a crappy small town and expected my connection to suffer. Thus far in the the last year I think that Telus has only once been at fault for a downed connection.
I think the parent is grousing that Telus assigns static IPs via DHCP. But hell, that's how I do it here at work (for those that are static).
Most large ISP's have moments of idiocy. Out of many, Telus has actually been decent by me.
They come with a touchpad, but it has a handy little button on top of it that will disable it.
Question: What's the best way to find out what makes a product popular?
Ask a bunch of people, or, use it yourself?
I'm going with the latter on this one. Formats aside, MS doesn't have a product that competes with the iPod... but if they wanted to make one they'd better know what they're competing with first, don't ya think?
I've had a lot of success using IceCast for casting ogg/mp3 files over the network. You can always setup a web frontend for moving between songs, etc.
Should work as well with wireless or wired.
Which means that, despite new laws, SPAM has steadily increased. This includes both legal and illegal SPAM. How many messages in your junkbox start with [ADV]? Most of mine is still for illegal V14G4R4, penile enhancements, and copies of XP.
Anyone know if there's a Metatag or other way to disable MSN spidering?
I wonder if this has anything to do with the market being a little more "flooded" than usual. In that case it would compare well to the MPAA...
Fansubbers release subtitled versions of anime online. Fans download. More downloads/activity = more popularity. Anime companies use popularity to determine US sales.
Now, anime has caught on more in the USA. Anime factories want to release more anime, faster, and with less regard to quality. What previously sold well due to predetermined popularity will now sell by volume. But those that don't want to watch crap can download the fansubs and determine that it is, in fact, crap and not worth buying.
It's like theatre movies and shelved music. The good (or at least, popular) stuff is selling more than ever, but people are better prepared against the crud. Industry wants to sell both, so they fight against the evils of "piracy"
There are a lot of other ways to drag the case on and further drain SCO's finances. Involving an outside entity doesn't make sense, especially since doing so via supeona isn't exactly likely to promote good relations with Intel.
I think there's a bit more to this than we've seen... but if anything when the dust is cleared it will be very interesting to look back and say "ahhhh, I understand now"
Judging from the number of ssh attempted login scans, there are a fair number of comprimised Linux boxes out there
I may be getting this wrong, but that goes with the assumption that an attempting SSH login indicates it is a windows host that is attempting the breakin?
FYI, there are windows tools that can/will probe SSH as well as linux ones. Chances are better that it's an infected linux machine (maybe wormed) looking for a new friend, but that's not a certainty.
Yes. DRM has had it's trial period and often been shown wanting by restricting legitimate use. Steam just had its major showdown when HL2 went up, and if you think that a lot of people were against steam before you'd better believe that it will be even worse with any future releases.
And here I just ditched my notebook to avoid possible wrist damage and crotch-burn, now you're telling me I need to dump my PDA too?!
Seriously though, it's an issue of being smart about how you use such things. Give your wrist a rest, let your thumbs hang loose every now and then, and take the notebook off your lap before it gets hot enough to impair your child-producing abilities!
I haven't heard of anyone sueing keyboard manufacturers over RSI recently, so a little "Some experts believe that regular use of this device may cause thumb strain" should likely be sufficient.