What a trashy article. If it's not fit for publication, why is it fit for Slashdot? Oh yeah, this is Slashdot, where we talk about articles that really aren't fit for publication....
So what? The point is that this site cannot be forced to be shut down. The only thing that can shut down a website like this (unless the owner agrees to do so) is a court order, ie the government. If this isn't a first amendment case I don't know what is.
Doesn't the first amendment protect websites such as this? We may as well shut down every review website and magazine. Ok, maybe some slanderous things were said, but those comments were made by the reviewer and are not the opinion of the web site owner. Doesn't every similar website have that disclaimer?
Much of a store's profits are made on strategy. When this kind of data is released, it cuts into the ability of a business to price things appropriately to the demand.
Doesn't FatWallet have a right to make money too? Best Buy should have guarded their pricing info better. Besides, you don't think Best Buy sends people to other stores to check prices?
Will this mean an end to Academy Awards going to movies that open in only 100 theaters nationwide, or will it take an entire studio chain such as Universal or MGM to knock some sense into Valenti's mind?"
I doubt it will mean the end of Oscars going to art films, but it could mean the end of the MPAA. Who needs them anyway? The Academy Awards are given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Why does the MPAA even have any say in who sends AMPAS screeners movies?
If you live in states with anti-spamming laws you may be able to sue the spammers. Not for millions of dollars however.
In Washington state we are allowed to sue for up to $500.00 per spam. However, the spammer must do something like give a false return address or misleading subject line.
Considering the amount of spam I get (sometimes hundreds per day, and I'm sure that's not an unusual amount), and the fact that 90%+ of them have fake return addresses, at $500 per spam I probably could sue for millions.
...very complicated to pull off. CDs do not hold that much time, only a little over an hour. The CD could only have the headlining band on it, and they usually play 90 minutes, sometimes a little less, many times a lot more. They'd have to cut a few songs off or split it up into multiple CDs. Having the CDs prepared 5 minutes after the concert sounds impossible. But they could probably be ready to copy the CDs after a customer orders one. So how would they do it? Most likely they'd have to have a feed running directly from the soundboard to a PC, where the whole concert could be stored on the HD. I'm not sure exactly how that would work, but it could probably be done. They'd have to split the songs up into separate files so they could pick and choose which ones to delete. Then when the concert's over they'd have to burn one (or several) master CDs that they can use to make copies of. Maybe they can use one of these. I think those devices even let you make CDs directly from the HD. But it says they can only make 18 discs per hour, so they'd have to bring in several of them. The resulting CDs may have decent sound quality, but would probably be far below what you'd expect from something you buy at the store, since they spent zero time polishing it up for release. If they're planning on recording a Britney Spears show with 40,000 people, they'd have to bring in a shitload of these things or people will be waiting hours for their discs. Could it be done? Probably. But not without compromises in quality, and it certainly wouldn't be ready in 5 minutes, and it wouldn't contain the entire concert.
In general people cannot properly focus for more than a few hours on one issue without taking a break.....usually the best way to solve a thorny coding issue is to STEP AWAY from the computer (or switch away from the code editor anyway) for a while and let your mind think of other things while it processes the problem...
I agree with everything you said. It's just impossible to focus on work for 8 hours straight, especially one that requires a lot of concentration, like programming. I've found that when I'm coding a difficult problem, I have to step away from the computer for a while and just sit and think about it. Sure, I could come up with some shitty hack on the fly, but in order to do the job right you need breaks every now and then. I guess pr0n should be forbidden at work, but I don't see what's wrong with visiting "family" websites like/.;-) But even if they have a rule against pr0n, I still don't think it's a good idea to have big brother looking over everyone's shoulders. Employees should be entitled to a little bit of privacy, even at work. One of the biggest complaints about my current employer is that they treat everyone like retarded children. They have strict rules about using the net. Basically, if you're caught on the internet you get fired. Of course, everyone who works there is miserable. It would probably do wonders for workplace morale if employers started showing a little more trust in their workers instead of using threats to keep them in line. I cringe every time a manager says "Oh by the way, you're not allowed to do ____, that's a terminable offense." And it doesn't help when then openly violate their own rules all the time.
This is defnitely kind of cool, but I will be a great deal more impressed when it is achieved with an object with appreciable mass.
A moving photon behaves as though it has mass and momentum. Consider the Compton effect, where a photon striking an electron causes the photon to scatter off the electron like a billiard ball. It's all about quantum theory.;-)
The REAL story is linked under the "Related Stories" header. Could ink-jet technology also one day make possible the long-awaited penis transplant? Imagine the spamming possibilities!
You didn't discuss this in your article, but do you have a college education or are you self-taught? This isn't 1999 anymore, the job market is right. Really tight. Virtually every job ad I've looked at required *at least* a BS, and many even want a masters. It may not even matter how much experience you have or how good you are, someone with a BS probably has an edge over you (if you don't have one). Assuming you don't have a BS, I would start taking classes at one of the many fine universities in NYC. CUNY is a cheap public university in NYC, if price is a big concern. If you do have a BS, think about a masters or maybe take the teachers advice on going for certifications. These days, paper chasing may get you a job faster than hands-on experience.
I don't think undergrad school makes much of a difference. After all, you're not really doing any research or anything, just learning the basics and getting a liberal arts degree. Graduate school is where you specialize and then the quality of the researchers and the resources of the school matter. For example, take a physics class at Harvard and compare with one at "Random State University." Are the laws of physics any different at Harvard? I think not. In fact, I've heard a few professors complain about some of these prestigious schools because they inflate their grades to make their students look smarter. One of them said that at Duke something like 75% of the class (biology 101 I think) got A's. That's preposterous. In my opinion, undergrad school matters a little bit, but it's a waste of money to go to a prestigious expensive school. Just go to a school you know doesn't suck and do really well, you'll get into a good grad school. I went to Rutgers, which is a decent school but it's not Harvard, and I knew someone who got into Harvard for their developmental biology PhD program. And as someone else said, it's ultimately the individual that decides how far they will go in life.
Speaking of video game pr0n, anyone remember Sex Games for Commodore 64? I have fond memories of that as a child. I may still have the disk. Hmm, what could that be worth...
We all got $25 gift certificates to the supermarket. Now that is what I call cheap. I won't mention the name of the company where I work, but here at the Red Cross (damn, it slipped) they are the tightest company I ever worked for. Yeah yeah, I know they are a charity, but keep in mind that no one wants to work for free, and I work for the blood services division as a lab tech. They pay us around $14 an hour to test blood. They test thousands of units each day and each one gets sold, not donated, for around $120. Our division is non-profit in name only, they make money hand over fist. I don't think we're even having a Christmas party. Just last week our lab made a certain goal, and the Director of Testing told us he was going to have a party when we hit the goal. Well we hit the goal and he's not giving us the promised party because he couldn't get permission to expense it! Bastards.
People go into biology because it is the easiest of sciences( slightly easier than Comp. Sci, if you can call that a science). I thought it was understood apriori that this is what biologists end up doing, and doing it with a very low, low salary.
It depends on the individual as to what they consider "easy." I never thought bio was very easy, but I suppose compared to chem and physics it is. Physics majors aren't exactly setting the world on fire with their salaries either. I suppose chem is better, but I don't know much about working in that field. To me, computer science is easier than bio because it's more fun. But I know a girl right now in one of my CS classes who's a bio major (and claims to have good grades) and is failing the CS class. Some people understand it, some just don't.
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What a trashy article. If it's not fit for publication, why is it fit for Slashdot? Oh yeah, this is Slashdot, where we talk about articles that really aren't fit for publication....
You must be new here.
So what? The point is that this site cannot be forced to be shut down. The only thing that can shut down a website like this (unless the owner agrees to do so) is a court order, ie the government. If this isn't a first amendment case I don't know what is.
Doesn't the first amendment protect websites such as this? We may as well shut down every review website and magazine. Ok, maybe some slanderous things were said, but those comments were made by the reviewer and are not the opinion of the web site owner. Doesn't every similar website have that disclaimer?
Apparently, their motto of "Keeps a lickin but keeps on tickin" doesn't apply to their web site.
;-)
Ever owned one of their watches? Doesn't apply to them either.
So which model SFF PC is their server? ;-)
Much of a store's profits are made on strategy. When this kind of data is released, it cuts into the ability of a business to price things appropriately to the demand.
Doesn't FatWallet have a right to make money too? Best Buy should have guarded their pricing info better. Besides, you don't think Best Buy sends people to other stores to check prices?
The article fails to address the issue of redundant information
You mean stuff like this?
I don't know how many hours I wasted playing AvP on the Atari Jaguar
So you're the guy that bought the Jaguar...
Will this mean an end to Academy Awards going to movies that open in only 100 theaters nationwide, or will it take an entire studio chain such as Universal or MGM to knock some sense into Valenti's mind?"
I doubt it will mean the end of Oscars going to art films, but it could mean the end of the MPAA. Who needs them anyway? The Academy Awards are given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Why does the MPAA even have any say in who sends AMPAS screeners movies?
(With apologies to David Spade)
I liked it better the first time...
When it was called Etch-A-Sketch.
He's right. The only face down cards are in the shoe.
The dealer has a face down card.
So "The Matrix" was a documentary??!?
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
you want to make sure that if you use large quantities (and the 220L dewars some groups have qualify)
Wow, a 220L bottle of Dewar's? Where can I get one!?
If you live in states with anti-spamming laws you may be able to sue the spammers. Not for millions of dollars however.
In Washington state we are allowed to sue for up to $500.00 per spam. However, the spammer must do something like give a false return address or misleading subject line.
Considering the amount of spam I get (sometimes hundreds per day, and I'm sure that's not an unusual amount), and the fact that 90%+ of them have fake return addresses, at $500 per spam I probably could sue for millions.
Apple's merging with Sun. They'll call the new company Snapple.
...very complicated to pull off. CDs do not hold that much time, only a little over an hour. The CD could only have the headlining band on it, and they usually play 90 minutes, sometimes a little less, many times a lot more. They'd have to cut a few songs off or split it up into multiple CDs. Having the CDs prepared 5 minutes after the concert sounds impossible. But they could probably be ready to copy the CDs after a customer orders one. So how would they do it? Most likely they'd have to have a feed running directly from the soundboard to a PC, where the whole concert could be stored on the HD. I'm not sure exactly how that would work, but it could probably be done. They'd have to split the songs up into separate files so they could pick and choose which ones to delete. Then when the concert's over they'd have to burn one (or several) master CDs that they can use to make copies of. Maybe they can use one of these. I think those devices even let you make CDs directly from the HD. But it says they can only make 18 discs per hour, so they'd have to bring in several of them. The resulting CDs may have decent sound quality, but would probably be far below what you'd expect from something you buy at the store, since they spent zero time polishing it up for release. If they're planning on recording a Britney Spears show with 40,000 people, they'd have to bring in a shitload of these things or people will be waiting hours for their discs. Could it be done? Probably. But not without compromises in quality, and it certainly wouldn't be ready in 5 minutes, and it wouldn't contain the entire concert.
In general people cannot properly focus for more than a few hours on one issue without taking a break... ..usually the best way to solve a thorny coding issue is to STEP AWAY from the computer (or switch away from the code editor anyway) for a while and let your mind think of other things while it processes the problem...
/. ;-) But even if they have a rule against pr0n, I still don't think it's a good idea to have big brother looking over everyone's shoulders. Employees should be entitled to a little bit of privacy, even at work. One of the biggest complaints about my current employer is that they treat everyone like retarded children. They have strict rules about using the net. Basically, if you're caught on the internet you get fired. Of course, everyone who works there is miserable. It would probably do wonders for workplace morale if employers started showing a little more trust in their workers instead of using threats to keep them in line. I cringe every time a manager says "Oh by the way, you're not allowed to do ____, that's a terminable offense." And it doesn't help when then openly violate their own rules all the time.
I agree with everything you said. It's just impossible to focus on work for 8 hours straight, especially one that requires a lot of concentration, like programming. I've found that when I'm coding a difficult problem, I have to step away from the computer for a while and just sit and think about it. Sure, I could come up with some shitty hack on the fly, but in order to do the job right you need breaks every now and then. I guess pr0n should be forbidden at work, but I don't see what's wrong with visiting "family" websites like
If you want to prevent someone from getting your data, just buy a Western Digital drive. No one will be able to recover it!
This is defnitely kind of cool, but I will be a great deal more impressed when it is achieved with an object with appreciable mass.
;-)
A moving photon behaves as though it has mass and momentum. Consider the Compton effect, where a photon striking an electron causes the photon to scatter off the electron like a billiard ball. It's all about quantum theory.
The REAL story is linked under the "Related Stories" header. Could ink-jet technology also one day make possible the long-awaited penis transplant? Imagine the spamming possibilities!
You didn't discuss this in your article, but do you have a college education or are you self-taught? This isn't 1999 anymore, the job market is right. Really tight. Virtually every job ad I've looked at required *at least* a BS, and many even want a masters. It may not even matter how much experience you have or how good you are, someone with a BS probably has an edge over you (if you don't have one). Assuming you don't have a BS, I would start taking classes at one of the many fine universities in NYC. CUNY is a cheap public university in NYC, if price is a big concern. If you do have a BS, think about a masters or maybe take the teachers advice on going for certifications. These days, paper chasing may get you a job faster than hands-on experience.
I don't think undergrad school makes much of a difference. After all, you're not really doing any research or anything, just learning the basics and getting a liberal arts degree. Graduate school is where you specialize and then the quality of the researchers and the resources of the school matter. For example, take a physics class at Harvard and compare with one at "Random State University." Are the laws of physics any different at Harvard? I think not. In fact, I've heard a few professors complain about some of these prestigious schools because they inflate their grades to make their students look smarter. One of them said that at Duke something like 75% of the class (biology 101 I think) got A's. That's preposterous.
In my opinion, undergrad school matters a little bit, but it's a waste of money to go to a prestigious expensive school. Just go to a school you know doesn't suck and do really well, you'll get into a good grad school. I went to Rutgers, which is a decent school but it's not Harvard, and I knew someone who got into Harvard for their developmental biology PhD program. And as someone else said, it's ultimately the individual that decides how far they will go in life.
Speaking of video game pr0n, anyone remember Sex Games for Commodore 64? I have fond memories of that as a child. I may still have the disk. Hmm, what could that be worth...
We all got $25 gift certificates to the supermarket. Now that is what I call cheap. I won't mention the name of the company where I work, but here at the Red Cross (damn, it slipped) they are the tightest company I ever worked for. Yeah yeah, I know they are a charity, but keep in mind that no one wants to work for free, and I work for the blood services division as a lab tech. They pay us around $14 an hour to test blood. They test thousands of units each day and each one gets sold, not donated, for around $120. Our division is non-profit in name only, they make money hand over fist. I don't think we're even having a Christmas party. Just last week our lab made a certain goal, and the Director of Testing told us he was going to have a party when we hit the goal. Well we hit the goal and he's not giving us the promised party because he couldn't get permission to expense it! Bastards.
People go into biology because it is the easiest of sciences( slightly easier than Comp. Sci, if you can call that a science). I thought it was understood apriori that this is what biologists end up doing, and doing it with a very low, low salary.
It depends on the individual as to what they consider "easy." I never thought bio was very easy, but I suppose compared to chem and physics it is. Physics majors aren't exactly setting the world on fire with their salaries either. I suppose chem is better, but I don't know much about working in that field. To me, computer science is easier than bio because it's more fun. But I know a girl right now in one of my CS classes who's a bio major (and claims to have good grades) and is failing the CS class. Some people understand it, some just don't.