If you want to make a fake email without worrying about anyone ever receiving email because of it, RFC 2606 defines reserved domain names. Thinking about all the emails that have bounced after being sent to blowme@example.com just warms my heart.
Yeah, because it's so silly to ask a simple and relevant question rather than download an ISO that is hundreds of megs large, burn it, and spend time fiddling with it to see if it works.
Woz gave a talk to my class a few years back. Just like the references to Breakout in the article, you could always tell that his driving force was making the impossible possible. Using as few chips as possible (I distinctly remember him mentioning this multiple times), making a personal computer that could do $foo and $bar, etc. For him it was all about the challenge.
And as if Woz wasn't already the idol of longtime Mac users everywhere, he further cemented his status by professing his love for Snood! All hail Woz, we bow down before your puzzle level skills.
Have maximize remove useless title bar. Make alt-tab cycle distinct windows. Recognize ctrl-based shortcuts. Have a close button on the preferences window.
Otherwise it's the best software available for the Mac, after Boot Camp.
This pretty much sums up the problem with Firefox on the Mac. You have too many people who use it on Linux and Windows who want it to behave exactly as it does on those platforms. On the other hand, you have a lot of Mac users who don't like it because it doesn't behave and feel like a Mac app. Any Mac user will tell you that command-tab should cycle you through apps, and command-~ should cycle you through windows in an app, but then you have Windows users who aren't used to this functionality.
From the comments in this story, it seems like the biggest selling point of Firefox is the plugins. It would probably be a better effort to make Firefox plugins work with Camino (an already excellent Mac browser) than to try and Mac-ify Firefox.
His salary is $1 per year... I don't think anyone is going to argue he is overpaid
His salary may only be $1, but he received about $8 million worth of options last year. The $1 salary is purely symbolic now.
And for the record, Jobs is easily worth millions to the company. There's no way Apple would be where it is without him, and he is worth every penny they give him.
Runner-up: ALT-F4 to close a window. Also handy for getting rid of idiots on chat:
Idiot: Hey, my computer is broken, how do I fix it? Me: Well, first, hit ALT-F4 *** User 'Idiot' has left the room. ***
That reminds me of what people would do on GameRanger, a Mac gaming client. Noobs would ask questions, and of course people would tell them to hit command-Q. I guess too many noobs were getting tricked into this, so GameRanger was changed to ask for confirmation upon quitting, with the default answer being OK. Of course, the trick just evolved so that people would just tell noobs, "Hit command-q, then hit enter really quick!" Less people got tricked, but damn was it all the more satisfying when you got someone.
I live in the Sillicon Valley and we use to be the big Tech center, after the Dot Com burst people began shunning Technology based companys. Now the big focus in the area seams to be BioTech companys. They are quickly out pacing the IT companys in the area. But thanks to short sighted politicians there are to many bans and restrictions in this country on this type of technology.
If we're not the big tech center anymore, who is? Just from perusing the NASDAQ gives a list including Apple, Intel, Google, Cisco, Oracle, etc. Sure the people at Pets.com and all the other busts may have gone elsewhere, but Silicon Valley is still by far and away the center of the tech universe.
I bought a car about 6 months ago, and I ran into this. Even though I was paying straight cash, they demanded my SSN so they could run a credit report. They said that they needed to run a credit report to see if I was on this list. I argued with them that I was paying cash, they didn't needed my SSN, etc., but it was late and I eventually relented just to keep the process moving. I had never heard of the list before, so I wasn't very prepared to put up a good argument. Later when I got home I found that the list was online. That made me even more angry, both at the dealership and at myself for not knowing better.
Don't give up your SSN to people who don't need it!
I'm guessing you are unfamiliar with the original ad, but it's a spoof of a famous Mac commercial that aired in 1984. In 2004, at some Apple conference (WWDC?), Jobs showed the ad again, this time with the runner wearing the iPod. (So it was the folks at Apple who made the realistic iPod added on.) The guy who made the Obama/Clinton spoof took a copy of the 2004 updated version, so hence the iPod on the runner.
The logo at the end is a spoof of the old Apple logo, so yes, it should look similar to the Apple logo.
We have professional athletes whose exercise programs would be considered abnormal and pointless, (not including shaving eyebrows to achieve an iota of improvement in swim speed.)
First off, I don't know of anyone that shaves their eyebrows for swimming. Moreso, shaving isn't necessarily for cutting drag, but to feel faster. Trust me, you feel much sleeker and faster in the water when you shave for a big meet. It's like how baseball players will put a donut on their bat while they're on deck. Confidence and mental readiness are very important, and any advantages that can be gained there are worth their weight in gold.
- More flexible routing of unique identifiers (let's call them IP numbers), so I can take my "identifier" with me (think mobile phones) - A solution to the ever growing "global routing table" (BGP4 as it is used today)
I don't think it's possible to have both at the same time. A solution for a portable unique identifier already exists (DNS), and trying to achieve portability down at layer 3 could get real ugly and computationally expensive. DNS can be distributed very easily and allows leaf nodes to do the URL->IP translation. This leaves the big routers in the middle with a fairly simple routing table rather than needing to have a table entry for each and every IP address.
I wholeheartedly agree. There's only one piece of third party software that immediately goes to the Dock on a fresh install, and that's Adium. It's simple, predictable, and incredibly intuitive.
That's not entirely true. In some cities (Chicago, for example) there are more candidates for K-6 teaching positions than there are positions themselves. I'd also offer that there are significant non-financial incentives towards a career in education: 1) A sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing that kid in your third grade class turn out to be a stellar individual 2) A more flexible schedule for families where both parents work 3) Personal achievement. Kids don't grow up playing "garbage man". I've never heard a kid say "I want to be a copy machine repair man when I grow up." Play-skool(!) doesn't sell "My first call center" toys.
That's all fine and dandy, but without the money to back it up, especially here in California, you just aren't going to get enough teachers. The cost of living is just too much to overcome. Leaving my engineering job to teach would mean a much nicer schedule, less stress, and other perks, but a teacher's salary is too low to make it worth it. Yes, there are more important things in life than money, but with the extra money I'll make as an engineer, I'll be able to live in California (Bay Area for me) much more comfortably and have money to spend on hobbies, vacations, etc. I enjoy. To me it's well worth the extra work.
And before everyone goes on about how the cost of living in CA is too high, remember there's a reason it's much higher. A lot of people really want to live here, and dealing with the cost of living is worth it.
At least California has a governor that's packing enough brass to make this practicable, assuming he wants to gamble essentially all of his political capital on this move.
If there's anyone in a good situation politcally and personally, it's the Governator. This is basically the end of the road for him politically (unless Demolition Man comes true), and he's shown that he isn't afraid of bucking against his party for something he believes in.
I never read much Captain America, but I read a good number of other Marvel comics. Frankly, getting sniped seems like a pretty damn weak death for someone so badass. It just doesn't seem fitting for a superhero to get taken out by a single dude with a rifle.
This is not fair use, unless fair use has been rewritten to allow you to make 80 thousand backups and redistribute them to your closest friends and anyone who will pay. Also, Weird Al is a bad example to bring up. Parody and satire are long established and protected exemptions.
It doesn't make it wrong, either. He's been charged under the RICO act. If that isn't morally repugnant to you, you're soft in the head.
Civil issue.
I initially had misgivings when I saw RICO being invoked, but this is far more than your average teenager downloading a few songs. He was continually committing copyright infringement on a massive scale (80k discs!) to make a profit. It's the combination of massive scale and intent to profit that push it beyond a simple civil matter.
There are a whole host of things to complain about*, but the bottom line is he violated copyright law in order to make a profit. Just because the RIAA does things wrong doesn't make it right for this guy to commit copyright infringement. He decided to ignore the rules of copyright, so he has to deal with the consequences. If he was too dumb to know there might be consequences, sucks to be him.
* Dumb artists signing with big record labels, dumb artists signing away all their rights, record labels bankrolling some mixtapes but arresting the makers of others, etc.
The poor (making $20.00 an hour or less) cant afford to build a home or buy a old home in lower crime areas... you just cant afford a $350,000.00+ mortgage when you make a paltry $20.00 a hour. So you are stuck buying a crapshack in the $200,000 range in a questionable neighborhood that you hope is not too bad. Here is the problem. your little 1200 Sq foot crapshack was built in 1955 and has no insulation. so heating it costs you over $200.00 a month during winter months. While the rich guy in his 4800 sq foot home get's away with $180.00 a month keeping it at 72 degrees because he has low E glass, south facing windows, thermal mass, decent insulation etc....
The gap is widening... I realize that I will never EVER be able to afford to build a house, the income gap has widened enough that I will never be able to catch up to the fact that housing is spiraling out of control in price. The depressing fact is that I see my 15 year old and know that she probably will never be a homeowner unless she does somethign stupid and get's one of those unrealistic mortgages, marries a rich guy, or becomes a doctor.
And this is in non-popular metro areas, Only the truely insane tries to buy a home in California near San Diago, LA or Frisco. (Where you have the $500,000.00 Crapshacks)
It's this kind of pessimistic attitude, combined with excessive spending, that is keeping people from home ownership. I just got out of college and got a job as a software engineer, but my goal is to get a house in 5 years. I make about average money for a fresh out of school software engineer, which isn't great considering that I'm living in Silicon Valley and intend to buy a place here. I could take the "woe is me" attitude and resign myself to never buying a house, but instead I'm focusing on saving my money and setting myself up to get a house. Sure I don't have a lot of money to throw around on excessive consumption like I see out of many of my fellow grads, but it means that I'll be able to buy a house with an honest-to-God down payment and a real mortage, not some crazy ARM.
Being the son of an accountant, fiscal responsibility has been drilled into me since before I can remember. It still amazes me that some people fail to realize that if they curb their spending and plan for the future, it can do wonders to their financial and living situation.
His problem is that he makes good points but then loses his credibility by following them up directly with bad points. I suspect that most geeks would agree that TCP is a great protocol that has stood the test of time. Sure it could probably be improved, but for the most part it's rock solid.
Unfortunately, because of what he said about TCP, it's easy to miss the other point he was trying to make. If we mandate protocols, QoS, etc., we are likely stiffling future innovations in this area. It's not at the same layer of the OSI model, but imagine if HTTP and FTP had been mandated at the application layer. Would we have ever had Bittorrent?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Where does the federal government claim to derive the power to mandate federal IDs? Are they using the interstate commerce clause yet again? There's one part of the Constitution that has been seriously misused time and time again and is in dire need of fixing.
Oh man, Bolo! At my middle school, they offered a CS elective before the first period of the day. I didn't learn a thing beyond Hello World, and the blame lies solely on our LAN games of Bolo.
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If you want to make a fake email without worrying about anyone ever receiving email because of it, RFC 2606 defines reserved domain names. Thinking about all the emails that have bounced after being sent to blowme@example.com just warms my heart.
Yeah, because it's so silly to ask a simple and relevant question rather than download an ISO that is hundreds of megs large, burn it, and spend time fiddling with it to see if it works.
Woz gave a talk to my class a few years back. Just like the references to Breakout in the article, you could always tell that his driving force was making the impossible possible. Using as few chips as possible (I distinctly remember him mentioning this multiple times), making a personal computer that could do $foo and $bar, etc. For him it was all about the challenge.
And as if Woz wasn't already the idol of longtime Mac users everywhere, he further cemented his status by professing his love for Snood! All hail Woz, we bow down before your puzzle level skills.
This pretty much sums up the problem with Firefox on the Mac. You have too many people who use it on Linux and Windows who want it to behave exactly as it does on those platforms. On the other hand, you have a lot of Mac users who don't like it because it doesn't behave and feel like a Mac app. Any Mac user will tell you that command-tab should cycle you through apps, and command-~ should cycle you through windows in an app, but then you have Windows users who aren't used to this functionality.
From the comments in this story, it seems like the biggest selling point of Firefox is the plugins. It would probably be a better effort to make Firefox plugins work with Camino (an already excellent Mac browser) than to try and Mac-ify Firefox.
His salary may only be $1, but he received about $8 million worth of options last year. The $1 salary is purely symbolic now.
And for the record, Jobs is easily worth millions to the company. There's no way Apple would be where it is without him, and he is worth every penny they give him.
Runner-up: ALT-F4 to close a window. Also handy for getting rid of idiots on chat:
Idiot: Hey, my computer is broken, how do I fix it?
Me: Well, first, hit ALT-F4
*** User 'Idiot' has left the room. ***
That reminds me of what people would do on GameRanger, a Mac gaming client. Noobs would ask questions, and of course people would tell them to hit command-Q. I guess too many noobs were getting tricked into this, so GameRanger was changed to ask for confirmation upon quitting, with the default answer being OK. Of course, the trick just evolved so that people would just tell noobs, "Hit command-q, then hit enter really quick!" Less people got tricked, but damn was it all the more satisfying when you got someone.
I live in the Sillicon Valley and we use to be the big Tech center, after the Dot Com burst people began shunning Technology based companys. Now the big focus in the area seams to be BioTech companys. They are quickly out pacing the IT companys in the area. But thanks to short sighted politicians there are to many bans and restrictions in this country on this type of technology.
If we're not the big tech center anymore, who is? Just from perusing the NASDAQ gives a list including Apple, Intel, Google, Cisco, Oracle, etc. Sure the people at Pets.com and all the other busts may have gone elsewhere, but Silicon Valley is still by far and away the center of the tech universe.
I bought a car about 6 months ago, and I ran into this. Even though I was paying straight cash, they demanded my SSN so they could run a credit report. They said that they needed to run a credit report to see if I was on this list. I argued with them that I was paying cash, they didn't needed my SSN, etc., but it was late and I eventually relented just to keep the process moving. I had never heard of the list before, so I wasn't very prepared to put up a good argument. Later when I got home I found that the list was online. That made me even more angry, both at the dealership and at myself for not knowing better.
Don't give up your SSN to people who don't need it!
I'm guessing you are unfamiliar with the original ad, but it's a spoof of a famous Mac commercial that aired in 1984. In 2004, at some Apple conference (WWDC?), Jobs showed the ad again, this time with the runner wearing the iPod. (So it was the folks at Apple who made the realistic iPod added on.) The guy who made the Obama/Clinton spoof took a copy of the 2004 updated version, so hence the iPod on the runner.
The logo at the end is a spoof of the old Apple logo, so yes, it should look similar to the Apple logo.
We have professional athletes whose exercise programs would be considered abnormal and pointless, (not including shaving eyebrows to achieve an iota of improvement in swim speed.)
First off, I don't know of anyone that shaves their eyebrows for swimming. Moreso, shaving isn't necessarily for cutting drag, but to feel faster. Trust me, you feel much sleeker and faster in the water when you shave for a big meet. It's like how baseball players will put a donut on their bat while they're on deck. Confidence and mental readiness are very important, and any advantages that can be gained there are worth their weight in gold.
- More flexible routing of unique identifiers (let's call them IP numbers), so I can take my "identifier" with me (think mobile phones)
- A solution to the ever growing "global routing table" (BGP4 as it is used today)
I don't think it's possible to have both at the same time. A solution for a portable unique identifier already exists (DNS), and trying to achieve portability down at layer 3 could get real ugly and computationally expensive. DNS can be distributed very easily and allows leaf nodes to do the URL->IP translation. This leaves the big routers in the middle with a fairly simple routing table rather than needing to have a table entry for each and every IP address.
I wholeheartedly agree. There's only one piece of third party software that immediately goes to the Dock on a fresh install, and that's Adium. It's simple, predictable, and incredibly intuitive.
That's not entirely true. In some cities (Chicago, for example) there are more candidates for K-6 teaching positions than there are positions themselves. I'd also offer that there are significant non-financial incentives towards a career in education: 1) A sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing that kid in your third grade class turn out to be a stellar individual 2) A more flexible schedule for families where both parents work 3) Personal achievement. Kids don't grow up playing "garbage man". I've never heard a kid say "I want to be a copy machine repair man when I grow up." Play-skool(!) doesn't sell "My first call center" toys.
That's all fine and dandy, but without the money to back it up, especially here in California, you just aren't going to get enough teachers. The cost of living is just too much to overcome. Leaving my engineering job to teach would mean a much nicer schedule, less stress, and other perks, but a teacher's salary is too low to make it worth it. Yes, there are more important things in life than money, but with the extra money I'll make as an engineer, I'll be able to live in California (Bay Area for me) much more comfortably and have money to spend on hobbies, vacations, etc. I enjoy. To me it's well worth the extra work.
And before everyone goes on about how the cost of living in CA is too high, remember there's a reason it's much higher. A lot of people really want to live here, and dealing with the cost of living is worth it.
At least California has a governor that's packing enough brass to make this practicable, assuming he wants to gamble essentially all of his political capital on this move.
If there's anyone in a good situation politcally and personally, it's the Governator. This is basically the end of the road for him politically (unless Demolition Man comes true), and he's shown that he isn't afraid of bucking against his party for something he believes in.
I never read much Captain America, but I read a good number of other Marvel comics. Frankly, getting sniped seems like a pretty damn weak death for someone so badass. It just doesn't seem fitting for a superhero to get taken out by a single dude with a rifle.
This is not fair use, unless fair use has been rewritten to allow you to make 80 thousand backups and redistribute them to your closest friends and anyone who will pay. Also, Weird Al is a bad example to bring up. Parody and satire are long established and protected exemptions.
It doesn't make it wrong, either. He's been charged under the RICO act. If that isn't morally repugnant to you, you're soft in the head.
Civil issue.
I initially had misgivings when I saw RICO being invoked, but this is far more than your average teenager downloading a few songs. He was continually committing copyright infringement on a massive scale (80k discs!) to make a profit. It's the combination of massive scale and intent to profit that push it beyond a simple civil matter.
There are a whole host of things to complain about*, but the bottom line is he violated copyright law in order to make a profit. Just because the RIAA does things wrong doesn't make it right for this guy to commit copyright infringement. He decided to ignore the rules of copyright, so he has to deal with the consequences. If he was too dumb to know there might be consequences, sucks to be him.
* Dumb artists signing with big record labels, dumb artists signing away all their rights, record labels bankrolling some mixtapes but arresting the makers of others, etc.
The poor (making $20.00 an hour or less) cant afford to build a home or buy a old home in lower crime areas... you just cant afford a $350,000.00+ mortgage when you make a paltry $20.00 a hour. So you are stuck buying a crapshack in the $200,000 range in a questionable neighborhood that you hope is not too bad. Here is the problem. your little 1200 Sq foot crapshack was built in 1955 and has no insulation. so heating it costs you over $200.00 a month during winter months. While the rich guy in his 4800 sq foot home get's away with $180.00 a month keeping it at 72 degrees because he has low E glass, south facing windows, thermal mass, decent insulation etc....
The gap is widening... I realize that I will never EVER be able to afford to build a house, the income gap has widened enough that I will never be able to catch up to the fact that housing is spiraling out of control in price. The depressing fact is that I see my 15 year old and know that she probably will never be a homeowner unless she does somethign stupid and get's one of those unrealistic mortgages, marries a rich guy, or becomes a doctor.
And this is in non-popular metro areas, Only the truely insane tries to buy a home in California near San Diago, LA or Frisco. (Where you have the $500,000.00 Crapshacks)
It's this kind of pessimistic attitude, combined with excessive spending, that is keeping people from home ownership. I just got out of college and got a job as a software engineer, but my goal is to get a house in 5 years. I make about average money for a fresh out of school software engineer, which isn't great considering that I'm living in Silicon Valley and intend to buy a place here. I could take the "woe is me" attitude and resign myself to never buying a house, but instead I'm focusing on saving my money and setting myself up to get a house. Sure I don't have a lot of money to throw around on excessive consumption like I see out of many of my fellow grads, but it means that I'll be able to buy a house with an honest-to-God down payment and a real mortage, not some crazy ARM.
Being the son of an accountant, fiscal responsibility has been drilled into me since before I can remember. It still amazes me that some people fail to realize that if they curb their spending and plan for the future, it can do wonders to their financial and living situation.
Sounds like a great idea except for the fact that he is being slowly digested for a thousand years.
Heh, being a member of the school's famous basketball team doesn't help either.
His problem is that he makes good points but then loses his credibility by following them up directly with bad points. I suspect that most geeks would agree that TCP is a great protocol that has stood the test of time. Sure it could probably be improved, but for the most part it's rock solid.
Unfortunately, because of what he said about TCP, it's easy to miss the other point he was trying to make. If we mandate protocols, QoS, etc., we are likely stiffling future innovations in this area. It's not at the same layer of the OSI model, but imagine if HTTP and FTP had been mandated at the application layer. Would we have ever had Bittorrent?
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Where does the federal government claim to derive the power to mandate federal IDs? Are they using the interstate commerce clause yet again? There's one part of the Constitution that has been seriously misused time and time again and is in dire need of fixing.
He is probably better known across the world than any American football player
Better known than Michael Jordan?!!
Seriously dude, watch SportsCenter just once a year.
PS - Ditto for the guy who modded him up.
Oh man, Bolo! At my middle school, they offered a CS elective before the first period of the day. I didn't learn a thing beyond Hello World, and the blame lies solely on our LAN games of Bolo.