I don't see how telling people a guy did something wrong when he did could possibly be illegal, but why would they even do that? It's no one else's business. Sure, the word would probably get out anyway, but the company has nothing to gain by disseminating this kind of information.
3C072 when I got out. Funny, everyone was convinced I hated it there because I'd always hate my situation, and I'd be just as miserable in a civilian job. Couldn't be further from the truth. Gunter is a horrible environment. Tons of military facing no consequences for doing nothing, senior management that doens't have a clue because the middle management obscures everything to make it appear as if work is getting done because they are civilian and could potentially lose their jobs. In my current job I'm productive and surrounded by productive people. Make going to work so much more pleasant.
Sorry, there were probably 400 enlisted on my base (ok, annex, Gunter). And software was practically all it's there for. So practically everyone there is a programmer or there to support programmers. Regardless, I bet at least 2 dozen of them will read this because they don't have a single god damn piece of work to do.
Initially I was going to just dismiss this, but then it struck me: yeah, they do. The latest Secretary of the Air Force had this dumbass idea that he would try to make the Air Force tougher. It basically consisted of sending horribly, horribly undertrained airmen out with Marines and Army to do things they weren't good at. A good friend of mine took a 2 week crash course before being sent to Afghanistan where he had to beg Marines to show him how to do things like install the IED countermeasures on the Hummer he was issued. Another friend was sent to Camp Victory in Baghdad without a weapon, and when he finally got one, no ammo.
I spent 6 years in the Air Force as a programmer. The only way they can fix that horrible mess is to stop trying and contract out everything they need. It's basically what they are doing now. Of maybe 400 enlisted programmers at my base, I'd guess 10% of them actually had work on a regular basis, and 50% do absolutely nothing their entire time there. And people seem to have trouble grasping it, but when I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. Contractors did all the real work.
What's also surprising is that the article about science challenges people, then goes on to give examples of trivia and history that people don't know. 47% of people got the number "approximately" right? I'd say half got it right, period, since there is effectively zero difference between 70% and 75% of the Earth's surface being covered in water. But anyway, that isn't science. It's a number picked up from either reading or hearing somewhere.
I didn't say they have the right to or should be doing anything. I said if they weren't locking you in to buying theircontent, they wouldn't selling you the hardware for the price you pay now, if at all.
This comparison doesn't work because 1) everyone in the world makes DVD players (so you could just buy someone else's) and 2) their cost isn't subsidized.
I'm missing something. Cell phones are the biggie. People complain about the contracts required and early termination fees with their $20 phone. But they aren't willing to pay the $200 retail price of that phone. I hate cell phone companies at least as much as anyone else, but they aren't going to just give shit away. Business exists to make money, and it just so happens that subsidizing the cost of the hardware to sell content is generally much more popular amongst buyers than charging what a device actually costs to manufacture.
Either paying a whole lot more (than the currently subsized price of the Kindle) or not having the option to buy it at all, since Amazon would have realized up front that developing it wasn't going to be profitable.
A better question would be, "Where would technology be if there were no financial motive for its advancement?"
What exactly is the problem? You break the law, you are punished. Hating on PITA DRM is one thing, but arguing against punishment when you are plainly violating copyright is just stupid. It's like people who complain when they get a ticket for "only going 5mph over the limit" (ie, only breaking the law a little). Do it over and over again and you're in more trouble. Don't break the law and you aren't in trouble.
Great, but what if Rover fucks up fetching? How do you fix that? Or what if the stick isn't in your repository? And the code doesn't compile right and the error messages don't give you a clue as to what the problem is?
I quit my linux expirament and switched to Mac. Couldn't be happier.
That's some pretty bold speculation on China's intentions. Got a source?
I'm standing firm in my belief that the best thing George Bush did during his 8 years (and maybe the only good thing) (and intentionally or otherwise) was watching the Olympics in China rather than holding out. Their military is huge and their economic grip on the US is tight, so remaining on good terms with them is really the best option to get them to do what you want.
Your points are valid, but they don't change the fact all of the time I spent reading through this thing I wanted to punch you in the face. Your contempt for this guy is obvious, but I see no reason to treat him like an idiot because he recommended the most obvious and perfectly acceptable answer to the question asked. I also don't understand why you would (apparently) be so emotionally invested in whatever it is you're talking about. Your comment read like it was the 5th reply in an argument that's slowly turning toward namecalling. Grow up.
My dad grew up in the middle-of-nowhere, Idaho, and says when he was kid they would watch Sputnik fly across the sky. The high elevation and lack of big city lights make the night sky amazing.
I feel like this is too minor of a feature and too late to do any good. Windows 7 is apparently making huge strides toward reducing boot time, and I never hear anyone complain about boot time anyway. Including people who don't use the computer that much. Most of the people I know that aren't "computer people" leave their computer on or in standby/hibernate, so boot time is hardly an issue.
I don't know that that's fair. When I came back to my computer after installing Ubuntu for the first time, I found a whole lot of garbage I didn't and would never want installed, and much of it I wasn't able to uninstall after the fact. But people want to be able to use their computer out of the box and not have to install anything. "People" being most people, not you.
The article also mentions they can be reinstalled/reenabled without the installation disk. My guess is that genuinely is the reason. I remember Windows 95 randomly asking me to insert the installation disc when I was updating drivers or installing non-MS software, which was ridiculous.
Of course, its also possible the libraries are still being used (and loaded, and still eating up resources) for other things.
The killer is that these are all just specialized applications that should be easily installed and uninstalled, just like any other application. It blows my mind that they could be so entrenched that just removing them, or not having them installed to begin with, isn't trivial.
Do you have a swap file/partition? You're talking hundreds of writes a day, tops. That sounds like a big number, but in reality it just ain't. I would question why you feel the need for an SSD, though. I know the difference between $300 and $50 isn't that big in the grand scheme of things, what benefit are you expecting?
They weren't playing games. They said "we want this to stop going on."
Hulu went to Boxee and said "They want this to stop going on,"
Boxee said "ok," and removed the good plugin.
Boxee told you a crappier way you could do it.
They made their software crappier and put on a front in looking like they were cooperating while they really weren't.
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I don't see how telling people a guy did something wrong when he did could possibly be illegal, but why would they even do that? It's no one else's business. Sure, the word would probably get out anyway, but the company has nothing to gain by disseminating this kind of information.
3C072 when I got out. Funny, everyone was convinced I hated it there because I'd always hate my situation, and I'd be just as miserable in a civilian job. Couldn't be further from the truth. Gunter is a horrible environment. Tons of military facing no consequences for doing nothing, senior management that doens't have a clue because the middle management obscures everything to make it appear as if work is getting done because they are civilian and could potentially lose their jobs. In my current job I'm productive and surrounded by productive people. Make going to work so much more pleasant.
Sorry, there were probably 400 enlisted on my base (ok, annex, Gunter). And software was practically all it's there for. So practically everyone there is a programmer or there to support programmers. Regardless, I bet at least 2 dozen of them will read this because they don't have a single god damn piece of work to do.
Initially I was going to just dismiss this, but then it struck me: yeah, they do. The latest Secretary of the Air Force had this dumbass idea that he would try to make the Air Force tougher. It basically consisted of sending horribly, horribly undertrained airmen out with Marines and Army to do things they weren't good at. A good friend of mine took a 2 week crash course before being sent to Afghanistan where he had to beg Marines to show him how to do things like install the IED countermeasures on the Hummer he was issued. Another friend was sent to Camp Victory in Baghdad without a weapon, and when he finally got one, no ammo.
I spent 6 years in the Air Force as a programmer. The only way they can fix that horrible mess is to stop trying and contract out everything they need. It's basically what they are doing now. Of maybe 400 enlisted programmers at my base, I'd guess 10% of them actually had work on a regular basis, and 50% do absolutely nothing their entire time there. And people seem to have trouble grasping it, but when I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. Contractors did all the real work.
What's also surprising is that the article about science challenges people, then goes on to give examples of trivia and history that people don't know. 47% of people got the number "approximately" right? I'd say half got it right, period, since there is effectively zero difference between 70% and 75% of the Earth's surface being covered in water. But anyway, that isn't science. It's a number picked up from either reading or hearing somewhere.
I didn't say they have the right to or should be doing anything. I said if they weren't locking you in to buying theircontent, they wouldn't selling you the hardware for the price you pay now, if at all.
"Great, you've identified the problem. Step 2 is washing it off."
Right. Just look at what communist Russia gave us.
- Nukes
- Tetris
- ?
This comparison doesn't work because 1) everyone in the world makes DVD players (so you could just buy someone else's) and 2) their cost isn't subsidized.
I'm missing something. Cell phones are the biggie. People complain about the contracts required and early termination fees with their $20 phone. But they aren't willing to pay the $200 retail price of that phone. I hate cell phone companies at least as much as anyone else, but they aren't going to just give shit away. Business exists to make money, and it just so happens that subsidizing the cost of the hardware to sell content is generally much more popular amongst buyers than charging what a device actually costs to manufacture.
where would we be
Either paying a whole lot more (than the currently subsized price of the Kindle) or not having the option to buy it at all, since Amazon would have realized up front that developing it wasn't going to be profitable.
A better question would be, "Where would technology be if there were no financial motive for its advancement?"
If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law.
Ok, so, I don't know much about the laws, but it is illegal, isn't it?
What exactly is the problem? You break the law, you are punished. Hating on PITA DRM is one thing, but arguing against punishment when you are plainly violating copyright is just stupid. It's like people who complain when they get a ticket for "only going 5mph over the limit" (ie, only breaking the law a little). Do it over and over again and you're in more trouble. Don't break the law and you aren't in trouble.
Great, but what if Rover fucks up fetching? How do you fix that? Or what if the stick isn't in your repository? And the code doesn't compile right and the error messages don't give you a clue as to what the problem is?
I quit my linux expirament and switched to Mac. Couldn't be happier.
That's some pretty bold speculation on China's intentions. Got a source?
I'm standing firm in my belief that the best thing George Bush did during his 8 years (and maybe the only good thing) (and intentionally or otherwise) was watching the Olympics in China rather than holding out. Their military is huge and their economic grip on the US is tight, so remaining on good terms with them is really the best option to get them to do what you want.
Your points are valid, but they don't change the fact all of the time I spent reading through this thing I wanted to punch you in the face. Your contempt for this guy is obvious, but I see no reason to treat him like an idiot because he recommended the most obvious and perfectly acceptable answer to the question asked. I also don't understand why you would (apparently) be so emotionally invested in whatever it is you're talking about. Your comment read like it was the 5th reply in an argument that's slowly turning toward namecalling. Grow up.
My dad grew up in the middle-of-nowhere, Idaho, and says when he was kid they would watch Sputnik fly across the sky. The high elevation and lack of big city lights make the night sky amazing.
My work hard drive is encrypted with Safeboot and it's slow as hell. If hardware encryption can improve the performance it'd be worth it for me.
I feel like this is too minor of a feature and too late to do any good. Windows 7 is apparently making huge strides toward reducing boot time, and I never hear anyone complain about boot time anyway. Including people who don't use the computer that much. Most of the people I know that aren't "computer people" leave their computer on or in standby/hibernate, so boot time is hardly an issue.
I don't know that that's fair. When I came back to my computer after installing Ubuntu for the first time, I found a whole lot of garbage I didn't and would never want installed, and much of it I wasn't able to uninstall after the fact. But people want to be able to use their computer out of the box and not have to install anything. "People" being most people, not you.
The article also mentions they can be reinstalled/reenabled without the installation disk. My guess is that genuinely is the reason. I remember Windows 95 randomly asking me to insert the installation disc when I was updating drivers or installing non-MS software, which was ridiculous.
Of course, its also possible the libraries are still being used (and loaded, and still eating up resources) for other things.
The killer is that these are all just specialized applications that should be easily installed and uninstalled, just like any other application. It blows my mind that they could be so entrenched that just removing them, or not having them installed to begin with, isn't trivial.
Do you have a swap file/partition? You're talking hundreds of writes a day, tops. That sounds like a big number, but in reality it just ain't. I would question why you feel the need for an SSD, though. I know the difference between $300 and $50 isn't that big in the grand scheme of things, what benefit are you expecting?
They weren't playing games. They said "we want this to stop going on."
Hulu went to Boxee and said "They want this to stop going on,"
Boxee said "ok," and removed the good plugin.
Boxee told you a crappier way you could do it.
They made their software crappier and put on a front in looking like they were cooperating while they really weren't.