I've been modded way down in the past, and then had my comment removed after there was a big uproar on the subject. It was strange, I came back to see what people had said, and it was just a blank comment with a bunch of replies. I remember my fan and foe list had members added to it because the issue was seen as very controversial at the time (abit more public to us today). Slashdot will remove comments, but only had the higher-ups will.
Or simply have the power-supply over the motherboard, makes the computer slightly taller, but more manageable. What you are describing reminds me of the old Beige Dell Optiplex machines that we had at school.
Didn't the RIAA start suing the free radio broadcasters, and start demanding royalties from all the internet radio broadcasters? So if broadcasting a song on an unlicensed internet radio station is illegal, would listening to pirated music on the radio also be illegal? Personally, I don't see the RIAA as that bad, music pirates are pirates, and the unlicensed music thing could have bankrupted them if they never went on to defend their IP.
It isn't the fact that they are manufactured by an outside company, it is that they are owned by an outside company. At the same time, The US Government does not want more and more of our money going into China and staying in there, otherwise we would just be giving them our economy (slowly, but surely). The Government is very particular when they buy electronics from a company, and it is already policy that they buy from domestically owned and operated companies. If a key-logger or such was found, how would they handle the foreign company? In the US, they could take them to court, if it was a Chinese company, China would say, "Tough Luck". Remember that all Chinese companies are owned by the Chinese government. The only reason China wants America to buy their products is so that China can weaken our economy and become the next world power. That is why China doesn't innovate. The Chinese government doesn't care about technology or think it's "cool". They want to make the most money as fast as possible to get back to the top. That is why every company is China is owned by the government, and why every product from there uses either american made or japanese made technology, whether it be licensed or not. Nothing useful has come out of China but cheap labor. That cheap labor is taking foreign money (be it the US, UK, or anywhere else in the world), and slowly filling a sleeping monster that doesn't care about free trade, but only inflating itself.
... if the only people who spend their time building PCs and overclocking them are kids? I have a MacBook Pro, and I don't play around with computers as much as I used too. When I need the computer, it is there, it works, and there are no problems that keep me from my work. When I ran Windows and Linux on machines I had built, I'd spend all day fixing and tweaking it to run the best it could with as little money as possible. Now it all seems so pointless to mess with all of that. Sure, it was fun, and I learned a lot, but now I spend my time learning from wikipedia and other similar places.
and instead of buying a new tube of toothpaste (redoing the system), they will spend billions making a device that will pump the old toothpaste into the old tube.
How about a time frame that is put into place? Lets say you can't patent or trademark an idea/logo if it's been used for over a year. That would solve a lot of problems.
These weird headlines remind me of this article. Instead of writing to report a story accurately, people only care about getting the right keywords in there so that their page can get indexed. It's like the headline is just a bunch of keywords put together so that if someone searches for rain drops, this will appear. We should be writing to report, not writing to enhance page rank. The headline is just saying, "the rain drops are signaling the cell phones". As time goes on, we will have more and more terrible writing skills and reading comprehension. We need to take our kids off of the internet, and put them behind books until their at least 17.
It's constructed like a tank, so I bet military and outdoors people might be using these.
This looks just like the power used in Military MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). They just mix water with the power, and it makes heat. They've had this for years and years. A friend of mine that's in the Military showed me one, and once we took the power, put it into a gatorade bottle, put water in it, and would run. Since it couldn't vent, it would explode. I'm assuming this is just a commercialization of what the military has had for years and years.
..I just saw a story on digg (washes mouth out with pee to get bad taste out of my mouth), and noticed that the FAA just announced they will be running linux to track flights. Maybe there is a tie in-between this find and that announcement?
I have a friend that I cannot convince that running X11 and KDE on a server is a security risk. You guys should tell him different, his website is at www.securenix.org What can I tell him to change his mind? He says his expertise is in UNIX-based operating system security.
I believe in the Kentucky K-12 school system everybody now goes through the same proxy address. I know that everyone is on the same domain, so I am guessing it is just a giant VLAN connected with T1s.
What we need to do is get about 20-30 of us on an open source style project (Creative Commons) and create a short clip that will appeal to Joe Sixpack, and educate him on why his freedom is important. Why can't we slashdot start a project to educate our fellow citizens? All Joe Sixpack knows is Fox News and the local newspaper, and most likely doesn't know any better or different. We still have the ability to create free media, and we still have free speech, so lets use it while we still can. Instead of sitting back and bitching on a forum about it, lets create something in a presentable and distributable format that Joe Sixpack can see, and show to all of his friends? I know that 911: Loose Change is spreading, but not fast enough as most Americans don't have time to watch a two hour video, and while it does a good job at LARTing most Americans, some still need more thorough adjustments. After showing my mom the Child Porn Act on slashdot a couple days ago, she stops and thinks, "Wait! I get it! They aren't going to really look for child porn when they do that." My girlfriend, after watching Loose Change still thinks it is OK for the government to view all internet traffic. The point is, the media is a powerful tool that we still have control of, and we need to embrace and implement it for the masses. We already have ourselves convinced, now lets do it to the normals.
For the under performing students, they shouldn't even be in the University setting. A University is an institution driven by research and development, not building individuals to mediocrity. Instead of sending our high school graduates that want to drink and work for "a degree that will make them a lot of money after they graduate", lets just put them into the call centers and retail stores and let them party then instead of at the University. I feel the University I attend (Murray State), is just a giant party house, not a thriving environment for research, much less for the advancement of human kind.
As long as each program is ran in it's little sandbox, the emulated windows system files are not writable by the programs, and the program is treated as an odd ball because it's running in a sand box, it will do fine. Look at the X11 emulation. It got Linux and UNIX developers to look at Mac OS X, port their app, and then eventually make it Carbon/Cocca. In the long run, it brought more applications to the Macintosh desktop. I can see apple now, "WARNING: This is a Windows program about to run, are you sure you want to start it? Being a windows program, it can have a virus". It would be yet another way for apple to make the competition look like dirt.
I know at the local WorstBuy, you can get accidental damage protection for a laptop, so even if you crack your LCD, they will replace it as long as you get the Performance Service Plan. I've seen construction workers buy flimsy HP laptops (by the way, why are there people on here saying they like those? Yuck), and within a week or so, they will come back with a cracked LCD. They bring it into the store, we ship it off, and it comes back fixed in ~2-3 weeks. If apple had an accidental damage option for AppleCare, I bet it would help bunches in this arena. It would also mean that apple is confident in their hardware.
.. I remember in Elementary School, we were taught that all the companies over in China are owned by the government. We were taught that Japan was the best place to have something manufactured. Are people starting to fall into the pit and think that there is actually a true motivation for a Chinese company to innovate, think differently, and try to change the way something is done? The way China is structured, I think following suit and doing whatever you can do to get outside money (more power) into the country is the main idea. China is Americas biggest economic threat, they are huge and awesome, and will continue to dominate the world over and over again. I have a Chinese roommate, and he is annoying (talks on the phone all hours of the night, screaming incomprehensible chinese), so I for one do not welcome our new chinese overlords/manufacturers. The reason that manufacturing costs so much more in the United States is because we strive to enforce humane working environments and standards for our people. Just because China's government forces it's workers to work in inhumane environments so that they can get our dollar doesn't mean we should go to them to manufacture our goods, but I guess I'm fighting a battle that was fought and lost in the 1980's.
The CS Dept at MSU is horribly funded. Before Murray State University was a University, it was Murray State College. Before then, it was Murray Normal School, or a school for teachers. The teaching program is the highest funded and probably one of the best in Kentucky for that purpose. The CS program has a good, well trained staff for the most part, but the program doesn't get adequate funding. Working in the CS department yields about five fifteen to five ninety an hour. The hour long commute to Paducah to work at BestBuy is my only option. Hopefully I can make enough working for myself (www.tcowk.com) during the summer so that I don't have to work during the next school year.
I'm working at the Geek Squad in BestBuy as I am attending Murray State University. I hate it, yeah, and I think we are a total rip of most of the time, but it's the only way for me to pay my car insurance and make it through college. I can say that we have done some pretty shady things in the past, but given the resources we are handed, I think we do a fairly well job. Our geek squad is composed of fairly talented people who are just trying to finish school and start a real life. To those who say any self respecting geek would never work at Best Buy, try starting a life with nothing. Working on campus in the CS department or at a local fast food joint is much worse. Even though I have found nice success in working for myself over the breaks.
I think a switch would benefit them in the long term. The problem they are having is that when a massive amount of computers is infected with malware, there is no remote management solution that will clean all of the infected machines in a timely manner. Cleaning one box that is full of malware is hard, imagine 2000 networked machines. Thanks to things like apple remote desktop, and the management tools with OS X Server, managing an apple network is a dream, especially compared to the windows counterpart. Sure, you could do all of this with LDAP on Linux, but it isn't seamless like Apples solution.
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I've been modded way down in the past, and then had my comment removed after there was a big uproar on the subject. It was strange, I came back to see what people had said, and it was just a blank comment with a bunch of replies. I remember my fan and foe list had members added to it because the issue was seen as very controversial at the time (abit more public to us today). Slashdot will remove comments, but only had the higher-ups will.
Very true. I have a mac mini on the desk across the room, and a MacBook Pro in my lap.
You should post a screenshot!
Or simply have the power-supply over the motherboard, makes the computer slightly taller, but more manageable. What you are describing reminds me of the old Beige Dell Optiplex machines that we had at school.
Didn't the RIAA start suing the free radio broadcasters, and start demanding royalties from all the internet radio broadcasters? So if broadcasting a song on an unlicensed internet radio station is illegal, would listening to pirated music on the radio also be illegal? Personally, I don't see the RIAA as that bad, music pirates are pirates, and the unlicensed music thing could have bankrupted them if they never went on to defend their IP.
...because I thought, just as wikipedia states in its citations, that all work by the United States Government is automatically in the public domain.
It isn't the fact that they are manufactured by an outside company, it is that they are owned by an outside company. At the same time, The US Government does not want more and more of our money going into China and staying in there, otherwise we would just be giving them our economy (slowly, but surely). The Government is very particular when they buy electronics from a company, and it is already policy that they buy from domestically owned and operated companies. If a key-logger or such was found, how would they handle the foreign company? In the US, they could take them to court, if it was a Chinese company, China would say, "Tough Luck". Remember that all Chinese companies are owned by the Chinese government. The only reason China wants America to buy their products is so that China can weaken our economy and become the next world power. That is why China doesn't innovate. The Chinese government doesn't care about technology or think it's "cool". They want to make the most money as fast as possible to get back to the top. That is why every company is China is owned by the government, and why every product from there uses either american made or japanese made technology, whether it be licensed or not. Nothing useful has come out of China but cheap labor. That cheap labor is taking foreign money (be it the US, UK, or anywhere else in the world), and slowly filling a sleeping monster that doesn't care about free trade, but only inflating itself.
... if the only people who spend their time building PCs and overclocking them are kids? I have a MacBook Pro, and I don't play around with computers as much as I used too. When I need the computer, it is there, it works, and there are no problems that keep me from my work. When I ran Windows and Linux on machines I had built, I'd spend all day fixing and tweaking it to run the best it could with as little money as possible. Now it all seems so pointless to mess with all of that. Sure, it was fun, and I learned a lot, but now I spend my time learning from wikipedia and other similar places.
and instead of buying a new tube of toothpaste (redoing the system), they will spend billions making a device that will pump the old toothpaste into the old tube.
How about a time frame that is put into place? Lets say you can't patent or trademark an idea/logo if it's been used for over a year. That would solve a lot of problems.
These weird headlines remind me of this article. Instead of writing to report a story accurately, people only care about getting the right keywords in there so that their page can get indexed. It's like the headline is just a bunch of keywords put together so that if someone searches for rain drops, this will appear. We should be writing to report, not writing to enhance page rank. The headline is just saying, "the rain drops are signaling the cell phones". As time goes on, we will have more and more terrible writing skills and reading comprehension. We need to take our kids off of the internet, and put them behind books until their at least 17.
It's constructed like a tank, so I bet military and outdoors people might be using these.
This looks just like the power used in Military MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). They just mix water with the power, and it makes heat. They've had this for years and years. A friend of mine that's in the Military showed me one, and once we took the power, put it into a gatorade bottle, put water in it, and would run. Since it couldn't vent, it would explode. I'm assuming this is just a commercialization of what the military has had for years and years.
..I just saw a story on digg (washes mouth out with pee to get bad taste out of my mouth), and noticed that the FAA just announced they will be running linux to track flights. Maybe there is a tie in-between this find and that announcement?
I have a friend that I cannot convince that running X11 and KDE on a server is a security risk. You guys should tell him different, his website is at www.securenix.org What can I tell him to change his mind? He says his expertise is in UNIX-based operating system security.
I believe in the Kentucky K-12 school system everybody now goes through the same proxy address. I know that everyone is on the same domain, so I am guessing it is just a giant VLAN connected with T1s.
What we need to do is get about 20-30 of us on an open source style project (Creative Commons) and create a short clip that will appeal to Joe Sixpack, and educate him on why his freedom is important. Why can't we slashdot start a project to educate our fellow citizens? All Joe Sixpack knows is Fox News and the local newspaper, and most likely doesn't know any better or different. We still have the ability to create free media, and we still have free speech, so lets use it while we still can. Instead of sitting back and bitching on a forum about it, lets create something in a presentable and distributable format that Joe Sixpack can see, and show to all of his friends? I know that 911: Loose Change is spreading, but not fast enough as most Americans don't have time to watch a two hour video, and while it does a good job at LARTing most Americans, some still need more thorough adjustments. After showing my mom the Child Porn Act on slashdot a couple days ago, she stops and thinks, "Wait! I get it! They aren't going to really look for child porn when they do that." My girlfriend, after watching Loose Change still thinks it is OK for the government to view all internet traffic. The point is, the media is a powerful tool that we still have control of, and we need to embrace and implement it for the masses. We already have ourselves convinced, now lets do it to the normals.
For the under performing students, they shouldn't even be in the University setting. A University is an institution driven by research and development, not building individuals to mediocrity. Instead of sending our high school graduates that want to drink and work for "a degree that will make them a lot of money after they graduate", lets just put them into the call centers and retail stores and let them party then instead of at the University. I feel the University I attend (Murray State), is just a giant party house, not a thriving environment for research, much less for the advancement of human kind.
As long as each program is ran in it's little sandbox, the emulated windows system files are not writable by the programs, and the program is treated as an odd ball because it's running in a sand box, it will do fine. Look at the X11 emulation. It got Linux and UNIX developers to look at Mac OS X, port their app, and then eventually make it Carbon/Cocca. In the long run, it brought more applications to the Macintosh desktop. I can see apple now, "WARNING: This is a Windows program about to run, are you sure you want to start it? Being a windows program, it can have a virus". It would be yet another way for apple to make the competition look like dirt.
I know at the local WorstBuy, you can get accidental damage protection for a laptop, so even if you crack your LCD, they will replace it as long as you get the Performance Service Plan. I've seen construction workers buy flimsy HP laptops (by the way, why are there people on here saying they like those? Yuck), and within a week or so, they will come back with a cracked LCD. They bring it into the store, we ship it off, and it comes back fixed in ~2-3 weeks. If apple had an accidental damage option for AppleCare, I bet it would help bunches in this arena. It would also mean that apple is confident in their hardware.
.. I remember in Elementary School, we were taught that all the companies over in China are owned by the government. We were taught that Japan was the best place to have something manufactured. Are people starting to fall into the pit and think that there is actually a true motivation for a Chinese company to innovate, think differently, and try to change the way something is done? The way China is structured, I think following suit and doing whatever you can do to get outside money (more power) into the country is the main idea. China is Americas biggest economic threat, they are huge and awesome, and will continue to dominate the world over and over again. I have a Chinese roommate, and he is annoying (talks on the phone all hours of the night, screaming incomprehensible chinese), so I for one do not welcome our new chinese overlords/manufacturers. The reason that manufacturing costs so much more in the United States is because we strive to enforce humane working environments and standards for our people. Just because China's government forces it's workers to work in inhumane environments so that they can get our dollar doesn't mean we should go to them to manufacture our goods, but I guess I'm fighting a battle that was fought and lost in the 1980's.
Can you post a screenshot of what it looks like? I'd like to see what you're talking about, I didn't see it.
The CS Dept at MSU is horribly funded. Before Murray State University was a University, it was Murray State College. Before then, it was Murray Normal School, or a school for teachers. The teaching program is the highest funded and probably one of the best in Kentucky for that purpose. The CS program has a good, well trained staff for the most part, but the program doesn't get adequate funding. Working in the CS department yields about five fifteen to five ninety an hour. The hour long commute to Paducah to work at BestBuy is my only option. Hopefully I can make enough working for myself (www.tcowk.com) during the summer so that I don't have to work during the next school year.
I'm working at the Geek Squad in BestBuy as I am attending Murray State University. I hate it, yeah, and I think we are a total rip of most of the time, but it's the only way for me to pay my car insurance and make it through college. I can say that we have done some pretty shady things in the past, but given the resources we are handed, I think we do a fairly well job. Our geek squad is composed of fairly talented people who are just trying to finish school and start a real life. To those who say any self respecting geek would never work at Best Buy, try starting a life with nothing. Working on campus in the CS department or at a local fast food joint is much worse. Even though I have found nice success in working for myself over the breaks.
I think a switch would benefit them in the long term. The problem they are having is that when a massive amount of computers is infected with malware, there is no remote management solution that will clean all of the infected machines in a timely manner. Cleaning one box that is full of malware is hard, imagine 2000 networked machines. Thanks to things like apple remote desktop, and the management tools with OS X Server, managing an apple network is a dream, especially compared to the windows counterpart. Sure, you could do all of this with LDAP on Linux, but it isn't seamless like Apples solution.
very sure. The sound comes from under the right side of the keyboard, where a fan resides. I also don't use Apple's Mail.app