I don't understand why people seem to be so willing to do things like watch television whenever the distribution network giving them the content is so flamboyant at using a delivery system that encumbers their rights to the services provided. If an open source method was employed by these companies, one would be able to download any show at any time, share that show with their friends, and the content could be played on any device created by any manufacturer on any operating system.
Why people still choose to watch these "shows" is beyond me whenever the people delivering the content care nothing about the rights of the end user.
I refuse to be a part of any television viewing wherever I am. I just simply excuse myself from the room until the unit displaying the content is deactivated. I won't let a proprietary system run my life.
The first thing that came to mind was how much useless and repetitive things that a programmer has to churn out to make things work, however I'd have a hard time believing that this could be faster than someone using something like autocomplete as done in.NET.
If your employer isn't going to give you a positive reference, or has been negligent in their treatment of you or your fellow employees, then your two weeks notice is a privilege that they gave up.
FreeNAS is kludgy and broken. The idea is noble, and the feature set is great. The implementation just needs some talent to pull the user interface and backend closer together, and to fix the bugs under the hood so that it can become a respectable solution. If it could end up in hardware that's available off the shelf, I could see some vendors willing to fork over some cash to the project as well.
I agree, the toy car looks like a better version of "The Homer" than the full-sized vehicle. Wasn't the homer supposed to be an $80,000+ vehicle? What's this doing in tech., anyways? I thought we quit putting things like case-mods in idle since about five years ago. This is hardly news, the build is crap, and it has less space than a nomad. lame.
I don't use any such services, but I would imagine that they will just go towards using a bank draft by asking for the user's ABA Number / Bank Account Number. Micr toner, gnuMICR font, some check paper, and you're all set to accept payments.
I don't understand why so many low-income people don't have bank accounts.
1, if they've written bad checks, the bank simply won't give them an account. 2, when your money is in the bank, it can be easily taken without your consent - various kinds of debt, credit agencies, lawyers, even the feds. Cash money in hand (or hidden wherever), much harder for third parties to access, hence, you can live easier when in trouble. 3, banks keep shitty hours: when you need your money in the evening and you can't get it, that can be a problem when the issue at hand is diapers, etc. 4, even when "free", make an error (common with low income types), and the bank will hose you with a huge fee (or fees... they can be pretty tricky about things like the order they cash/bounce when you overdraw. 5, location can be an issue if you're not mobile. There's probably more than this too; these were just off the top of my head.
I think that money being taken from someone without their consent was demonstrated in a Will Smith movie. He ended up eventually becoming a stock broker.
When I'm in the car and want some cheap, fast, gut-filling goodness, do I say to my wife "Do you want to stop at McDonald's?"
Or do I say "Would you like to stop at that individually-franchised restaurant-like business that happens to have a McDonald's sign attached to it?"
Just sayin'.
I always look at the bottom of the windows by the doors of a restaurant to see if it's a corporate owned store or a Mike and Bob Restaurants LLC DBA McDonald's type of entity. I want to know what type of entity I'm dealing with before I do any sort of business with someone. I almost always refer to a company within it's proper context. "You guys mean the McDonald's owned by the Smith Family? Yeah, I'll tag along."
If you don't know who you're actually dealing with on a daily basis, it's easy to look really stupid once things go south.
No, you're lying because it's common knowledge that, at the end of the day, what really matters is KNOWLEDGE. So, ditch college, learn everything by hacking and you are bound to get the highest spot in a company. Because everyone in college is a rich spoiled kid.
Slashdot people don't waste their precious time with such nonsense as "grades", "exams" or "degrees". And certainly not "certifications". Those are for idiots with a lot of money in their hands. No sir, follow the example of great hackers, hack a bank and go through their front door proving their security is SHIT and everyone there is a complete IDIOT. The bank owner himself will give you the CEO position from where you will be able to order every desktop in the company converted to Linux and open source their business process.
I didn't realize that this was sarcasm until I was 3/4 of the way through this, and then looked up to see the "Funny" moderation. Perhaps it's supposed to be both truth and humor?
I assume that is why the new suits will have airlocks on the back, so that you can hop into the suit, zip up, and start walking, and then to return you just latch the back onto the ship and crawl back out through the back.
I know that these scientists are nervous now that they can make women find them attractive by zapping their brains, so my advise to them is to play it cool. If they blow it with one girl, they can always just zap another to start all over again.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a MacBook Air w/8 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Acer Aspire 5920G running Windows 7, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My Core Duo with 2 gigs of ram runs faster than i7 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Trying to work with their API's is like trying to write something that has no documentation as all of their documentation reads like an MSDN tutorial. Most information has to be hunted down and tracked as if you're the first person ever working with their tools. They need standardization. Coming from someone that comes from Open Source and is working in their little walled garden, it says a lot when a large company like ESRI puts out junk compared to F/OSS. The only problem is that there are no F/OSS front-ends that allow for the creation of the maps themselves. Their mediocre tools for map creation are better than anything else out there, and that's what keeps them ahead.
While the Linux User Group itself is not as popular today as it was ten years ago, I can speak from experience in managing a LUG. We used to have a joint Linux User Group here between people at the local University and people living in the local area. Most experienced Linux Users are over 40 or 50, and have been using UNIX-like systems longer than most of college kids have been alive; a lot of them didn't even attend college. A City-University Joint Linux Users group is the best way to tap into the local knowledge of Linux users while embracing academia. We ran a group with this layout, and the University end would meet on it's side independently, and the non-University guys would host a larger meeting for everybody once a week.
If I had to give any suggestion in the organization of any group, it would be to not limit yourself to only the University (this ended up being the demise of our group), and to not allow elitism (that happened to us, too). If someone wants to talk about something that isn't open source, or wants to host a LAN party so that people can play a video game on the local network, the leadership shouldn't be so elitist as to attempt to impede. At the groups height, we had about 50 members; all of which were from different walks of life. We had the young casual and curious user all the way to the systems engineer that used Open Source in a large company.
I was a member of the LUG before starting University, and it helped me make the transition from High School to University. I ultimately became President of the group and watched it fade away over time, and watched other groups such as Women in Computing emerge. The focus of the University's Computer Science department became more about attempting to prepare the graduates for.NET jobs, and less about Computer Science. I did not graduate, and long for the days when there was a real sense of Open Source Community in the area. I wish that academia was not so disconnected to reality, a phenomena that some even hold with pride.
The article mentions muons traveling at the speed of light. I think it's important to discern that they are moving/close/ to the speed of light, but not at the speed of light.
They changed it to be a logarithmic scale where 10 was infinite velocity. This happened sometime in The Next Generation, as they did go "over warp 10" in one episode.
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There is no such thing as a former Marine. Once a Marine, always a Marine.
You just have multiple DNS records for each service, and the client should move on to the next if one is down.
I don't understand why people seem to be so willing to do things like watch television whenever the distribution network giving them the content is so flamboyant at using a delivery system that encumbers their rights to the services provided. If an open source method was employed by these companies, one would be able to download any show at any time, share that show with their friends, and the content could be played on any device created by any manufacturer on any operating system.
Why people still choose to watch these "shows" is beyond me whenever the people delivering the content care nothing about the rights of the end user.
I refuse to be a part of any television viewing wherever I am. I just simply excuse myself from the room until the unit displaying the content is deactivated. I won't let a proprietary system run my life.
The first thing that came to mind was how much useless and repetitive things that a programmer has to churn out to make things work, however I'd have a hard time believing that this could be faster than someone using something like autocomplete as done in .NET.
If your employer isn't going to give you a positive reference, or has been negligent in their treatment of you or your fellow employees, then your two weeks notice is a privilege that they gave up.
I want to know what's been keeping someone from building a beefier, actually deadly version of these.
FreeNAS is kludgy and broken. The idea is noble, and the feature set is great. The implementation just needs some talent to pull the user interface and backend closer together, and to fix the bugs under the hood so that it can become a respectable solution. If it could end up in hardware that's available off the shelf, I could see some vendors willing to fork over some cash to the project as well.
I agree, the toy car looks like a better version of "The Homer" than the full-sized vehicle. Wasn't the homer supposed to be an $80,000+ vehicle? What's this doing in tech., anyways? I thought we quit putting things like case-mods in idle since about five years ago. This is hardly news, the build is crap, and it has less space than a nomad. lame.
I don't use any such services, but I would imagine that they will just go towards using a bank draft by asking for the user's ABA Number / Bank Account Number. Micr toner, gnuMICR font, some check paper, and you're all set to accept payments.
1, if they've written bad checks, the bank simply won't give them an account. 2, when your money is in the bank, it can be easily taken without your consent - various kinds of debt, credit agencies, lawyers, even the feds. Cash money in hand (or hidden wherever), much harder for third parties to access, hence, you can live easier when in trouble. 3, banks keep shitty hours: when you need your money in the evening and you can't get it, that can be a problem when the issue at hand is diapers, etc. 4, even when "free", make an error (common with low income types), and the bank will hose you with a huge fee (or fees... they can be pretty tricky about things like the order they cash/bounce when you overdraw. 5, location can be an issue if you're not mobile. There's probably more than this too; these were just off the top of my head.
I think that money being taken from someone without their consent was demonstrated in a Will Smith movie. He ended up eventually becoming a stock broker.
When I'm in the car and want some cheap, fast, gut-filling goodness, do I say to my wife "Do you want to stop at McDonald's?"
Or do I say "Would you like to stop at that individually-franchised restaurant-like business that happens to have a McDonald's sign attached to it?"
Just sayin'.
I always look at the bottom of the windows by the doors of a restaurant to see if it's a corporate owned store or a Mike and Bob Restaurants LLC DBA McDonald's type of entity. I want to know what type of entity I'm dealing with before I do any sort of business with someone. I almost always refer to a company within it's proper context. "You guys mean the McDonald's owned by the Smith Family? Yeah, I'll tag along."
If you don't know who you're actually dealing with on a daily basis, it's easy to look really stupid once things go south.
No, you're lying because it's common knowledge that, at the end of the day, what really matters is KNOWLEDGE. So, ditch college, learn everything by hacking and you are bound to get the highest spot in a company. Because everyone in college is a rich spoiled kid. Slashdot people don't waste their precious time with such nonsense as "grades", "exams" or "degrees". And certainly not "certifications". Those are for idiots with a lot of money in their hands. No sir, follow the example of great hackers, hack a bank and go through their front door proving their security is SHIT and everyone there is a complete IDIOT. The bank owner himself will give you the CEO position from where you will be able to order every desktop in the company converted to Linux and open source their business process.
I didn't realize that this was sarcasm until I was 3/4 of the way through this, and then looked up to see the "Funny" moderation. Perhaps it's supposed to be both truth and humor?
The headlines of today, including this one, are an order of magnitude better than the ones from the early 2000s.
I believe that the orbit of these is so low that it degrades relatively quickly, and is out of the way of any real satellites.
I assume that is why the new suits will have airlocks on the back, so that you can hop into the suit, zip up, and start walking, and then to return you just latch the back onto the ship and crawl back out through the back.
I believe that we are already working on this.
I know that these scientists are nervous now that they can make women find them attractive by zapping their brains, so my advise to them is to play it cool. If they blow it with one girl, they can always just zap another to start all over again.
Where is Version 1 of this license? I don't know that I can trust a license that doesn't keep an archive of it's previous versions.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a MacBook Air w/8 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Acer Aspire 5920G running Windows 7, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My Core Duo with 2 gigs of ram runs faster than i7 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Trying to work with their API's is like trying to write something that has no documentation as all of their documentation reads like an MSDN tutorial. Most information has to be hunted down and tracked as if you're the first person ever working with their tools. They need standardization. Coming from someone that comes from Open Source and is working in their little walled garden, it says a lot when a large company like ESRI puts out junk compared to F/OSS. The only problem is that there are no F/OSS front-ends that allow for the creation of the maps themselves. Their mediocre tools for map creation are better than anything else out there, and that's what keeps them ahead.
While the Linux User Group itself is not as popular today as it was ten years ago, I can speak from experience in managing a LUG. We used to have a joint Linux User Group here between people at the local University and people living in the local area. Most experienced Linux Users are over 40 or 50, and have been using UNIX-like systems longer than most of college kids have been alive; a lot of them didn't even attend college. A City-University Joint Linux Users group is the best way to tap into the local knowledge of Linux users while embracing academia. We ran a group with this layout, and the University end would meet on it's side independently, and the non-University guys would host a larger meeting for everybody once a week.
.NET jobs, and less about Computer Science. I did not graduate, and long for the days when there was a real sense of Open Source Community in the area. I wish that academia was not so disconnected to reality, a phenomena that some even hold with pride.
If I had to give any suggestion in the organization of any group, it would be to not limit yourself to only the University (this ended up being the demise of our group), and to not allow elitism (that happened to us, too). If someone wants to talk about something that isn't open source, or wants to host a LAN party so that people can play a video game on the local network, the leadership shouldn't be so elitist as to attempt to impede. At the groups height, we had about 50 members; all of which were from different walks of life. We had the young casual and curious user all the way to the systems engineer that used Open Source in a large company.
I was a member of the LUG before starting University, and it helped me make the transition from High School to University. I ultimately became President of the group and watched it fade away over time, and watched other groups such as Women in Computing emerge. The focus of the University's Computer Science department became more about attempting to prepare the graduates for
Dude, get a hold of yourself. This is Slashdot, everything from the past was better. Politicians, computers, and the damn kids stayed off my lawn!
The article mentions muons traveling at the speed of light. I think it's important to discern that they are moving /close/ to the speed of light, but not at the speed of light.
I would image one could accomplish that by heating certain parts of the food more so than others while it prints the material.
The power bill went up and they aren't happy about it. A private company would have almost no recourse in a similar situation.
They changed it to be a logarithmic scale where 10 was infinite velocity. This happened sometime in The Next Generation, as they did go "over warp 10" in one episode.