I live in Ohio(Youngstown). I'll bet that house goes for $50,000 here.
Of course, theres no jobs(especially in tech) so i'll be moving to one of those places with a nice high cost of living when i graduate.
Business world has its own terms for IT concepts
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This isn't the point they are trying to make, but I have noticed that in the business class I was forced to take, the entire chapter which mentioned computer-based things had many terms which I had never heard of in the IT world. When I pointed this out to my teacher, she asserted that these were the terms the business world used.
It would appear that the business world views the IT world form a completely different place than IT views itself, to the point where they have made up their own nonsensical(to me anyways) terms for the exact same concepts. If we can't even agree on what to call things, how could we agree that Linux is a viable strategy for many businesses?
i'm amazed that noone has pointed out that something like this is easily faked.
On the one hand, it wouldn't surprise me if this was for real, and someone from the MPAA really did write it. On the other hand, the reaction from the Attorney General didn't seem very severe at all, implying that they had some knowledge of this. Seems to me that the worst case is that they had the MPAA reviewing their document, which really isn't all that out of the ordinary in government...they had representatives from Sun look over documents in the case against MS...how is that different?
And obviously, its very possible that these were faked to begin with. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone decided to put the MPAA president's name on a word file. This seems a lot more likely then him being dumb enough to try and fake a letter from the Attorney General and leave his own metadata.
I've been thinking the same thing all week. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't run it so many times.
Of course if i was one of those Dish customers, I would be livid. Thats a lot of channels, and the majority of the ones I watch. Its certainly ridiculous for any customer to continue paying the same price for service when its missing a large chunk of popular channels.
Theres a very simple reason for this. The way I understand it, back when there were DD and HD floppies, they were both made on the same assembly line - much like say, an Intel proccessor. If one disk in a batch didn't pass a certain test, the whole batch was labeled DD(same way you get low-end Intel chips), despite the fact that it was likely that most of them would in fact function just fine as HD disks. There never was any fundamental difference between the two formats, by punching a hole you were just removing the flimsy protection they artifically put there to make it a DD disk.
Thats a really good point. I'm excited that the OhioLUG is close enough i can drive in just a few hours!
Things like this tend to be a little less expensive to attend as well.
those indivdual-color cartridges leave the ink exposed at the bottom, as well as exposing it to more light due to the clear plastic. My experience has been that the ink quickly dries out...its not unlike leaving the cap off of a magic marker. The Canon printer which came with my computer ended up being junked in favor of an HP, which i've had zero problems with.
Another thing is that there ARE electronics in the Canon printer cartridges...they simply seperate the printer head and the ink. You have the option of buying a new ink cartridge without a head, but when that head becomes clogged and no longer prints, the only way to get a new print head(thats that green bottom part) is to buy a new color and black as a set with the head. Lexmark and HP cartridges put the printer head on each cartridge. It drives up the price, but it also ensures a better print quality.
Not that i think these prices aren't ridiculous. My solution is to print most large projects at my university, rather then waste my ink.
"ObviouGuy" looks like an obvious troll. Regardless of how well an OS works, there are always going to be plenty of situations where a LiveCD proves invaluable.
I would think someone savvy enough to be running BSD would know better then to spout such nonsense.
Yes, it was a pain in the ass when I tried it on old hardware(p1). Of course i am a total newbie as far as the BSD's, I'm well aware that many install them on old hardware for use as routers. However, I can defintly say that I found BSD's to be more difficult then Linux on obsolete hardware.
Maybe its easy once you know what you're doing.
I think hes referring to the situation before these technolgies became widely adopted. At the time it was VERY common for a new CD to cost $18(and for that matter, it still is in many cases). If prices are down to an average of $13.50(i actually haven't seen much to suggest prices are down much overall) it is probably because of the influence of these technologies.
There is a pretty simple reason why Itunes is succeeding that youy both seem to have overlooked. CD's were at record highs, and record companies practicaly quit selling singles all together. This meant spending nearly $20 for a CD that might have one good song on it. Consumers may not want to pay $18 for one song(and 11 throwaways), but they have certainly proved willing to pay $1 for just the song that they want.
The result of this overtime is going to actually be beneficial to the music industry and some ways. There will be much less reason for recording "filler" for albums, which cuts recording costs, and also challenges the whole industry to focus more on putting put more quality work.
What about that makes you assume they are running Linux? Apache runs on a lot of things, not just Linux. Read the child Nmap post, and its pretty evident that they are in fact not running Linux at all.
Actually, the people i'm referring to are university people. My mother is a physics professor, and her entire physics dept. overwhelmingly prefers WP. There is a small minority who work in Linux...the majority of these people are Windows users, know precious little about Linux/UNIX, and have never heard of LaTeX.
Perhaps you meant CS people at universities? I know my experience has been that very few people outside of CS use anything other then windows, with a small portion of the researchers(the ones doing computation intensive work) being the only real exception.
For that matter, I'm a CS student and an avid Linux user(as well as a part-time professional graphic artist) and I've only got a vague notion of what LaTeX is. It must be widely used by a select group of people.
I didn't know WordPerfect ever went anywhere. I know a lot of Windows users who swear by it. Apparently it has a better equation editor then MS Office.
I thought that UUnet was just a backbone? I know that my ISP is a small local cable company, and that in turn they get their connection from UUnet. I'm not sure that a regular home user can get an account there.
And yes, it is by far the nation's largest ISP, this probably has something to do with the problem in more ways then one. It's the MS syndrome: if you are big enough, you're going to be the most-targeted for lots of malicious things. At the same time, being the biggest means not worrying as much about taking care of your customers: where else are they going to go?
People cite plenty of examples ALL the time.
I use both Windows and Linux on a daily basis, both at home and at school. The Linux systems at home have certainly been a much bigger pain to maintain and install new software on. The Windows machines tend to work out of the box, and have few problems that involve anything more complicated then letting it download and install the newest security patch.
That said, I'm no huge windows fan, but i have to admit that my problems are more philosophical then anything else. They steal peoples ideas, bully people around, charge way too much...but at the end of the day, their product is pretty simple and easy to use.
I love using Linux for development. It is infinitely better for such things, and having so much more control is great. At the same time, I have spent much more time getting it to do relatively simple things like recognize disk drives properly, use two displays(still don't have this working, on windows it took 5 mins), network with other machines.
I'm aware that Linux does all these things just fine. But it is unarguable that it is more difficult to do them on Linux then Windows.
If you work in an office where the tech guy is a Linux guru(which honestly is not that common) who installs all the applications you need on the system for you, and all other maintenance, then no, its not any more difficult then windows. Thats not the "desktop" market thoug, that is "enterprise" and you people confuse the two. For a home user who is a Linux newbie it is infintely frustrating to get Linux to function at the level that Windows does out of the box.
Until Linux is as plug-and-play as Windows, it is NOT ready for the desktop market, and to try and push it into that market before it is as easy to use is going to only alienate average users against it.
I could cite plenty more reasons here, these are just off the top of my head. I'm a big fan of Linux, but i don't understand how you people can say that there is no evidence suggesting that Linux is not ready for the desktop market. If you can no longer recall when you were "new" to linux, or haven't used windows in 4-5 years, your opinion is meaningless on this topic. Have your mother/sister/wife install linux on her machine, and ask her how easy to use it is. She may like some things, but i'm very confident that the answer is going to be "put windows back on."
Amen. Thats exactly what I do. Of course my "slow" machines are p1 200mghz, and my "fast" machine is a p3 500 mghz:)
I've honestly seen very little performace difference between KDE on that P3 and on my 1.44Ghz Athalon XP. I can only assume that its because the P3 is loaded with about 328MB of ram. But my point remains: KDE is a a bit of a beast, but i don't think its anywhere near the resource hog that people seem to think it is.
They should have done this a year ago
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I got bumped off a flight and spent 8 hours waiting around Pittsburgh International Airport last August. Huge airport. I think I had a drink in every bar there(gotta be a tleast a half dozen). Wi-fi access certainly would have helped pass the time...especially if it was free!
In that perspective, then i think what you want to do makes sense
If you can do it without costing yourself any $$$, i think that its a fairly noble project.
Actually i disagree completely.
I've owned a Linksys switch, two identical 5-port routers, and for a brief time I owned the wirelss 802.11B version of the 5-port router.
We had the thing for a couple of weeks, and it never worked right. It would consistently drop network connections to every computer on the network for a second or two at a time, anywhere from 1 to maybe 30 times an hour.
Looking on Linksys's site, I found that in fact a LOT of people were having this problem. More troubling was the fact that no Linksys representatives bothered to respond regarding the issue in THEIR OWN FORUMS, at any point in time. The forums were virtually swamped with complaints, and yet not a peep about how to fix it, or even that they were working on a solution.
Calling them on the phone found me a representative who told me to upgrade the firmware...which I did, and the problem continued. I was told if the problem continued to purchase a new router with the upgraded firmware pre-installed.
I was incredibly disappointed with the whole experience. We'd been buying Linksys equipment for years and years, used it to run our whole home network. Based on their horrible support, we haven't bought a single Linksys product since. We ultimately bought an MS router for the same price, which was 802.11G, and worked perfectly within 5-10 minutes of opening the box.
I've got a very bad attitude towards MS and their policies, and products. It took a really bad situation to make me switch to them. The fact that their product actually works well is just that much more annoying.
But hey, if a few people have written their own Linsys firmware that actually works, more power to you. Just don't ever expect any help from them if you have a legitimate problem. They're troublingly incompetant.
Here in Ohio the laws are virtually identical. Anyone has been able to carry a gun openly, anywhere, for years, and they just passed the concealed weapons law...you take a test, waiting period, but yes relatively easy to get.
My point is, I think if you looked into it you might find a surprising amount of states with similar laws. I know I was surprised to learn that I could march around downtown with a rifle in my hand, and not be in any trouble whatsoever.
This certainly does seem like something thats going to really backfire for the RIAA if its true, and if they continue to do it.
This actually has a useful application.
In WWII there were several dams in Germany used to give power to Germany's war industries. Britain decided they needed to destroy them...problem was that they were heavily guarded, protected by nets...basically, it would be impossible to destroy them with any convential weapon of the time.
Their solution: A bouncing bomb. A special apparatus in the plane spun a cylindrical bomb(technically a mine) which was launhed from the plane at a specific distance and height(60 ft!) from the dam. It skipped across the water like a stone, past the dam's defenses, and rolled down the edge of the dam, detonating at a pre-determined depth underwater.
Plenty more here: http://www.dambusters.org.uk/wallis.htm
Generally, any US documents such as currency, stamps, drivers licenses, etc. can only be legally reproduced at greater then 150% or less than 75%.
I work in a print shop and just read through the copyright rules. Apparently, you can't so much as reproduce your own senior pictures without permission from the photographer who took them.
Why make it even that complicated? I have two e-mail accounts: One is for anything trusted: friends, business, a few select sites ai trust won't sell my address(like this one for example). Then I've got an ancient hotmail account I give for everything else. Never really check the account, just let it build up that crap...and on their bandwidth, not mine.
Although I do like how your method gives you a bit more control...and lets you know exactly who sells your e-mail address. I just don't see myself going to that much trouble.
I didn't realize Diamond WAS S3!
They've had the worst support for a product I've ever experienced. I only got my MP3 player working again due to open source programmers writing their own interface for the stupid thing. They abandoned virtually any support for my player only a couple years after it hit the market. They posted links on their website to software which did not work with it, and provided no technical support staff to really solve any problems that arose.
If S3 is the same company, I'm really not very inclined to buy from them.
Just buy an old Matrox card on Ebay.
My guitarist got one for next-to-nothing, and runs 3 monitors for Pro-tools. Claims that with all the windows and toolbars, you pretty much need all those displays.
I run 2 monitors myself to do graphics, web design, and layout. I really would think theres a decent market for these cheap, multi-output cards. Lots of applications work much better this way, and don't need any 3D rendering at all.
I agree with you on the color accuracy as well. Once again, for graphic artists and web designers, this is much more important then 3D rendering ability.
Of course, gamers are probably a larger market still. And more willingly to foolishly spend too much on the "latest and greatest" card. People like me buy last year's castaways.
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I live in Ohio(Youngstown). I'll bet that house goes for $50,000 here. Of course, theres no jobs(especially in tech) so i'll be moving to one of those places with a nice high cost of living when i graduate.
This isn't the point they are trying to make, but I have noticed that in the business class I was forced to take, the entire chapter which mentioned computer-based things had many terms which I had never heard of in the IT world. When I pointed this out to my teacher, she asserted that these were the terms the business world used. It would appear that the business world views the IT world form a completely different place than IT views itself, to the point where they have made up their own nonsensical(to me anyways) terms for the exact same concepts. If we can't even agree on what to call things, how could we agree that Linux is a viable strategy for many businesses?
i'm amazed that noone has pointed out that something like this is easily faked. On the one hand, it wouldn't surprise me if this was for real, and someone from the MPAA really did write it. On the other hand, the reaction from the Attorney General didn't seem very severe at all, implying that they had some knowledge of this. Seems to me that the worst case is that they had the MPAA reviewing their document, which really isn't all that out of the ordinary in government...they had representatives from Sun look over documents in the case against MS...how is that different? And obviously, its very possible that these were faked to begin with. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone decided to put the MPAA president's name on a word file. This seems a lot more likely then him being dumb enough to try and fake a letter from the Attorney General and leave his own metadata.
I've been thinking the same thing all week. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't run it so many times. Of course if i was one of those Dish customers, I would be livid. Thats a lot of channels, and the majority of the ones I watch. Its certainly ridiculous for any customer to continue paying the same price for service when its missing a large chunk of popular channels.
Theres a very simple reason for this. The way I understand it, back when there were DD and HD floppies, they were both made on the same assembly line - much like say, an Intel proccessor. If one disk in a batch didn't pass a certain test, the whole batch was labeled DD(same way you get low-end Intel chips), despite the fact that it was likely that most of them would in fact function just fine as HD disks. There never was any fundamental difference between the two formats, by punching a hole you were just removing the flimsy protection they artifically put there to make it a DD disk.
Thats a really good point. I'm excited that the OhioLUG is close enough i can drive in just a few hours! Things like this tend to be a little less expensive to attend as well.
those indivdual-color cartridges leave the ink exposed at the bottom, as well as exposing it to more light due to the clear plastic. My experience has been that the ink quickly dries out...its not unlike leaving the cap off of a magic marker. The Canon printer which came with my computer ended up being junked in favor of an HP, which i've had zero problems with. Another thing is that there ARE electronics in the Canon printer cartridges...they simply seperate the printer head and the ink. You have the option of buying a new ink cartridge without a head, but when that head becomes clogged and no longer prints, the only way to get a new print head(thats that green bottom part) is to buy a new color and black as a set with the head. Lexmark and HP cartridges put the printer head on each cartridge. It drives up the price, but it also ensures a better print quality. Not that i think these prices aren't ridiculous. My solution is to print most large projects at my university, rather then waste my ink.
"ObviouGuy" looks like an obvious troll. Regardless of how well an OS works, there are always going to be plenty of situations where a LiveCD proves invaluable. I would think someone savvy enough to be running BSD would know better then to spout such nonsense.
Yes, it was a pain in the ass when I tried it on old hardware(p1). Of course i am a total newbie as far as the BSD's, I'm well aware that many install them on old hardware for use as routers. However, I can defintly say that I found BSD's to be more difficult then Linux on obsolete hardware. Maybe its easy once you know what you're doing.
I think hes referring to the situation before these technolgies became widely adopted. At the time it was VERY common for a new CD to cost $18(and for that matter, it still is in many cases). If prices are down to an average of $13.50(i actually haven't seen much to suggest prices are down much overall) it is probably because of the influence of these technologies. There is a pretty simple reason why Itunes is succeeding that youy both seem to have overlooked. CD's were at record highs, and record companies practicaly quit selling singles all together. This meant spending nearly $20 for a CD that might have one good song on it. Consumers may not want to pay $18 for one song(and 11 throwaways), but they have certainly proved willing to pay $1 for just the song that they want. The result of this overtime is going to actually be beneficial to the music industry and some ways. There will be much less reason for recording "filler" for albums, which cuts recording costs, and also challenges the whole industry to focus more on putting put more quality work.
What about that makes you assume they are running Linux? Apache runs on a lot of things, not just Linux. Read the child Nmap post, and its pretty evident that they are in fact not running Linux at all.
Actually, the people i'm referring to are university people. My mother is a physics professor, and her entire physics dept. overwhelmingly prefers WP. There is a small minority who work in Linux...the majority of these people are Windows users, know precious little about Linux/UNIX, and have never heard of LaTeX. Perhaps you meant CS people at universities? I know my experience has been that very few people outside of CS use anything other then windows, with a small portion of the researchers(the ones doing computation intensive work) being the only real exception. For that matter, I'm a CS student and an avid Linux user(as well as a part-time professional graphic artist) and I've only got a vague notion of what LaTeX is. It must be widely used by a select group of people.
I didn't know WordPerfect ever went anywhere. I know a lot of Windows users who swear by it. Apparently it has a better equation editor then MS Office.
I thought that UUnet was just a backbone? I know that my ISP is a small local cable company, and that in turn they get their connection from UUnet. I'm not sure that a regular home user can get an account there. And yes, it is by far the nation's largest ISP, this probably has something to do with the problem in more ways then one. It's the MS syndrome: if you are big enough, you're going to be the most-targeted for lots of malicious things. At the same time, being the biggest means not worrying as much about taking care of your customers: where else are they going to go?
People cite plenty of examples ALL the time. I use both Windows and Linux on a daily basis, both at home and at school. The Linux systems at home have certainly been a much bigger pain to maintain and install new software on. The Windows machines tend to work out of the box, and have few problems that involve anything more complicated then letting it download and install the newest security patch. That said, I'm no huge windows fan, but i have to admit that my problems are more philosophical then anything else. They steal peoples ideas, bully people around, charge way too much...but at the end of the day, their product is pretty simple and easy to use. I love using Linux for development. It is infinitely better for such things, and having so much more control is great. At the same time, I have spent much more time getting it to do relatively simple things like recognize disk drives properly, use two displays(still don't have this working, on windows it took 5 mins), network with other machines. I'm aware that Linux does all these things just fine. But it is unarguable that it is more difficult to do them on Linux then Windows. If you work in an office where the tech guy is a Linux guru(which honestly is not that common) who installs all the applications you need on the system for you, and all other maintenance, then no, its not any more difficult then windows. Thats not the "desktop" market thoug, that is "enterprise" and you people confuse the two. For a home user who is a Linux newbie it is infintely frustrating to get Linux to function at the level that Windows does out of the box. Until Linux is as plug-and-play as Windows, it is NOT ready for the desktop market, and to try and push it into that market before it is as easy to use is going to only alienate average users against it. I could cite plenty more reasons here, these are just off the top of my head. I'm a big fan of Linux, but i don't understand how you people can say that there is no evidence suggesting that Linux is not ready for the desktop market. If you can no longer recall when you were "new" to linux, or haven't used windows in 4-5 years, your opinion is meaningless on this topic. Have your mother/sister/wife install linux on her machine, and ask her how easy to use it is. She may like some things, but i'm very confident that the answer is going to be "put windows back on."
Amen. Thats exactly what I do. Of course my "slow" machines are p1 200mghz, and my "fast" machine is a p3 500 mghz :)
I've honestly seen very little performace difference between KDE on that P3 and on my 1.44Ghz Athalon XP. I can only assume that its because the P3 is loaded with about 328MB of ram. But my point remains: KDE is a a bit of a beast, but i don't think its anywhere near the resource hog that people seem to think it is.
I got bumped off a flight and spent 8 hours waiting around Pittsburgh International Airport last August. Huge airport. I think I had a drink in every bar there(gotta be a tleast a half dozen). Wi-fi access certainly would have helped pass the time...especially if it was free!
In that perspective, then i think what you want to do makes sense If you can do it without costing yourself any $$$, i think that its a fairly noble project.
Actually i disagree completely. I've owned a Linksys switch, two identical 5-port routers, and for a brief time I owned the wirelss 802.11B version of the 5-port router. We had the thing for a couple of weeks, and it never worked right. It would consistently drop network connections to every computer on the network for a second or two at a time, anywhere from 1 to maybe 30 times an hour. Looking on Linksys's site, I found that in fact a LOT of people were having this problem. More troubling was the fact that no Linksys representatives bothered to respond regarding the issue in THEIR OWN FORUMS, at any point in time. The forums were virtually swamped with complaints, and yet not a peep about how to fix it, or even that they were working on a solution. Calling them on the phone found me a representative who told me to upgrade the firmware...which I did, and the problem continued. I was told if the problem continued to purchase a new router with the upgraded firmware pre-installed. I was incredibly disappointed with the whole experience. We'd been buying Linksys equipment for years and years, used it to run our whole home network. Based on their horrible support, we haven't bought a single Linksys product since. We ultimately bought an MS router for the same price, which was 802.11G, and worked perfectly within 5-10 minutes of opening the box. I've got a very bad attitude towards MS and their policies, and products. It took a really bad situation to make me switch to them. The fact that their product actually works well is just that much more annoying. But hey, if a few people have written their own Linsys firmware that actually works, more power to you. Just don't ever expect any help from them if you have a legitimate problem. They're troublingly incompetant.
Here in Ohio the laws are virtually identical. Anyone has been able to carry a gun openly, anywhere, for years, and they just passed the concealed weapons law...you take a test, waiting period, but yes relatively easy to get. My point is, I think if you looked into it you might find a surprising amount of states with similar laws. I know I was surprised to learn that I could march around downtown with a rifle in my hand, and not be in any trouble whatsoever. This certainly does seem like something thats going to really backfire for the RIAA if its true, and if they continue to do it.
This actually has a useful application. In WWII there were several dams in Germany used to give power to Germany's war industries. Britain decided they needed to destroy them...problem was that they were heavily guarded, protected by nets...basically, it would be impossible to destroy them with any convential weapon of the time. Their solution: A bouncing bomb. A special apparatus in the plane spun a cylindrical bomb(technically a mine) which was launhed from the plane at a specific distance and height(60 ft!) from the dam. It skipped across the water like a stone, past the dam's defenses, and rolled down the edge of the dam, detonating at a pre-determined depth underwater. Plenty more here: http://www.dambusters.org.uk/wallis.htm
Generally, any US documents such as currency, stamps, drivers licenses, etc. can only be legally reproduced at greater then 150% or less than 75%. I work in a print shop and just read through the copyright rules. Apparently, you can't so much as reproduce your own senior pictures without permission from the photographer who took them.
Why make it even that complicated? I have two e-mail accounts: One is for anything trusted: friends, business, a few select sites ai trust won't sell my address(like this one for example). Then I've got an ancient hotmail account I give for everything else. Never really check the account, just let it build up that crap...and on their bandwidth, not mine. Although I do like how your method gives you a bit more control...and lets you know exactly who sells your e-mail address. I just don't see myself going to that much trouble.
I didn't realize Diamond WAS S3! They've had the worst support for a product I've ever experienced. I only got my MP3 player working again due to open source programmers writing their own interface for the stupid thing. They abandoned virtually any support for my player only a couple years after it hit the market. They posted links on their website to software which did not work with it, and provided no technical support staff to really solve any problems that arose. If S3 is the same company, I'm really not very inclined to buy from them.
Just buy an old Matrox card on Ebay. My guitarist got one for next-to-nothing, and runs 3 monitors for Pro-tools. Claims that with all the windows and toolbars, you pretty much need all those displays. I run 2 monitors myself to do graphics, web design, and layout. I really would think theres a decent market for these cheap, multi-output cards. Lots of applications work much better this way, and don't need any 3D rendering at all. I agree with you on the color accuracy as well. Once again, for graphic artists and web designers, this is much more important then 3D rendering ability. Of course, gamers are probably a larger market still. And more willingly to foolishly spend too much on the "latest and greatest" card. People like me buy last year's castaways.