It generally helps a fast growing company to switch from private to public ownership. There are more regulatory hoops to jump through, but the business process opens up. Since Google was already keenly in the public eye, this move did indeed help the company seem more transparent.
It also gave the millions of google users a chance to profit from the company they indirectly helped to build. As the company continues to grow, so can their portfolios. Plus, making the creators of the company some cash ain't all that bad.
On most websites,/. included, I don't mind the ads. What I do find frustrating is the lack of control we have to see the ads we would like.
For example, I'm reading stories on the/. front page and have just clicked an article when the ad catches my eye. Before I can get to the stop button, the new page loads. Because of the dynamic ad loader, a new ad loads when I hit the back button.
I can't search for the ad, only hit reload and hope that the ad reappears, kinda like roulette. So, the ad systems that I don't mind are still not very productive for me. If they had a page that was all of the ads they are currently cycling, I'd go there occasionally.
Websites aren't limited like a television, we should have a little creative control and be allowed to see ads that interest us.
Dang, with that many APs spread over just 11 ( mostly overlapping) channels, the throughput must be really slow. Did you connect to any and see how usable they were? 247 visible connections just boggles my mind.
There is no physical way for electrons to leave the lab by wire or signal.
...no physical connection to the outside world short of secured airvents.
The lab is video recorded 24/7 via several webcams.
...everyone in the class wanted to learn cool new things, NO ONE wanted to "become l33t", and everyone there was of the highest calibre of talent and ethics...
No actual offense is intended toward you personally by what I am about to write, please remember this.
You give strong evidence that you weren't an electrical or electronic engineering student. Unless the facility ran entirely off battery or local generator, then of course electrons could leave the 'virus area'. If you were sharing grid power then they were/are connected to the power distribution network, easily used to send data. Yes, even through isolation transformers if you know how.
How was the webcam network monitored? If the signals were not allowed outside the room/building, then video could only be reviewed after an event took place. If an event went undiscovered, then it would never be monitored or reviewed at all. Unless of course, these precious webcams were networked to the 'outside'. Either way, they are perceptual fluff and imagined security.
If "everyone there was of the highest calibre of talent and ethics", then why was the first 1/4 of the semester spent on ethics? Because that is the core of all security problems, you cannot predict with complete accuracy how people will behave. If part of the motivation for taking this class was "to learn cool new things", then the students probably weren't of the caliber to be much of a threat before taking the class. Otherwise, they would have easily been able to gather the information and build their virus writing skills without taking a class. Thus the University helped give skillz to the skill-less.
It would be interesting to read the syllabus for these two classes. You would have us believe that they contain something like: "Learn to write virus/spam applications in a secure environment, never to be used again."
Lastly, "impeccable acedemic(sic) reputation" means little in the scope of this discussion. Once the school has equipped students with these new skills, they cannot rule how the knowledge will be used. Follow up on these fine people in ten years and see how impeccable all of them still are. Most probably will be fine citizens, but not all.
I play games and use linux exclusively. I have an xbox.
I have a modded xbox sitting beside me right now, modded for a friend, it's not mine. I have played Thief3 on both and have to say that as a long-time gamer, consoles suck for something needing real control. Those game controllers make eating with 10-foot chopsticks seem natural.
I've run linux for more than 10 years now and am currently playing Americas Army (native) and Max Payne2 (cedega). I see the xbox as two things: A game box for people that have never seriously played FPSs and a vehicle to get DirectX marketshare for MS. The more xbox and windows only games that get produced, the less OpenGL will appeal to game developers.
MS dosen't care if windows sucks. They only care that people don't feel that they have an alternative. I have spoken with several MS folks over the last 15 years and they care about marketshare above everything else that was discussed.
According to several sources, spyware is still Windows only. That may someday change, but I haven't even been able to get the few viruses I have tried to install correctly inside of wine yet...
CmdrTaco went to Hope College, which is an excellent Christian based institution. He also attended Christian school all the way through high school.
What you really missed was CmdrTaco flaunting his contempt for not only the college, but his parents beliefs and one of their strongest reasons for paying to send their son to very excellent schools. That means he can realate to about much of the./ crowd that have similar thoughts on the matter.
In this context, I would also have to consider Taco's comments to be a blantant attack.
You have the order of Tesla's work backwards. He had the whole 3-phase AC system worked out before coming to the USA to work with Edison. He later developed the florescent light and wireless power distribution techniques.
Do a search on 'Wardenclyffe Tower' to see that you are incorrect about how far he took the wireless power and communication concept. Far beyond un-inked drawings indeed. It was destroyed in 1917.
Hard drives have been stuck in the 200-300g range for almost 5 years. The innovation in this sector has hit a brick wall damn near.
Surely you are kidding, drive sizes have been steadily growing. Maxtor released their massive 80 gig drive during the fall of 2000. I bought one of the original ones and have just retired it from four years of constant duty. Go read the StorageReview review archives to see the increases in maximum consumer storage sizes.
Evas lib (part of Enlightenment) has both OpenGL and software benching
OpenGL: FRAME COUNT: 69952 frames TIME: 20.000 seconds AVERAGE FPS: 3497.584 fps
EVAS BENCH: 58.293
Software: FRAME COUNT: 4899 frames TIME: 20.003 seconds AVERAGE FPS: 244.911 fps
EVAS BENCH: 4.082
SPECviewperf is a very comprehensive OpenGL benchmark. Your own applications should be your personal benchmark though, if you only run Doom3 or UT2K4 then these other benchmarks don't really matter.
My flashlights cost me tens of dollars, my radio collection cost me thousands of dollars. If you couldn't make us of the radios, would you keep them in the basement or sell them?
Right.... Have you ever seen a backup power supply for a single cell tower? It is a lot more than a couple of car batteries. But assuming you had a powered cell tower, what then? No powered land lines to connect to just yet.
When disaster strikes, ham radio is often the only reliable means of communication into and out of the affected area.
We know it isn't a real benchmark, but it is one of the quickest ways to verify OpenGL acceleration. In addition, if Ati's newest drivers are barely better than fully software rendered OpenGL in this very simple program, then what good are the binary drivers?
I was writing software for other people using Apple ][ systems in highschool and have gone on to create large software projects that are still running today at some companies that most US./ readers would recognize. After getting laid off about the middle of 2002, I couldn't even get a McJob from a friend that managed a McDonalds. They had already hired some desperate techies that wanted to get paid without working.
Now I am halfway through HVAC certifications and am making more than before being laid off. I'm also going back to school to eventually get an MBA because US companies aren't going to outsource the executive managment positions...
My message to the IT departments: Good Riddance. No more 70-80 hour weeks working toward near impossible deadlines to fatten your bonuses.
Slashdot Mirror
I had to really brace myself before clicking a link to a .jpg file hosted on the .cx TLD
It generally helps a fast growing company to switch from private to public ownership. There are more regulatory hoops to jump through, but the business process opens up. Since Google was already keenly in the public eye, this move did indeed help the company seem more transparent.
It also gave the millions of google users a chance to profit from the company they indirectly helped to build. As the company continues to grow, so can their portfolios. Plus, making the creators of the company some cash ain't all that bad.
On most websites, /. included, I don't mind the ads. What I do find frustrating is the lack of control we have to see the ads we would like.
/. front page and have just clicked an article when the ad catches my eye. Before I can get to the stop button, the new page loads. Because of the dynamic ad loader, a new ad loads when I hit the back button.
For example, I'm reading stories on the
I can't search for the ad, only hit reload and hope that the ad reappears, kinda like roulette. So, the ad systems that I don't mind are still not very productive for me. If they had a page that was all of the ads they are currently cycling, I'd go there occasionally.
Websites aren't limited like a television, we should have a little creative control and be allowed to see ads that interest us.
I may have gone to school with the same guy! Was his name Leonard Edward Font? Yup, we sure miss L. E. Font.
We heard that he ran away with the circus some time ago, now works for peanuts.
Yeah, it sure is a good thing that the atmosphere dosen't go all the way to the ground, we would all perish... Oh, wait.
Dang, with that many APs spread over just 11 ( mostly overlapping) channels, the throughput must be really slow. Did you connect to any and see how usable they were? 247 visible connections just boggles my mind.
Hmmm, that kind of relates to him using all MS apps to protect his system from spyware, you know "eating your own dog food".
I'm sure that the folks over at White Box Enterprise Linux really appreciate you pointing the RedHat lawyers their way.
No, that just means you are socially inept... :)
I thought you were going to say So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
No actual offense is intended toward you personally by what I am about to write, please remember this.
You give strong evidence that you weren't an electrical or electronic engineering student. Unless the facility ran entirely off battery or local generator, then of course electrons could leave the 'virus area'. If you were sharing grid power then they were/are connected to the power distribution network, easily used to send data. Yes, even through isolation transformers if you know how.
How was the webcam network monitored? If the signals were not allowed outside the room/building, then video could only be reviewed after an event took place. If an event went undiscovered, then it would never be monitored or reviewed at all. Unless of course, these precious webcams were networked to the 'outside'. Either way, they are perceptual fluff and imagined security.
If "everyone there was of the highest calibre of talent and ethics", then why was the first 1/4 of the semester spent on ethics? Because that is the core of all security problems, you cannot predict with complete accuracy how people will behave. If part of the motivation for taking this class was "to learn cool new things", then the students probably weren't of the caliber to be much of a threat before taking the class. Otherwise, they would have easily been able to gather the information and build their virus writing skills without taking a class. Thus the University helped give skillz to the skill-less.
It would be interesting to read the syllabus for these two classes. You would have us believe that they contain something like: "Learn to write virus/spam applications in a secure environment, never to be used again."
Lastly, "impeccable acedemic(sic) reputation" means little in the scope of this discussion. Once the school has equipped students with these new skills, they cannot rule how the knowledge will be used. Follow up on these fine people in ten years and see how impeccable all of them still are. Most probably will be fine citizens, but not all.
I have a modded xbox sitting beside me right now, modded for a friend, it's not mine. I have played Thief3 on both and have to say that as a long-time gamer, consoles suck for something needing real control. Those game controllers make eating with 10-foot chopsticks seem natural.
I've run linux for more than 10 years now and am currently playing Americas Army (native) and Max Payne2 (cedega). I see the xbox as two things: A game box for people that have never seriously played FPSs and a vehicle to get DirectX marketshare for MS. The more xbox and windows only games that get produced, the less OpenGL will appeal to game developers.
MS dosen't care if windows sucks. They only care that people don't feel that they have an alternative. I have spoken with several MS folks over the last 15 years and they care about marketshare above everything else that was discussed.
See my other post just above your last post.
According to several sources, spyware is still Windows only. That may someday change, but I haven't even been able to get the few viruses I have tried to install correctly inside of wine yet...
If you click on the linux link, it shows a graphic that says:
NO
Spyware
Adware
Malware
CmdrTaco went to Hope College, which is an excellent Christian based institution. He also attended Christian school all the way through high school.
./ crowd that have similar thoughts on the matter.
What you really missed was CmdrTaco flaunting his contempt for not only the college, but his parents beliefs and one of their strongest reasons for paying to send their son to very excellent schools. That means he can realate to about much of the
In this context, I would also have to consider Taco's comments to be a blantant attack.
You have the order of Tesla's work backwards. He had the whole 3-phase AC system worked out before coming to the USA to work with Edison. He later developed the florescent light and wireless power distribution techniques.
Do a search on 'Wardenclyffe Tower' to see that you are incorrect about how far he took the wireless power and communication concept. Far beyond un-inked drawings indeed. It was destroyed in 1917.
Surely you are kidding, drive sizes have been steadily growing. Maxtor released their massive 80 gig drive during the fall of 2000. I bought one of the original ones and have just retired it from four years of constant duty. Go read the StorageReview review archives to see the increases in maximum consumer storage sizes.
Evas lib (part of Enlightenment) has both OpenGL and software benching
OpenGL:
FRAME COUNT: 69952 frames
TIME: 20.000 seconds
AVERAGE FPS: 3497.584 fps
EVAS BENCH: 58.293
Software:
FRAME COUNT: 4899 frames
TIME: 20.003 seconds
AVERAGE FPS: 244.911 fps
EVAS BENCH: 4.082
SPECviewperf is a very comprehensive OpenGL benchmark. Your own applications should be your personal benchmark though, if you only run Doom3 or UT2K4 then these other benchmarks don't really matter.
One word: Elecraft
My flashlights cost me tens of dollars, my radio collection cost me thousands of dollars. If you couldn't make us of the radios, would you keep them in the basement or sell them?
Right.... Have you ever seen a backup power supply for a single cell tower? It is a lot more than a couple of car batteries. But assuming you had a powered cell tower, what then? No powered land lines to connect to just yet.
When disaster strikes, ham radio is often the only reliable means of communication into and out of the affected area.
LinuxGeek, KI4CJJ
We know it isn't a real benchmark, but it is one of the quickest ways to verify OpenGL acceleration. In addition, if Ati's newest drivers are barely better than fully software rendered OpenGL in this very simple program, then what good are the binary drivers?
I was writing software for other people using Apple ][ systems in highschool and have gone on to create large software projects that are still running today at some companies that most US ./ readers would recognize. After getting laid off about the middle of 2002, I couldn't even get a McJob from a friend that managed a McDonalds. They had already hired some desperate techies that wanted to get paid without working.
Now I am halfway through HVAC certifications and am making more than before being laid off. I'm also going back to school to eventually get an MBA because US companies aren't going to outsource the executive managment positions...
My message to the IT departments: Good Riddance. No more 70-80 hour weeks working toward near impossible deadlines to fatten your bonuses.