Too bad it will provide so few jobs in that area. Most of the jobs will be pretty low level security people, people that plug in new servers, and a few admins.
There will be 2 jobs, for a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the computers. Ahhhh, an oldie but a goodie!
On a similar vein, the only thing I would add, is that when skimming the front page its harder to read the number of comments as well (e.g. 123 of 228). If they modify these two minor issues I for one, will be much happier:)
Roland Piquepaille submits an article which links to his blog story about a Dvorak article which summises that Apple will merge with SCO and obviously buy out KFC for the rights to its chicken plucking patents...
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I see a lot of valid arguments against each new DRM mechanisim that comes out, but nobody seems to be offering an alternative.
The alternative that seems quite obvious and would work for me, would be for them to stop being such greedy bastards, and reduce the price of an album to something more reasonable. A new album in Aus is $30, and its this price that's the major driving force as to why I look at other ways of getting the music I like (often including just listening to the radio instead). If they could make the price more reasonable (say $AU10-$AU15) it would have an impact upon me right now. Currently the price outweighs the amount of dicking around it takes to get it elsewhere, and as soon asthe price is even in the ball park I will happilly start walking into a music store again.
Honestly its like fruit'n veg sometimes, when a particular variety goes stupidly expensive I dont buy it (I select another variety or another type of food altogether). When I go shopping next, if its a price I think is acceptable, I'll buy it.
You can do this now. If you have a windows based mobile phone you can use skype. You don't have to wait for MS to sell you something.
All you need is a wifi spot.
I currently have a Telstra Wireless broadband account (i live in Bris) at home, does this mean if i had a windows type phone i could drop my mobile carrier all together (or make it very, very cheap)?
I always assumed that to use this kind of thing via mobile I would still have to pay a mobile provider, and _then_ pay a 'data' charge for all of the WAP data I use (to make skype calls).
I have to agree with you there, I suppose a mod might think your trying to start a flamewar but I didn't know anything about the discoverers you mentioned and found your post interesting and insightful. If I had some mod points I would have helped out. If anything, it proves a point I picked up from/. comments ages ago - set your settings to 'show' (auto mod up i think) the flamebait posts as sometimes they can be jewels.
We sat behind desks in the middle of the classroom surrounded by 'lab benches' which had gas taps for the bunsen burners. Let out a (preferably stinky and somewhat silent) fart, then tell the teacher that you could 'smell something funny, and maybe one of the gas taps is leaking'.
The teacher comes over and gives the air a real good sniff, while we laugh under our breath... ahhh fart jokes they will never die...
I was reading the article, and was lulling in the mixed feelings of awe, pride and my inconsequence in the universe, and thought, wow all this by the same country that is bringing us the iraq war...
then i read the/. QOTD at the bottom of the page
To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
We setup one of the early (not the first, but early) quake servers back in the day, named the 'Thunderdome' in Australia. We were running an ISP 'down in the basement' (32 x 32kb modems and a T2 net cnxn! w00t!) and started the clan Bananas In Pyjamas (BiP) (hence Rastan[B2]). When alot of clans started out, it was all fearful, 'death and killing' type clan names... so we thought wtf, called ourselves Bananas In Pyjamas and painted our skins bright yellow, with blue and white pyjamas.
man good, good days... our own server, a fat net pipe for other servers (we didnt like dealing out punishment on our own server because it was just _unfair_) lots and lots of fun into the wee wee hours! Organised clan wars with TS (tormented souls), BW (black widows) - my mate ran the BW server stuff out of a uni server, and others... I remember when GameSpy first came out and it was a godsend!
Just when you think u _might_ be getting bored... all the variants came out - runes, ctf, new maps... Ahhh the days... I had alot of fun playing quake 1, qw, and ctf!
three words for anyone that needed something settled - 'D' 'M' 'FOUR'!
Anyone remember GibCon (aka BigCon) one of the first largish quake tourneys' held in sydney? Adam (Raver[B1]) and I drove down from the gold coast, they had a sooper duper, one of a kind, 1 Gb switch - which kept fkn falling over all the time, much to the hate of the crowd. But like any good LAN of the day, warez and porn passed around a plenty! (I remember being ousted kinda early and drinking some mix of scotch in a macas cup all night!)
I have photos from another tourney in Bris with Tank[ZX], seven[cant remember clan ???], and heaps of other old school quakers...
I miss those days, the game play was faaantastic...
From one older quake dude,
Rastan[B2] - Rastan rough on roughnecks!
P.S - the server didn't last that long because a few months later when our monthly bill went from $12K to $33K, the boss was like WTF, and we were like - 'geeez we don't know it must be a fault at their end!'. needless to say the 'fault' corrected itself after we sadly shutdown the server.
P.P.S - so old school, it took us 3 months to be convinced it was better than the mouse
I don't mean this a bad way... But in all honesty, there's way more guys out there that know Windows than know Linux. That's just the reality.
One reason there's a whole lot more windows 'guys' out there is because backyarders can now get paid $50/hr to install anti-spyware on the average joes 'slow' computer. A friend of mine has been doing this for over a year. Walk in, install Adaware and AVG Anti Virus (both free for non-corporations), run them, have a coffee then walk out $50 (or more) richer. Easy money baby.
I'd have to agree on the gripes about Samsung hardware. I too had a nokia and sony-ericson before my Samsung G700, and they both (nokia especially) left the Samsung software for dead. The most annoying feature for me was not being able to go back and 'reselect' the word in the text message I am typing. For instance if you are typing quite quickly and forgot to change a word and have typed another word after it, you have to go back and delete the word you can re-choose.
As for music... bring it on, I currently use a 256 MB player for jogging, a 20GB iRiver for longer distances (riding, busing etc) and of course a mobile. In fact my mp3 player and phone are the 2 most commonly carried pieces of my arsonal, if they could be combined I would be stoked.
I picked up this link from a thread ages ago mailinator.com - you just make up any word and put it at mailinator dot com and you can go and check your mail at the site. I think the mailbox stays active for 24hrs or similar. Very very useful for registrations and stuff.
this seems like an obvious solution that I just thought of, but I'll post it anyways. For the really nice artworks that need protecting, the room has 2 doors to get into it (separated with a small hallway). Both doors cannot be opened at the same time. Have a sensor on the artwork that locks both doors when lifted.
why Santa Cruz Operations Inc, went from making such cool skateboards to becoming the evil bloodsucking parasitic empire it has become. Must be more money in taking the legal system for a ride, than it is teenagers down the street.
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is setting a lap time benchmark for track motor racing sports such as F1... lets see how good schumi, alonso et al. really are...
On another note, if these scientists think they're so smart... let's see them do it with a motorbike =)
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My favourite has always been 'nerdstick'.
> 7. Global Warmning 11. Spelling and grammar on the internet.
Too bad it will provide so few jobs in that area. Most of the jobs will be pretty low level security people, people that plug in new servers, and a few admins.
There will be 2 jobs, for a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the computers.
Ahhhh, an oldie but a goodie!
On a similar vein, the only thing I would add, is that when skimming the front page its harder to read the number of comments as well (e.g. 123 of 228). If they modify these two minor issues I for one, will be much happier :)
are tall gorgeous brunettes with blue hot pants, indestructible bracelets and the Lasso of Truth.
Roland Piquepaille submits an article which links to his blog story about a Dvorak article which summises that Apple will merge with SCO and obviously buy out KFC for the rights to its chicken plucking patents...
I see a lot of valid arguments against each new DRM mechanisim that comes out, but nobody seems to be offering an alternative.
The alternative that seems quite obvious and would work for me, would be for them to stop being such greedy bastards, and reduce the price of an album to something more reasonable. A new album in Aus is $30, and its this price that's the major driving force as to why I look at other ways of getting the music I like (often including just listening to the radio instead). If they could make the price more reasonable (say $AU10-$AU15) it would have an impact upon me right now. Currently the price outweighs the amount of dicking around it takes to get it elsewhere, and as soon asthe price is even in the ball park I will happilly start walking into a music store again.
Honestly its like fruit'n veg sometimes, when a particular variety goes stupidly expensive I dont buy it (I select another variety or another type of food altogether). When I go shopping next, if its a price I think is acceptable, I'll buy it.
I remember reading about an advertising campiag by Wang Computers yeeears ago, that said 'Wang Cares...'. You could even get it on a T-shirt :)
All you need is a wifi spot.
I currently have a Telstra Wireless broadband account (i live in Bris) at home, does this mean if i had a windows type phone i could drop my mobile carrier all together (or make it very, very cheap)?
I always assumed that to use this kind of thing via mobile I would still have to pay a mobile provider, and _then_ pay a 'data' charge for all of the WAP data I use (to make skype calls).
Does this sound right?
I have to agree with you there, I suppose a mod might think your trying to start a flamewar but I didn't know anything about the discoverers you mentioned and found your post interesting and insightful. If I had some mod points I would have helped out. If anything, it proves a point I picked up from /. comments ages ago - set your settings to 'show' (auto mod up i think) the flamebait posts as sometimes they can be jewels.
Our classic was during grade 9 science classes...
We sat behind desks in the middle of the classroom surrounded by 'lab benches' which had gas taps for the bunsen burners. Let out a (preferably stinky and somewhat silent) fart, then tell the teacher that you could 'smell something funny, and maybe one of the gas taps is leaking'.
The teacher comes over and gives the air a real good sniff, while we laugh under our breath... ahhh fart jokes they will never die...
I was reading the article, and was lulling in the mixed feelings of awe, pride and my inconsequence in the universe, and thought, wow all this by the same country that is bringing us the iraq war...
/. QOTD at the bottom of the page
then i read the
To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
We setup one of the early (not the first, but early) quake servers back in the day, named the 'Thunderdome' in Australia. We were running an ISP 'down in the basement' (32 x 32kb modems and a T2 net cnxn! w00t!) and started the clan Bananas In Pyjamas (BiP) (hence Rastan[B2]). When alot of clans started out, it was all fearful, 'death and killing' type clan names... so we thought wtf, called ourselves Bananas In Pyjamas and painted our skins bright yellow, with blue and white pyjamas.
man good, good days... our own server, a fat net pipe for other servers (we didnt like dealing out punishment on our own server because it was just _unfair_) lots and lots of fun into the wee wee hours! Organised clan wars with TS (tormented souls), BW (black widows) - my mate ran the BW server stuff out of a uni server, and others... I remember when GameSpy first came out and it was a godsend!
Just when you think u _might_ be getting bored... all the variants came out - runes, ctf, new maps... Ahhh the days... I had alot of fun playing quake 1, qw, and ctf!
three words for anyone that needed something settled - 'D' 'M' 'FOUR'!
Anyone remember GibCon (aka BigCon) one of the first largish quake tourneys' held in sydney? Adam (Raver[B1]) and I drove down from the gold coast, they had a sooper duper, one of a kind, 1 Gb switch - which kept fkn falling over all the time, much to the hate of the crowd. But like any good LAN of the day, warez and porn passed around a plenty! (I remember being ousted kinda early and drinking some mix of scotch in a macas cup all night!)
I have photos from another tourney in Bris with Tank[ZX], seven[cant remember clan ???], and heaps of other old school quakers...
I miss those days, the game play was faaantastic...
From one older quake dude,
Rastan[B2] - Rastan rough on roughnecks!
P.S - the server didn't last that long because a few months later when our monthly bill went from $12K to $33K, the boss was like WTF, and we were like - 'geeez we don't know it must be a fault at their end!'. needless to say the 'fault' corrected itself after we sadly shutdown the server.
P.P.S - so old school, it took us 3 months to be convinced it was better than the mouse
fish phish you!
or making Roland Piquepaille a Slashdot Editor...
I don't mean this a bad way... But in all honesty, there's way more guys out there that know Windows than know Linux. That's just the reality.
One reason there's a whole lot more windows 'guys' out there is because backyarders can now get paid $50/hr to install anti-spyware on the average joes 'slow' computer. A friend of mine has been doing this for over a year.
Walk in, install Adaware and AVG Anti Virus (both free for non-corporations), run them, have a coffee then walk out $50 (or more) richer.
Easy money baby.
I'd have to agree on the gripes about Samsung hardware. I too had a nokia and sony-ericson before my Samsung G700, and they both (nokia especially) left the Samsung software for dead.
The most annoying feature for me was not being able to go back and 'reselect' the word in the text message I am typing. For instance if you are typing quite quickly and forgot to change a word and have typed another word after it, you have to go back and delete the word you can re-choose.
As for music... bring it on, I currently use a 256 MB player for jogging, a 20GB iRiver for longer distances (riding, busing etc) and of course a mobile. In fact my mp3 player and phone are the 2 most commonly carried pieces of my arsonal, if they could be combined I would be stoked.
wow! you must do the same sort of work I do. paid posting to slashdot...
I picked up this link from a thread ages ago mailinator.com - you just make up any word and put it at mailinator dot com and you can go and check your mail at the site. I think the mailbox stays active for 24hrs or similar. Very very useful for registrations and stuff.
this seems like an obvious solution that I just thought of, but I'll post it anyways. For the really nice artworks that need protecting, the room has 2 doors to get into it (separated with a small hallway). Both doors cannot be opened at the same time. Have a sensor on the artwork that locks both doors when lifted.
is your 'grandpappy' Jed Clampet or is that a common term from your parts ?
why Santa Cruz Operations Inc, went from making such cool skateboards to becoming the evil bloodsucking parasitic empire it has become. Must be more money in taking the legal system for a ride, than it is teenagers down the street.
read it here for a good chuckle.
The cops find out you are speeding, and slowly drive you over to the shoulder to await their 'assistance'. Seesh, is it 1984 allready?