When the internet first hit, almost all websites were free. If Joe wanted to tell the world about his love of aviation, he set up a website. People put in lots of hours, with quality information.
I know this may be hard to believe, but the Internet != the web. Before Mosaic came around people used talk, wais, ftp, etc. The Internet was operational 25+ years before the Web grew on it.
Or I can just point to IM. They're not the web, but they use the Internet.
But you do have a valid point about commercialism. When people started domain squatting (and getting rewarded)...
But if the alternative is having to pay for usage, then maybe it's not so bad.. you always have the choice of paying $5/month for your own website and exchanging web info w/o ads (or file sharing, or whatever you wish to use the net for).
Google has become quite a crutch.. get an obscure error message and you can have a solution in a minute. 10+ years ago, you'd have a company paying your $10/hour to browse around on a site like Compu$erve trying to find the answer.
Corporations are there to generate money for shareholders. Why do all cell phone plans cost $40+/month? Or cable, etc.. because it's what the market will bear. As long as your neighbors are willing to pony up the cash to get those items that they have to have, they'll cost what they do.
They entirely overhyped it in areas where it's relatively useless (the desktop) and entirely underhyped it in areas where it's extremely useful (backend and embedded areas).
But back then, big client apps ruled the days and the competition was c/c++ with proprietary libraries for trying to do x-platform apps. Now we're at the other extreme where all these intensive apps are delivered via servlets, etc when they're running on a LAN.
Now ten years later you talk about "java" and all anyone remembers are those horrible, sluggish AWT applets, running on netscape 4.0's broken JVM, which they used during the initial Java hype push. But almost nobody these days knows about the success Java met in unglamorous areas after the hype push had died off.
It depends on whom you talk to. Just about every product IBM ships has Java in there somewhere. For enterprise integration, it's hard to beat right now. Java hasn't pervaded desktop apps the way it should have, but it's moving to cell phones (and blu ray dvd players), and if you think those are just toys, look at what the iPod has done for Apple.
Sans has some good tips on hardening boxes. It's usually standard process to rebuild the box once it's been compromised, 5 minutes or not (which is probably the amount of time that the average/... stay on topic).
USB disks are handy.. put the patches on that. Pull the plug, install the OS, put the USB in, patch, plus do all the hardening steps, then plug it in.
If someone's already broken into your house (and you don't know if they're still in there), changing locks is useful but not completely reliable.
LOTR: A story about some guy trying to return a piece of bad jewelery.
That's a great line. Shows the difficulty of trying to return an item without a receipt.
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When you use Mac OS X, you feel like sodomy; when you use Windows, you feel as though you're using someone else's toys, and Mrs. Microsoft keeps peeking in on you.
I believe the text from the article is "you feel like it's yours"..
Interesting note: I tried to create a batch file that endlessly spun on the CPU, trying to make it self DoS.
Better this, I suppose, than making one quickly without a way to telnet/remote in and kill the process. I miss L1/A.
I originally tried to do a file creation, but that was a little too slow, so window spam worked quite well (it would pop up windows faster than I could close them)
(batch file named test.bat)
@echo off
:FOO
type File.bat >> file2.bat
start test/realtime/min
type file2.bat >> file.bat
goto FOO
I don't think you neven need the file.bat etc i/o, there are better scripts out there for that sort of stuff, and I had to use Windows Help to find the syntax of goto label
My team is looking for a senior developer with a background in finance.
I don't really understand this one, even though I see it quite a bit. Why is domain experience so critical to many people, especially if there are similar industries that have similar needs (e.g. real time performance)? If someone doesn't have business aptitude then their work in an industry shouldn't be all that relevant.
Next on Jenny Jones: How my jealousy of my womanizing brother-in-law led my son to rape!.
Having such an intolerant parent would make me want to shoot cars. It's funny how the people most concerned with your personal morality seem to be the people with the deepest secrets to hide.
Guess I was razed differently.
Why do I have visions of a Vietnam style POW camp?
RTFA. He was talking about the ergonomics and style not the mechanics. He understands that most people are visual creatures, which is why PowerPoint is used more to sell than real software (it can look prettier faster).
IIRC, key exchange is where most encryption schemes fall down. If this ever takes off I'd guess 99% of users will trade keys over plain ol unencrypted SMTP.
And what's wrong with that? You're exchanging your public keys.
From the Waste setup guide:
8. At this point you should copy your public key to the clipboard using the button labeled "Copy my public key to the clipboard" and then paste it into an email/IM/whatever to give it to the person(s) you wish to connect to.
9. You should also acquire the PUBLIC key of the person(s) you wish to connect to via some means, and then click the "Import public keys..." button in order to import their PUBLIC keys. Once you import their PUBLIC keys, there should be a message in the setup wizard telling you how many keys are loaded total.
Like Internet Explorer, right? Man, it is painful writing those monthly checks to Microsoft so that I can use the best browser available...
If you're running Wintel (or WinMD for that matter), then you are paying for it by virtue of the operating system (glad that they let you finance the cost of the OS). While it's not necessarily considered a critical part of the OS (by the courts, not by MS), bundling it "free" has its costs.
If you're not running Wintel, then there's not even an argument about it being the best browser (Safari for Mac; no other platform supported)
I agree with you. It's our culture and use of "extreme" words. It's not enough to be unique, but you have to be very unique, you have to give 180% (any less and you're a slacker) etc.
Note that the article also used most unique.
It's a big pet peeve of mine, but one that's being lost I guess. So the language will change. It's a living entity. I disagree with you about mostly or nearly unique. I think those are valid, though perhaps awkward, ways to express degrees of rarity.
As for the lapcorder itself, how are you supposed to use it? The ergonomics on it look terrible for any handheld application, and it seems like it would be pretty sketchy on most tripods. And the hard drive is way too small
I use a Sony Digital 8 (bigger than my old Hi-8, but it works and converts the old tapes to DV) and just use firewire to pump it to an older powerbook (Ti G4/400 MhZ). I haven't had any problems, but I save to one of two 7200 rpm 8 MB Cache 80 GB drives (also in a firewire enclosure). Firewire seems more than sufficient for this
That's one theory. Another theory would be that these people are "pirates" who rent the movies from Netflix, rip them to MPEG, save them on their hard drives, and share them P2P. Then, they just return the disks and get new ones.
Maybe Netflix is taking some heat from the MPAA and is trying to limit those who go through the media too quickly.
Wouldn't it be easier to just get the blockbuster monthly card and do that? Hell, you could use a laptop and just hang out outside the store.
Um, I changed my mind
I only like watching the beginning and the ending.
I don't actually own a DVD player.. I just like shiny things.
I have to wonder if the USian labor force isn't partly to blame by pricing themselves out of the market.
The blame game is always fun. Think of a classic resource depletion example. Overfishing. You're in a small village. There are only a certain amount of fish. If you gather enough fish to live comfortably and everyone else does the same, then everyone lives happily ever after. If you overfish, then you reap great short term profits, but everyone starves in the long run.
But even if you got really whacky and assumed that individual people could all prevent this from happening by taking less pay for their work (and one thing you learn very quickly is that people defect much more than you'd expect with no controls) this still isn't a resource depletion, as the companies were making lots of (albeit paper) money. So blame the stock market, the system which encourage short term gain (b/c you can just flip) and people to fudge reports etc.
Doctors and lawyers are safe, because there's such a high barrier to entry (you can't practice law until you pass the bar, and you need med school/residency/etc), but there's little of that in the tech industry. In fact I'd argue that it's easier to start from scratch to be able to convince someone who's not tech savvy that you have skills in software development than it is a trade (carpentry, construction, welding, etc).
And vendor based certifications aren't the answer.
for those want to buy a DVD-RW, (R, +R or +RW as you prefer) as it should help accelerate the price-cutting there. Though I do wonder if CDRWs will go the way of the cassette recorder very soon (pretty much driving them from the mainstream except for portables).
Maybe the goal is to get all the drive by crews who war dial into wireless networks to camp out or move in.
And that should certainly solve the problem of the hardware being the biggest short term cost.
Well in this matter AOL are being pretty honest. AOL sells content - news, films, magazines etc. and frankly they don't care how you get it as long as you can get it. Therefore standards as far they are concerned is a Good Thing....
I don't know about this. They're also an ISP who has an some content that's only subscriber based. And of course AOL isn't content provider, the media conglomerate that they cuckholded and then subsumed is. And they've at least taken some corrective action in this area.
And with someone else taking over AOL, they may get some crazy idea about making things proprietary (say causing problems for AIM and ICQ users who don't subscribe to AOL).
it's as good an idea as allowing a mental patient to shave your privates with a razor.
. That would depend on how attractive she was and what her diagnosis was. And meds are your friend in this case..
Bleah.. why do I get caught following these silly metaphors
Wood desks? Leather chairs? What the fuck for? I went to an Ivy League business school, and I currently run my own business, and I've *never* heard that in order to run a company, you have to have the best equipment. If anything, it's teaching these kids to fail. Anyone who spends this much just to *start* a business on unnecessary shit doesn't know how to cut corners on luxuries to make a new business succeed. It's impossible.
The point being that a successful entrepreneurial startup is greatly facilitated by using OPM - other peoples' money (the best kind). If you can get your potential customers to help fund you, then you stand a much better chance of having them actually buy your product/service when you're ready.
But, since not everyone pays tuition, you could argue that some of them might already be using OPM:)
FWIW (and there's a lot of education bashing on./), the above information was relayed in a Wharton MBA class. So let the negative karma commence.
As funny as it would be for voyeurs to pull down the shades to get a peep, I think that this would probably end up being abused by advertisers.
In an era where you have fuzzy hat pitchers on your television because of superimposed images behind home plate, I can see people in high rise buildings being paid to display stuff in their windows, perhaps even in a cooperative fashion.
(for the record, an exhibitionist, not a voyeur:)
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I believe that the ones your refering to arent gyroscopic.
No, I don't know about the OP, but I used a gyroscopic mouse in June 99 for a demo. It was just to run Powerpoint. Of course the powerpoint presentation was more important to people than the fact that the software worked, but that's business!
Most of the people that were giving demonstrations didn't have the technical capacity to use it (as in they were fully deficient PHB), so they'd still have someone working a computer in the back to scroll
Tube power amps sound just a little bit better than their solid-state counterparts. The place where tubes really shine is in Class A (non-push-pull) amplification, which is generally used in the preamp phase. It's here where tubes' famous even-order harmonics are produced -- it's these octave harmonics which make tube sound so sweet and agreeable to human ears. Taking audio from a regular computer sound card, audio which has been produced with a solid-state preamp, and pumping it through a $20k tube power amp is just what you called -- a waste. However, when tubes are intimately involved in the sound production within the computer and are used for preamplification, you can hook it up to a $150 solid-state power amp and it will sound better than sound from a regular soundcard.
Right, but you're still paying extra for distortion. Now you may consider it sweet sounding, but it's still distortion. I don't have a problem with that, since you should enjoy listening to it.
I just find the juxtaposition of old and new very odd. That is, finding tubes that most people (OK, maybe just me:) associate with people who still cling to turntables and avoid CD players bundled onto a mobo for the next generation high performance (at least from the specs) AMD chip.
But I think that it may be more of a nod to the casemod crowd (and I guess I must belong having done the etching and neon for a computer for someone): it's aesthetically unique.
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I know this may be hard to believe, but the Internet != the web. Before Mosaic came around people used talk, wais, ftp, etc. The Internet was operational 25+ years before the Web grew on it.
Or I can just point to IM. They're not the web, but they use the Internet.
But you do have a valid point about commercialism. When people started domain squatting (and getting rewarded)...
But if the alternative is having to pay for usage, then maybe it's not so bad.. you always have the choice of paying $5/month for your own website and exchanging web info w/o ads (or file sharing, or whatever you wish to use the net for).
Google has become quite a crutch.. get an obscure error message and you can have a solution in a minute. 10+ years ago, you'd have a company paying your $10/hour to browse around on a site like Compu$erve trying to find the answer.
Corporations are there to generate money for shareholders. Why do all cell phone plans cost $40+/month? Or cable, etc.. because it's what the market will bear. As long as your neighbors are willing to pony up the cash to get those items that they have to have, they'll cost what they do.
But back then, big client apps ruled the days and the competition was c/c++ with proprietary libraries for trying to do x-platform apps. Now we're at the other extreme where all these intensive apps are delivered via servlets, etc when they're running on a LAN.
Now ten years later you talk about "java" and all anyone remembers are those horrible, sluggish AWT applets, running on netscape 4.0's broken JVM, which they used during the initial Java hype push. But almost nobody these days knows about the success Java met in unglamorous areas after the hype push had died off.
It depends on whom you talk to. Just about every product IBM ships has Java in there somewhere. For enterprise integration, it's hard to beat right now. Java hasn't pervaded desktop apps the way it should have, but it's moving to cell phones (and blu ray dvd players), and if you think those are just toys, look at what the iPod has done for Apple.
Sans has some good tips on hardening boxes. It's usually standard process to rebuild the box once it's been compromised, 5 minutes or not (which is probably the amount of time that the average /. .. stay on topic).
USB disks are handy.. put the patches on that. Pull the plug, install the OS, put the USB in, patch, plus do all the hardening steps, then plug it in.
If someone's already broken into your house (and you don't know if they're still in there), changing locks is useful but not completely reliable.
That's a great line. Shows the difficulty of trying to return an item without a receipt.
I believe the text from the article is "you feel like it's yours"..
But hey..
Better this, I suppose, than making one quickly without a way to telnet/remote in and kill the process. I miss L1/A.
I originally tried to do a file creation, but that was a little too slow, so window spam worked quite well (it would pop up windows faster than I could close them)
(batch file named test.bat)
@echo off
:FOO
type File.bat >> file2.bat
start test
type file2.bat >> file.bat
goto FOO
I don't think you neven need the file.bat etc i/o, there are better scripts out there for that sort of stuff, and I had to use Windows Help to find the syntax of goto label
I don't really understand this one, even though I see it quite a bit. Why is domain experience so critical to many people, especially if there are similar industries that have similar needs (e.g. real time performance)? If someone doesn't have business aptitude then their work in an industry shouldn't be all that relevant.
Next on Jenny Jones: How my jealousy of my womanizing brother-in-law led my son to rape!.
Having such an intolerant parent would make me want to shoot cars. It's funny how the people most concerned with your personal morality seem to be the people with the deepest secrets to hide.
Guess I was razed differently.
Why do I have visions of a Vietnam style POW camp?
RTFA. He was talking about the ergonomics and style not the mechanics. He understands that most people are visual creatures, which is why PowerPoint is used more to sell than real software (it can look prettier faster).
And what's wrong with that? You're exchanging your public keys.
From the Waste setup guide:
8. At this point you should copy your public key to the clipboard using the button labeled "Copy my public key to the clipboard" and then paste it into an email/IM/whatever to give it to the person(s) you wish to connect to.
9. You should also acquire the PUBLIC key of the person(s) you wish to connect to via some means, and then click the "Import public keys..." button in order to import their PUBLIC keys. Once you import their PUBLIC keys, there should be a message in the setup wizard telling you how many keys are loaded total.
Uh, what's a relation database class? Apparently it's where they'll teach you about LifeLog.
If you're not running Wintel, then there's not even an argument about it being the best browser (Safari for Mac; no other platform supported)
Note that the article also used most unique.
It's a big pet peeve of mine, but one that's being lost I guess. So the language will change. It's a living entity. I disagree with you about mostly or nearly unique. I think those are valid, though perhaps awkward, ways to express degrees of rarity.
As for the lapcorder itself, how are you supposed to use it? The ergonomics on it look terrible for any handheld application, and it seems like it would be pretty sketchy on most tripods. And the hard drive is way too small
I use a Sony Digital 8 (bigger than my old Hi-8, but it works and converts the old tapes to DV) and just use firewire to pump it to an older powerbook (Ti G4/400 MhZ). I haven't had any problems, but I save to one of two 7200 rpm 8 MB Cache 80 GB drives (also in a firewire enclosure). Firewire seems more than sufficient for this
Um, I changed my mind
I only like watching the beginning and the ending.
I don't actually own a DVD player.. I just like shiny things.
bleah.. so .. not funny
(b/c of the caching reference) but this will be great if routers adjust their priorities .. I want to sniff all the evil bit packets. mmmmm, evil.
You can justify some scary acts in the name of protecting the people from harm.
The blame game is always fun. Think of a classic resource depletion example. Overfishing. You're in a small village. There are only a certain amount of fish. If you gather enough fish to live comfortably and everyone else does the same, then everyone lives happily ever after. If you overfish, then you reap great short term profits, but everyone starves in the long run.
But even if you got really whacky and assumed that individual people could all prevent this from happening by taking less pay for their work (and one thing you learn very quickly is that people defect much more than you'd expect with no controls) this still isn't a resource depletion, as the companies were making lots of (albeit paper) money. So blame the stock market, the system which encourage short term gain (b/c you can just flip) and people to fudge reports etc.
Doctors and lawyers are safe, because there's such a high barrier to entry (you can't practice law until you pass the bar, and you need med school/residency/etc), but there's little of that in the tech industry. In fact I'd argue that it's easier to start from scratch to be able to convince someone who's not tech savvy that you have skills in software development than it is a trade (carpentry, construction, welding, etc).
And vendor based certifications aren't the answer.
Well you can download teaching software for your children (I don't think we share any).
for those want to buy a DVD-RW, (R, +R or +RW as you prefer) as it should help accelerate the price-cutting there. Though I do wonder if CDRWs will go the way of the cassette recorder very soon (pretty much driving them from the mainstream except for portables).
Maybe the goal is to get all the drive by crews who war dial into wireless networks to camp out or move in. And that should certainly solve the problem of the hardware being the biggest short term cost.
I don't know about this. They're also an ISP who has an some content that's only subscriber based. And of course AOL isn't content provider, the media conglomerate that they cuckholded and then subsumed is. And they've at least taken some corrective action in this area.
And with someone else taking over AOL, they may get some crazy idea about making things proprietary (say causing problems for AIM and ICQ users who don't subscribe to AOL).
it's as good an idea as allowing a mental patient to shave your privates with a razor.
. That would depend on how attractive she was and what her diagnosis was. And meds are your friend in this case..
Bleah.. why do I get caught following these silly metaphors
The point being that a successful entrepreneurial startup is greatly facilitated by using OPM - other peoples' money (the best kind). If you can get your potential customers to help fund you, then you stand a much better chance of having them actually buy your product/service when you're ready.
But, since not everyone pays tuition, you could argue that some of them might already be using OPM :)
FWIW (and there's a lot of education bashing on ./), the above information was relayed in a Wharton MBA class. So let the negative karma commence.
As funny as it would be for voyeurs to pull down the shades to get a peep, I think that this would probably end up being abused by advertisers.
:)
In an era where you have fuzzy hat pitchers on your television because of superimposed images behind home plate, I can see people in high rise buildings being paid to display stuff in their windows, perhaps even in a cooperative fashion.
(for the record, an exhibitionist, not a voyeur
No, I don't know about the OP, but I used a gyroscopic mouse in June 99 for a demo. It was just to run Powerpoint. Of course the powerpoint presentation was more important to people than the fact that the software worked, but that's business!
Most of the people that were giving demonstrations didn't have the technical capacity to use it (as in they were fully deficient PHB), so they'd still have someone working a computer in the back to scroll
Right, but you're still paying extra for distortion. Now you may consider it sweet sounding, but it's still distortion. I don't have a problem with that, since you should enjoy listening to it.
I just find the juxtaposition of old and new very odd. That is, finding tubes that most people (OK, maybe just me :) associate with people who still cling to turntables and avoid CD players bundled onto a mobo for the next generation high performance (at least from the specs) AMD chip.
But I think that it may be more of a nod to the casemod crowd (and I guess I must belong having done the etching and neon for a computer for someone): it's aesthetically unique.