Now I don't men to say that sitting at a computer terminal for hours on end is a good thing, but how is that any different from sleep? Sleep seems to fit their definition of "repeated prolonged immobility." So why don't we all die of fatal blood clots every night?
Is it the act of sitting or the posture we use while sitting at a computer that apparently makes this a health risk? Since this article doesn't seem to address these issues I'm gonna have to say these clots were likely caused by a bad chair and poor posture, in addition to repeated prolonged immobility.
Once again I'd like to point out that I don't think sitting in one place for more that an hour at a time is good for you regardless of what you're sitting on. But that I don't think these down under researchers are seeing the whole picture.
Yea, DALnet is pretty much dead. It sucks, but hey like the last episode of TNG, All good things...
Only problem is that I don't know what networks my favorite channels moved too. Someone should setup a website or something saying who went where, unless of course this has been setup already. In which case a link would be much appriciated.
Just look at yesterdays /. article on infiltrating p2p networks. Obviously they don't have a problem with morality since the people they are attacking are all immoral music thieves. The RIAA/MPAA has nothing to lose and everything to gain from the destruction of DALnet. While I'm not totally sure if they are to blame, who else has the time or the motivation to keep up and attack like this for so long?
I find it hard to believe that some script kiddies or group of hackers could keep DALnet down for so long. If ISPs are truly trying to stop the spread of these worms then these attacks should be getting weaker as bots are discovered and removed from the network. Unless the hackers are creating new worms and bots in the mean time... Sounds like a full time job to me.
I am a long time DALnet user and would hate to see my favorite IRC network go down like this. But I fear it may already be too late. Most of the channels I use to hang around at on DALnet moved to other networks when the attacks began. Only problem is they all went to different networks and I can't for the life of me remember who went where. *sighs* O well, guess I'm just gonna have to move into p2p/newsgroups or EFnet.
Say you own a section of river. You charge people to drink from the river. The people pay for awhile, then they realize they can drink downstream of your section of river for free. So you say hmm, I can either charge less to drink so the people will come back, or I can pee in the river so the people will come back and still pay full price. Now it seems the recording industry has taken the latter approach and pissed in our supply of digital music and software. The solution? A filter. Same way water filters can clean water, a few hundred lines of software should be able to clean low quality/corrupted music out of the p2p supply.
You mentioned that your UPS units were not the ones being recalled so I thought there might have been extenuating circumstances in your story. It just seems odd to me that you could loose 3 UPS's in such a short time with normal usage. My APC UPS has been running for over a year now without problems, it is also not being recalled. If I were you, I'd make sure APC knows about what happend to your UPSs, for their sake.
And about the spelling of Tesla. It was a typo, not that being able to spell the name of a famous scientist implies that I have any knowledge of that field of science.
Usualy when a power supply blows its because of an overcharged capacator. Toms hardware had a review of a few dozen power supplies a few months back, he found that aparently alot of manufactures are overrating their supplies max wattage. Some of the blowouts he described sound pretty similar to what you mentioned (loud pop). Might want to see if your dead power supply was on his bad list.
For the love of god what the hell are you plugging into those things? Telsa coils? You seriously gotta read the max wattage on those things man... either that or your geting your power via lightning rod...
If you didn't mention you were unemployed, I'd say apply to your local university and get a B.S. in Information Systems Management or something similar. From what I've seen, most IT positions these days require a B.S. in a computer related field. A degree in ISM can be your ticket into a nice job. Plus, most Universities have great job placment programs.
However since you said you were unemployed, all I can say is get some student loans and/or hit up the local Junior College for some supplemental education. You'll have better luck their than at most of these technical colleges that advertise on tv.
No one truly makes 100 percent of his money by himself. Individuals depend on a wide array of government services to support the very free market in which they earn their money. Without these supports, there would be no free market in the first place.
Argument
Many conservatives and libertarians have argued that the government has no right to tax their money; they earned it, and the government has no right to "steal" it.
However, these individuals could not have made a dime on the free market without any of the following government supports of the free market:
Printing the very dollar bills with which people trade.
Public roads.
Rural electrification.
Government subsidized telephone wiring.
Satellite communications.
Police protection.
Military protection.
A criminal justice system.
Fire protection.
Paramedic protection.
An educated workforce.
An immunized workforce.
Protection against plagues by the Centers for Disease Control.
Public-funded business loans, foreclosure loans and subsidies.
Protection from business fraud and unfair business practices.
The protection of intellectual property through patents and copyrights.
Student loans.
Government funded research and development.
National Academy of Sciences.
Economic data collected and analyzed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Prevention of depressions by Keynesian policies at the Fed (successful for six decades now).
Dollars protected from inflation by the Fed.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Public libraries.
Cooperative Extension Service (vital for agriculture)
National Biological Service.
National Weather Service
Public job training.
"Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them."
Edward Albert Filene (1869-1937)
Filene (of Boston's Filene's Department Stores) founded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to encourage businesses to contribute to the welfare of their communities. He eventually quit the organization, disappointed that it had become a bastion of right-wing conservatism and an anti-tax lobby.
We'll ya know thats all good, but my point is that if nobody adopts this language, it will not be worth my time to learn it, even if it washes my dishes, does my homework and sucks my... actualy thats about the point I would learn it, even if nobody adopts it.
I took a look at the sample code on the page and have too say it looks alot like Java too me. If it can do everything it says it can then cool, maybe I'll play around with it. But untill some large corperation adopts it and makes it a standard I don't think I'll have the motivation to really learn it.
"Natalie Smishko, 25, is typical of the analysts. Sitting in a raised, rotating cubicle with built-in computer monitors and its own heat and light controls."
Rotating cubicle with built in computer monitors? Sounds devious to me. Probably just down the hall from the room where they create and distribute the viruses that make their business so important... j/k
Ok, I don't want to offend anyone out there with a certification, but there are a lot of dumb people out there waving their certifications around as proof of their intelligence. I would love to see the computer repair industry regulated, but the regulations would have to mean something. They should require a short apprenticeship and have to be renewed every year. Perhaps if one of these certified techs screws up the issuer of the certification could cover the damages. That would surely up the standards in these certifications!
I've had two athlon chips give out on me completely, random crashes even under linux, IDE controller problems, startup problems, etc.
What do you mean by 'give out on completely'? I've owned a number of amd athlon chips over the last few years, a number of chips for my one computer. In my experience athlon chips are quality material, but very breakable. The first chip I got was a 1.2ghz athlon, killed it the first day I got it. Still not sure how, but I believe it overheated due to an improperly mounted heat sink. It's replacement, courtesy of whoever I purchased if from, lasted about a year until my cpu fan lost a blade, began vibrating, and thanks to the extra torque provided by its huge size (SuperOrb), smashed the processor die to pieces. That athlon was replaced by a 1.4ghz and a thermalright SK6 heatsink (hunk of copper with windtunnel mounted on top). This processor, I am happy to report has not had any problems.
In short: Amd processors are great, if you know how to install/maintain them. However, you NEED to have a high performance heat sink (unless you underclock), and a decent power supply to keep them working. I'm not sure what happened with your processors, but I don't expect you'll find a P4 to be much better. Especially since the cost of a 3ghz P4 is currently double that of an XP 2700...
I bet Micron, AMD, Motorola, and Apple are all going to end up merging, buying out, and/or disappearing in the next few months. Maybe HP will buy them all.
I would be quite surprised to see any of those companies, short of maybe Micron, do anything of the sort in the next few years.
+/-.25c Margin of error? Geez, now I know that might not seem like that much but when you talking about the speed of light.25 times is one hell of alot.
Let's take a moment to work this out.
The speed of light, C = 2.99792458 x 10^8 m/s
Thats 83,275,683 km/h. .25 of that is 74,948,115 m/s or 20,818,921 km/h
Rounding down, these scientists could be off by 20 million kilometers per hour, thats too much for my tastes.
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Thats the thing though. isonews was not a warez site. They post .nfo files without serial numbers. Nothing wrong with that is there?
Now I don't men to say that sitting at a computer terminal for hours on end is a good thing, but how is that any different from sleep? Sleep seems to fit their definition of "repeated prolonged immobility." So why don't we all die of fatal blood clots every night?
Is it the act of sitting or the posture we use while sitting at a computer that apparently makes this a health risk? Since this article doesn't seem to address these issues I'm gonna have to say these clots were likely caused by a bad chair and poor posture, in addition to repeated prolonged immobility.
Once again I'd like to point out that I don't think sitting in one place for more that an hour at a time is good for you regardless of what you're sitting on. But that I don't think these down under researchers are seeing the whole picture.
"After spending time reading through JUnit's source code and attempting to guess at the API contracts, they gave up and rewrote it."
Now if someone would just do that for Windows we'd be in business...
Wow, that could very well be the single greatest resource for irc channel info. Thanks a lot for the link!
Yea, DALnet is pretty much dead. It sucks, but hey like the last episode of TNG, All good things...
Only problem is that I don't know what networks my favorite channels moved too. Someone should setup a website or something saying who went where, unless of course this has been setup already. In which case a link would be much appriciated.
I agree.
/. article on infiltrating p2p networks. Obviously they don't have a problem with morality since the people they are attacking are all immoral music thieves. The RIAA/MPAA has nothing to lose and everything to gain from the destruction of DALnet. While I'm not totally sure if they are to blame, who else has the time or the motivation to keep up and attack like this for so long?
Just look at yesterdays
I find it hard to believe that some script kiddies or group of hackers could keep DALnet down for so long. If ISPs are truly trying to stop the spread of these worms then these attacks should be getting weaker as bots are discovered and removed from the network. Unless the hackers are creating new worms and bots in the mean time... Sounds like a full time job to me.
I am a long time DALnet user and would hate to see my favorite IRC network go down like this. But I fear it may already be too late. Most of the channels I use to hang around at on DALnet moved to other networks when the attacks began. Only problem is they all went to different networks and I can't for the life of me remember who went where. *sighs* O well, guess I'm just gonna have to move into p2p/newsgroups or EFnet.
Say you own a section of river. You charge people to drink from the river. The people pay for awhile, then they realize they can drink downstream of your section of river for free. So you say hmm, I can either charge less to drink so the people will come back, or I can pee in the river so the people will come back and still pay full price. Now it seems the recording industry has taken the latter approach and pissed in our supply of digital music and software. The solution? A filter. Same way water filters can clean water, a few hundred lines of software should be able to clean low quality/corrupted music out of the p2p supply.
"The guy said they only used 2 engineers and lot of computer aided design to keep the costs low instead of hiring 50 engineers..."
Used a lot of computer aided design eh? Sponsored by AutoDesk (autocad developer) eh? Who'd of guessed?
You mentioned that your UPS units were not the ones being recalled so I thought there might have been extenuating circumstances in your story. It just seems odd to me that you could loose 3 UPS's in such a short time with normal usage. My APC UPS has been running for over a year now without problems, it is also not being recalled. If I were you, I'd make sure APC knows about what happend to your UPSs, for their sake.
And about the spelling of Tesla. It was a typo, not that being able to spell the name of a famous scientist implies that I have any knowledge of that field of science.
Usualy when a power supply blows its because of an overcharged capacator. Toms hardware had a review of a few dozen power supplies a few months back, he found that aparently alot of manufactures are overrating their supplies max wattage. Some of the blowouts he described sound pretty similar to what you mentioned (loud pop). Might want to see if your dead power supply was on his bad list.
For the love of god what the hell are you plugging into those things? Telsa coils? You seriously gotta read the max wattage on those things man... either that or your geting your power via lightning rod...
If you didn't mention you were unemployed, I'd say apply to your local university and get a B.S. in Information Systems Management or something similar. From what I've seen, most IT positions these days require a B.S. in a computer related field. A degree in ISM can be your ticket into a nice job. Plus, most Universities have great job placment programs.
However since you said you were unemployed, all I can say is get some student loans and/or hit up the local Junior College for some supplemental education. You'll have better luck their than at most of these technical colleges that advertise on tv.
Some guy named Whatever89 or something had a great response to this question the other day on fark. This is his response:
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http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin
No one truly makes 100 percent of his money by himself. Individuals depend on a wide array of government services to support the very free market in which they earn their money. Without these supports, there would be no free market in the first place.
Argument
Many conservatives and libertarians have argued that the government has no right to tax their money; they earned it, and the government has no right to "steal" it.
However, these individuals could not have made a dime on the free market without any of the following government supports of the free market:
Printing the very dollar bills with which people trade.
Public roads.
Rural electrification.
Government subsidized telephone wiring.
Satellite communications.
Police protection.
Military protection.
A criminal justice system.
Fire protection.
Paramedic protection.
An educated workforce.
An immunized workforce.
Protection against plagues by the Centers for Disease Control.
Public-funded business loans, foreclosure loans and subsidies.
Protection from business fraud and unfair business practices.
The protection of intellectual property through patents and copyrights.
Student loans.
Government funded research and development.
National Academy of Sciences.
Economic data collected and analyzed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Prevention of depressions by Keynesian policies at the Fed (successful for six decades now).
Dollars protected from inflation by the Fed.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Public libraries.
Cooperative Extension Service (vital for agriculture)
National Biological Service.
National Weather Service
Public job training.
"Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them."
Edward Albert Filene (1869-1937)
Filene (of Boston's Filene's Department Stores) founded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to encourage businesses to contribute to the welfare of their communities. He eventually quit the organization, disappointed that it had become a bastion of right-wing conservatism and an anti-tax lobby.
A thread like this popped up on fark.com the other day, this quote seemed to shed some light on the issue.
"Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them."
Edward Albert Filene (1869-1937)
We'll ya know thats all good, but my point is that if nobody adopts this language, it will not be worth my time to learn it, even if it washes my dishes, does my homework and sucks my... actualy thats about the point I would learn it, even if nobody adopts it.
I took a look at the sample code on the page and have too say it looks alot like Java too me. If it can do everything it says it can then cool, maybe I'll play around with it. But untill some large corperation adopts it and makes it a standard I don't think I'll have the motivation to really learn it.
"This story about the growing military network bandwidth crunch..."
So slashdoting their servers earlier just might not have been such a good idea...
"With something like C or even Python it's impossible to produce such horrible code."
Ohh, I don't know about that... you #define enough times and you can make some pretty confusing stuff...
While I think most distributed computing projects are pretty cool, this xBox thing seems like a waste of time.
Microsoft will have gone open source by the time they break that key...
"Natalie Smishko, 25, is typical of the analysts. Sitting in a raised, rotating cubicle with built-in computer monitors and its own heat and light controls."
Rotating cubicle with built in computer monitors? Sounds devious to me. Probably just down the hall from the room where they create and distribute the viruses that make their business so important... j/k
Ok, I don't want to offend anyone out there with a certification, but there are a lot of dumb people out there waving their certifications around as proof of their intelligence. I would love to see the computer repair industry regulated, but the regulations would have to mean something. They should require a short apprenticeship and have to be renewed every year. Perhaps if one of these certified techs screws up the issuer of the certification could cover the damages. That would surely up the standards in these certifications!
I've had two athlon chips give out on me completely, random crashes even under linux, IDE controller problems, startup problems, etc.
What do you mean by 'give out on completely'? I've owned a number of amd athlon chips over the last few years, a number of chips for my one computer. In my experience athlon chips are quality material, but very breakable. The first chip I got was a 1.2ghz athlon, killed it the first day I got it. Still not sure how, but I believe it overheated due to an improperly mounted heat sink. It's replacement, courtesy of whoever I purchased if from, lasted about a year until my cpu fan lost a blade, began vibrating, and thanks to the extra torque provided by its huge size (SuperOrb), smashed the processor die to pieces. That athlon was replaced by a 1.4ghz and a thermalright SK6 heatsink (hunk of copper with windtunnel mounted on top). This processor, I am happy to report has not had any problems.
In short: Amd processors are great, if you know how to install/maintain them. However, you NEED to have a high performance heat sink (unless you underclock), and a decent power supply to keep them working. I'm not sure what happened with your processors, but I don't expect you'll find a P4 to be much better. Especially since the cost of a 3ghz P4 is currently double that of an XP 2700...
I bet Micron, AMD, Motorola, and Apple are all going to end up merging, buying out, and/or disappearing in the next few months. Maybe HP will buy them all.
I would be quite surprised to see any of those companies, short of maybe Micron, do anything of the sort in the next few years.
I'm pretty sure darkness travels at the same speed as light...
+/- .25c Margin of error? Geez, now I know that might not seem like that much but when you talking about the speed of light .25 times is one hell of alot.
.25 of that is 74,948,115 m/s or 20,818,921 km/h
Let's take a moment to work this out.
The speed of light, C = 2.99792458 x 10^8 m/s
Thats 83,275,683 km/h.
Rounding down, these scientists could be off by 20 million kilometers per hour, thats too much for my tastes.