They need to care. They need to actually Parent. It is not the government's fault your child is screwed up. It is most certainly something the parent could have mitigated with either a good soft hand, a good cry, or a firm hand. One solution is not ok all the time, or even for all children at the same time, but all should be in the repotoire.
stupid parents bring up stupid children.
Journal keeping you fools. Writing in your diary. Of course it is theraputic. Please tell me they didn't spend a large $$ goverment grant to figure this out.
has always been one of my favorite christian bands. This is an excellent idea, though I agree with all previous posters that it is legally 'difficult'. One can hope, however, that Sony(and all other moronic corporations out there) will take notice, and perhaps listen to the artists when they specifically try to have the DRM removed.
Really, if Sony is so upset that one of their groups did not want their stuff copy protected, and did it anyway...they are going to pay a much larger penalty because this information will now get around to several hundred thousand more 'non-technical' users. And the fix mentioned by switchfoot does not work only on their CD, it works with all of Sony's work. So really Sony put all of their musical releases at jeapody(if you believe them) because they ignored the needs/wishes of one artist/group.
I like this.
Also...testing my new sig.
Seems like a college Freshman's first essay on anything computer related. Seriously. Its well put together, simple, and consise, without actually doing anything.
last time we had financial problems on slashdot...
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the financial problems were from TiVo. Everybody thought that it was stupid, and their leadership had just left. Everybody mocked me, as I shoved otherwise unused 15,000 from my portfolio into them. I would like to say that right now, if I pulled it right now, I would gain significantly from it. I'm going to wait some more time.
With SGI I'm not sure. Their market seems weak to me. They still make superb and beautiful hardware, but I am afriad it is nothing that in a corporate environment I couldn't duplicate. Not identically at any rate, but I could certainly grid the corporate work environment and achieve at least competative results...and I could do it cheaper. The major university number crunching has also been well proven to be able to be run on our 'limited' hardware we store under our desks.
Now, don't flame me because I think this AMD and INTEL hardware under our desks is good. Far from it, SGI's hardware whips the poo out of them. But its kind of like this: Never get involved in a land war in asia.
We had a company that tried to offer this service in duluth. Some guy I work with also worked at this place. We tried it, honestly we tried it. Several different machines, several different cards, sevaral different locations.
Bottom line: There was a cell tower less than 100yards away, perfect signal, we'd never lost a cell phone call there in 3 years of living there. Data thruput was virtually nil. DSLReports came back with 98% dropped/lost packets. Didn't work there. Felt bad too, becuase we worked with the guy. The company went out of business. No suprise really, considering.
Data stored locally can be more secure, but it usually isn't. If they push this through, not only will we have millions of bots on the broadband network selling us CRAP, but we will have millions of STANDARDIZED computers storing sensitive information in STANDARDIZED places for them to say...purchase things instead of selling them.
Standardization can be good. Standardization can also be bad.
I definitely agree with your assumptions. While I don't know enough about the apple business history, I can definitely agree with the idea that intel is losing relevancy and marketability.
For years intel has owned the market mostly because of its slick sales and marketing department. Their commercials are wonderful, and make people honestly feel they are purchasing something super cool, super powerful, and super relevant - all while completely ignoring the nerdy specs. Why would anybody want to know Why something is strong/fast/meaningful?
These folks have managed to sell themselves to most people out there, but eventually they are going to have to put up numbers. Like car commercials...what size engine does it have? How many horsepower? How many seats? 4 wheel drive? All these things are pretty important and in the end sell cars. Specs sell chips too, but only the 'nerdy' are deemed able to understand these things so intel leaves that information out.
Now their advertising and chip naming is becoming on the level of nerdy. Who the F$@! knows what the Celeron D, P4, P4EE, P4-64, Centrino, Pentium -M, Pentium dual core, Pentium[next new thing to sell chips]? Honestly if they just put a few specs out there to differentiate chips it would make life a little easier.
What is a P4?
Which of the dozen incarnations of compatible chips do you mean? Prescott, etc...
What is hyperthreading?
What is a dual core?
Why does my 333Mhz RAM beat the S%@# out of my uber-expensive 800Mhz RAMBUS?
Why this?
Why that?
Why can't people understand what they are purchasing now? Simplify people. Simplify. Or lose more market share to the ACTUAL superior product that AMD manufactures.
I could have sworn we discussed this on Slashdot just the other day. Go figure. I know I read this story...and since my only source of news is slashdot I must have read it here. I can't find it in the past stories...but I know I read it.
What exactly is the expected propogation with 25watts at 3.xx Ghz? How far will it transmit information?
How fast is any proposed standard for using this spectrum? Surely somebody had a plan, and submitted it with their request for spectrum. What is the standard and how fast is it?
What are the channel allocations within that same proposed standard? While 50Mhz doesn't seem like a big spread, it is not difficult to actually engineer something that is selective enough to work on the half Mhz. That would allow 50 one way, and 50 another way.
Overall I find this story leaves more questions asked than answered. When this is actually implemented in 4-7 years, will it revolutionize wireless, or simply be a bottleneck loosener?
a frenchman I am sure. Like you can really argue that broadband will be everywhere, and that there will never be any need in the near future for actual, physical data. Stupid frenchman.
Like many french folk, he has become infected with the idea that his ideas are important. This is a completely laughable idea. DVDs...or other media will not simply disappear. Granted, with a country as small as france, it would be much easier to give broadband to each little farmer, but it doesn't happen quite that easily in countries as big as Russia, China, India, or America. Serge is a bit caught up in his ideal world. The matrix is not here yet buddy.
I hate Konquorer with a passion. It is always horrible. No matter what kind of hardware I throw at the program, the thing seems to respond slowly and spends cycles thinking about what it is supposed to be doing with each screen. Perhaps I configured it wrong each time, but I can't stand it. I want a simple file manager that runs thru the system and shows files instantly, and I want a browser that does the same only on the internet. I don't want the two to be combined into some cockamaney excuse for a program.
I think the KDE guys really are hanging their pride on Konquorer, and it kills me. I hate the program. Gnome is always a little off kilter, just as any other completely new environment. Its like changing jobs at work...you need time to re-aquant yourself to your surroundings...but I hate konquorer. Ish. Rubish.
Like the ugly chic in the drew carrey show. worth switching office buildings all over again.:)
I know it isn't the most glamorous game available, but really, the game of Sorry can be extremely fun. Its quick, simple rules, and intense competition. You get to regularly sacrifice the good of your own guys, just to kill the guy of your adversary and keep him from winning.
Must ask yourself this: Do I want to win more than I want the other guy to lose?
I will give you my recent adventures relating to your second question of 'Why have you turned down a job?'.
I recently have been trying to get out of the IT industry, and into the recreation industry. I am militarily a IT guy, but my bachelors degree in the real world is in Outdoor Education and Recreation.
Since I love the outdoors with a passion, and I have a very healthy respect for the impact that a religeous (Yes you agnostic/.ers a Bible/Christian)camp for youth. Plain and simple, Bible Camps and the like change lives for the better much more often than they change them for the worse.
I recently applied for a Youth Program and Education Program Director level position, for which I am fully qualified, short possibly only on the experience section due to several military obligations.
I interviewed for the position. They then had me come in for a second interview. The offered me a job, but it was not the job I applied and interviewed for. Instead of offering me the job that required professional credentials and the use of my brain, they offered me a job most interested individuals take during high school or to work thru college with. Indeed I did work in such a capacity during high school. They wanted me to clean up camp, do some dishes, and assist with various programming when the need arose. Basically a peon.
They switched jobs on me. They offered me ~$8/hr for less than half time work instead of the moderate salary $35,000/year.
I would have actually lost money by taking that job.
They then had the nerve to ask whether I'd be competant enough on their computers to help with some promotional videos and other more mundane administration. Not only would I be underpaid for my skills in education and recreation management, but I would then be expected to freely prostitute my skills in computers and IT for free. All in the less than part time ~$8/hr job.
I politely declined and told them why. They asked if they had another position open up in the future if I would be interested. I said yes. I would be interested, but I would be very skeptical about the hiring proceedures and job descriptions.
I second this. A while back we had a slashdot article about some solar paint product that produced energy from the infrared band not just the visible band. These panels were much more efficient. Perhaps we can double the technologies up on eachother.
Secondly, cost effectiveness is not just what the power company can do. Remember my power company puts out a little pie chart telling me how much my electricity costs and why.
35% generation
3% Transmission
62% Distribution
If we build solar cells in our own homes at our own costs, we negate the transmission and distribution costs. All we need to do is generate enough to cover our homes/office buildings etc and we have a 65% automatic head start on the power company. Lets build our own infrastructure shall we?
Two major executives have left the company. This leaves room for improvement. Somebody new has to rise up to that position, hopefully somebody with that will have a better percentage of winning battles for the marketplace. Perhaps this is a good thing.
The stock is indeed low, with upper management changes happening fast. Excellent product, and they don't get involved with crap they don't need to.
I just pushed $15,000 from my portfolio that wasn't doing anything into TiVo stock. We'll see where it goes. Could disappear, could go up in a fiarly significant manner.
I believe in TiVo's product whole heartedly. Maybe TiVo will more agressively attack the market, perhaps they will be bought out at a fair price. Both cases I win.
I second this. Also, I am sure they tried to crack their own boxen, and tried to crack eachother's boxen. All the linux vulnerabilities are well documented, and I am sure they used each one to see how easy it was. All of microsoft's bugs are not necessarily well documented, if at all, precisely because it is closed source and unviewable.
While windows can indeed be secure enough for most situations if well administered, the truth is that most is not well administered and even then there is the constant possibility that somebody will take a whack at it and actually find a new code break. Nobody really takes a whack at a linux boxen and finds a new flaw. All the flaws are relatively easy to find on your own.
Why does everybody say this? I've never noticed any formatting problems with slashdot. I have had a couple other pages format incorrectly. Text overlapping and such, which is obviously a missing html item that specifies the location of the text.
Guess I must not be using the uber-slashdot website. I'm not cool enough.
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I noticed several individuals saying that they had downloaded Firefox several times, when it only serves one or two actual users. Number of downloads does not equal number of users.
Remember this also: many responsible individuals, with good file management skills, have downloaded it once or twice, but actually installed and loaded it on several machines. I myself have turned roughly 25 users from the world of IE to Firefox. I have downloaded it twice.
If everybody did as I have done, then there would be ~65,000,000 users. While I realize not everybody will do this, I think it starts to make up for those that download it several times and only install it once. I think actually the number is probably about right for number of users. Many will download multiple times, many will decide that firefox is not for them, and many will share with friends. It all evens out.
if this wasn't free? This is something that is necessitated by the software that they have already put out. It is 100% M$ fault that their software yields insecure hardware. It only took them a decade to start moving in the right direction and starting to create 'safe' code.
I think this is kind of like America in the days prior to WWII. We all kind of wished it would all go away and that if just left things alone nobody would come and bother us. It did not work, and after Pearl Harbor, we awoke to the new reality that we must defend ourselves overseas or be destroyed at home. Ever since America has been pro-active in its regard to security and the world stage.
This is the beginning of M$ looking out upon the world and realizing that it must move on its own, or be moved.
Moderators...please disregard my obvious American slant toward the world.:)
but I believe firefox had a popup blocker figured out far before IE and XPsp2 did. You, Mr.Intelligent Reviewer of all Journalism, are thinking of your google toolbar.
One could say the Apple Newton was a similarly revolutionary device. While it is now defunct, it did succeed in spawning an entire new class of computing devices. Palm, iPAQ, Pocket windows devices and cellular phones with software all got their start with the Newton.
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They need to care. They need to actually Parent. It is not the government's fault your child is screwed up. It is most certainly something the parent could have mitigated with either a good soft hand, a good cry, or a firm hand. One solution is not ok all the time, or even for all children at the same time, but all should be in the repotoire. stupid parents bring up stupid children.
Journal keeping you fools. Writing in your diary. Of course it is theraputic. Please tell me they didn't spend a large $$ goverment grant to figure this out.
Really, if Sony is so upset that one of their groups did not want their stuff copy protected, and did it anyway...they are going to pay a much larger penalty because this information will now get around to several hundred thousand more 'non-technical' users. And the fix mentioned by switchfoot does not work only on their CD, it works with all of Sony's work. So really Sony put all of their musical releases at jeapody(if you believe them) because they ignored the needs/wishes of one artist/group. I like this. Also...testing my new sig.
Seems like a college Freshman's first essay on anything computer related. Seriously. Its well put together, simple, and consise, without actually doing anything.
the financial problems were from TiVo. Everybody thought that it was stupid, and their leadership had just left. Everybody mocked me, as I shoved otherwise unused 15,000 from my portfolio into them. I would like to say that right now, if I pulled it right now, I would gain significantly from it. I'm going to wait some more time. With SGI I'm not sure. Their market seems weak to me. They still make superb and beautiful hardware, but I am afriad it is nothing that in a corporate environment I couldn't duplicate. Not identically at any rate, but I could certainly grid the corporate work environment and achieve at least competative results...and I could do it cheaper. The major university number crunching has also been well proven to be able to be run on our 'limited' hardware we store under our desks. Now, don't flame me because I think this AMD and INTEL hardware under our desks is good. Far from it, SGI's hardware whips the poo out of them. But its kind of like this: Never get involved in a land war in asia.
We had a company that tried to offer this service in duluth. Some guy I work with also worked at this place. We tried it, honestly we tried it. Several different machines, several different cards, sevaral different locations. Bottom line: There was a cell tower less than 100yards away, perfect signal, we'd never lost a cell phone call there in 3 years of living there. Data thruput was virtually nil. DSLReports came back with 98% dropped/lost packets. Didn't work there. Felt bad too, becuase we worked with the guy. The company went out of business. No suprise really, considering.
Standardization can be good. Standardization can also be bad.
For years intel has owned the market mostly because of its slick sales and marketing department. Their commercials are wonderful, and make people honestly feel they are purchasing something super cool, super powerful, and super relevant - all while completely ignoring the nerdy specs. Why would anybody want to know Why something is strong/fast/meaningful?
These folks have managed to sell themselves to most people out there, but eventually they are going to have to put up numbers. Like car commercials...what size engine does it have? How many horsepower? How many seats? 4 wheel drive? All these things are pretty important and in the end sell cars. Specs sell chips too, but only the 'nerdy' are deemed able to understand these things so intel leaves that information out.
Now their advertising and chip naming is becoming on the level of nerdy. Who the F$@! knows what the Celeron D, P4, P4EE, P4-64, Centrino, Pentium -M, Pentium dual core, Pentium[next new thing to sell chips]? Honestly if they just put a few specs out there to differentiate chips it would make life a little easier.
What is a P4?
Which of the dozen incarnations of compatible chips do you mean? Prescott, etc...
What is hyperthreading?
What is a dual core?
Why does my 333Mhz RAM beat the S%@# out of my uber-expensive 800Mhz RAMBUS?
Why this? Why that?
Why can't people understand what they are purchasing now? Simplify people. Simplify. Or lose more market share to the ACTUAL superior product that AMD manufactures.
I could have sworn we discussed this on Slashdot just the other day. Go figure. I know I read this story...and since my only source of news is slashdot I must have read it here. I can't find it in the past stories...but I know I read it.
What exactly is the expected propogation with 25watts at 3.xx Ghz? How far will it transmit information?
How fast is any proposed standard for using this spectrum? Surely somebody had a plan, and submitted it with their request for spectrum. What is the standard and how fast is it?
What are the channel allocations within that same proposed standard? While 50Mhz doesn't seem like a big spread, it is not difficult to actually engineer something that is selective enough to work on the half Mhz. That would allow 50 one way, and 50 another way.
Overall I find this story leaves more questions asked than answered. When this is actually implemented in 4-7 years, will it revolutionize wireless, or simply be a bottleneck loosener?
a frenchman I am sure. Like you can really argue that broadband will be everywhere, and that there will never be any need in the near future for actual, physical data. Stupid frenchman.
Like many french folk, he has become infected with the idea that his ideas are important. This is a completely laughable idea. DVDs...or other media will not simply disappear. Granted, with a country as small as france, it would be much easier to give broadband to each little farmer, but it doesn't happen quite that easily in countries as big as Russia, China, India, or America. Serge is a bit caught up in his ideal world. The matrix is not here yet buddy.
I think the KDE guys really are hanging their pride on Konquorer, and it kills me. I hate the program. Gnome is always a little off kilter, just as any other completely new environment. Its like changing jobs at work...you need time to re-aquant yourself to your surroundings...but I hate konquorer. Ish. Rubish.
Like the ugly chic in the drew carrey show. worth switching office buildings all over again. :)
Must ask yourself this: Do I want to win more than I want the other guy to lose?
Please. Repost a reply and allow your slashdot bretheren to assist you in your spam the phisher crusade!
I recently have been trying to get out of the IT industry, and into the recreation industry. I am militarily a IT guy, but my bachelors degree in the real world is in Outdoor Education and Recreation.
Since I love the outdoors with a passion, and I have a very healthy respect for the impact that a religeous (Yes you agnostic /.ers a Bible/Christian)camp for youth. Plain and simple, Bible Camps and the like change lives for the better much more often than they change them for the worse.
I recently applied for a Youth Program and Education Program Director level position, for which I am fully qualified, short possibly only on the experience section due to several military obligations.
I interviewed for the position. They then had me come in for a second interview. The offered me a job, but it was not the job I applied and interviewed for. Instead of offering me the job that required professional credentials and the use of my brain, they offered me a job most interested individuals take during high school or to work thru college with. Indeed I did work in such a capacity during high school. They wanted me to clean up camp, do some dishes, and assist with various programming when the need arose. Basically a peon.
They switched jobs on me. They offered me ~$8/hr for less than half time work instead of the moderate salary $35,000/year.
I would have actually lost money by taking that job.
They then had the nerve to ask whether I'd be competant enough on their computers to help with some promotional videos and other more mundane administration. Not only would I be underpaid for my skills in education and recreation management, but I would then be expected to freely prostitute my skills in computers and IT for free. All in the less than part time ~$8/hr job.
I politely declined and told them why. They asked if they had another position open up in the future if I would be interested. I said yes. I would be interested, but I would be very skeptical about the hiring proceedures and job descriptions.
Secondly, cost effectiveness is not just what the power company can do. Remember my power company puts out a little pie chart telling me how much my electricity costs and why.
35% generation
3% Transmission
62% Distribution
If we build solar cells in our own homes at our own costs, we negate the transmission and distribution costs. All we need to do is generate enough to cover our homes/office buildings etc and we have a 65% automatic head start on the power company. Lets build our own infrastructure shall we?
Ok, I lied. I can think of several, but this one I'll probably actually get!
The stock is indeed low, with upper management changes happening fast. Excellent product, and they don't get involved with crap they don't need to.
I just pushed $15,000 from my portfolio that wasn't doing anything into TiVo stock. We'll see where it goes. Could disappear, could go up in a fiarly significant manner.
I believe in TiVo's product whole heartedly. Maybe TiVo will more agressively attack the market, perhaps they will be bought out at a fair price. Both cases I win.
While windows can indeed be secure enough for most situations if well administered, the truth is that most is not well administered and even then there is the constant possibility that somebody will take a whack at it and actually find a new code break. Nobody really takes a whack at a linux boxen and finds a new flaw. All the flaws are relatively easy to find on your own.
Check those stacks everybody.
Guess I must not be using the uber-slashdot website. I'm not cool enough. N()T 4 {-}4XX0|2
Remember this also: many responsible individuals, with good file management skills, have downloaded it once or twice, but actually installed and loaded it on several machines. I myself have turned roughly 25 users from the world of IE to Firefox. I have downloaded it twice.
If everybody did as I have done, then there would be ~65,000,000 users. While I realize not everybody will do this, I think it starts to make up for those that download it several times and only install it once. I think actually the number is probably about right for number of users. Many will download multiple times, many will decide that firefox is not for them, and many will share with friends. It all evens out.
I think this is kind of like America in the days prior to WWII. We all kind of wished it would all go away and that if just left things alone nobody would come and bother us. It did not work, and after Pearl Harbor, we awoke to the new reality that we must defend ourselves overseas or be destroyed at home. Ever since America has been pro-active in its regard to security and the world stage.
This is the beginning of M$ looking out upon the world and realizing that it must move on its own, or be moved.
Moderators...please disregard my obvious American slant toward the world. :)
but I believe firefox had a popup blocker figured out far before IE and XPsp2 did. You, Mr.Intelligent Reviewer of all Journalism, are thinking of your google toolbar.
why does everybody have to have such venom?
One could say the Apple Newton was a similarly revolutionary device. While it is now defunct, it did succeed in spawning an entire new class of computing devices. Palm, iPAQ, Pocket windows devices and cellular phones with software all got their start with the Newton.