Yeah, I've been on a sinking ship before. It sucks. Very few workers at any business have any real say in the long term plans of the company. So they may do wonderful work on their projects, but if the company makes horrible strategic decisions, they go down with the ship. My advice to anyone is to find a job where you can have as much of an impact on the long term success of the business and do your best. That might mean working for less money in the short or near term, or for a smaller company, but Its worth it for me. The less management/sales/marketing above me the better. I don't mind them when they are good at what they do, like the ones I work with now, but it takes owners/board members longer to figure out the incompetence of those higher ups than any one lower on the pole.
I used to be one of those laughing at guitar hero, but now I'm sad and my guitar gently weeps. It weeps for all of those that play on a crappy plastic thing incapable of its virtuosity. It weeps as men sell their souls for a lifetime of pretending to cover other peoples songs. Ask not for whom it weeps, for it weeps for thee.
I thought Ebcidic as well at first, but I think you really have to create a new mapping that takes some of the nomral ascii encodings but injects tons of non sensical, non coherent parts. Like two mappings for the same char, Like the Ascii value for B as well as the ebsidic. But when you put them together you only have 57 mappings and its missing all of the letters in sex, alcohol and caffeine.
Yeah thats not wrong, but this is what happens when you have a gridlock on the major issues of the day we can fix ( the war, Immigration) and the ones we do agree on we can't do anything about ( price of oil, housing market problems) we do what everyone can agree on and do ( Which often happens to be what lobbyists tell both sides). Now having said that, I happen to think that our universities should be holding students to the highest moral standards as well. And my moral standards I specifically mean having a strong, enforceable honor code and a well rounded liberal arts education teaching them the basics of civilization ( art, government, science/math, philosophy, ethics). That honor code would extend to piracy as well as plagiarisms. Now, there would have to be some routine network bandwidth monitoring that would detect gross abuses of network policies which might result in further investigations into violations of the network use honor code. Thats what I would do, if I were omnipotent.
Yeah, I thought the Microsoft criticisms were Miguel trying to prove his independence from Microsoft. I also thought he was a nice guy, not that he isn't but I don't really know now. Next thing I know you'll tell me the fake Steve Jobs isn't really Steve Jobs!
Oh... I had made that mistake in other threads. He does a pretty good impersonation of what I thought Miguel was like, although he does seem to have a little too much time on his hands. I guess I have no opinion on the real Miguel now.
Students would just transfer to a school that did filter internet content and thus one that could offer financial aide. I was in university when napster was first released. I really wished they would have blocked it. All of the network band width disappeared overnight. I used to send data from the physics lab back to my dorm room file server. That became almost impossible after napster. IF illegal activities are preventing legitimate learning from taking place, it should be blocked. Now, I'm not looking forward to stupid filters ala comcast that cant tell the difference between a linux iso and Britteny spears albumn. I fear thats what everyone would end up with. But you really have to blame the pirates for that.
Your first paragraph is arguably true ( Evangelicals are losing power now, and they might want some greater censorship they would never be able to agree amongst themselves what should be censored), but the rest is just crazy. Its like you posted it on the inter.... oh wait, we are on the internet. Then its like you posted it on slash... Ah forget it. But it is that crazy.
Neocons are in decline, any movement lacking that much common sense is destined to fizzle out. Now its just a scare term those on the far left fling around to scare everyone to vote with them. Much like the term liberal is used by far right conservatives.
Thats the funny thing. Most of the posts here in favor of internationalizing the Internet are complaining about a loss of privacy due to NSA wiretapping. Well a lot of the countries that want it to be internationalized, want more control over the content that can be viewed. Much less passive, and much more oppressive. Even if it were to be reorganized such that the US held no special pull on the governance of the internet, you can bet that wouldn't stop the NSA. Its mainly an academic topic, the benefits of any potential internationalizing of the internet don't outweigh the potential problems.
Mongolian barbeque? hell do what Genghis did. Find the nearest yak, rip one of its legs off with your bare hands. Order the nearest underling to kill himself, take his two leg bones rub together to make fire and roast the yak leg and wash it down with the underlings blood. It will give you strength for the battle.
The point of welfare is to give people an opportunity. To help them maintain their human dignity. They may not use the opportunity ( like all worth while opportunity, this one is disguised in some serious hard work), but we as a society have done our job, if we do our best to give them that opportunity.
Does this mean Beagle's not going to change as much? I'm not sure if thats a good thing or not. Its the first thing I disable when I do a suse install. Its just too immature right now. Its not smart enough about limiting its indexing. But to be fair google desktop search also has this problem in addition to the security problems ( running a local webserver, inserting a link to said webserver into your webpages).
I'm not a big fan of App armor either, but thats just because I don't think its that necessary and would prefer to see improvement in the SeLinux implementation.
All, in all Novell will survive and thrive. I'd prefer that they didn't give MS such ammo. I never though they would actually attempt to use the patents, maybe its all just fud.
Still, I'd consider working there. I think they've done a great job on the technical side.
Well, knowing the inner workings of studio's accounting methods, everyone has lost vast sums of money, such that the format owners owe them billions of dollars, and only after they've paid up will they start to receive any royalties. Also any movies released for the past 30 years have had their accounting updated to reflect the cost of creating the new hi def discs, such that George Lucas, James Cameron, and Peter Jackson now owe them a combined total of 5 billion US.
Its become accepted to say that the administration lied leading up to the war. I don't like it when people say it because it causes them to overlook the lesson that can be learned from the horrible waste of life. It will be way too easy to repeat the mistake in the future, if we just look at this and say the administration was evil and they lied to us. The real lesson here is in terms of confirmation bias. They ( the administration and intelligence community) were shell shocked after 9/11 and believed in the worst possible scenarios, because they didn't once and got burned. They twisted intelligence to see something they feared, and something they could actively do to act against it. But its clear from the administrations threats against Iran, they have not learned there lesson. I can only believe thats because the opposition is just yelling insults and calling them "evil".
yeah send a self addressed package to me and I'll send you a copy of the internet on floppy. Please include $10 for shipping and allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. For an additional $10 and a $5 shipping and handling fee, I'll throw in the internet 2.0 for all of the ajax you can legally freebase.
My high school actually got that system the year before Colombine (there were gang problems), but the year after I graduated. They didn't actually arrest people like they said they would, they just made them pay a $1 fine, write their name on a piece of paper and pin it to their shirt. My younger brother ended up paying close to $20 before he realized that he just needed to walk around with a piece of paper on his shirt to avoid having to pay the fine. Never remembered to bring his id. Still cant believe it took him that long to figure it out.
It depends upon the type of phishing. The more traditional fraudulant email can't really be prevented, but there are several related attacks that are the domain of AV. They range from the more typical virus changing your HOSTS file, to more sophisticated attacks against your home router (changing your dns servers to a malicious one). With these you don't need an email. You can even type the name of the website int he address bar, but you'll go to the evil site anyways.
Its like I sometimes say when I feel like it: build a better mouse trap and God will build a better mouse.
only this is sort of the reverse where you are the mouse and phishers are the mouse trap builders. So that should be something more like: genetically engineer a better mouse, and the Devil will build a better mouse trap.
Yeah, but If I was working for a company that had an apple contract, I might also know the names of other companies that were working on the same project. So, if I were going to leak, I'd just tell them I was from a different company, and let them taste the wrath.
(c) notoriously corrupt, so it's likely Microsoft will receive massive tax subsidies that will reduce its costs
Thats the gray area corruption that you know about, the real corruption problem are the off the book "donations" you have to pay to get those tax breaks and avoid getting speeding tickets for each server.
Get a couple letters after your name, write that using scientific gargon aka "Math", "earn" a reputation by publishing mostly obvious observations and restating other peoples ideas using different sentence structures, and then you'd have a better than 50/50 shot of publishing that idea in a journal.
yes. But you did it in a most unfunny manor, spoiling it for everyone. You're supposed to wait for some stupid troll to start calling you names (its slashdot,so the first post or so should contain some reference to your fat, ugly, promiscuous mother), then reference it subtly by saying "I came here for an argument!"
I always thought it was a bad idea to try and hire microsoft veterans. Thats not necessarily a dig at microsoft, but from talking with friends that work there it doesn't seem to be the best idea. They have such big teams working on their core products, that they have difficulty bringing it all together. There seems to be a story every windows or office launch about how the product team was so large, difficult and complex that they had a huge all hands on deck meeting that ended up revolutionizing the way they worked together. Its as if every time they just tell 100+ developers to go do it and then try to stitch it all together. That having been said, there are many more companies that have had similar struggles and didn't survive that release, so they manage to hold it together. Thats the amazing management of microsoft. If you aren't a company that has a huge complex product that gets huger and more complex every 3-5 years, you might not want a microsft manager. They just might ( consciously or unconsciously ) try to make everything fit their level of expertise by making everything huge and complex.
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Yeah, I've been on a sinking ship before. It sucks. Very few workers at any business have any real say in the long term plans of the company. So they may do wonderful work on their projects, but if the company makes horrible strategic decisions, they go down with the ship. My advice to anyone is to find a job where you can have as much of an impact on the long term success of the business and do your best. That might mean working for less money in the short or near term, or for a smaller company, but Its worth it for me. The less management/sales/marketing above me the better. I don't mind them when they are good at what they do, like the ones I work with now, but it takes owners/board members longer to figure out the incompetence of those higher ups than any one lower on the pole.
I used to be one of those laughing at guitar hero, but now I'm sad and my guitar gently weeps. It weeps for all of those that play on a crappy plastic thing incapable of its virtuosity. It weeps as men sell their souls for a lifetime of pretending to cover other peoples songs. Ask not for whom it weeps, for it weeps for thee.
I thought Ebcidic as well at first, but I think you really have to create a new mapping that takes some of the nomral ascii encodings but injects tons of non sensical, non coherent parts. Like two mappings for the same char, Like the Ascii value for B as well as the ebsidic. But when you put them together you only have 57 mappings and its missing all of the letters in sex, alcohol and caffeine.
Yeah thats not wrong, but this is what happens when you have a gridlock on the major issues of the day we can fix ( the war, Immigration) and the ones we do agree on we can't do anything about ( price of oil, housing market problems) we do what everyone can agree on and do ( Which often happens to be what lobbyists tell both sides). Now having said that, I happen to think that our universities should be holding students to the highest moral standards as well. And my moral standards I specifically mean having a strong, enforceable honor code and a well rounded liberal arts education teaching them the basics of civilization ( art, government, science/math, philosophy, ethics). That honor code would extend to piracy as well as plagiarisms. Now, there would have to be some routine network bandwidth monitoring that would detect gross abuses of network policies which might result in further investigations into violations of the network use honor code. Thats what I would do, if I were omnipotent.
Yeah, I thought the Microsoft criticisms were Miguel trying to prove his independence from Microsoft. I also thought he was a nice guy, not that he isn't but I don't really know now. Next thing I know you'll tell me the fake Steve Jobs isn't really Steve Jobs!
Oh... I had made that mistake in other threads. He does a pretty good impersonation of what I thought Miguel was like, although he does seem to have a little too much time on his hands. I guess I have no opinion on the real Miguel now.
Students would just transfer to a school that did filter internet content and thus one that could offer financial aide. I was in university when napster was first released. I really wished they would have blocked it. All of the network band width disappeared overnight. I used to send data from the physics lab back to my dorm room file server. That became almost impossible after napster. IF illegal activities are preventing legitimate learning from taking place, it should be blocked. Now, I'm not looking forward to stupid filters ala comcast that cant tell the difference between a linux iso and Britteny spears albumn. I fear thats what everyone would end up with. But you really have to blame the pirates for that.
Your first paragraph is arguably true ( Evangelicals are losing power now, and they might want some greater censorship they would never be able to agree amongst themselves what should be censored), but the rest is just crazy. Its like you posted it on the inter.... oh wait, we are on the internet. Then its like you posted it on slash... Ah forget it. But it is that crazy.
Neocons are in decline, any movement lacking that much common sense is destined to fizzle out. Now its just a scare term those on the far left fling around to scare everyone to vote with them. Much like the term liberal is used by far right conservatives.
Thats the funny thing. Most of the posts here in favor of internationalizing the Internet are complaining about a loss of privacy due to NSA wiretapping. Well a lot of the countries that want it to be internationalized, want more control over the content that can be viewed. Much less passive, and much more oppressive. Even if it were to be reorganized such that the US held no special pull on the governance of the internet, you can bet that wouldn't stop the NSA. Its mainly an academic topic, the benefits of any potential internationalizing of the internet don't outweigh the potential problems.
Mongolian barbeque? hell do what Genghis did. Find the nearest yak, rip one of its legs off with your bare hands. Order the nearest underling to kill himself, take his two leg bones rub together to make fire and roast the yak leg and wash it down with the underlings blood. It will give you strength for the battle.
The point of welfare is to give people an opportunity. To help them maintain their human dignity. They may not use the opportunity ( like all worth while opportunity, this one is disguised in some serious hard work), but we as a society have done our job, if we do our best to give them that opportunity.
Does this mean Beagle's not going to change as much? I'm not sure if thats a good thing or not. Its the first thing I disable when I do a suse install. Its just too immature right now. Its not smart enough about limiting its indexing. But to be fair google desktop search also has this problem in addition to the security problems ( running a local webserver, inserting a link to said webserver into your webpages).
I'm not a big fan of App armor either, but thats just because I don't think its that necessary and would prefer to see improvement in the SeLinux implementation.
All, in all Novell will survive and thrive. I'd prefer that they didn't give MS such ammo. I never though they would actually attempt to use the patents, maybe its all just fud.
Still, I'd consider working there. I think they've done a great job on the technical side.
Well, knowing the inner workings of studio's accounting methods, everyone has lost vast sums of money, such that the format owners owe them billions of dollars, and only after they've paid up will they start to receive any royalties. Also any movies released for the past 30 years have had their accounting updated to reflect the cost of creating the new hi def discs, such that George Lucas, James Cameron, and Peter Jackson now owe them a combined total of 5 billion US.
Its become accepted to say that the administration lied leading up to the war. I don't like it when people say it because it causes them to overlook the lesson that can be learned from the horrible waste of life. It will be way too easy to repeat the mistake in the future, if we just look at this and say the administration was evil and they lied to us. The real lesson here is in terms of confirmation bias. They ( the administration and intelligence community) were shell shocked after 9/11 and believed in the worst possible scenarios, because they didn't once and got burned. They twisted intelligence to see something they feared, and something they could actively do to act against it. But its clear from the administrations threats against Iran, they have not learned there lesson. I can only believe thats because the opposition is just yelling insults and calling them "evil".
yeah send a self addressed package to me and I'll send you a copy of the internet on floppy. Please include $10 for shipping and allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. For an additional $10 and a $5 shipping and handling fee, I'll throw in the internet 2.0 for all of the ajax you can legally freebase.
My high school actually got that system the year before Colombine (there were gang problems), but the year after I graduated. They didn't actually arrest people like they said they would, they just made them pay a $1 fine, write their name on a piece of paper and pin it to their shirt. My younger brother ended up paying close to $20 before he realized that he just needed to walk around with a piece of paper on his shirt to avoid having to pay the fine. Never remembered to bring his id. Still cant believe it took him that long to figure it out.
It depends upon the type of phishing. The more traditional fraudulant email can't really be prevented, but there are several related attacks that are the domain of AV. They range from the more typical virus changing your HOSTS file, to more sophisticated attacks against your home router (changing your dns servers to a malicious one). With these you don't need an email. You can even type the name of the website int he address bar, but you'll go to the evil site anyways.
Its like I sometimes say when I feel like it: build a better mouse trap and God will build a better mouse.
only this is sort of the reverse where you are the mouse and phishers are the mouse trap builders. So that should be something more like: genetically engineer a better mouse, and the Devil will build a better mouse trap.
Yeah, but If I was working for a company that had an apple contract, I might also know the names of other companies that were working on the same project. So, if I were going to leak, I'd just tell them I was from a different company, and let them taste the wrath.
I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.
(c) notoriously corrupt, so it's likely Microsoft will receive massive tax subsidies that will reduce its costs
Thats the gray area corruption that you know about, the real corruption problem are the off the book "donations" you have to pay to get those tax breaks and avoid getting speeding tickets for each server.
Get a couple letters after your name, write that using scientific gargon aka "Math", "earn" a reputation by publishing mostly obvious observations and restating other peoples ideas using different sentence structures, and then you'd have a better than 50/50 shot of publishing that idea in a journal.
Yeah, I always have to push the pram a lot.
Ok, fine. You live in Camelot. But lets not go there, tis a very silly place.
yes. But you did it in a most unfunny manor, spoiling it for everyone. You're supposed to wait for some stupid troll to start calling you names (its slashdot,so the first post or so should contain some reference to your fat, ugly, promiscuous mother), then reference it subtly by saying "I came here for an argument!"
I always thought it was a bad idea to try and hire microsoft veterans. Thats not necessarily a dig at microsoft, but from talking with friends that work there it doesn't seem to be the best idea. They have such big teams working on their core products, that they have difficulty bringing it all together. There seems to be a story every windows or office launch about how the product team was so large, difficult and complex that they had a huge all hands on deck meeting that ended up revolutionizing the way they worked together. Its as if every time they just tell 100+ developers to go do it and then try to stitch it all together. That having been said, there are many more companies that have had similar struggles and didn't survive that release, so they manage to hold it together. Thats the amazing management of microsoft. If you aren't a company that has a huge complex product that gets huger and more complex every 3-5 years, you might not want a microsft manager. They just might ( consciously or unconsciously ) try to make everything fit their level of expertise by making everything huge and complex.