I just noticed this misspelling has carried over into comments in another/. article. I believe that makes this an official new trolling phenomena. The folks that write this will surely have some updating to do soon.
Try this:
http://www.mlin.net/
Download Startup Control Panel and Startup Monitor, two of the best utilities around for controlling the automatic startup of applications. You should then be able to kill Messenger and any other annoying apps that like to start themselves up.
Not that I disagree with what you said, but I think you missed what the original poster was really getting at - which is a lack of even the most basic understanding of PC operation in the general public. His 13 year old sister didn't understand the simple difference between a local and non-local copy of a file. I don't think arcane details like drive speed and xcopy ever entered the picture. If someone owns a PC, I don't think its asking too much expecting them to at least know what a hard drive is, that their computer contains one, and what it does.
Now, as far as advancing a UI to the point where this knowledge truly becomes irrelevant - well that will be a fine day indeed.
Actually, I thought this would make the job of matching up shred much easier, since you have twice the pattern to match against.
Re:Do younger minds absorb quicker?
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Ageism in IT?
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I hate to say it, but they do, all other things being equal. The formation of new neural pathways (new skills, memory) is highest in the young and begins to degrade quite a bit starting around the age of 25. Hence the common resistance to change in the older is biological, not always a personality trait. Of course, it can be mitigated quite a bit by continually working the mind with learning throughout life. I don't think there's any support for the notion that the young work faster though, just pick up new things more quickly. Personally, I'd take experience every time, but as others have said, that experience comes at a price. And when a manager has to weigh price and quality, $$ wins out most of the time.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting this was a waste of time or anything. It sounds incredibly useful to me, even more so in an urban environment. I have personally been kicking around the idea of starting a wireless network around the university here and maybe covering some of the more densely packed housing such as apartments and condos. The biggest tripping point is exactly what you address with this - unauthorized access.
If their goal is deploying wifi in a 'rural' area, is unpaid access really that big a problem? I mean it's not like there's a subdivision in between points. Are they worrying about the one or two farmers in between piggybacking?
My theory - perfect information
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As a student who has sat through countless hours of economics lectures, I'd like to float my own theory on file sharing and declining music sales. In economics, a perfectly competitive market has the following characteristics:
1. Many buyers and sellers
2. Low barriers to entry and exit
3. All buyers and sellers are price takers(unable to affect price)
4. Homogenous product/service
And most relevant here:
5. Perfect information
Before people were unable to properly sample a music product before purchasing it, and therefore made their purchasing decision based on incomplete and often misleading information - often by factors that had nothing to do with the quality of the music (hype, etc). File sharing has created near perfect information for consumers, and the results suggest that with this information consumers have decided that they were not getting their money's worth in value.
Also, and this has been proven in court, the small number of large recording companys have effectively created a cartel - and have and continue to collude to inflate prices. This behavior is expected in a market with such conditions. How else can one explain the inflated price of music despite obvious and significant efficiencies and cost reductions in the production, distribution, and manufacture of recordings?
At least, it fits the definitions stated above. It may be many other things as well, but among those, it is still a blog. It may be a professionally operated, moderated and team based site, but its still a blog. I know no one wants their favorite site to be listed in the same sentence as some persons 'my inane life diary' weblog, but it is.
That said I agree the Google move is a good one. But I still think blogs are useful when searching for info. If I find a blog while searching for a news artile, I may not care what the person has to say about the article, but if they provide a link to the story I was looking for where's the harm?
The idea behind widescreen is that it approximates the human field of view better than the standard mostly square picture on a 4:3 TV. I think it translates well to TV programming in ways that may take some time for TV producers to understand and take advantage of. For instance on 4:3, in a close up shot, notice it's often difficult to squeeze more then two faces into a single shot because of the aspect ratio, but on widescreen this is now problem. Some of the better TV commercials will even throw in letterboxing just to get the proper effect.
Seriously what is up with this? Aside from being very strange, I'm trying to understand this product.
I guess if you're a fanatical terrorist type out in the desert or jungle, you probably spend a lot of time lugging your AK around not really doing much. Why not listen to some Coasters or an eBook while you're standing post for hours on end, right?
Actually, I think he meant 'Game on' but that's just nit picking.
When asked why Linux is being used on the server side he responds:
"I think we have a pretty good story, but I tell you, game's on. We've got to prove ourselves, and some people are choosing Linux. I don't think that is going to continue to be the case."
A good story? I thought we were talking about OSes here, now MS is selling stories? This is pure marketroid speak.
I run it on a P4 384MB laptop, with the CLI version it crunches a WU every 3.5 hours which is a big improvement. SETI still claims a base of about 4 million users so I'd say at least a few of those must be slashdotters. I know here at MSU a lot of the lab rats run it on university machines. I run it pretty much 24/7 set to low priority so it has almost zero affect on my usage. It may be a long shot, but it's still a better use of my cycles than most of the other things my machine does such as running Win2k and Office.
I'm with ya! Long Live Mozilla! It runs a little larger at 20 megs on my machine than IE but with memory being as cheap as it is I could care less with all the features. Maybe it's just me but I think it starts up quicker now than prior builds, but I miss the flaming monster startup screen splash!
With WinAmp running at 20 megs I don't know how they can call this broswer bloated.
Don't blame writiers for the short attention spans caused by watching too much MTV!:)
Actually I found it quite interesting throughout - I guess it depends on your background. The vagaries of IP legalese and economic theory probably is naturally boring to the programmers on slashdot, no matter what the length.
Call me overly critical of such fine art, but obviously the pr0n guys put A LOT more effort into their work than the Trekkies. Which is a little disappointing, whatever happened to Trekkie fanaticism? Where's the attention to detail?
Believed to largely be caused by an overapplication of technology to engine management VW is currently involved in its biggest recall ever.
Autonews article
I love technology as much as the next geek but a the automakers are going a little overboard in some cases and aren't able to deal with the increased service costs of these vehicles.
Generally I agree with the oversentencing of hacker sentiment. But I would tend to agree with lumping them into the "white collar" category. The distinction being a general lack of physical violence. I suppose we could create a new category for hackers, let's hear some ideas:
-Grey Collar Crime
-Mountain Dew Stained Collar Crime
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Slashdot Mirror
I just noticed this misspelling has carried over into comments in another /. article. I believe that makes this an official new trolling phenomena. The folks that write this will surely have some updating to do soon.
And they're no more annoying than the commercials we pay to watch at the beginning of the films.
Try this: http://www.mlin.net/ Download Startup Control Panel and Startup Monitor, two of the best utilities around for controlling the automatic startup of applications. You should then be able to kill Messenger and any other annoying apps that like to start themselves up.
Not that I disagree with what you said, but I think you missed what the original poster was really getting at - which is a lack of even the most basic understanding of PC operation in the general public. His 13 year old sister didn't understand the simple difference between a local and non-local copy of a file. I don't think arcane details like drive speed and xcopy ever entered the picture. If someone owns a PC, I don't think its asking too much expecting them to at least know what a hard drive is, that their computer contains one, and what it does.
Now, as far as advancing a UI to the point where this knowledge truly becomes irrelevant - well that will be a fine day indeed.
Actually, I thought this would make the job of matching up shred much easier, since you have twice the pattern to match against.
I hate to say it, but they do, all other things being equal. The formation of new neural pathways (new skills, memory) is highest in the young and begins to degrade quite a bit starting around the age of 25. Hence the common resistance to change in the older is biological, not always a personality trait. Of course, it can be mitigated quite a bit by continually working the mind with learning throughout life. I don't think there's any support for the notion that the young work faster though, just pick up new things more quickly. Personally, I'd take experience every time, but as others have said, that experience comes at a price. And when a manager has to weigh price and quality, $$ wins out most of the time.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting this was a waste of time or anything. It sounds incredibly useful to me, even more so in an urban environment. I have personally been kicking around the idea of starting a wireless network around the university here and maybe covering some of the more densely packed housing such as apartments and condos. The biggest tripping point is exactly what you address with this - unauthorized access.
If their goal is deploying wifi in a 'rural' area, is unpaid access really that big a problem? I mean it's not like there's a subdivision in between points. Are they worrying about the one or two farmers in between piggybacking?
1. Many buyers and sellers
2. Low barriers to entry and exit
3. All buyers and sellers are price takers(unable to affect price)
4. Homogenous product/service
And most relevant here:
5. Perfect information
Before people were unable to properly sample a music product before purchasing it, and therefore made their purchasing decision based on incomplete and often misleading information - often by factors that had nothing to do with the quality of the music (hype, etc). File sharing has created near perfect information for consumers, and the results suggest that with this information consumers have decided that they were not getting their money's worth in value. Also, and this has been proven in court, the small number of large recording companys have effectively created a cartel - and have and continue to collude to inflate prices. This behavior is expected in a market with such conditions. How else can one explain the inflated price of music despite obvious and significant efficiencies and cost reductions in the production, distribution, and manufacture of recordings?
"...make no doubt about it, this is a geek movie, in fact this is geek porn..."
That said I agree the Google move is a good one. But I still think blogs are useful when searching for info. If I find a blog while searching for a news artile, I may not care what the person has to say about the article, but if they provide a link to the story I was looking for where's the harm?
I just can't feel bad for anyone who intentionally tried to download Madonna 'music'.
The idea behind widescreen is that it approximates the human field of view better than the standard mostly square picture on a 4:3 TV. I think it translates well to TV programming in ways that may take some time for TV producers to understand and take advantage of. For instance on 4:3, in a close up shot, notice it's often difficult to squeeze more then two faces into a single shot because of the aspect ratio, but on widescreen this is now problem. Some of the better TV commercials will even throw in letterboxing just to get the proper effect.
I guess if you're a fanatical terrorist type out in the desert or jungle, you probably spend a lot of time lugging your AK around not really doing much. Why not listen to some Coasters or an eBook while you're standing post for hours on end, right?
Talk about niche marketing.
Actually, I think he meant 'Game on' but that's just nit picking. When asked why Linux is being used on the server side he responds: "I think we have a pretty good story, but I tell you, game's on. We've got to prove ourselves, and some people are choosing Linux. I don't think that is going to continue to be the case." A good story? I thought we were talking about OSes here, now MS is selling stories? This is pure marketroid speak.
This was true before NET was passed, but it brought distribution without direct financial gain up to the level of a crime.
I run it on a P4 384MB laptop, with the CLI version it crunches a WU every 3.5 hours which is a big improvement. SETI still claims a base of about 4 million users so I'd say at least a few of those must be slashdotters. I know here at MSU a lot of the lab rats run it on university machines. I run it pretty much 24/7 set to low priority so it has almost zero affect on my usage. It may be a long shot, but it's still a better use of my cycles than most of the other things my machine does such as running Win2k and Office.
Bah, too technically complex for me! Couldn't you find something easier like say a black marker?
The thread was posted on Google News main page - how about that? Slashdot is now considered a legitimate news source.
I'm with ya! Long Live Mozilla! It runs a little larger at 20 megs on my machine than IE but with memory being as cheap as it is I could care less with all the features. Maybe it's just me but I think it starts up quicker now than prior builds, but I miss the flaming monster startup screen splash! With WinAmp running at 20 megs I don't know how they can call this broswer bloated.
Don't blame writiers for the short attention spans caused by watching too much MTV! :)
Actually I found it quite interesting throughout - I guess it depends on your background. The vagaries of IP legalese and economic theory probably is naturally boring to the programmers on slashdot, no matter what the length.
Call me overly critical of such fine art, but obviously the pr0n guys put A LOT more effort into their work than the Trekkies. Which is a little disappointing, whatever happened to Trekkie fanaticism? Where's the attention to detail?
Believed to largely be caused by an overapplication of technology to engine management VW is currently involved in its biggest recall ever. Autonews article I love technology as much as the next geek but a the automakers are going a little overboard in some cases and aren't able to deal with the increased service costs of these vehicles.
A sound concern - however they have built in multiple redundant backups to the system to guard against just such a problem.
Generally I agree with the oversentencing of hacker sentiment. But I would tend to agree with lumping them into the "white collar" category. The distinction being a general lack of physical violence. I suppose we could create a new category for hackers, let's hear some ideas: -Grey Collar Crime -Mountain Dew Stained Collar Crime -