If the two guys are fired then I agree. If not, then it probably means they have at least the implicit approbation of their superiors
From the article
A librarian intervened, and the two men went into the library's work area to discuss the matter. A police officer arrived. In the end, no one had to step outside except the uniformed men.
the officers had been reassigned to other duties
Still, Montgomery plans to train its homeland security officers "so they fully understand library policy and its consistency with residents' First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution," Romer said in his statement.
What's impressive here is not that the HSO's interupted a patron viewing what they saw as inappropriate, which could have been a Victoria's secret catalog for all we know, but that the librarian, police officers, and government officals all acted correctly to preserve the patron's first amendment right in the politically risk realm of pornography. The fact that moral bully's got themselves hired into what's likely not a popular career (I'm sure the qualified candidates go for real "police" jobs) isn't surprising. Then again, Maryland, despite being south of the Mason Dixon line, is a "Blue State" that understands that the First Amendment protects viewpoints you don't like to.
So, even if your overly powerful car got 280 miles per gallon, that only pushes back the unavoidable by 20 years. Is your technology moving that fast?
No, but the model is that flawed. I don't need to know the assumptions to recognize that the model assumed exponential growth, because thats the only thing that explains teh results. This was popular in the 70's, but was dubious at the time and has been disproved by time.
Note I'm also not claiming that we won't run out of resources, the fact we will seems pretty obvious.
Know what, I bet if we timed how long it would take me to drive that civic around town and how long it would take you to drive your 295hp car around, there would be no significant difference.
No, because I used to be a professional driver with a few hundred thousand miles of city driving by the time I was 25, I'd kick your ass (if you had the 5 speed. The auto my grandma could beat you). Reverse it and I'd still probably beat you. But thats besides the point.
10 years ago I was driving an 83 civic wagon, I'm quite familiar with the car . You could drive two comfortably or 4 uncomfortably. I can drive 4 very confortably and 5 almost as comfortably, with a much larger degree of safety, and when we get where we're going after 3 hours we'll be better refreshed. My arthritic grandparents have few problems getting in and out of my sedan, I wouldn't allow them to try getting into that civic.
we don't drive the same mix of vehicles
No, we don't. In 1978 we were still driving 30 foot long Chevey Impala's. Body on Frame construction was still rampant. GM, Ford, and Chrystler were called teh Big Three because teh sold 95% of all cars in the US. Honda, Toyota, and Datsun were these fringe manufacturers selling micro cars that were built as cheaply as possible; their quality initiatives were much more about conserving the country's scares resources by minimizing waste. Oil embargos and gas lines were a very recent thing. Sure, there was a small market for the even more powerful 68hp VW Super Bettle, but I recall that was about the last year it was worthwhile to VW to import them even though the factories ran on in Mexico for another decade at least. I suspect you're looking back at 1978 with rose colored glasses, or thinking your poor hippie college freinds auto cross section somehow mimiced that of the country at large, but it doesn't.
Normal cars in Europe and Japan are tiny boxes. This is partially because they are optimized for intra-city driving where the US is optimized for inter-city driving. This affects a lot of design comprimises. They also don't have to deal with US safety regulations, which are likewise optimized for inter-city driving and the higher speeds that result. Bumper regulations, side impact reinforcements, emissions controls, airbags, anti-lock brakes, all add weight. CAD design and fast computers mean they add a fraction of what they would have added in the early 80's, but its all but impossible to Americanize something like the tiny city cars that sell well in Europe and Japan.
Also note it less of a personal choice in these countries than an economic one. Vehicle ownership in Japan involes a web of taxes, gas taxes in Europe are very burdensome. Notice once gas in the US surged to $3.00+, the market for SUV's collapsed pretty quickly, meanwhile the market is seeing a flood of vehicles that try to bring the "pros" of the SUV to the market without the "cons". A return to taller cars with upright seating, a resurgence of wagons, etc.
Trade in your pickup for a hatchback and then come back to the discussion
I was torn between buying a pickup to help with my Woodworking hobby and a 4 door sedan. I opted for the sedan specifically for the gas milage. But if my need for a pickup had been greater, why would that invalidate my opion? Trade in your hatchback for a moped and come back to teh discussion. No, give up your computer and go live a uni-bomber like existance off the grid, then stay out of the discussion.
What really bugs me is that per the rules of Meta-Mod, you have to meta-mod the mod as correct if there moderator might have really thought the most back-assword explaination was "insightful". I so want a "Yes but the moderator is an idiot who should never be given mod points again"
Basically, no matter what the students did to conserve, and what they did to increase the resources, the "world" pretty much always ran out of fuel and resources by the year 2020
So he wrote a program to demonstate the effect of exponential growth, and modeled some lame "conserve" and "research" options that didn't really effect the growth rate. It was a simulation designed to always come to that conclusion. Big surprise that it always led to that conclusion, huh?
Being college I hope somebody spoke up and challenged his assumptions, I also recall models that projected the population continuing to grow exponentially, though the reality has been far from that. Yes resources are being consumed far faster than they are being generated, but at the same time technology is moving fatser than ever too. My 295hp car just got 28 mpg on a 3 hour trip today, in 1978 that car would have gotten about 6-12mpg (since there were no 295 hp new cars in 1978, we'll have to estimate). One thing to keep in mind is that we DO have renewable sources of energy, and technology continues to lower the production costs of these while the non-renewable sources will continue to rise. At some point the two lines cross and we'll switch in a big way. The USA is real good at solving these problems.
What exactly is it with the inflexible attitude of some employers and prospective employees?
They asked for plain text or PDF. Open, standard formats. If you send in your CV in some bizarre incompatible unreadable proprietary format,
If, as the grandparent wrote, the job requirement specified text or PDF, submitting it in Word format shows an inability to follow directions and is reason for exclusion. Though in all my searching, I don't recall running across any jobs that requested PDF format, the fact that it can be submited as an image which can't be easily imaged/indexed, could be freakishly large, etc.; makes it inconvienent format for HR departments. However, refusing to apply to a position because they accept Word format resumes seems a bit daft, but then, I welcome the decreased competition
The only problem I've ever run into on JFS was trying to use it with NFS (specifically recommended against at the time). The JFS team was very responsive to my problems and very shortly had all the issues worked out. And during all the problems, the FS never lost a file that had been successfully written, even though the kernel locked up in interesting ways. Note that Linux JFS maps to AIX's JFS2 and is extent based, and very different animal than the original JFS. I'm not sure if this has been implemented on the mainframe as well, AIX is NOT the native OS of the IBM mainframe, FWIW, but given the amount of error checking that goes into their mainframe products I find it doubtful that files disappeared for any reason other than user-error.
I doubt they can afford to be. They can be annoying as a manager, calling to push people you don't need, especially when you HR department won't let you use them anyway. When you deal with them as a potential employee, keep in mind they are working for the employers, who will pay them, and not for you. They need to find the right person to fill that job, and to do that they have to talk to a lot of people. If they are jerks to employers, the employer won't want to deal with them. If they are jerks to you, its likely you're expecting something from them they can't give. Deal with them professionally, and they'll deal with you professionally.
If you want more hands on treatment, there seems to be an explosion of "employee agents"; resume writing agencies on steriods, "job search coaches". These are people you pay, though when I speak to them every fraud alert bone in my body goes off. I submitted my own "Ask Slashdot" to see what others experiences with these services were like. I suspect they could be valuable, but I also imagine it would be an easy scam to run on vulnerable people.
As for this gentleman writing this article, I suspect the Google puzzle billboard idea won't go far since it apeals to a different sort of person. Google was looking for really smart people irrespective of personalities. Of course, I'm also curious because I happen to be looking for such an opportunity, so I want to know what to be looking for:)
There's probably great musicains currently that wouldn't have been sucessful back then, and there's also probably lots of great musicians that nobody knows about because they never made it.
No offense, but talented musicians are a dime a dozen. I'll take the raw power of early Clash over a perfectly performed piano concerto almost anyday. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Guns and Roses, Nirvana; their ability to play their instruments are not what made them great, many would say its in spite of. Just being good at what you do is not a guarantee of success in any field.
And, before last year, calling something 'a tsunami' outside of oceanographic circles probably would get you a lot of strange looks
Right, nevermind that The Cartoon Network network thought there was enough awareness of the word to use it as a pun for a block of shows called Toonami. Or do you think the named it after the disaster?
Hey, remember, your toothbrush has flecks of feces on it
Thats why its not really self-cleaning. Soon a fine layer of feces will coat the bathroom preventing the coating from doing its job. You still have to get in there and clean off the feces.
Now now, give it a chance. The author quotes a power output of 2watts, which means you need to track down one of those ancient brick phones, I don't think any modern phones still have that power level. And if you compare that 4 watts of unidirectional power to the focused power of a dorm room 600 watt microwave, you an quickly see how with the 200x microwave application aucustic concentration effect of modern radios, you can see how this might work to cook an egg as fast as a microwave.
But did you get PAID???
If he ran out of your office with no indication of coming back... then you're quite the nice guy to run the job anyway.
Well, I'd assume he got paid up front. In which case not performing the work would mean he would have to return the $$$, which was 2x the normal rate. And if he didn't get paid upfront, he had made the request as an agent of Warner & Prince, they would have a responsibility to cover the tab. There are some issues, you would need reason to believe he really was an authorized agent, etc.
One would assume these guys were regular customers as well.
You can potentially get a better quality picture as a JPEG than a raw image of the same file size.
File size is not the issue, A JPEG will almost always have a significantly smaller file size for a given resolution. The point is JPEG is a LOSSY format, even at the BEST setting, the image will not extract to the image the CCD's grabbed. At the highest end, cameras have a RAW format that doesn't bother with compression at all (hence, LOSSLESS), at the cost of MASSIVE file size. A 13 Mpixel picture could almost fill a 128 MB card, thats why consumer cameras don't bother with it, instead choosing a high fidelity JPEG format. A lossless image format is possible, but then you're still moving a lot of data around and not gaining a whole lot.
There is a similar law where I live in Maryland. I think there are a few other states with laws that require that a certain amount of sales have to be made at the list or retail price before you can use it for the basis of a sale price.
I don't believe that any have to be SOLD at that price, just that it was offered for sale at that price. I would imagine its the same in Finland, and even if sales were required it would just create a pocket industry of people who buy at the inflated price at the request of the store (then return it later, or put it back into manufacturers stock, etc)
Basic desires, economics, and supply and demand will always supersede any manmade laws. Basic desires, economics, and supply and demand are constants, the law is subject to change at any given time.
And the point of laws and punishment is to provide disincentive to these desires. The balance of Supply and Demand are ever changing (I recall the original Xbox going for $600 on ebay, now nobody wants to bother buying them at greatly reduced list).
Another question, do you consider the need for Photoshop CS a basic desire, on the order of food, water, and shelter? These guys weren't doing it as an act of desparation, any more than Ken Lay bankrupted Enron so he could feed his family.
I still have no idea what the OP's point is, and now I have no idea what your point is, or how they relate to one another.
The OP's point was they were criminals who knew what they were doing was wrong and had serious concequences if they were caught, but chose to continue doing it. He actually supports artists who use the Creative Commons license and the local music scene.
The chap you responded to believes that because he believes copyright law is wrong, that those violating it on a grand scale are actually commiting "civil disobedience" and should be celebrated as heros and let free. Notably, he is a leech on the P2P networks, downloading from others but blocking incoming connections from fear of enforcement; a P2P leaf node
Personally I think the article was posted to let the community know it will take longer before the latest movies are available for download on their latest P2P network. Any other questions?
Exactly. If he had gone to work for a doggie spa, then expressed opinions that pampering pooches was a tremendous waste of time and money, would we be upset that the owner fired him?
The person expressed an opinion that he didn't believe in what the company was doing, it would give a wise founder pause that said person would be working at his best, instead subconciously (or worse) undermining his own arguements and the goals of the firm. I can't believe this rated a story at all, much less front page.
So First4Internet was the reason why I can't play DVD's in my CD player? I'll get them! I had fallen for the urban myth that it was lack of codec's, no video screen, and laser wavelength differences.
$SOMETHING and get eight CPUs and infinite RAM and a lifetime contract with Global Services."
High end databases are usually priced per CPU, we saved enough in licensing costs to pay for an upgrade from a old 6-way box to a new 4-way that was orders of magnitude faster. And its not like you can't upgrade to a 8 way DB2 license when you need more, or migrate to AIX based systems, or even all the way up to mainframe based systems with hardware accelerated DB2 functions when you need more umph.
want a job? job requires knowledge of a specific app?
Not just that. The GP says
And, further more, it seems that most of these newly free databases are not intended for corporate use... like DB2's memory limit and the castrations of the other databases...
Actually, two modern dual core CPU's and 4GB of RAM is several times more powerful than the DB2 server that powered our company through the Dot Com boom. This is a limit in name only. Of course, if you're running your business off it, you will still want spring for the support contract
BTW, Dev licenses for DB2 have gone for token amounts for years. And I thought a restrict DB2 for Linux has been available for years...
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From the article
What's impressive here is not that the HSO's interupted a patron viewing what they saw as inappropriate, which could have been a Victoria's secret catalog for all we know, but that the librarian, police officers, and government officals all acted correctly to preserve the patron's first amendment right in the politically risk realm of pornography. The fact that moral bully's got themselves hired into what's likely not a popular career (I'm sure the qualified candidates go for real "police" jobs) isn't surprising. Then again, Maryland, despite being south of the Mason Dixon line, is a "Blue State" that understands that the First Amendment protects viewpoints you don't like to.
No, but the model is that flawed. I don't need to know the assumptions to recognize that the model assumed exponential growth, because thats the only thing that explains teh results. This was popular in the 70's, but was dubious at the time and has been disproved by time.
Note I'm also not claiming that we won't run out of resources, the fact we will seems pretty obvious.
No, because I used to be a professional driver with a few hundred thousand miles of city driving by the time I was 25, I'd kick your ass (if you had the 5 speed. The auto my grandma could beat you). Reverse it and I'd still probably beat you. But thats besides the point.
10 years ago I was driving an 83 civic wagon, I'm quite familiar with the car . You could drive two comfortably or 4 uncomfortably. I can drive 4 very confortably and 5 almost as comfortably, with a much larger degree of safety, and when we get where we're going after 3 hours we'll be better refreshed. My arthritic grandparents have few problems getting in and out of my sedan, I wouldn't allow them to try getting into that civic.
we don't drive the same mix of vehicles
No, we don't. In 1978 we were still driving 30 foot long Chevey Impala's. Body on Frame construction was still rampant. GM, Ford, and Chrystler were called teh Big Three because teh sold 95% of all cars in the US. Honda, Toyota, and Datsun were these fringe manufacturers selling micro cars that were built as cheaply as possible; their quality initiatives were much more about conserving the country's scares resources by minimizing waste. Oil embargos and gas lines were a very recent thing. Sure, there was a small market for the even more powerful 68hp VW Super Bettle, but I recall that was about the last year it was worthwhile to VW to import them even though the factories ran on in Mexico for another decade at least. I suspect you're looking back at 1978 with rose colored glasses, or thinking your poor hippie college freinds auto cross section somehow mimiced that of the country at large, but it doesn't.
Normal cars in Europe and Japan are tiny boxes. This is partially because they are optimized for intra-city driving where the US is optimized for inter-city driving. This affects a lot of design comprimises. They also don't have to deal with US safety regulations, which are likewise optimized for inter-city driving and the higher speeds that result. Bumper regulations, side impact reinforcements, emissions controls, airbags, anti-lock brakes, all add weight. CAD design and fast computers mean they add a fraction of what they would have added in the early 80's, but its all but impossible to Americanize something like the tiny city cars that sell well in Europe and Japan.
Also note it less of a personal choice in these countries than an economic one. Vehicle ownership in Japan involes a web of taxes, gas taxes in Europe are very burdensome. Notice once gas in the US surged to $3.00+, the market for SUV's collapsed pretty quickly, meanwhile the market is seeing a flood of vehicles that try to bring the "pros" of the SUV to the market without the "cons". A return to taller cars with upright seating, a resurgence of wagons, etc.
Trade in your pickup for a hatchback and then come back to the discussion
I was torn between buying a pickup to help with my Woodworking hobby and a 4 door sedan. I opted for the sedan specifically for the gas milage. But if my need for a pickup had been greater, why would that invalidate my opion? Trade in your hatchback for a moped and come back to teh discussion. No, give up your computer and go live a uni-bomber like existance off the grid, then stay out of the discussion.
What really bugs me is that per the rules of Meta-Mod, you have to meta-mod the mod as correct if there moderator might have really thought the most back-assword explaination was "insightful". I so want a "Yes but the moderator is an idiot who should never be given mod points again"
So he wrote a program to demonstate the effect of exponential growth, and modeled some lame "conserve" and "research" options that didn't really effect the growth rate. It was a simulation designed to always come to that conclusion. Big surprise that it always led to that conclusion, huh?
Being college I hope somebody spoke up and challenged his assumptions, I also recall models that projected the population continuing to grow exponentially, though the reality has been far from that. Yes resources are being consumed far faster than they are being generated, but at the same time technology is moving fatser than ever too. My 295hp car just got 28 mpg on a 3 hour trip today, in 1978 that car would have gotten about 6-12mpg (since there were no 295 hp new cars in 1978, we'll have to estimate). One thing to keep in mind is that we DO have renewable sources of energy, and technology continues to lower the production costs of these while the non-renewable sources will continue to rise. At some point the two lines cross and we'll switch in a big way. The USA is real good at solving these problems.
They asked for plain text or PDF. Open, standard formats. If you send in your CV in some bizarre incompatible unreadable proprietary format,
If, as the grandparent wrote, the job requirement specified text or PDF, submitting it in Word format shows an inability to follow directions and is reason for exclusion. Though in all my searching, I don't recall running across any jobs that requested PDF format, the fact that it can be submited as an image which can't be easily imaged/indexed, could be freakishly large, etc.; makes it inconvienent format for HR departments. However, refusing to apply to a position because they accept Word format resumes seems a bit daft, but then, I welcome the decreased competition
The only problem I've ever run into on JFS was trying to use it with NFS (specifically recommended against at the time). The JFS team was very responsive to my problems and very shortly had all the issues worked out. And during all the problems, the FS never lost a file that had been successfully written, even though the kernel locked up in interesting ways. Note that Linux JFS maps to AIX's JFS2 and is extent based, and very different animal than the original JFS. I'm not sure if this has been implemented on the mainframe as well, AIX is NOT the native OS of the IBM mainframe, FWIW, but given the amount of error checking that goes into their mainframe products I find it doubtful that files disappeared for any reason other than user-error.
If you want more hands on treatment, there seems to be an explosion of "employee agents"; resume writing agencies on steriods, "job search coaches". These are people you pay, though when I speak to them every fraud alert bone in my body goes off. I submitted my own "Ask Slashdot" to see what others experiences with these services were like. I suspect they could be valuable, but I also imagine it would be an easy scam to run on vulnerable people.
As for this gentleman writing this article, I suspect the Google puzzle billboard idea won't go far since it apeals to a different sort of person. Google was looking for really smart people irrespective of personalities. Of course, I'm also curious because I happen to be looking for such an opportunity, so I want to know what to be looking for :)
No offense, but talented musicians are a dime a dozen. I'll take the raw power of early Clash over a perfectly performed piano concerto almost anyday. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Guns and Roses, Nirvana; their ability to play their instruments are not what made them great, many would say its in spite of. Just being good at what you do is not a guarantee of success in any field.
Right, nevermind that The Cartoon Network network thought there was enough awareness of the word to use it as a pun for a block of shows called Toonami. Or do you think the named it after the disaster?
Thats why its not really self-cleaning. Soon a fine layer of feces will coat the bathroom preventing the coating from doing its job. You still have to get in there and clean off the feces.
Now now, give it a chance. The author quotes a power output of 2watts, which means you need to track down one of those ancient brick phones, I don't think any modern phones still have that power level. And if you compare that 4 watts of unidirectional power to the focused power of a dorm room 600 watt microwave, you an quickly see how with the 200x microwave application aucustic concentration effect of modern radios, you can see how this might work to cook an egg as fast as a microwave.
If he ran out of your office with no indication of coming back... then you're quite the nice guy to run the job anyway.
Well, I'd assume he got paid up front. In which case not performing the work would mean he would have to return the $$$, which was 2x the normal rate. And if he didn't get paid upfront, he had made the request as an agent of Warner & Prince, they would have a responsibility to cover the tab. There are some issues, you would need reason to believe he really was an authorized agent, etc.
One would assume these guys were regular customers as well.
File size is not the issue, A JPEG will almost always have a significantly smaller file size for a given resolution. The point is JPEG is a LOSSY format, even at the BEST setting, the image will not extract to the image the CCD's grabbed. At the highest end, cameras have a RAW format that doesn't bother with compression at all (hence, LOSSLESS), at the cost of MASSIVE file size. A 13 Mpixel picture could almost fill a 128 MB card, thats why consumer cameras don't bother with it, instead choosing a high fidelity JPEG format. A lossless image format is possible, but then you're still moving a lot of data around and not gaining a whole lot.
Robert Heinlein used this as the central idea of his book "Then Number of the Beast" in 1986 The Number of the Beats
I don't believe that any have to be SOLD at that price, just that it was offered for sale at that price. I would imagine its the same in Finland, and even if sales were required it would just create a pocket industry of people who buy at the inflated price at the request of the store (then return it later, or put it back into manufacturers stock, etc)
And the point of laws and punishment is to provide disincentive to these desires. The balance of Supply and Demand are ever changing (I recall the original Xbox going for $600 on ebay, now nobody wants to bother buying them at greatly reduced list).
Another question, do you consider the need for Photoshop CS a basic desire, on the order of food, water, and shelter? These guys weren't doing it as an act of desparation, any more than Ken Lay bankrupted Enron so he could feed his family.
The OP's point was they were criminals who knew what they were doing was wrong and had serious concequences if they were caught, but chose to continue doing it. He actually supports artists who use the Creative Commons license and the local music scene.
The chap you responded to believes that because he believes copyright law is wrong, that those violating it on a grand scale are actually commiting "civil disobedience" and should be celebrated as heros and let free. Notably, he is a leech on the P2P networks, downloading from others but blocking incoming connections from fear of enforcement; a P2P leaf node
Personally I think the article was posted to let the community know it will take longer before the latest movies are available for download on their latest P2P network. Any other questions?
Exactly. If he had gone to work for a doggie spa, then expressed opinions that pampering pooches was a tremendous waste of time and money, would we be upset that the owner fired him?
The person expressed an opinion that he didn't believe in what the company was doing, it would give a wise founder pause that said person would be working at his best, instead subconciously (or worse) undermining his own arguements and the goals of the firm. I can't believe this rated a story at all, much less front page.
Though I think a better name would be Tommy Tauntaun
I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead
So First4Internet was the reason why I can't play DVD's in my CD player? I'll get them! I had fallen for the urban myth that it was lack of codec's, no video screen, and laser wavelength differences.
High end databases are usually priced per CPU, we saved enough in licensing costs to pay for an upgrade from a old 6-way box to a new 4-way that was orders of magnitude faster. And its not like you can't upgrade to a 8 way DB2 license when you need more, or migrate to AIX based systems, or even all the way up to mainframe based systems with hardware accelerated DB2 functions when you need more umph.
Not just that. The GP says
And, further more, it seems that most of these newly free databases are not intended for corporate use ... like DB2's memory limit and the castrations of the other databases ...
Actually, two modern dual core CPU's and 4GB of RAM is several times more powerful than the DB2 server that powered our company through the Dot Com boom. This is a limit in name only. Of course, if you're running your business off it, you will still want spring for the support contract
BTW, Dev licenses for DB2 have gone for token amounts for years. And I thought a restrict DB2 for Linux has been available for years...