In the Netherlands you pay a small amount in advance, and you can bring back old equipment to stores that sell the equipment. Unfortunately they did away with that for stuff like building materials (you have to pay them to pick it up), which means that that stuff gets dumped a lot. People should always pay in advance to get rid of their trash.
Our company was looking for an application programmer/maintainer. One of the less interesting jobs in my opinion. We've got some new blood now, but it took a very long time and 300+ applications (job applications that is:) to get to the right person if I'm not mistaken.
The problem with the high unemployment rate is that _anyone_ will react on any job offer. It takes a lot of time for a company to sift through all this reactions and seperate the good few from the abundant bad.
A hint; don't go doing nothing but take a low income job and study and look for a job in the mean time. Companies don't trust long periods between jobs as I found out the soft way (I was hired just before it all came tumbling down, lucky me, but they didn't like it).
Maybe you could borrow some money of some unregistered thug on the street, say against 25% a year (or break your bones). Then you could pay of your debts with the money and apply for a security clearance. With the money you earn you can repay your dept to the thug. If you get in a tight spot, you can always sell some security related information.
In the Netherlands this is one thing that the government is proposing to do; putting off the retirement age. What this will do is that a lot of people will have to work when they don't want to anymore, that younger (and cheaper) people aren't hired any more.
Besides that, you will have to look carefully for whom you CAN put the retirement age higher. Nobody wants to build houses or streets, help handicapped people (very demanding job) etc until they are 70. For some jobs even 65 can be too demanding actually, take firefighters. Actually, I can hardly see myself in my current job at 70.
Especially in the short term, highering the retirement age is _very_ bad for the economy, and I would warn against the serious side effects it may cause. Besides that you might want to ask yourself if someone who has payed up all his life to quit at 65 (building the country, they will probably call it), now has to work up to 70.
In the Netherlands that was one of the reasons 250.000 (and probably more, the centre of Amsterdam was filled to the max) people demonstrated against goverment movements in this direction. This was the second largest demonstration ever in NL.
Seems to be a perfect little server board. If you will be running Windows the serial ATA raid may be an option. Software raid does not work for the system drive afaik. Under linux you are probably better off using software raid. The cheap SATA raid will not have any strong processor in it anyway. Don't go cheap on the raid controller, or do it in software. No point in messing with promise or other crap if you've already got it on-board.
I looked at a review and it said the (only) weak point is the lack of USB-2.0 and firewire. Well, boohoo. A simple USB-2.0 add on card will do the trick for USB-2.0 and a soundblaster audigy will do nicely regarding the missing firewire port (no sound either).
As said before (by me) the original Kazaa programmers did not put in any spyware. That was after it was sold (by a rogue team member) to another company.
Am I the only one that thinks that ATI has made some weird decissions for this chipset? First of all, no ethernet? Everybody needs ethernet nowadays. Rather 2 than 1.
Then it is aimed at a high end processor with chipset features that cannot compete with any high end motherboard. 2 channel sound, and you can't get graphic performance unless you buy additional memory. No native command queing either (I've never actually seen anyone USE 4 drive 0+1 raid, so they're excused for that).
Ok, the PCI express is nice to have, but are companies that need a cheap PC going to line up to buy PCI express add on cards? Neh. So who exactly is this chipset aimed at? Since I haven't got a clue.
It doesn't need to have 2 AGP channels. The video is integrated into the northbridge, which can access memory and CPU fine by itself, thank you very much. So it needs just one AGP channel to support the additional add on card.
I've got an integrated video on my mobo at work, and an NVIDIA 5200 AGP graphics card to support my two monitors. 3 would be nice, but most multi-monitor functionality is supported by the NVidia drivers. So that won't work with the Intel on board video. Not that I would like that trap enabled anyway.
ATI does provide a DVI connector, so 3 flat screens is a real possibility for those lucky few that can afford it. Note that Matrox supports 3 DVI monitors with one graphics card though.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point...
Most problems with drivers for products tend to show up when the hardware is just released. Is your Radeon 9800 working correctly? Well then.
Also note that the stores are piling out with software compatible with your video card. Obviously if you want to get the latest and greatest, you will suffer the consequences. Even then, you can disable some of the advanced settings and get kicking. If you are a die-hard gamer that wants the latest and greatest? Sure buy one with a separate video card. Even AGP 4x still works pretty well afaik.
If you would own an X-box, you would have to suffer the same level of performance throughout its lifetime, and hope that the next console will still support the games you just bought. And for games; try buying online - titles enough, who needs stores with their unsellable surplus of plastic wrapped boxes?
Eh, when did AMD processors not perform up to their numbers? The last ones I remember were the 200 and 233 MX chips, now long lost in history. Yes, there were some problems with chipsets, but that is history as well - my VIA based motherboards have been performing pretty well since some initial USB problems at the very start, thank you. I've got three running (1400, 2400XP and Via EPIA) right now.
The best thing speaking for Intel now is just their name and their chipsets. In the desktop and maybe server processor branche their is little to gain for them: - more expensive CPU's - more heat (thus more noise) - less power - less headroom - more memory bandwith needed (expensive memory)
On the chipset side though: - PCI-X - Well performing GB ethernet - Integrated (well performing) S-ATA (RAID) - Their new onboard sound system coming up - BX form factor
So I think that AMD can make a bit of a difference by providing a nice cheap all-round solution which packs some/all of these features.
When the chipset advantage of Intel removed they've got little left. Unless they come up with something smart, e.g. from their mobile processors.
I wouldn't want to see either Intel or AMD disappear from the scene just yet. Lets hope they will get out of this mess. When the market is 50/50 or so:)
I had to look up ICBM (intercontinental balistic missile) but that does not seem to imply militarization of space. Maybe it skirts space itself, but that's another matter. Are highways militarized too? No? Tanks can roll over it no problem (as demonstrated in Bagdad).
From the article:
Plans for a 'thin constellation of three to six spacecraft' in orbit, which would target enemy missiles as they took off or landed, are planned, according to Hitchens. The document, said Hitchens, signals that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which outlaws the use of weapons in orbit, will be ignored.
If that does not denote militarization of space, I don't know what does. But it seems to me that this is just another part of the "fuck the world opinion" attitude displayed by the Bush administration. Lets not be too surprised when other countries will copy this behaviour from the great western leader, e.g. regarding non-proliferation treaties.
So, no, this does not show too much. It does show that some nasties have gone down (but hey, 15 millions of tons of CO is still prety bad) but shows nothign about green gas nr1 CO^2.
Bah, my internet provider tried to organize a copyright free festival. The local RIAA (the Netherlands) would not stand for it, they had to pay up anyway. All the artists had agreed, but due to their record contracts (which included this local RIAA, called Buma/Stemra) they were not the ones making that decision. In other words, if you have a record contract you may never be able to produce free music again.
It always amazes me that people still think that the war is not about oil. It certainly wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, certainly not about any al qaida links and least of all to create a democratic Iraq. Any weapons of mass destruction (even if they were there) did not threaten the US, Saddam was a ruthless but not very religious leader, and in Kuweit a non-democratic regime was re-installed without so much of a blink of an eye. Note that Bush Jr was already shouting that he would "finish the job" before 9-11, something that people somehow tend to forget.
A poster in a demonstration against the war in Iraq summed it up nicely: There are 710 reasons to go to war with Iraq.
and the fission products (the real "nuclear waste") needs to be isolated for only a few thousand years
Ah, only a few thousand years. Phew, I was just worrying what would happen to the by-products, but we just need to store it for a few thousand years and we're home free. Do you have any idea how long a few thousand years is? I mean, most of human civilization was within a few thousand years.
Er, sorry, but that just such bullshit. The company you work for is conning its customers. Companies like that make it much harder for the consumer to get the best stuff for the lowest price. Isn't that what the free market is all about? If it was selling cheap cheese, the consumer could buy a different brand tomorrow. For computers, that's something an average consumer is not able to do.
That's why, even if your hard drive states a one year warranty, a consumer can ask for a replacement of the drive within at least three years over here in the Netherlands. And this goes for any product with a long life expectancy.
Besides that it removes the meta information in classes. Or renames actually. In Java, all class and member names are available (for reflection) after compilation. This makes the design rather obvious, even without decompilation. Renaming them to counters (a, b, c etc.) makes it pretty hard to see the design straight away. As long as you don't use these classes from outside, this does not do anything to functionality of the program.
Normally, you would only do this after debugging your code. Obviously, it might make your nice, readable stack traces after an exception pretty hard to read. I've got some Java applications and even libraries that have been obfuscated. I could decompile them but it certainly would take time. In the case of the libraries, the classes used as interface to the user are kept unobfuscated, obviously.
Actually he got another job at the justice dept to make use of his expert knowledge. I'm afraid that my hope that he now is cleaning up the toilets is in vain. The problem is indeed as mentioned; he should never EVER had this information on his home PC in the first place. He mentioned that a virus destroyed his PC. How the hell did he catch a virus on his home PC? Simple. It was directly connected to the internet. They cleaned out his mail account three days afterwards. Tar pit is too good for dinosaurs like him.
The Dutch peacekeepers had strict orders not to attack the Serbs. They were outnumbered in a place that could never be defended due to its geographics. They witnessed the separation of women, children and the men, but they were quite powerless to prevent it. The killing took place afterwards. Moreover, the support from the leading commanders was also very poor (no airpower etc). Maybe they could have done more, maybe not.
As for the other part, not being able to solve conflicts (in a military way) is totally different from attacking a souvereign country and actually initiating combat. Also, with all it's military powers, what actual wars have you been preventing? I can think of a few countries (Somalia) where US troops were not that successful either. The last word on Iraq and Afganistan is not said either.
But yes, in its current role Europe does seem to be quite powerless. I'm not that sure that I would like that to change. Lets put our money into better causes than making war (lets get rid of import restrictions for third world countries, for starters).
Strange. I've got the feel that they are describing something really, really obvious. I still haven't got a clue what it means though. How the hell can you be sure not to break a patent this way? I believe someone tried to get a patent on the wheel by this means... didn't he succeed?
If these techniques are as foolproof as that deployed by the RIAA, we'll be laughing our ass off in no-time.
Unfortunately, before sueing anybody, they have probably looked into the matter. Problem is of course the low cost and high possible return rate of these kind of lawsuits. Kinda like spam. Hmmm nice analogy.
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- Iraq attacked Kuweit because of the enourmous amounds of ___ they were removing from under Iraq. - The Texas ___ companies were quickly running out of ___ and needed to replenish that elsewhere. - The only way to regain some of the billions lost due to the war in Iraq is by getting cheap ___. - The only govenment building protected by US troops directly after the war was the ministry of ___. - The Bin Laden family is friends with the Bush family because of ___. - There are countless countries with terrible regimes, but they don't have any ___. - The dictatorial regime in Kuweit was put back in office in return for ___.
And, to be fair:
- One (the?) reason that Europe was against the war was that the Sadam regime was asking for Euro's in return for its ___.
Now could some journalist find out where the ___ is going, for what price, and who is cashing in on it? I've not seen any reports on that either in Europe or on US television channels. I do know that you can make loads of money working for American oil companies in Iraq, so maybe that's a hint...
As European citizen I don't mind if you go vote for Bush, as long as you don't buy the load of bull that has been spread before, during and after the war.
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In the Netherlands you pay a small amount in advance, and you can bring back old equipment to stores that sell the equipment. Unfortunately they did away with that for stuff like building materials (you have to pay them to pick it up), which means that that stuff gets dumped a lot. People should always pay in advance to get rid of their trash.
After saying all that, can you actually still read the 'C' on your keyboard?
Our company was looking for an application programmer/maintainer. One of the less interesting jobs in my opinion. We've got some new blood now, but it took a very long time and 300+ applications (job applications that is :) to get to the right person if I'm not mistaken.
The problem with the high unemployment rate is that _anyone_ will react on any job offer. It takes a lot of time for a company to sift through all this reactions and seperate the good few from the abundant bad.
A hint; don't go doing nothing but take a low income job and study and look for a job in the mean time. Companies don't trust long periods between jobs as I found out the soft way (I was hired just before it all came tumbling down, lucky me, but they didn't like it).
Maybe you could borrow some money of some unregistered thug on the street, say against 25% a year (or break your bones). Then you could pay of your debts with the money and apply for a security clearance. With the money you earn you can repay your dept to the thug. If you get in a tight spot, you can always sell some security related information.
Uh oh, there goes my clearance.
In the Netherlands this is one thing that the government is proposing to do; putting off the retirement age. What this will do is that a lot of people will have to work when they don't want to anymore, that younger (and cheaper) people aren't hired any more.
Besides that, you will have to look carefully for whom you CAN put the retirement age higher. Nobody wants to build houses or streets, help handicapped people (very demanding job) etc until they are 70. For some jobs even 65 can be too demanding actually, take firefighters. Actually, I can hardly see myself in my current job at 70.
Especially in the short term, highering the retirement age is _very_ bad for the economy, and I would warn against the serious side effects it may cause. Besides that you might want to ask yourself if someone who has payed up all his life to quit at 65 (building the country, they will probably call it), now has to work up to 70.
In the Netherlands that was one of the reasons 250.000 (and probably more, the centre of Amsterdam was filled to the max) people demonstrated against goverment movements in this direction. This was the second largest demonstration ever in NL.
Hi Elendal,
Seems to be a perfect little server board. If you will be running Windows the serial ATA raid may be an option. Software raid does not work for the system drive afaik. Under linux you are probably better off using software raid. The cheap SATA raid will not have any strong processor in it anyway. Don't go cheap on the raid controller, or do it in software. No point in messing with promise or other crap if you've already got it on-board.
I looked at a review and it said the (only) weak point is the lack of USB-2.0 and firewire. Well, boohoo. A simple USB-2.0 add on card will do the trick for USB-2.0 and a soundblaster audigy will do nicely regarding the missing firewire port (no sound either).
Happy configuring.
As said before (by me) the original Kazaa programmers did not put in any spyware. That was after it was sold (by a rogue team member) to another company.
Am I the only one that thinks that ATI has made some weird decissions for this chipset? First of all, no ethernet? Everybody needs ethernet nowadays. Rather 2 than 1.
Then it is aimed at a high end processor with chipset features that cannot compete with any high end motherboard. 2 channel sound, and you can't get graphic performance unless you buy additional memory. No native command queing either (I've never actually seen anyone USE 4 drive 0+1 raid, so they're excused for that).
Ok, the PCI express is nice to have, but are companies that need a cheap PC going to line up to buy PCI express add on cards? Neh. So who exactly is this chipset aimed at? Since I haven't got a clue.
It doesn't need to have 2 AGP channels. The video is integrated into the northbridge, which can access memory and CPU fine by itself, thank you very much. So it needs just one AGP channel to support the additional add on card.
I've got an integrated video on my mobo at work, and an NVIDIA 5200 AGP graphics card to support my two monitors. 3 would be nice, but most multi-monitor functionality is supported by the NVidia drivers. So that won't work with the Intel on board video. Not that I would like that trap enabled anyway.
ATI does provide a DVI connector, so 3 flat screens is a real possibility for those lucky few that can afford it. Note that Matrox supports 3 DVI monitors with one graphics card though.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point...
Most problems with drivers for products tend to show up when the hardware is just released. Is your Radeon 9800 working correctly? Well then.
Also note that the stores are piling out with software compatible with your video card. Obviously if you want to get the latest and greatest, you will suffer the consequences. Even then, you can disable some of the advanced settings and get kicking. If you are a die-hard gamer that wants the latest and greatest? Sure buy one with a separate video card. Even AGP 4x still works pretty well afaik.
If you would own an X-box, you would have to suffer the same level of performance throughout its lifetime, and hope that the next console will still support the games you just bought. And for games; try buying online - titles enough, who needs stores with their unsellable surplus of plastic wrapped boxes?
Eh, when did AMD processors not perform up to their numbers? The last ones I remember were the 200 and 233 MX chips, now long lost in history. Yes, there were some problems with chipsets, but that is history as well - my VIA based motherboards have been performing pretty well since some initial USB problems at the very start, thank you. I've got three running (1400, 2400XP and Via EPIA) right now.
:)
The best thing speaking for Intel now is just their name and their chipsets. In the desktop and maybe server processor branche their is little to gain for them:
- more expensive CPU's
- more heat (thus more noise)
- less power
- less headroom
- more memory bandwith needed (expensive memory)
On the chipset side though:
- PCI-X
- Well performing GB ethernet
- Integrated (well performing) S-ATA (RAID)
- Their new onboard sound system coming up
- BX form factor
So I think that AMD can make a bit of a difference by providing a nice cheap all-round solution which packs some/all of these features.
When the chipset advantage of Intel removed they've got little left. Unless they come up with something smart, e.g. from their mobile processors.
I wouldn't want to see either Intel or AMD disappear from the scene just yet. Lets hope they will get out of this mess. When the market is 50/50 or so
I had to look up ICBM (intercontinental balistic missile) but that does not seem to imply militarization of space. Maybe it skirts space itself, but that's another matter. Are highways militarized too? No? Tanks can roll over it no problem (as demonstrated in Bagdad).
From the article:
Plans for a 'thin constellation of three to six spacecraft' in orbit, which would target enemy missiles as they took off or landed, are planned, according to Hitchens. The document, said Hitchens, signals that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which outlaws the use of weapons in orbit, will be ignored.
If that does not denote militarization of space, I don't know what does. But it seems to me that this is just another part of the "fuck the world opinion" attitude displayed by the Bush administration. Lets not be too surprised when other countries will copy this behaviour from the great western leader, e.g. regarding non-proliferation treaties.
Those of us that use Perl as more than just system duct-tape know it's a programming language.
Those of you that use Perl for more than just system duct-tape should have their head examined.
Note title.
So, no, this does not show too much. It does show that some nasties have gone down (but hey, 15 millions of tons of CO is still prety bad) but shows nothign about green gas nr1 CO^2.
Bah, my internet provider tried to organize a copyright free festival. The local RIAA (the Netherlands) would not stand for it, they had to pay up anyway. All the artists had agreed, but due to their record contracts (which included this local RIAA, called Buma/Stemra) they were not the ones making that decision. In other words, if you have a record contract you may never be able to produce free music again.
Just before penquins like me start looking at it...
It always amazes me that people still think that the war is not about oil. It certainly wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, certainly not about any al qaida links and least of all to create a democratic Iraq. Any weapons of mass destruction (even if they were there) did not threaten the US, Saddam was a ruthless but not very religious leader, and in Kuweit a non-democratic regime was re-installed without so much of a blink of an eye. Note that Bush Jr was already shouting that he would "finish the job" before 9-11, something that people somehow tend to forget.
A poster in a demonstration against the war in Iraq summed it up nicely: There are 710 reasons to go to war with Iraq.
and the fission products (the real "nuclear waste") needs to be isolated for only a few thousand years
Ah, only a few thousand years. Phew, I was just worrying what would happen to the by-products, but we just need to store it for a few thousand years and we're home free. Do you have any idea how long a few thousand years is? I mean, most of human civilization was within a few thousand years.
Er, sorry, but that just such bullshit. The company you work for is conning its customers. Companies like that make it much harder for the consumer to get the best stuff for the lowest price. Isn't that what the free market is all about? If it was selling cheap cheese, the consumer could buy a different brand tomorrow. For computers, that's something an average consumer is not able to do.
That's why, even if your hard drive states a one year warranty, a consumer can ask for a replacement of the drive within at least three years over here in the Netherlands. And this goes for any product with a long life expectancy.
Besides that it removes the meta information in classes. Or renames actually. In Java, all class and member names are available (for reflection) after compilation. This makes the design rather obvious, even without decompilation. Renaming them to counters (a, b, c etc.) makes it pretty hard to see the design straight away. As long as you don't use these classes from outside, this does not do anything to functionality of the program.
Normally, you would only do this after debugging your code. Obviously, it might make your nice, readable stack traces after an exception pretty hard to read. I've got some Java applications and even libraries that have been obfuscated. I could decompile them but it certainly would take time. In the case of the libraries, the classes used as interface to the user are kept unobfuscated, obviously.
Actually he got another job at the justice dept to make use of his expert knowledge. I'm afraid that my hope that he now is cleaning up the toilets is in vain. The problem is indeed as mentioned; he should never EVER had this information on his home PC in the first place. He mentioned that a virus destroyed his PC. How the hell did he catch a virus on his home PC? Simple. It was directly connected to the internet. They cleaned out his mail account three days afterwards. Tar pit is too good for dinosaurs like him.
The Dutch peacekeepers had strict orders not to attack the Serbs. They were outnumbered in a place that could never be defended due to its geographics. They witnessed the separation of women, children and the men, but they were quite powerless to prevent it. The killing took place afterwards. Moreover, the support from the leading commanders was also very poor (no airpower etc). Maybe they could have done more, maybe not.
As for the other part, not being able to solve conflicts (in a military way) is totally different from attacking a souvereign country and actually initiating combat. Also, with all it's military powers, what actual wars have you been preventing? I can think of a few countries (Somalia) where US troops were not that successful either. The last word on Iraq and Afganistan is not said either.
But yes, in its current role Europe does seem to be quite powerless. I'm not that sure that I would like that to change. Lets put our money into better causes than making war (lets get rid of import restrictions for third world countries, for starters).
Strange. I've got the feel that they are describing something really, really obvious. I still haven't got a clue what it means though. How the hell can you be sure not to break a patent this way? I believe someone tried to get a patent on the wheel by this means ... didn't he succeed?
If these techniques are as foolproof as that deployed by the RIAA, we'll be laughing our ass off in no-time.
Unfortunately, before sueing anybody, they have probably looked into the matter. Problem is of course the low cost and high possible return rate of these kind of lawsuits. Kinda like spam. Hmmm nice analogy.
Ok, I will finaly gain some enemies on /. Oh well, so be it.
- Iraq attacked Kuweit because of the enourmous amounds of ___ they were removing from under Iraq.
- The Texas ___ companies were quickly running out of ___ and needed to replenish that elsewhere.
- The only way to regain some of the billions lost due to the war in Iraq is by getting cheap ___.
- The only govenment building protected by US troops directly after the war was the ministry of ___.
- The Bin Laden family is friends with the Bush family because of ___.
- There are countless countries with terrible regimes, but they don't have any ___.
- The dictatorial regime in Kuweit was put back in office in return for ___.
And, to be fair:
- One (the?) reason that Europe was against the war was that the Sadam regime was asking for Euro's in return for its ___.
Now could some journalist find out where the ___ is going, for what price, and who is cashing in on it? I've not seen any reports on that either in Europe or on US television channels. I do know that you can make loads of money working for American oil companies in Iraq, so maybe that's a hint...
As European citizen I don't mind if you go vote for Bush, as long as you don't buy the load of bull that has been spread before, during and after the war.