Ah, but you assume that the RIAA as *limited* legal resources avaliable to oppose to Mr Beckerman, which is not the case. Mr Beckerman can be as obnoxious as he wants, but he never will personnaly cause any bottleneck at the RIAA legal dept.
Of course, publishing his legal angles of attack makes for a nice *distributed* system: any lawyer can use what he tries and know in advance succesful attacks. A guerilla corps of lawyers *can* clog the RIAA lawyer dept, as opposed to only one.
Face it: anybody can "become" an IT/programming pro overnight. The level of professionalism displayed in the domain is quite bad, with a lot of unqualified (stupid is too vague) people everywhere, and nobody(esp. consulting firms) wanting to be honest on the skill level of anybody.
You are part of a *trade* that can easily be compared with used-car salesmanship. You HAVE to prove you are the wheat inside the pile of chaff. To become a *profession*, the IT/programming field would have to start regulating itself (bar-style) and it's practitionners would have to start standing behind it's results (no EULA no-responsibility-for-results crap).
Embrace the tests, and see them as a productive way to show how good you are. They should boost your CV over the bullshit-laden ones!
Maybe they will build an armed protection fleet, which would make Google the first military-capable corporation outside of mercenary "consultancies"(i.e.: Blackwater). This all sounds too Shadowrun (v1) for me, and at the same time plausible.
The support argument goes exactly like this: if we can't resolve a problem who is responsible? The answer with vendor software is : the vendor, not me!
If you go open source, the answer becomes me which is a bad place to be in a close future time.
And THAT is why open-source gets the pass. But if an outside private firm offers a support contract for some open-source software, then the argument goes away. Pay the contract, responsibility goes to them.
Let's see what happens if said kids need medical care. That's no lifestyle choice, right?
What do we have behind door 2 Jane? Oh Michael we have a few hundred thousand dollars in doctor fees, and our contestant has to forfeit everything AND repay his new debts for 20 years. Thanks for playing!
I'm late to the discussion, but you could be interested in this info.
If you want to know hot to make a thermally efficient house, just ask the people in the coldest climates. The province of Quebec in Canada has a nice program that explains how an efficient house can be build or retrofitted; Novoclimat - google translation
I looked at the wikipedia article, and one major thing is missing from the design. R60 on the roof is OK, but you should have a dead space in there to make the insulation more effective. Take the diagram in the article and cut the pointy part of the house from the rest (imagine a floor where it starts). leave that space empty and insulate the floor of that part. You get space to pack on 2 ft(or more!) of cheap cellulose insulation PLUS the remaining air that serves as more insulation. That's how houses have been traditionally made in Quebec: the insulation has been successively straw, grain, etc. The dead space is super-hot in the summer (hotter than outside because of the radiant heat of the roof tiles) and somewhat cold in the winter (halfway between inside and outside) Just don't forget to put vents in there to keep moisture out!
Nah, get him an IP-phone. The kind that attaches automatically to any wifi hotspot. He'll be the coolest guy on the bunch when he tells his homies how little he pays for his not-cellphone! (NOT, but a geek can dream...)
The problem is, you won't be able to be "online" all the time, perpetually. Everybody needs downtime to freshen up and lower the stress level. You may keep this up for a few months, a few years even; the need won't go away.
I don't say you HAVE to watch TV or pass time on video games. It is good that you realized that you have a finite amount of time to *invest* on anything. All you have to do is choose *where* to invest.
The places you invest in do not have to pay dividends; I for one use 8 hours or more of my week to dance (Balboa swing-dancing). Won't make me the next Frankie Manning, and I don't care as long as I have fun. That is downtime. Guitar playing can be downtime if done for fun. Taking 2 weeks off to laze on the beach is intensive downtime. Doing repair work on your car or contributing to an OSS project can be downtime IF it is done on a "time-permitting" basis.
All told the message is: do stuff, but don't push yourself in a burnout. Welcome the the world of people who do stuff!
I agree, but there is competition in their field: Jehovah's witnesses.
- mandatory giving of all possessions to the church upon joining: check - mental degradation and programmation: check - harassing of critics and ex-members: check
Total time spent with Bell: no phone, no mail, just the final bill for the amount of 0$. I like the sound of that. The rates at Babytel look higher than what I get from Les.net but Babytel looks like a full-service outfit instead of just the basic access that I want. I wonder if Les.net does the same number porting thing. I'm going to look into that - especially if it means I don't have to call Bell myself. To my knowledge, number portability is mandatory; I don't know if les.net is used to doing it. I almost went with them, but I prefered Babytel because they offer the whole shebang for little more: caller ID, voicemail (by email if wanted), call waiting...
I know I am still indirectly doing business with Bell for the DSL, but at least *I* don't have to communicate with them. The copper has never been part of the problem.
I switched from Bell to Teksavvy dry DSL + VoIP with BabyTel. Excellent quality since I enabled QoS on my own router (linksys with Tomato), and the service is A+.
I got to keep my phone number, but it cost me some $$: to be sure that the number is not reassigned before it is transfered, I followed these steps: 1- sign up with Babytel 2- send a "number portability" form, signed, by fax to Babytel 3- wait 30 days for the move to be done 4- profit! Bell cuts off my phone line automatically when the number is gone.
Total cost: 1 month's fees due to the overlap (25$ Bell line + 12$ for the Babytel line).
Total hassle: fill and fax 1 form, email twice to Babytel to know the procedure and confirm.
Total time spent with Bell: no phone, no mail, just the final bill for the amount of 0$.
Nice argument, nice presentation, totally based on bullshit.
Connections and bandwith are not necessarily interconnected like you assume. Any moderately smart network appliance (e.g. Tomato for home routers) can measure bandwidth per source irrespective of the number of connections. So saying that the "big bad hacker" who opens 100 connections clogs the pipes for everyone is just spin doctoring the issue.
The other problem with your argument is that it is not only P2P programs that open flurries of connections. Browsers will often create as many connections as there are files included in a given webpage, and the minimum possible number is the number of separate servers hosting the page's content. Example: this page loads "stuff" from 6 different servers, and is made from 22 separate elements; Firefox loads that in 12 steps, with the maximum concurrent number of connections at 8. MSN.com will multiply those numbers by 4.
I had to "rescue" my parent's HP PC, and the disc included in the box was not useful since it relied on the presence of "the partition" on the HDD. The CD (yes, not DVD) was just some glorified Windows XP boot disk (with branding!) which installed the contents of the partition.
I had to call HP support to get the "real" recovery disks sent by mail. At least they did not charge for the favor... I was lucky that the foulup happened within 2 years of purchase!
You are making the assumption that the recovery disk contains all that. In fact, most of the recovery content is on your hard disk. Now, if you try to repair your PC after the original HDD fails what happens? You have a nice shiny disc, a legitimate paper "licence" to Windows and no way to install it back.
Surprise!
THAT is what makes "recovery disks" crap, even more than the bloatware and crapware.
Judging from your definition, what you are looking for is a project manager or architect. A good programmer has good programming and analytic skills. A PM manages the project, it's scope, the deliverables and schedule, etc. An architect makes the project's structure, deliverables, parameters, etc.
Current chemotherapy aims to kill tumors, NOT stop metastasing. Of course, if it kills established tumors, it can also kill small, weaker tumors that are the consequence of metastasis.
Metastasis can be described like an original tumor sending peons elsewhere in the body to establish new colonies (tumors).
So this CBD compound could prevent the problem from spreading, but not end it.
Try just about anything from Unibroue, except the "U". Beers that have a lot of taste and are of excellent quality. And the "Fin du monde" ("End of the world") has 9% alcohol content!
As for Echelon, the system spies on us without any telco involvement needed... and the multi-national nature of the beast means that the UK part spies on canadians and vice versa.
I'll take a few seconds to punch a nice hole in your argument:
The effect of smoking on minors is DIFFERENT than on adults. I don't have time to give you references, but off the top of my head I can tell you it affects the growth of children; obviously your growing up is all done by the time you are 18.
So: there is NO number of cigarettes that has the same effect on an adult than a child, which kills your argument at #3.
Kraftmark Company created a two-part epoxy-like substance especially for the project. See the page in the wiki.
I'm not qualified to discuss the material's properties, but the pics show nice results.
This calculation is good, but most cars weigh a little more than 1000 kg. To give you a comparison point, the 2003 Mazda Miata weighs 1060 kg empty.
But, as another poster said, the energy to lift a cars equals the energy to lower same car minus the efficiency losses. So the energy spent is just a "starting cost", most of which you get back . Kinda like putting your cash in a bank.
Hey, I know where you are, my grandmother was completely away because of Alzheimer's for a whole decade. Only thing she did in that time was walk around and mumble half-remembered words.
Before that, she kept asking to go back to the family mill (water-powered, burned down in 1935) and see her father. Strangely, she never forgot my grandfather until she couldn't say his name anymore. He had almost worn himself out caring for her before we took her to a nursing home; maintaining a 24h surveilance can't be done at home.
The hardest part in alzheimer's is the long decline when the person and the family feels it. Must be frightening to feel your own brain running away from you. When everything was gone, my grandmother looked happy, laughed when we visited and walked all around her nursing home... but she wasn't *there* anymore.
Hang on, and don't forget that life is good anyway. Remember that she won't in a few minutes and get help to care for her. If nursing homes scare you, have a certified nurse come at home a few days a week.
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Ah, but you assume that the RIAA as *limited* legal resources avaliable to oppose to Mr Beckerman, which is not the case. Mr Beckerman can be as obnoxious as he wants, but he never will personnaly cause any bottleneck at the RIAA legal dept.
Of course, publishing his legal angles of attack makes for a nice *distributed* system: any lawyer can use what he tries and know in advance succesful attacks. A guerilla corps of lawyers *can* clog the RIAA lawyer dept, as opposed to only one.
Very interesting! If only I could spend points on you...
Thanks!
Face it: anybody can "become" an IT/programming pro overnight. The level of professionalism displayed in the domain is quite bad, with a lot of unqualified (stupid is too vague) people everywhere, and nobody(esp. consulting firms) wanting to be honest on the skill level of anybody.
You are part of a *trade* that can easily be compared with used-car salesmanship. You HAVE to prove you are the wheat inside the pile of chaff. To become a *profession*, the IT/programming field would have to start regulating itself (bar-style) and it's practitionners would have to start standing behind it's results (no EULA no-responsibility-for-results crap).
Embrace the tests, and see them as a productive way to show how good you are. They should boost your CV over the bullshit-laden ones!
Interesting line of inquiry!
Maybe they will build an armed protection fleet, which would make Google the first military-capable corporation outside of mercenary "consultancies"(i.e.: Blackwater). This all sounds too Shadowrun (v1) for me, and at the same time plausible.
The support argument goes exactly like this: if we can't resolve a problem who is responsible? The answer with vendor software is : the vendor, not me!
If you go open source, the answer becomes me which is a bad place to be in a close future time.
And THAT is why open-source gets the pass. But if an outside private firm offers a support contract for some open-source software, then the argument goes away. Pay the contract, responsibility goes to them.
Let's see what happens if said kids need medical care. That's no lifestyle choice, right?
What do we have behind door 2 Jane? Oh Michael we have a few hundred thousand dollars in doctor fees, and our contestant has to forfeit everything AND repay his new debts for 20 years. Thanks for playing!
I'm late to the discussion, but you could be interested in this info.
If you want to know hot to make a thermally efficient house, just ask the people in the coldest climates. The province of Quebec in Canada has a nice program that explains how an efficient house can be build or retrofitted; Novoclimat - google translation
I looked at the wikipedia article, and one major thing is missing from the design. R60 on the roof is OK, but you should have a dead space in there to make the insulation more effective. Take the diagram in the article and cut the pointy part of the house from the rest (imagine a floor where it starts). leave that space empty and insulate the floor of that part. You get space to pack on 2 ft(or more!) of cheap cellulose insulation PLUS the remaining air that serves as more insulation. That's how houses have been traditionally made in Quebec: the insulation has been successively straw, grain, etc. The dead space is super-hot in the summer (hotter than outside because of the radiant heat of the roof tiles) and somewhat cold in the winter (halfway between inside and outside) Just don't forget to put vents in there to keep moisture out!
Nah, get him an IP-phone. The kind that attaches automatically to any wifi hotspot. He'll be the coolest guy on the bunch when he tells his homies how little he pays for his not-cellphone! (NOT, but a geek can dream...)
I have to find a workplace with 99% women.
:-P
Should make for instant morale boosting every time I lift my head from code
.... that'll buff right out.
You can also get the "Official Dilbert widget" on your iGoogle page. Works like a charm.
The problem is, you won't be able to be "online" all the time, perpetually. Everybody needs downtime to freshen up and lower the stress level. You may keep this up for a few months, a few years even; the need won't go away.
I don't say you HAVE to watch TV or pass time on video games. It is good that you realized that you have a finite amount of time to *invest* on anything. All you have to do is choose *where* to invest.
The places you invest in do not have to pay dividends; I for one use 8 hours or more of my week to dance (Balboa swing-dancing). Won't make me the next Frankie Manning, and I don't care as long as I have fun. That is downtime. Guitar playing can be downtime if done for fun. Taking 2 weeks off to laze on the beach is intensive downtime. Doing repair work on your car or contributing to an OSS project can be downtime IF it is done on a "time-permitting" basis.
All told the message is: do stuff, but don't push yourself in a burnout. Welcome the the world of people who do stuff!
I agree, but there is competition in their field: Jehovah's witnesses.
- mandatory giving of all possessions to the church upon joining: check
- mental degradation and programmation: check
- harassing of critics and ex-members: check
To my knowledge, number portability is mandatory; I don't know if les.net is used to doing it. I almost went with them, but I prefered Babytel because they offer the whole shebang for little more: caller ID, voicemail (by email if wanted), call waiting...
I know I am still indirectly doing business with Bell for the DSL, but at least *I* don't have to communicate with them. The copper has never been part of the problem.
I switched from Bell to Teksavvy dry DSL + VoIP with BabyTel. Excellent quality since I enabled QoS on my own router (linksys with Tomato), and the service is A+.
I got to keep my phone number, but it cost me some $$: to be sure that the number is not reassigned before it is transfered, I followed these steps:
1- sign up with Babytel
2- send a "number portability" form, signed, by fax to Babytel
3- wait 30 days for the move to be done
4- profit! Bell cuts off my phone line automatically when the number is gone.
Total cost: 1 month's fees due to the overlap (25$ Bell line + 12$ for the Babytel line).
Total hassle: fill and fax 1 form, email twice to Babytel to know the procedure and confirm.
Total time spent with Bell: no phone, no mail, just the final bill for the amount of 0$.
Nice argument, nice presentation, totally based on bullshit.
Connections and bandwith are not necessarily interconnected like you assume. Any moderately smart network appliance (e.g. Tomato for home routers) can measure bandwidth per source irrespective of the number of connections. So saying that the "big bad hacker" who opens 100 connections clogs the pipes for everyone is just spin doctoring the issue.
The other problem with your argument is that it is not only P2P programs that open flurries of connections. Browsers will often create as many connections as there are files included in a given webpage, and the minimum possible number is the number of separate servers hosting the page's content. Example: this page loads "stuff" from 6 different servers, and is made from 22 separate elements; Firefox loads that in 12 steps, with the maximum concurrent number of connections at 8. MSN.com will multiply those numbers by 4.
I had to "rescue" my parent's HP PC, and the disc included in the box was not useful since it relied on the presence of "the partition" on the HDD. The CD (yes, not DVD) was just some glorified Windows XP boot disk (with branding!) which installed the contents of the partition.
I had to call HP support to get the "real" recovery disks sent by mail. At least they did not charge for the favor... I was lucky that the foulup happened within 2 years of purchase!
You are making the assumption that the recovery disk contains all that. In fact, most of the recovery content is on your hard disk. Now, if you try to repair your PC after the original HDD fails what happens? You have a nice shiny disc, a legitimate paper "licence" to Windows and no way to install it back.
Surprise!
THAT is what makes "recovery disks" crap, even more than the bloatware and crapware.
That's not the definition of a programmer at all.
Judging from your definition, what you are looking for is a project manager or architect. A good programmer has good programming and analytic skills. A PM manages the project, it's scope, the deliverables and schedule, etc. An architect makes the project's structure, deliverables, parameters, etc.
Metastasis can be described like an original tumor sending peons elsewhere in the body to establish new colonies (tumors).
So this CBD compound could prevent the problem from spreading, but not end it.
As for Echelon, the system spies on us without any telco involvement needed... and the multi-national nature of the beast means that the UK part spies on canadians and vice versa.
I'll take a few seconds to punch a nice hole in your argument:
:-P
The effect of smoking on minors is DIFFERENT than on adults. I don't have time to give you references, but off the top of my head I can tell you it affects the growth of children; obviously your growing up is all done by the time you are 18.
So: there is NO number of cigarettes that has the same effect on an adult than a child, which kills your argument at #3.
QED. And I want my 1$ too
Kraftmark Company created a two-part epoxy-like substance especially for the project. See the page in the wiki. I'm not qualified to discuss the material's properties, but the pics show nice results.
This calculation is good, but most cars weigh a little more than 1000 kg. To give you a comparison point, the 2003 Mazda Miata weighs 1060 kg empty.
But, as another poster said, the energy to lift a cars equals the energy to lower same car minus the efficiency losses. So the energy spent is just a "starting cost", most of which you get back . Kinda like putting your cash in a bank.
Hey, I know where you are, my grandmother was completely away because of Alzheimer's for a whole decade. Only thing she did in that time was walk around and mumble half-remembered words.
Before that, she kept asking to go back to the family mill (water-powered, burned down in 1935) and see her father. Strangely, she never forgot my grandfather until she couldn't say his name anymore. He had almost worn himself out caring for her before we took her to a nursing home; maintaining a 24h surveilance can't be done at home.
The hardest part in alzheimer's is the long decline when the person and the family feels it. Must be frightening to feel your own brain running away from you. When everything was gone, my grandmother looked happy, laughed when we visited and walked all around her nursing home... but she wasn't *there* anymore.
Hang on, and don't forget that life is good anyway. Remember that she won't in a few minutes and get help to care for her. If nursing homes scare you, have a certified nurse come at home a few days a week.