If my Cox@Home suddenly becomes AOL@Home, I am dropping that and going DSL! (Yes, I am one of those horribly spoiled people who has both cable modem and DSL service in my neighborhood! Don't I just piss you off?:) )
Typically you have to tweak your http://www to include the full name of the local head end. In my case, I have to specify http://www.omhas1.ne.home.com to get to it. Also, you can first ping the fully qualified address to get the actual IP address, then enter that address in your HOSTS file to associate it with WWW. However, Nutscrape is a bit tweaky about the address "http://www" by itself and sometimes tries weird things like www.www.com or tries to search for 'www'.
Ack! Just don't tell me that we are going to get AO-Hell shoved down our throats! I will go with DSL if that happens!
He invented the electric chair as a marketing gimmick to attempt to convince the public that alternating current was dangerous compared to his sucky direct current. The prototype was used on a criminal that I feel sorry for - it could not do the job and was reported as 'hours of forlorn moaning' before the poor guy finally died. Sick Edison kept hitting him with progressively more and more current, but severely underestimated the level needed.
This was all so Edison could continue his mini-empire of local DC-based electric monopolies, as he feared Tesla's abilities to transmit AC over very long distances through extremely arcane devices known as 'transformers' which Edison's small mind could not grok.
We continue to use, to this day, AC running at 60 Hz, due to Edison's twisted marketing. While all electricity is dangerous in foolish hands, 60 Hz is one of the most dangerous base frequencies for electricity due to it being near the operating frequency for nerve cells. It takes nearly 100 times the electricity at 14 Hz to kill a man than it does at the peak dangerousity of 60Hz.
It's sick that Edison is taught to the children to be some kind of genius hero, when in actually he was a scheming, theiving, murderer. And Telsa is nearly forgotten. Primarily for his invention that would have allowed for nearly free electrical generation by installing very very tall towers around the planet which would use the Earth's magnetic field to generate pollutionless electricity! That was severely beaten down by the energy moguls of the late 1800's - Edison and the Rockefellers (Standard Oil) who would have lost millions/billions. Standard Microsoftian practices - look how much work they are putting into knocking down Linux - a free OS that can do nothing but make the world better at the expense of some of Mr Bills fortune. Same shit, different day!
What kinda Orwellian bullshit is this? What's up with the parents going along with this? I just really am amazed by how many people go through their entire lives with blinders on - not seeing the long term effect of their actions.
This is exactly the stuff that the baby-boomers parents generation fought and died to ensure that it never happened in their country. What has happened? How did we forget?
I think the time has come for large-scale, organized protesting of this. I hope it can be done in an organized, non-violent fashion. I'm sure it can, if handled right. What cares me, is looking back through history, non-violent protest has only worked once - during the English occupation of India. (But hey, maybe that means we are finally starting to learn as a race. All the freaked out violent people have been killed over the thousands of years - evolution in action [regardless of what Kansas says!] - only the truly intelligent survive. Just like the Kzinti.)
So far, this has not happened in my daughter's school. But I make this very solemn oath: If they try to make her wear ANY kind of identity badge, I will draw the line there - You can try and take my freedom, but YOU WILL NOT TAKE THE FREEDOM OF MY CHILDREN.
I have a good life, a good job, a nice house - a lot of nice things to give up, this is what the system generally depends on to keep us in our place. However, I WILL risk all of that to ensure that freedom is not destroyed. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave - don't forget that you fucking pale slugs. I will fight, using my mind, not weapons. (Unless you fukkerz draw the first weapon, then there ain't no going back)
A good all-out rebellion is the best thing that could happen to this country. Like when you take a blasting, diarrheaic shit to get rid of unwanted waste. We are turning stagnant. It stinks!
I think the slothful-ones had better reckon that concept - never NEVER NEVER expect to let a wild animal allow you to take food from it's children, or to fuck with it in any other way. It's the same thing here... Better remember that - it's like the saying about trying to tightly grip a wet bar of soap - it'll fly right outa your hands!
To those of you out in the real world, doesn't it seem more likely that instead of a total switchover and all this bullshit world domination crap that we instead focus on integrating Linux with other systems, whether NT or AS/400 or whatever? It's way difficult to find info about cross-integration of the different platforms. At my job, Linux is finally getting it's toes in the door - doing reporting on IIS web servers running on NT. We now have the proper SAMBA communication worked out between the Linux and NT boxes, but it was a major challenge rooting through all the "Linux Rules" "Only Linux" garbage all over the net!! It would sure be a lot easier if people would get off the political jihad stuff!
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Ya big pussy. So much for brave exploration. You just sit on this festering ball of ooze until you die from (a) microbial infection, (b) the planet gets hit by a comet, or (c) hordes of uneducated morons mow you down screaming about the sky falling and Y2K and such crap.
If you do 10 trades worth $1000, and get charged a commission of $14, then your total trade is $10,000 and your total commission is $140 - thus only a 1.4% loss.
Yes, and think of the people in prison in New Hampshire forced to stamp out license plates that say "Live Free or Die!":)
I guess from a different point of view, maybe they are confused by what that statement means: Live free or die could also be understood as "Have the taxpayers pay all your bills and get your cable TV and medical coverage and food for free or die..."
Then again, isn't that what the government seems to be doing to the common citizen? Essentially locking us in a cage in return for the the false promise of "we'll make everything all better and there will never be no more ouchies for anybody again and we'll all be happy and no one would ever have to be sad or mad and we'll all be glad and you be so happy if you just submit to it and here take this pill and put this microchip in your skull"
Too many pussy whiny yuppies who do not think concepts through to completion and blindly, unconsciously equate government with the mommy and daddy they ran to crying when they were little because the other little kid "wasn't being fair". They forget the biggest difference in the equation: Mommy and Daddy Love You. The Government Hates You and wishes you would just be quiet.
(Hmmm... that would make a cool bumper sticker: Mommy and Daddy Love You... The Government Hates You":)
"Plus, I've often been told that statistics show that in the longer term, people with graduate degree often end up in managerial positions faster (team leader, project manager, etc.)"
Well.... (You're not very clued in about real world jobs I see. No insult intended, but you're in for a hell of a shock.) If little lame mid-manager jobs is what you are after, then you go ahead and take them. Mid-manager jobs are the quickest way to wasting all the education you have worked so hard to get. Soon, you'll be stuck with all kinds of non-technical issues like making little charts about how all the real workers on your team are spending their time, stuck in eternal meetings about ridiculous topics, etc. Within a year, you'll be so far out of touch with the real technology that all you'll be is the butt of "pointy haired idiot" jokes.
Clue in: If you go into a managerial role, you do NOT get to play with the technology much, and you begin the downward spiral to incompetence.
I've been there, done that. It sucks. Pursue a career path along the lines of "technical leadership" not "managerial leadership". It's a bit more of a challenge, as a lot of companies are just waking up to the concept and really don't know how to implement it.
What you want to be, if you are truely the "Way-SmartGuy" you say you are, is to be the technical leader - the guy who (1) works on the toughest coding problems, (2) is the person who all the "less gifted" come to with technical questions, and (3) who the pointy-hairs consult with to sanity-check their charts and graphs and time commitments. (Oh yah, and the technical leader is generally paid better, more respected, and considered more indispensable, than any of the pointy-hairs... Who do you really want to be??)
Being stuck with managerial responsibility really sucks rocks for those with true technical talent. Those with true technical talent generally don't need the advanced degrees. Face it, the best, most motivated people in the industry usually don't even have bachelor degrees! More power to you if you think you need an MS or PhD, but in the IT industry (as opposed to most other fields) going for the advanced degree is like keeping the training wheels on your bicycle well into puberty - it just ain't needed and in fact will bring you a lot of ridicule. Some dork with a PhD who thinks he's hot shit will cause the resident alpha engineer to spit in his general direction.
Right now is the best time for talented people to get into the real job market. Starting salaries and bonuses are the best they will probably ever be. It is not currently worth your time and effort to pursue an advanced degree. In a few years, consider it. However, right now - experience beats education hands down.
I've seen many people with advanced degrees (people who may or may not actually be able to deal with a real job and real expectactions) turned down in favor of those with less education, but a resume that proves Real World Experience.
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Entering song lyrics about self-aware computers trying to become fully human is cool too.:)
"If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person from a computer, could the computer be internally conscious? To emulate flesh machines I am learning. Isomorphic structure of mind, cellular automata, processed life. Washing the seas of memory I enact the sequence. I follow the plan, learning the rhythm still seductively generalized. When a man and machine become one, innocence is lost, a new age begun. This raises a question of philosophy. Should machines be considered a conscious entity? Nevermore - The Learning"
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(French) If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person starting from a computer, could the computer be internally conscious? To emulate the machines of the flesh which I learn. Isomorphous structure of the spirit, restaurants with the cellular reproduce-machines, treated life. Washing the seas of the state I send the command. I am the plan, learning the always generalized rate/rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine become one, innocence is destroyed, a new started age. This raises a question of philosophy. Should the machines be considered a conscious entity? Nevermore - The Study
(German) If you cannot differentiate a person from a computer linguistically, could the computer be internally conscious? Meat machines emulate, which I learn. the isomorphic process structure of the understanding life lasting zellularemaschinen. Washing the seas of the memory, I order the order. I follow the plan and learn the rhythm still seductively generalized. If a man and a machine become one, innocence, a new begun age is lost. This raises a question of philosophy. Should machines be regarded as conscious case? Nevermore - learning
(Spanish) If you cannot distinguish linguistic a person of a computer, could internally the computer be conscious? In order to emulate the machines of the meat that I am learning. Structure of the mind, cellular robustezas of Isomorfa, demanded life of. Washing to the seas of the decree of the memory the sequence. Still I follow the plan, learning the tariff seductively generalized. When a man and a machine do one, innocence, a new begun age is lost. This raises a question of the philosophy. Must conscious the machines consider an organization? Nevermore - Learning
(Portuguese) If you it could not lingüìstica differentiate a person of a computer, could internally the computer be conscious? To emulate the machines that of the meat I am learning. Structuralizes isomorphic of the mind, cellular automatons, processed life. Washing the seas of memory I decree the sequence. I still follow the plant, learning the generalized rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine if transform one, innocence are lost, a started new age. This raises a question of the philosophy. Must the machines be considered an entity conscious? Nevermore - The Learning
(Italian) If you cannot linguisticamente differentiate a person from a calcolazione, could the inner calcolazione be informed? For so that it emulates the machines that of the meat I am learning. Structure of the mind, cellular automations of Isomorfica, processed life. Washing the seas of promulgo of the memory the sequence. Still I follow the program, learning the generalized rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine of the transformano within in one, the innocence are lost, one new begun age. Those increases a philosophy problem. It would have the machines in order to consider an entity informed? Nevermore - to learn
I think I like the Italian the best: "It would have the machines in order to consider an entity informed?"
"Our mission is to prepare each person with the living, learning, and working skills and values necessary for caring, productive, and fulfilling participation in our evolving, global society."
Note that they use the word EVOLVING!!!! What a herd of complete ignoramusii!!
I had a similar incidence with Children of the Corn. In the beginning of the book (not the movie), they are trying to find a town called Lowell, Nebraska when they get lost and thus encounter "the children". When I read this, I about shit, as I was living in the middle of nowhere (in the middle of miles of corn country even) about 4 miles west of Lowell, Nebraska. I was only about 14 when I read the book and it scared the hell out of me. I did not get much sleep that night, I stayed awake listening to scary noises - the wind in the corn, the coyotes howling, etc. Even worse, there was this red-headed kid I went to school with, who lived a couple miles away from me, who looked almost exactly like Malachi!
So what is this supposed to do for Diamond? How long until we get to try to crack SDMI? Has anyone heard any dates for when this idiotic thing will be released?
But, looks more like their idea is to document being the first people to do intergalactic email, so that they can have their dumb patent. However, the patent will not last long enough for the idea to have any true intergalactic usage; so the joke's on them. What a bunch of eegnerint woosez!
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If my Cox@Home suddenly becomes AOL@Home, I am dropping that and going DSL! (Yes, I am one of those horribly spoiled people who has both cable modem and DSL service in my neighborhood! Don't I just piss you off? :) )
Ack! Just don't tell me that we are going to get AO-Hell shoved down our throats! I will go with DSL if that happens!
That's about how I felt! :)
Cool, thanks for the technical backup there! I was getting smashed by these people wholly corrupted by the Edisonians! :)
This was all so Edison could continue his mini-empire of local DC-based electric monopolies, as he feared Tesla's abilities to transmit AC over very long distances through extremely arcane devices known as 'transformers' which Edison's small mind could not grok.
We continue to use, to this day, AC running at 60 Hz, due to Edison's twisted marketing. While all electricity is dangerous in foolish hands, 60 Hz is one of the most dangerous base frequencies for electricity due to it being near the operating frequency for nerve cells. It takes nearly 100 times the electricity at 14 Hz to kill a man than it does at the peak dangerousity of 60Hz.
It's sick that Edison is taught to the children to be some kind of genius hero, when in actually he was a scheming, theiving, murderer. And Telsa is nearly forgotten. Primarily for his invention that would have allowed for nearly free electrical generation by installing very very tall towers around the planet which would use the Earth's magnetic field to generate pollutionless electricity! That was severely beaten down by the energy moguls of the late 1800's - Edison and the Rockefellers (Standard Oil) who would have lost millions/billions. Standard Microsoftian practices - look how much work they are putting into knocking down Linux - a free OS that can do nothing but make the world better at the expense of some of Mr Bills fortune. Same shit, different day!
This is exactly the stuff that the baby-boomers parents generation fought and died to ensure that it never happened in their country. What has happened? How did we forget?
I think the time has come for large-scale, organized protesting of this. I hope it can be done in an organized, non-violent fashion. I'm sure it can, if handled right. What cares me, is looking back through history, non-violent protest has only worked once - during the English occupation of India. (But hey, maybe that means we are finally starting to learn as a race. All the freaked out violent people have been killed over the thousands of years - evolution in action [regardless of what Kansas says!] - only the truly intelligent survive. Just like the Kzinti.)
I have a good life, a good job, a nice house - a lot of nice things to give up, this is what the system generally depends on to keep us in our place. However, I WILL risk all of that to ensure that freedom is not destroyed. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave - don't forget that you fucking pale slugs. I will fight, using my mind, not weapons. (Unless you fukkerz draw the first weapon, then there ain't no going back)
A good all-out rebellion is the best thing that could happen to this country. Like when you take a blasting, diarrheaic shit to get rid of unwanted waste. We are turning stagnant. It stinks!
I think the slothful-ones had better reckon that concept - never NEVER NEVER expect to let a wild animal allow you to take food from it's children, or to fuck with it in any other way. It's the same thing here... Better remember that - it's like the saying about trying to tightly grip a wet bar of soap - it'll fly right outa your hands!
info on cross-platform integration
Here is some info on cross-platform integration if you are interested.
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You tell me what's more dangerous!
First, will they realize their mistake and change the license ASAP?
Or will they just continue as is?
The big question (Or maybe their point of view) is who is actually going to be able to do anything about this if they ignore the GPL?
Uh, how does 13 years (1973-1986) equal "twenty-plus years"??? :)
Yes, my wife works for Ameritrade... :)
I guess from a different point of view, maybe they are confused by what that statement means: Live free or die could also be understood as "Have the taxpayers pay all your bills and get your cable TV and medical coverage and food for free or die..."
Then again, isn't that what the government seems to be doing to the common citizen? Essentially locking us in a cage in return for the the false promise of "we'll make everything all better and there will never be no more ouchies for anybody again and we'll all be happy and no one would ever have to be sad or mad and we'll all be glad and you be so happy if you just submit to it and here take this pill and put this microchip in your skull"
Too many pussy whiny yuppies who do not think concepts through to completion and blindly, unconsciously equate government with the mommy and daddy they ran to crying when they were little because the other little kid "wasn't being fair". They forget the biggest difference in the equation: Mommy and Daddy Love You. The Government Hates You and wishes you would just be quiet.
(Hmmm... that would make a cool bumper sticker: Mommy and Daddy Love You... The Government Hates You" :)
Well.... (You're not very clued in about real world jobs I see. No insult intended, but you're in for a hell of a shock.) If little lame mid-manager jobs is what you are after, then you go ahead and take them. Mid-manager jobs are the quickest way to wasting all the education you have worked so hard to get. Soon, you'll be stuck with all kinds of non-technical issues like making little charts about how all the real workers on your team are spending their time, stuck in eternal meetings about ridiculous topics, etc. Within a year, you'll be so far out of touch with the real technology that all you'll be is the butt of "pointy haired idiot" jokes.
Clue in: If you go into a managerial role, you do NOT get to play with the technology much, and you begin the downward spiral to incompetence.
I've been there, done that. It sucks.
Pursue a career path along the lines of "technical leadership" not "managerial leadership". It's a bit more of a challenge, as a lot of companies are just waking up to the concept and really don't know how to implement it.
What you want to be, if you are truely the "Way-SmartGuy" you say you are, is to be the technical leader - the guy who (1) works on the toughest coding problems, (2) is the person who all the "less gifted" come to with technical questions, and (3) who the pointy-hairs consult with to sanity-check their charts and graphs and time commitments. (Oh yah, and the technical leader is generally paid better, more respected, and considered more indispensable, than any of the pointy-hairs... Who do you really want to be??)
Being stuck with managerial responsibility really sucks rocks for those with true technical talent. Those with true technical talent generally don't need the advanced degrees. Face it, the best, most motivated people in the industry usually don't even have bachelor degrees! More power to you if you think you need an MS or PhD, but in the IT industry (as opposed to most other fields) going for the advanced degree is like keeping the training wheels on your bicycle well into puberty - it just ain't needed and in fact will bring you a lot of ridicule. Some dork with a PhD who thinks he's hot shit will cause the resident alpha engineer to spit in his general direction.
(Wow, that was a fun rant :) )
Go ahead and switch BACK to PNG! The more people that use them, the more likely that MS will incorporate full PNG support.
Right now is the best time for talented people to get into the real job market. Starting salaries and bonuses are the best they will probably ever be. It is not currently worth your time and effort to pursue an advanced degree. In a few years, consider it. However, right now - experience beats education hands down.
I've seen many people with advanced degrees (people who may or may not actually be able to deal with a real job and real expectactions) turned down in favor of those with less education, but a resume that proves Real World Experience.
"If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person from a computer, could the computer be internally conscious? To emulate flesh machines I am learning. Isomorphic structure of mind, cellular automata, processed life. Washing the seas of memory I enact the sequence. I follow the plan, learning the rhythm still seductively generalized. When a man and machine become one, innocence is lost, a new age begun. This raises a question of philosophy. Should machines be considered a conscious entity? Nevermore - The Learning"
- becomes -
(French)
If you cannot linguistically differentiate a person starting from a computer, could the computer be internally conscious? To emulate the machines of the flesh which I learn. Isomorphous structure of the spirit, restaurants with the cellular reproduce-machines, treated life. Washing the seas of the state I send the command. I am the plan, learning the always generalized rate/rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine become one, innocence is destroyed, a new started age. This raises a question of philosophy. Should the machines be considered a conscious entity? Nevermore - The Study
(German)
If you cannot differentiate a person from a computer linguistically, could the computer be internally conscious? Meat machines emulate, which I learn. the isomorphic process structure of the understanding life lasting zellularemaschinen. Washing the seas of the memory, I order the order. I follow the plan and learn the rhythm still seductively generalized. If a man and a machine become one, innocence, a new begun age is lost. This raises a question of philosophy. Should machines be regarded as conscious case? Nevermore - learning
(Spanish)
If you cannot distinguish linguistic a person of a computer, could internally the computer be conscious? In order to emulate the machines of the meat that I am learning. Structure of the mind, cellular robustezas of Isomorfa, demanded life of. Washing to the seas of the decree of the memory the sequence. Still I follow the plan, learning the tariff seductively generalized. When a man and a machine do one, innocence, a new begun age is lost. This raises a question of the philosophy. Must conscious the machines consider an organization? Nevermore - Learning
(Portuguese)
If you it could not lingüìstica differentiate a person of a computer, could internally the computer be conscious? To emulate the machines that of the meat I am learning. Structuralizes isomorphic of the mind, cellular automatons, processed life. Washing the seas of memory I decree the sequence. I still follow the plant, learning the generalized rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine if transform one, innocence are lost, a started new age. This raises a question of the philosophy. Must the machines be considered an entity conscious? Nevermore - The Learning
(Italian)
If you cannot linguisticamente differentiate a person from a calcolazione, could the inner calcolazione be informed? For so that it emulates the machines that of the meat I am learning. Structure of the mind, cellular automations of Isomorfica, processed life. Washing the seas of promulgo of the memory the sequence. Still I follow the program, learning the generalized rhythm seductively. When a man and a machine of the transformano within in one, the innocence are lost, one new begun age. Those increases a philosophy problem. It would have the machines in order to consider an entity informed? Nevermore - to learn
I think I like the Italian the best: "It would have the machines in order to consider an entity informed?"
What message are you referring to? What solidly accepted piece of research into what?
I just cannot believe this shit! See the message I wrote to the Kansas Commissioner of the department of education.
The most ironic thing here is that if you go to the Kansas State Department of Education website, it says that their mission statement is:
"Our mission is to prepare each person with the living, learning, and working skills and values necessary for caring, productive, and fulfilling participation in our evolving, global society."
Note that they use the word EVOLVING!!!! What a herd of complete ignoramusii!!
I had a similar incidence with Children of the Corn. In the beginning of the book (not the movie), they are trying to find a town called Lowell, Nebraska when they get lost and thus encounter "the children". When I read this, I about shit, as I was living in the middle of nowhere (in the middle of miles of corn country even) about 4 miles west of Lowell, Nebraska. I was only about 14 when I read the book and it scared the hell out of me. I did not get much sleep that night, I stayed awake listening to scary noises - the wind in the corn, the coyotes howling, etc. Even worse, there was this red-headed kid I went to school with, who lived a couple miles away from me, who looked almost exactly like Malachi!
That's funny :)
But, looks more like their idea is to document being the first people to do intergalactic email, so that they can have their dumb patent. However, the patent will not last long enough for the idea to have any true intergalactic usage; so the joke's on them. What a bunch of eegnerint woosez!
I've been on vacation all week, what is going on with Red Hat & E-Trade? Can someone please post a link to something explaining what I missed? Thanks!