Well, as EVERY post before this pointed out, MicroSoft is recommending Linux clusters!? Why is that? Well, the only thing I can think of after only 4 cups of coffee, is that they're hoping that this attempt will fail. They can then claim that they tried to help Linux, but it was so sucky that it screwed everything up. That it couldn't compete with the "real" supercomputers after all.
Just a thought.... anyone have a better explination? There has to be a different motive here.
Yeah, also M$ said that the update was only there on Friday, but the guy I work with who ran into this installed the update on Thursday and had the same problem. Also, he uses McAfee. I think the Billy is trying to make this one look to be far smaller of a problem than it actually was.
I agree, that should have been modded insightful, not funny. We have a ton of in-house apps that we don't have source for anymore, and it would be really nice to be able to update them without having to rewrite the entire thing.
Once that has been accomplished we are, I suppose, left with a Microsoft product that is ready to (careful here now) ship (Whew! Now that was one major Freudian slip just waiting to happen....).
The best part of this is just when I was getting to the word "ship", someone a few cubicals down from me yelled "OH SHIT!". =D gotta love a nice professional work place.
There is more than 0.5% sales tax in some counties. I know that Allegheny County, PA (home of Pittsburgh) has a 1% sales tax. I've heard that NY City has it's own taxes that are quite high, but I don't know that for a fact. Does anyone know this one?
Symbian is the standard and Linux is coming, leaves only PDAs, where Microsoft is still holding out
I just ordered a Sharp Zaurus from TigerDirect.com. I've been reading up on it a lot, and it seems to have a pretty damn big following. People are porting TONS of the COOLEST Java and Linux apps to it, so it's got a major abuncance of software out there. The OS itself is GPL'd. Does anyone know if it's a specific distro?
You know, it's also sad that you were modded to funny. Maybe you meant it as a joke, but there is some great truth in that statement. My college room mate was majoring in graphic design, and was very dissapointed at the strong emphasis on computers, and hardly any on hand drawing. I believe that both hand animation and cg are great mediums, but it seems that one is not used much anymore. I wish that they would both stay in heavy use. we need a hand animated MegaTokyo movie dammit!
gotta have a gig of memory [snip] If only I had a lot of money and a lot of time on my hands....but instead i'm a broke slashdotter
a gig of ram really isn't that hard right now. I'm running a gig of 266DDR, and I got it (2 512 sticks) for about $50 each, at tigerdirect. Ram's fairly cheap (not sheep) right now.
I graduated from a tech school (please do me a favor and slashdot them!!) in October of 2002. I got my "Associates in Specialized Technology Degree in Computer Programming", and it's basically worthless. I got a job as a sys admin at a really great company, but that's mostly because my dad's a manager there;). Yeah, I know enough to be an admin, but only because of stuff I learned on my own, not from school. Over half the people I went to school with can't find jobs anywhere, and these people were all really intelligent and skilled (well, most of them were). Seems that every job opening out there wants at least a bachelors degree and two years experience. Some want far more. Entry level positions that could maybe lead to programming jobs usually start out with nothing resembling programming. I know that at my company, a good portion (well over half) of our developers are over age 40, and I'd say we've got at least a few over 50 or 60. Seems that, at my company at least, it's harder for young people to get in, since our business is doing well, and we can afford to pay for experienced coders.
This is probably off topic, but it's about music sampling.... sorta... I don't know whether it should be legal or not. But every time I hear the song "Angel" by Shaggy start to play, I think it's "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band, and it pisses me off when it's not. Just had to say that.
Art deals with human emotions, feeling, states of mind[...]
Excuse me, I've seen some pieces of code that are VERY beautiful and emotional. I'm not saying that a programmer and a painter should be grouped together, but there can be some extreme beauty in a piece of code. That's like saying that minimalists aren't artists because I think that a yellow dot on a red piece of canvas doesn't draw any emotions. Other people might look at that dot and see their entire life summed up, and get all teary eyed. Different people get emotional reactions to different things. I can still remember to this day the moment I first saw and understood recursion. I nearly creamed my pants when I read through my first recursive function. That's just one of many emotional reactions I've had to beautiful code.
That's a good point you make about the monitor. Haveing a huge ol' crt is hideous. How about you put a smalelr LCD monitor on the thing somewhere. I'd say the best locations would be either the back, the top side of the chest, or the stomache, since those are the only large enough areas that are close to flat. I'd say that this might work better as a system remotely accessed, since there's not going to be much of a way to fit a large screen on it. Another possigility is to take advantage of some of the great utilities for the blind, add a screen reader or something, and not have a screen at all. The last (and very corny) solution I can think of is to give the 'girl' a 'breif case' or something with a monitor on it's side panel. It could be a radio pack on it's back, or a flame thrower tank or something, to fit the theme better. Hmm... aside from them (none of which are very good) I'm about out of ideas. Anyone got a better one?
That image needs a reference object for those of us who don't know the size of either player. If I go by "actual size" on my 17" monitor, they're both friggin' huge!;-)
well, most people who have a modem connected to a phone line use it to connect to the internet. While connected to the net is the time they are most likely to contract a virus. How will the modem dial Mongolia without them knowing if they're currently using that modem to connect to the net? If it disconnects and tries to connect to somewhere else, it would immediately alert the user.:-P
Lunar: the silver star story (either on PS, or sega cd) made me want to go on a "little adventure" that turns into a bigger adventure and leads to saving the world. If you think about it, that's how lots of things work in life. You set your sights on a smaller thing, and while attempting to acheive it, you find a bigger goal. You work towards completing it, and something life-changing (or world-saving) happens. Think about it for a bit.
Why don't our legislators spend their time protecting innocent people (Skylarov, Felten, Serebryany, etc.) from laws like the DMCA that have been abused, instead of saying "hey, it's legal to wardrive, which nobody has ever been maliciously prosecuted for"?
Well, our legislators doesn't apply unless you live in New Hampshire, since it's just a state law. Also, was the state of New Hampshire prosecuting Skylarov, Felten, or Serebryany? I don't believe so. Don't say they should be fixing things when they're things they have little to no control over. Think before you talk.
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Well, as EVERY post before this pointed out, MicroSoft is recommending Linux clusters!? Why is that? Well, the only thing I can think of after only 4 cups of coffee, is that they're hoping that this attempt will fail. They can then claim that they tried to help Linux, but it was so sucky that it screwed everything up. That it couldn't compete with the "real" supercomputers after all.
Just a thought.... anyone have a better explination? There has to be a different motive here.
Wouldn't /.ing the chess game create dupe moves, not undo the old ones?
Yeah, also M$ said that the update was only there on Friday, but the guy I work with who ran into this installed the update on Thursday and had the same problem. Also, he uses McAfee. I think the Billy is trying to make this one look to be far smaller of a problem than it actually was.
I agree, that should have been modded insightful, not funny. We have a ton of in-house apps that we don't have source for anymore, and it would be really nice to be able to update them without having to rewrite the entire thing.
Is it time to get rid of your PDA? Apparently yes, according to General Motors
but I just got it on Tuesday!! Do I really need to ditch it already? It's soooo sweet!!! =D
Once that has been accomplished we are, I suppose, left with a Microsoft product that is ready to (careful here now) ship (Whew! Now that was one major Freudian slip just waiting to happen....).
The best part of this is just when I was getting to the word "ship", someone a few cubicals down from me yelled "OH SHIT!". =D gotta love a nice professional work place.
ya know, I was looking at this image that was posted with the story, the picture of the rfid chips... and boy does that guy have huge fingers!!
There is more than 0.5% sales tax in some counties. I know that Allegheny County, PA (home of Pittsburgh) has a 1% sales tax. I've heard that NY City has it's own taxes that are quite high, but I don't know that for a fact. Does anyone know this one?
Symbian is the standard and Linux is coming, leaves only PDAs, where Microsoft is still holding out
I just ordered a Sharp Zaurus from TigerDirect.com. I've been reading up on it a lot, and it seems to have a pretty damn big following. People are porting TONS of the COOLEST Java and Linux apps to it, so it's got a major abuncance of software out there. The OS itself is GPL'd. Does anyone know if it's a specific distro?
cheange really sucks. I try to avoid it. Last thing I need is for my wallet to be even fatter.
You know, it's also sad that you were modded to funny. Maybe you meant it as a joke, but there is some great truth in that statement. My college room mate was majoring in graphic design, and was very dissapointed at the strong emphasis on computers, and hardly any on hand drawing. I believe that both hand animation and cg are great mediums, but it seems that one is not used much anymore. I wish that they would both stay in heavy use. we need a hand animated MegaTokyo movie dammit!
~Jon
MSN is also in talks with toilet paper manufacturers to produce special web paper for those in need of URL inspiration.
;)
Someone could contact the major toilet paper manufacturers and see if they were informed it was a hoax
~Jon
gotta have a gig of memory [snip] If only I had a lot of money and a lot of time on my hands....but instead i'm a broke slashdotter
a gig of ram really isn't that hard right now. I'm running a gig of 266DDR, and I got it (2 512 sticks) for about $50 each, at tigerdirect. Ram's fairly cheap (not sheep) right now.
I graduated from a tech school (please do me a favor and slashdot them!!) in October of 2002. I got my "Associates in Specialized Technology Degree in Computer Programming", and it's basically worthless. I got a job as a sys admin at a really great company, but that's mostly because my dad's a manager there ;). Yeah, I know enough to be an admin, but only because of stuff I learned on my own, not from school. Over half the people I went to school with can't find jobs anywhere, and these people were all really intelligent and skilled (well, most of them were). Seems that every job opening out there wants at least a bachelors degree and two years experience. Some want far more. Entry level positions that could maybe lead to programming jobs usually start out with nothing resembling programming. I know that at my company, a good portion (well over half) of our developers are over age 40, and I'd say we've got at least a few over 50 or 60. Seems that, at my company at least, it's harder for young people to get in, since our business is doing well, and we can afford to pay for experienced coders.
These are just my experiences as a recent grad.
-Jon
AAARrrrrggghhh... They go to Philly, but not the Burgh? that's so unfair! [/whining]
Definetly is too bad that there are so few stops.
This is probably off topic, but it's about music sampling.... sorta... I don't know whether it should be legal or not. But every time I hear the song "Angel" by Shaggy start to play, I think it's "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band, and it pisses me off when it's not. Just had to say that.
from the story:
He has not been unable to get a full refund from either company, said Anthony Lee, his attorney
so if he got a full refund, why's he upset?
Art deals with human emotions, feeling, states of mind[...]
Excuse me, I've seen some pieces of code that are VERY beautiful and emotional. I'm not saying that a programmer and a painter should be grouped together, but there can be some extreme beauty in a piece of code. That's like saying that minimalists aren't artists because I think that a yellow dot on a red piece of canvas doesn't draw any emotions. Other people might look at that dot and see their entire life summed up, and get all teary eyed. Different people get emotional reactions to different things. I can still remember to this day the moment I first saw and understood recursion. I nearly creamed my pants when I read through my first recursive function. That's just one of many emotional reactions I've had to beautiful code.
remember, not everyone thinks just how you do.
umm... thanks for posting that and all, but the reason it was slow might have been your 300 baud modem, since it seems to be fine on my t1 ;-)
That's a good point you make about the monitor. Haveing a huge ol' crt is hideous. How about you put a smalelr LCD monitor on the thing somewhere. I'd say the best locations would be either the back, the top side of the chest, or the stomache, since those are the only large enough areas that are close to flat. I'd say that this might work better as a system remotely accessed, since there's not going to be much of a way to fit a large screen on it. Another possigility is to take advantage of some of the great utilities for the blind, add a screen reader or something, and not have a screen at all. The last (and very corny) solution I can think of is to give the 'girl' a 'breif case' or something with a monitor on it's side panel. It could be a radio pack on it's back, or a flame thrower tank or something, to fit the theme better. Hmm... aside from them (none of which are very good) I'm about out of ideas. Anyone got a better one?
wasn't there a movie about that?
That image needs a reference object for those of us who don't know the size of either player. If I go by "actual size" on my 17" monitor, they're both friggin' huge! ;-)
well, most people who have a modem connected to a phone line use it to connect to the internet. While connected to the net is the time they are most likely to contract a virus. How will the modem dial Mongolia without them knowing if they're currently using that modem to connect to the net? If it disconnects and tries to connect to somewhere else, it would immediately alert the user. :-P
Lunar: the silver star story (either on PS, or sega cd) made me want to go on a "little adventure" that turns into a bigger adventure and leads to saving the world. If you think about it, that's how lots of things work in life. You set your sights on a smaller thing, and while attempting to acheive it, you find a bigger goal. You work towards completing it, and something life-changing (or world-saving) happens. Think about it for a bit.
Why don't our legislators spend their time protecting innocent people (Skylarov, Felten, Serebryany, etc.) from laws like the DMCA that have been abused, instead of saying "hey, it's legal to wardrive, which nobody has ever been maliciously prosecuted for"?
Well, our legislators doesn't apply unless you live in New Hampshire, since it's just a state law. Also, was the state of New Hampshire prosecuting Skylarov, Felten, or Serebryany? I don't believe so. Don't say they should be fixing things when they're things they have little to no control over. Think before you talk.