Because your excess photo snaps and 'social bookmarks' aren't important - their nice to have and could be annoying if you lost them, but unless you're a professional photographer storing all your photos only on flickr then I can't see how it could be a serious problem.
I recently bought a Toshiba Portege R100, it weighs under a kilo and is thinner than any laptop in the office.
It'd been in storage for a while before being auctioned on e-bay for how much? a little over $200 for a nearly new notebook that's better better specced than the new Eee 900, lighter & as thin as the MacBook Air while being fully supported by Ubuntu.
At 1ghz with a gig of ram... it sure doesn't feel like it... Can't imagine the OP's suggestion of a ~200mhz ARM laptop being very useful, considering I bought a 400mhz iMac last year as a web-browsing & e-mail machine, which while usable is very noticeably slow and verging on unusable at times.
I'm not sure if the level has been lowered or not, I've never taken a degree, masters or PhD although I know and have interviewed many that have; however I do find that the most interesting conversations I've had are with PhD students or those who've taken bachelors or masters degrees and have a genuine intellectual interest in tech.
I've also noticed many grad students grumbling about how their just doing it to get the piece of paper to back up their skills, while feeling that all the money has only gone to help people who are struggling on courses due to complete lack of interest; the same kind of people that do management courses for the career path etc.
I then get the same disinterested people interviewing for me who can't go into any depth about any subject covered in the masters degree they've just completed, who can't solve really basic real-world problems that directly apply to the stuff they've supposedly been taught.
Maybe 1 in 20 people are able to attack problems with the right mindset, the ones who if you ask a question they don't know will know the subject in-depth by the next time you ask them; basically the ones I want on my team.
Perhaps it's not a lowering of standards, but just a widening of appeal & larger pool of people - and you say these 19 of 20 are the people who are being outsourced to their lower-paid counterparts?
A major pain in the ass is to write a polymorphic bootstrapper that won't be picked up. Most of the bots I've dissected in the past have used off the shelf compressors or encryptors to wrap a fairly standard (badly written) piece of software.
One of the neatest things I've seen so far is a server which gave one-off encrypted executables based on the clients ip address, the boot strapper then had to confirm the ip address before it could decrypt it, or download another version and try again.
That's just like most other knee-jerk reactions though isn't it? "We must spend X or Y will happen" - as if they suddenly thought political achievements are expressed as the amount of money they have spent on whatever cause they support (regardless of it's grounding).
Although you mention teenagers getting caught up in this, if an underage kid views child porn - are they still criminals... even if the children depicted are the same age as them?
iirc some girl got arrested for distributing pictures of herself, got charged with distributing and making child pornography... when will the irony end!
The BlueGene series of super-computers follow this model - although less specific to climate modeling.
iirc they have paired PowerPC chips with a floating point accelerator as processing nodes, with i/o nodes connected via some sort of bus - something like 16 or 32 processing units/notes per board, with a handful of i/o nodes providing connectivity to storage & i/o layers.
Much higher density than blade servers, but the ram/cpu only blade server idea is still pretty popular; at a previous company I worked for we were considering having them net-boot Linux for the cpu-intensive tasks (call processing, audio transcoding etc.) - however I never got the idea to hold ground due to the management climate there:(
It's definitely the way to go through, where little or no local storage is needed or for any cpu bound task.
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Copyright law includes statutory damages, meaning that they don't actually have to prove that they were damaged, or by how much, if they win on the copyright claim.
American Copyright law does, and I'm very thankful that I live in a country that doesn't award damages to the highest payer...
And some managers see it that way, however there's always the war between HR & new candidates to pay as little and for as much as you can and visa-verse, and in my experience this usually leads to scraping the bottom of the barrel for rough diamonds unless strict requirements are set for competency.
"A new discovery by our great leader shows ancient American maps may be off by 200 miles, our great leaders scientists believe New York may have been situated at the opening of the Delaware Bay; alternative theories suggest these submerged relics may have been attributed somehow to experiments at the Black Mesa facility (formerly CERN-LHC) in 2009"
[history] (net.earth.news)34899 points posted 3 mars hours ago by GreatLeader
Halliburton retaliates against France!
"The Great Leader has sent supporting troops to support Halliburton forces in retaliation following French aggression last week against the sovereign nation. Live holostream and kill-cam with Geraldo Rivera's clone from 7pm."
[worldnews] (net.earth.actualités)19148 points posted 5 mars hours ago by GreatLeader
However - big distros like Ubuntu and Fedora in particular already support PowerPC, with Debian and Gentoo covering even more. I'm running Ubuntu on a G3 series iMac, it comes with all the useful gadgets and great usability of Ubuntu but feels a bit sluggish compared to my normal workstation.
Take into account that a great many drivers that Linux supports are largely platform & system independent, releasing a mico-laptop like the Eee but based on a PPC chip wouldn't take much effort - Apple have been doing this for years, with one of the only differences being that the primary OS was MacOS or OS X.
Regardless of the chip - adding more laptops to the sub $400 market running Linux would be amazing, you'll capture a huge number of people who cannot afford more expensive wintel or apple laptops and Linux will become less and less of a barrier. Compared to the cost of a university education, you could almost give these away at the start of a computing course...
On a few occasions friends have had these royalty auditing people round at gigs and other events asking for set lists, and I know my local record shop also shares their sales stats with them.
So the smaller artists get a slightly bigger chunk than you'd have thought even if they sell only 1000 records, but get played out reguarly.
But yeah - the big ones get far too much play and a far bigger chunk unfortunately:(
In lightweight mode (e.g. without javascript) the new UI is a large improvement - boxes around content with nice buttons and nesting all clearly visible.
And now on FOX, breaking news: an international child pornography ring has been cracked. It's been cited that members were enciting others to download these images on a popular open-source linked website Slashdot; among other items found were terrorist manuals, hate speech and the bible translated into "Lol Cats".
There are a few Oyster dispensers at most big stations, and a scattering around the underground network. £2 in a vending machine and out pops an oyster card (they look like condom/map machines but are bright blue with "OYSTER" written on them.... unmissable)
On a number of occasions I've taken oyster cards off tourists as they didn't need them anymore (it's quite common to have people come upto you in the ticket queue in major stations like Euston, Waterloo etc asking if anybody wants their oyster cards) - as of now I have no idea whos Oyster card I'm using and it's certainly not linked back to me in name.
However - CCTV along with exact entry & exit time from the system means it wouldn't be too hard to track somebody as long as you have a time in or out of the system.
PHP Perl Xterm XFCE FUSE OpenJDK Claws Mail Bash ImageMagik Asterisk Wine etc.
And I'm still finding fantastic projects on Sourceforge & Freshmeat nearly every day... with the result being that the whole software "ecosystem" that I live in is open-source, apart from Photoshop:)
I have no doubt that when stockpiling security researchers and analysts, much as Google do and other companies do, will result in lots of creative projects and ideas regardless of what the military's goals are; however, are these going to be returned to Americans, educational institutions and the international community? Or will it be another case of knowledge hoarding with no return to the tax payers who funded it?
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Wow, and to think I lived in a "little" village of 100 people in rural Wales.
Because your excess photo snaps and 'social bookmarks' aren't important - their nice to have and could be annoying if you lost them, but unless you're a professional photographer storing all your photos only on flickr then I can't see how it could be a serious problem.
I recently bought a Toshiba Portege R100, it weighs under a kilo and is thinner than any laptop in the office.
It'd been in storage for a while before being auctioned on e-bay for how much? a little over $200 for a nearly new notebook that's better better specced than the new Eee 900, lighter & as thin as the MacBook Air while being fully supported by Ubuntu.
At 1ghz with a gig of ram... it sure doesn't feel like it... Can't imagine the OP's suggestion of a ~200mhz ARM laptop being very useful, considering I bought a 400mhz iMac last year as a web-browsing & e-mail machine, which while usable is very noticeably slow and verging on unusable at times.
I'm not sure if the level has been lowered or not, I've never taken a degree, masters or PhD although I know and have interviewed many that have; however I do find that the most interesting conversations I've had are with PhD students or those who've taken bachelors or masters degrees and have a genuine intellectual interest in tech.
I've also noticed many grad students grumbling about how their just doing it to get the piece of paper to back up their skills, while feeling that all the money has only gone to help people who are struggling on courses due to complete lack of interest; the same kind of people that do management courses for the career path etc.
I then get the same disinterested people interviewing for me who can't go into any depth about any subject covered in the masters degree they've just completed, who can't solve really basic real-world problems that directly apply to the stuff they've supposedly been taught.
Maybe 1 in 20 people are able to attack problems with the right mindset, the ones who if you ask a question they don't know will know the subject in-depth by the next time you ask them; basically the ones I want on my team.
Perhaps it's not a lowering of standards, but just a widening of appeal & larger pool of people - and you say these 19 of 20 are the people who are being outsourced to their lower-paid counterparts?
I'm not surprised...
A major pain in the ass is to write a polymorphic bootstrapper that won't be picked up. Most of the bots I've dissected in the past have used off the shelf compressors or encryptors to wrap a fairly standard (badly written) piece of software.
One of the neatest things I've seen so far is a server which gave one-off encrypted executables based on the clients ip address, the boot strapper then had to confirm the ip address before it could decrypt it, or download another version and try again.
Will Comodo run in Wine? :)
That's just like most other knee-jerk reactions though isn't it? "We must spend X or Y will happen" - as if they suddenly thought political achievements are expressed as the amount of money they have spent on whatever cause they support (regardless of it's grounding).
Although you mention teenagers getting caught up in this, if an underage kid views child porn - are they still criminals... even if the children depicted are the same age as them?
iirc some girl got arrested for distributing pictures of herself, got charged with distributing and making child pornography... when will the irony end!
The BlueGene series of super-computers follow this model - although less specific to climate modeling.
:(
iirc they have paired PowerPC chips with a floating point accelerator as processing nodes, with i/o nodes connected via some sort of bus - something like 16 or 32 processing units/notes per board, with a handful of i/o nodes providing connectivity to storage & i/o layers.
Much higher density than blade servers, but the ram/cpu only blade server idea is still pretty popular; at a previous company I worked for we were considering having them net-boot Linux for the cpu-intensive tasks (call processing, audio transcoding etc.) - however I never got the idea to hold ground due to the management climate there
It's definitely the way to go through, where little or no local storage is needed or for any cpu bound task.
American Copyright law does, and I'm very thankful that I live in a country that doesn't award damages to the highest payer...
However - this isn't Nexenta, this is Indiana, a more Linux-ized version of Solaris, however it's still very much Solaris underneath.
I don't see how the additional zero makes any difference, their both interpreted as 2008 4th month...
And some managers see it that way, however there's always the war between HR & new candidates to pay as little and for as much as you can and visa-verse, and in my experience this usually leads to scraping the bottom of the barrel for rough diamonds unless strict requirements are set for competency.
"A new discovery by our great leader shows ancient American maps may be off by 200 miles, our great leaders scientists believe New York may have been situated at the opening of the Delaware Bay; alternative theories suggest these submerged relics may have been attributed somehow to experiments at the Black Mesa facility (formerly CERN-LHC) in 2009"
[history] (net.earth.news) 34899 points posted 3 mars hours ago by GreatLeaderHalliburton retaliates against France!
"The Great Leader has sent supporting troops to support Halliburton forces in retaliation following French aggression last week against the sovereign nation. Live holostream and kill-cam with Geraldo Rivera's clone from 7pm."
[worldnews] (net.earth.actualités) 19148 points posted 5 mars hours ago by GreatLeaderYeah, anything serious - like the UK national ID scheme their trying to push through which apparently will rely heavily on "biometric data" in future.
However - big distros like Ubuntu and Fedora in particular already support PowerPC, with Debian and Gentoo covering even more. I'm running Ubuntu on a G3 series iMac, it comes with all the useful gadgets and great usability of Ubuntu but feels a bit sluggish compared to my normal workstation.
Take into account that a great many drivers that Linux supports are largely platform & system independent, releasing a mico-laptop like the Eee but based on a PPC chip wouldn't take much effort - Apple have been doing this for years, with one of the only differences being that the primary OS was MacOS or OS X.
Regardless of the chip - adding more laptops to the sub $400 market running Linux would be amazing, you'll capture a huge number of people who cannot afford more expensive wintel or apple laptops and Linux will become less and less of a barrier. Compared to the cost of a university education, you could almost give these away at the start of a computing course...
On a few occasions friends have had these royalty auditing people round at gigs and other events asking for set lists, and I know my local record shop also shares their sales stats with them.
:(
So the smaller artists get a slightly bigger chunk than you'd have thought even if they sell only 1000 records, but get played out reguarly.
But yeah - the big ones get far too much play and a far bigger chunk unfortunately
In lightweight mode (e.g. without javascript) the new UI is a large improvement - boxes around content with nice buttons and nesting all clearly visible.
The IcedTea (OpenJDK 7.0 + GnuClasspath) JRE/JDK is mostly complete, I've been running Eclipse on it for the past month without any issues.
All Americans suck because their high-def cable TV is riddled with compression artifacts.
And now on FOX, breaking news: an international child pornography ring has been cracked. It's been cited that members were enciting others to download these images on a popular open-source linked website Slashdot; among other items found were terrorist manuals, hate speech and the bible translated into "Lol Cats".
Brit Hume continues with tonights message...
There are a few Oyster dispensers at most big stations, and a scattering around the underground network. £2 in a vending machine and out pops an oyster card (they look like condom/map machines but are bright blue with "OYSTER" written on them.... unmissable)
On a number of occasions I've taken oyster cards off tourists as they didn't need them anymore (it's quite common to have people come upto you in the ticket queue in major stations like Euston, Waterloo etc asking if anybody wants their oyster cards) - as of now I have no idea whos Oyster card I'm using and it's certainly not linked back to me in name.
However - CCTV along with exact entry & exit time from the system means it wouldn't be too hard to track somebody as long as you have a time in or out of the system.
How many tourists come to London every year?
Or people living around Britain travel to London?
The Olympics are coming up soon?
17 million doesn't seem too far out, although maybe 3/4 of them would be used infrequently.
PHP
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Perl
Xterm
XFCE
FUSE
OpenJDK
Claws Mail
Bash
ImageMagik
Asterisk
Wine
etc.
And I'm still finding fantastic projects on Sourceforge & Freshmeat nearly every day... with the result being that the whole software "ecosystem" that I live in is open-source, apart from Photoshop
for IE8 to be released, finally claiming ACID2 support out of the box...
Now, I wonder if their PR people will slip up and accidentally write "ACID3" just to get any sort of news...