It takes 3 seconds to set up an access point and about 2 minutes to set it up and secure it. Even my neighbor (who apparently has wi-fi going on I see) was smart enough to secure their network (so much for the extra bandwidth for those huge game demo downloads, while I play online with no latency or packetloss!)
Another patent infringement lawsuit has been filed by Wonder, Inc. against Orowheat and Kilpatrick's. Wonder alledges that the firms violate it's patent which covers presentation and packaging of bread products that have been uniformly cut into what they call "slices."
Linux is about as far from ease of use as you can get. I think Linux has a good 5 years to go before it's remotely viable for everyday users (ie non-geeks).
Whereas Apple has harnessed the power of unix and wrapped it in an easy to use system and Mom's and Pops are already using it, unlike Linux.
Someday Linux might bang heads with Apple, but I don't see that coming any time soon. Not when a standard install (install all) of RedHat 9.0 fails to allow you to even login (due to NIS and yp issues).
Personally, I think Windows is the most proprietary system out there. It doesn't work with anyone else, you always have to work with IT.
Macs on the other hand, work with everything. Even the low level core OS, Darwin, is open sourced. Alot of Unix code compiles and runs on OS X. OpenOffice support for OS X just went GM, for example.
MS is about as closed as you get. While Apple ships on a close hardware platform, the OS isn't entirely closed, making is less proprietary than MS.
A bunch of whirling cables in space? I wonder how many satellites will happen to stray close enough to those cables to get the crap beat out of them.
The Japanese have failed recently with using the slingshot for space purposes, although in a different application. They tried to use the Earth's gravity to slingshot a probe to Mars but screwed it up the first time causing a 5 year delay. It's coming around for it's last try now, but it's damaged and not very maneuverable and will likely wind up being a total loss.
I'm trying to picture these windmill like cables floating around in orbit and all I get is an image of something from a Bug's Bunny cartoon.
If they do go for it, I hope they put alot of research into making sure it works and isn't prone to failure and unexpected consequences.
There's one problem and everyone freaks out (shuttle disaster) and there's a stop to everything for a while until it all settles down. After that, everything returns to normal.
Space travel is dangerous. Explosions WILL happen. Review of procedures should be constant and thorough (that's a no-brainer). After any disaster, downtime should be minimal, not excessive due to overreaction and political correctness.
With that said, I'm accepting VISA/MC (sorry, no Discover cards) for donations to my fund for a seat on the shuttle.:)
So if you share a file that isn't copyrighted, you risk being hassled about breaking that law? Guilty until proven innocent?
This sounds pretty severe to me. I can understand some of the other parts of the law, making it illegal to circumvent copy protection is well-intentioned, even if copy protection does get in the way of ethical use at times.
Any product that fully complies with the USB2.0 specification is capable of running at 480mbps.
A fully USB1.1 compliant device may be compatible with USB2.0 and what it does support is compliant with the appropriate parts of USB2.0, but it is not FULLY compliant because it is not FULLY implemented.
And you are correct about who owns the spec for USB, it is not IEEE. My bad.
Since the article was posted in a Bangkok publication, I assumed it was reporting on a trend in the Asian marketplace.
I am not a racist. I am a realist. While ethics isn't exactly overflowing here in the US, the situation is worse in the Far East. Anyone that follows business is aware of this and that is completely irrelevant to racism.
It's out and out fraud. USB1.1 is not USB2, USB2 is. To label a product as USB2 when it's really USB1.1 and conforming to the IEEE specifications for USB1.1 is fraudulent.
They did it because their customers wanted USB2.0 on board? So put USB2.0 on board then! This is ludicrous. But I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics in the Asian Consumer market, it's an ugly business world over there.
your sandwich, tastes just like corn your pasta, tastes just like corn your chicken, tastes just like corn!
isn't it sad?
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I think the reason they go for the young ones is they can pay them less. People are generally cheap.
I'm 40 years old and the oldest person in my dept. I was the oldest at the last gig I had and the oldest at the gig before that. Before that, I wasn't the oldest. There were a couple of the battle scarred coding vets working there. You know the type, the guys that THINK in 256bit encryption?
Since 1996, I've usually been either the oldest or darned close to the oldest in every development company I've worked for. I wade through the hoardes of 'fresh outs' to get to my cube. These inexperienced kids are talented, but they have a tendency to believe they know alot more than they do. I've found that I usually have a much broader and deeper experience than these kids, even though I wasn't able to finish college for financial reasons. Sure, there is the occasional WunderKind, I'm just generalizing about the typical early 20s hiree.
How to prepare for this? Good luck. If people perceive you as an old mare ready for the glue factory, there's little you can do. Your possible options include dealing with it as best you can, forming your own business and changing career to something less generationally discriminative.
I use gaim on Linux at work and sometimes at home (depends on what machine I'm using). The tabbed chatting feature is great. Kiss those 12 windows goodbye when you're IMing a bunch of people, the tab system is implemented very well.
I've never used the Win32 version, but a friend uses it and likes it. I use Trillan on Windows boxes myself.
On OS X, I use Fire, although it doesn't support proxies yet, which makes it a pain at work with our fascist firewall. Fortunately, I can just log on with the Linux box on Gaim instead.
Overall, I'd rate Gaim the best IM client around because of it's numerous protocol support and tabbed chatting. Works well, efficient use of space and usually not very buggy at all.
I hope it doesn't hurt Netflix. I'm a customer and I like Netflix and I despise Walmart.
Like someone else said in this thread, Walmart's entry into this only validates online rentals.
While some people are driven by spontaneity and instant gratification, which makes them poor candidates for customers, other people can enjoy relatively low rental costs and no bother shopping for your rental. Postage is even pre-paid. It's such an easy service to use and the selection is HUGE. I can rent stuff no video rental store would have on DVD.
Spam has long been out of control. Where I work currently, spam consists of about 81% of all incoming email. This is at a company receiving over 1 million emails a day.
There are laws existing to protect children from exposure to 'adult' materials. These permit their parents to control, to some extent, the exposure of such material to their children.
Spam is getting away with breaking these laws. I can't see any parent, no matter how open minded, wanting their child to see breast enlargement, penis enlargement and watch this teen fuck barnyard animal emails.
When they see this stuff, they start to form opinions. Without guidance, these opinions can be off base by a large margin. Seeing the enlargement ads, children could well get the idea that they need to have 44DD breasts or 14" penises (penii?) in order to 'fit in.'
Exposing kids to the hard core images in these emails surely must be against some laws and if not, they should be expanded to cover it.
Also, Spam email should be part of the telemarketing crack down. There should be an opt-out email list to keep from getting unsolicited email.
These adjustments to law would go a long way to reducing wasted bandwidth on the net, as well as improving the moral growth of our nation's children. Sheesh, I sound like Jerry Falwell, but I'm far from it.
Seriously, though, I like that he added the LCD status display. Most people would just use the video for display, but after having worked on boxes with those on board LCDs for status info, I've learned to love em.
try, try again. It would seem the record industry gets that.
So they keep trying and keep leeching more and more off the fans of music. Less and less of the growing profits actually goes to the artists whose art is what is purchased while some fat excecutive skyrockets his cholesterol level in his exotic wood panelled office while having his knob polished by some babe banking brownie points.
I can make a longer sentence if I really put my mind to it. But... nah. That one paints the ugly picture of the current state of affairs well enough.
Enjoy while you can, parasitical record exec! The winds are changing. If the cholesterol level or some unspeakable STT doesn't get you first, maybe actually doing some REAL work once you can't make a living leeching off the creativity of others.
I suppose if you were a fan of record execs you could consider this a flame, but let's face it, are the descriptions above really THAT far from reality?
With all the security patches MS has each week, I must admit I found it rather amusing that they were propsing a secure computing standard with Paladium.
Personally, I don't think they can pull it off. But with Stanford looking into an alternative now, this means we'll at least have choices down the line. And I'm sure that both sides will look at what each other does and rip off the good ideas.
Security is important and a verifiable identity is as well. Not just for e-commerce applications, either. Even such simple issues as banning some nimrod that wants to post stupidity on your board can be solved by a solid identity model.
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A photo of the person held up to the facial recognition camera passes the test?
Those who can set up networks, do.
Those who can't, do it anyway.
It takes 3 seconds to set up an access point and about 2 minutes to set it up and secure it. Even my neighbor (who apparently has wi-fi going on I see) was smart enough to secure their network (so much for the extra bandwidth for those huge game demo downloads, while I play online with no latency or packetloss!)
Another patent infringement lawsuit has been filed by Wonder, Inc. against Orowheat and Kilpatrick's. Wonder alledges that the firms violate it's patent which covers presentation and packaging of bread products that have been uniformly cut into what they call "slices."
Linux is about as far from ease of use as you can get. I think Linux has a good 5 years to go before it's remotely viable for everyday users (ie non-geeks).
Whereas Apple has harnessed the power of unix and wrapped it in an easy to use system and Mom's and Pops are already using it, unlike Linux.
Someday Linux might bang heads with Apple, but I don't see that coming any time soon. Not when a standard install (install all) of RedHat 9.0 fails to allow you to even login (due to NIS and yp issues).
Personally, I think Windows is the most proprietary system out there. It doesn't work with anyone else, you always have to work with IT.
Macs on the other hand, work with everything. Even the low level core OS, Darwin, is open sourced. Alot of Unix code compiles and runs on OS X. OpenOffice support for OS X just went GM, for example.
MS is about as closed as you get. While Apple ships on a close hardware platform, the OS isn't entirely closed, making is less proprietary than MS.
Perhaps someone saw Senator Hatch surfing the net with a Jolly Roger hoisted from his ergonomic chair?
told you he rose from the dead!
And Sir Edmund Hilary rises from the grave to take up a promising acting career in romantic comedies.
Hilary Rosen leaving RIAA to become CNBC anchor
maybe that means...
Hilliary Clinton leaving Senate to head up RIAA.
and that would leave...
Hilary Swank quits her acting career to become NY Senator!
A bunch of whirling cables in space? I wonder how many satellites will happen to stray close enough to those cables to get the crap beat out of them.
The Japanese have failed recently with using the slingshot for space purposes, although in a different application. They tried to use the Earth's gravity to slingshot a probe to Mars but screwed it up the first time causing a 5 year delay. It's coming around for it's last try now, but it's damaged and not very maneuverable and will likely wind up being a total loss.
I'm trying to picture these windmill like cables floating around in orbit and all I get is an image of something from a Bug's Bunny cartoon.
If they do go for it, I hope they put alot of research into making sure it works and isn't prone to failure and unexpected consequences.
There's one problem and everyone freaks out (shuttle disaster) and there's a stop to everything for a while until it all settles down. After that, everything returns to normal.
:)
Space travel is dangerous. Explosions WILL happen. Review of procedures should be constant and thorough (that's a no-brainer). After any disaster, downtime should be minimal, not excessive due to overreaction and political correctness.
With that said, I'm accepting VISA/MC (sorry, no Discover cards) for donations to my fund for a seat on the shuttle.
So if you share a file that isn't copyrighted, you risk being hassled about breaking that law? Guilty until proven innocent?
This sounds pretty severe to me. I can understand some of the other parts of the law, making it illegal to circumvent copy protection is well-intentioned, even if copy protection does get in the way of ethical use at times.
I certainly hope it's not as severe as it sounds.
Any product that fully complies with the USB2.0 specification is capable of running at 480mbps.
A fully USB1.1 compliant device may be compatible with USB2.0 and what it does support is compliant with the appropriate parts of USB2.0, but it is not FULLY compliant because it is not FULLY implemented.
And you are correct about who owns the spec for USB, it is not IEEE. My bad.
Since the article was posted in a Bangkok publication, I assumed it was reporting on a trend in the Asian marketplace.
I am not a racist. I am a realist. While ethics isn't exactly overflowing here in the US, the situation is worse in the Far East. Anyone that follows business is aware of this and that is completely irrelevant to racism.
It's out and out fraud. USB1.1 is not USB2, USB2 is. To label a product as USB2 when it's really USB1.1 and conforming to the IEEE specifications for USB1.1 is fraudulent.
They did it because their customers wanted USB2.0 on board? So put USB2.0 on board then! This is ludicrous. But I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics in the Asian Consumer market, it's an ugly business world over there.
That about covers it.
tastes like.... corn!
your sandwich, tastes just like corn
your pasta, tastes just like corn
your chicken, tastes just like corn!
I think the reason they go for the young ones is they can pay them less. People are generally cheap.
I'm 40 years old and the oldest person in my dept. I was the oldest at the last gig I had and the oldest at the gig before that. Before that, I wasn't the oldest. There were a couple of the battle scarred coding vets working there. You know the type, the guys that THINK in 256bit encryption?
Since 1996, I've usually been either the oldest or darned close to the oldest in every development company I've worked for. I wade through the hoardes of 'fresh outs' to get to my cube. These inexperienced kids are talented, but they have a tendency to believe they know alot more than they do. I've found that I usually have a much broader and deeper experience than these kids, even though I wasn't able to finish college for financial reasons. Sure, there is the occasional WunderKind, I'm just generalizing about the typical early 20s hiree.
How to prepare for this? Good luck. If people perceive you as an old mare ready for the glue factory, there's little you can do. Your possible options include dealing with it as best you can, forming your own business and changing career to something less generationally discriminative.
I use gaim on Linux at work and sometimes at home (depends on what machine I'm using). The tabbed chatting feature is great. Kiss those 12 windows goodbye when you're IMing a bunch of people, the tab system is implemented very well.
I've never used the Win32 version, but a friend uses it and likes it. I use Trillan on Windows boxes myself.
On OS X, I use Fire, although it doesn't support proxies yet, which makes it a pain at work with our fascist firewall. Fortunately, I can just log on with the Linux box on Gaim instead.
Overall, I'd rate Gaim the best IM client around because of it's numerous protocol support and tabbed chatting. Works well, efficient use of space and usually not very buggy at all.
I hope it doesn't hurt Netflix. I'm a customer and I like Netflix and I despise Walmart.
Like someone else said in this thread, Walmart's entry into this only validates online rentals.
While some people are driven by spontaneity and instant gratification, which makes them poor candidates for customers, other people can enjoy relatively low rental costs and no bother shopping for your rental. Postage is even pre-paid. It's such an easy service to use and the selection is HUGE. I can rent stuff no video rental store would have on DVD.
Spam has long been out of control. Where I work currently, spam consists of about 81% of all incoming email. This is at a company receiving over 1 million emails a day.
There are laws existing to protect children from exposure to 'adult' materials. These permit their parents to control, to some extent, the exposure of such material to their children.
Spam is getting away with breaking these laws. I can't see any parent, no matter how open minded, wanting their child to see breast enlargement, penis enlargement and watch this teen fuck barnyard animal emails.
When they see this stuff, they start to form opinions. Without guidance, these opinions can be off base by a large margin. Seeing the enlargement ads, children could well get the idea that they need to have 44DD breasts or 14" penises (penii?) in order to 'fit in.'
Exposing kids to the hard core images in these emails surely must be against some laws and if not, they should be expanded to cover it.
Also, Spam email should be part of the telemarketing crack down. There should be an opt-out email list to keep from getting unsolicited email.
These adjustments to law would go a long way to reducing wasted bandwidth on the net, as well as improving the moral growth of our nation's children. Sheesh, I sound like Jerry Falwell, but I'm far from it.
But can I play Quake on it?
Seriously, though, I like that he added the LCD status display. Most people would just use the video for display, but after having worked on boxes with those on board LCDs for status info, I've learned to love em.
try, try again. It would seem the record industry gets that.
So they keep trying and keep leeching more and more off the fans of music. Less and less of the growing profits actually goes to the artists whose art is what is purchased while some fat excecutive skyrockets his cholesterol level in his exotic wood panelled office while having his knob polished by some babe banking brownie points.
I can make a longer sentence if I really put my mind to it. But... nah. That one paints the ugly picture of the current state of affairs well enough.
Enjoy while you can, parasitical record exec! The winds are changing. If the cholesterol level or some unspeakable STT doesn't get you first, maybe actually doing some REAL work once you can't make a living leeching off the creativity of others.
I suppose if you were a fan of record execs you could consider this a flame, but let's face it, are the descriptions above really THAT far from reality?
With all the security patches MS has each week, I must admit I found it rather amusing that they were propsing a secure computing standard with Paladium.
Personally, I don't think they can pull it off. But with Stanford looking into an alternative now, this means we'll at least have choices down the line. And I'm sure that both sides will look at what each other does and rip off the good ideas.
Security is important and a verifiable identity is as well. Not just for e-commerce applications, either. Even such simple issues as banning some nimrod that wants to post stupidity on your board can be solved by a solid identity model.
Hopefully, one of em will pull it off.
The German Blitzkrieg rolled over the SCO Website fast enough. I thought only the French and Iraqis could surrender that fast. ;-)
Beethoven used to write Sturm und Drang and now the Germans are shutting down SCO's revival of the genre.
As the Germans in Die Hard 1 would say...
Yippey Kai Yay!