Yeah...and when I started paying attention to all of this, SCOX was at about $7. Whether they are the scourge of the OSS movement or not, I wished to hell I had jumped on that...
No one seemed to care about that when they spammed this guy's inbox with nothing but flames. Which only goes to show that Mac fanatics are insanely loyal and will respond viciously when someone does anything out of the ordinary with a Mac (which is pretty ironic for the "Think Different" crowd). I'm not trying to troll, I'm just pointing out a well-known fact. Personally, I was impressed when I saw the inside designed for proper airflow. Haven't done too much with an actual Mac system, although I'm sure it's good from what I hear. But if I had an empty Mac case laying around, I'd do the exact same thing and mail the pics to Maclovers.com...
Or MS is getting ready to take over the PPC-based OS market as well. Once a version of XP Embedded is written for the PPC, how hard would it be to port a full version over? This may be good for IBM, but it's yet to be seen whether Apple will find anything to celebrate over.
Then again, Mac fanatics are crazier then most Mujahideen soldiers. Just look at the response to someone ripping out the guts of a dual G5 and replacing it with an AMD. MS would have to step very carefully in this arena...
Have you ever sat in on a western business meeting? It's remarkably similar...
No it's not. I'm a "Western" worker, and although I don't know too much about Eastern working cultures, I have realised the similarities are there in some cases. They are arrived at by different means though.
As you said, people in the East who are not decision makers think that it's not there place to think for themselves and speak up when they hear something not quite right to them. People in the West, from my perspective, are expected to speak up. Or at least that's what I keep getting told by my bosses. They want to hear from people their opinions on certain issues.
However, here is where the fun starts. Western style groups and meetings are somewhat similar as you say. The leaders talk, the subordinates listen and then go off to do what the leaders have decided. No one under the leaders really speak out, unless asked. Why? From my perspective, it's not that I think it's not my place to say anything. I want to say things, and try to show that some decisions aren't as good as others. But I don't. I don't because I've been knocked down too many times by the boss whenever I say something that opposes what they said. So I think "Why bother?" If no one is going to take me seriously, why should I say anything in the first place? And until I get that promotion to management where I can start making decisions, no one will listen.
So I think, in that regard, we are similar. The East is brought up to behave that way. The West is slowly boiled down to it until there's nothing left but a seething burning desire to get ahead or get out. But I may be biased...
I had something similar to that happen at work. The ECom developers/sales morons wanted to setup a general questions email account for one of their new clients. So they asked to have questions.ex@company.com created. Little did they know that Exchange doesn't allow . in an email address. Yeah. And they still work here today. And they're still morons.
Try developing RPG applications with nothing but a dumb terminal for a year. And I mean nothing...no books, no column charts, nothing. I would have killed for a job doing Java on a crappy old laptop...
Google ads are exactly that...ads. And they are distinctly marked as that. Paid ads do NOT show up in the search results. So when you search for Jenners, you get Jenners department store. On the side, you get their competition because they paid to have themselves displayed as competition. But you don't have them in the search results. Compared to some other search engines, I'd say this is a commendable thing. Google has to make money somehow, and they are doing it in a way that doesn't piss off their users. If you don't like it, you are welcome to use Yahoo...
Basically, all of the Cyrix 6x86 line chips ran one notch slower than their names implied.
No, they weren't. The second computer I ever built was a Cyrix PR200+. At the time, I didn't know much about PR part or it. I knew it meant "Performance Rating", but I didn't understand the full meaning. Then one day I figure out that it was really an IBM 150Mhz chip that "performed like a Pentium 200". BULLSHIT! That thing gave me more trouble then it was worth. I swore I would never buy into that whole "Performance Rating" BS again. But anyways, Cyrix didn't just overstate the chips abilities by one notch. They just blantantly lied. And I feel REALLY ripped off now that I know the PR166+ was the same as the PR200+. Damned Cyrix. I'm glad they crashed and burned.
You and I might be able to figure stuff out on our own, but Joe CEO wants everything he uses to be backed 24/7/365 by the company making it.
Yeah. That's why Joe CEO calls up Red Hat and buys Enterprise Linux and a 2 year support contract. Support is out there for those willing to pay for it...
Ok...I'll give you that. To get into space, a space elevator is probably a better idea. Two reason to continue developing nuclear engines:
1) We don't have space elevators. Simple as that. Until the day they are reality, we need something better then conventional rockets.
2) Once in space, either through the use of these rockets or a space elevator, these would be extremely useful for getting around the solar system, or at least roaming our backyard (the moon) or visiting next door (Mars).
IANARS (rocket scientist), but I enjoy learning about developments in space tech. The nuclear engine, while different versions having been developed and tested decades ago, still looks to be the next best thing in space travel.
Yeah, but just think of all the tubing, wall panels, airlocks, windows, and god knows what else that had to be check. And especially since it was a leak in a piece of tubing, I'm surprised they found it so fast.
"They said they were police from the recording industry or something, and next time they'd take me away in handcuffs..."
I'll give you a reason why this would never happen.
RIAA "Cop": Hi. You're selling illegal copies of our works. We will now confiscate all your material. If we ever see you out here again, we will have you arrested.
Street Vendor: YO! VINNIE! I got some trouble here!
Vinnie & Friends: Hey yo...is dis guy botherin you? We got ways o' making trouble disappear...
Street Vendor: Alright, step right up and get your Britney CDs. And on special right now, nice leather jackets...
I've recently seen an inexpensive MP3/CD player with 2 minutes of MP3 anti-skip. I personally had to continuously tap that thing for 5 minutes to get it to start skipping. Of course I was also defending myself from the young child who's MP3 player I was constantly hitting, so that could have given it the chance to recover once or twice.
I whole-heartedly agree. What he did might have been mischevious, but not as bad as the punishment handed out. Hell...one time in high school, someone sent a schoolwide message saying "An error has occured. Please reboot your computer", during the middle of a class. I literally screamed because I was working on a report at the time and hadn't saved in a while. I had my finger on the button before someone grabbed me and told me it was a joke. Now that kid deserved some kind of punishment, but never got anything. This kid deserves a freakin' A for effort, considering he figured out something cool (to a 8th grader anyways) AND he did it with as little disruption as possible to everyone.
Is his father, or a kind-hearted/.er, going to explain to this kid that what he did wasn't as bad as the school says, and that he's probably smarter then half the teachers? Something has to keep his spirits up and allow him to become the geek he is destined to be...
The next steps are supposedly the "Build-test-debug cycle" and "Release" parts. But considering the rest is 3 months overdue already, and doesn't look like it's ending anytime soon, I'll probably get to play Duke Nukem Forever before we get to lay code down. I'm thinking about sending management a link to this review...
As a Canadian, I can tell you for a fact that's untrue. It just depends on where you go. Newfies...they got an accent. New Brunswickers...they got an accent. Quebecers...they REALLY got an accent. Although once you hit Ontario, things just kinda get plain and drawn out. So it seems like they don't have an accent, but they do. Haven't talked to many people west of Ontario, but I'm sure they have to have some kind of accent. Especially once you hit rodeo-ridin' prarie land. Anyone who rides a horse for a living MUST have an accent.
You don't need to flash the bios, or even crack the case. You can install it using the "SaveGame" method. That way, you can play all the games you want and still boot linux when needed. Although I think this takes away your XBox Live abilities, but I personally wouldn't sign up for that anyways.
The thing is that even if MS and Intel make this wicked-kickass-hella-cool-nothing-can-hack-me BIOS replacement, someone will hack it. Nothing advertised as "Hackproof" stays that way for long...
I wouldn't go that far. I can only speak for myself, but reading is one of those things that needs to be learned before you can enjoy it.
Ok, now that you've gotten the "is this guy a complete fscking idiot" thoughts out of your head, I'll explain. Aside from just not having time to read, I have been diagnosed with a learning disability. I have a problem with reading, especially if what I'm reading is in a different dilect then what I'm use to (i.e. Shakespeare). And it usually takes me a long time to read things even if it is something I understand. For the longest time, I disliked recreational reading because it was too boring and took too long.
What I've learned is that I just needed to find a better way to read. It helps that I'm interested in the material, but if I break the reading into short periods (say, no more then 30 minutes), I found that it's easier to stay focused and easier to retain. With that I've begun to read books that I've only heard references to, and thought before that they would take too long to read. That was the exact reason I read Nineteen Eighty-Four. It took me three months to read it but now I understand more, not only the references but the underlying message in the book. And I've become interested in other books now to. And this fits into my schedule perfectly since I usually read on the bus to and from work.
I think kids today do have more to distract them, but it's no reason for them to not read. I think someone just has to teach them ways to do it, so that it fits into their lives better. Reading can be fun, if you know how to do it properly.
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Yeah...and when I started paying attention to all of this, SCOX was at about $7. Whether they are the scourge of the OSS movement or not, I wished to hell I had jumped on that...
No one seemed to care about that when they spammed this guy's inbox with nothing but flames. Which only goes to show that Mac fanatics are insanely loyal and will respond viciously when someone does anything out of the ordinary with a Mac (which is pretty ironic for the "Think Different" crowd). I'm not trying to troll, I'm just pointing out a well-known fact. Personally, I was impressed when I saw the inside designed for proper airflow. Haven't done too much with an actual Mac system, although I'm sure it's good from what I hear. But if I had an empty Mac case laying around, I'd do the exact same thing and mail the pics to Maclovers.com...
Or MS is getting ready to take over the PPC-based OS market as well. Once a version of XP Embedded is written for the PPC, how hard would it be to port a full version over? This may be good for IBM, but it's yet to be seen whether Apple will find anything to celebrate over.
Then again, Mac fanatics are crazier then most Mujahideen soldiers. Just look at the response to someone ripping out the guts of a dual G5 and replacing it with an AMD. MS would have to step very carefully in this arena...
If that's Eurasia, then what constitutes Eastasia?
Have you ever sat in on a western business meeting? It's remarkably similar...
No it's not. I'm a "Western" worker, and although I don't know too much about Eastern working cultures, I have realised the similarities are there in some cases. They are arrived at by different means though.
As you said, people in the East who are not decision makers think that it's not there place to think for themselves and speak up when they hear something not quite right to them. People in the West, from my perspective, are expected to speak up. Or at least that's what I keep getting told by my bosses. They want to hear from people their opinions on certain issues.
However, here is where the fun starts. Western style groups and meetings are somewhat similar as you say. The leaders talk, the subordinates listen and then go off to do what the leaders have decided. No one under the leaders really speak out, unless asked. Why? From my perspective, it's not that I think it's not my place to say anything. I want to say things, and try to show that some decisions aren't as good as others. But I don't. I don't because I've been knocked down too many times by the boss whenever I say something that opposes what they said. So I think "Why bother?" If no one is going to take me seriously, why should I say anything in the first place? And until I get that promotion to management where I can start making decisions, no one will listen.
So I think, in that regard, we are similar. The East is brought up to behave that way. The West is slowly boiled down to it until there's nothing left but a seething burning desire to get ahead or get out. But I may be biased...
I had something similar to that happen at work. The ECom developers/sales morons wanted to setup a general questions email account for one of their new clients. So they asked to have questions.ex@company.com created. Little did they know that Exchange doesn't allow . in an email address. Yeah. And they still work here today. And they're still morons.
Easy. Three letters: RPG
Try developing RPG applications with nothing but a dumb terminal for a year. And I mean nothing...no books, no column charts, nothing. I would have killed for a job doing Java on a crappy old laptop...
Because they are paid to.
Google ads are exactly that...ads. And they are distinctly marked as that. Paid ads do NOT show up in the search results. So when you search for Jenners, you get Jenners department store. On the side, you get their competition because they paid to have themselves displayed as competition. But you don't have them in the search results. Compared to some other search engines, I'd say this is a commendable thing. Google has to make money somehow, and they are doing it in a way that doesn't piss off their users. If you don't like it, you are welcome to use Yahoo...
Basically, all of the Cyrix 6x86 line chips ran one notch slower than their names implied.
No, they weren't. The second computer I ever built was a Cyrix PR200+. At the time, I didn't know much about PR part or it. I knew it meant "Performance Rating", but I didn't understand the full meaning. Then one day I figure out that it was really an IBM 150Mhz chip that "performed like a Pentium 200". BULLSHIT! That thing gave me more trouble then it was worth. I swore I would never buy into that whole "Performance Rating" BS again. But anyways, Cyrix didn't just overstate the chips abilities by one notch. They just blantantly lied. And I feel REALLY ripped off now that I know the PR166+ was the same as the PR200+. Damned Cyrix. I'm glad they crashed and burned.
What's funny is I'm now running an XP2200+...
You and I might be able to figure stuff out on our own, but Joe CEO wants everything he uses to be backed 24/7/365 by the company making it.
Yeah. That's why Joe CEO calls up Red Hat and buys Enterprise Linux and a 2 year support contract. Support is out there for those willing to pay for it...
Ok...I'll give you that. To get into space, a space elevator is probably a better idea. Two reason to continue developing nuclear engines:
1) We don't have space elevators. Simple as that. Until the day they are reality, we need something better then conventional rockets.
2) Once in space, either through the use of these rockets or a space elevator, these would be extremely useful for getting around the solar system, or at least roaming our backyard (the moon) or visiting next door (Mars).
IANARS (rocket scientist), but I enjoy learning about developments in space tech. The nuclear engine, while different versions having been developed and tested decades ago, still looks to be the next best thing in space travel.
Yeah, but just think of all the tubing, wall panels, airlocks, windows, and god knows what else that had to be check. And especially since it was a leak in a piece of tubing, I'm surprised they found it so fast.
"They said they were police from the recording industry or something, and next time they'd take me away in handcuffs..."
I'll give you a reason why this would never happen.
RIAA "Cop": Hi. You're selling illegal copies of our works. We will now confiscate all your material. If we ever see you out here again, we will have you arrested.
Street Vendor: YO! VINNIE! I got some trouble here!
Vinnie & Friends: Hey yo...is dis guy botherin you? We got ways o' making trouble disappear...
Street Vendor: Alright, step right up and get your Britney CDs. And on special right now, nice leather jackets...
I've recently seen an inexpensive MP3/CD player with 2 minutes of MP3 anti-skip. I personally had to continuously tap that thing for 5 minutes to get it to start skipping. Of course I was also defending myself from the young child who's MP3 player I was constantly hitting, so that could have given it the chance to recover once or twice.
I whole-heartedly agree. What he did might have been mischevious, but not as bad as the punishment handed out. Hell...one time in high school, someone sent a schoolwide message saying "An error has occured. Please reboot your computer", during the middle of a class. I literally screamed because I was working on a report at the time and hadn't saved in a while. I had my finger on the button before someone grabbed me and told me it was a joke. Now that kid deserved some kind of punishment, but never got anything. This kid deserves a freakin' A for effort, considering he figured out something cool (to a 8th grader anyways) AND he did it with as little disruption as possible to everyone.
/.er, going to explain to this kid that what he did wasn't as bad as the school says, and that he's probably smarter then half the teachers? Something has to keep his spirits up and allow him to become the geek he is destined to be...
Is his father, or a kind-hearted
Nope. Insurance. Almost like a bank, but without the annoyance of handling real money.
Easy...have a "management committee" come along with a project to replace your aging AS/400 systems with Unix and PeopleSoft. Then it becomes:
Requirements. Document. Redo Requirements. Document. Redo Requirements. Document. Document. Document. Design. Document. Redo Design. Document. Document.
The next steps are supposedly the "Build-test-debug cycle" and "Release" parts. But considering the rest is 3 months overdue already, and doesn't look like it's ending anytime soon, I'll probably get to play Duke Nukem Forever before we get to lay code down. I'm thinking about sending management a link to this review...
I was thought it was one of the main reasons there WAS an internet in the first place.
Don't forget about VCRs, camcorders, and the rapid advancements in simulated-flesh technology...
Canadians don't really have an accent
As a Canadian, I can tell you for a fact that's untrue. It just depends on where you go. Newfies...they got an accent. New Brunswickers...they got an accent. Quebecers...they REALLY got an accent. Although once you hit Ontario, things just kinda get plain and drawn out. So it seems like they don't have an accent, but they do. Haven't talked to many people west of Ontario, but I'm sure they have to have some kind of accent. Especially once you hit rodeo-ridin' prarie land. Anyone who rides a horse for a living MUST have an accent.
You don't need to flash the bios, or even crack the case. You can install it using the "SaveGame" method. That way, you can play all the games you want and still boot linux when needed. Although I think this takes away your XBox Live abilities, but I personally wouldn't sign up for that anyways.
The thing is that even if MS and Intel make this wicked-kickass-hella-cool-nothing-can-hack-me BIOS replacement, someone will hack it. Nothing advertised as "Hackproof" stays that way for long...
After all, MS now have enough XBox experience to ensure that only their operating system can be run.
Oh yes...they have a GREAT track record for that...
...would this simply become a matter of the BIOS not allowing anything but "acceptable" OSes to boot?
Actually, they're called "trusted" OSes. And if you can't trust Microsoft, then who can you trust?
...I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age...
Let's do both!
Don't laugh...it could happen...
I wouldn't go that far. I can only speak for myself, but reading is one of those things that needs to be learned before you can enjoy it.
Ok, now that you've gotten the "is this guy a complete fscking idiot" thoughts out of your head, I'll explain. Aside from just not having time to read, I have been diagnosed with a learning disability. I have a problem with reading, especially if what I'm reading is in a different dilect then what I'm use to (i.e. Shakespeare). And it usually takes me a long time to read things even if it is something I understand. For the longest time, I disliked recreational reading because it was too boring and took too long.
What I've learned is that I just needed to find a better way to read. It helps that I'm interested in the material, but if I break the reading into short periods (say, no more then 30 minutes), I found that it's easier to stay focused and easier to retain. With that I've begun to read books that I've only heard references to, and thought before that they would take too long to read. That was the exact reason I read Nineteen Eighty-Four. It took me three months to read it but now I understand more, not only the references but the underlying message in the book. And I've become interested in other books now to. And this fits into my schedule perfectly since I usually read on the bus to and from work.
I think kids today do have more to distract them, but it's no reason for them to not read. I think someone just has to teach them ways to do it, so that it fits into their lives better. Reading can be fun, if you know how to do it properly.
The papers show some of the exciting and esoteric applications that the industrial world finds for embedded Linum.
.ISO?
What is this Linum you speak of? And where can I get the