Face it, we all had our suspicions, but never really thought that there was enough processing power to datamine that much information. We always knew it was going on, but thought that there was too much data to effectively sift.
Just turning off SuperKarumba did it for me. There are very few reasons why I stick with KDE, I really only use a wm for multiple terminals. I just got used to KDE and haven't really changed.
Time to change your nickname there, bucko. Reality Master my ass. You wouldn't know reality if it strapped on a c4 vest and detonated right beside you. You'd probably call it an arab. Here's your grain of truth. You shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. It is my opinion that your are just as emotionally motivated and brainwashed as a terrorist, but you are on the other side of the fence. Your assumption that the Islamic states have not condemned terrorism is false. You are of the type that start screaming "Where is the muslim outrage" instead of complaining that any outcries of muslims against terrorism end up as a footnote to the broadcast. Finally, to totally discredit myself, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I prefer my bookmarks sorted based upon distance from my house. It takes a while on ip2location, but at least I know that if I ever have to set a bag of poop on someone's doorstep, how far I'd have to travel. But I can see both alphabetically and by most used being valuable. Good thing Firefox lets you manage them however you want, just not automatically.
Because Mac hardware is nicer than say, Dell? Or that you could eventually write drivers for the mac which might aid in a virtual PC? Or because it's there?
The more and more I deal with Microsoft, the less and less I think that they are purposefully making things incompatible. I think that they just take a good idea and write/buy their own implementation. They try to make things work to spec, but if there's an easier way to do it, or a Microsoft Approved (TM) way of doing it, that's the way they're going to do it. One small, seemingly insignifigant method of communicating between processes, and there's no hope of getting outside programs to talk to it.
Actually, linux would be more user-friendly to a blind person than a gui. Assuming that they could type, and had a braille interface like in Sneakers, it would be much easier to install than windows XP, depending on the distro.
My pet peeve is being told what platforms to support, training budget spent on hardware, having to support a single server that needs to have 24/7 uptime built on commodity hardware, having end users think that a 250 gig hard drive for $150 is going to cut it as enterprise grade hardware, being pestered for every little thing that remotely has to do with IT, answering the exact same question over and over, even though you spent the time to put up a FAQ on it after the same person asked you the answer every damned day. I hate the fact that end users destroy their systems, lie about what websites they go to when you know exactly where they are going, what they are doing, what link they clicked on. I hate the fact that they decide to go to your supervisor before coming to you, and you get shit on because he has to break up his day and deal with an irate phone call because when you told the user that you were aware of the problem, and were working on it, and nothing has changed in the last five minutes, that was too much for them.
The big thing that you need to have a qualified IT department is an actual department. Put training schedules in place, and anyone who isn't performing due to a lack of technical knowledge should be first retrained. Make a gameplan for your business, and ensure that you ask the IT managers to attend the planning. Keep them in the loop, and make sure that you have the equipment to make the initiative happen. Make certain that there are proper procedures in place to handle issues, and the staff and resources to fix them.
I would take as much processor as they are willing to give me, for anything. The more you have, the more you can do.
The flip side to this is the general-purpose CPU. Do we really need this for routers, firewalls, and everything else that we can think of? Maybe it's time to ask for specialized chips. Instead of having one 3 ghz chip running at 1% cpu usage, have a stripped down one running 50%.
There should not be a market for ideas. There can be a market for a specific implementation of an idea, but the whole fight now is the absurdity that is patenting ideas. Allow specific methods or implementations, but weed out the over-generalized patents. That and shorten the patent time for tech related patents, as the effective useful lifetime is much shorter than other fields.
Now, we don't have inventors creating patents, we have lawyers doing it, with no regard to actually develop their ideas. They are content to sit back and sue someone for implementing what they were too unskilled to do.
The key word there is logical. The electronic voting machine makers could very well have known that if none would provide the code, the state would have to do an all-or-nothing approach, and they wouldn;t like the nothing option.
No, staying technologically superior makes a lot of sense. Even if it is to fight an enemy that does not exist yet.
Staying technologically superior is also a form of corporate welfare. Same with war. Without going into the obvious politics of war, was the $30 Billion Shock and Awe phase of the war needed? We could have done just as much damage dropping $10 million worth of diesel fuel and nitrate in 50 gallon drums from cargo planes. But who would that have helped out? Not GE, Lockheed, Boeing, or anyone else who makes high precision implements of death.
Call me an idealist, call me a purist, but if we rewarded technology for the sake of technology, not for how many people it can accurately kill, then maybe people wouldn't want to attack the U.S. Don't believe that "They hate our freedom" line, it's a lot more complicated than that. If a country acted benevolent, didn't cowtow to corporate interests, and took a leadership role, both in its own society as well as in global matters, as well as (and not just) a moral compass, then do you think that country would be the target of attacks? If the U.S. said that they were going to develop a cure for aids, paid for that, and then licensed out the manufacture of the pharmaceuticals, then do you think that there would be a pissing match with African nations over patent controls?
Everyone says that technology is not a panacea, but even still, we've yet given an honest attempt to prove them right. We're still all stuck on that greed thing.
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Face it, we all had our suspicions, but never really thought that there was enough processing power to datamine that much information. We always knew it was going on, but thought that there was too much data to effectively sift.
Well brother, they're sifting!
Just turning off SuperKarumba did it for me. There are very few reasons why I stick with KDE, I really only use a wm for multiple terminals. I just got used to KDE and haven't really changed.
Time to change your nickname there, bucko. Reality Master my ass. You wouldn't know reality if it strapped on a c4 vest and detonated right beside you. You'd probably call it an arab.
Here's your grain of truth. You shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. It is my opinion that your are just as emotionally motivated and brainwashed as a terrorist, but you are on the other side of the fence. Your assumption that the Islamic states have not condemned terrorism is false. You are of the type that start screaming "Where is the muslim outrage" instead of complaining that any outcries of muslims against terrorism end up as a footnote to the broadcast.
Finally, to totally discredit myself, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I prefer my bookmarks sorted based upon distance from my house. It takes a while on ip2location, but at least I know that if I ever have to set a bag of poop on someone's doorstep, how far I'd have to travel.
But I can see both alphabetically and by most used being valuable. Good thing Firefox lets you manage them however you want, just not automatically.
Because Mac hardware is nicer than say, Dell? Or that you could eventually write drivers for the mac which might aid in a virtual PC? Or because it's there?
The more and more I deal with Microsoft, the less and less I think that they are purposefully making things incompatible. I think that they just take a good idea and write/buy their own implementation. They try to make things work to spec, but if there's an easier way to do it, or a Microsoft Approved (TM) way of doing it, that's the way they're going to do it. One small, seemingly insignifigant method of communicating between processes, and there's no hope of getting outside programs to talk to it.
Actually, linux would be more user-friendly to a blind person than a gui. Assuming that they could type, and had a braille interface like in Sneakers, it would be much easier to install than windows XP, depending on the distro.
What, you mean computer software isn't written by republicans?
$ man bash | flite
That will do it. It's hideous, but it will do it.
My pet peeve is being told what platforms to support, training budget spent on hardware, having to support a single server that needs to have 24/7 uptime built on commodity hardware, having end users think that a 250 gig hard drive for $150 is going to cut it as enterprise grade hardware, being pestered for every little thing that remotely has to do with IT, answering the exact same question over and over, even though you spent the time to put up a FAQ on it after the same person asked you the answer every damned day. I hate the fact that end users destroy their systems, lie about what websites they go to when you know exactly where they are going, what they are doing, what link they clicked on. I hate the fact that they decide to go to your supervisor before coming to you, and you get shit on because he has to break up his day and deal with an irate phone call because when you told the user that you were aware of the problem, and were working on it, and nothing has changed in the last five minutes, that was too much for them.
The big thing that you need to have a qualified IT department is an actual department. Put training schedules in place, and anyone who isn't performing due to a lack of technical knowledge should be first retrained. Make a gameplan for your business, and ensure that you ask the IT managers to attend the planning. Keep them in the loop, and make sure that you have the equipment to make the initiative happen. Make certain that there are proper procedures in place to handle issues, and the staff and resources to fix them.
I would take as much processor as they are willing to give me, for anything. The more you have, the more you can do.
The flip side to this is the general-purpose CPU. Do we really need this for routers, firewalls, and everything else that we can think of? Maybe it's time to ask for specialized chips. Instead of having one 3 ghz chip running at 1% cpu usage, have a stripped down one running 50%.
I thought that it was the referee's family from the vegas payoffs.
You mean m/OSS
Just bad lawyers for the libel suits.
There should not be a market for ideas. There can be a market for a specific implementation of an idea, but the whole fight now is the absurdity that is patenting ideas. Allow specific methods or implementations, but weed out the over-generalized patents. That and shorten the patent time for tech related patents, as the effective useful lifetime is much shorter than other fields.
Now, we don't have inventors creating patents, we have lawyers doing it, with no regard to actually develop their ideas. They are content to sit back and sue someone for implementing what they were too unskilled to do.
CD-humping rabbit?
What are you talking about?
I have ten peoplethat I'd like to nominate for clinical trials!
The key word there is logical. The electronic voting machine makers could very well have known that if none would provide the code, the state would have to do an all-or-nothing approach, and they wouldn;t like the nothing option.
But that's just idle speculation.
Let's get the branding irons out. Oh you mean Slashdot deadly, not Steve Ballmer fucking burying you deadly.
Hope the OP can take a good slapping.
Until the major carriers start doing QOS for their own voip services and inadvertantly degrade the others.
It could become sentient and develop atomic weapons?
Thank goodness Gee Dubya can't ever become sentient. (Oh come on, you knew it was coming.)
1) Pay off patent office
2) ????
3) PROFIT!
Well, I guess that they won't be that far below the poverty line.
No, staying technologically superior makes a lot of sense. Even if it is to fight an enemy that does not exist yet.
Staying technologically superior is also a form of corporate welfare. Same with war. Without going into the obvious politics of war, was the $30 Billion Shock and Awe phase of the war needed? We could have done just as much damage dropping $10 million worth of diesel fuel and nitrate in 50 gallon drums from cargo planes. But who would that have helped out? Not GE, Lockheed, Boeing, or anyone else who makes high precision implements of death.
Call me an idealist, call me a purist, but if we rewarded technology for the sake of technology, not for how many people it can accurately kill, then maybe people wouldn't want to attack the U.S. Don't believe that "They hate our freedom" line, it's a lot more complicated than that. If a country acted benevolent, didn't cowtow to corporate interests, and took a leadership role, both in its own society as well as in global matters, as well as (and not just) a moral compass, then do you think that country would be the target of attacks? If the U.S. said that they were going to develop a cure for aids, paid for that, and then licensed out the manufacture of the pharmaceuticals, then do you think that there would be a pissing match with African nations over patent controls?
Everyone says that technology is not a panacea, but even still, we've yet given an honest attempt to prove them right. We're still all stuck on that greed thing.
Give us a little hint. What are you using to browse slashdot right now?
Maybe if you gave us some particuars, we could help.