The OS is only as secure as the user. If a lame Linux user does everything as root, he's going to be more vulnerable than someone using Windows 2000 with a firewall. If a lame Windows administrator doesn't have a decent firewall and keeps all kinds of ports open, he's going to get hit too. It's about users knowing what they are using. But I have to say that a default Windows installation does appear to be less secure than most default Linux installations.
I completely agree with that. I've tried 5 times and I've still not seen the movie (slept 3 times, switched channels 2 other times) fully and have no idea what the hell happens in it.
It's a science FICTION movie. If they called themselves a science movie and had holes, then there would be a problem. Stop trying to find holes in science FICTION movies and just enjoy the movie. Science fiction movies aren't real life. They're an entertaining break from real-life.
If you want to party AND get a top ranked EE degree, Univ of Illinois looks pretty good. On the other hand, Univ of Illinois may be a top party school because it is a top EE school.. The EEs are always in their labs, hence not bringing down the quality of parties.
Disclaimer: Not a troll or a flamebait.. I'm a UIUC EE.
Fortunately, I've been out of graduate school for a couple of years now.. and I never quite had to work 40 hrs. In fact, it was the other way round. I guess I got lucky.
How about University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign? They have an excellent Electrical/Computer Engineering program. And at this point, it's probably better to get a degree with some hardware in it rather than pure software. It'll reduce the chances of being in unemployment lines.
Most of the top 10-20 schools have big job-fairs with most large tech companies attending. Going to any of these schools, and getting reasonable grades should give you a very good chance of landing a job easily.
My comment is from the prespective of a graduate student. Almost all the top schools are as good as each other. Or you could end up with a shitty advisor in which case, any school would be bad. It might be counterproductive to choose a college based only overall rankings. Your field of reasearch, advisor, how much money they pay you as assistantship, they all play a role.
As long as a school is in the top 10-20, they're probably about as good as each other.. Some better than others depending on your specialization
How bloody difficult is it to patch your system? Yeah microsoft does keep coming up with patches all the time.. That's why the automatic update utility is available. It tells you when new patches are available. And how bloody difficult is it to not open attachments in "My Resume" or some other bullshit subject email?
Software is bound to have holes (Microsoft has a lot more holes than the rest) and this has been demonstrated repeatedly. Even a basic software firewall like Zonealarm can prevent most infections. There are various options available to protected yourselves. I wish everyone would just stop whining about worms and viruses and trojans and just take a few basic measures to prevent infections.
SCO has nothing. No one wants to pay ridiculous licensing fees for UNIX anymore when Linux works just fine. This is SCO's last ditch effort before they sink into sewage. Sun will follow soon. No one wants Slowlaris.
Canon EOS-1Ds is the first Canon SLR with full 35mm sensor. Other Canon SLRs do not have a full 35mm sensor. I'm not sure about other brands though. For more info: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos1ds/
The Sony DSC-S75 may allow you to take a picture with 3:2 aspect ratio, but in reality, it is just chopping off the top and the bottom of the image. This is because the CCD element in the DSC-S75 is still a 4:3 element. In case of the EOS-1DS, the CMOS sensor itself has an aspect ratio of 3:2, therefore giving a true 35mm image without any cropping.
It depends on how big you want to print the images. "Photo-quality" prints are typically 300 DPI. If you want to print a 4 x 6 image, that means you need and image that is 1200x1800 pixels to print at 300 DPI. If you want to print larger pictures, you need more mega-pixels.
Also, the images in almost all digital cameras (except the Canon EOS1DS) is not 35mm. 35mm Film has an aspect ratio of 3:2. Digital cameras have the same aspect ratio as a normal computer monitor which is 4:3. When you are printing an image on 4x6 paper from a digitial camera, a small portion of the top and bottom is usually chopped off (unless you flattened the image).
Digital cameras haven't yet passed 35mm film quality when it comes to how many pixels are captured. The closest is the Canon EOS-1DS(11 Megapixels) which rivals some consumer 400 speed films. But digital cameras still have a long way to go to rival 100 speed(or slower) film. But, the amount of detail captured in fine-grain 35mm film is almost never used by the typical consumer anyway. To make 4x6 prints, a 2 megapixel camera is about as good as a film camera.
I thought one of the reasons the FCC exists is to allocate frequency blocks precisely to avoid problems like this? Aren't wireless devices supposed to be certified by the FCC?
Such arguments can be made for anything and everything. For example : The united states spent blah blah blah billions on a space program while 40 million people go without health insurance and so on. Retrograde anti-scientific morons in every era always argue against science and lose
Robots will not eliminate jobs. Robots will create more jobs in the following areas:
1) Salesmen to sell robots
2) Servicemen for robots
3) Designers for robots (That will probably be outsourced to India or China)
4) Other jobs
Those who flip burgers could go an work for a company selling robots. Technology improves quality of life for everyone. It may eliminate certain jobs but it creates BETTER jobs in other areas
There is no reason to comment on this topic at all. All the comments are going to say:
1. The Indians are stealing the God given jobs of the Americans! wah wah wah
2. Those evil companies don't care about their employees! Wah wah wah
3. Clinton NAFTA foreigners H1-B blah blah blah, ramble ramble ramble
Get over it! It's called capitalism. Companies have a loyalty ONLY to their shareholders. Not to their Employees. If a company treats their employees well, it is only incidental. That is how the system is built and that is the system championed by the United States and spread worldwide aggressively by the US government. Million of blue-collar jobs have moved overseas a long time ago. The whining techies screaming about American jobs being lost don't think twice about going to Fry's and buying an inexpensive video card or printer made in China. The whining techies don't think twice about going to Fry's and buying a Via motherboard made in Taiwan.
All this crap about "American jobs" being lost is a whole bunch of nationalistic lip-service tripe. Put your money where your mouth is. I challenge you to stop buying a single electronic item (or clothes, or anything else) not made overseas by a worker who "stole" American jobs.
If you can't, you are infinitely worse than the CEO who moved the jobs overseas because you were the one that caused the CEO to make that decision.
I use my Inkjet for photo printing very rarely and mostly use it to print maps, coupons, etc (in B&W). I probably average about 15-20 pages/month (1-2 colour). and a low-end inkjet printer works fine for me. If I want to print more than a few photos, I just upload them to Walmart's website and pick them up a few days later. Can't beat walmart at 26 cents per 4x6 print.
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The OS is only as secure as the user. If a lame Linux user does everything as root, he's going to be more vulnerable than someone using Windows 2000 with a firewall. If a lame Windows administrator doesn't have a decent firewall and keeps all kinds of ports open, he's going to get hit too. It's about users knowing what they are using. But I have to say that a default Windows installation does appear to be less secure than most default Linux installations.
I completely agree with that. I've tried 5 times and I've still not seen the movie (slept 3 times, switched channels 2 other times) fully and have no idea what the hell happens in it.
It's a science FICTION movie. If they called themselves a science movie and had holes, then there would be a problem. Stop trying to find holes in science FICTION movies and just enjoy the movie. Science fiction movies aren't real life. They're an entertaining break from real-life.
gah! I apologise for all the spelling and grammar errors. Didn't realise it was this bad until I read it again now. But then.. I'm a EE.
If you want to party AND get a top ranked EE degree, Univ of Illinois looks pretty good. On the other hand, Univ of Illinois may be a top party school because it is a top EE school.. The EEs are always in their labs, hence not bringing down the quality of parties. Disclaimer: Not a troll or a flamebait.. I'm a UIUC EE.
Fortunately, I've been out of graduate school for a couple of years now.. and I never quite had to work 40 hrs. In fact, it was the other way round. I guess I got lucky.
How about University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign? They have an excellent Electrical/Computer Engineering program. And at this point, it's probably better to get a degree with some hardware in it rather than pure software. It'll reduce the chances of being in unemployment lines. Most of the top 10-20 schools have big job-fairs with most large tech companies attending. Going to any of these schools, and getting reasonable grades should give you a very good chance of landing a job easily.
My comment is from the prespective of a graduate student. Almost all the top schools are as good as each other. Or you could end up with a shitty advisor in which case, any school would be bad. It might be counterproductive to choose a college based only overall rankings. Your field of reasearch, advisor, how much money they pay you as assistantship, they all play a role. As long as a school is in the top 10-20, they're probably about as good as each other.. Some better than others depending on your specialization
How bloody difficult is it to patch your system? Yeah microsoft does keep coming up with patches all the time.. That's why the automatic update utility is available. It tells you when new patches are available. And how bloody difficult is it to not open attachments in "My Resume" or some other bullshit subject email? Software is bound to have holes (Microsoft has a lot more holes than the rest) and this has been demonstrated repeatedly. Even a basic software firewall like Zonealarm can prevent most infections. There are various options available to protected yourselves. I wish everyone would just stop whining about worms and viruses and trojans and just take a few basic measures to prevent infections.
SCO has nothing. No one wants to pay ridiculous licensing fees for UNIX anymore when Linux works just fine. This is SCO's last ditch effort before they sink into sewage. Sun will follow soon. No one wants Slowlaris.
This may be offtopic but it's a 5!
Canon EOS-1Ds is the first Canon SLR with full 35mm sensor. Other Canon SLRs do not have a full 35mm sensor. I'm not sure about other brands though. For more info: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos1ds/
The Sony DSC-S75 may allow you to take a picture with 3:2 aspect ratio, but in reality, it is just chopping off the top and the bottom of the image. This is because the CCD element in the DSC-S75 is still a 4:3 element. In case of the EOS-1DS, the CMOS sensor itself has an aspect ratio of 3:2, therefore giving a true 35mm image without any cropping.
But then, Velvia is a slide film and the grain on slides is typically much larger than negative film of the same speed.
It depends on how big you want to print the images. "Photo-quality" prints are typically 300 DPI. If you want to print a 4 x 6 image, that means you need and image that is 1200x1800 pixels to print at 300 DPI. If you want to print larger pictures, you need more mega-pixels. Also, the images in almost all digital cameras (except the Canon EOS1DS) is not 35mm. 35mm Film has an aspect ratio of 3:2. Digital cameras have the same aspect ratio as a normal computer monitor which is 4:3. When you are printing an image on 4x6 paper from a digitial camera, a small portion of the top and bottom is usually chopped off (unless you flattened the image). Digital cameras haven't yet passed 35mm film quality when it comes to how many pixels are captured. The closest is the Canon EOS-1DS(11 Megapixels) which rivals some consumer 400 speed films. But digital cameras still have a long way to go to rival 100 speed(or slower) film. But, the amount of detail captured in fine-grain 35mm film is almost never used by the typical consumer anyway. To make 4x6 prints, a 2 megapixel camera is about as good as a film camera.
I thought one of the reasons the FCC exists is to allocate frequency blocks precisely to avoid problems like this? Aren't wireless devices supposed to be certified by the FCC?
Such arguments can be made for anything and everything. For example : The united states spent blah blah blah billions on a space program while 40 million people go without health insurance and so on. Retrograde anti-scientific morons in every era always argue against science and lose
Robots will not eliminate jobs. Robots will create more jobs in the following areas: 1) Salesmen to sell robots 2) Servicemen for robots 3) Designers for robots (That will probably be outsourced to India or China) 4) Other jobs Those who flip burgers could go an work for a company selling robots. Technology improves quality of life for everyone. It may eliminate certain jobs but it creates BETTER jobs in other areas
There is no reason to comment on this topic at all. All the comments are going to say: 1. The Indians are stealing the God given jobs of the Americans! wah wah wah 2. Those evil companies don't care about their employees! Wah wah wah 3. Clinton NAFTA foreigners H1-B blah blah blah, ramble ramble ramble Get over it! It's called capitalism. Companies have a loyalty ONLY to their shareholders. Not to their Employees. If a company treats their employees well, it is only incidental. That is how the system is built and that is the system championed by the United States and spread worldwide aggressively by the US government. Million of blue-collar jobs have moved overseas a long time ago. The whining techies screaming about American jobs being lost don't think twice about going to Fry's and buying an inexpensive video card or printer made in China. The whining techies don't think twice about going to Fry's and buying a Via motherboard made in Taiwan. All this crap about "American jobs" being lost is a whole bunch of nationalistic lip-service tripe. Put your money where your mouth is. I challenge you to stop buying a single electronic item (or clothes, or anything else) not made overseas by a worker who "stole" American jobs. If you can't, you are infinitely worse than the CEO who moved the jobs overseas because you were the one that caused the CEO to make that decision.
I use my Inkjet for photo printing very rarely and mostly use it to print maps, coupons, etc (in B&W). I probably average about 15-20 pages/month (1-2 colour). and a low-end inkjet printer works fine for me. If I want to print more than a few photos, I just upload them to Walmart's website and pick them up a few days later. Can't beat walmart at 26 cents per 4x6 print.
What kind of geek website is this where no one saw Jabba the Hutt in #2?
At least the Americans only get sued pre-emptively. Foreigners, especially darkies, get pre-emptively blow to bits by the American military