Don't they know it is not the casual user of tivo they need to be worried about but the hacker type, who has the utmost capability of circumventing any protection and if necessary, building their or building their own Tivo-like system and do what they are trying to circumvent and dump the recordings on to p2p networks for widespread sharing ?
When will they learn not to fight the system ?
I would not mind finding out whose bank account this alleged corporation's account indicated in the mail and popping these guys out provided someone give me a ticket to Nigeria and provide some "tools of the trade" while I am there and I'd do it for free:)
Company provides laptop Company provides 2 way alphanumeric pager Company reimburses for Cable modem Company reimburses for Cell Phone upto $50/mo
It looks like the CIO in the original message, dumping everything on the shoulders of the employees cost-wise is a pretty short sighted and wsounds like he/she won't last any longer than his/her sight.
Yes the IT personnel should be dedicated but in the face of contracting rate cuts, salary reductions and layoffs we suffered, if they expect me to foot the bill for things that that may end up as a responsibility to me (think about 2 year cell phone contracts) should I get laid off, does not make much sense.
As the wisemen at one time said, you harvest what you sow earlier. If they do not provide facilities for support they have to suffice with longer response times.
Spoofing fingerprints was one of my early childhood memories, watching Mission Impossible. And unless you are visually watching the spoofer, making sure he/she is not wearing any layer of artificial skin on the fingers, there is no guarantee that a fingerprint actually belongs to the person whose fingerprints are being scanned.
..I am on board. Currently have cable modem at home due to nothing but speed and need for that speed for telecommuting. If they come out with such a speedy DSL, my company would love me to ditch cable co. (I work for a satellite service provider, what an irony) Also, if they can bundle up a wireless hi-speed access with this fast DSL, men-oh-men... I already envy the people in NYC and wherever else (somewhere else in Fla. ?) for their fast wireless access from verizon. Some company in Los Angeles : are you listening ????
glad to see that somebody other than me also saw the light. Being booksmart or testsmart does not mean being street-smart and most of the time means the opposite, i.e., being totally out of touch with the real world. Hey if there are 24 hours in the day, the time you spare to study for the tests, you are not facing the problems of the real world as we all know real world's most bizzare problems do not make their way to become the certification test questions.
What I love the most out of all these certifications is RHCE (red hat certfied engineer) yeah, somebody study for tests on RH 7.0 about 2 years ago. But, on the paper, they are CERTIFIED. If an employer is giving more value to the piece of paper generated by prometric certificate mill than usnderstanding what I am actually capable of, I might as well stay away from that employer as it is the dead end of the road for me.
Why do the stupid people comeup with such brilliant ideas to establish the draconian police state all the time ? Any human being with even half brain can think the privacy issues wrapped around such a figure and not even voice up his/her opinion in a public way. "Oh but if you are not doing anything illegal how's that gonna hurt you ?" is the response from the bird brained politician, I can almost hear.
Gawd... enough is enough. Even Walmart put RFID into suspended animation and at the end all they were going to do is to speed up check-outs (yeah, rrrrright). Wake up powers that be !!! People do not want to be tracked.
Well, not exactly the same idea maybe but the story is the same as transmeta to me. One good upside to transmeta, they did not start with linux on mind. I am assuming their product did not make too much inroads into the industry otherwise I would have expected to hear about their products before this time and from 95 till 04, it is anawful long time to stay in hiatus.
Looks like people with half brains are able to hold on to their jobs over at netgear, so, I want a job where I do not feel compelled to excel at my job, heck, I can lay an egg like this about one every hour.
Hey netgear folks, do you want to hire me ? I promise my ideas will be even lamer than changing "super" to "superman" so your legacy won't be hurt.
One keeps wondering how those ideas actually filter through the chain of comman in such an high visibility issue. Amazing !
This is the most incredibly capitalist idea that I have ever heard from a reputable manufacturer of computers so far.
Knowing the average wealth of the Chinese population, what in the earth was Apple thinking or what were they smoking up in the Valley when they come up with this brilliant idea I am wondering.
While most people in Chine is on the border of (or may be right in the middle of) poverty in US standarts, what do they expect from this deal. Sell these people digital songs $1-a-pop ?
Hmmm.. I am wondering if I should eat today or shell out my food allowance to download the latest Eminem track ? Hmmmnn... Hard choice, but I'll go with the food.
Haven't we figured that out yet this organization has one goal in mind, which is to spray FUD over open source movement, which we all know funded by a big corp in Redmond ? More the name gets discussed among the geek squad (a.k.a./.ers) more publicity they get from the not-so-clever mainstream media, authors of which think "oh, since their name is out there so much, they must have a good point in discussion" Playing ignoramus against these clowns is the best strategy in my opinion. These guys are like the talentless idiot who draws Boondocks. Nobody knew neither him nor his strip, until the day he attacked the Sean Hannity in an anti-war interview, where Hannity was absent. The next day, in his program, Hannity chewed him out but he succeeded at his goal. He was known by so many millions of Americans in the course of a few minutes. Screw AdTI.
[quote on] At that point, he basically became useless. He no longer had the passion for the job he once had. He slacked off and spent half his time researching things and creating goofy personal home pages chronicling the development of his child. I think having children is one of those fundamental things in life that creates a paradigm shift in peoples' motivation. As a result, I would always prefer an employee that doesn't have children over one that does, especially in a case where the family is about to have their first baby [quote off]
wondering if you or your company have ever been on the defendant side of the courtroom as a result of discrimination case ??
I don't think any judge or in an extreme case, any jury would look warm to a company who prefers a childless employee over one which is a parent.
It is all in the finding the work-life balance. I do not have any kids but have 3 dogs and a cat which require attention almost as much as a child needs (some may disagree on this but this is my opinion) and I have been in the IT field for longer than 10 years with no employer of mine complaining about lack of performance so far.
But if one is working for a slavedriver organization who always demand unrealistic deliverables, having a child or not having one does not make much difference down the road. If you do not have a child, the rate that you are working to please your slavedriver will burn you off sooner rather than later.
because the alternative they have, which is to rewire the humongous buildings that they have in the very limited amount of space available.
Same story with Chine from a different perspective. Wiring the old buildings for phone communications is not feasible fianncially.
At the end, when alternative is very expensive, people tend to be more creative than what is expected of them. Can be applied to anything, not only wireless or technology...
I have never heard this brand of media players but the snazzy-ness in the name implies as if they are trying to be the next TiVO. But after reading this review, I do not think that they stand even a slim chance.
Also, I do not agree with the "blame it on Linux mentality" point in the/. article as the reviewer made a good point of Linux being used creatively and in a positive way in Tivo interface, but he says, Roku fails to use it properly.
These people like makers of Roku, in my opinion, lacks a business minded person on their board of directors, at least one very good example of this kind. Idea is good but marketing it half-baked is not going to do this company any favor. On contrary, they have a long way to back paddle from this point on. Wish them good luck but I know it will take more than just luck...
It is very heartwarming to see some major Linux vendor is interested in the individual home Linux user after RedHat dumped them like yesterday's trash.
On a side note, I am wondering where they are getting their currency exchange rates. Wish I could buy Euros from this rate and trade on the free market:)
[quote on] For comparison, the Mandrake Linux PowerPack contains more than 2300 high-quality applications including a complete Office Suite of programs, plus installation support, for approximately 75 Euros ($69 US); whereby the equivalent Microsoft Windows + MS Office costs approximately 750 Euros ($685 US) without any technical support. [quote off]
Site is having a slashdot effect. You need to tell these people that you are putting their site up for brute force test before doing it so, so that they can buy some akamai bandwidth (questionable how effective it is lately though) <grin>
The energy source is a tad bit different. Animals instead of humans and they do not need to be alive to serve their purpose.
I am not sure how well this will bode with the animal welfare groups, when the time comes and these plants start to grow poultry and livestock just to slaughter and feed to the plants. In which case they do not worry about what types of hormones they use to make them big and plump in 2 weeks:)
As I said, welcome to the ANImatrix:) though ANI here stands for animal not animation.
Noble idea but in corporate America we all know that, it will end up this way one day in not too distant future.
What is the big deal with onstar while the number of cars carrying it are stuill countable whereas millions of cell phone users, announcing their whereabouts (maybe with not that exact accuracy but it also is coming) minute-in and minute-out.
It also sounds like an NYT staff writer or freelancer is at odds with someone from GM and/or onstar team. I personally do not take anything that I read on media for its face value, especially from a paper like NYT, who has a very skewed angle for looking at the world events.
....I hope that windows makes major inroads to the developing Iraq. If the country gets built upon O/S, there is no money to be made for the US. Whereas, micro$oft with their crappy OS will open a boatload of IT spending in Iraq as well as in any other country. Under the circumstances of IT job/spending shortage in the US, I would welcome any IT investment money flowing into the US, even though I would not touch a windows server with a 10 feet pole.
I know not all the people reading/. is from the US and they could not care any about what I say, but in the same train of thought I really could not care about others where highly skilled people are going unemployed in my immediate vicinity.
Am I selfish ? Heck yes... if one says he/she is not selfish, is the biggest liar.
I swear by the old schooll Canon 35 mm SLRs. I am still sticking to my AE-1 camera after going thru about a dozen others digital and non-digital. It is a bit on the heavy side, but I do not exchange it for any other SLR that I know of
As it was well known to the trained eye, the lawsuit had no merit but it was just a ploy to get acquired by IBM or some other entity. Now that it did not happen, SCO is trying to drag their feet so that some clueless VC with abundance of money and no brains could be found to rescue them. Plain and simple IMHO
Day after RH announces that they are discontinuing the support for the casual Linux user, this comment should not be a surprise at all. All Red Hat is sayin, we are not able to provide support if Linux desktop becomes a reality real soon, hence can not profit from it. So, it might as well wait until we are ready (to fill our pockets) it had better be Micro$oft spearheading the desktop effort. Otherwise, if, god forbid SuSE becomes the dominant desktop linux provider, we (RH) may not have the advantage of Linux leader, ever again.
Cheap shot if you ask me. Hang ordinary people to dry while we entertain the corporate America. Nice, really nice... RH is losing credibility for me real fast.
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Don't they know it is not the casual user of tivo they need to be worried about but the hacker type, who has the utmost capability of circumventing any protection and if necessary, building their or building their own Tivo-like system and do what they are trying to circumvent and dump the recordings on to p2p networks for widespread sharing ? When will they learn not to fight the system ?
I would not mind finding out whose bank account this alleged corporation's account indicated in the mail and popping these guys out provided someone give me a ticket to Nigeria and provide some "tools of the trade" while I am there and I'd do it for free :)
Company provides laptop
Company provides 2 way alphanumeric pager
Company reimburses for Cable modem
Company reimburses for Cell Phone upto $50/mo
It looks like the CIO in the original message, dumping everything on the shoulders of the employees cost-wise is a pretty short sighted and wsounds like he/she won't last any longer than his/her sight.
Yes the IT personnel should be dedicated but in the face of contracting rate cuts, salary reductions and layoffs we suffered, if they expect me to foot the bill for things that that may end up as a responsibility to me (think about 2 year cell phone contracts) should I get laid off, does not make much sense.
As the wisemen at one time said, you harvest what you sow earlier. If they do not provide facilities for support they have to suffice with longer response times.
... aluminum foil covered draywalls :)
.. an "approved" Linux DVD player ? Me thinks not ! When something is made legal, it takes the whole fun out of the game IMHO...
Just a thought
...Shit happens.
Spoofing fingerprints was one of my early childhood memories, watching Mission Impossible. And unless you are visually watching the spoofer, making sure he/she is not wearing any layer of artificial skin on the fingers, there is no guarantee that a fingerprint actually belongs to the person whose fingerprints are being scanned.
..I am on board. Currently have cable modem at home due to nothing but speed and need for that speed for telecommuting. If they come out with such a speedy DSL, my company would love me to ditch cable co. (I work for a satellite service provider, what an irony)
Also, if they can bundle up a wireless hi-speed access with this fast DSL, men-oh-men... I already envy the people in NYC and wherever else (somewhere else in Fla. ?) for their fast wireless access from verizon. Some company in Los Angeles : are you listening ????
glad to see that somebody other than me also saw the light. Being booksmart or testsmart does not mean being street-smart and most of the time means the opposite, i.e., being totally out of touch with the real world. Hey if there are 24 hours in the day, the time you spare to study for the tests, you are not facing the problems of the real world as we all know real world's most bizzare problems do not make their way to become the certification test questions.
What I love the most out of all these certifications is RHCE (red hat certfied engineer) yeah, somebody study for tests on RH 7.0 about 2 years ago. But, on the paper, they are CERTIFIED. If an employer is giving more value to the piece of paper generated by prometric certificate mill than usnderstanding what I am actually capable of, I might as well stay away from that employer as it is the dead end of the road for me.
Why do the stupid people comeup with such brilliant ideas to establish the draconian police state all the time ? Any human being with even half brain can think the privacy issues wrapped around such a figure and not even voice up his/her opinion in a public way.
"Oh but if you are not doing anything illegal how's that gonna hurt you ?" is the response from the bird brained politician, I can almost hear.
Gawd... enough is enough. Even Walmart put RFID into suspended animation and at the end all they were going to do is to speed up check-outs (yeah, rrrrright). Wake up powers that be !!! People do not want to be tracked.
Well, not exactly the same idea maybe but the story is the same as transmeta to me. One good upside to transmeta, they did not start with linux on mind.
I am assuming their product did not make too much inroads into the industry otherwise I would have expected to hear about their products before this time and from 95 till 04, it is anawful long time to stay in hiatus.
Looks like people with half brains are able to hold on to their jobs over at netgear, so, I want a job where I do not feel compelled to excel at my job, heck, I can lay an egg like this about one every hour.
Hey netgear folks, do you want to hire me ? I promise my ideas will be even lamer than changing "super" to "superman" so your legacy won't be hurt.
One keeps wondering how those ideas actually filter through the chain of comman in such an high visibility issue. Amazing !
This is the most incredibly capitalist idea that I have ever heard from a reputable manufacturer of computers so far.
Knowing the average wealth of the Chinese population, what in the earth was Apple thinking or what were they smoking up in the Valley when they come up with this brilliant idea I am wondering.
While most people in Chine is on the border of (or may be right in the middle of) poverty in US standarts, what do they expect from this deal. Sell these people digital songs $1-a-pop ?
Hmmm.. I am wondering if I should eat today or shell out my food allowance to download the latest Eminem track ? Hmmmnn... Hard choice, but I'll go with the food.
Haven't we figured that out yet this organization has one goal in mind, which is to spray FUD over open source movement, which we all know funded by a big corp in Redmond ? /.ers) more publicity they get from the not-so-clever mainstream media, authors of which think "oh, since their name is out there so much, they must have a good point in discussion"
More the name gets discussed among the geek squad (a.k.a.
Playing ignoramus against these clowns is the best strategy in my opinion.
These guys are like the talentless idiot who draws Boondocks. Nobody knew neither him nor his strip, until the day he attacked the Sean Hannity in an anti-war interview, where Hannity was absent. The next day, in his program, Hannity chewed him out but he succeeded at his goal. He was known by so many millions of Americans in the course of a few minutes.
Screw AdTI.
[quote on]
At that point, he basically became useless. He no longer had the passion for the job he once had. He slacked off and spent half his time researching things and creating goofy personal home pages chronicling the development of his child. I think having children is one of those fundamental things in life that creates a paradigm shift in peoples' motivation. As a result, I would always prefer an employee that doesn't have children over one that does, especially in a case where the family is about to have their first baby
[quote off]
wondering if you or your company have ever been on the defendant side of the courtroom as a result of discrimination case ??
I don't think any judge or in an extreme case, any jury would look warm to a company who prefers a childless employee over one which is a parent.
It is all in the finding the work-life balance. I do not have any kids but have 3 dogs and a cat which require attention almost as much as a child needs (some may disagree on this but this is my opinion) and I have been in the IT field for longer than 10 years with no employer of mine complaining about lack of performance so far.
But if one is working for a slavedriver organization who always demand unrealistic deliverables, having a child or not having one does not make much difference down the road. If you do not have a child, the rate that you are working to please your slavedriver will burn you off sooner rather than later.
my 2 cents
because the alternative they have, which is to rewire the humongous buildings that they have in the very limited amount of space available.
Same story with Chine from a different perspective. Wiring the old buildings for phone communications is not feasible fianncially.
At the end, when alternative is very expensive, people tend to be more creative than what is expected of them. Can be applied to anything, not only wireless or technology...
I have never heard this brand of media players but the snazzy-ness in the name implies as if they are trying to be the next TiVO. But after reading this review, I do not think that they stand even a slim chance.
/. article as the reviewer made a good point of Linux being used creatively and in a positive way in Tivo interface, but he says, Roku fails to use it properly.
Also, I do not agree with the "blame it on Linux mentality" point in the
These people like makers of Roku, in my opinion, lacks a business minded person on their board of directors, at least one very good example of this kind. Idea is good but marketing it half-baked is not going to do this company any favor. On contrary, they have a long way to back paddle from this point on. Wish them good luck but I know it will take more than just luck...
It is very heartwarming to see some major Linux vendor is interested in the individual home Linux user after RedHat dumped them like yesterday's trash.
:)
On a side note, I am wondering where they are getting their currency exchange rates. Wish I could buy Euros from this rate and trade on the free market
[quote on]
For comparison, the Mandrake Linux PowerPack contains more than 2300 high-quality applications including a complete Office Suite of programs, plus installation support, for approximately 75 Euros ($69 US); whereby the equivalent Microsoft Windows + MS Office costs approximately 750 Euros ($685 US) without any technical support.
[quote off]
Site is having a slashdot effect.
You need to tell these people that you are putting their site up for brute force test before doing it so, so that they can buy some akamai bandwidth (questionable how effective it is lately though) <grin>
The energy source is a tad bit different. Animals instead of humans and they do not need to be alive to serve their purpose.
:)
:) though ANI here stands for animal not animation.
I am not sure how well this will bode with the animal welfare groups, when the time comes and these plants start to grow poultry and livestock just to slaughter and feed to the plants. In which case they do not worry about what types of hormones they use to make them big and plump in 2 weeks
As I said, welcome to the ANImatrix
Noble idea but in corporate America we all know that, it will end up this way one day in not too distant future.
What is the big deal with onstar while the number of cars carrying it are stuill countable whereas millions of cell phone users, announcing their whereabouts (maybe with not that exact accuracy but it also is coming) minute-in and minute-out.
....
It also sounds like an NYT staff writer or freelancer is at odds with someone from GM and/or onstar team. I personally do not take anything that I read on media for its face value, especially from a paper like NYT, who has a very skewed angle for looking at the world events.
Next please
....I hope that windows makes major inroads to the developing Iraq. If the country gets built upon O/S, there is no money to be made for the US. Whereas, micro$oft with their crappy OS will open a boatload of IT spending in Iraq as well as in any other country. Under the circumstances of IT job/spending shortage in the US, I would welcome any IT investment money flowing into the US, even though I would not touch a windows server with a 10 feet pole.
/. is from the US and they could not care any about what I say, but in the same train of thought I really could not care about others where highly skilled people are going unemployed in my immediate vicinity.
... if one says he/she is not selfish, is the biggest liar.
I know not all the people reading
Am I selfish ? Heck yes
I swear by the old schooll Canon 35 mm SLRs. I am still sticking to my AE-1 camera after going thru about a dozen others digital and non-digital. It is a bit on the heavy side, but I do not exchange it for any other SLR that I know of
As it was well known to the trained eye, the lawsuit had no merit but it was just a ploy to get acquired by IBM or some other entity. Now that it did not happen, SCO is trying to drag their feet so that some clueless VC with abundance of money and no brains could be found to rescue them. Plain and simple IMHO
Day after RH announces that they are discontinuing the support for the casual Linux user, this comment should not be a surprise at all.
All Red Hat is sayin, we are not able to provide support if Linux desktop becomes a reality real soon, hence can not profit from it. So, it might as well wait until we are ready (to fill our pockets) it had better be Micro$oft spearheading the desktop effort. Otherwise, if, god forbid SuSE becomes the dominant desktop linux provider, we (RH) may not have the advantage of Linux leader, ever again.
Cheap shot if you ask me. Hang ordinary people to dry while we entertain the corporate America. Nice, really nice... RH is losing credibility for me real fast.