While the article is very well written, it ruins everything by going with the same old "Nintendo is dying"-message we've been hearing for the past couple of years - something that's getting quite annoying.
A couple of years ago when I was working with a big (gamespy-big, at the time) computer-game network. We received a review-copy of a bull-riding game. The reviewer in charge of the genre was amazed by the pure idiocy behind the game, and reviewed it VERY thoroughly - it got 4% on our review-scale. We didn't actually believe we'd ever get another game from that publisher (ever), but lo and behold; we did. The second time around, they scored 18% (mainly due to music by Lynyrd Skynyrd..).
My point? There are sites writing honest reviews - most of them go offline due to financial reasons. In other words; when you find a site you like - let their editors know, and do your damndest to keep them alive.
Today was supposed to be my fifth vacation day this christmas. I've had two; and decided to come in to the office today to make sure we were patched up against the exploit.
Yes, I took the plunge. The patch is now deployed in our small office (30 windows PCs atm); and so far so good. Would I have felt safer if the sourcecode was released? Perhaps.
That said, I'd rather take the ISC's word on the fix than have a guaranteed hell within a couple of days. The dedication of the people involved with ISC, as well as that of Mr. Guilfanov brightened my start of the new year.
Which games do > 1600x1200? Neither FEAR nor Quake4 run at 1920x1200, my monitor's native resolution. They're capped at 1600x1200. Same with remote-desktop:(
It's fairly apparent that you can write properly whenever you're DIRECTLY affected, instead of the content you normally just glance over and approve. It's also way too easy to see that you're wasting your editorial role on playing a fucking game, and blogging about your experience on what is supposed to be a somewhat unbiased site for technology related news.
So instead of being a MS tool, he'll be an open-source tool? What's the definition of an open-source tool? One who'll always use open-source software, even when there's proprietary software more suited for the job?
http://www.vasco.com/products/product.html?product =48 is what SEB gave me roughly 5 years ago IIRC.
The only thing that bothers me is that I can't have two (one at work, one at home), but that's just a minor bother.
Well, if you hit the "high-income" tax bracket (slightly more than what I earn atm), anything above the bracket gets taxed at 50%.
This, of course, doesn't take into consideration the Employer-tax of 15% (iirc). Basically, whatever I get after taxes is half of what I cost the company.
Gotta love these wonderful socialist countries, eh?
Under the Mac OS Finder you can't launch 2 copies of anything, no matter how many times you click on the Dock. Every click just keeps activating the same single instance of the application. Give it a try, you can click once, twice, ten times. You'll never get more than one instance of an application to launch.
I don't get it. Most of the people on slashdot should be very competent people. Competent people earn more money than incompetent people (excluding managers:P).
I don't know where you live, or what your monthly living-costs are, but I have roughly $1k left of my salary at the end of each month - AFTER all the bills have been paid, along with food for a month.
While I wouldn't necessarily drop $1k/month on a new rig, I could definitely imagine buying one right now, and upgrade it over a year or two.
Maybe living-costs are more disproportionate compared to salaries outside of Sweden, but hey.. The money I have left is *after* my bills are paid (25% "Value" Added Tax on purchases, 30% Income Tax)
This is a feature of Mac OS by the way, not a limitation.
Yes, this makes perfect sense. ..?
After all, I don't have a few browser-sessions open, each with its own set of tabs etc. (one browser-instance for web-tools, one for work-material, one for personal stuff)
You're telling me osx will work against me when I have a nicely ordered and logical system of doing my job?
Computers should work with/for you - not against you.
.. I must say that someone claiming they have a cert in something relevant to the work-description gets more consideration than John Doe who merely states "yeah, we had classes about that in school".
In our job-ad, we specifically said "4 years of work-experience or relevant education".
So what's a relevant education? If we're hiring a MySQL DBA (yeah yeah, insert whining about how mysql shops aren't in need of a DBA), the various mysql certs would help me quickly filter out what *should* be good applicants.
It might give you a chance to bypass the line of applicants and land you an interview, but unless I feel you're *socially* capable of working for our company, you don't get called to a second interview.
Iow, your cert(s) help me help you quicker. Reading through 120 application letters isn't fun.
CowboyNeal: fuck you for posting this shit. I'm sure you've got dozens of more newsworthy articles to post - hell, even dupes have more journalistic integrity than this POS.
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While the article is very well written, it ruins everything by going with the same old "Nintendo is dying"-message we've been hearing for the past couple of years - something that's getting quite annoying.
A couple of years ago when I was working with a big (gamespy-big, at the time) computer-game network.
We received a review-copy of a bull-riding game.
The reviewer in charge of the genre was amazed by the pure idiocy behind the game, and reviewed it VERY thoroughly - it got 4% on our review-scale.
We didn't actually believe we'd ever get another game from that publisher (ever), but lo and behold; we did.
The second time around, they scored 18% (mainly due to music by Lynyrd Skynyrd..).
My point?
There are sites writing honest reviews - most of them go offline due to financial reasons.
In other words; when you find a site you like - let their editors know, and do your damndest to keep them alive.
Well,
jesus WAS black (Dogma!) - can't our savior wear whatever clothes he wants to?
Today was supposed to be my fifth vacation day this christmas.
I've had two; and decided to come in to the office today to make sure we were patched up against the exploit.
Yes, I took the plunge.
The patch is now deployed in our small office (30 windows PCs atm); and so far so good.
Would I have felt safer if the sourcecode was released? Perhaps.
That said, I'd rather take the ISC's word on the fix than have a guaranteed hell within a couple of days.
The dedication of the people involved with ISC, as well as that of Mr. Guilfanov brightened my start of the new year.
Kudos, people.
I refuse to cause problems.
Which games do > 1600x1200? :(
Neither FEAR nor Quake4 run at 1920x1200, my monitor's native resolution.
They're capped at 1600x1200.
Same with remote-desktop
For a second there, I thought it said "Programming and Dating?".
After a while, reality kicked in and reminded me that the two are mutually exclusive.
It's fairly apparent that you can write properly whenever you're DIRECTLY affected, instead of the content you normally just glance over and approve.
It's also way too easy to see that you're wasting your editorial role on playing a fucking game, and blogging about your experience on what is supposed to be a somewhat unbiased site for technology related news.
Cry me a fucking river.
Best i've heard all day without a doubt.
Kudos to you, good sir.
The parent poster was referring to the phonetic similarity between female genitalia and the surname of the person mentioned in the summary.
One that doesn't lease their infrastructure.
Eg. you have your own large backbone, you own all your equipment.
In effect, a small and wholly owned internet that peers with other internets.
REAL Polar Landers don't ask for directions.
So instead of being a MS tool, he'll be an open-source tool?
What's the definition of an open-source tool? One who'll always use open-source software, even when there's proprietary software more suited for the job?
Help me out here!
http://www.vasco.com/products/product.html?product =48 is what SEB gave me roughly 5 years ago IIRC.
The only thing that bothers me is that I can't have two (one at work, one at home), but that's just a minor bother.
Because you're posting as an AC.
It happens to logged-in users with low karma too.
http://www.communitytechnology.org.nyud.net:8090/d atabases/screenshots/mywebos.gif
Yes it does.
Downloading at 83k/sec atm, and it's increasing all the time.
I'm connected to 4 seeds and 76 peers.
ROFL :P
My coke-covered monitor salutes you.
Have a great day
Well, if you hit the "high-income" tax bracket (slightly more than what I earn atm), anything above the bracket gets taxed at 50%.
This, of course, doesn't take into consideration the Employer-tax of 15% (iirc).
Basically, whatever I get after taxes is half of what I cost the company.
Gotta love these wonderful socialist countries, eh?
Ah, my bad.
I got the impression that the parent poster was talking about only being able to have one window from each app open at any given time.
I stand corrected, and am blushing like a french school-girl with hairy armpits.
I was referring to what the parent poster said.
Under the Mac OS Finder you can't launch 2 copies of anything, no matter how many times you click on the Dock. Every click just keeps activating the same single instance of the application. Give it a try, you can click once, twice, ten times. You'll never get more than one instance of an application to launch.
I don't get it. :P).
Most of the people on slashdot should be very competent people. Competent people earn more money than incompetent people (excluding managers
I don't know where you live, or what your monthly living-costs are, but I have roughly $1k left of my salary at the end of each month - AFTER all the bills have been paid, along with food for a month.
While I wouldn't necessarily drop $1k/month on a new rig, I could definitely imagine buying one right now, and upgrade it over a year or two.
Maybe living-costs are more disproportionate compared to salaries outside of Sweden, but hey..
The money I have left is *after* my bills are paid (25% "Value" Added Tax on purchases, 30% Income Tax)
This is a feature of Mac OS by the way, not a limitation.
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Yes, this makes perfect sense. .
After all, I don't have a few browser-sessions open, each with its own set of tabs etc. (one browser-instance for web-tools, one for work-material, one for personal stuff)
You're telling me osx will work against me when I have a nicely ordered and logical system of doing my job?
Computers should work with/for you - not against you.
.. I must say that someone claiming they have a cert in something relevant to the work-description gets more consideration than John Doe who merely states "yeah, we had classes about that in school".
In our job-ad, we specifically said "4 years of work-experience or relevant education".
So what's a relevant education?
If we're hiring a MySQL DBA (yeah yeah, insert whining about how mysql shops aren't in need of a DBA), the various mysql certs would help me quickly filter out what *should* be good applicants.
It might give you a chance to bypass the line of applicants and land you an interview, but unless I feel you're *socially* capable of working for our company, you don't get called to a second interview.
Iow, your cert(s) help me help you quicker.
Reading through 120 application letters isn't fun.
CowboyNeal: fuck you for posting this shit.
I'm sure you've got dozens of more newsworthy articles to post - hell, even dupes have more journalistic integrity than this POS.