does the blackberry do anything the treo cannot (anything of note that is) What about being secure? 3DES wireless encryption , S/MIME support, and AES encryption. Complete integration with your mail server....send/receive/delete/moves/etc.
Neither of these products are the be all and end all...why do people think that there can be only one?
So, since everyone is focusing on the cost of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server solution, I think this would also be a good time to mention that each individual carrier will provide a Web Client account that will poll your email accounts and forward email to the BlackBerry. No corporate servers needed at all. Yes it's still polling, but you can also decide to use the direct carrier provided email address to send directly to the BlackBerry.
* An OS you can install things into What kind of things can't you install on the BlackBerry OS? Just about any Java app I have run across has been able to be installed.
* Camera (not useful for everyone, I know)
* Movie camera (ditto) Part of the reason some reporters like it is that it doesn't have a camera and therefore can be taken into courtrooms when they are not allowing cameraphones into the courtroom.
* Real web browser that does some Javascript and SSL The BlackBerry browser supports some Javascript, SSL, and WTL.
* MP3 Player (you'd be surprised at the number of Wall Street types who don't have an iPod and use their phone instead) I still havn't thought of a use for an MP3 player on a phone for me, so I'm going to leave this.
* Bluetooth (though the newer BBs have this too) I will admit that this Bluetooth is just for voice, and if I recall correctly, the Treo is Data also.
* Hotsync with more than just Exchange! UHHHHH....have you even seen the list of supported PIM applications for the BlackBerry? Just as extensive as any of the Palms...because it's made by the same company that makes the sync software for the Palm. Outlook, Outlook Express, Act!, Notes, GroupWise, ASCII (csv), Netscape, and Lotus Organizer. Or are you speaking of servers? How about itegration with Exchange, GroupWise, and Domino? All three major platforms for business communication (not counting POP servers). And that's FULL integration with those, not just getting email from them. But if you just wanna do POP into the mailbox, that's supported by the web client...so is Outlook Web Access, iNotes, POP, IMAP, AOL, Hotmail, etc.
* Wireless hotsync! This is also available, but granted, it does take a BlackBerry Enterprise Server running 4.0 software and the BlackBerry has to be on OS 4.0
* SD card slot I'm glad it doesn't have an SD slot. It would be too easy to pull the SD card out of a BlackBerry and therefore steal all my information. Which brings up the point of security...and how the BlackBerry was built with secuity in mind.
* Software to open Office documents Word doc's...check. Excell spreadsheets...check. jpg, gif, png, tiff...check. PDF's...check. HTML...check. TXT...check. What kind of office documents are you talking?
* More games than you can shake a stick at There are lots of games for the BlackBerry, and probably any game for a cell phone can be installed over the air onto a BlackBerry...as long as it's a midlet game. But there are also a couple of game only developer sites for the BlackBerry. But then again, this is a business tool, not a gameboy.
* VNC, SSH, SMS, MMS, IM SMS...check. MMS...check. IM...Check (and more being added). SSH...with the right software...check. VNC...Not sure, but I believe there is a VNC viewer available.
* VPN Clients! (Mergic, for instance) Not really needed on the BlakcBerry...cause you are able to browse your intranet on the BlackBerry with just the regular BlackBerry browser.
Sometimes, it's good to do some research first.
The thing that the BlackBerry does, and does better than anyone...secure email integration. I'd like to see someone sniff one of my emails out of the air. Native 3DES encryption, and AES encryption coming available. Let's not forget the nice S/MIME encryption that is available for Enterprise users.
What else would you like me to educate you on about the BlackBerry?
And just so that no one thinks differently, I am not saying the BlackBerry is better than the Treo (aside from a secuity standpoint)...I think they both have their market. I just don't want anyone thinking that because this guy didn't do his research, they shouldn't either.
I havn't seen anyone mention this yet, but this was the first thing I thought of.
Pay a couple bucks to this company, get complete background on someone, and then take over their life....you now know everything about them and their past, you don't even have to create things. This means that anything you say about your past can be verified as true.
The other thing that really got me going was this comment... "Patel questions the need for restrictions on personal information, saying lack of data about people is what breeds fear and ignorance. "Most people don't care about privacy. It's the media that makes it a big hype.""
I'm sure that there are LOTS of people that care about privacy...why do you think we have curtains on our windows?
hardest puzzle? bah...10 minutes and 37 moves total. lets see if i can reproduce it here for people. AD...1L...1L...2U...3U...6U...6U...3D...3 D...2R... 6U...6U...AR...4U...4U...5L...7L...8L...8U...7R... 7R...5D...8R...8R...AD...6D...6L...2L...3U...3U... AR...8L...8U...5U...7L...7L...AD
It's amazing what you can learn playing the 11th Hour:)
The record labels will not learn until everyone stops buying.
I'm actually wondering how hard it would be to get a mailing address for the artists that I want to support...and sending them the $20 directly and downloading the cd from a P2P network. This may not work, but it would give me a better piece of mind...the artist would still be getting my money (actually a MUCH bigger chunk than normal) so I'm still supporting them and their talents, showing my appreciation for their music, and not giving the record company anything at all.
Or, are the artists leagally bound to hand that money over to the record label? In that case, can I send them say 10% of $20 (guessing at what their actual cut of the $20 would be) and then sending them $18 as a tip?
According to North American Law (Canada and US), aren't viruses against the law? And don't virus writers go to jail (or at least get heavy fines) for writing thier viruses?
Asside from the Windows bashing, the parent post has a good point (and btw, this "virus" isn't windows only...) it is a virus... If I don't know it's installing, and it disables some sort of functionality of my computer (even if that functionality can potentially be used for wrongful doings), then it is a virus, and should be dealt with as such...
I havn't hit the record store yet to pick up my copy, but, does it have a BIG ass warning on the back? If so, then, that will be thier leagal loophole. And if that is the case, are music disks (not actually a CD because of the error bits tossed in here and there) going to start coming with EULA's that you have to "agree to" by breaking the seal? Heck, why not encrypt the cd, have it access a server on the net where you put in your geographical location, favorite color, age, job position, mothers maden name, and your address, and they send you a floppy disk that has a program that checks for the original cd, then sets an "ok" flag in some directory, that will allow you to access the second digital key (each time you want to play the cd) from the internet, makes you take two steps backwards, turn clockwise twice, then hold the left mouse button, the - on the keypad, F2 and F10 all at the same time in order to listen to it.....or just buy your copy, support the artist, then fire up any P2P software, download the files, and burn them onto a cd that you can listen to whenever, and wherever you are.
Let's keep this rant going...
The more complex the copy protection they put on to "deterr" piracy, the more of a one-upmanship contest it becomes, and the bigger the contest, the more people that play...and the more that try to crack it, the better the odds are that someone else will think the same way the software writer did when they wrote that specific copy protection routine.
Now, I'm not getting on any "high and mighty" bandwagon here...I don't buy all the music I listen to, I do download quite a bit to check out new bands, or to preview how an average band had decided to go with their next album, but if I do like the band (or album to be more specific) I will definately shell out my hard earned cash to buy the original. I've got some cd's that I've never actually put into a cd player (because I already had a downloaded copy) but I still bought the cd.
One last thought I have that you can mull over if you are so inclined is... People say that CD prices should have dropped by now...and to some extent, I agree, but that's my opinion, but there is also a flip side that I realize...SOME of the additional cash that I pay for a cd is going to research new copy protection schemes so that POSSIBLY someone won't be able to rip it and distribute it for free. Sure, I like the sounds of that, but I would prefer if they did more work on these skemes before putting it into production on a retail product. And even if they did manage to get the perfect scheme working that was transparant to everyone (with the exception of the warning that they can use as thier loophole), and would work on any device, and allow me to port to an iPod, backup cd, whatever, then what's going to stop the pirate from hooking the line out of a diskman to the line in on a soundcard and recording the cd and putting it up on a P2P network?
Mod me up, Mod me down, Makes no difference to me at this point, because you've already read what I had to say.
I've actually started sending my resume in plain text format...and have had a few more callbacks than I normally would have gotten. Not just the initial ones, but since companies use OCR to scan resumes to plain text and then put them into a database, they can get messed up, and therefore, miss your resume when searching later. With the plain text, it goes in exactly how you want it.
I just state in my email that I'm sending the resume in plain text to avoid software version confusion, software vendor confusion, and virus prevention (obviously worded a bit differently).
It also doesn't hurt that there have been quite a few macro viruses throughout the years, and people are more likely to open a.txt file.
And the final benefit to me sending it in plain text is that even though I normally use Windows, I do try out various flavors of linux here and there, and I can ALWAYS pull up my most recently edited resume, edit it, and save it, knowing that I'll be able to open it again in Linux/Windows without having to install OO/MSO.
If you do decide to look into the PDA option, don't forget the BlackBerry. You don't necessarily need to set up the email service with a cell provider, and you'll still get an electronic memopad without an additional keyboard.
However, If you decide to splurge a bit, you can get the email service to send messages to friends/family throughout your trip (assuming cell coverage is available) and can get one that also has phone capabilities so you don't need to bring an extra device.
I used to work in IT, doing customer support, Network Admin, etc. Then the bubble popped and I was out of a job. Bills needed paying, so I decided to get a warehouse job while I decided if IT was really where I wanted to be, and if so, then it would keep things paid until I got an IT job.
To give you an idea as to how easy it was to get a job there, some people couldn't do math that was much harder than 2+2. 8 hours a day, lugging fresh produce/dairy/deli around...sounds like hell, but it was actually kinda fun, and I grew to really like the job. Was extremely happy, made a lot of friends, and the bills were being paid.
2 years later, I had a phone call from a friend of a relative who needed some computer help. I went over, fixed the problem and explained what happened, some basic internet awareness, etc. And that's when the bug bit me. I desperately wanted back into computer support. I liked doing it and was (pretty) good at it. So, the delima became whether or not to leave a warehouse job that I fit so well to go back into IT and deal with the stresses again.
I chose to go back, and 3 weeks later, am almost as happy as I was at the warehouse, but I'm still getting to know the company and people. I'm sure that once I get settled in, I'll be just as happy.
MORAL of this long winded story, you never know what you'll enjoy doing. Scrawny 150lb geek, working in a warehouse, as a box monkey...don't seem to fit, but it was fun. Parent threads father had PhD, but loves driving the bus.
however (and my final point) you may want to consider how hard/easy it would be for you to get back into IT if you try something else and decide it's not for you. Non-IT positions usually don't pay anywhere near what an IT job pays, can you afford the pay-cut? Take the time to weigh out everything before making a firm decision, but once you make that decision, stick to it, and give it all you got.
I used to work for a company that did high speed networking for film and television. When we did demo's we used the link for what they'd be using the link for (in this case video conferencing and transferring of very large digital video files).
The "big-wigs" we would demo for knew that it took a long time even over the regular 100mbit network to transfer a 1GB file, let alone transfer it across a continent via the internet, so, that's what we would do. And would do it while streaming a DVD from one coast to the other. It showed them exactly how much more better our service would work for them when compared directly to what they were using now.
As for hardware, we found that the little SGI O2 boxes were absolutely amazing to handle high bandwidth transfers. Regular Intel boxes with W2K were acceptable, but couldn't match the performance of the O2's.
This is a gray area. More than likely the way they'll get around it if it ever goes to court is to look at what the dialup market was doing back before cable/DSL was introduced.
Let's go back to 10 years ago when the internet was really just taking off, and things were being defined. You went to an ISP and checked out the packages they had. You could pay $24.95 for 100 hours of connection time per month, $34.95 for 500 hours of connection time per month, or $59.95 for unlimited connection to the internet. Please note that times and prices may have varied, the point is that "Unlimited" was defined (in relationship to internet connections) as the ability to be connected to the internet for as much or as little time as you wanted each month.
Fast forward to 2000 (because I can't find the word "unlimited" on the current Rogers highspeed web site (yes, I am Canadian). Rogers offers Unlimited access to the internet. Note that it says "Unlimited access" and nothing about "Unlimited transfers". This is how they'll get around any sort of false advertising...well, that and the fact that in their AUP it says that you can do as much network traffic as you want, as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's enjoyment of the internet. We all know that it's the over selling of the nodes and the abundance of people trying to connect at one time that is slowing things down during peak hours, and that it's not just one persons transfer that is causing the congestion, but try explaining that to some judge who just know's how to send email, and that his/her internet is slow.
They are doing 2 things by cutting off high usage people. 1) they are plaquating (sp?) people who are constantly complaining that it's slow. They can now tell these people that they are "weeding" out the high usage people, and things should get better soon. 2) shooting themselves in the foot. A year from now when they've cut off all the higher traffic users and people are still complaining about the slow speeds, who are they going to blame? Can't blame the teenage kids that are downloading illegal movies/games, because they've already been cut off. The only option is to start cutting off users that are in the middle range of network usage each month. These could be people who listen to internet radio (I for one get better quality sound from listening to the online version of www.edge.ca than I do over the FM band), and it's not like these people are doing anything that shoudln't be expected of the network.
Now, IANAL, but if there is a Canadian Lawer type that's reading this, I would like to know what the laws are for changing contracts without explicit consent. If my understanding is correct, I cannot agree to a contract that has not been written, and therefore "Contract subject to change" or "terms subject to change without notice" cannot be applied to a current contract. That said, If I dig out my original TOS and AUP, and it states that I have "unlimited network usage" but that the "terms of this aggreement are subject to change" I cannot agree with the new changes and cannot be enforced under the new changes without signing a new agreement.
I know this is getting long, but one more thing to chomp on is the one that most people are pissed about....There is no definate limit that these cable companies are using. I do a lot of downloading each month, but I know that there are 3 people besides myself on the node and therefore I don't think I'm impacting them too much, and so I've never gotten a letter. However, a friend who downloads about 1/3 of what I do, lives on a congested node, and therefore experiences MAJOR slowdowns, has gotten a letter stating that they have to "curb their internet usage or risk being disconnected".
But that's just my $0.0150405 CDN (wow, the CDN $ went up) worth.
This doesn't work. Call Comcast (or Rogers/Shaw here in Canada) and ask them if they have caps. They are going to say no, because technically, they don't have caps. They are just trying to get rid of the heavy users thinking that it will make the rest of those perticular nodes faster.
While I agree that people doing huge amounts of traffic are causing a constant stream of traffic, most of it (through reading various websites) is during the overnight hours and not during the peak hours. And as we all know, the peak hours are when everything slows to a crawl because of the number of people trying to surf/email/whatever, and not because someone is downloading a huge file. It can't be one person, TCP/IP packets just don't work that way. It will not give preference to one packet over another just because the rest of those "priority" packets have been flowing for X amount of time, and the file is Y MB in size. Sure it will add traffic for a longer period of time, but it is not going to get preference over someone else.
Actually, take out a calculator and a bandwidth monitor and figure out the bandwidth used to stream an online radio station for just 3 hours a day, then add in just grabbing headers for a larger binary group like alt.binaries.multimedia (mostly you'll find tv shows in this group, and here in Canada, I believe (altho IANAL) it is ok to download tv shows, but if not, then switch this to an MP3 group, because it is ok to download MP3's...). This number is HUGE, and that's not even counting any sort of downloading from that group, that's just getting the headers each day.
Let's say this number comes out to 10Gig/month (I believe it's higher, but we'll stick to 10GB). This is before adding in any surfing, email, actual news reading. So, that's an easy way to using a lot of bandwidth without actually doing anything, and not doing anything illegal.
I think that since mods for this game are still being updated/released, it's a good way of telling Valve that the gaming community likes what they've done.
In a similar way that/. uses the Quake rocket launcher for it's game post icon.
Keep showing them what we like, and maybe one day they'll really listen and not bring out as bad a game as Dikitana.
I'm glad that lots of servers are running Apache, Bind, and whatnot, but this does not mean that the very fact that it's opensource means that it's better. My point was that Open Source was not essential, not that the software that's out there isn't better. Do you think that if tomorrow Apache decided that they are only going to distribute pre-compiled binaries and not let anyone have the source, that it would cease to be better? It would then become a closed source piece of software, that still kicks ass, and people are still going to use it.
As for free, I didn't mention anything about Free software being better. I basically said that it was a consideration factor for companies (ie. it saves them money), but not that Free was better/worse than non-free. But heck, using my same argument as above, you think that if Apache started charging for thier software that people wouldn't still use it? Last time I looked, Windows comes with a paint program (albeit VERY limited) but people still go out and buy Photoshop because it's better. In the same context, people go out and buy Photoshop instead of thinking "Hey, The Gimp is free, let's all switch OS's". Free is a good thing in the business world, but it is not the be all and end all of a decision making process...Well, in 90% or so of businesses, it's not, cause I know there are some companies that will rearrange thier whole IT structure to use a free piece of software (even though it costs more for them to re-train everyone and deploy said new structure than it would to purchase a similar product that would work well in the current environment).
So, tossing the ball back in your court, how is the fact that the software is Opensource or Free, the thing that makes it better? I personally think that Apache is better than IIS because it was written better, is more customizable to the environment, and has more choices as to how it serves pages.
I'll second this, but won't just stop at making them supervise internet usage. Have the parents start taking a more active roll in their kids lives. Everyone is so quick to blame someone else now a days, when I'll bet my left and right testicle that if Eric and Dylan's parents took more of an interest in their lives that Columbine wouldn't have been as bad. And note that I didn't say "Columbine wouldn't have happened" cause I think they would have acted out in some way, but maybe it would have been with spray paint or paint ball guns instead of bombs and live ammo.
I can flip through the TV and see quite a lot of T&A...sure it's not pr0n, but it still has a similar effect. But it's ok to let your kids be raised by the TV now a day.
Only disagreement I have with the parent poster is that I would let my 10 year old walk into an adult bookstore. Heck, if I could, I'd take em to the strippers also. Because as a parent, I've explained to them that humans by design have to procreate to preserve the human race. I've explained that sex is a part of human nature, and porn is a financial branch of sex. Much like humans need to eat food, and the grocery store is where you get that food. I've sat down and although he was very uncomfortable at first, I've had that sex talk with him, and have no problem keeping a pack of condoms available for him and making sure he takes one with him. But at least I've tried doing my part....how many parents do you know that come home late from work, have a quick dinner and then do more work until it's time for bed, and never even asking thier child how thier day was?
And to finish off, I blame women, cause if they didn't deny men so much, then it wouldn't be that much of a problem for even the ugliest of guys to get lucky:P
Probably get modded to flamebait for this, but here goes anyway
"Open software is an essential part of the market, but it's not magic."
unfortunately, it is NOT an essential part of the market. It is, however, a good thing for companies that want a pre-written piece of software that they can customize to better suit thier needs while saving some money.
"Bad programmers will still write bad code, and lazy reviewers will still miss bugs."
Understandable, and will you keep the same attitude the next time Microsoft releases some sort of patch for their operating system?
The root post for this hit the nail on the head. It doesn't matter if it's OSS or Microsoft's code that allows for virus's to spread, or patches to break the software. A lot of it is based on the need for that patch, or exploitable feature, and that need arises from the user's feature wants, or mis/non-education about good computer useage habits. If more people knew not to open executable attachments in email, then there'd be less risk of a trojan being installed on said computer. And if companies wouldn't try to take advantage of every opportunity to weasle out a couple more cents worth of profit at the expense of the public, then patches like this BIND patch would not be needed.
Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way, and these things are needed, but from examples like this (and other *ahem ssh* security vulnerabilities) we can see that OSS is not the be all and end all godly superhero that people are so willing to forgive while bashing software that is not open source that to the average user, can run circles around the OSS software (thinking total experience, from setup to usage).
but that's just my $0.154 CDN (wow, the CDN dollar went up) worth.
Until about 4 months ago, I was using a PIII 450 with an original SB16 in it. Would still use it but new mobo don't have ISA. I was using it as a secondary soundcard to do passthrough into the vcr to be used with the Radeon's TV out. The TV has crap for speakers and instead of pulling plugs and switching things around when I wanted to watch a movie on the TV instead of the monitor, it worked great.
Have an Adlib Synth card in my old 386 (used as a clock in the living room) and still have "music" on the harddrive that I've composed...man does it suck:)
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does the blackberry do anything the treo cannot (anything of note that is)
What about being secure? 3DES wireless encryption , S/MIME support, and AES encryption.
Complete integration with your mail server....send/receive/delete/moves/etc.
Neither of these products are the be all and end all...why do people think that there can be only one?
So, since everyone is focusing on the cost of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server solution, I think this would also be a good time to mention that each individual carrier will provide a Web Client account that will poll your email accounts and forward email to the BlackBerry. No corporate servers needed at all. Yes it's still polling, but you can also decide to use the direct carrier provided email address to send directly to the BlackBerry.
* An OS you can install things into
What kind of things can't you install on the BlackBerry OS? Just about any Java app I have run across has been able to be installed.
* Camera (not useful for everyone, I know)
* Movie camera (ditto)
Part of the reason some reporters like it is that it doesn't have a camera and therefore can be taken into courtrooms when they are not allowing cameraphones into the courtroom.
* Real web browser that does some Javascript and SSL
The BlackBerry browser supports some Javascript, SSL, and WTL.
* MP3 Player (you'd be surprised at the number of Wall Street types who don't have an iPod and use their phone instead)
I still havn't thought of a use for an MP3 player on a phone for me, so I'm going to leave this.
* Bluetooth (though the newer BBs have this too)
I will admit that this Bluetooth is just for voice, and if I recall correctly, the Treo is Data also.
* Hotsync with more than just Exchange!
UHHHHH....have you even seen the list of supported PIM applications for the BlackBerry? Just as extensive as any of the Palms...because it's made by the same company that makes the sync software for the Palm. Outlook, Outlook Express, Act!, Notes, GroupWise, ASCII (csv), Netscape, and Lotus Organizer.
Or are you speaking of servers? How about itegration with Exchange, GroupWise, and Domino? All three major platforms for business communication (not counting POP servers). And that's FULL integration with those, not just getting email from them. But if you just wanna do POP into the mailbox, that's supported by the web client...so is Outlook Web Access, iNotes, POP, IMAP, AOL, Hotmail, etc.
* Wireless hotsync!
This is also available, but granted, it does take a BlackBerry Enterprise Server running 4.0 software and the BlackBerry has to be on OS 4.0
* SD card slot
I'm glad it doesn't have an SD slot. It would be too easy to pull the SD card out of a BlackBerry and therefore steal all my information. Which brings up the point of security...and how the BlackBerry was built with secuity in mind.
* Software to open Office documents
Word doc's...check. Excell spreadsheets...check. jpg, gif, png, tiff...check. PDF's...check. HTML...check. TXT...check. What kind of office documents are you talking?
* More games than you can shake a stick at
There are lots of games for the BlackBerry, and probably any game for a cell phone can be installed over the air onto a BlackBerry...as long as it's a midlet game. But there are also a couple of game only developer sites for the BlackBerry. But then again, this is a business tool, not a gameboy.
* VNC, SSH, SMS, MMS, IM
SMS...check. MMS...check. IM...Check (and more being added). SSH...with the right software...check. VNC...Not sure, but I believe there is a VNC viewer available.
* VPN Clients! (Mergic, for instance)
Not really needed on the BlakcBerry...cause you are able to browse your intranet on the BlackBerry with just the regular BlackBerry browser.
Sometimes, it's good to do some research first.
The thing that the BlackBerry does, and does better than anyone...secure email integration. I'd like to see someone sniff one of my emails out of the air. Native 3DES encryption, and AES encryption coming available. Let's not forget the nice S/MIME encryption that is available for Enterprise users.
What else would you like me to educate you on about the BlackBerry?
And just so that no one thinks differently, I am not saying the BlackBerry is better than the Treo (aside from a secuity standpoint)...I think they both have their market. I just don't want anyone thinking that because this guy didn't do his research, they shouldn't either.
I havn't seen anyone mention this yet, but this was the first thing I thought of.
Pay a couple bucks to this company, get complete background on someone, and then take over their life....you now know everything about them and their past, you don't even have to create things. This means that anything you say about your past can be verified as true.
The other thing that really got me going was this comment...
"Patel questions the need for restrictions on personal information, saying lack of data about people is what breeds fear and ignorance. "Most people don't care about privacy. It's the media that makes it a big hype.""
I'm sure that there are LOTS of people that care about privacy...why do you think we have curtains on our windows?
hmmm...didn't see where it was supposed to end up in the article, so had just assumed that it was like Dads and needed to go to the bottom right.
Glad I was wrong though, cause that was a little easy to be hailed as the hardest simple puzzle.
Thanks for the correction Andorion.
oops, that second 6U should be 6L... should have looked a bit closer to my typing... my bad.
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proper solution below.
AD...1L...1L...2U...3U...6U...6L...3D...3D...2R
hardest puzzle? bah...10 minutes and 37 moves total.3 D...2R... 6U...6U...AR...4U...4U...5L...7L...8L...8U...7R... 7R...5D...8R...8R...AD...6D...6L...2L...3U...3U... AR...8L...8U...5U...7L...7L...AD
:)
lets see if i can reproduce it here for people.
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It's amazing what you can learn playing the 11th Hour
The record labels will not learn until everyone stops buying.
I'm actually wondering how hard it would be to get a mailing address for the artists that I want to support...and sending them the $20 directly and downloading the cd from a P2P network. This may not work, but it would give me a better piece of mind...the artist would still be getting my money (actually a MUCH bigger chunk than normal) so I'm still supporting them and their talents, showing my appreciation for their music, and not giving the record company anything at all.
Or, are the artists leagally bound to hand that money over to the record label? In that case, can I send them say 10% of $20 (guessing at what their actual cut of the $20 would be) and then sending them $18 as a tip?
I'm actually going to look into this one.
after reading your sig, I've realized that there should be some sort of /. feature to Mod sigs. I'd be all over that.
According to North American Law (Canada and US), aren't viruses against the law? And don't virus writers go to jail (or at least get heavy fines) for writing thier viruses?
Asside from the Windows bashing, the parent post has a good point (and btw, this "virus" isn't windows only...) it is a virus... If I don't know it's installing, and it disables some sort of functionality of my computer (even if that functionality can potentially be used for wrongful doings), then it is a virus, and should be dealt with as such...
I havn't hit the record store yet to pick up my copy, but, does it have a BIG ass warning on the back? If so, then, that will be thier leagal loophole. And if that is the case, are music disks (not actually a CD because of the error bits tossed in here and there) going to start coming with EULA's that you have to "agree to" by breaking the seal? Heck, why not encrypt the cd, have it access a server on the net where you put in your geographical location, favorite color, age, job position, mothers maden name, and your address, and they send you a floppy disk that has a program that checks for the original cd, then sets an "ok" flag in some directory, that will allow you to access the second digital key (each time you want to play the cd) from the internet, makes you take two steps backwards, turn clockwise twice, then hold the left mouse button, the - on the keypad, F2 and F10 all at the same time in order to listen to it.....or just buy your copy, support the artist, then fire up any P2P software, download the files, and burn them onto a cd that you can listen to whenever, and wherever you are.
Let's keep this rant going...
The more complex the copy protection they put on to "deterr" piracy, the more of a one-upmanship contest it becomes, and the bigger the contest, the more people that play...and the more that try to crack it, the better the odds are that someone else will think the same way the software writer did when they wrote that specific copy protection routine.
Now, I'm not getting on any "high and mighty" bandwagon here...I don't buy all the music I listen to, I do download quite a bit to check out new bands, or to preview how an average band had decided to go with their next album, but if I do like the band (or album to be more specific) I will definately shell out my hard earned cash to buy the original. I've got some cd's that I've never actually put into a cd player (because I already had a downloaded copy) but I still bought the cd.
One last thought I have that you can mull over if you are so inclined is... People say that CD prices should have dropped by now...and to some extent, I agree, but that's my opinion, but there is also a flip side that I realize...SOME of the additional cash that I pay for a cd is going to research new copy protection schemes so that POSSIBLY someone won't be able to rip it and distribute it for free. Sure, I like the sounds of that, but I would prefer if they did more work on these skemes before putting it into production on a retail product. And even if they did manage to get the perfect scheme working that was transparant to everyone (with the exception of the warning that they can use as thier loophole), and would work on any device, and allow me to port to an iPod, backup cd, whatever, then what's going to stop the pirate from hooking the line out of a diskman to the line in on a soundcard and recording the cd and putting it up on a P2P network?
Mod me up, Mod me down, Makes no difference to me at this point, because you've already read what I had to say.
I've actually started sending my resume in plain text format...and have had a few more callbacks than I normally would have gotten. Not just the initial ones, but since companies use OCR to scan resumes to plain text and then put them into a database, they can get messed up, and therefore, miss your resume when searching later. With the plain text, it goes in exactly how you want it.
.txt file.
I just state in my email that I'm sending the resume in plain text to avoid software version confusion, software vendor confusion, and virus prevention (obviously worded a bit differently).
It also doesn't hurt that there have been quite a few macro viruses throughout the years, and people are more likely to open a
And the final benefit to me sending it in plain text is that even though I normally use Windows, I do try out various flavors of linux here and there, and I can ALWAYS pull up my most recently edited resume, edit it, and save it, knowing that I'll be able to open it again in Linux/Windows without having to install OO/MSO.
If you do decide to look into the PDA option, don't forget the BlackBerry. You don't necessarily need to set up the email service with a cell provider, and you'll still get an electronic memopad without an additional keyboard.
However, If you decide to splurge a bit, you can get the email service to send messages to friends/family throughout your trip (assuming cell coverage is available) and can get one that also has phone capabilities so you don't need to bring an extra device.
I used to work in IT, doing customer support, Network Admin, etc. Then the bubble popped and I was out of a job. Bills needed paying, so I decided to get a warehouse job while I decided if IT was really where I wanted to be, and if so, then it would keep things paid until I got an IT job.
To give you an idea as to how easy it was to get a job there, some people couldn't do math that was much harder than 2+2. 8 hours a day, lugging fresh produce/dairy/deli around...sounds like hell, but it was actually kinda fun, and I grew to really like the job. Was extremely happy, made a lot of friends, and the bills were being paid.
2 years later, I had a phone call from a friend of a relative who needed some computer help. I went over, fixed the problem and explained what happened, some basic internet awareness, etc. And that's when the bug bit me. I desperately wanted back into computer support. I liked doing it and was (pretty) good at it. So, the delima became whether or not to leave a warehouse job that I fit so well to go back into IT and deal with the stresses again.
I chose to go back, and 3 weeks later, am almost as happy as I was at the warehouse, but I'm still getting to know the company and people. I'm sure that once I get settled in, I'll be just as happy.
MORAL of this long winded story, you never know what you'll enjoy doing. Scrawny 150lb geek, working in a warehouse, as a box monkey...don't seem to fit, but it was fun. Parent threads father had PhD, but loves driving the bus.
however (and my final point) you may want to consider how hard/easy it would be for you to get back into IT if you try something else and decide it's not for you. Non-IT positions usually don't pay anywhere near what an IT job pays, can you afford the pay-cut? Take the time to weigh out everything before making a firm decision, but once you make that decision, stick to it, and give it all you got.
I used to work for a company that did high speed networking for film and television. When we did demo's we used the link for what they'd be using the link for (in this case video conferencing and transferring of very large digital video files).
The "big-wigs" we would demo for knew that it took a long time even over the regular 100mbit network to transfer a 1GB file, let alone transfer it across a continent via the internet, so, that's what we would do. And would do it while streaming a DVD from one coast to the other. It showed them exactly how much more better our service would work for them when compared directly to what they were using now.
As for hardware, we found that the little SGI O2 boxes were absolutely amazing to handle high bandwidth transfers. Regular Intel boxes with W2K were acceptable, but couldn't match the performance of the O2's.
This is a gray area. More than likely the way they'll get around it if it ever goes to court is to look at what the dialup market was doing back before cable/DSL was introduced.
Let's go back to 10 years ago when the internet was really just taking off, and things were being defined. You went to an ISP and checked out the packages they had. You could pay $24.95 for 100 hours of connection time per month, $34.95 for 500 hours of connection time per month, or $59.95 for unlimited connection to the internet. Please note that times and prices may have varied, the point is that "Unlimited" was defined (in relationship to internet connections) as the ability to be connected to the internet for as much or as little time as you wanted each month.
Fast forward to 2000 (because I can't find the word "unlimited" on the current Rogers highspeed web site (yes, I am Canadian). Rogers offers Unlimited access to the internet. Note that it says "Unlimited access" and nothing about "Unlimited transfers". This is how they'll get around any sort of false advertising...well, that and the fact that in their AUP it says that you can do as much network traffic as you want, as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's enjoyment of the internet. We all know that it's the over selling of the nodes and the abundance of people trying to connect at one time that is slowing things down during peak hours, and that it's not just one persons transfer that is causing the congestion, but try explaining that to some judge who just know's how to send email, and that his/her internet is slow.
They are doing 2 things by cutting off high usage people.
1) they are plaquating (sp?) people who are constantly complaining that it's slow. They can now tell these people that they are "weeding" out the high usage people, and things should get better soon.
2) shooting themselves in the foot. A year from now when they've cut off all the higher traffic users and people are still complaining about the slow speeds, who are they going to blame? Can't blame the teenage kids that are downloading illegal movies/games, because they've already been cut off. The only option is to start cutting off users that are in the middle range of network usage each month. These could be people who listen to internet radio (I for one get better quality sound from listening to the online version of www.edge.ca than I do over the FM band), and it's not like these people are doing anything that shoudln't be expected of the network.
Now, IANAL, but if there is a Canadian Lawer type that's reading this, I would like to know what the laws are for changing contracts without explicit consent. If my understanding is correct, I cannot agree to a contract that has not been written, and therefore "Contract subject to change" or "terms subject to change without notice" cannot be applied to a current contract. That said, If I dig out my original TOS and AUP, and it states that I have "unlimited network usage" but that the "terms of this aggreement are subject to change" I cannot agree with the new changes and cannot be enforced under the new changes without signing a new agreement.
I know this is getting long, but one more thing to chomp on is the one that most people are pissed about....There is no definate limit that these cable companies are using. I do a lot of downloading each month, but I know that there are 3 people besides myself on the node and therefore I don't think I'm impacting them too much, and so I've never gotten a letter. However, a friend who downloads about 1/3 of what I do, lives on a congested node, and therefore experiences MAJOR slowdowns, has gotten a letter stating that they have to "curb their internet usage or risk being disconnected".
But that's just my $0.0150405 CDN (wow, the CDN $ went up) worth.
This doesn't work. Call Comcast (or Rogers/Shaw here in Canada) and ask them if they have caps. They are going to say no, because technically, they don't have caps. They are just trying to get rid of the heavy users thinking that it will make the rest of those perticular nodes faster.
While I agree that people doing huge amounts of traffic are causing a constant stream of traffic, most of it (through reading various websites) is during the overnight hours and not during the peak hours. And as we all know, the peak hours are when everything slows to a crawl because of the number of people trying to surf/email/whatever, and not because someone is downloading a huge file. It can't be one person, TCP/IP packets just don't work that way. It will not give preference to one packet over another just because the rest of those "priority" packets have been flowing for X amount of time, and the file is Y MB in size. Sure it will add traffic for a longer period of time, but it is not going to get preference over someone else.
Actually, take out a calculator and a bandwidth monitor and figure out the bandwidth used to stream an online radio station for just 3 hours a day, then add in just grabbing headers for a larger binary group like alt.binaries.multimedia (mostly you'll find tv shows in this group, and here in Canada, I believe (altho IANAL) it is ok to download tv shows, but if not, then switch this to an MP3 group, because it is ok to download MP3's...). This number is HUGE, and that's not even counting any sort of downloading from that group, that's just getting the headers each day.
Let's say this number comes out to 10Gig/month (I believe it's higher, but we'll stick to 10GB). This is before adding in any surfing, email, actual news reading. So, that's an easy way to using a lot of bandwidth without actually doing anything, and not doing anything illegal.
actually, it's that the last 7 digits have to add up to a number that's evenly divisible by 7.
1111111 = 7 7/7 = 1 valid key
7777777 = 49 49/7 = 7 valid key
6667888 = 49 49/7 = 7 valid key
1234567 = 28 28/7 = 4 valid key
4432453 = 25 25/7 = 3.571... Not a valid key
This works for the older MS products that have the 3-7 digit keys, not sure about the 5-5-5-5-5 digit keys.
I think that since mods for this game are still being updated/released, it's a good way of telling Valve that the gaming community likes what they've done.
/. uses the Quake rocket launcher for it's game post icon.
In a similar way that
Keep showing them what we like, and maybe one day they'll really listen and not bring out as bad a game as Dikitana.
what about
"Debt-no-more in two thousand four"?
I'm glad that lots of servers are running Apache, Bind, and whatnot, but this does not mean that the very fact that it's opensource means that it's better. My point was that Open Source was not essential, not that the software that's out there isn't better. Do you think that if tomorrow Apache decided that they are only going to distribute pre-compiled binaries and not let anyone have the source, that it would cease to be better? It would then become a closed source piece of software, that still kicks ass, and people are still going to use it.
As for free, I didn't mention anything about Free software being better. I basically said that it was a consideration factor for companies (ie. it saves them money), but not that Free was better/worse than non-free. But heck, using my same argument as above, you think that if Apache started charging for thier software that people wouldn't still use it? Last time I looked, Windows comes with a paint program (albeit VERY limited) but people still go out and buy Photoshop because it's better. In the same context, people go out and buy Photoshop instead of thinking "Hey, The Gimp is free, let's all switch OS's". Free is a good thing in the business world, but it is not the be all and end all of a decision making process...Well, in 90% or so of businesses, it's not, cause I know there are some companies that will rearrange thier whole IT structure to use a free piece of software (even though it costs more for them to re-train everyone and deploy said new structure than it would to purchase a similar product that would work well in the current environment).
So, tossing the ball back in your court, how is the fact that the software is Opensource or Free, the thing that makes it better? I personally think that Apache is better than IIS because it was written better, is more customizable to the environment, and has more choices as to how it serves pages.
I blinked and missed the whole thing.
Oh well, time to find some other way of connecting wirelessly....hmmm, wonder what this 802.11 thing is?
I'll second this, but won't just stop at making them supervise internet usage. Have the parents start taking a more active roll in their kids lives. Everyone is so quick to blame someone else now a days, when I'll bet my left and right testicle that if Eric and Dylan's parents took more of an interest in their lives that Columbine wouldn't have been as bad. And note that I didn't say "Columbine wouldn't have happened" cause I think they would have acted out in some way, but maybe it would have been with spray paint or paint ball guns instead of bombs and live ammo.
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I can flip through the TV and see quite a lot of T&A...sure it's not pr0n, but it still has a similar effect. But it's ok to let your kids be raised by the TV now a day.
Only disagreement I have with the parent poster is that I would let my 10 year old walk into an adult bookstore. Heck, if I could, I'd take em to the strippers also. Because as a parent, I've explained to them that humans by design have to procreate to preserve the human race. I've explained that sex is a part of human nature, and porn is a financial branch of sex. Much like humans need to eat food, and the grocery store is where you get that food. I've sat down and although he was very uncomfortable at first, I've had that sex talk with him, and have no problem keeping a pack of condoms available for him and making sure he takes one with him. But at least I've tried doing my part....how many parents do you know that come home late from work, have a quick dinner and then do more work until it's time for bed, and never even asking thier child how thier day was?
And to finish off, I blame women, cause if they didn't deny men so much, then it wouldn't be that much of a problem for even the ugliest of guys to get lucky
War and Peace with encrypted porn embedded throughout :)
"Open software is an essential part of the market, but it's not magic."
unfortunately, it is NOT an essential part of the market. It is, however, a good thing for companies that want a pre-written piece of software that they can customize to better suit thier needs while saving some money.
"Bad programmers will still write bad code, and lazy reviewers will still miss bugs."Understandable, and will you keep the same attitude the next time Microsoft releases some sort of patch for their operating system?
The root post for this hit the nail on the head. It doesn't matter if it's OSS or Microsoft's code that allows for virus's to spread, or patches to break the software. A lot of it is based on the need for that patch, or exploitable feature, and that need arises from the user's feature wants, or mis/non-education about good computer useage habits. If more people knew not to open executable attachments in email, then there'd be less risk of a trojan being installed on said computer. And if companies wouldn't try to take advantage of every opportunity to weasle out a couple more cents worth of profit at the expense of the public, then patches like this BIND patch would not be needed.
Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way, and these things are needed, but from examples like this (and other *ahem ssh* security vulnerabilities) we can see that OSS is not the be all and end all godly superhero that people are so willing to forgive while bashing software that is not open source that to the average user, can run circles around the OSS software (thinking total experience, from setup to usage).
but that's just my $0.154 CDN (wow, the CDN dollar went up) worth.
Until about 4 months ago, I was using a PIII 450 with an original SB16 in it. Would still use it but new mobo don't have ISA. I was using it as a secondary soundcard to do passthrough into the vcr to be used with the Radeon's TV out. The TV has crap for speakers and instead of pulling plugs and switching things around when I wanted to watch a movie on the TV instead of the monitor, it worked great.
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Have an Adlib Synth card in my old 386 (used as a clock in the living room) and still have "music" on the harddrive that I've composed...man does it suck