while it's true that perhaps in terms of how they're used by society the modern digital camera replaces the old point-and-shoot, it should be pointed out that functionally the digital cameras far surpass the point-and-shoot film cameras:
point-and-shoots have a lens that's set up to focus at infinity, giving a huge depth-of-focus and a "far-away" looking shot. digital cameras have lenses that actually focus, and give much more power. many budget digital cameras also allow setting of the aperature, manual focus, exposure time, etc. the only difference between a low-end digital and a nice SLR is really the lens and the resolution - quality and power is still there in the cheaper digital cameras and far surpasses point-and-shoot.
for the amateur photographer who likes a portable device, these are very usable, and i don't think they should be dismissed as "cheap snapshot cameras"...
Yeah, if you have a mailbox at the end of your driveway. Some of us who live in apartments have to run to the post office for outgoing mail. Same thing happens on campus in a dormatory/"apartment housing."
Yes, there's the obvious blue-post-box solution that many people use.
But also, don't forget, if you live in an apartment (a reasonably secure one, for obvious reasons) you can leave your outgoing mail on top of the mailboxes at the front door, and the postman WILL take it (as he is supposed to) and drop it off at the post office!
This is MY opinion. Get your own opinion. There is no way this exploit is "critical". It's one step above a stupid DoS attack and would NOT affect ANY of my servers.
You run firefox on your servers?
My point being that firefox is a user app, and that (as stated elsewhere in this thread) as far as a user is concerned, either threat is more or less equally dangerous (think data integrity, for instance).
Do you know about CDBaby, the most widely used service by indie artists to sell their CDs and put them on iTunes? When was the last time you bought an album from a CDBaby artist? Probably never. You won't find any of those artists on eMule or Bittorrent, because P2P isn't used to trade hard-to-find music. It's used to get popular music without having to pay for it. It's simple human nature, folks. Stop denying it already. There is no culture revolution here. It's simple freeloading.
i think i have to agree with both sides here. there is almost certainly a lot of "top 40" type stuff being traded on whatever fileshares people are using - but i personally know that it can also be used to find difficult-to-find out of print or foreign material, if you know how to look for it. i know someone who, for instance, downloaded 30 leonard nimoy mp3s, for better or for worse.
i've bought quite a few cds from cdbaby myself - i wouldn't dream of looking for those artists on a fileshare because those artists could use the support... however, if you want a copy of, say, billy joel's 1970 heavy metal duo album (which, as i understand it, is difficult to find), you might just be able to get someone to fileshare a copy with you.
As far as I can see, all of your concerns are GUI-layer issues. That shouldn't be the responsibility of the kernel developer, it should be the responsibility of some GUI administrative tool's developer...
Which linux COULD definitely use - but I think the power of linux would disappear if the current interface were replaced by something like this.
When a new feature is added to a linux kernel, because of its text-based interface, it's very easy for it to flow to the end-user. No one has to update GUIs, etc.
i think there are some reasonable arguments to be made on C's choice of syntax for certain things.
it's very easy to make some errors that are simply typos, involving (= and == and - and + and -- and ++ and += and -=) (& and && and ^ and *and %) that are completely legal and more or less indetectable, for instance.
(note, i had to type "and" because if i went ",", i encountered slashdot's "lameness filter"... heheh)
Not entirely a good point - there are always people who tape the entire season of a show - even editing out the commercials - and in theory have no need to buy it, but do anyway. plus, there are people for whom to taping of _every_ episode is tedious - likewise, downloading _every_ episode would be potentially just as tedious...
it's just like the radio vs mp3 argument.. there's some weight to it, but not as much as it might look like at first glance...
has anyone clicked on the article? it seems to just be about canada (read the first paragraph)
Canadian information technology groups can't seem to get IT right.
A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups "are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive."
and why is the heading in slashdot "95% of IT projects" while the actual statistic is "95% of IT groups have SOME late projects"?
No, small problems lead to no serious consequences. That's why they're called small problems. If they can lead to serious consequences then by definition they are not small problems. The magnitude of the problem is determined by the worst case scenario (Murphy's Law being what it is and all).
Some people would describe a small problem as either one with no serious consequences or one whos serious consequences are of an incredibly low probability. I think this is a terminology issue (really, we need to rate problems in at least two aspects here to get it right) - I think the definition you supplied oversimplifies things as much as the definition you're responding to (no offense to either intended). Difficulties can also arise when there are communication issues regarding which 'small' kind of problem is being discussed (is that happened here?)
I know I have an unpopular and unusual opinion on this, but I also believe there is something to be said for it..
I never learned to touch-type properly - but I have been typing since I was about 5 years old (it's been decades since then). I can touch type now - but my "home configuration" has nothing to do with the traditional home rows - which I honestly do believe are ergonomically bad in design. The "home position" of my hands actually looks a lot like the position they would be in on an ergonomic keyboard -- slightly rotated.
(This means my gibberish doesn't look like adjlfhdlsfjl.. It looks like sdaopmeqcqwmwq)
If I try, I can touch-type over 100 words per minute (never timed it accurately), which is not a bad rate..
I'm not sure if I am an exception rather than a potential rule - being a musician, I am used to having my hands/fingers be somewhere very quickly without looking - but there is very little hand movement as I'm typing this.
Anyway, what I am suggesting is that perhaps the qwerty layout isn't at fault - that maybe it's the way we are taught to use it.
(Incidentally, I liked the post above mine, somewhere, about the alternating-hand advantage of qwerty... )
One could argue that patents are there to defend corporations' intellectual property. I'm not sure it'd be good to argue it, but probably there is something to it...
I think he made up the 75% number from the 1Ghz/4Ghz numbers.. It is bogus... (Because those numbers don't take into account the width of either the bus OR the processor/EXE units)...
I was going to post something similar to your post, but I'll just instead agree with you here, and wonder why you aren't being modded up:)
It's not THAT clear, since he said "Sun's Solaris" followed by "Red Hat's Linux".. by setting up the relationship there between words, he's implying that Sun has the same relationship to Solaris as Red Hat does to Linux. He may not have meant it that way - but that's certainly a valid way to read it. (As is your way!)
Just wanted to say that I showed this to some people I know (since I thought it was so well put), and they totally missed out on your sarcasm at the end.... Personally I thought it showed the point perfectly!
So, warning to everyone else! Read the last paragraph!!!!!
if you're concerned about your actual education (which is important!), my suggestion is to compare your curriculum to those of other "more prestigious" universities/colleges... see if what you're taking now compares to what you'd be taking there. see if the fields you're interested in are offerend at your current school, or if they're better supported elsewhere...
a cs education is often what you make of it - a lot of programs offer considerable flexibility in what you can concentrate in, and what you get breadth in - and the more you know, the better off you'll be. of course it depends on what you want to do career-wise, too...
my suggestions is doing a comparison. i had a friend who got a CS degree at a prestigious (but not for CS) university, and i felt that my education (I went to CMU, he went to NYU, FYI) covered a lot more important things than his did... more concentration on concepts, less on languages and details like that.
go to help -> FAQ -> credits (my browser is broken right now). they explain that the credit system ONLY applies to a user-user relationship - in other words, they are not global, they are local to user pairs. it's kind of strange, i think.
Privately funded in 1993, now with customers in 40 countries* and over $67 million** in cash reserves, the company experienced a phenomenal growth and continues to aggressively pursue new frontiers in order to meet or exceed the needs of most demanding customers by providing a scalable, seamless, comprehensive offering.
Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product line with state of the art technology developed by a dedicated team of professionals, we offer a significant competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of best of breed anti-spam solutions.
doesn't _this_ sound like spam??
do you think it would pass through any spam filters?
I bet they're all waking up and realizing that if they want to survive (and afford their expensive habit if you will), they need to get a real job that pays...
real CS jobs do pay... it's the IT stuff that you're talking about. coding for MS, researching for any science company, doing work for the government - working for any software company is a much more sure thing than simply doing IT support.
what kind of jobs are you referring to as "real" jobs?
After a little research I found that download.com didn't have it and there are precious few reviews of this revolutionary software online, but that it was endorsed by McAfee
silly me, i thought he was being sarcastic by using 'revolutionary'. or at least potentially doubtful. maybe your take is more accurate, though:)
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point-and-shoots have a lens that's set up to focus at infinity, giving a huge depth-of-focus and a "far-away" looking shot. digital cameras have lenses that actually focus, and give much more power. many budget digital cameras also allow setting of the aperature, manual focus, exposure time, etc. the only difference between a low-end digital and a nice SLR is really the lens and the resolution - quality and power is still there in the cheaper digital cameras and far surpasses point-and-shoot.
for the amateur photographer who likes a portable device, these are very usable, and i don't think they should be dismissed as "cheap snapshot cameras"...
Yes, there's the obvious blue-post-box solution that many people use.
But also, don't forget, if you live in an apartment (a reasonably secure one, for obvious reasons) you can leave your outgoing mail on top of the mailboxes at the front door, and the postman WILL take it (as he is supposed to) and drop it off at the post office!
You run firefox on your servers?
My point being that firefox is a user app, and that (as stated elsewhere in this thread) as far as a user is concerned, either threat is more or less equally dangerous (think data integrity, for instance).
i think i have to agree with both sides here. there is almost certainly a lot of "top 40" type stuff being traded on whatever fileshares people are using - but i personally know that it can also be used to find difficult-to-find out of print or foreign material, if you know how to look for it. i know someone who, for instance, downloaded 30 leonard nimoy mp3s, for better or for worse.
i've bought quite a few cds from cdbaby myself - i wouldn't dream of looking for those artists on a fileshare because those artists could use the support... however, if you want a copy of, say, billy joel's 1970 heavy metal duo album (which, as i understand it, is difficult to find), you might just be able to get someone to fileshare a copy with you.
Which linux COULD definitely use - but I think the power of linux would disappear if the current interface were replaced by something like this.
When a new feature is added to a linux kernel, because of its text-based interface, it's very easy for it to flow to the end-user. No one has to update GUIs, etc.
no pun intended?
i think there are some reasonable arguments to be made on C's choice of syntax for certain things.
it's very easy to make some errors that are simply typos, involving (= and == and - and + and -- and ++ and += and -=) (& and && and ^ and *and %) that are completely legal and more or less indetectable, for instance.
(note, i had to type "and" because if i went ",", i encountered slashdot's "lameness filter"... heheh)
it's just like the radio vs mp3 argument.. there's some weight to it, but not as much as it might look like at first glance...
Canadian information technology groups can't seem to get IT right.
A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups "are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive."
and why is the heading in slashdot "95% of IT projects" while the actual statistic is "95% of IT groups have SOME late projects"?
This seems pretty misleading to me!
No, small problems lead to no serious consequences. That's why they're called small problems. If they can lead to serious consequences then by definition they are not small problems. The magnitude of the problem is determined by the worst case scenario (Murphy's Law being what it is and all).
Some people would describe a small problem as either one with no serious consequences or one whos serious consequences are of an incredibly low probability. I think this is a terminology issue (really, we need to rate problems in at least two aspects here to get it right) - I think the definition you supplied oversimplifies things as much as the definition you're responding to (no offense to either intended). Difficulties can also arise when there are communication issues regarding which 'small' kind of problem is being discussed (is that happened here?)
I can think of two reasons.
I never learned to touch-type properly - but I have been typing since I was about 5 years old (it's been decades since then). I can touch type now - but my "home configuration" has nothing to do with the traditional home rows - which I honestly do believe are ergonomically bad in design. The "home position" of my hands actually looks a lot like the position they would be in on an ergonomic keyboard -- slightly rotated.
(This means my gibberish doesn't look like adjlfhdlsfjl.. It looks like sdaopmeqcqwmwq)
If I try, I can touch-type over 100 words per minute (never timed it accurately), which is not a bad rate..
I'm not sure if I am an exception rather than a potential rule - being a musician, I am used to having my hands/fingers be somewhere very quickly without looking - but there is very little hand movement as I'm typing this.
Anyway, what I am suggesting is that perhaps the qwerty layout isn't at fault - that maybe it's the way we are taught to use it.
(Incidentally, I liked the post above mine, somewhere, about the alternating-hand advantage of qwerty... )
never mind typing 'ls' on a dvorak keyboard!
One could argue that patents are there to defend corporations' intellectual property. I'm not sure it'd be good to argue it, but probably there is something to it...
I was going to post something similar to your post, but I'll just instead agree with you here, and wonder why you aren't being modded up :)
It's not THAT clear, since he said "Sun's Solaris" followed by "Red Hat's Linux".. by setting up the relationship there between words, he's implying that Sun has the same relationship to Solaris as Red Hat does to Linux. He may not have meant it that way - but that's certainly a valid way to read it. (As is your way!)
i think it depends on your concentration and what skills you actually pick up... and what you want to do!
Just wanted to say that I showed this to some people I know (since I thought it was so well put), and they totally missed out on your sarcasm at the end.... Personally I thought it showed the point perfectly!
So, warning to everyone else! Read the last paragraph!!!!!
a cs education is often what you make of it - a lot of programs offer considerable flexibility in what you can concentrate in, and what you get breadth in - and the more you know, the better off you'll be. of course it depends on what you want to do career-wise, too...
my suggestions is doing a comparison. i had a friend who got a CS degree at a prestigious (but not for CS) university, and i felt that my education (I went to CMU, he went to NYU, FYI) covered a lot more important things than his did... more concentration on concepts, less on languages and details like that.
hope that helps!
like the Arabidopsis, a flowering plant in the mustard family...?
http://www.emule-project.net/...
go to help -> FAQ -> credits (my browser is broken right now). they explain that the credit system ONLY applies to a user-user relationship - in other words, they are not global, they are local to user pairs. it's kind of strange, i think.
hope this helps!
Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product line with state of the art technology developed by a dedicated team of professionals, we offer a significant competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of best of breed anti-spam solutions.
doesn't _this_ sound like spam??
do you think it would pass through any spam filters?
and of course, this could never happen under another operating system...
real CS jobs do pay... it's the IT stuff that you're talking about. coding for MS, researching for any science company, doing work for the government - working for any software company is a much more sure thing than simply doing IT support.
what kind of jobs are you referring to as "real" jobs?
silly me, i thought he was being sarcastic by using 'revolutionary'. or at least potentially doubtful. maybe your take is more accurate, though :)