I guess what this comes down to is if the engineer actually signed something saying he wouldn't develop for a competitor. Oral agreements are obviously very tough to prove. I say you did something we agreed you wouldn't, you say there was no such agreement. It's just your word against mine. Now if you sign something saying you won't do something, and then go do it, there's a much easier case to be made.
Am I the only one that finds mobile phones on an 802.11 network to be a BAD thing? We have enough war driving and such on unsecured 802.11 networks as it is, and now we have cell phones compatible with them. I'm just waiting for the first virus to be written to swipe all the phone numbers in your address book to be sent to telemarketers or simply hose your $300 phone in general.
You know what though, as I don't fly that often maybe I don't notice it, but even if I were flying at least once a month I wouldn't mind the current system. I've never had to wait to get through security more than 15 minutes, and since I'm always there at least an hour and a half early anyhow it wouldn't be that big a deal to have to wait longer. What am I going to do with that time anyway... just sit on my butt longer at the gate, that's what.
4. (It really amazes me as an American that it has come to the point where we have to even talk about this, but) avoid torturing citizens of other nations.
I think it should be pointed out that this is an isolated incident involving one prison. It is not nor will it ever be the policy of the United States to torture the opposition. I think the stories from the field about our medics helping out wounded enemies more than supports this. If we were cruel torturers, we'd rip their fingernails out and leave them to die instead of bringing them to a field hospital where they can be healed.
We have a piece of equipment by a company called Sandvine which can mitigate virus threats, monitor traffic by protocol, etc. without anything needing to be installed by the actual end user. The drawback in the college setting is that they would need at least one of these boxes for every building on campus in order to effectively mitigate the virus threat. Not only that, but there is a yearly maintainence fee for support from them as well. But the way I see it, with most colleges costing you $10,000+/year to attend school there and live on campus, it's the least they can do if they're serious about "protecting the end-user".
Ahh, I love these types of comments. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Linux, and would use it as my primary OS, except:
Serious gamers can't use Linux.
I'm reasonably sure that Command and Conquer Generals doesn't run on Linux. Nor does Battlefield Vietnam... etc etc. They might in about 2 years when someone with enough interest finally ports them about a year after the newest version of the same line of games comes out, but that's only if you're lucky. Yes, I'm aware of WINE, and I'm also aware that it has a list of stuff that it will run correctly. (If it can't run a stupid little 100k VB program I wrote, it sure can't run Battlefield Vietnam).
Bottom line is that I'm a user with a clue, I know how to take care of my PC, I know to run Mozilla (YEAH!) instead of IE, and for the record, have been running Windows 2000 Pro since it's release with *0* blue screens and *0* reinstalls.
The average doorknob enduser just wants their stuff to work... the hell with the consequences. I installed RH9 for my dad, who only cares about getting on the internet. It works perfectly, and I don't have to worry about him screwing anything up/getting a virus/getting loaded with spyware. However, you just can't do that for a family with 2 kids... the computer would be useless for most of what the kids wanted. And in the end, isn't that all that matters... having your machine do what you want it to?
EchoStar recently raised its rates to subscribers by as much as $3.00 a month. But they refuse to pay MTVN a less than 6 cent increase per month they were asking for ALL of their channels including CBS and BET
But what Mr. Freston of course does not mention, is that the $3 increase was probably due to yet another conglomerate raising THEIR rates. If VIACOM was successful in their rate increase, DISH customers would likely see yet another future rate hike due to this. Anyone with any brain capacity at all can see through that argument... but, the sheep that are the masses will likely think this is an excellent argument. Just a stupid thought, but when was the last time that a network actually LOWERED their rates? You can't expect Cable/Satellite to lower their rates if the content they provide just keeps getting more expensive, it's ludicrous.
The preceeding comment could also be titled: "Why satellite service sucks" I know of NO cable company that requires you to sign a contract to get service (at least here in Ohio) or penalizes you for leaving. Speaking of those ugly text messages, yes folks, the squabble spilled over onto the cable networks too as we got to see that crap even though we're not involved in it!
I work for a cable company and can definitely say content IS king. When you have ESPN wanting to hike their rates as much as $1M/yr, (and that's even with a group of cable companies trying to negotiate a better rate) what do you do other than take it in the rear and raise your rates? You can't drop ESPN, it's THE sports network and you'll piss off every sports enthusiast subscriber you have. On the other hand, everyone gets pissed off at the rate increase and wonders why Cable/Satellite rates continue to climb.
Ah... but they've gotten s/smarter/dumber. Apparently some server-level programs (Declude for sure, as I've gotten over a hundred in the last few days from them alone) have decided to start sending postmaster@domain.com a warning as well. I get loads and loads of mail now from these stupid autoresponders that say that "our mail server has sent a virus" even though we run anti-virus software ourselves (WITH NOTIFICATION OFF!!!) and a quick look at the headers reveals the real IP address that it came from, just with our domain name attached, and of course in the reply field as well. I've crafted a stationary now to reply to these morons with. Only problem is that they're only a notch below the morons that put this feature in the software, and they'll probably try telling me that I'm the one that's wrong!
Ahh... that explains a lot:-) We aren't in a major metropolis, but it helps that we have a local CO about 2 miles down the road, so our local loop charges for our bandwidth are miniscule compared to some. We have 2 levels of residential service, $25/month for 512/128, and $40/month for 1024/128. When we get DOCSIS 2.0, I imagine it will likely be a synchronous connection, or at least a much better ratio.
This, I think was answered in the distro for RH 7.0 while you were waiting on it to install.
To paraphrase: CEO Matthew Szulik was known in college as the guy in the "Red Hat" who could fix your computer problems since he was rarely seen around campus without his red ball cap.
Wow... I was disappointed a bit with the ending, but it was a pretty good movie overall. At any rate, answers to your "unanswered" questions:
None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels?
The Oracle explained that Neo was linked to the source. Since he was linked to the source, he could affect the machines even in the real world.
How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful?
Come on now, you saw exactly how that happened in Reloaded. When he assimilated him in the Matrix, he literally took over his mind in the real world.
The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about. What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix? It's like the movies don't even care.
And why not? You have millions of sentinels digging to attack your last remaining city, I think your priority is to save your city since YOU'RE DEAD IF YOU DON'T.
No humanity in the characters and dialogue. The movies just don't enjoy themselves. The first one had a mixture of humor and joy and was just having fun with what it could do. That's why things like the lobby scene kicked so much ass. It was like, "We've smashed the barriers of physics, now lets see what we can do with it!" And you had the fun human moments like the discussion during breakfast, the Cipher character, and so on. Neo was just a normal computer programmer who discovered the world around him wasn't real. More importantly, the movie was FUN.
Well I don't know about you, but again, the impending doom of all humankind puts a damper on the mood for me. I'd think that would translate to the characters too.
Nobody is freed, Trinity and Neo die, and we're left with the same situation we had at the beginning of the first movie. We've invested our attention to these three movies all for nothing. It was pointless. Why even have Trinity live in Reloaded? She should have stayed dead. It would have been more interesting to see how Neo copes with being unable to save her last time.
But it's not the same. As the Architect said at the end: "Those that wish to be free will be freed." As for Trinity, how short sighted are you? You have a guy who is essentially God in the Matrix, and the love of his life dies in the Matrix, where he can bring her back to life. OF COURSE he's going to save her! Were you looking for this scene instead?
(Trinity just dies in Reloaded)
Neo: Damn, I really liked her. Wait a tick... I'M SINGLE AGAIN! YEAH BABY! YEAH!
I imagine most people are going to be disappointed with this movie for one easy fact. The hype was more than any movie could have hoped to live up to. Unfortunately this is more and more the way movies are heading now. You hype the living crap out of your film, even though your fan base will already go see the movie to get maybe an extra million so your total gross is $343 million instead of $342. The true cost of it is disappointing the very fans that make you the bulk of your money. I liked the movie myself, because I can see past the hype and enjoy the movie for what it was. Yes, I was a bit disappointed in the ending, but I think it'll grow on me and I'll be proud to have the trilogy sitting in my collection at home.
I *really* hope this wasn't meant as a serious article. I work as a systems engineer for a small cable/dialup ISP, and I decided to take a count of the number of open source based servers I run. I counted 34 different servers that run a variation of either RedHat or OpenBSD. 34 servers that have served me quite well. 34 servers that I don't have to worry a quarter as much about Worms/Virii/Trojans. 34 servers that do what I need them to do and do it just as good if not better than their MS counterparts. 34 servers that saved me roughly $34,000 in licensing alone to buy Windows Server 2003, not to mention the software that would have to run on it. I believe Mr. Strauss should sit in on a history class at his university and take to heart the words of one of our great presidents, Abraham Lincoln:
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
I really was thinking the same thing, you just beat me to it. I mean, exactly how hard is it to do an incremental counter?!?!? You'd think they were trying to write AI to duplicate human life or something. IT'S A COUNTER!!!!
What is really funny is I can't even remember the last time I've seen an advertisement for a CD on TV, or even in a newspaper or magazine. So if marketing is expensive, just where is the marketing?!?
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/home/daringone#setmwave 1m
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/home/daringone#
Microwave set to 1 minute
Your food is cooking.
Your food is done.
I guess what this comes down to is if the engineer actually signed something saying he wouldn't develop for a competitor. Oral agreements are obviously very tough to prove. I say you did something we agreed you wouldn't, you say there was no such agreement. It's just your word against mine. Now if you sign something saying you won't do something, and then go do it, there's a much easier case to be made.
Am I the only one that finds mobile phones on an 802.11 network to be a BAD thing? We have enough war driving and such on unsecured 802.11 networks as it is, and now we have cell phones compatible with them. I'm just waiting for the first virus to be written to swipe all the phone numbers in your address book to be sent to telemarketers or simply hose your $300 phone in general.
You know what though, as I don't fly that often maybe I don't notice it, but even if I were flying at least once a month I wouldn't mind the current system. I've never had to wait to get through security more than 15 minutes, and since I'm always there at least an hour and a half early anyhow it wouldn't be that big a deal to have to wait longer. What am I going to do with that time anyway... just sit on my butt longer at the gate, that's what.
Try turning on the Bayes filter and be amazed :-) Spamassassin + SARE Rulesets + a well trained Bayes filter = 99+% effectiveness for me.
We have a piece of equipment by a company called Sandvine which can mitigate virus threats, monitor traffic by protocol, etc. without anything needing to be installed by the actual end user. The drawback in the college setting is that they would need at least one of these boxes for every building on campus in order to effectively mitigate the virus threat. Not only that, but there is a yearly maintainence fee for support from them as well. But the way I see it, with most colleges costing you $10,000+/year to attend school there and live on campus, it's the least they can do if they're serious about "protecting the end-user".
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Ahh, I love these types of comments. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Linux, and would use it as my primary OS, except:
Serious gamers can't use Linux.
I'm reasonably sure that Command and Conquer Generals doesn't run on Linux. Nor does Battlefield Vietnam... etc etc. They might in about 2 years when someone with enough interest finally ports them about a year after the newest version of the same line of games comes out, but that's only if you're lucky. Yes, I'm aware of WINE, and I'm also aware that it has a list of stuff that it will run correctly. (If it can't run a stupid little 100k VB program I wrote, it sure can't run Battlefield Vietnam).
Bottom line is that I'm a user with a clue, I know how to take care of my PC, I know to run Mozilla (YEAH!) instead of IE, and for the record, have been running Windows 2000 Pro since it's release with *0* blue screens and *0* reinstalls.
The average doorknob enduser just wants their stuff to work... the hell with the consequences. I installed RH9 for my dad, who only cares about getting on the internet. It works perfectly, and I don't have to worry about him screwing anything up/getting a virus/getting loaded with spyware. However, you just can't do that for a family with 2 kids... the computer would be useless for most of what the kids wanted. And in the end, isn't that all that matters... having your machine do what you want it to?
EchoStar recently raised its rates to subscribers by as much as $3.00 a month. But they refuse to pay MTVN a less than 6 cent increase per month they were asking for ALL of their channels including CBS and BET
But what Mr. Freston of course does not mention, is that the $3 increase was probably due to yet another conglomerate raising THEIR rates. If VIACOM was successful in their rate increase, DISH customers would likely see yet another future rate hike due to this. Anyone with any brain capacity at all can see through that argument... but, the sheep that are the masses will likely think this is an excellent argument. Just a stupid thought, but when was the last time that a network actually LOWERED their rates? You can't expect Cable/Satellite to lower their rates if the content they provide just keeps getting more expensive, it's ludicrous.
The preceeding comment could also be titled: "Why satellite service sucks" I know of NO cable company that requires you to sign a contract to get service (at least here in Ohio) or penalizes you for leaving. Speaking of those ugly text messages, yes folks, the squabble spilled over onto the cable networks too as we got to see that crap even though we're not involved in it!
I work for a cable company and can definitely say content IS king. When you have ESPN wanting to hike their rates as much as $1M/yr, (and that's even with a group of cable companies trying to negotiate a better rate) what do you do other than take it in the rear and raise your rates? You can't drop ESPN, it's THE sports network and you'll piss off every sports enthusiast subscriber you have. On the other hand, everyone gets pissed off at the rate increase and wonders why Cable/Satellite rates continue to climb.
Ah... but they've gotten s/smarter/dumber. Apparently some server-level programs (Declude for sure, as I've gotten over a hundred in the last few days from them alone) have decided to start sending postmaster@domain.com a warning as well. I get loads and loads of mail now from these stupid autoresponders that say that "our mail server has sent a virus" even though we run anti-virus software ourselves (WITH NOTIFICATION OFF!!!) and a quick look at the headers reveals the real IP address that it came from, just with our domain name attached, and of course in the reply field as well. I've crafted a stationary now to reply to these morons with. Only problem is that they're only a notch below the morons that put this feature in the software, and they'll probably try telling me that I'm the one that's wrong!
Ahh... that explains a lot :-) We aren't in a major metropolis, but it helps that we have a local CO about 2 miles down the road, so our local loop charges for our bandwidth are miniscule compared to some. We have 2 levels of residential service, $25/month for 512/128, and $40/month for 1024/128. When we get DOCSIS 2.0, I imagine it will likely be a synchronous connection, or at least a much better ratio.
No offense, but if you're paying $500/mbps/month, you're getting mugged. Our cost for 4 DS-3's is a little under a third of that.
This, I think was answered in the distro for RH 7.0 while you were waiting on it to install. To paraphrase: CEO Matthew Szulik was known in college as the guy in the "Red Hat" who could fix your computer problems since he was rarely seen around campus without his red ball cap.
(Trinity just dies in Reloaded)
Neo: Damn, I really liked her. Wait a tick... I'M SINGLE AGAIN! YEAH BABY! YEAH!
I imagine most people are going to be disappointed with this movie for one easy fact. The hype was more than any movie could have hoped to live up to. Unfortunately this is more and more the way movies are heading now. You hype the living crap out of your film, even though your fan base will already go see the movie to get maybe an extra million so your total gross is $343 million instead of $342. The true cost of it is disappointing the very fans that make you the bulk of your money. I liked the movie myself, because I can see past the hype and enjoy the movie for what it was. Yes, I was a bit disappointed in the ending, but I think it'll grow on me and I'll be proud to have the trilogy sitting in my collection at home.
I *really* hope this wasn't meant as a serious article. I work as a systems engineer for a small cable/dialup ISP, and I decided to take a count of the number of open source based servers I run. I counted 34 different servers that run a variation of either RedHat or OpenBSD. 34 servers that have served me quite well. 34 servers that I don't have to worry a quarter as much about Worms/Virii/Trojans. 34 servers that do what I need them to do and do it just as good if not better than their MS counterparts. 34 servers that saved me roughly $34,000 in licensing alone to buy Windows Server 2003, not to mention the software that would have to run on it. I believe Mr. Strauss should sit in on a history class at his university and take to heart the words of one of our great presidents, Abraham Lincoln:
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
I really was thinking the same thing, you just beat me to it. I mean, exactly how hard is it to do an incremental counter?!?!? You'd think they were trying to write AI to duplicate human life or something. IT'S A COUNTER!!!!
What is really funny is I can't even remember the last time I've seen an advertisement for a CD on TV, or even in a newspaper or magazine. So if marketing is expensive, just where is the marketing?!?