All they have to do is give up the New York Ave and Illinois Ave monopolies. They can have Boardwalk, but the Japanese are particularly frustrated with the free parking corner.
*sigh* The end of the day is always my most productive.
The parent post is actually insightful (as well as funny). So many of us have tried to tell our parents, friends, relatives - even complete strangers - about the importance of security. But they still download Kazaa (not lite), they still choose a password named after their dog, and they still open every damn attachment they get.
Security = extra work, confusing settings, and ways to mess things up Insecurity = identity theft, loss of property or information, and probably cancer
I would consider millions (billions?) of people, all over the world, watching the games on television and the Internet to be a pretty massive surveillance network.
CS doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. To some, it's a computer degree. To others, it's a science degree.
At my school, there are three options:
1. Computer Applications - Learn how to use programs 2. Management Information Systems (MIS) - Learn how to write programs 3. Computer Science and Engineering - Learn how to write an operating system
You don't need a computer-related degree at all to be able to do any of these. I started programming when I was about ten years old, using the Apple IIe from my elementary school. By middle school, I was writing bulletin board door games and by high school I was writing my first applications.
In college, I was bored in the few programming classes I took (three weeks to learn conditionals?!) and started taking self-directed courses because I could teach myself better (with the aid of Google) than most of the profs I could take classes from.
You make it sound like this is a bad thing, with no possible positive implications.
A project that we're working on right now involves nearly 20 touch-screen kiosk machines - and every night they get turned off by way of a power switch. Every morning, that power switch is thrown the other way and the machines power up.
We're using the power supply feature that allows you to automatically boot on power loss. The client isn't willing to walk to every kiosk and power down (and then power it up again) properly.
I can think of a whole list of other ways to use it. If you can't, I can only guess that you haven't thought about it hard enough.
My employer recently asked me to sign a non-compete. I was doing some research, and this is one of the things I turned up. Maybe it's not the most credible of sources, but it's something:
Employers can demand that you sign a non-compete contract when you leave the company, as well. One judge actually enforced it, claiming that the employee (a former partner) was capable of doing significant harm to the company, so he was not allowed to start a competitor company for two years. I think that was California.
Of course, other states have varying laws. In my state, it says right in the legislature that the state does not approve of non-compete agreements, but will uphold them within reason. Some states simply do not allow them.
As I recall, there were plans to block based on the location of the IP source. Which puts my wife's parents, AOL users from Michigan, in Virginia.
Awesome.
The billing address zip code doesn't make sense, because of the reason you described. So their market is then pared down to those fans that live in areas outside of where the TV broadcasts hit. Which is likely a smaller number than they'd like. I'm guessing it's a losing venture for them. Maybe they're just willing to take a hit for a while and use it as a demo for a bigger rollout. But maybe I'm just an optimist.
MLB.com does this for their game broadcasts too. I'd gladly pay for a subscription so I could watch the game when I'm at work or on the road.
The point of watching it on the web is that I don't have a TV available, so I'm willing to put up with the crappy quality, high bandwidth, etc. of an Internet broadcast.
If I had a TV, I'd watch that instead. Blackouts are meant to help ticket sales, or to push people into watching the TV station that's paying for the rights. But if TV isn't an option, then I go for radio or internet.
It also allows the company to replace those investors with shareholder capital. If you didn't require those initial investors in the first place, then an IPO can help you fund future investments (instead of the other way around).
No - it's a mystery to me how we could implement an electronic voting system with a "one person, one vote" accountability but still have an anonymous vote.
I've read some pretty good solutions, but none of them were that convincing to me. The best that I can remember involved simply tallying the number of people who votes (no anonymity) and comparing to the number of votes (with anonymity). There's no way to tie the vote to the person, but you can definitely compare the numbers. And validate or invalidate based on the comparison.
"The only criteria is if it is easy to use, traceable, and accurate."
And one of the criteria of a successful election is that the votes be untraceable to the voter. It's still a mystery to me, and one of the sources of skepticism to many others.
Psychology has a standard format - APA. You're right about the electronic copies, though. Many articles are paper only, or are tough to get online.
Her advisor is anti-computers. She's afraid that the computer will change the data when you're not looking. They employ about 15 people to run their lab (includes students, which receive credits and not money). I'd guess that most of those students could be removed from the process and replaced with a computerized data input process. You know, instead of 80 page surveys being mailed out.
My wife isn't entirely comfortable with the electronic process either. She likes paper copies, so there's a physical trail. She won't let me pay our bills online, so she does all of our bills herself. On paper.
She has less than I realized. In her two years as a grad student, she's collected about 550 articles total. An Excel spreadsheet will have no problem with that. Eventually, she might move to an Access database (or, if she'll let me, a SQL Server DB with a nice web interface).
By that time, she'll probably abandon her filing cabinets. It's one thing to keep a few hundred files, but we won't have room for ten years of her readings.
...married to a non-geek (getting her PhD in Psych). When I told her about this system, she said:
"My system's better anyway. I have a file, with the exact bibliography printed on the folder, for every article I've read or written. If I need one, it's right there. If I need to use the citation, I can just copy it from my Excel spreadsheet. Now why would this thing be better?"
Of course it's a publicity stunt. Their whole business is dependent upon anti-Linux FUD. If PHBs believe this crap, as well as the junk they see in the press from SCO, they start thinking about who'll take the fall when they get sued for using Linux. Nevermind that it won't happen. If that particular PHB is the one that might get fired, he just might start trying to convince his own PHB that thy need Linux insurance.
It's like selling earthquake insurance to a farmer in Indiana.
He doesn't want his 50 CDs to "rot." For giggles, let's do some math:
50 CDs * 700 MB = 35 GB 50 DVDs * 4.7 GB = 235 GB
It would take 250 DVDs (all FULL!) to get you to that terabyte. But you want to put ten 250GB drives together... so you want 4 drives (for the space) and six drives for redundancy.
Expect to put down $5,000+. Or buy a 250GB drive and just store them on there. Buy two, and use the second one as a backup of the first. Total cost? $400.
If you're a home user - don't go overboard. If you're a corporate user that's just trying to cut corners (and therefore cost) then don't shortchange yourself (or your company).
Maybe you don't live in the real world, but in my company we deal with clients that send HTML emails when plaintext would do, we send HTML (or even Flash) newsletters for clients, and we have a 1-5 geek ratio. So checking headers, looking up the IP originator, or viewing the source isn't an option for the four of us that aren't geeks.
Since I'm one of the geeks, I do my best to educate and inform my colleagues. But I can't do that for everyone - my wife's grandparents will probably fall for every phishing scam. Hell, they forward every cute email, virus warning, (and usually virus) they get.
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All they have to do is give up the New York Ave and Illinois Ave monopolies. They can have Boardwalk, but the Japanese are particularly frustrated with the free parking corner.
*sigh* The end of the day is always my most productive.
How could you possibly know me so well?
Did we go to school together or something?
The parent post is actually insightful (as well as funny). So many of us have tried to tell our parents, friends, relatives - even complete strangers - about the importance of security. But they still download Kazaa (not lite), they still choose a password named after their dog, and they still open every damn attachment they get.
Security = extra work, confusing settings, and ways to mess things up
Insecurity = identity theft, loss of property or information, and probably cancer
It sounds like a pretty easy choice to me.
I'm still using my telegraph.
Clickity-click-click!
I have a feeling that Mrs. Smith might not take too kindly to such a "painting." Or to the programmer behind such comments...
You have an ugly corner in your living room, and you're going to "improve" it by projecting some arbitrary image onto it?
Try paintings. Or a ficus.
I would consider millions (billions?) of people, all over the world, watching the games on television and the Internet to be a pretty massive surveillance network.
CS doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. To some, it's a computer degree. To others, it's a science degree.
At my school, there are three options:
1. Computer Applications - Learn how to use programs
2. Management Information Systems (MIS) - Learn how to write programs
3. Computer Science and Engineering - Learn how to write an operating system
You don't need a computer-related degree at all to be able to do any of these. I started programming when I was about ten years old, using the Apple IIe from my elementary school. By middle school, I was writing bulletin board door games and by high school I was writing my first applications.
In college, I was bored in the few programming classes I took (three weeks to learn conditionals?!) and started taking self-directed courses because I could teach myself better (with the aid of Google) than most of the profs I could take classes from.
Oh, and I was a Japanese major. Go figure.
You make it sound like this is a bad thing, with no possible positive implications.
A project that we're working on right now involves nearly 20 touch-screen kiosk machines - and every night they get turned off by way of a power switch. Every morning, that power switch is thrown the other way and the machines power up.
We're using the power supply feature that allows you to automatically boot on power loss. The client isn't willing to walk to every kiosk and power down (and then power it up again) properly.
I can think of a whole list of other ways to use it. If you can't, I can only guess that you haven't thought about it hard enough.
My employer recently asked me to sign a non-compete. I was doing some research, and this is one of the things I turned up. Maybe it's not the most credible of sources, but it's something:
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Consider also the benefits you can receive upon leaving... severance, additional pay, stock, etc. All you have to do is sign.
Employers can demand that you sign a non-compete contract when you leave the company, as well. One judge actually enforced it, claiming that the employee (a former partner) was capable of doing significant harm to the company, so he was not allowed to start a competitor company for two years. I think that was California.
Of course, other states have varying laws. In my state, it says right in the legislature that the state does not approve of non-compete agreements, but will uphold them within reason. Some states simply do not allow them.
Obviously, NVidia is naming their best cards in multiples of 3.
So yeah, the GeForce 27 will be kickass.
I don't think so. Will ZDNet send a C&D to every blog owner? Will every blog owner simply roll over and comply?
ZDNet isn't going to spend the time and money to try and change the Internet in this way. Nor would the efforts do much to change things anyway.
As I recall, there were plans to block based on the location of the IP source. Which puts my wife's parents, AOL users from Michigan, in Virginia.
Awesome.
The billing address zip code doesn't make sense, because of the reason you described. So their market is then pared down to those fans that live in areas outside of where the TV broadcasts hit. Which is likely a smaller number than they'd like. I'm guessing it's a losing venture for them. Maybe they're just willing to take a hit for a while and use it as a demo for a bigger rollout. But maybe I'm just an optimist.
Those preview and submit buttons are so close together. Now everyone thinks I can't even handle HTML.
Where do I return my geek card?
MLB.com does this for their game broadcasts too. I'd gladly pay for a subscription so I could watch the game when I'm at work or on the road.
The point of watching it on the web is that I don't have a TV available, so I'm willing to put up with the crappy quality, high bandwidth, etc. of an Internet broadcast.
If I had a TV, I'd watch that instead. Blackouts are meant to help ticket sales, or to push people into watching the TV station that's paying for the rights. But if TV isn't an option, then I go for radio or internet.
It also allows the company to replace those investors with shareholder capital. If you didn't require those initial investors in the first place, then an IPO can help you fund future investments (instead of the other way around).
No - it's a mystery to me how we could implement an electronic voting system with a "one person, one vote" accountability but still have an anonymous vote.
I've read some pretty good solutions, but none of them were that convincing to me. The best that I can remember involved simply tallying the number of people who votes (no anonymity) and comparing to the number of votes (with anonymity). There's no way to tie the vote to the person, but you can definitely compare the numbers. And validate or invalidate based on the comparison.
"The only criteria is if it is easy to use, traceable, and accurate."
And one of the criteria of a successful election is that the votes be untraceable to the voter. It's still a mystery to me, and one of the sources of skepticism to many others.
Psychology has a standard format - APA. You're right about the electronic copies, though. Many articles are paper only, or are tough to get online.
Her advisor is anti-computers. She's afraid that the computer will change the data when you're not looking. They employ about 15 people to run their lab (includes students, which receive credits and not money). I'd guess that most of those students could be removed from the process and replaced with a computerized data input process. You know, instead of 80 page surveys being mailed out.
My wife isn't entirely comfortable with the electronic process either. She likes paper copies, so there's a physical trail. She won't let me pay our bills online, so she does all of our bills herself. On paper.
She has less than I realized. In her two years as a grad student, she's collected about 550 articles total. An Excel spreadsheet will have no problem with that. Eventually, she might move to an Access database (or, if she'll let me, a SQL Server DB with a nice web interface).
By that time, she'll probably abandon her filing cabinets. It's one thing to keep a few hundred files, but we won't have room for ten years of her readings.
...married to a non-geek (getting her PhD in Psych). When I told her about this system, she said:
"My system's better anyway. I have a file, with the exact bibliography printed on the folder, for every article I've read or written. If I need one, it's right there. If I need to use the citation, I can just copy it from my Excel spreadsheet. Now why would this thing be better?"
Some people are born geeks, I guess.
Of course it's a publicity stunt. Their whole business is dependent upon anti-Linux FUD. If PHBs believe this crap, as well as the junk they see in the press from SCO, they start thinking about who'll take the fall when they get sued for using Linux. Nevermind that it won't happen. If that particular PHB is the one that might get fired, he just might start trying to convince his own PHB that thy need Linux insurance.
It's like selling earthquake insurance to a farmer in Indiana.
He doesn't want his 50 CDs to "rot." For giggles, let's do some math:
50 CDs * 700 MB = 35 GB
50 DVDs * 4.7 GB = 235 GB
It would take 250 DVDs (all FULL!) to get you to that terabyte. But you want to put ten 250GB drives together... so you want 4 drives (for the space) and six drives for redundancy.
Expect to put down $5,000+. Or buy a 250GB drive and just store them on there. Buy two, and use the second one as a backup of the first. Total cost? $400.
If you're a home user - don't go overboard. If you're a corporate user that's just trying to cut corners (and therefore cost) then don't shortchange yourself (or your company).
Let's all use Pine!
Maybe you don't live in the real world, but in my company we deal with clients that send HTML emails when plaintext would do, we send HTML (or even Flash) newsletters for clients, and we have a 1-5 geek ratio. So checking headers, looking up the IP originator, or viewing the source isn't an option for the four of us that aren't geeks.
Since I'm one of the geeks, I do my best to educate and inform my colleagues. But I can't do that for everyone - my wife's grandparents will probably fall for every phishing scam. Hell, they forward every cute email, virus warning, (and usually virus) they get.