Well, color me stupid -- I had no idea someone was trying to sell these. Big surprise, I didn't RTFA -- for shame! I'd heard about these binaural beats years ago so I didn't really delve to deep into this hysteria to form my opinion.
Regardless, I've never bought into the gateway theory at any level and just because some entrepreneurial person(s) is trying to exploit this phenomenon as an alternative to drugs doesn't change that. I could start selling dandelions online and market them as an alternative high and it wouldn't change the reality of the situation a bit -- only the perspective.
I stand firmly behind my statement that life itself is the only real gateway to drugs. Maybe these fucktards should get on that bandwagon and start banning pregnancies and we can do away with all these idiots once and for all:)
Since when are these being marketed? Is someone selling these sounds and giving them these drug names?
It would seem to me that these binaural audio bits are being created and freely distributed by curious individuals. These same individuals are probably trying their best to describe the sensations to others in a way that they can relate. Obviously, an underground segment of users finds it easiest to relate these feelings by comparing them to drug experiences they've already had.
As with most things, someone found this fringe group of people using these binaural beats in a manner related to drug use and immediately blew it out of proportion.
The only gateway I see here is a gateway to hysteria.
When I was a small child, my friends and I would spin around in circles until we were so dizzy we could barely walk and we'd fall over on the lawn. We'd call this feeling Dizzy-land and it was something we'd do regularly. Someone would shout, let's all go to Dizzy-land and everyone knew exactly what to do.
Even at the naive age of 5 or 6 we were well on our way to altering our consciousness without the use of any other substance other than our own brain. It is human nature to want to alter your consciousness. Life itself is the only real gateway to any drug.
I was waiting on someone to mention this. It was my primary motivation behind joining Facebook in the first place.
I came home one night and my wife was telling me about XYZ photos of me from a party the night before. It's like being pushed into a pool -- it happens whether you like it or not and everyone is laughing all the way.
Now, I just avoid cameras like the plague if I'm at a party or bar. I mean, it was bad enough back in the day when you made a drunken fool of yourself, now you have to relive it on Facebook the very next day... Ugh.
You're sort of arguing my point for me and trying to disagree at the same time.
I think the *person* that lets that kind of stuff happen is to blame -- not the tool. It sounds like an awful lot of people here are bashing Filemaker because it isn't being used for it's intended purpose. I'm merely making the point that it's the idiot trying to use a hammer to bust up pavement when a jackhammer is more suited to the job.
If you're letting your superiors get away with driving the choice behind inferior tools for a given job, well... can you really blame the tool? Maybe the person in charge of development isn't making their case properly or management is way out of line. But I don't think the tool is to blame in those scenarios.
If you're the type of person that does "development projects" than yeah, Filemaker is a severely misguided choice of database software. You aren't the intended market for that product.
It's meant to make ad-hoc databases on-the-fly (minutes or hours, not days). The right tool for the right project and all that. It's strength is in letting someone with little technical know how juggle data in ways that a spreadsheet can't.
Bash Filemaker all you want, but it does what it's intended to. It's almost like the equivalent to a one-off scripting language with a GUI and database backend. I find it invaluable in throwing together quick databases with customer data for various print routines. I've yet to find a tool that can do it as well, even with the horrible printer support Filemaker has.
I bet the netbook market has their attention. I can walk into a Target, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart and purchase a sub $300 netbook loaded with Linux.
That's damn near the cost of Vista Ultimate -- sans computer.
Process Explorer is definitely a good tool to use for troubleshooting purposes. I find it invaluable when trying to view DLL and/or file usage for a given process. The process target is pretty slick too: drag a target onto a window and the controlling process is highlighted.
There are a slew of other sysinternals tools as well, many of them would probably be perfect for troubleshooting system bottlenecks.
Depending on your position in an organization, there is a good possibility you've been tasked with snooping on someone as part of your job. At the very least, many of you have probably been asked to help a member of management snoop on someone.
How many people monitor internet traffic at their company? How many people are in charge of sensitive DB's? Call monitoring?
Snooping on employees has become the norm in organizations since any technology that enables it has been developed. As much as I hate to admit it, there really is no expectation of privacy when you are using resources that are owned by someone else.
I was curious too, so I went digging around. I think I found some diagrams depicting the technology they are planning on using. Once they implement this technology, we won't have to worry about those pirating thugs any longer.
You assume the student has no history with this teacher. Perhaps this student has had problems with the teacher before? How can you make an assertion that the teacher hadn't already been reasonable prior to this incident?
I wholeheartedly agree with you sir. More boobies on the protest front, ASAP!
And impeach the fucking president already.
Phew. I already feel like my voice is being heard better now.
What would be interesting to me is to know where these complaints are coming from. In my part of town (just outside Baltimore City), I've yet to notice any connection resets happening. I've been running on Comcast cable for about 4 years now, no problems. I've got dynamic DNS setup and connect to my machine daily via SSH. I'm pretty liberal with my use of bittorrent as well.
It seems like a new article pops up every week that blasts Comcast for these pratices. I'm losing count. I just keep hoping it doesn't happen in my area any time soon.
Bonding together over bad experiences in the work place doesn't sound so bad. It's going to happen whether people use foul language or not.
Besides, bonding in the work place doesn't have to be some big deal. Bonding in the workplace is just getting to know someone well enough that you are comfortable speaking with them frankly. It's being able to use expletives without blushing and feeling like you've just dropped an f-bomb in front of Granny.
...making me feel bad so I'll bond with people that aren't my friends.
That line alone speaks volumes about your attitude towards work. I spend at least 9 hours a day at work during the week and I sure as hell am not isolating myself from the world while I'm there. Let the corporate world mold you any way you want, but the rest of us want to make work as comfortable as possible since it is such a large part of our lives.
Yeah. It's Slashdot. Read the headline and run with it.
Regardless, TFA is light on details and heavy on speculation. It sounds like less than half the trackable copies were downloaded from filesharing sites, but who's counting?
Big Champagne? How are they tracking this stuff? My guess is, they aren't getting anywhere near the real numbers with whatever technology they are trying to sell.
Let's pretend the numbers are rock-solid. How does the legal/illegal download ratio compare to CD sales? What did the average customer pay for the download? What percentage of total sales went to the band?
I wouldn't call this a success or failure until I've seen more numbers or a reaction from the band. My guess is, it's probably been quite a success for the band, but I'll wait and see.
Don't believe the hype.
Everyone will tell you about simplicity and ease of use like Apple invented the process of dumbing things down. Yeah, they do it with elegance. Then they inflate the price and make spin it to look like a status symbol. It's the same process that makes designer clothes and Mercedes Benz popular. Sure, quality has a little to do with it, but marketing goes a long way towards helping a product achieve the same success the ipod has.
Apple knows this and they exploit it in a very methodical manner. Personally, I think it's a technology fad. It'll fade one day and be replaced by some other manufacturer.
Get used to it. Technologies such as this are ubiquitous and have wedged themselves deeply in our culture. It was only a matter of time before trends developed and took hold on the masses.
FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said the threat appears to be related to a plot in recent days focusing on banks and stores in places like Detroit, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia and Newport, R.I.
It sounds like they are randomly finding these cameras all over the place. They aren't hitting just one chain or anything like that. It's different types of businesses in completely different cities.
I think it's highly unlikely that they have an inside connection in 11+ states spread across the US. It's more likely they are scanning through Google or maybe they've managed to get access to a security company that manages many of these remote cameras as a service to businesses.
Aside from the criminal aspect of these incidents, it sounds like something I'd have done back in my IRC days while on a phone conference as a prank.
But, I don't work in the security industry. You probably have more insight into this kind of thing. Is it normal for businesses to outsource their security cameras to large, national security companies like this?
I work for a small company that started out trying to set metrics on my performance (as a sys admin). For 3 years, I got nearly perfect reviews because everything was always working correctly, I responded to help-desk calls in a timely manner, patches were being reviewed and applied on a regular basis, etc...
After 3 years of scratching their heads, they finally figured out that it made more sense to track my goals like a project manager. Every year (and quarterly) projects are put on the table that that need to be accomplished. Milestones are put in place and deadlines scheduled.
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I get tired of hearing this crap about certification X being a joke. Any kind of memorized knowledge is a joke if you can't apply it to real world situations. There are too many people out there getting certifications without the requisite knowledge and experience necessary to actually get something done.
If a company can't interview a candidate properly and gets stuck with someone who has no ability to think for themselves, then it is there own damn fault. Too many companies just want the hiring process to be as easy as reading a list of certifications an applicant has.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.
Might want to read a little about those stats a little.
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Well, color me stupid -- I had no idea someone was trying to sell these. Big surprise, I didn't RTFA -- for shame! I'd heard about these binaural beats years ago so I didn't really delve to deep into this hysteria to form my opinion.
:)
Regardless, I've never bought into the gateway theory at any level and just because some entrepreneurial person(s) is trying to exploit this phenomenon as an alternative to drugs doesn't change that. I could start selling dandelions online and market them as an alternative high and it wouldn't change the reality of the situation a bit -- only the perspective.
I stand firmly behind my statement that life itself is the only real gateway to drugs. Maybe these fucktards should get on that bandwagon and start banning pregnancies and we can do away with all these idiots once and for all
Since when are these being marketed? Is someone selling these sounds and giving them these drug names?
It would seem to me that these binaural audio bits are being created and freely distributed by curious individuals. These same individuals are probably trying their best to describe the sensations to others in a way that they can relate. Obviously, an underground segment of users finds it easiest to relate these feelings by comparing them to drug experiences they've already had.
As with most things, someone found this fringe group of people using these binaural beats in a manner related to drug use and immediately blew it out of proportion.
The only gateway I see here is a gateway to hysteria.
When I was a small child, my friends and I would spin around in circles until we were so dizzy we could barely walk and we'd fall over on the lawn. We'd call this feeling Dizzy-land and it was something we'd do regularly. Someone would shout, let's all go to Dizzy-land and everyone knew exactly what to do.
Even at the naive age of 5 or 6 we were well on our way to altering our consciousness without the use of any other substance other than our own brain. It is human nature to want to alter your consciousness. Life itself is the only real gateway to any drug.
Oh no! It appears as though the fledglings responsible for all of the pun threads on reddit have migrated to slashdot!
*ducks*
I was waiting on someone to mention this. It was my primary motivation behind joining Facebook in the first place.
I came home one night and my wife was telling me about XYZ photos of me from a party the night before. It's like being pushed into a pool -- it happens whether you like it or not and everyone is laughing all the way.
Now, I just avoid cameras like the plague if I'm at a party or bar. I mean, it was bad enough back in the day when you made a drunken fool of yourself, now you have to relive it on Facebook the very next day... Ugh.
No wonder I didn't get the cucumber joke in your signature! It's obviously an error only present in the female model.
You're sort of arguing my point for me and trying to disagree at the same time.
I think the *person* that lets that kind of stuff happen is to blame -- not the tool. It sounds like an awful lot of people here are bashing Filemaker because it isn't being used for it's intended purpose. I'm merely making the point that it's the idiot trying to use a hammer to bust up pavement when a jackhammer is more suited to the job.
If you're letting your superiors get away with driving the choice behind inferior tools for a given job, well... can you really blame the tool? Maybe the person in charge of development isn't making their case properly or management is way out of line. But I don't think the tool is to blame in those scenarios.
If you're the type of person that does "development projects" than yeah, Filemaker is a severely misguided choice of database software. You aren't the intended market for that product.
It's meant to make ad-hoc databases on-the-fly (minutes or hours, not days). The right tool for the right project and all that. It's strength is in letting someone with little technical know how juggle data in ways that a spreadsheet can't.
Bash Filemaker all you want, but it does what it's intended to. It's almost like the equivalent to a one-off scripting language with a GUI and database backend. I find it invaluable in throwing together quick databases with customer data for various print routines. I've yet to find a tool that can do it as well, even with the horrible printer support Filemaker has.
I bet the netbook market has their attention. I can walk into a Target, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart and purchase a sub $300 netbook loaded with Linux. That's damn near the cost of Vista Ultimate -- sans computer.
Process Explorer is definitely a good tool to use for troubleshooting purposes. I find it invaluable when trying to view DLL and/or file usage for a given process. The process target is pretty slick too: drag a target onto a window and the controlling process is highlighted.
There are a slew of other sysinternals tools as well, many of them would probably be perfect for troubleshooting system bottlenecks.
This is just FUD meant to scare people.
Depending on your position in an organization, there is a good possibility you've been tasked with snooping on someone as part of your job. At the very least, many of you have probably been asked to help a member of management snoop on someone.
How many people monitor internet traffic at their company? How many people are in charge of sensitive DB's? Call monitoring?
Snooping on employees has become the norm in organizations since any technology that enables it has been developed. As much as I hate to admit it, there really is no expectation of privacy when you are using resources that are owned by someone else.
You obviously haven't been married ;)
Consider yourself lucky. You avoided a lot of bad english and bad humor. No real correlation is attempted.
It's basically pictures of people who invented computer languages and verybad commentary relating to the state of their facial hair.
Save for the fact that a full release of OS X is only $130.00 retail. It makes it a little easier to swallow than the $399 for Vista Ultimate.
I was curious too, so I went digging around. I think I found some diagrams depicting the technology they are planning on using. Once they implement this technology, we won't have to worry about those pirating thugs any longer.
You assume the student has no history with this teacher. Perhaps this student has had problems with the teacher before? How can you make an assertion that the teacher hadn't already been reasonable prior to this incident?
Oh wait, this is slashdot... Vive la Firefox!
I wholeheartedly agree with you sir. More boobies on the protest front, ASAP! And impeach the fucking president already. Phew. I already feel like my voice is being heard better now.
What would be interesting to me is to know where these complaints are coming from. In my part of town (just outside Baltimore City), I've yet to notice any connection resets happening. I've been running on Comcast cable for about 4 years now, no problems. I've got dynamic DNS setup and connect to my machine daily via SSH. I'm pretty liberal with my use of bittorrent as well.
It seems like a new article pops up every week that blasts Comcast for these pratices. I'm losing count. I just keep hoping it doesn't happen in my area any time soon.
Bonding together over bad experiences in the work place doesn't sound so bad. It's going to happen whether people use foul language or not.
...making me feel bad so I'll bond with people that aren't my friends.
Besides, bonding in the work place doesn't have to be some big deal. Bonding in the workplace is just getting to know someone well enough that you are comfortable speaking with them frankly. It's being able to use expletives without blushing and feeling like you've just dropped an f-bomb in front of Granny.
That line alone speaks volumes about your attitude towards work. I spend at least 9 hours a day at work during the week and I sure as hell am not isolating myself from the world while I'm there. Let the corporate world mold you any way you want, but the rest of us want to make work as comfortable as possible since it is such a large part of our lives.
Yeah. It's Slashdot. Read the headline and run with it.
Regardless, TFA is light on details and heavy on speculation. It sounds like less than half the trackable copies were downloaded from filesharing sites, but who's counting? Big Champagne? How are they tracking this stuff? My guess is, they aren't getting anywhere near the real numbers with whatever technology they are trying to sell.
Let's pretend the numbers are rock-solid. How does the legal/illegal download ratio compare to CD sales? What did the average customer pay for the download? What percentage of total sales went to the band?
I wouldn't call this a success or failure until I've seen more numbers or a reaction from the band. My guess is, it's probably been quite a success for the band, but I'll wait and see.
Don't believe the hype. Everyone will tell you about simplicity and ease of use like Apple invented the process of dumbing things down. Yeah, they do it with elegance. Then they inflate the price and make spin it to look like a status symbol. It's the same process that makes designer clothes and Mercedes Benz popular. Sure, quality has a little to do with it, but marketing goes a long way towards helping a product achieve the same success the ipod has. Apple knows this and they exploit it in a very methodical manner. Personally, I think it's a technology fad. It'll fade one day and be replaced by some other manufacturer. Get used to it. Technologies such as this are ubiquitous and have wedged themselves deeply in our culture. It was only a matter of time before trends developed and took hold on the masses.
FTA:
FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said the threat appears to be related to a plot in recent days focusing on banks and stores in places like Detroit, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia and Newport, R.I.
It sounds like they are randomly finding these cameras all over the place. They aren't hitting just one chain or anything like that. It's different types of businesses in completely different cities.
I think it's highly unlikely that they have an inside connection in 11+ states spread across the US. It's more likely they are scanning through Google or maybe they've managed to get access to a security company that manages many of these remote cameras as a service to businesses.
Aside from the criminal aspect of these incidents, it sounds like something I'd have done back in my IRC days while on a phone conference as a prank.
But, I don't work in the security industry. You probably have more insight into this kind of thing. Is it normal for businesses to outsource their security cameras to large, national security companies like this?
Mod parent up. He hit the nail on the head.
I work for a small company that started out trying to set metrics on my performance (as a sys admin). For 3 years, I got nearly perfect reviews because everything was always working correctly, I responded to help-desk calls in a timely manner, patches were being reviewed and applied on a regular basis, etc...
After 3 years of scratching their heads, they finally figured out that it made more sense to track my goals like a project manager. Every year (and quarterly) projects are put on the table that that need to be accomplished. Milestones are put in place and deadlines scheduled.
Sorry, not on topic, but...
I get tired of hearing this crap about certification X being a joke. Any kind of memorized knowledge is a joke if you can't apply it to real world situations. There are too many people out there getting certifications without the requisite knowledge and experience necessary to actually get something done.
If a company can't interview a candidate properly and gets stuck with someone who has no ability to think for themselves, then it is there own damn fault. Too many companies just want the hiring process to be as easy as reading a list of certifications an applicant has.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers. These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users. Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.
Might want to read a little about those stats a little.