anyone else think that its interesting how there is or seems to be an intrigue into runnning OS X on a WinTel x86 now that Apple will be using x86 processors, while there doesn't seem to be any interest in attempting the inverse, running Windows on a x86 Mac.. Seems like there'd be (some) people intersted in it for one random reason or another.. it'd be pretty neat to have one box that could multiboot between windows, linux, and os X...
I'm not asking about the motivation as that is a seperate and uninteresting topic... thats left as an exercise (aka flamewar) for the various fans and anti-fans of Apple/MS. I'm not saying I want to go do this, in fact i probly wouldnt even if i could... and yes the reason is probably because there are lot more windows (or Wintel X86 linux users) users who wish they either werent, or would like to have access to OS X things then mac users who would want windows in any way shape or form on their machine. For the record I'm not a mac user, and while I am fairly anti-MS, for one reason or another i haven't yet gone down the Mac route, but if i knew that I could run whichever OS i wanted to on either hardware platform it would make for a lot of interesting thuoghts, choices, and convos... and yes i realize there are still plenty of other roadblocks that would prevent you from simply doing this once these x86 macs and x86 OS X were in existence, but the thuoght is still there
check out andersOSU's post he expands on what my message is, as I think you missed my point entirely. I 've heard of the new testament believe it or not. How ironic it seems to me you missed the message of my message and instead focused on the letters, or those that werent there
I know that what seperates them is the new testament, but it had no relevance to what I had to say. Obviously not 'bound' by jewish law, but it always seemed erie to me how they'd pick certain things from the OT and embrace them, but ignore others. If you'd like a better example, what about the ten commandments? I don't read and memorize the new testament, but where exactly do they fit in there?
I agree with you whole heartedly anyone who is only looking at the text themselves is entirely missing the point of religion, the works themselves, and pretty much life as a whole. But if people actually thought for themselves, well I won't even go there..
as to the no power thing, i could explain if you really want, but this is slashdot, not jewdot (now theres an idea) if you want the details of it, go read about them somewhere or ask a rabbi. i was just trying to highlight something rather thats a very very obvious jewish custom that is straight from the bible, and straight from genesis, not far after the whole creation part, and that quickly came to my mind. Whether i choose to accept believe or adhere to that is a seperate unrelated issue and one that has no bearing on the thread or the point i was trying to make.
as a total aside, and apologies as this is rather offtopic, what in the world does it mean for my post to have been modded as "overrated" ?
how is the christian bible the most widely shoplifted book? im pretty sure counting the ones people take from motels and hotels placed by the gideons everywhere dont count as shoplifting LOL....
as a more serious aside, the Torah (i wasn't aware there was another kind lol) is NOT the first 5 parts of the bible... its the other way around, judaism by far predates christianity. The Christian Bible shares the "5 books of Moses", and labels them as the Old Testament. This is something many people seem to forget. To me the interesting part of this is how "the church" chooses to pick and choose which things it "likes" from the old testament and observes.
Example? Notice how bible belters will shout to death about genesis being to exactly how it is, to the T, and refuse to acknowledge evolution.. well if you follow it so precisely then how come i have never heard of a christian: keeping kosher, or the sabbath no power thing come to mind, but just about any jewish custom taken from the torah would do
have you ever considered that people such as myself, dont want to have to bring my ipod to work everyday, when i can just store my music on my computer there? thats 100% legal... or maybe i want to avoid wear and tear on the ipods battery because whenever i plug in it recharges and i dont want it to recharge while im at work.... or even better consider that I want to have my headphones plugged into the computer so that i can hear important noises and such on it, such as mail arrived, or an alarm for a meeting...
or maybe i just want to consolidate all of my music onto one computer to back it up so i can reset my ipod and not have to connect to all of my different laptops to upload various songs to it..
i dont know about you but i dont like the command line in windows, it sux. yes i dont use winamp and wont use this tool, but thats because i can acomplish this inside itunes, but get this, i can see that others may find it useful regardless of whether i find it usefull..
and before you say no one in their right mind would bother, perhaps you should try thinking a little bit first.. many of us nerds have MULTIPLE repeat MULTIPLE computers with music files scattered across each... I have a central musicbox, but on my two laptops i have a bunch of music as well becuase when on my laptops often dont have access to my server (since my server is only in my home, and my laptops are mainly used away from home) i like to have music on them to listen to so that i dont always have to break out my ipod while im on the computer.
"except there isn't any legal reason to use it" wow, im curious, what in the world led you to that conclusion? and further more to share it with us?
i didnt realize a brick was a tool, what is the primary purpose of the brick used as a tool? here i thought it was a material used for construction. maybe i should start carrying one of them in my tool box LOL
and just for the record you can also break into the car with a coat hanger, the jaws of life, a key, a hammer, a jack hammer, a guy named jack, a coat hanger, a baseball, a golf club, another car, the kitchen sink, an ak47... and yet there is nothing illegal about any of it, as long as its YOUR car.. except for the ak47 firing it might not be legal where you are:-)
It feels like you miss several of the key points to this lawsuit, why it is a lawsuit, and why it is a valid one. For starters the key contrast between the MS products you mention and the iPod is that they are replacable pieces of equipment. The battery on the ipod was not replaceble without voiding the warranty, and their answer was you need to buy a new ipod. That coupled with the advertising claims, and the large amount of battery problems that exist is the reason for the lawsuit. Given the nature of the suit as targeting the false claim of battery life, it shuold be irrelevant whether your ipod is suffering now or not, because how do you know that next week it wont be suffering and no longer achieve the desired length? Are there people with iPods who dont have these problems? certainly. are there people who dont think they do but just dont realize they do, you bet.. and are there people who have been conditioned not to give a damn and just accept it as life, you and the parent to this DAMMIT thread are perfect examples of them.
Another of your main points is the first gen iPod people suffering problems.. there is one fatal flaw with your reasoning, you assume that none of them had problems back when their ipod was only a year or two old (or three), could it be that they just lived with it, gave up after attempting to get it resolved, or already bought a new ipod?? Its irrellevant in my opinion because there was no course of action for them to take, think of it as a case where they havent reached the 'statute of limitations' and maybe that would make sense to you.
As for people misusing their equipment being elligble, thats life. Companies deal with it all the time; if you want to make that arguement consider this, if the company had done it right in the first place they wouldnt be in this mess now would they?
you say "Apple didn't lie, the battery i recieved lived up to the specs" , I'm going to venture you didn't pay attention in math class when they covered proofs.. You can't prove an existential qualifier such as Apple didn't lie, by going on one single account, or even a collection of many; you'd have to prove that it wasn't possible for them to have been lying, and you dont come close. granted this really cant be done here; however consider that to disprove their statement, it only takes a single case, and you admit there are many.. by your own statements they are lying. to me your argument is akin to saying "for all X, X^2 + (X+1)^2 == X + 2(X+1) " because 1^2 + 2^2 = 5 = 1 + 2*2, youre examlped worked so you didnt lie... i have news for you, that doesnt even begin to hold up. So are you saying that I can advertise a laptop for getting 12 hours of battery life if i can find a handful of said laptop whereby running under obscure condition A i can attain 12 hours of life?
finally, i just want to highlight a comparison to the auto industry... when theres a part recall, its pretty much always for a specific year, model, and make of a car; and everyone gets the recall for free regardless of whether theirs is defective yet because it very well could be a problem later, but the settlement is now and is done to avoid the problem later. When theres a part recall or warranty work done to your car are charged for it? no, its WARRANTY work; "As I stated, when my PowerBook 190 had a damaged power connector because of poor design, for which they eventually offered a replacement system at a reduced price," if you ask me that isnt a good experience. They should have offered the replacement system free.. to me thats like saying oh the computer i sold you the hard drive has a problem and will fail in 2 months, we'll replace it then for free, probably with another defective one that lasts two months, but for only $$$$ you can buy one from us at a special discount that wont break.
draw the parallel to laptop use, they also have a very speculatory battery life side to them.. to me the key difference is that A. the batteries perform as guarenteed for a longer period
I don't know what all the commotion is about, and how any of you claim you cant get music off of your ipod onto your computer but who ever thinks so is sadly mistaken... Not only can it be easily accmplished without ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL, but you can do it inside itunes, and in under 6 mouse clicks (depending on how your prefernces are set)....
If you turn on the option to have iTunes automatically copy music into your itunes music folder all you have to do is plug in your ipod, click file->add folder to library, and then browse to your ipod and add the control folder to the library... In a matter of minutes (depends on how much you have on there obv) everything will be copied physically onto your hard drive.. thats it
Suppose your on linux or windows and dont wanna use itunes for whatever reason, just make sure that hidden folders are visible and copy the folder/ipod_control/music to desired location. Done that's it. Heck if you're on linux its even easier you should be able to deduce the two commands needed to do the entire job... (a mount command.. and
"cp/ipod_control/music/* / -r"
It really boggles my mind that people a. cant figure that out. b. complain you cant do it. and c. bother with other useless audio players (see winamp, althouh i was a HUGE winamp fan in the pre itunes days, and for music i still think its infintely better than windows media player!) or seperate utilties entirely to do it..
So either im really confused as to what you people are talking about in which case I'll go run into a wall a couple of times and force myself to watch an ep of the simple life (that should be punishment enough).... or maybe, just maybe, I might have something here, feel free to let me know either way
if only i had mod points, this is just about the funniest thing, and related sub threads as a consequence that ive seen on./ in a couple of weeks
juicebox hacking, if thats not priceless than what is??
and dont you dare say 'modding' your polo shirts by flipping up the collar to look like an A&F posterchild for the darwin award... IMHO only one person can get away with that, and we call him "the fonz"
sorta steals off of disneys thing with toon town, but an MMORPG of south park could be pretty damn hilarious... Allow characters to interface with one another via chatting, bitch slapping, ro-sham-bo, and whatever else you can think of.. i think that would be pretty hilarious and dont forget some classic NPC's like CHEF
the other idea, is a COPS MMFPS type of thing, think GTA4 meets LAW enforcement entirely online, so that you players on both ends of the game. i think it would be a nice change of pace, not to mention itd be fun to beat up some white trash:-p
last idea, although im sure its been thought of, but not done yet, is a field lacrosse video game... dont even mention Blast lacrosse, that was A. indoor box lacrosse, and B. crappy as hell, the control was miserable... anyhow enjoy
upon reading the actual article, it seems pretty clear that right now the only place you'll find the cell is inside a ps3,
"The IBM Corp. fellow who led the design team said his company currently has no plans to make Cell-based chips for its own systems or for the merchant market."
at least thats what i get from the article.. and they arent making it for the market... so why does it matter whether its open or not, why / how am i going to develeop anything for the cell processor if i dont have a system thats using it? and if the market isnt going to be using it?
i dunno it seems to me like a lot of the open source development going on in the open source community is being done on peoples own machines, part of the reason it happens if you ask me, people right things which will be of use to them and release them to share with others etc.. so if the only way to get a "cell" is to get one custom built and designed for you, who gives a crap if its "open" if someone builds you a custom processor and wont give you the details of how it works why in the world would you buy it? and if no one else has it without getting it custom built again, why would i want to write anything on it?
i must be missing something
hardly... you can be uneducated but a master programmer, and you can be educated but hardly qualified. Example? lets say i didnt go to college but programmed all day and night.. the world would consider me uneducated but with enough experience i could be considred qualified.
on the other hand perhaps daddy bought my way into an IVY and i have a bs in CS from some fancy school, but i have never done significant work on my own, and aside from decent enough grades lack any real skills in programming, very possible mind you. i now am educated but am unqualified..
ever read job specs, just about every job ever posted in software or cs reads: qualified candidates should have 3-5 or 5-10 years expereience in development in such and such...
you wouldn't believe how many pages on a companies so called college recruiting / new grad oppurtunities require over 5 years of experience developing software... and unless the stuff we develop for our college projects counts how is a new grad supposed to have that kind of experience?
the problem is that big companies are often pigeon holing themselves into believing a quality candidate will be the best "educated" and "qualified" and not looking for the best programmers or even people for the job. more often it seems the definition of qualified is the problem. The real problem may be the entry level positions and their publication. The quality candidates and future employees are definately out there, perhaps the real question is who is sifting them and determing who knows what?
on another note i wonder how many of those CEO's and or their main hiring people read/.
just some thoughts, keep em coming
im not saying that you cant afford a computer (and I was not referring to a new computer, but rather to this fancy box that was stolen) clearly to anyone who frequents this site, having a computer is a neccesity, I'm just surprised that while you are busy putting together what many would consider a "luxury box" to do all sorts of fancy stuff, your daughter feels that she has to steal cds. which i consider ironic does she lack the money because she wastes hers, or does she just steal to steal? granted with things she has done its understandable that she has a very small amount of spending money; but in some regard its like seeing your father buy a bmw and then tell you sorry hun, moneys tight right now while im out of work and youll just have to go with out a cd.... again im not implying that that is your case, but when you are busy going on about all of your gear its hard not for you to come across like that
thats what i was trying to get at. Although If i was unemployed the last thing i would be doing is building such a system and tying up my money.. after all if shes 17 college cant be too far off, and not to be a cynic or in anyway reflect on your personal situation, but one never knows when employment will come again in this silly economy.
and while its great that shes still drug free.. if shes just turning 17, the ordeal is just beginning and again i only wish you the best of luck. but the reality i have seen is that no matter where you go, the more you think there isnt a drug presence the more likely it is there... but in your case i hope i'm wrong.. have a good one
if your solution is to unplug the computer to prevent shutdown writing... than among other things you aren't removing it properly; and IMHO you shouldnt be giving anyone any advice,
my magic answer for this stuff, msconfig; you can temp disable any service you want, and reboot until you find exactly which service is the "mal" service. without moving or deleting anything either important or unimportant. once you find and disable the correct startup services youll be able to remove the entirety of the malware.. occasionally youll have to go to safe mode as well.. the other thing i like about msconfig is that it will tell you exactly where in the registry the service is for you to delete once your ready to remove it from the registry...
and if you pull the plug that fast there is no guarentee that your changes get written to the hard disk either
i'd say either you are a horrid parent, lack common sense, or are just an asshat disguised as a geek.. for god sakes get a handle on your kids.. if you know your daughter was involved do something about it. You dont need the police's OK to ground her indefinately, or to speak to the other persons parents. How is it that you are able to afford such luxuries for computers, while out of work, and while your daughter is compelled to steal, and of all places from walmart....
and saying that your neighborhood isnt a drug neighborhood is THE single most proposterous thing you could ever say. I suggest you spend a little less time on your computer and a little more time on planet earth.
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anyone else think that its interesting how there is or seems to be an intrigue into runnning OS X on a WinTel x86 now that Apple will be using x86 processors, while there doesn't seem to be any interest in attempting the inverse, running Windows on a x86 Mac.. Seems like there'd be (some) people intersted in it for one random reason or another.. it'd be pretty neat to have one box that could multiboot between windows, linux, and os X...
I'm not asking about the motivation as that is a seperate and uninteresting topic... thats left as an exercise (aka flamewar) for the various fans and anti-fans of Apple/MS. I'm not saying I want to go do this, in fact i probly wouldnt even if i could... and yes the reason is probably because there are lot more windows (or Wintel X86 linux users) users who wish they either werent, or would like to have access to OS X things then mac users who would want windows in any way shape or form on their machine. For the record I'm not a mac user, and while I am fairly anti-MS, for one reason or another i haven't yet gone down the Mac route, but if i knew that I could run whichever OS i wanted to on either hardware platform it would make for a lot of interesting thuoghts, choices, and convos... and yes i realize there are still plenty of other roadblocks that would prevent you from simply doing this once these x86 macs and x86 OS X were in existence, but the thuoght is still there
check out andersOSU's post he expands on what my message is, as I think you missed my point entirely. I 've heard of the new testament believe it or not. How ironic it seems to me you missed the message of my message and instead focused on the letters, or those that werent there I know that what seperates them is the new testament, but it had no relevance to what I had to say. Obviously not 'bound' by jewish law, but it always seemed erie to me how they'd pick certain things from the OT and embrace them, but ignore others. If you'd like a better example, what about the ten commandments? I don't read and memorize the new testament, but where exactly do they fit in there? I agree with you whole heartedly anyone who is only looking at the text themselves is entirely missing the point of religion, the works themselves, and pretty much life as a whole. But if people actually thought for themselves, well I won't even go there.. as to the no power thing, i could explain if you really want, but this is slashdot, not jewdot (now theres an idea) if you want the details of it, go read about them somewhere or ask a rabbi. i was just trying to highlight something rather thats a very very obvious jewish custom that is straight from the bible, and straight from genesis, not far after the whole creation part, and that quickly came to my mind. Whether i choose to accept believe or adhere to that is a seperate unrelated issue and one that has no bearing on the thread or the point i was trying to make. as a total aside, and apologies as this is rather offtopic, what in the world does it mean for my post to have been modded as "overrated" ?
how is the christian bible the most widely shoplifted book? im pretty sure counting the ones people take from motels and hotels placed by the gideons everywhere dont count as shoplifting LOL.... as a more serious aside, the Torah (i wasn't aware there was another kind lol) is NOT the first 5 parts of the bible... its the other way around, judaism by far predates christianity. The Christian Bible shares the "5 books of Moses", and labels them as the Old Testament. This is something many people seem to forget. To me the interesting part of this is how "the church" chooses to pick and choose which things it "likes" from the old testament and observes.
Example? Notice how bible belters will shout to death about genesis being to exactly how it is, to the T, and refuse to acknowledge evolution.. well if you follow it so precisely then how come i have never heard of a christian: keeping kosher, or the sabbath no power thing come to mind, but just about any jewish custom taken from the torah would do
and what version of windows would this be?
have you ever considered that people such as myself, dont want to have to bring my ipod to work everyday, when i can just store my music on my computer there? thats 100% legal... or maybe i want to avoid wear and tear on the ipods battery because whenever i plug in it recharges and i dont want it to recharge while im at work.... or even better consider that I want to have my headphones plugged into the computer so that i can hear important noises and such on it, such as mail arrived, or an alarm for a meeting...
:-)
or maybe i just want to consolidate all of my music onto one computer to back it up so i can reset my ipod and not have to connect to all of my different laptops to upload various songs to it..
i dont know about you but i dont like the command line in windows, it sux. yes i dont use winamp and wont use this tool, but thats because i can acomplish this inside itunes, but get this, i can see that others may find it useful regardless of whether i find it usefull..
and before you say no one in their right mind would bother, perhaps you should try thinking a little bit first.. many of us nerds have MULTIPLE repeat MULTIPLE computers with music files scattered across each... I have a central musicbox, but on my two laptops i have a bunch of music as well becuase when on my laptops often dont have access to my server (since my server is only in my home, and my laptops are mainly used away from home) i like to have music on them to listen to so that i dont always have to break out my ipod while im on the computer.
"except there isn't any legal reason to use it" wow, im curious, what in the world led you to that conclusion? and further more to share it with us?
i didnt realize a brick was a tool, what is the primary purpose of the brick used as a tool? here i thought it was a material used for construction. maybe i should start carrying one of them in my tool box LOL
and just for the record you can also break into the car with a coat hanger, the jaws of life, a key, a hammer, a jack hammer, a guy named jack, a coat hanger, a baseball, a golf club, another car, the kitchen sink, an ak47... and yet there is nothing illegal about any of it, as long as its YOUR car.. except for the ak47 firing it might not be legal where you are
It feels like you miss several of the key points to this lawsuit, why it is a lawsuit, and why it is a valid one. For starters the key contrast between the MS products you mention and the iPod is that they are replacable pieces of equipment. The battery on the ipod was not replaceble without voiding the warranty, and their answer was you need to buy a new ipod. That coupled with the advertising claims, and the large amount of battery problems that exist is the reason for the lawsuit. Given the nature of the suit as targeting the false claim of battery life, it shuold be irrelevant whether your ipod is suffering now or not, because how do you know that next week it wont be suffering and no longer achieve the desired length? Are there people with iPods who dont have these problems? certainly. are there people who dont think they do but just dont realize they do, you bet.. and are there people who have been conditioned not to give a damn and just accept it as life, you and the parent to this DAMMIT thread are perfect examples of them.
Another of your main points is the first gen iPod people suffering problems.. there is one fatal flaw with your reasoning, you assume that none of them had problems back when their ipod was only a year or two old (or three), could it be that they just lived with it, gave up after attempting to get it resolved, or already bought a new ipod?? Its irrellevant in my opinion because there was no course of action for them to take, think of it as a case where they havent reached the 'statute of limitations' and maybe that would make sense to you.
As for people misusing their equipment being elligble, thats life. Companies deal with it all the time; if you want to make that arguement consider this, if the company had done it right in the first place they wouldnt be in this mess now would they?
you say "Apple didn't lie, the battery i recieved lived up to the specs" , I'm going to venture you didn't pay attention in math class when they covered proofs.. You can't prove an existential qualifier such as Apple didn't lie, by going on one single account, or even a collection of many; you'd have to prove that it wasn't possible for them to have been lying, and you dont come close. granted this really cant be done here; however consider that to disprove their statement, it only takes a single case, and you admit there are many.. by your own statements they are lying. to me your argument is akin to saying "for all X, X^2 + (X+1)^2 == X + 2(X+1) " because 1^2 + 2^2 = 5 = 1 + 2*2, youre examlped worked so you didnt lie... i have news for you, that doesnt even begin to hold up. So are you saying that I can advertise a laptop for getting 12 hours of battery life if i can find a handful of said laptop whereby running under obscure condition A i can attain 12 hours of life?
finally, i just want to highlight a comparison to the auto industry... when theres a part recall, its pretty much always for a specific year, model, and make of a car; and everyone gets the recall for free regardless of whether theirs is defective yet because it very well could be a problem later, but the settlement is now and is done to avoid the problem later. When theres a part recall or warranty work done to your car are charged for it? no, its WARRANTY work; "As I stated, when my PowerBook 190 had a damaged power connector because of poor design, for which they eventually offered a replacement system at a reduced price," if you ask me that isnt a good experience. They should have offered the replacement system free.. to me thats like saying oh the computer i sold you the hard drive has a problem and will fail in 2 months, we'll replace it then for free, probably with another defective one that lasts two months, but for only $$$$ you can buy one from us at a special discount that wont break.
draw the parallel to laptop use, they also have a very speculatory battery life side to them.. to me the key difference is that A. the batteries perform as guarenteed for a longer period
I don't know what all the commotion is about, and how any of you claim you cant get music off of your ipod onto your computer
/ipod_control/music to desired location. Done that's it. Heck if you're on linux its even easier you should be able to deduce the two commands needed to do the entire job... (a mount command.. and
"cp /ipod_control/music/* / -r"
.... or maybe, just maybe, I might have something here, feel free to let me know either way
but who ever thinks so is sadly mistaken... Not only can it be easily accmplished without ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL, but you can do it inside itunes, and in under 6 mouse clicks (depending on how your prefernces are set)....
If you turn on the option to have iTunes automatically copy music into your itunes music folder all you have to do is plug in your ipod, click file->add folder to library, and then browse to your ipod and add the control folder to the library... In a matter of minutes (depends on how much you have on there obv) everything will be copied physically onto your hard drive.. thats it
Suppose your on linux or windows and dont wanna use itunes for whatever reason, just make sure that hidden folders are visible and copy the folder
It really boggles my mind that people a. cant figure that out. b. complain you cant do it. and c. bother with other useless audio players (see winamp, althouh i was a HUGE winamp fan in the pre itunes days, and for music i still think its infintely better than windows media player!) or seperate utilties entirely to do it..
So either im really confused as to what you people are talking about in which case I'll go run into a wall a couple of times and force myself to watch an ep of the simple life (that should be punishment enough)
i only referred to the fonz for the collar-up part.. he would never wear one... but if any human being could possibly pull it off itd be him,
if only i had mod points, this is just about the funniest thing, and related sub threads as a consequence that ive seen on ./ in a couple of weeks
juicebox hacking, if thats not priceless than what is??
and dont you dare say 'modding' your polo shirts by flipping up the collar to look like an A&F posterchild for the darwin award... IMHO only one person can get away with that, and we call him "the fonz"
sorta steals off of disneys thing with toon town, but an MMORPG of south park could be pretty damn hilarious... Allow characters to interface with one another via chatting, bitch slapping, ro-sham-bo, and whatever else you can think of.. i think that would be pretty hilarious and dont forget some classic NPC's like CHEF the other idea, is a COPS MMFPS type of thing, think GTA4 meets LAW enforcement entirely online, so that you players on both ends of the game. i think it would be a nice change of pace, not to mention itd be fun to beat up some white trash :-p
last idea, although im sure its been thought of, but not done yet, is a field lacrosse video game... dont even mention Blast lacrosse, that was A. indoor box lacrosse, and B. crappy as hell, the control was miserable... anyhow enjoy
upon reading the actual article, it seems pretty clear that right now the only place you'll find the cell is inside a ps3, "The IBM Corp. fellow who led the design team said his company currently has no plans to make Cell-based chips for its own systems or for the merchant market." at least thats what i get from the article.. and they arent making it for the market... so why does it matter whether its open or not, why / how am i going to develeop anything for the cell processor if i dont have a system thats using it? and if the market isnt going to be using it? i dunno it seems to me like a lot of the open source development going on in the open source community is being done on peoples own machines, part of the reason it happens if you ask me, people right things which will be of use to them and release them to share with others etc.. so if the only way to get a "cell" is to get one custom built and designed for you, who gives a crap if its "open" if someone builds you a custom processor and wont give you the details of how it works why in the world would you buy it? and if no one else has it without getting it custom built again, why would i want to write anything on it? i must be missing something
hardly... you can be uneducated but a master programmer, and you can be educated but hardly qualified. Example? lets say i didnt go to college but programmed all day and night.. the world would consider me uneducated but with enough experience i could be considred qualified. on the other hand perhaps daddy bought my way into an IVY and i have a bs in CS from some fancy school, but i have never done significant work on my own, and aside from decent enough grades lack any real skills in programming, very possible mind you. i now am educated but am unqualified.. ever read job specs, just about every job ever posted in software or cs reads: qualified candidates should have 3-5 or 5-10 years expereience in development in such and such... you wouldn't believe how many pages on a companies so called college recruiting / new grad oppurtunities require over 5 years of experience developing software... and unless the stuff we develop for our college projects counts how is a new grad supposed to have that kind of experience? the problem is that big companies are often pigeon holing themselves into believing a quality candidate will be the best "educated" and "qualified" and not looking for the best programmers or even people for the job. more often it seems the definition of qualified is the problem. The real problem may be the entry level positions and their publication. The quality candidates and future employees are definately out there, perhaps the real question is who is sifting them and determing who knows what? on another note i wonder how many of those CEO's and or their main hiring people read /.
just some thoughts, keep em coming
im not saying that you cant afford a computer (and I was not referring to a new computer, but rather to this fancy box that was stolen) clearly to anyone who frequents this site, having a computer is a neccesity, I'm just surprised that while you are busy putting together what many would consider a "luxury box" to do all sorts of fancy stuff, your daughter feels that she has to steal cds. which i consider ironic does she lack the money because she wastes hers, or does she just steal to steal? granted with things she has done its understandable that she has a very small amount of spending money; but in some regard its like seeing your father buy a bmw and then tell you sorry hun, moneys tight right now while im out of work and youll just have to go with out a cd.... again im not implying that that is your case, but when you are busy going on about all of your gear its hard not for you to come across like that thats what i was trying to get at. Although If i was unemployed the last thing i would be doing is building such a system and tying up my money.. after all if shes 17 college cant be too far off, and not to be a cynic or in anyway reflect on your personal situation, but one never knows when employment will come again in this silly economy. and while its great that shes still drug free.. if shes just turning 17, the ordeal is just beginning and again i only wish you the best of luck. but the reality i have seen is that no matter where you go, the more you think there isnt a drug presence the more likely it is there... but in your case i hope i'm wrong.. have a good one
maybe theyll make some autonomous pedestrians for the cars to avoid; now that would be entertaining to watch!
if your solution is to unplug the computer to prevent shutdown writing... than among other things you aren't removing it properly; and IMHO you shouldnt be giving anyone any advice, my magic answer for this stuff, msconfig; you can temp disable any service you want, and reboot until you find exactly which service is the "mal" service. without moving or deleting anything either important or unimportant. once you find and disable the correct startup services youll be able to remove the entirety of the malware.. occasionally youll have to go to safe mode as well.. the other thing i like about msconfig is that it will tell you exactly where in the registry the service is for you to delete once your ready to remove it from the registry... and if you pull the plug that fast there is no guarentee that your changes get written to the hard disk either
i'd say either you are a horrid parent, lack common sense, or are just an asshat disguised as a geek.. for god sakes get a handle on your kids.. if you know your daughter was involved do something about it. You dont need the police's OK to ground her indefinately, or to speak to the other persons parents. How is it that you are able to afford such luxuries for computers, while out of work, and while your daughter is compelled to steal, and of all places from walmart.... and saying that your neighborhood isnt a drug neighborhood is THE single most proposterous thing you could ever say. I suggest you spend a little less time on your computer and a little more time on planet earth.