Now none of the gripes in this comment are against you as a person, but they do define almost any GeekSquad member I've met.
You guys charge $100 to come out and most of your staff can't even fix a simple problem. The whole ambience thing is nice, with the beetles and all, but come on. I'm not looking for self-proclaimed geeks to come out and tell me that I need a reformat when all I needed to do was run a simple chkdsk/defrag. For people who have no idea about computers, they can't argue with you, and so they listen to you... at their peril.
Now, I'm not saying YOU aren't knowledgable. For all I know, you could be a rare gem in GeekSquad. But, from what I have seen while I worked at BestBuy and from what my family and friends have told me from their experiences, GeekSquad knows just about as much as your average salesperson: not much.
I actually worked in Best Buy out here when I was 16 years old and they started the "BAY TECHNICIANS" at $7/hr. It was sad... Then the geek squad came in. Man, I have never seen so much advertising for a crew that works on computers. I did not join the Geek Squad because I didn't want to wear a uniform that rivals Burger King... But the customer line speaks for itself, and everyone in that line wasn't happy. I started dropping off my card to people telling them to call me if they wanted a better deal. Well.. Best Buy is a big company and they sure can sell a product. Too bad that they cant sell the service too.
The hacker connected them to the internet. Isn't it obvious?
More seriously, it probably isn't as black and white as it sounds. Its very likely that the database machines were not connected to the Internet but were connected to the school-wide WAN/Intranet. The food services people need access to some of the information, and a badly segregated database would require the foodservice computers to have full access to all the data.
Example... In 1990, the university had a database of all the student's info: name, address, phone number, etc. Then, they wanted to start assigning food cards to people, and they wanted to keep track of who had which food card (to make sure that people weren't just copying the cards or just reprogramming them to add more money). So, rather than adding a seperate database for it and linking the two together, they just add two fields to the current database: card_number and card_amount. Ta-da, food services now has access to the entire database.
When the foodservices computers were compromised, the hacker got access to those database servers as well.
Sure, there is loads of programs that make use of the full 64 bits. Several vendors offer 64bit flavours of their distributions, such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Suse.
The performance gain is found in how the chip itself works. 64-bits breaks the 4GB memory process limits of 32-bits. In 32-bits, a single process can access 2^(32) bytes -> 4 GB of linear memory. In 64 bits, you can therocally access 2^(64) bytes. Pratically, in Windows x64, a process is limited to 16 TB of memory. Plus, there's extra registers that a program can use.
According to some tech sites, it hits a maximum of 52deg Celsius under full Prime95 load. That's a lot better than the 65+ hit by the.09 micron based Pentium 4's.
Intel has done its homework on these Prescott-based EMT64 chips. They allow a reduction in voltage and die size, which results in a cheaper core too.
The Inquirer is reporting that Intel will counter the AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor with a Pentium M Extreme Edition. It is an alphabet soup of potential Intel Pentium M releases and you'll probably have to read it through twice or thrice to understand it all, but an interesting and inciteful read nonetheless.
There's another interesting article about the future of 64-bit as it relates to Intel here.
And of course, we can't forget our beloved Celeron.
Almost everyone here is telling him to walk away from the job, but come on. It's entirely likely that this job pays more than any other offer he has lined up, or that he has NO offers lined up. Would you really suggest he live off of unemployement (if he's even eligible for that) just to make a stand against some draconian company?
Sure, it sounds quite honorable and all that, but it just isn't possible. If he doesn't take the job, the next guy will. The company isn't worse off without him, and they haven't learned anything.
Here's my suggestion to you. Try to negotiate the best terms you can... And then take the job. If you really coded some excellent gem in the past, then you wouldn't be in this dilemma in the first place, you would be much more free to negotiate your contracts. Pick between the alternatives: keep rights to your previous code or be workless for howevermuch longer.
Yeah, Gratis has a nice BBB record, and they do ship out the iPods (if only a few weeks late). I ended up getting two iPods (one shipped to house and other to work), a 17" LCD monitor, and a rather crappy dell. But hey, it was all free.
In my first Computer Science class, one of the first activities we did involved the teacher acting like a computer, and the students acting like programmers, telling the computer to make a peanut butter sandwich.
The computer has to take the commands literally. "Pick up the knife" should come before "spread the peanut butter using the knife" etc. Quite a fun game, and it was a hit in my class.
By the end, the sandwich was kind of gross, but I was hungry so I ate it anyway.
The case is of interest as the appeal was based on the fact that during the offences, alleged to have been committed in the US, the accused did not leave Australia.
Remember back when being in another country during the crime was a perfect alibi? Ah, those were the good old days.
Sony continually goes up against competitors they can never win against. Apple has too strong of a hold on this market for Sony to even budge them. It's no surprise that they are 60million in debt.
Most people reading this article might think that Lashkar-e-Toiba is just another one of those Islamic groups from the general area of Iraq fighting just to piss America off, but this isn't the case.
Lashkar-e-Toiba ("Army of the Pure") are one of the largest terrorist outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir, fighting to have their states seperate from the rest of India. In a sense, they're fighting for their freedom.
Though, their professed ideology goes beyond merely challenging India's sovereignty over the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lashkar's rhetorical agenda, as outlined in a pamphlet titled, Why are we waging jihad, includes the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of India. This is where they get marked as terrorists.
The Indian government has held it responsible for the series of massacres on August 1-2, 2000, which spread over three districts of the State led to the killing of more than 100 persons within a gap of 24 hours, most of who were unarmed civilians. This doesn't help people to harbor sympathy for their freedom fight either.
I've mirrored the torrent file mentioned in earlier posts, just in case that website gets slashdotted. Here it is: http://www.losthamster.com/lg3d.iso.torrent
Back on topic... I sure wish real movie studios would pick up some of these Discworld novels to make a great expensive movie out of. I can see them as the next Star Wars or such, if they do it right.
Sure, the slashdot crowd is aware of all these things happening, but we're all but powerless to stop it. The majority of people in America don't even know what GAIN is, much less care.
To chemists its Fe-y, to the rest of us its iron-y...
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Now none of the gripes in this comment are against you as a person, but they do define almost any GeekSquad member I've met.
You guys charge $100 to come out and most of your staff can't even fix a simple problem. The whole ambience thing is nice, with the beetles and all, but come on. I'm not looking for self-proclaimed geeks to come out and tell me that I need a reformat when all I needed to do was run a simple chkdsk/defrag. For people who have no idea about computers, they can't argue with you, and so they listen to you... at their peril.
Now, I'm not saying YOU aren't knowledgable. For all I know, you could be a rare gem in GeekSquad. But, from what I have seen while I worked at BestBuy and from what my family and friends have told me from their experiences, GeekSquad knows just about as much as your average salesperson: not much.
I actually worked in Best Buy out here when I was 16 years old and they started the "BAY TECHNICIANS" at $7/hr. It was sad... Then the geek squad came in. Man, I have never seen so much advertising for a crew that works on computers. I did not join the Geek Squad because I didn't want to wear a uniform that rivals Burger King... But the customer line speaks for itself, and everyone in that line wasn't happy. I started dropping off my card to people telling them to call me if they wanted a better deal. Well.. Best Buy is a big company and they sure can sell a product. Too bad that they cant sell the service too.
The hacker connected them to the internet. Isn't it obvious?
More seriously, it probably isn't as black and white as it sounds. Its very likely that the database machines were not connected to the Internet but were connected to the school-wide WAN/Intranet. The food services people need access to some of the information, and a badly segregated database would require the foodservice computers to have full access to all the data.
Example... In 1990, the university had a database of all the student's info: name, address, phone number, etc. Then, they wanted to start assigning food cards to people, and they wanted to keep track of who had which food card (to make sure that people weren't just copying the cards or just reprogramming them to add more money). So, rather than adding a seperate database for it and linking the two together, they just add two fields to the current database: card_number and card_amount. Ta-da, food services now has access to the entire database.
When the foodservices computers were compromised, the hacker got access to those database servers as well.
Sure, there is loads of programs that make use of the full 64 bits. Several vendors offer 64bit flavours of their distributions, such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Suse.
The performance gain is found in how the chip itself works. 64-bits breaks the 4GB memory process limits of 32-bits. In 32-bits, a single process can access 2^(32) bytes -> 4 GB of linear memory. In 64 bits, you can therocally access 2^(64) bytes. Pratically, in Windows x64, a process is limited to 16 TB of memory. Plus, there's extra registers that a program can use.
According to some tech sites, it hits a maximum of 52deg Celsius under full Prime95 load. That's a lot better than the 65+ hit by the .09 micron based Pentium 4's.
Intel has done its homework on these Prescott-based EMT64 chips. They allow a reduction in voltage and die size, which results in a cheaper core too.
The Inquirer is reporting that Intel will counter the AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor with a Pentium M Extreme Edition. It is an alphabet soup of potential Intel Pentium M releases and you'll probably have to read it through twice or thrice to understand it all, but an interesting and inciteful read nonetheless.
There's another interesting article about the future of 64-bit as it relates to Intel here.
And of course, we can't forget our beloved Celeron.
Almost everyone here is telling him to walk away from the job, but come on. It's entirely likely that this job pays more than any other offer he has lined up, or that he has NO offers lined up. Would you really suggest he live off of unemployement (if he's even eligible for that) just to make a stand against some draconian company?
Sure, it sounds quite honorable and all that, but it just isn't possible. If he doesn't take the job, the next guy will. The company isn't worse off without him, and they haven't learned anything.
Here's my suggestion to you. Try to negotiate the best terms you can... And then take the job. If you really coded some excellent gem in the past, then you wouldn't be in this dilemma in the first place, you would be much more free to negotiate your contracts. Pick between the alternatives: keep rights to your previous code or be workless for howevermuch longer.
Yeah, Gratis has a nice BBB record, and they do ship out the iPods (if only a few weeks late). I ended up getting two iPods (one shipped to house and other to work), a 17" LCD monitor, and a rather crappy dell. But hey, it was all free.
http://kedora.net/channels/t3h%20scene/
Since Teh Scene seems to be all slashdotted out.
Yeah, you'll be seeing me in a future episode, probably episode 7 ;)
Yeah, and then there's only a 10% chance that someone will be able to hack the IRS and give themselves a $30,000 tax return!
Cool, now all our astronauts can play games at blazing fast speeds while ascending through the stratosphere.
In my first Computer Science class, one of the first activities we did involved the teacher acting like a computer, and the students acting like programmers, telling the computer to make a peanut butter sandwich.
The computer has to take the commands literally. "Pick up the knife" should come before "spread the peanut butter using the knife" etc. Quite a fun game, and it was a hit in my class.
By the end, the sandwich was kind of gross, but I was hungry so I ate it anyway.
The case is of interest as the appeal was based on the fact that during the offences, alleged to have been committed in the US, the accused did not leave Australia. Remember back when being in another country during the crime was a perfect alibi? Ah, those were the good old days.
Of course the groups aren't allowed. They might accidentally add some common sense to the IP discussion.
Sony continually goes up against competitors they can never win against. Apple has too strong of a hold on this market for Sony to even budge them. It's no surprise that they are 60 million in debt.
Most people reading this article might think that Lashkar-e-Toiba is just another one of those Islamic groups from the general area of Iraq fighting just to piss America off, but this isn't the case.
Lashkar-e-Toiba ("Army of the Pure") are one of the largest terrorist outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir, fighting to have their states seperate from the rest of India. In a sense, they're fighting for their freedom.
Though, their professed ideology goes beyond merely challenging India's sovereignty over the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lashkar's rhetorical agenda, as outlined in a pamphlet titled, Why are we waging jihad, includes the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of India. This is where they get marked as terrorists.
The Indian government has held it responsible for the series of massacres on August 1-2, 2000, which spread over three districts of the State led to the killing of more than 100 persons within a gap of 24 hours, most of who were unarmed civilians. This doesn't help people to harbor sympathy for their freedom fight either.
police also recovered 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone.
They had the satellite phone to make sure they didn't mess the tech support calls, silly.
I've mirrored the torrent file mentioned in earlier posts, just in case that website gets slashdotted. Here it is: http://www.losthamster.com/lg3d.iso.torrent
Currently seeding it as well.
and then we buy Google brand detergent to get the Googdles stain off of my new Google shirt.
:(
Oh god, you got stains on your Google shirt? I'm so sorry
Do I need an airfoil hat to use this?
Mod parent +1 Funny. Cause that's hilarious.
Slow day, I suppose.
on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel
Pterry? Sounds like a Pokemon.
Back on topic... I sure wish real movie studios would pick up some of these Discworld novels to make a great expensive movie out of. I can see them as the next Star Wars or such, if they do it right.
Or, even better, a faithful recreation of Dune!
Sure, the slashdot crowd is aware of all these things happening, but we're all but powerless to stop it. The majority of people in America don't even know what GAIN is, much less care.
To chemists its Fe-y, to the rest of us its iron-y...