As an annual event, I try to depart from the M$ hive 100%. My last foray brought me VERY close to freedom, but I was tripped up by the need to create and share VISIO files with the M$ world. Apparently WINE is struggling with issues on this front and there was no near-term solution.
I'm not suggesting it's the WINE project's fault, it's just the way it is.
If the gaming industry does implode in the near future, at least they'll have a built-in excuse:
"P2P file sharing drained our sales and killed profits for the programmers and developers! Now, those poor level designers are practically starving in the streets because viscious P2P networks pulled food right off their table!"
Ya know, it seems a lot of slashdotters harbor a deep resentment to almost everything Microsoft does, says, or provides. It's ironic when you thing about it:/. posts A LOT of MS stories on a regular (almost daily) basis. The threads are fairly predictable and everyone gets all heated-up over the latest outrageous activities of the evil Gates empire.
If MS sucks and you don't use 'em for anything, why do so many of us invest so much time following them, complaining about them, and posting stories about them?
BTW: We all engage in this behavior with different topics: The guy who hates his ex-girlfriend* but is still talking about her years later. The crapp service experience you had at Best Buy, but are still re-telling and re-living months later. Etc... We humans are an odd bunch huh?
Oh the travesty! Imagine the horrors: families talking with one another, people reading books, or [gasp] exercising. How will America's youth compete in the global economy of tommorrow if they don't get the recommended daily allowance of One Day to Live, When Desperate Housewives Attack, or Oxy-Clean infomercials?
HA! This is practically better than the real/. Now you just need to add randomly generated reader comments. That's probably much easier:
For example:
nix rules and M$ sucks you insensitive clod that thinks SCO bites the RIAA is a peer-to-peer monkey waiting to happen. The US sucks, Europe rules, profit mongering corporations are the root of all evil. I hate the well paying jobs available at all those evil corporations. I only work there 'cause I can't feed myself by posting to/. and so on...
!!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!! !!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!! !!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!! !!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!!
They are NOT accredited by ICANN! http://www.internic.net/alpha.html
They do NOT have any phone support!
They do NOT have any escelation procedures for problems that continue to go unresolved.
Their servers go down for DAYS at a time!
My problems with RegisterFly are not isolated incidents or one-time goof-ups. The NUMEROUS and MAJOR problems I have encountered are symptoms of a completely broken operation. I used to work in the hosting arena, so I am VERY familiar with the types of challenges faced by RegisterFly. I tend to be (too) patient since I know what they might be going through; however, their issue handling constitutes gross negligence.
In my first 3 weeks of using RegisterFly for 6 new domains and 3 hosting packages (mid-range web-starter plan, not the super-cheap personal stuff), I have experienced the following problems:
1) Webhosting service down for 7 days straight. 2) DNS service down for 6 days straight. 3) None of the domains' e-mail services were setup. Rec'd auto-gen error e-mail re: failure to create new e-mail service. 4) Conflicting answers between live chat support sessions. 5) Conflicting answers between trouble ticket resolutions. 6) Trouble tickets being closed with no resolution and being asked to "open another ticket later..." 7) Buggy account login: I have to login twice anytime I access RFly. 8) Buggy checkout: Items continued to fall out of my shopping cart. 9) Buggy checkout: I could not register a domain name AND sign-up for web/mail hosting at the same time (despite being given the option to do so AND despite have done so a few days prior with another domain) I was told to purchase the domain name and come back later to sign-up for web/mail hosting. 10) The DNS, web, and mail hosting are dis-jointed systems cobbled togeather via clumsy control panels. The user interface issues are horrible. 11) Absolutely no phone support or any way to contact a real person. 12) Non-English support peoples are making difficult my chances of understanding the why problems of the issues not being fixing. 13) RegisterFly and Unified names is not even listed as an accredited registrar by ICANN! http://www.internic.net/alpha.html (MY fault for not checking this sooner.)
Support conversations go like this:
ME: My problem is blah blah... RF: First of all, your settings are all wrong. They're still default values. ME: I know, but I can't access the control panel to make the necessary changes. I was told last week that... RF: Your settings have been corrected, please wait 24 to 72 hours for the change to be active. ME: That's what I was told last week, but the problem still... RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again. ME: But what if it doesn't work? RF: Please open a support ticket. ME: But they close the tickets without fixing the problem and ask me to re-open another one later. RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again. ME: [I stop typing and just watch the chat window] RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again. RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again. RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again. RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
The local pizza joint uses some kind of flat translucent rubber keyboard with no moving parts. It can survive flour, water, or tomato sauce with a quick wipe-off. Although it's an elegent and cheap solution, I'm sure the health care industry will fork over millions of dollars to develop some method of enclosing the ancient PC-XT-AT-whatever connected keyboards they use now to the ancienter host running vaccum tubes under the desk.
Perhaps they could submerge a rubber keyboard in a shallow tray of anit-bacterial hand gel. Your finger tips would rest in 1/4" of gel while you typed. When you were done typing, you could just rub your hands togeather and the gel would evaportate. 'Course, whatever survives that environment would be a mega-super-duper-bug! And then what would we do, submerge our fingers in a shallow tray of weak acid?
I'd like to ask fellow slashdotters what THEY would do if they had to market the product.
They would probably list every available feature ordered from most technically signifigant to least. They would offer one model with one page of documentation. The "documentation" would be a list of URLs pointing the user to 80 different sites where they can download, compile, and tweak every individual feature their personal environment required. If the user asked for technical support, they'd be told "Go code your own device driver you moron." Then the tech-support team would laugh at the pathetic person trying to connect a router that "doesn't even know the difference between a MAC address and a registry bit." They would eventually go out of business.
To be fair...
The marketing types would advertise a router that "accelerates your Internet experience, supports simultaneus web surfing, and allows you to communicate easier with friends and family by supporting the ability to share pictures, upload movies, and check e-mail." The form factor would be unnecessarily large with a dramatically curved case upon which nothing could be stacked. The ugly cable connections and monitor LEDs would be buried on the back of the unit in a recessed alcove with the RJ-45 retention slot oriented in such a way that dislodging a cable with your bare hands is damn-near impossible. The documentation would include a full-color fold-out poster describing the contents of the package, how to plug a cable into a hole, and why you shouldn't position the unit near a TV, a radio, underwater, upside down, in an oven, or on the dash of your car. Of course, the unit would assume every network on Earth is based on a 192.168.0.0 addressing scheme and that nobody would ever be using 192.168.1.1 already. They would eventually go out of business.
Hopefully...
Some really smart marketing type would recognize the different needs of these two niche markets and create different versions of their same product for each niche. They would create "Home User" bundles which would allow Joe Six-Pack to install a router and start surfing pr0n in less than 15 minutes. They would create "Advanced User" bundles which would clearly document things like the secret magic command to enable traffic shaping or peform a full factory reset. Eventually, they would offer the unit in multiple color schemes for those who like to color-coordinate their computer equipment. Finally, they would offer pre-configured units with ideal values set for gamers, file-sharers, or music-lovers. These micro-niches would be sold mail-order only so their specific boxes and documentations are only printed on an as-ordered basis.
I enjoy wathcing the creativity of marketing types. Take a product with modest success, turn on one software bit, and re-market the product to a whole new "specialized" audience.
Bean bag chair + appropriate logo = cool gamer's chair
Regular mouse + extra teflon sticker = cool gamer's mouse
Regular router + traffic prioritization flag = cool gamer's router
Regular PC + $3.00 of stencils and stickers = cool teenager PCs!
BTW: I'm not bashing the niche marketing, I really am facinated by it. It's great to see how certain products are re-branded or re-marketed and find huge success despite the fact that the underlying product is 99.9% identical as before. Of course, it's really entertaining to watch nich-marketing fall flat on its face.
10M spams sent != 10M people annoyed. I'd be curious to know how many messages were...
actually sent to valid addresses to begin with?
dumped by relay-based filters (ORDB, etc)?
screened by off-the-shelf anti-spam/virus s/w?
screened by custom filters?
deleted without opening?
Sure, maybe 10M were sent, but I suspect a VERY small percentage actually made it to eyeballs. And of further interest: for the ones that actually did make it to eyeballs, what percentage of those viewers actually responded to the offer? Obviously, someone is out there responding to this crap if they keep sending it.
Criminals are not usually charged with crimes based on the number of bullets they fired at a victim; rather, they are charged with the results of the bullet[s] striking the victim. New crimes may include; attempted spam, involuntary spam-slaughter, accidental spam, self-defense through use of deadly spam, statatory spam.
Hmmm... statatory spam? Now that's interesting. What if your ad for pr0n makes it to a kid's in-box?
"In sociology, we want them to learn the terms," Brent said.
And that my friends, is why I (and I suspect many/. readers) hated most of the classes from K-College. The courses that taught me the most were the ones that taught me to think -not memorize buzzwords. The root problem is, many teachers are not interested in teaching; rather, they're focused on indoctrinating. They don't want you to learn how to think, they want you to think what they think.
I have found some courses (K-career) where I needed to "learn" large quantities of terms, exact formulas, and other minutia about a subject. While I can assimilate all of the data, the underlying "why" is often ommitted. Attempting to learn the "why" is usually met with red-herrings, quick subject changes, or the simple "don't worry about that" brush off. The truth is, many of these teachers/instructors simply don't understand the "whys". They themselves have memorized large quantities of data, but have no clue what drives the topic at a fundamental level. If you have a motivated curiosity and attempt to drill-down with the person, they become very uneasy and defensive (especially in front of others) because you're moving the conversation into areas where they are weak.
I don't expect this will ever change, but I have found ways to use this to my advantage in dealing with people. If you can understand the fundamentals affecting a given situation, you may have the ability to control or shift the situation to your advantage. I have out-maneuvered people on subjects where they are, by far, a subject-matter expert. The problem for them (the advantage for me) was, they knew a lot about the subject, but they did't truly "get" the subject.
I'd like to volunteer as a test subject for external-dermotological moon dust tests. As long as I get hands-on gel baths from T'Pol and Hoshi, I should manage to get by okay.
Re:I remember *drawing* these maps!
on
Video Game Atlas
·
· Score: 1
Hmmm, some reasons I think motivated me at the time were...
I really liked the artistic quality of certain levels. Sure, they look simple by today's standards, but at the time, there were some really beautiful levels (Master Blaster NES for example).
To share with friends in an effort to help them progress further in the game. Remember, there was no vgmaps.com or www at the time.
As I dreamed of one day being a game programmer or level designer, I liked studying what made certain levels so playable.
Fun...
Profit!
I remember *drawing* these maps!
on
Video Game Atlas
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Wow this takes me back to my younger geek days! I remember using colored pencils to hand draw maps for certain games. I would collapse the maps onto a minimum number of pages by arranging them very similar to the vgmaps site. I took great care to achieve proper scale and proportion as I documented the levels. I can mentally see my map for Area 3 of SMB2 captured here
All those hours wasted! Wow, I wish I had saved those maps. Every door, every chain, each spike, man did I need a life!
...they ought to ensure that the world is a stable place...
Whoa Ho Ho Ho!!!! HA HAHAAAA! Yea, sure! Hold your breath while that happens. Hey, I've got another good one; my government (and the media) says there might be peace in the Middle East! Whoa Ho Ho Ho!!!! HA HAHAAAA!
More people (in general, not necissarily the parent) should watch a little less news and read a little more history. It's like having a sports almanac from 1985 when you live in the 50's. Oh well, hope really does spring eternal.
This article's been up for an hour and there's been no reference to combining such technology with realdolls?/.ers are getting slow...
Workaround for: Solaris 10 install hang on VMware
on
Solaris 10 Released
·
· Score: 1
Notes for installing Solaris 10 on VMware Workstation
Please Note: This is not a hand-holding installation guide. These are my raw notes from a Solaris 10 install on VMware that worked for me. I had to be especially patient during boots and reboots. Many folks mentioned not being able to get "anywhere" with the Sol_10 installation. I think removing the VMware USB device (detailed below) made the difference for me. I've also read that removing the audio device can help as well.
Platform Used:
Toshiba Satellite A10-S169 Laptop
Pentium_4 2.20-GHz, 240-MB RAM
Windows XP Pro, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Install VMware:
Disable autorun? Yes
Search for virtual disks or suspended state files? No
Configure VMware:
New Virtual Machine
Typical
Sun Solaris
10 (experimental)
Virtual Machine Name: Default
Location: Default
Use bridged networking
Disk size: 6-GB
Allocate all disk space now
(Be patient, creating the virtual disk takes a while and is resource intensive.)
Edit virtual machine settings to mount the Solaris installation CD:
CD-ROM 1
Connection: Use ISO image: ~/sol-10-b63-x86-v1.iso
Boot Virtual host
NOTE: Probably best to switch to full-screen mode for Solaris installation
Type of installation: 3 Solaris Interactive Text-only installer
Should see:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version s10_63 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Use is subject to license terms
At the kdmconfig section, select "Change Video Device/Monitor"
Video Device: XF86-VMWARE VMware SVGA virtual video cards
Monitor Type: MultiFrequency 100kHz (up to 1600x1200 @ 80Hz)
Screen Size: 15-inch (38cm)
Resolution/Colors: 1024x768 - 256 colors @ 120Hz
Virtual Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Keyboard Type: Generic US-English
Pointing Device: Built-in PS/2 Mouse (2 Button+ 25ms 3 Button Emulation)
Test video settings. If they work, save and move on. If not, try different settings.
Proceed with typical Solaris installation...
Eject CD/DVD Automatically? No, manually eject.
NOTE: After the auto-reboot, I received errors about an incorrect X configuration. I control-D'd past the message and the Solaris GUI installer seemed to come up fine.
When prompted to insert the next CD, leave the VM session (Ctrl+Alt)
Edit virtual machine settings to mount next CD:
CD-ROM 1
Connection: Use the next ISO image: ~/sol-10-b63-x86-v#.iso
Hurry, hurry! Offer available today only! You've waited MONTHS for/. to post a story that is in some way related to on-line music rights, right!? You have a backlog of intelligent comments to share about P2P networks, torrents, the RIAA, the MPAA, and your right to make backup copies of your DVDs! THIS ARTICLE IS YOUR CHANCE!
If you don't have anything ready, that's NO PROBLEM! Just go back to yesterday's news, (or the day before that, or the day before that, or the day before that....) and just copy/paste someone else's comments on the subject!
See, this is why I'm not a early adopter. Let the shake-out happen a little is what I say. Now that this new round of lawsuits against individuals have been filed, the data collection period is over for now! The sabre-rattling lawsuits tell me that NOW is the time to start downloading the movies I want!
It's like slowing down on a country road when you see a cop with someone pulled over. Silly! That's the time to speed people!
[/sarcasm] -so don't preach to me about IP theft or endangering officers' lives.
Agreed! I work in the IT field, 'nix admin, networking, SANs, etc, etc... I've never liked the idea of being called an "engineer". Never even considered being called a scientist!
I've worked with a lot of IT administrators, true computer engineers, and some actual scientists. The egos are practically the reverse of what you'd think! The comp-admin thinks they are smart and brilliant because they can configure a Cisco Catalyst switch or ssh-enabled webserver. I think it's really embarrasing to my field. To me, the "smart" people are the ones who figured out how to encode an operating system on an Application Specific Instruction Chip and manufacture that chip by the thousands per day. That I can then connect the box to an Ethernet, browse to a firewall appliance, and configure "complex" rulesets to connect VPNs to 8 different business partners is neat... but not extraordinary.
Great question. I don't know the medical answer, but they have no balance problems while seated. It's walking that can cause the balance problems. As long as they don't have to walk around while driving, everyone should be fine.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
...packets route you.
As an annual event, I try to depart from the M$ hive 100%. My last foray brought me VERY close to freedom, but I was tripped up by the need to create and share VISIO files with the M$ world. Apparently WINE is struggling with issues on this front and there was no near-term solution.
I'm not suggesting it's the WINE project's fault, it's just the way it is.
If the gaming industry does implode in the near future, at least they'll have a built-in excuse:
"P2P file sharing drained our sales and killed profits for the programmers and developers! Now, those poor level designers are practically starving in the streets because viscious P2P networks pulled food right off their table!"
Sound familiar?
Ya know, it seems a lot of slashdotters harbor a deep resentment to almost everything Microsoft does, says, or provides. It's ironic when you thing about it: /. posts A LOT of MS stories on a regular (almost daily) basis. The threads are fairly predictable and everyone gets all heated-up over the latest outrageous activities of the evil Gates empire.
If MS sucks and you don't use 'em for anything, why do so many of us invest so much time following them, complaining about them, and posting stories about them?
BTW: We all engage in this behavior with different topics: The guy who hates his ex-girlfriend* but is still talking about her years later. The crapp service experience you had at Best Buy, but are still re-telling and re-living months later. Etc... We humans are an odd bunch huh?
*Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend for detailsOh the travesty! Imagine the horrors: families talking with one another, people reading books, or [gasp] exercising. How will America's youth compete in the global economy of tommorrow if they don't get the recommended daily allowance of One Day to Live, When Desperate Housewives Attack, or Oxy-Clean infomercials?
And it even has the f*cked up left menu colomn of varying sizes. I LOVE IT!
HA! This is practically better than the real /. Now you just need to add randomly generated reader comments. That's probably much easier:
/. and so on...
For example:
nix rules and M$ sucks you insensitive clod that thinks SCO bites the RIAA is a peer-to-peer monkey waiting to happen. The US sucks, Europe rules, profit mongering corporations are the root of all evil. I hate the well paying jobs available at all those evil corporations. I only work there 'cause I can't feed myself by posting to
Just so I never forget:
!!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!!
!!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!!
!!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!!
!!!! NEVER USE REGISTERFLY !!!!
They are NOT accredited by ICANN! http://www.internic.net/alpha.html
They do NOT have any phone support!
They do NOT have any escelation procedures for problems that continue to go unresolved.
Their servers go down for DAYS at a time!
My problems with RegisterFly are not isolated incidents or one-time goof-ups. The NUMEROUS and MAJOR problems I have encountered are symptoms of a completely broken operation. I used to work in the hosting arena, so I am VERY familiar with the types of challenges faced by RegisterFly. I tend to be (too) patient since I know what they might be going through; however, their issue handling constitutes gross negligence.
In my first 3 weeks of using RegisterFly for 6 new domains and 3 hosting packages (mid-range web-starter plan, not the super-cheap personal stuff), I have experienced the following problems:
1) Webhosting service down for 7 days straight.
2) DNS service down for 6 days straight.
3) None of the domains' e-mail services were setup. Rec'd auto-gen error e-mail re: failure to create new e-mail service.
4) Conflicting answers between live chat support sessions.
5) Conflicting answers between trouble ticket resolutions.
6) Trouble tickets being closed with no resolution and being asked to "open another ticket later..."
7) Buggy account login: I have to login twice anytime I access RFly.
8) Buggy checkout: Items continued to fall out of my shopping cart.
9) Buggy checkout: I could not register a domain name AND sign-up for web/mail hosting at the same time (despite being given the option to do so AND despite have done so a few days prior with another domain) I was told to purchase the domain name and come back later to sign-up for web/mail hosting.
10) The DNS, web, and mail hosting are dis-jointed systems cobbled togeather via clumsy control panels. The user interface issues are horrible.
11) Absolutely no phone support or any way to contact a real person.
12) Non-English support peoples are making difficult my chances of understanding the why problems of the issues not being fixing.
13) RegisterFly and Unified names is not even listed as an accredited registrar by ICANN! http://www.internic.net/alpha.html (MY fault for not checking this sooner.)
Support conversations go like this:
ME: My problem is blah blah...
RF: First of all, your settings are all wrong. They're still default values.
ME: I know, but I can't access the control panel to make the necessary changes. I was told last week that...
RF: Your settings have been corrected, please wait 24 to 72 hours for the change to be active.
ME: That's what I was told last week, but the problem still...
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
ME: But what if it doesn't work?
RF: Please open a support ticket.
ME: But they close the tickets without fixing the problem and ask me to re-open another one later.
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
ME: [I stop typing and just watch the chat window]
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
RF: Sir, please wait 24 to 72 hours and try again.
The local pizza joint uses some kind of flat translucent rubber keyboard with no moving parts. It can survive flour, water, or tomato sauce with a quick wipe-off. Although it's an elegent and cheap solution, I'm sure the health care industry will fork over millions of dollars to develop some method of enclosing the ancient PC-XT-AT-whatever connected keyboards they use now to the ancienter host running vaccum tubes under the desk.
Perhaps they could submerge a rubber keyboard in a shallow tray of anit-bacterial hand gel. Your finger tips would rest in 1/4" of gel while you typed. When you were done typing, you could just rub your hands togeather and the gel would evaportate. 'Course, whatever survives that environment would be a mega-super-duper-bug! And then what would we do, submerge our fingers in a shallow tray of weak acid?
They would probably list every available feature ordered from most technically signifigant to least. They would offer one model with one page of documentation. The "documentation" would be a list of URLs pointing the user to 80 different sites where they can download, compile, and tweak every individual feature their personal environment required. If the user asked for technical support, they'd be told "Go code your own device driver you moron." Then the tech-support team would laugh at the pathetic person trying to connect a router that "doesn't even know the difference between a MAC address and a registry bit." They would eventually go out of business.
To be fair...
The marketing types would advertise a router that "accelerates your Internet experience, supports simultaneus web surfing, and allows you to communicate easier with friends and family by supporting the ability to share pictures, upload movies, and check e-mail." The form factor would be unnecessarily large with a dramatically curved case upon which nothing could be stacked. The ugly cable connections and monitor LEDs would be buried on the back of the unit in a recessed alcove with the RJ-45 retention slot oriented in such a way that dislodging a cable with your bare hands is damn-near impossible. The documentation would include a full-color fold-out poster describing the contents of the package, how to plug a cable into a hole, and why you shouldn't position the unit near a TV, a radio, underwater, upside down, in an oven, or on the dash of your car. Of course, the unit would assume every network on Earth is based on a 192.168.0.0 addressing scheme and that nobody would ever be using 192.168.1.1 already. They would eventually go out of business.
Hopefully...
Some really smart marketing type would recognize the different needs of these two niche markets and create different versions of their same product for each niche. They would create "Home User" bundles which would allow Joe Six-Pack to install a router and start surfing pr0n in less than 15 minutes. They would create "Advanced User" bundles which would clearly document things like the secret magic command to enable traffic shaping or peform a full factory reset. Eventually, they would offer the unit in multiple color schemes for those who like to color-coordinate their computer equipment. Finally, they would offer pre-configured units with ideal values set for gamers, file-sharers, or music-lovers. These micro-niches would be sold mail-order only so their specific boxes and documentations are only printed on an as-ordered basis.
I enjoy wathcing the creativity of marketing types. Take a product with modest success, turn on one software bit, and re-market the product to a whole new "specialized" audience.
Bean bag chair + appropriate logo = cool gamer's chair
Regular mouse + extra teflon sticker = cool gamer's mouse
Regular router + traffic prioritization flag = cool gamer's router
Regular PC + $3.00 of stencils and stickers = cool teenager PCs!
Regular mouse + retractable cord = cool travel mouse!
BTW: I'm not bashing the niche marketing, I really am facinated by it. It's great to see how certain products are re-branded or re-marketed and find huge success despite the fact that the underlying product is 99.9% identical as before. Of course, it's really entertaining to watch nich-marketing fall flat on its face.
10M spams sent != 10M people annoyed. I'd be curious to know how many messages were...
actually sent to valid addresses to begin with?
dumped by relay-based filters (ORDB, etc)?
screened by off-the-shelf anti-spam/virus s/w?
screened by custom filters?
deleted without opening?
Sure, maybe 10M were sent, but I suspect a VERY small percentage actually made it to eyeballs. And of further interest: for the ones that actually did make it to eyeballs, what percentage of those viewers actually responded to the offer? Obviously, someone is out there responding to this crap if they keep sending it.
Criminals are not usually charged with crimes based on the number of bullets they fired at a victim; rather, they are charged with the results of the bullet[s] striking the victim. New crimes may include; attempted spam, involuntary spam-slaughter, accidental spam, self-defense through use of deadly spam, statatory spam.
Hmmm... statatory spam? Now that's interesting. What if your ad for pr0n makes it to a kid's in-box?
"In sociology, we want them to learn the terms," Brent said.
And that my friends, is why I (and I suspect many /. readers) hated most of the classes from K-College. The courses that taught me the most were the ones that taught me to think -not memorize buzzwords. The root problem is, many teachers are not interested in teaching; rather, they're focused on indoctrinating. They don't want you to learn how to think, they want you to think what they think.
I have found some courses (K-career) where I needed to "learn" large quantities of terms, exact formulas, and other minutia about a subject. While I can assimilate all of the data, the underlying "why" is often ommitted. Attempting to learn the "why" is usually met with red-herrings, quick subject changes, or the simple "don't worry about that" brush off. The truth is, many of these teachers/instructors simply don't understand the "whys". They themselves have memorized large quantities of data, but have no clue what drives the topic at a fundamental level. If you have a motivated curiosity and attempt to drill-down with the person, they become very uneasy and defensive (especially in front of others) because you're moving the conversation into areas where they are weak.
I don't expect this will ever change, but I have found ways to use this to my advantage in dealing with people. If you can understand the fundamentals affecting a given situation, you may have the ability to control or shift the situation to your advantage. I have out-maneuvered people on subjects where they are, by far, a subject-matter expert. The problem for them (the advantage for me) was, they knew a lot about the subject, but they did't truly "get" the subject.
I'd like to volunteer as a test subject for external-dermotological moon dust tests. As long as I get hands-on gel baths from T'Pol and Hoshi, I should manage to get by okay.
Hmmm, some reasons I think motivated me at the time were...
Wow this takes me back to my younger geek days! I remember using colored pencils to hand draw maps for certain games. I would collapse the maps onto a minimum number of pages by arranging them very similar to the vgmaps site. I took great care to achieve proper scale and proportion as I documented the levels. I can mentally see my map for Area 3 of SMB2 captured here
All those hours wasted! Wow, I wish I had saved those maps. Every door, every chain, each spike, man did I need a life!
worked in Firefox 1.0 for me
Whoa Ho Ho Ho!!!! HA HAHAAAA! Yea, sure! Hold your breath while that happens. Hey, I've got another good one; my government (and the media) says there might be peace in the Middle East! Whoa Ho Ho Ho!!!! HA HAHAAAA!
More people (in general, not necissarily the parent) should watch a little less news and read a little more history. It's like having a sports almanac from 1985 when you live in the 50's. Oh well, hope really does spring eternal.
This article's been up for an hour and there's been no reference to combining such technology with realdolls? /.ers are getting slow...
Notes for installing Solaris 10 on VMware Workstation
Please Note: This is not a hand-holding installation guide. These are my raw notes from a Solaris 10 install on VMware that worked for me. I had to be especially patient during boots and reboots. Many folks mentioned not being able to get "anywhere" with the Sol_10 installation. I think removing the VMware USB device (detailed below) made the difference for me. I've also read that removing the audio device can help as well.
Platform Used:
Toshiba Satellite A10-S169 Laptop Pentium_4 2.20-GHz, 240-MB RAM Windows XP Pro, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Files Used:
VMware-workstation-4.5.2-8848.exe vmware_key.txt sol-10-b63-x86-v1.iso sol-10-b63-x86-v2.iso sol-10-b63-x86-v3.iso
Install VMware:
Disable autorun? Yes
Search for virtual disks or suspended state files? No
Configure VMware:
New Virtual Machine
Typical
Sun Solaris
10 (experimental)
Virtual Machine Name: Default
Location: Default
Use bridged networking
Disk size: 6-GB
Allocate all disk space now
(Be patient, creating the virtual disk takes a while and is resource intensive.)
Edit Virtual Machine Settings:
Hardware Tab
Highlight USB Controller
Click "Remove"
Edit virtual machine settings to mount the Solaris installation CD:
CD-ROM 1
Connection: Use ISO image: ~/sol-10-b63-x86-v1.iso
Boot Virtual host
NOTE: Probably best to switch to full-screen mode for Solaris installation
Type of installation: 3 Solaris Interactive Text-only installer
Should see:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version s10_63 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Use is subject to license terms
At the kdmconfig section, select "Change Video Device/Monitor"
Video Device: XF86-VMWARE VMware SVGA virtual video cards
Monitor Type: MultiFrequency 100kHz (up to 1600x1200 @ 80Hz)
Screen Size: 15-inch (38cm)
Resolution/Colors: 1024x768 - 256 colors @ 120Hz
Virtual Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Keyboard Type: Generic US-English
Pointing Device: Built-in PS/2 Mouse (2 Button+ 25ms 3 Button Emulation)
Test video settings. If they work, save and move on. If not, try different settings.
Proceed with typical Solaris installation... Eject CD/DVD Automatically? No, manually eject.
NOTE: After the auto-reboot, I received errors about an incorrect X configuration. I control-D'd past the message and the Solaris GUI installer seemed to come up fine.
When prompted to insert the next CD, leave the VM session (Ctrl+Alt) Edit virtual machine settings to mount next CD: CD-ROM 1
Connection: Use the next ISO image: ~/sol-10-b63-x86-v#.iso
HTH!
Hurry, hurry! Offer available today only! You've waited MONTHS for /. to post a story that is in some way related to on-line music rights, right!? You have a backlog of intelligent comments to share about P2P networks, torrents, the RIAA, the MPAA, and your right to make backup copies of your DVDs! THIS ARTICLE IS YOUR CHANCE!
If you don't have anything ready, that's NO PROBLEM! Just go back to yesterday's news, (or the day before that, or the day before that, or the day before that....) and just copy/paste someone else's comments on the subject!
See, this is why I'm not a early adopter. Let the shake-out happen a little is what I say. Now that this new round of lawsuits against individuals have been filed, the data collection period is over for now! The sabre-rattling lawsuits tell me that NOW is the time to start downloading the movies I want!
It's like slowing down on a country road when you see a cop with someone pulled over. Silly! That's the time to speed people!
[/sarcasm] -so don't preach to me about IP theft or endangering officers' lives.
should read: Consulting Giants Push Open Standards for Health Network.
BTW: have fun with hungry-hungry-HIPAA!
Agreed! I work in the IT field, 'nix admin, networking, SANs, etc, etc... I've never liked the idea of being called an "engineer". Never even considered being called a scientist!
I've worked with a lot of IT administrators, true computer engineers, and some actual scientists. The egos are practically the reverse of what you'd think! The comp-admin thinks they are smart and brilliant because they can configure a Cisco Catalyst switch or ssh-enabled webserver. I think it's really embarrasing to my field. To me, the "smart" people are the ones who figured out how to encode an operating system on an Application Specific Instruction Chip and manufacture that chip by the thousands per day. That I can then connect the box to an Ethernet, browse to a firewall appliance, and configure "complex" rulesets to connect VPNs to 8 different business partners is neat... but not extraordinary.
Great question. I don't know the medical answer, but they have no balance problems while seated. It's walking that can cause the balance problems. As long as they don't have to walk around while driving, everyone should be fine. :-)