While the workforce stays flat, the demand continues to increase - with science and technology solutions providing more and more of the services and goods we require. So the actual effect of a flat workforce is enhanced by the increasing demand for such skills for even the most rudimentary jobs.
Have to agree with the poster here. Cover art is a throwback to the physical music industry. We should shed the shackles of the past and move on with our lives in an efficient manner. I can't STAND it when I download a new Media Player and it starts filling my hard drive with countless useless.jpg's.
How long until someone is arrested for public indecency with the Zune for sharing porn with unsuspecting bystanders who download it in curiosity. How disturbing will it be when you accept a random picture from someone on the subway, and find out it's a picture of the old guy in the seat across from you exposing himself? I suspect that this will likely happen within weeks of the Zune hitting the mass market. //Can't wait for the news article.
(Ooops, sorry, thought I was on Fark)
I bought the Aspire 5672 WMLi with an ATI X1400 vid-card. The sucker has 2GB of RAM, and the video card has 128MB, but can access up to 512MB (HyperMemory). Built in Wifi, bluetooth, SATA-150 120GB HD, and webcam.
Performance: GREAT! Especially running Virtual PC with Linux or other O/S. But multithreaded applications don't work in Virtual PC, so you have to compile what you want in the main O/S. Crafty SMP compiled for the O/S works just great with both threads fully clocking the CPU figuring out chess moves during game analysis.
The machine can play a DVD (or burn one for that matter) while I play 3-d games. Smooth animation and smooth network performance that never seem to have to wait for other processes, and intelligent multi-tasking (doh - running 2 simultaneous SQL queries would be dumb, wouldn't it?) will make sure you make the most of the machine.
At 1.66Ghz, I don't see why any single process is going to need more than that? And at $1500, this beautiful laptop blows away my old desktop (3 years old) in performance, is portable, lasts for 3 hours on a charge and does everything I need computing power for.
Today's website author is most likely a blogger of some sort. Even corporate content is moving in this direction. Now, granted, flashy content is still the norm for marketing, etc...but looking at my web stats - 100% of my users are using a screen larger than 640x480. Now, that doesn't necessarily count my RSS readers, which is available through a myriad of open source readers.
One would think that if the PDA folks REALLY want to read my content, they'll use the RSS feed, funneled through a portal designed for their device, by say....Yahoo, or someone else.
But the folks designing the marketing level content aren't going to care about this 1% of people browsing the web. If they're a mobile-geared application, they'll gear it down (if they're smart) to WAP or similar 'small' content presentation.
As we move more toward gatewayed services, authors will depend more and more on Yahoo and Google to provide gateways into their content. RSS and other XML solutions will continue to service the needs of the mobile browser....
Who here doesn't still use the WAP gateway on Google?
Actually,
It's been a long time since I'd posted on Slashdot, and just didn't realize. The hit return, sign name, hit return, post URL...was kind of an automatic thing....sorry.
The Internet provides a benefit to society that is too large for the government not to subsidize its use in any way, shape or form that it can. Providing free access to the public is a noble cause, and it ranks up there with the concept of the public library. I heartily disagree with your opinion.
Likely changes are being made to permissions in the registry permissions on your machine due to security policy, which is implemented on the machine when it is turned on. You'll want to edit things that you want to change in the Control Panel, under Administrative Tools, in the icon that says "Local Security Policy"
and I apologize for my compatriots who have been less than kind...
The world would end. There is no such thing as a perfect system, in any engineering discipline. There is no perfect fuel, no perfect engine, no perfect joint, no perfect medical procedure, etc, etc, etc. That you expect perfection only goes to show that you are an American.
This is such a troll. There were worms that took down the Internet long before Bill Gates even knew wtf TCP/IP was. The sendmail worm didn't need Windows to effectively shut down most communications on the ARPANET, and Morris didn't use VBSCRIPT to write the worm.
Bottom line is that irresponsible writing of worms and viruses is a crime of indiscrimination and chaos, and deserves to be punished as such.
Let me clarify what I mean.
#1 - If your job is only partially telecommuting - requiring your presence for customer meetings, or other in-shop collaboration, that's not easily outsourced. So, I agree with this point already.
#2 - Some people feel that research and high-level functions cannot be done outside of the walls of the great USA. They're wrong! There are countless numbers of highly intelligent engineers and other high-level positions outside of the United States. Not only do they speak English, but they also fluently speak German, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, etc... And they're willing to do the same work (or MORE WORK!) for less money.
Telecommuting is a double-edged sword, and that's the point I was trying to bring up here. Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it. The only way to continue to protect American jobs is ensure that American education is better than the rest of the world, keeping our children and our collegiates worth more than someone from another country.
If we don't do that, then indeed manual labor will be the only thing left for us, and even that will be outsourced if we continue to allow overseas factories to outperform the Union-run shops in the good ole USA.
If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India, or China, or Mexico.
I don't have anything against job assignments that allow some telecommuting, but if you think your job can be both safe, and something you can do from home, you need to find a different line of work.
As far as "Will it be networked?" goes... just looking for digital billboard on Google gives you the answer:
Sprint, which operates the largest all-digital, all-CDMA 3G wireless network in the US, and World Satellite Media, a provider of wireless digital billboards, announced an agreement to provide on-demand, wireless, digital billboard display capabilities as part of its PCS Telemetry Services offering. World Satellite Media will utilize the high-speed capabilities of the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network to transmit data to its network of color electronic billboards, allowing customers to make updates to advertising messages on a local, regional or national basis
The solution will appeal to companies looking to publicize, on demand, well-timed, custom graphic and text messages when and where potential customers are making their most important buying decisions including restaurants, shopping malls, and convenience stores.
Now that you've got yourself a computer system at home, you'll want to protect it from the evils of the Internet. Because Operating Systems are chock full of holes just waiting to be exploited, you should, at a minimum, take the following steps...
Step 1. Go out and buy a firewall product for your machine. Also pick up some virus protection software.
Step 2. Ok, now install the firewall software...
Oh......Damn It!
TiVO has a new product called TiVoToGo. It should be a Media Center killer, since it will give you the added flexibility you need without having to have yet another crashing Windows box in your house. Here's the press release: "from TiVO. I think this new product will give users what they really want, which is more flexibility for managing their content, and having a 'library' capability that doesn't fall short at the size of the TiVO box.
Rich
The radio plays high-cost artists like Madonna and Britney Spears and keeps their record sales high. But they also pay 'play-fees' to the industry. They tried to get away with paying these fees based on the same causation principle the author mentions, but the judges didn't buy it and set up a fee to play songs. This doesn't necessarily help Kazaa because the legal precedent is there with radio play that the artists and their agents MUST be reimbursed. Using the argument of 'piracy helps sales' offers no legal assistance whatsoever. Instead, it will hurt a legal defence because the attorneys for RIAA will have precedence on their side.
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While the workforce stays flat, the demand continues to increase - with science and technology solutions providing more and more of the services and goods we require. So the actual effect of a flat workforce is enhanced by the increasing demand for such skills for even the most rudimentary jobs.
Have to agree with the poster here. Cover art is a throwback to the physical music industry. We should shed the shackles of the past and move on with our lives in an efficient manner. I can't STAND it when I download a new Media Player and it starts filling my hard drive with countless useless .jpg's.
How long until someone is arrested for public indecency with the Zune for sharing porn with unsuspecting bystanders who download it in curiosity. How disturbing will it be when you accept a random picture from someone on the subway, and find out it's a picture of the old guy in the seat across from you exposing himself? I suspect that this will likely happen within weeks of the Zune hitting the mass market.
//Can't wait for the news article.
(Ooops, sorry, thought I was on Fark)
and I approve this message......... Go Warner! Let's stop playing politics and start linking votes on bills to what's actually in the bills!
It's a series of tubes, right?!
I bought the Aspire 5672 WMLi with an ATI X1400 vid-card. The sucker has 2GB of RAM, and the video card has 128MB, but can access up to 512MB (HyperMemory). Built in Wifi, bluetooth, SATA-150 120GB HD, and webcam.
Performance: GREAT! Especially running Virtual PC with Linux or other O/S. But multithreaded applications don't work in Virtual PC, so you have to compile what you want in the main O/S. Crafty SMP compiled for the O/S works just great with both threads fully clocking the CPU figuring out chess moves during game analysis.
The machine can play a DVD (or burn one for that matter) while I play 3-d games. Smooth animation and smooth network performance that never seem to have to wait for other processes, and intelligent multi-tasking (doh - running 2 simultaneous SQL queries would be dumb, wouldn't it?) will make sure you make the most of the machine.
At 1.66Ghz, I don't see why any single process is going to need more than that? And at $1500, this beautiful laptop blows away my old desktop (3 years old) in performance, is portable, lasts for 3 hours on a charge and does everything I need computing power for.
Just one man's opinion
Of course, with SHA-1 weaknesses, that may not matter any more.
Today's website author is most likely a blogger of some sort. Even corporate content is moving in this direction. Now, granted, flashy content is still the norm for marketing, etc...but looking at my web stats - 100% of my users are using a screen larger than 640x480. Now, that doesn't necessarily count my RSS readers, which is available through a myriad of open source readers. One would think that if the PDA folks REALLY want to read my content, they'll use the RSS feed, funneled through a portal designed for their device, by say....Yahoo, or someone else. But the folks designing the marketing level content aren't going to care about this 1% of people browsing the web. If they're a mobile-geared application, they'll gear it down (if they're smart) to WAP or similar 'small' content presentation. As we move more toward gatewayed services, authors will depend more and more on Yahoo and Google to provide gateways into their content. RSS and other XML solutions will continue to service the needs of the mobile browser.... Who here doesn't still use the WAP gateway on Google?
That will be an interesting cell picture - an HIV cell with a carrot cell attached to it...
Of course, if Neo shows up, the agent stops doing its job and concentrates all its efforts on stopping him.
EOM
Actually, It's been a long time since I'd posted on Slashdot, and just didn't realize. The hit return, sign name, hit return, post URL...was kind of an automatic thing....sorry.
The Internet provides a benefit to society that is too large for the government not to subsidize its use in any way, shape or form that it can. Providing free access to the public is a noble cause, and it ranks up there with the concept of the public library. I heartily disagree with your opinion.
More interference.....as if my neighbor's new 2.4Ghz phone wasn't bad enough.. Rich http://www.richgautier.com/
Likely changes are being made to permissions in the registry permissions on your machine due to security policy, which is implemented on the machine when it is turned on. You'll want to edit things that you want to change in the Control Panel, under Administrative Tools, in the icon that says "Local Security Policy" and I apologize for my compatriots who have been less than kind...
The world would end. There is no such thing as a perfect system, in any engineering discipline. There is no perfect fuel, no perfect engine, no perfect joint, no perfect medical procedure, etc, etc, etc.
That you expect perfection only goes to show that you are an American.
This is such a troll. There were worms that took down the Internet long before Bill Gates even knew wtf TCP/IP was. The sendmail worm didn't need Windows to effectively shut down most communications on the ARPANET, and Morris didn't use VBSCRIPT to write the worm.
Bottom line is that irresponsible writing of worms and viruses is a crime of indiscrimination and chaos, and deserves to be punished as such.
Let me clarify what I mean.
#1 - If your job is only partially telecommuting - requiring your presence for customer meetings, or other in-shop collaboration, that's not easily outsourced. So, I agree with this point already.
#2 - Some people feel that research and high-level functions cannot be done outside of the walls of the great USA. They're wrong! There are countless numbers of highly intelligent engineers and other high-level positions outside of the United States. Not only do they speak English, but they also fluently speak German, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, etc... And they're willing to do the same work (or MORE WORK!) for less money.
Telecommuting is a double-edged sword, and that's the point I was trying to bring up here. Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it. The only way to continue to protect American jobs is ensure that American education is better than the rest of the world, keeping our children and our collegiates worth more than someone from another country.
If we don't do that, then indeed manual labor will be the only thing left for us, and even that will be outsourced if we continue to allow overseas factories to outperform the Union-run shops in the good ole USA.
If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India, or China, or Mexico.
I don't have anything against job assignments that allow some telecommuting, but if you think your job can be both safe, and something you can do from home, you need to find a different line of work.
Now that you've got yourself a computer system at home, you'll want to protect it from the evils of the Internet. Because Operating Systems are chock full of holes just waiting to be exploited, you should, at a minimum, take the following steps... Step 1. Go out and buy a firewall product for your machine. Also pick up some virus protection software. Step 2. Ok, now install the firewall software... Oh......Damn It!
TiVO has a new product called TiVoToGo. It should be a Media Center killer, since it will give you the added flexibility you need without having to have yet another crashing Windows box in your house. Here's the press release: "from TiVO. I think this new product will give users what they really want, which is more flexibility for managing their content, and having a 'library' capability that doesn't fall short at the size of the TiVO box. Rich
Why would the Borg want to buy The Teletubbies?
The radio plays high-cost artists like Madonna and Britney Spears and keeps their record sales high. But they also pay 'play-fees' to the industry. They tried to get away with paying these fees based on the same causation principle the author mentions, but the judges didn't buy it and set up a fee to play songs.
This doesn't necessarily help Kazaa because the legal precedent is there with radio play that the artists and their agents MUST be reimbursed. Using the argument of 'piracy helps sales' offers no legal assistance whatsoever. Instead, it will hurt a legal defence because the attorneys for RIAA will have precedence on their side.
Better yet, someone grab a patent attorney (around the neck and shake till dead).
Disclaimer: I'm only kidding.