I don't regularly follow chips, so when I start down the road to buying a new system I have to spend two weeks researching. Does anyone happen to know where to find a routinely-updated matrix of what chipsets/chips are out there and their differences? The naming conventions alone....
HP's stated intention on that blog is to have an open dialogue with customers. That *implies* both good and bad comments. It does not explicitly say that they are going to publish anything, but there is an expectation that they will publish negative comments as well. To do so reduces the blog to another advertising avenue, which is fine except if they admitted that then no one would go there.
So basically HP was intellectually dishonest about the intention of the blog, and if you read the rest of the comments you see they are almost all a bunch of ring-kissing cheerleader posts. The fact that they re-posted the comment is not impressive at all, it just means they aren't completely incompetent at damage control.
Personally I have nothing for or against HP, but this blog doesn't really seem worth the time or effort to look at, and the people involved with it have lost my trust.
We need someone like M$ to build a hook into the OS to allow the use of tokens like RSA's, but made by any vendor so that anyone can sell them. That's the only way I see tokens being added to wallets and keychains of everyone. And I don't want more than one token either. Carrying one token for my smith barney account, another for my ebay stuff, and a third for my regular checking account does not appeal to me on any level.
Everyone hates certs in this crowd. Somehow they make you less hardcore. Whatever. Certs are good for a couple reasons:
1. They give someone focus. Some people can learn on a job, others are very disciplined. Personally I drift around wondering what to study next, so even if I don't want a cert (I only have 1 right now) I will pick up that cert's book and work through it knowing I might take the test sometime in the next year or two.
2. They make you look good to non-geeks. You know, the ones doing the hiring. The ones who list MCSE and CCIE as basically equivalent.
3. They get the technology out there. As a FBSD user I want to see the certification books at Costco. I don't believe FBSD is a geek-only endeavor, and making it accessible to normal people doesn't make it worse.
4. Finally, certs give you some assurance that the person can do *something*. What that something is depends on the test, but at least you know they can, for example, install RH/Apache, set up AD, manipulate database permissions, etc.. From there you have to figure it out yourself but at least you have a little bit of help out of the gate.
I telecommuted for over 4.5 years and have now gone back to the grind. Financial pluses to telecommuting include:
- Almost zero miles per day on your car, so no bills - Ability to wear shorts and old tshirt, so no clothing gets old/worn out and needs replacing - HUGE tax write-off. Essentially you write off the percentage of floor space you dedicate to your home office. I saved about 2,000+ per year from this. - The ability to write off every single thing you buy that's remotely related to computing since it's for your home office.... - Don't have to buy lunch when you're too lazy to make it or just forget. You're already next to the fridge.
"Soft" factors: - Almost no stress bc no traffic. - Co-worker chatter consists of pets. - If you have down-time you can play a video game instead of pretending to be busy (don't abuse this or it will end). - You can shop for food or work out or something productive with the 2+ hours/day you're likely saving by not having to commute. - When Friday rolls around you aren't sick of being out and just want to sit around the house. In fact you probably have cabin fever and want to go out. - Loud thumping industrial doesn't bother your cube mates.
To get the tax break you have to be working at home for the *employer's* convenience, not yours, so get that cleared up. Overall you may take an upfront hit on pay, but it's worth a lot on the backend. Your health may improve due to quiet solitude and no commute also.
If there is fraud in the company and no one notices then that is not good for the officers. Sarbanes-Oxley now holds officers *directly responsible* for the accuracy of the books. So if the company is private they might pull it off. If public they == screwed.
Well then Apple customers must be the dumbest ppl on earth, because they are fiercely protective. Personally I've never owned a Mac simply bc of the price, but Apple has always seemed to care about its reputation as far as I could see. For a long time the die-hards were the only ones interested in macs.
Now Apple is still a massive minority of corporate desktops and their iPod/home user market is based as much on marketing and image as on product specs. Maybe more. If they do something unpopular they could literally drive away their base. Apple needs to maintain their reputation as the "little guy's" corporation, even if it's bullshit.
Ya know what? Everyone loves to bash allofmp3.com bc it's Russian and shady. Well... so what. You want shady? The US firms are a legal mafia outfit. Think about it. They control all avenues worth controlling (radio, advertising, production, etc.) and if you start to encroach on them they make you an offer you can't refuse. Either they buy you out, sue you into oblivion, or both (think mp3.com).
Aside from that I read on their site that some money actually does go to the artist. Not much, and I have no way of verifying that, but take a wild guess how much of that is *my* problem. There are middlemen taking a cut here and in Russia, the difference is here they take a bigger cut and the listener gets screwed worse, whereas the Russians take a smaller cut and the artist gets screwed worse. Take another wild guess why ppl love the Russian site so much.
So yeah, if I ever meet the guys from Social Distortion (which is very possible since I cruise bars in LA a lot) I'll buy them a beer or 5. But don't you dare expect me to cry for them Argentina. I sitting here with a crappy new haircut in "business casual" looking at an hour+ commute home to an apartment. Let them bear the brunt of the industry's greed.
Again, it is the legwork portion of the equation that got him in trouble. You are just talking, writing, whatever. You aren't going out of your way to deliberately facilitate an illegal action. Whether or not the action should be illegal is irrelavent.
"If I say "they have some music for dl over at acme.com", I am likewise not committing a crime, I don't care which legal statutes you judge it under."
That's right, in fact it was exactly my point. Not sure what the contention is there.
"this simply holds no water"
Actually if you re-read the title of the article then you might notice that it does. Free speech is not the right to say anything you want anytime you want, we learn this in junior high school. Slow down in your rush to argue and think this all through, and if you have a counter-arguement then fine, I'm all ears. At the very least don't quote my own arguments back to me.
But laws and lawyers are thinking on a finer-grained level than that. He didn't just talk about it, he *helped* people break the law. If you, out of the goodness of your heart, told someone about a guy selling pot in the building behind you and proceeded to negotiate the price, quality and other logistics of the deal without touching any drugs or money then you are an accomplice. To say otherwise is to claim that the mafia doesn't exist.
He didn't mention in passing that places had mp3s like, "Hey, they have some music for dl over and acme.com, go check it out". This guy did actual legwork. I don't like what they did, but he *really* had to see this coming.
Seriously, hosting a page full of links to copyrighted mp3s? Cmon, what did he think was going to happen? The community would hail him as a hero and the RIAA cartel would cower in fear?
Do what you will with your music, and if it's blatantly or borderline illegal then shut up about it. You'll be fine.
Yes sloppy wording on my part. MS has nothing to do with Lexus yet. Just some silly, ominous overtones set by an AVS researcher (questionable motives alert!) and an example of what *might* happen based on an entirely different industry's experience.
I HATE defending MS, but we need to be a lot more conservative in our rush to pummel them. Not only has no one established causality here, no one has even established a link! Looks like MS was only included to take a cheap shot.
RTFA and you'll see a small problem with your conclusion. No one even mentions windows. Does MS suck? Yes. Is it their fault that someone at Lexus integrated Bluetooth into some cars in a vulnerable manner? No.
Seriously people, when you bash something based on flimsy evidence or logic your credibility *plummets*.
I just started there and so far they ask a lot Mon-Fri and F off on the weekends. They are respectful of the life/work balance and you get a lot of little perks (like 33 paid days off a year total). Forget what the Defcon crowd says too, there are some *very* smart ppl working there.
I had that a lot at the lower levels, but my main is a 50 orc warrior and I haven't seen that problem since I started mining in 1k Needles (around lvl 25ish). I didn't realize mining something else would fix it, but on a PVP server running around like that is not advised.:)
As a geek, I understand server/network problems. But I also understand change management and rollbacks. Not the rollbacks I've been getting play WoW, where the game crashes or logs me off and I have to play the last 10 minutes over - I mean rolling back changes and making sure you can do so before you start the change.
The authors are not exaggerating at all. I can't log in to servers for my main character OR my alternate, for which I made sure to choose a "low" population server. When I do log in I get a couple hours play and then it starts locking up and crashing. Considering that this is a pay-to-play game, I'm doing a lot more paying than playing. 2 days of compensation is far far less than what I've lost in time and sheer frustration.
So yeah, I'm pissed. But I've been a rabid Blizzard fan since they blew me away in 93 with Warcraft 1. So I'm giving them until the end of the month and then I'll decide if I should just sell my character on ebay and quit for good. There are plenty of great games out there; I have an unopened Doom 3 20 feet away....
To say that making SPAM a priority = prioritizing it over violent crime is one giant leap of logic. To make a snide remark about my thinking via a comment filled with misspellings and grammatical errors is just plain silly. I checked your profile and you seem to be a native English speaker; if that's the case then... you know what? I'm not going to expand the argument any further after re-reading that pathetic critique, it simply isn't worth my time.
Instead of arguing about whether a legislative or technical solution will work better, why don't we do both? Obviously Ohio spammers can simply move to Jersey or something, but this is a strong precedent that hopefully everyone else follows. Also, I've seen some comments about SPAM laws not being enforced. Well, if the DA can get actual prison time and the politicians tell the DA that anti-SPAM is a priority then maybe law enforcement *will* bother finding and prosecuting these cretins. Why would a DA bother now if they know they'll have to fight for months and the spammer will walk away with a 25k fine, which the spammer will make up in a month?
The technical ideas are being proposed, and we are learning about which ones are promising (note to M$, byte me). This process will take 5+ years to codify into some IETF stadard and get deployed in some meaningful way. In the meantime we can let our politicians do something useful by making the spammers we can catch pay in a big way (with community input I hope). This means prison time; just like embezzlement must carry a prison sentence because the financial incentives are so great and the chance of getting caught in time are small enough to be enticing. That is the *deterrent* factor. The malicious grin we get from this law is the revenge factor of punishment. This law has both.
The browser seems vaguely interesting in an academic sense, but who is seriously going to try this? Geeks have FF, Mac people have Safari and normies have IE; all have some ebb and flow into each other and some alternatives exist in a small niche.
I have the feeling that this was a dumb idea sold to AOL execs by some really talented and unscrupulous middle manager looking for a way to not get his budget cut. AOL seems to actually be run pretty well - they target a completely different (read: clueless) audience and they keep that audience pretty content. This is a stupid move.
Most small businesses I have seen were started by some guy who had a 40 hour/week job and then was an entrepenuer by night. Everyone has to work a "day job" to pay bills, but what you do in your free time defines you and your lifestyle as well.
Personally I play some games, work out (Ju-Jitsu, weights, used to do Kenpo, ride a bike), read about non-tech stuff. None of this will bring in money unless I semi-retire and teach martial arts, which is something I am actually pencilling in for 5-10 years from now. This makes me a worse admin/engineer/whatever, but it makes me a better person overall I believe. Certainly more sane and pleasant, not to mention thin.
So what are your goals and priorities? Most money possible? In that case you should spend your free time getting business-savvy since there is no salary limit on salesmen or business owners. Prefer a balanced life? In that case don't work 80 hours a week, go find a non-tech hobby and sacrifice the extra cash.
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I don't regularly follow chips, so when I start down the road to buying a new system I have to spend two weeks researching. Does anyone happen to know where to find a routinely-updated matrix of what chipsets/chips are out there and their differences? The naming conventions alone ....
I seriously feel sorry for those guys. Oh, woops they're filthy rich, nevermind.
HP's stated intention on that blog is to have an open dialogue with customers. That *implies* both good and bad comments. It does not explicitly say that they are going to publish anything, but there is an expectation that they will publish negative comments as well. To do so reduces the blog to another advertising avenue, which is fine except if they admitted that then no one would go there.
So basically HP was intellectually dishonest about the intention of the blog, and if you read the rest of the comments you see they are almost all a bunch of ring-kissing cheerleader posts. The fact that they re-posted the comment is not impressive at all, it just means they aren't completely incompetent at damage control.
Personally I have nothing for or against HP, but this blog doesn't really seem worth the time or effort to look at, and the people involved with it have lost my trust.
Hahahaha, wow that didn't take long. Just a joke guys. Mod this down too if it makes you feel better I guess.
Debian is dead! MUHAHAHAAAaaaa!
We need someone like M$ to build a hook into the OS to allow the use of tokens like RSA's, but made by any vendor so that anyone can sell them. That's the only way I see tokens being added to wallets and keychains of everyone. And I don't want more than one token either. Carrying one token for my smith barney account, another for my ebay stuff, and a third for my regular checking account does not appeal to me on any level.
Everyone hates certs in this crowd. Somehow they make you less hardcore. Whatever. Certs are good for a couple reasons:
1. They give someone focus. Some people can learn on a job, others are very disciplined. Personally I drift around wondering what to study next, so even if I don't want a cert (I only have 1 right now) I will pick up that cert's book and work through it knowing I might take the test sometime in the next year or two.
2. They make you look good to non-geeks. You know, the ones doing the hiring. The ones who list MCSE and CCIE as basically equivalent.
3. They get the technology out there. As a FBSD user I want to see the certification books at Costco. I don't believe FBSD is a geek-only endeavor, and making it accessible to normal people doesn't make it worse.
4. Finally, certs give you some assurance that the person can do *something*. What that something is depends on the test, but at least you know they can, for example, install RH/Apache, set up AD, manipulate database permissions, etc.. From there you have to figure it out yourself but at least you have a little bit of help out of the gate.
I telecommuted for over 4.5 years and have now gone back to the grind. Financial pluses to telecommuting include:
- Almost zero miles per day on your car, so no bills
- Ability to wear shorts and old tshirt, so no clothing gets old/worn out and needs replacing
- HUGE tax write-off. Essentially you write off the percentage of floor space you dedicate to your home office. I saved about 2,000+ per year from this.
- The ability to write off every single thing you buy that's remotely related to computing since it's for your home office....
- Don't have to buy lunch when you're too lazy to make it or just forget. You're already next to the fridge.
"Soft" factors:
- Almost no stress bc no traffic.
- Co-worker chatter consists of pets.
- If you have down-time you can play a video game instead of pretending to be busy (don't abuse this or it will end).
- You can shop for food or work out or something productive with the 2+ hours/day you're likely saving by not having to commute.
- When Friday rolls around you aren't sick of being out and just want to sit around the house. In fact you probably have cabin fever and want to go out.
- Loud thumping industrial doesn't bother your cube mates.
To get the tax break you have to be working at home for the *employer's* convenience, not yours, so get that cleared up. Overall you may take an upfront hit on pay, but it's worth a lot on the backend. Your health may improve due to quiet solitude and no commute also.
If there is fraud in the company and no one notices then that is not good for the officers. Sarbanes-Oxley now holds officers *directly responsible* for the accuracy of the books. So if the company is private they might pull it off. If public they == screwed.
Judging by how you cherry-picked one line and missed my entire point I can't argue.
Well then Apple customers must be the dumbest ppl on earth, because they are fiercely protective. Personally I've never owned a Mac simply bc of the price, but Apple has always seemed to care about its reputation as far as I could see. For a long time the die-hards were the only ones interested in macs.
Now Apple is still a massive minority of corporate desktops and their iPod/home user market is based as much on marketing and image as on product specs. Maybe more. If they do something unpopular they could literally drive away their base. Apple needs to maintain their reputation as the "little guy's" corporation, even if it's bullshit.
Ya know what? Everyone loves to bash allofmp3.com bc it's Russian and shady. Well ... so what. You want shady? The US firms are a legal mafia outfit. Think about it. They control all avenues worth controlling (radio, advertising, production, etc.) and if you start to encroach on them they make you an offer you can't refuse. Either they buy you out, sue you into oblivion, or both (think mp3.com).
Aside from that I read on their site that some money actually does go to the artist. Not much, and I have no way of verifying that, but take a wild guess how much of that is *my* problem. There are middlemen taking a cut here and in Russia, the difference is here they take a bigger cut and the listener gets screwed worse, whereas the Russians take a smaller cut and the artist gets screwed worse. Take another wild guess why ppl love the Russian site so much.
So yeah, if I ever meet the guys from Social Distortion (which is very possible since I cruise bars in LA a lot) I'll buy them a beer or 5. But don't you dare expect me to cry for them Argentina. I sitting here with a crappy new haircut in "business casual" looking at an hour+ commute home to an apartment. Let them bear the brunt of the industry's greed.
Again, it is the legwork portion of the equation that got him in trouble. You are just talking, writing, whatever. You aren't going out of your way to deliberately facilitate an illegal action. Whether or not the action should be illegal is irrelavent.
"If I say "they have some music for dl over at acme.com", I am likewise not committing a crime, I don't care which legal statutes you judge it under."
That's right, in fact it was exactly my point. Not sure what the contention is there.
"this simply holds no water"
Actually if you re-read the title of the article then you might notice that it does. Free speech is not the right to say anything you want anytime you want, we learn this in junior high school. Slow down in your rush to argue and think this all through, and if you have a counter-arguement then fine, I'm all ears. At the very least don't quote my own arguments back to me.
But laws and lawyers are thinking on a finer-grained level than that. He didn't just talk about it, he *helped* people break the law. If you, out of the goodness of your heart, told someone about a guy selling pot in the building behind you and proceeded to negotiate the price, quality and other logistics of the deal without touching any drugs or money then you are an accomplice. To say otherwise is to claim that the mafia doesn't exist.
He didn't mention in passing that places had mp3s like, "Hey, they have some music for dl over and acme.com, go check it out". This guy did actual legwork. I don't like what they did, but he *really* had to see this coming.
Seriously, hosting a page full of links to copyrighted mp3s? Cmon, what did he think was going to happen? The community would hail him as a hero and the RIAA cartel would cower in fear?
Do what you will with your music, and if it's blatantly or borderline illegal then shut up about it. You'll be fine.
Yes sloppy wording on my part. MS has nothing to do with Lexus yet. Just some silly, ominous overtones set by an AVS researcher (questionable motives alert!) and an example of what *might* happen based on an entirely different industry's experience.
I HATE defending MS, but we need to be a lot more conservative in our rush to pummel them. Not only has no one established causality here, no one has even established a link! Looks like MS was only included to take a cheap shot.
RTFA and you'll see a small problem with your conclusion. No one even mentions windows. Does MS suck? Yes. Is it their fault that someone at Lexus integrated Bluetooth into some cars in a vulnerable manner? No.
Seriously people, when you bash something based on flimsy evidence or logic your credibility *plummets*.
I just started there and so far they ask a lot Mon-Fri and F off on the weekends. They are respectful of the life/work balance and you get a lot of little perks (like 33 paid days off a year total). Forget what the Defcon crowd says too, there are some *very* smart ppl working there.
I had that a lot at the lower levels, but my main is a 50 orc warrior and I haven't seen that problem since I started mining in 1k Needles (around lvl 25ish). I didn't realize mining something else would fix it, but on a PVP server running around like that is not advised. :)
As a geek, I understand server/network problems. But I also understand change management and rollbacks. Not the rollbacks I've been getting play WoW, where the game crashes or logs me off and I have to play the last 10 minutes over - I mean rolling back changes and making sure you can do so before you start the change.
The authors are not exaggerating at all. I can't log in to servers for my main character OR my alternate, for which I made sure to choose a "low" population server. When I do log in I get a couple hours play and then it starts locking up and crashing. Considering that this is a pay-to-play game, I'm doing a lot more paying than playing. 2 days of compensation is far far less than what I've lost in time and sheer frustration.
So yeah, I'm pissed. But I've been a rabid Blizzard fan since they blew me away in 93 with Warcraft 1. So I'm giving them until the end of the month and then I'll decide if I should just sell my character on ebay and quit for good. There are plenty of great games out there; I have an unopened Doom 3 20 feet away....
To say that making SPAM a priority = prioritizing it over violent crime is one giant leap of logic. To make a snide remark about my thinking via a comment filled with misspellings and grammatical errors is just plain silly. I checked your profile and you seem to be a native English speaker; if that's the case then ... you know what? I'm not going to expand the argument any further after re-reading that pathetic critique, it simply isn't worth my time.
Instead of arguing about whether a legislative or technical solution will work better, why don't we do both? Obviously Ohio spammers can simply move to Jersey or something, but this is a strong precedent that hopefully everyone else follows. Also, I've seen some comments about SPAM laws not being enforced. Well, if the DA can get actual prison time and the politicians tell the DA that anti-SPAM is a priority then maybe law enforcement *will* bother finding and prosecuting these cretins. Why would a DA bother now if they know they'll have to fight for months and the spammer will walk away with a 25k fine, which the spammer will make up in a month?
The technical ideas are being proposed, and we are learning about which ones are promising (note to M$, byte me). This process will take 5+ years to codify into some IETF stadard and get deployed in some meaningful way. In the meantime we can let our politicians do something useful by making the spammers we can catch pay in a big way (with community input I hope). This means prison time; just like embezzlement must carry a prison sentence because the financial incentives are so great and the chance of getting caught in time are small enough to be enticing. That is the *deterrent* factor. The malicious grin we get from this law is the revenge factor of punishment. This law has both.
yes and yes. armbars, chokes, neckcranks, you get used to them all, although sometimes they hurt for awhile.
The browser seems vaguely interesting in an academic sense, but who is seriously going to try this? Geeks have FF, Mac people have Safari and normies have IE; all have some ebb and flow into each other and some alternatives exist in a small niche.
I have the feeling that this was a dumb idea sold to AOL execs by some really talented and unscrupulous middle manager looking for a way to not get his budget cut. AOL seems to actually be run pretty well - they target a completely different (read: clueless) audience and they keep that audience pretty content. This is a stupid move.
Most small businesses I have seen were started by some guy who had a 40 hour/week job and then was an entrepenuer by night. Everyone has to work a "day job" to pay bills, but what you do in your free time defines you and your lifestyle as well.
Personally I play some games, work out (Ju-Jitsu, weights, used to do Kenpo, ride a bike), read about non-tech stuff. None of this will bring in money unless I semi-retire and teach martial arts, which is something I am actually pencilling in for 5-10 years from now. This makes me a worse admin/engineer/whatever, but it makes me a better person overall I believe. Certainly more sane and pleasant, not to mention thin.
So what are your goals and priorities? Most money possible? In that case you should spend your free time getting business-savvy since there is no salary limit on salesmen or business owners. Prefer a balanced life? In that case don't work 80 hours a week, go find a non-tech hobby and sacrifice the extra cash.