Was he really going to be visiting Israel on Palestinian coin? I kind of doubt it. I imagine that the Israeli college would have picked up the tab for their part of his trip. If that wasn't the case, I agree, it is the Palestinian Authority's right to disallow that. Though, I would argue that RMS should refuse both trips at this point on the basis of intolerance.
Obviously, to each his own. I considered doing my side job full time. But have you ever worked at Best Buy's tech department (or some place similar?) Yes, for as bad a rap as we give the BB techs, they give their "general" customer just as bad a rap... generally because the deserve it.
There's no real money in fixing home computers without being dishonest with your customers or charging too much. Once you've fixed their problem it stays fixed or if it costs too much to fix, they'll throw a perfectly good computer away and get a new one. These are the reasons when I said, "Those who are in the business know why."
And you stated one other reason, "If I didn't have to worry about income..." You are also partially correct in another place. It sounds like this guy is giving out a grant for people in an innovative type environment. Fixing home computers, starting a generic software development business, or washing windows, while rewarding and potentially wealth making, is far from innovative.
Truly understanding the bits and bolts that hold a particular piece together, you've got a point. However, understanding the basic functionality enough to understand how data passes from one layer to another is not so difficult. As a class* at my university, we essentially built a motherboard and programmed it to do various things. We used a CPU from the early 80's (Apple's used them), built a memory controller around it, timer function, and a few other things. Essentially, anything from there up is just adding another piece to the puzzle and reading the tech. specs to know how to start using it.
* That was the class I looked forward to most. It ended up being an absolute dud. I was paired in a bad group and the hardware was, at best, unreliable. Considering that they only had 12 CPUs and 8 groups, with any number of those CPUs likely to fail... it was bad. Why they couldn't have used a more available, less costly chip, I don't know.
Given that most companies are not started by people without a degree (I'm assuming here, it may be a wash), it appears that, on average, a student is going to be more successful finishing school than dropping out and forming a company.
For the record, I finished JrCollege with an Assoc. Degree, started at a state school and dropped out in favor of working. After several bounces, including working at a failed startup (coolest job ever, though - it didn't fail because of the cool factor), I went back and finished my BS (while continuing to do part time work).
That's interesting. In the US, if you have a parent die, your financial situation, especially for school funding, is generally better. (More scholarships, grants available, plus any potential inheritance and/or insurance payouts.) I'm not trying to be callous of the situation, it's not something I'd wish on anybody during their formative years.
How about starting a business AND going to school? Seriously. I'm still running my home computer repair company even after college. It was actually more successful while I was in school - I was more motivated to get new customers and make a profit and put myself through school. Now that I have a full-time job, I only keep the customers I like and some referrals. (Those who are in the business know why.)
I'm not unique in this. I have a few dental student friends who run a window washing service (for homes and businesses) while they are in school. Then when they graduate, they sell to the business to the next Frosh or Soph coming up - the same way they acquired the business.
My point - you are correct and these skills can be earned together. School teaches theory, knowledge acquisition, and some application. Work teaches customer relations, application, and business aspects.
The idea that markets create the best results is not fantasy. Moral valuation, as you've stated, is not a business decision, businesses are amoral.
The idea of the free market being able to produce the best results is dependent on the consumer having complete knowledge of all the available options. Obviously, advertising (lack thereof or deceptive), apathy, and a whole host of other anti-competitive, anti-market practices reduces the availability of complete knowledge and best results.
Seriously. Let's link the original post as mentioned above. It contains better images (their larger and easier to see) and it contains much better information (seeing as it is nVidia's blog).
You know, that might not be a bad idea. Send snail mail to subscribers with specific instructions and key. This letter will have a free game(s) or whatever attached to it for compensation of their foul up.
I am curious. This would likely work except that users are probably using the same password for their email accounts. What is the likelihood that the attackers have setup a script to analyze email address/password combinations for any hits? (High, I would say.)
Perhaps he is referring to the state of computer and social security (not the gov't savings plan). It is entirely possible that XBox Live or the Nintendo network could be hit in the same way. Perhaps maybe not XBox, because Microsoft has had to deal with this type of thing for a very long time. Getting attacked, for them, is SOP on a daily basis.
In any case, any sufficiently motivated person will eventually find the weak link in the system and exploit it. The trick is to minimize the depth of any particular breach.
I hate to agree with the above post, but I have to do so. I get along just fine in a CLI environment. I'm really in my element when I am there. However, there is no reason to have all the same options available in a GUI. That was the biggest complaint Linux admins had that I've seen - the GUI doesn't enable or contain all the possible options. This is actually getting much better now.
While their complaint is valid, it is misdirected at the OS and not where it should be - lazy developers and Linux has lazy developers, too. Is it so difficult, if you are going to build an interface for the options, to include all of the options, whether it be checkboxes, radiobuttons, dropdown lists, or textboxes with an explanation of what is expect (this configuration value is 0.0.. 9.9 [ 2.3 ]). Write the options to a file, when the execute occurs, read the options from the file. And for Linux developers, if you are not going to include a GUI for options, at least give us good documentation of command line options - preferably in a table.
Where appropriate, I like to provide both the GUI and CLI options. That way they can start the application manually or automate it to do its functions.
It's a good question. My media center computer is Linux based, I don't want to purchase Windows 7 to make a media center box when I already have it. Netflix is the one hang up. (Hulu works just fine, but doesn't have the library that Netflix has.)
I know my kids (2yo & 4yo) all watch the SAME DARN PROGRAMS over and over. They could just store those videos on my device/computer and use it as a p2p node. Let me know the videos are stored there, encrypt the data, so I can't copy it willy/nilly, and everyone is happy (I get faster access to those programs, they get a "free" node).
Of course, the kids use the Wii, so there isn't a lot of space to put the video. However, they could easily use the extra hard drive space on any one of my 3 computers.
I think the GP has a point, if Netflix is not already using a torrent-like technology, they really should look into developing that tech. (As the video streams data, it could pull from other users watching the same program. Once it catches up or becomes the lead viewer, it switches back to pulling data from a Netflix supernode.)
Granted this could be bad for capped Internet subscribers and I'm not sure how it would reduce network traffic - unless they allow the creation of user nodes, but it will probably improve the end-user experience.
There are thoughts that Hillary Clinton is able to knock off Obama. So, this time around it'll be the face-off of last time's losers: Romney vs Clinton.
Not that I had mod points, but having never watched GWH (or at least, paid close attention to it when it was on), I did not recognize the content. I did, however, recognize the farce that it was.
Like you, I went in search of usermade Portal maps. I found some, but there were not many and certainly not of the same quality. Perhaps, I should look again.
When I do pick up this latest version, I already have an idea for using some gel, ramps, and precise timing to do a puzzle. Of course, I'll have to make sure the idea isn't already in the game;)
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Same thing for multinational mega-corps. They may use cloud technologies, but it is all still in-house.
Was he really going to be visiting Israel on Palestinian coin? I kind of doubt it. I imagine that the Israeli college would have picked up the tab for their part of his trip. If that wasn't the case, I agree, it is the Palestinian Authority's right to disallow that. Though, I would argue that RMS should refuse both trips at this point on the basis of intolerance.
Obviously, to each his own. I considered doing my side job full time. But have you ever worked at Best Buy's tech department (or some place similar?) Yes, for as bad a rap as we give the BB techs, they give their "general" customer just as bad a rap... generally because the deserve it.
There's no real money in fixing home computers without being dishonest with your customers or charging too much. Once you've fixed their problem it stays fixed or if it costs too much to fix, they'll throw a perfectly good computer away and get a new one. These are the reasons when I said, "Those who are in the business know why."
And you stated one other reason, "If I didn't have to worry about income..." You are also partially correct in another place. It sounds like this guy is giving out a grant for people in an innovative type environment. Fixing home computers, starting a generic software development business, or washing windows, while rewarding and potentially wealth making, is far from innovative.
Truly understanding the bits and bolts that hold a particular piece together, you've got a point. However, understanding the basic functionality enough to understand how data passes from one layer to another is not so difficult. As a class* at my university, we essentially built a motherboard and programmed it to do various things. We used a CPU from the early 80's (Apple's used them), built a memory controller around it, timer function, and a few other things. Essentially, anything from there up is just adding another piece to the puzzle and reading the tech. specs to know how to start using it.
* That was the class I looked forward to most. It ended up being an absolute dud. I was paired in a bad group and the hardware was, at best, unreliable. Considering that they only had 12 CPUs and 8 groups, with any number of those CPUs likely to fail... it was bad. Why they couldn't have used a more available, less costly chip, I don't know.
Given that most companies are not started by people without a degree (I'm assuming here, it may be a wash), it appears that, on average, a student is going to be more successful finishing school than dropping out and forming a company.
For the record, I finished JrCollege with an Assoc. Degree, started at a state school and dropped out in favor of working. After several bounces, including working at a failed startup (coolest job ever, though - it didn't fail because of the cool factor), I went back and finished my BS (while continuing to do part time work).
Question: What is the failure rate of a new business compared to the failure rate of a college student?
There are some really good Alabama and Mississippi state universities. As good as any other state university, anyway.
That's interesting. In the US, if you have a parent die, your financial situation, especially for school funding, is generally better. (More scholarships, grants available, plus any potential inheritance and/or insurance payouts.) I'm not trying to be callous of the situation, it's not something I'd wish on anybody during their formative years.
I think his point is that, in order to get into the "best" schools, you have to "schmooze and network to get your name known by [Admissions] people."
How about starting a business AND going to school? Seriously. I'm still running my home computer repair company even after college. It was actually more successful while I was in school - I was more motivated to get new customers and make a profit and put myself through school. Now that I have a full-time job, I only keep the customers I like and some referrals. (Those who are in the business know why.)
I'm not unique in this. I have a few dental student friends who run a window washing service (for homes and businesses) while they are in school. Then when they graduate, they sell to the business to the next Frosh or Soph coming up - the same way they acquired the business.
My point - you are correct and these skills can be earned together. School teaches theory, knowledge acquisition, and some application. Work teaches customer relations, application, and business aspects.
The idea that markets create the best results is not fantasy. Moral valuation, as you've stated, is not a business decision, businesses are amoral.
The idea of the free market being able to produce the best results is dependent on the consumer having complete knowledge of all the available options. Obviously, advertising (lack thereof or deceptive), apathy, and a whole host of other anti-competitive, anti-market practices reduces the availability of complete knowledge and best results.
Seriously. Let's link the original post as mentioned above. It contains better images (their larger and easier to see) and it contains much better information (seeing as it is nVidia's blog).
You know, that might not be a bad idea. Send snail mail to subscribers with specific instructions and key. This letter will have a free game(s) or whatever attached to it for compensation of their foul up.
I like how you called me a fanboy. That is hilarious. (I will never own a Sony product. In the same vein, I will never own an Apple product.)
I am curious. This would likely work except that users are probably using the same password for their email accounts. What is the likelihood that the attackers have setup a script to analyze email address/password combinations for any hits? (High, I would say.)
Perhaps he is referring to the state of computer and social security (not the gov't savings plan). It is entirely possible that XBox Live or the Nintendo network could be hit in the same way. Perhaps maybe not XBox, because Microsoft has had to deal with this type of thing for a very long time. Getting attacked, for them, is SOP on a daily basis.
In any case, any sufficiently motivated person will eventually find the weak link in the system and exploit it. The trick is to minimize the depth of any particular breach.
I rode the Information Superhighway straight into the Cloud!
/please shoot me
I hate to agree with the above post, but I have to do so. I get along just fine in a CLI environment. I'm really in my element when I am there. However, there is no reason to have all the same options available in a GUI. That was the biggest complaint Linux admins had that I've seen - the GUI doesn't enable or contain all the possible options. This is actually getting much better now.
.. 9.9 [ 2.3 ]). Write the options to a file, when the execute occurs, read the options from the file. And for Linux developers, if you are not going to include a GUI for options, at least give us good documentation of command line options - preferably in a table.
While their complaint is valid, it is misdirected at the OS and not where it should be - lazy developers and Linux has lazy developers, too. Is it so difficult, if you are going to build an interface for the options, to include all of the options, whether it be checkboxes, radiobuttons, dropdown lists, or textboxes with an explanation of what is expect (this configuration value is 0.0
Where appropriate, I like to provide both the GUI and CLI options. That way they can start the application manually or automate it to do its functions.
It's a good question. My media center computer is Linux based, I don't want to purchase Windows 7 to make a media center box when I already have it. Netflix is the one hang up. (Hulu works just fine, but doesn't have the library that Netflix has.)
"B-b-b-but, a-la-carte programming is too expensive!!" -cable co manager.
They're probably right, but Netflix is proving they're doing it wrong.
I know my kids (2yo & 4yo) all watch the SAME DARN PROGRAMS over and over. They could just store those videos on my device/computer and use it as a p2p node. Let me know the videos are stored there, encrypt the data, so I can't copy it willy/nilly, and everyone is happy (I get faster access to those programs, they get a "free" node).
Of course, the kids use the Wii, so there isn't a lot of space to put the video. However, they could easily use the extra hard drive space on any one of my 3 computers.
I think the GP has a point, if Netflix is not already using a torrent-like technology, they really should look into developing that tech. (As the video streams data, it could pull from other users watching the same program. Once it catches up or becomes the lead viewer, it switches back to pulling data from a Netflix supernode.)
Granted this could be bad for capped Internet subscribers and I'm not sure how it would reduce network traffic - unless they allow the creation of user nodes, but it will probably improve the end-user experience.
That is why there is no cake!
/agree with co-poster - Gabe Newell is a pretty awesome guy
Now, please assume the correct party escort submission position.
There are thoughts that Hillary Clinton is able to knock off Obama. So, this time around it'll be the face-off of last time's losers: Romney vs Clinton.
Not that I had mod points, but having never watched GWH (or at least, paid close attention to it when it was on), I did not recognize the content. I did, however, recognize the farce that it was.
Like you, I went in search of usermade Portal maps. I found some, but there were not many and certainly not of the same quality. Perhaps, I should look again. When I do pick up this latest version, I already have an idea for using some gel, ramps, and precise timing to do a puzzle. Of course, I'll have to make sure the idea isn't already in the game ;)