Looks like our representatives have just accidentally jump started the Semantic Web. As I understand it, the biggest barrier to full implementation of semantic tagging for sites has been the verification of content. With this law in place we can push forward without having to develop autonomous agents that can accurately compare tags with content.
Next up from Congress: A law that criminalizes the under-funding of space exploration ("We MUST protect the children from possible solar events by establishing bases on Mars!")
There is a difference between laws and condominium covenants you know...
So, the owners decided to implement access point security and pool their resources to provide monitoring (I guess, the article isn't too clear on enforcement methodology). Why isn't the/. crowd applauding end users for not only caring about their networks but actually taking pro-active steps to prevent break ins? Sure, it's not a perfect solution, but it's certainly better than the status-quo and it keeps over zealous government types from being able to create actual laws to enforce this behavior ("Look, we've already got encryption. No need to legislate it.").
Or something... yeah that's it. This is a wonderful opportunity for economists to observe the effects of an income influx into a society that isn't a simple redistribution of existing wealth. As for rural Indians, it's probably not the opportunity they'd hoped for but perhaps some good will still come of it.
you're a pirate. Unless you hack the file to remove the embedded font before opening it... but then you'd be circumventing the document's security, in direct violation of the DMCA, making you a felon.
On the plus side, you can now remove the politicians who support these laws from office by emailing them files with embedded fonts that you own the license to. If they reply to your email with content that proves they've read your message you have proof that they've either engaged in intellectual property theft or illegal hacking activities and you can bring suit against them.
Just like smoking cigarettes leads inexorably towards injecting heroin into your eyeballs, rape is a gateway offense that leads to more serious property crimes like theft of service and participation in so called P2P networks.
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Yeah, I pushed and held the power button for at least 4 seconds before it went back to sleep. Last night I ran a full apt-get update and noted that a new ACPI package was downloaded, so perhaps the problem has been addressed by the developers.
I realize that getting OS's to work on laptops is especially difficult and don't expect any Linux distro to actually support ACPI 'out of the box' for every laptop that exists. The fact that Ubuntu's live CD booted and ran respectably on my laptop was impressive enough to convince me to start agitating my employer to consider it as a viable alternative to Vista upgrades next year.
Looking back, I can see that my comments about the book are quite harsh but I'll stand by them as a counterweight to the initial review.
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The Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu Linux includes the new gnome-power-manager package, which enables ACPI sleep much like the system-tray power applet in Windows. Finally, sleep "just works" in Linux. The gnome-power-manager applet is configured to start automatically, and it lives in GNOME's panel notification area. If you right-click on the little battery icon, you'll see a menu pop up, as shown in Figure 4-1.
Figure 4-1. gnome-power-manager in action
This deceptively simple little application gives you a lot of control over your laptop's sleep behavior. If you click on Preferences, you'll see the Power Management Preferences dialog box shown in Figure 4-2. In this dialog's Sleep tab, you can configure different behavior depending on whether you're plugged into AC power or running on battery. One of the most interesting features is your ability to control the backlight brightness of your laptop's screen depending on the machine's power state. It happens to work out that a large consumer of power in a laptop is the screen's backlight, so being able to automatically turn down that lamp while on battery will help squeeze more runtime out of the system while it's unplugged.
Figure 4-2. The Sleep tab of gnome-power-manager
The Options tab (see Figure 4-3) is where you can set the default type of sleep you wish for the system to use, as well as what actions will engage the sleep mechanism. For this hack, the default sleep type is set to Suspend, which refers to ACPI sleep. (Hibernate [Hack #39]">Figure 4-3) is where you can set the default type of sleep you wish for the system to use, as well as what actions will engage the sleep mechanism. For this hack, the default sleep type is set to Suspend, which refers to ACPI sleep. (Hibernate [Hack #39] is a totally different type of sleep mechanism.) If you wish, under the Actions section of the dialog box, you can set the system to automatically sleep when the laptop lid is closed. This is a very handy feature if you're on the go: simply shut the lid and run off to your next appointment; then open the lid later, and the machine will wake up without any intervention.
Figure 4-3. gnome-power-manager's Options tab
The Advanced tab of the dialog (Figure 4-4) controls the notification icon's behavior. If you want the icon to appear only when you're charging or discharging, or you want to turn off the icon altogether, here's where you change those settings.
Figure 4-4. gnome-power-manager's Advanced dialog When you have all your settings configured to your liking, simply click the Close button, and the dialog box will close, saving your configuration changes.
Testing ACPI Sleep
Your system is now ready for you to test sleep mode. Ensure that your system is running on battery; then simply shut the lid of the laptop and see what happens. You should hear the hard disk power down, and one of the power LEDs should indicate a power-state change by blinking or some other method. Hopefully, your machine went to sleep properly. Now you need to see if it wakes up correctly. Simply open the lid, and the computer should start waking up. When it's ready for use, you'll be prompted for your system password by gnome-screensaver. Enter your password, and your system should be in the exact same state as it was when you powered it off.
Thanks to the hard work of the Ubuntu developers, something that used to be extremely difficult to accomplish in Linux has been made very easy.
I followed the instructions above on my Toshiba Satellite that's running Ubuntu Dapper Drake and noticed a few things... 1. Those listings for figures don't display images in the Safari Online version of the book. 2. There is no "Sleep" tab on the power management tool. 3. There is no "Options" tab on the power management tool. 4. There is no "Advanced" tab on the power management tool. Okay so those are minor quibbles, right? How about: 5. There are no instructions at all b
I don't know if the units were insured for full retail value or less, but a big chunk of the cost is going to be caught by Nintendo's (or the shipper's) insurance company.
If they pay out the cash quickly, it may even work out in Nintendo's favor (given interest rates and an average time to pay for merchandise ordered by retailers of about 90 days...). Actually, that's not likely but it is possible.
Personally, I see the US undergoing some serious inflation over the next 40 years. If I had to work a second job to just barely be able to 'retire' early there's simply too much risk involved to make the potential pay-off worth pursuing. If inflation does take off, savings will be decimated.
If you want to retire early, get into something that pays really really well. Then hedge your risk by moving a chunk of your wealth out of dollar denominated assets. If you're smart enough to be an engineer (or even an IT generalist) then you're smart enough to be a successful stock broker or banker (think leveraged buy outs).
My point is that the risks we all face are great enough that I wouldn't be willing to sell the prime of my life to a second employer unless I was damn sure that my retirement was going to be comfortable and satisfying (Viagra gets expensive over 20-30 years, yo).
Yes. Assuming there isn't already a trademark on the name you'd like to use. And there's the rub, eh? I found this great domain that was totally un-trademarkable and was going to buy it, but then the "Society for HR" decided they'd only sell domains to companies large enough to have HR departments... now you're wondering WTF am I talking about, eh?
Here's the WHOIS on the domain I wanted: Domain Name: STEVE.JOBS Registrar: EMPLOY MEDIA LLC Whois Server: not defined Referral URL: http://www.employmedia.com/ Name Server: No nameserver Status: PENDING-CREATE Updated Date: 23-feb-2006 Creation Date: 23-feb-2006 Expiration Date: 23-feb-2016
The.jobs extension wasn't initially available to individuals. Grrrr....
ECMA Script is the proper name for Javascript. The reason jscript was named the way it was is due to Netscape attempting to bandwagon someone else's hype for their own means.
I suspect that the increasing intermingling of US corporate life and US government over the past 50 years is what causes Americans (including myself) to expect our companies to champion our social beliefs.
Didn't Eisenhower warn of a coming military/industrial complex that would intertwine with government to distort its focus and provide inappropriate funding to industry? Things are now so mixed up that it's come back to bite companies as they're expected to do the work governments.
Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to get some Acid Horse. In fact, I'm going to get the entire WaxTrax BlackBox collection thanks to your page. The KLF, 1000 Homo DJ's, ClockDVA, KMFDM, Ministry.... oh and of course Divine.
Javascript is a terrible language to develop this type of stuff with. Would anyone conside using the Yahoo Widget Engine to create a text editing application (oh no, now someone's going to beat me to the VC's for WidgetWord funding)? AJAX is a hack of a hack... but in this world without standards, innovation must find a way. If anything, the current infatuation with client side scripting should be a great signals to our standards bodies to get off their duffs and work to approve new protocols in a timely fashion.
You mention having "corporate architectural guidelines" that your IT folks would adhere to... but if they're not accountable to corporate, and the person they are accountable to wants a new Blackberry/VPN access/porn hosting/you name it service that's against the guidelines, do you really think they're going to tell their source of funding to sod off?
How much is your company spending on IT? With a centralized structure that's an easy question to answer. When each department is responsible for their own IT funding, it becomes less so. And what level of return are you getting on IT investments? Same thing as above. Okay, now what about resource pooling? Discounts come from bulk purchases, but if every department is running their own ship you'll never achieve the volume needed to achieve those discounts. And 24/7 tech support? You think you're gonna get that out of your department's lone IT guy?
By our nature, IT personnel are independent and generally take poorly to being told what to do by management who are clueless about technical issues. So decentralizing IT appears to be a good solution. It gets those damn suits off your back so you can do your job of supporting users, right? But, if you had a good manager in place to run interference the suits wouldn't be a problem. The only way you can have experienced IT managers in place is to have an organization for them to manage.
Centralized management of IT isn't a panacea but it can increase the visibility of IT costs/benefits, increase company-wide standards compliance and even lower some hardware costs by enabling the pooling of resources. Like everything in life, it's a trade off between flexibility and control. But in the best case, centralized IT will outperform distributed IT in almost every business setting.
From the context it appears that "steeper than one in two" refers to the subject of the sentence, i.e. slopes. So, I guess that the slope they're talking about is a steeper slope than one in two or greater than 50% of slopes that exist? Wait, that doesn't really make sense... um. Yeah, units are helpful.
Anyway, I was sorry to see your reply to the Fucktard comment modded down as flamebait but I don't have any mod points just now.
What's the value, to you, of your generous holidays, your lack of god-bothering, your incredible beaches and wonderful women? Add that to your salary and see if it doesn't move you closer to the range mentioned in the article.
Quality of life in many US cities is not so hot. Also, those salaries are required because the cost of housing is so crazy right now (median home cost in Silicon Valley is $733,000). Employees have to be "well" paid when compared to places that have better quality of life or lower cost of living indexes. It doesn't mean that these employees are necessarily better off.
I looked at Acrylic a couple months back and was very underwhelmed. Perhaps it's better in this version or I should have bought a tablet to interact with it properly. Anyway, download the apps for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
As a snide aside, when is MS gonna roll out their KB URL scheme across their entire site? 'Cause those are some damn ugly addresses if I do say so myself.
Sounds like it's time to gain unauthorized access to Sony's internal networks. I mean, if a compromised system is only worth $7.50 + one Justin Timberlake CD in civil fines and no criminal charges at all then how can a hacker lose?
Okay, so Google's not really innovative. They don't invent things, they make them better. Sort of like the Japanese with manufactured goods. And what happened to the Japanese who, like Google, were supposed to take over the world? Their economy imploded, and couldn't recover. Why? Because they weren't able to innovate when the train of 'things to improve' ran out.
If that holds true for Google too (and honestly I hope it doesn't) , woe unto he who owns their stock.
Back in the day, like '00, I used to use Pricewatch to cruise for cheap parts once I'd decided what I wanted to buy. They seemed honest then, though I haven't used the service in years as the local Fry's is only 10 minutes away and convenience will trump a $5 savings any day.
I'm wondering if there are any reputable review/comparison sites out there any more? I know that every single site I've seen that's just an accumulation of 'user' submitted reviews is total BS. But maybe there's room for some honesty supported by AdWords and referrer IDs?
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Looks like our representatives have just accidentally jump started the Semantic Web. As I understand it, the biggest barrier to full implementation of semantic tagging for sites has been the verification of content. With this law in place we can push forward without having to develop autonomous agents that can accurately compare tags with content.
Next up from Congress: A law that criminalizes the under-funding of space exploration ("We MUST protect the children from possible solar events by establishing bases on Mars!")
I know why you leave it wide open: Plausible Deniability. ;-)
There is a difference between laws and condominium covenants you know...
/. crowd applauding end users for not only caring about their networks but actually taking pro-active steps to prevent break ins? Sure, it's not a perfect solution, but it's certainly better than the status-quo and it keeps over zealous government types from being able to create actual laws to enforce this behavior ("Look, we've already got encryption. No need to legislate it.").
So, the owners decided to implement access point security and pool their resources to provide monitoring (I guess, the article isn't too clear on enforcement methodology). Why isn't the
Or something... yeah that's it.
This is a wonderful opportunity for economists to observe the effects of an income influx into a society that isn't a simple redistribution of existing wealth. As for rural Indians, it's probably not the opportunity they'd hoped for but perhaps some good will still come of it.
you're a pirate. Unless you hack the file to remove the embedded font before opening it... but then you'd be circumventing the document's security, in direct violation of the DMCA, making you a felon.
On the plus side, you can now remove the politicians who support these laws from office by emailing them files with embedded fonts that you own the license to. If they reply to your email with content that proves they've read your message you have proof that they've either engaged in intellectual property theft or illegal hacking activities and you can bring suit against them.
They have jedi mind powers to convince you that your reality is not real. Only the telco reality exists.
Where is the rebel base?
Just like smoking cigarettes leads inexorably towards injecting heroin into your eyeballs, rape is a gateway offense that leads to more serious property crimes like theft of service and participation in so called P2P networks.
Yeah, I pushed and held the power button for at least 4 seconds before it went back to sleep.
Last night I ran a full apt-get update and noted that a new ACPI package was downloaded, so perhaps the problem has been addressed by the developers.
I realize that getting OS's to work on laptops is especially difficult and don't expect any Linux distro to actually support ACPI 'out of the box' for every laptop that exists. The fact that Ubuntu's live CD booted and ran respectably on my laptop was impressive enough to convince me to start agitating my employer to consider it as a viable alternative to Vista upgrades next year.
Looking back, I can see that my comments about the book are quite harsh but I'll stand by them as a counterweight to the initial review.
I followed the instructions above on my Toshiba Satellite that's running Ubuntu Dapper Drake and noticed a few things...
1. Those listings for figures don't display images in the Safari Online version of the book.
2. There is no "Sleep" tab on the power management tool.
3. There is no "Options" tab on the power management tool.
4. There is no "Advanced" tab on the power management tool.
Okay so those are minor quibbles, right? How about:
5. There are no instructions at all b
I don't know if the units were insured for full retail value or less, but a big chunk of the cost is going to be caught by Nintendo's (or the shipper's) insurance company.
If they pay out the cash quickly, it may even work out in Nintendo's favor (given interest rates and an average time to pay for merchandise ordered by retailers of about 90 days...). Actually, that's not likely but it is possible.
Personally, I see the US undergoing some serious inflation over the next 40 years. If I had to work a second job to just barely be able to 'retire' early there's simply too much risk involved to make the potential pay-off worth pursuing. If inflation does take off, savings will be decimated.
If you want to retire early, get into something that pays really really well. Then hedge your risk by moving a chunk of your wealth out of dollar denominated assets. If you're smart enough to be an engineer (or even an IT generalist) then you're smart enough to be a successful stock broker or banker (think leveraged buy outs).
My point is that the risks we all face are great enough that I wouldn't be willing to sell the prime of my life to a second employer unless I was damn sure that my retirement was going to be comfortable and satisfying (Viagra gets expensive over 20-30 years, yo).
Yes.
.jobs extension wasn't initially available to individuals. Grrrr....
Assuming there isn't already a trademark on the name you'd like to use. And there's the rub, eh? I found this great domain that was totally un-trademarkable and was going to buy it, but then the "Society for HR" decided they'd only sell domains to companies large enough to have HR departments... now you're wondering WTF am I talking about, eh?
Here's the WHOIS on the domain I wanted:
Domain Name: STEVE.JOBS
Registrar: EMPLOY MEDIA LLC
Whois Server: not defined
Referral URL: http://www.employmedia.com/
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: PENDING-CREATE
Updated Date: 23-feb-2006
Creation Date: 23-feb-2006
Expiration Date: 23-feb-2016
The
Java != Javascript
ECMA Script is the proper name for Javascript. The reason jscript was named the way it was is due to Netscape attempting to bandwagon someone else's hype for their own means.
I suspect that the increasing intermingling of US corporate life and US government over the past 50 years is what causes Americans (including myself) to expect our companies to champion our social beliefs.
Didn't Eisenhower warn of a coming military/industrial complex that would intertwine with government to distort its focus and provide inappropriate funding to industry? Things are now so mixed up that it's come back to bite companies as they're expected to do the work governments.
Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to get some Acid Horse. In fact, I'm going to get the entire WaxTrax BlackBox collection thanks to your page. The KLF, 1000 Homo DJ's, ClockDVA, KMFDM, Ministry.... oh and of course Divine.
Javascript is a terrible language to develop this type of stuff with. Would anyone conside using the Yahoo Widget Engine to create a text editing application (oh no, now someone's going to beat me to the VC's for WidgetWord funding)?
AJAX is a hack of a hack... but in this world without standards, innovation must find a way. If anything, the current infatuation with client side scripting should be a great signals to our standards bodies to get off their duffs and work to approve new protocols in a timely fashion.
Well, at least when I tried to add scripts it pulled them out before display. That doesn't mean you can't work-around their parsing though.
You mention having "corporate architectural guidelines" that your IT folks would adhere to... but if they're not accountable to corporate, and the person they are accountable to wants a new Blackberry/VPN access/porn hosting/you name it service that's against the guidelines, do you really think they're going to tell their source of funding to sod off?
How much is your company spending on IT? With a centralized structure that's an easy question to answer. When each department is responsible for their own IT funding, it becomes less so. And what level of return are you getting on IT investments? Same thing as above. Okay, now what about resource pooling? Discounts come from bulk purchases, but if every department is running their own ship you'll never achieve the volume needed to achieve those discounts. And 24/7 tech support? You think you're gonna get that out of your department's lone IT guy?
By our nature, IT personnel are independent and generally take poorly to being told what to do by management who are clueless about technical issues. So decentralizing IT appears to be a good solution. It gets those damn suits off your back so you can do your job of supporting users, right? But, if you had a good manager in place to run interference the suits wouldn't be a problem. The only way you can have experienced IT managers in place is to have an organization for them to manage.
Centralized management of IT isn't a panacea but it can increase the visibility of IT costs/benefits, increase company-wide standards compliance and even lower some hardware costs by enabling the pooling of resources. Like everything in life, it's a trade off between flexibility and control. But in the best case, centralized IT will outperform distributed IT in almost every business setting.
From the context it appears that "steeper than one in two" refers to the subject of the sentence, i.e. slopes. So, I guess that the slope they're talking about is a steeper slope than one in two or greater than 50% of slopes that exist? Wait, that doesn't really make sense... um. Yeah, units are helpful.
Anyway, I was sorry to see your reply to the Fucktard comment modded down as flamebait but I don't have any mod points just now.
What's the value, to you, of your generous holidays, your lack of god-bothering, your incredible beaches and wonderful women? Add that to your salary and see if it doesn't move you closer to the range mentioned in the article.
Quality of life in many US cities is not so hot. Also, those salaries are required because the cost of housing is so crazy right now (median home cost in Silicon Valley is $733,000). Employees have to be "well" paid when compared to places that have better quality of life or lower cost of living indexes. It doesn't mean that these employees are necessarily better off.
That said, I also wish I made that much...
Links to the downloads (since the links in the article are dead):2 &p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId= &u=%2Fdownloads%2Fdetails.aspx%3FFamilyID%3Ded9f5f b2-4cfc-4d2c-9af8-580d644e3d1d%26DisplayLang%3Den2 &p=4&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId= &u=%2Fdownloads%2Fdetails.aspx%3FFamilyID%3Decd88d 39-b9fc-4816-8dae-60444b7c81e7%26DisplayLang%3Den
For Sparkle: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=2
For Acrylic: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=2
I looked at Acrylic a couple months back and was very underwhelmed. Perhaps it's better in this version or I should have bought a tablet to interact with it properly. Anyway, download the apps for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
As a snide aside, when is MS gonna roll out their KB URL scheme across their entire site? 'Cause those are some damn ugly addresses if I do say so myself.
Sounds like it's time to gain unauthorized access to Sony's internal networks. I mean, if a compromised system is only worth $7.50 + one Justin Timberlake CD in civil fines and no criminal charges at all then how can a hacker lose?
Okay, so Google's not really innovative. They don't invent things, they make them better.
Sort of like the Japanese with manufactured goods. And what happened to the Japanese who, like Google, were supposed to take over the world?
Their economy imploded, and couldn't recover. Why? Because they weren't able to innovate when the train of 'things to improve' ran out.
If that holds true for Google too (and honestly I hope it doesn't) , woe unto he who owns their stock.
Back in the day, like '00, I used to use Pricewatch to cruise for cheap parts once I'd decided what I wanted to buy. They seemed honest then, though I haven't used the service in years as the local Fry's is only 10 minutes away and convenience will trump a $5 savings any day.
I'm wondering if there are any reputable review/comparison sites out there any more? I know that every single site I've seen that's just an accumulation of 'user' submitted reviews is total BS. But maybe there's room for some honesty supported by AdWords and referrer IDs?
Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
And which one is Ringo?