I have the PC in my bedroom, it is less than 8 feet from my bed. I ponied up the extra money to get a quiet case and quiet fans. The antec black quiet case is excellent and you can even buy it from Best buy for around $100. You honestly cannot hear this thing, at first I had trouble deciding if it was actually running any of its fans but it is, no overheating and no noise.
Last time i rebooted my linux machine was 25 days ago(updated kernel from 2.4.18). Prior to that it had an uptime of 179 days. Not sure I care a whole lot about boot speed since i do it so infrequently. And honestly if your constantly rebooting and starting your linux machine something is wrong. I would however like to see my OS X machine boot faster...
So paying 99 or even 88 cents a track is a failure on their part?
Yes since 1) all tracks are not available 2) use of these DRM laden tracks is extremely restricted. The so called fair use of these tracks is the most annoying part, why should i pay a buck for a song that I can legally only hear on X number of computers, and only using X technology thats just plane rediculous.
And it's not greed that makes users turn a blind eye to legitimate online digital music offerings in favor of illegal file trading for free?
Nope. Studies have shown that the majority of people download stuff that they wouldn't buy anyways. Downloading mp3's has replaced radio. I don't need to pay for radio, radio increases exposure. The solution to this would be to require these p2p companies to pay a portion of advertising take to record labels.
This anti-establishment mentality people have manages to convince them that ownership is only important if the owner is poor. Steal from the rich, but never the poor.
Well anyone who would say stealing $5 from Bill Gates is just as bad as stealing $5 from the homeless guy who needs that for food is just plain kidding themselves or heartless. I'm sorry but impact should determine how bad a crime is.
The problem with you is that you'd consider Robin Hood to be a horrible man one that should be facing the gallows. You don't take into account that the rich and powerful use there influence to exploit the weak and poor while at the same time make it legal for them to do so(the rich control the government). I'm sorry but ownership should be tipped in the scales of the poor in order to offset the fact that the rich can afford better legal representation(in our adversarial system this matters alot) and honestly just because the poor need it more.
The parent was just reacting to some foolish assertion that all laws should be enforced and followed no matter how stupid they are. I doubt he was applying it to the current situation very much because "stealing" music and nelson mandela are way different.
Basically the reason people steal music is that the industry has failed to provide the service to us adaquately. Its not the users fault, they aren't evil. Greed is the only reason why we have suits and arrests right now, the RIAA refuses to address the problem and instead is fighting a war they can't win(sound familiar see: War on drugs). Furthermore everything seems to indicate that music and film piracy has little effect on overall sales and honestly I don't see metallica starving, maybe if they bought less coke they wouldn't need the tiny bit of extra cash... You can come back and say what about the indie artists all you want, if anything this increases exposure and sales...
Also, in america it isnt libel if its a claim that no one would reasonably believe(which is why the onion can say what is does, also parody is protected. Also because of Americas libel laws it is EXTREMELY hard for public figures to win a libel suit. A good example is the Falwell vs Flynt case which everyone should be familiar with if not here is some info on it Falwell v Flint.
The problem with libel laws is that it is not libel if you aren't lying.
No thats whats good about libel laws. This stemmed from the fact that in the 1770's in england libel was still libel even if what was said was true. So if you were a nanny and you molested children and I told your clients that you molested children and they fired you, you could claim libel against me and that was acceptable to the court I'd be paying you for lost wages even though you had no right to there services.
The founding fathers realized however that this is crap, newspapers and citizens need to be able to report the truth no matter how damaging it is to public figures.
If you want, go back to a society where you are afraid to speak the truth about public figures for fear of getting sued. I sure as hell won't.
I know, CinePaint is so much better than Word its not even funny and its way better than Linux...
Different programs for different uses, CinePaint is not a replacement for all software and that includes video editing/authoring software(including proprietary).
POV-Ray and CinePaint are fine tools, but to consider them adaquate replacements of lets say Lightwave and FinalCut is just plain foolish.(I've never used gtoaster so I can't comment). But I have in fact used all of the others mentioned and so I can tell you that this is just plain its opensource so it must be better FUD(thats right opensource zealots generate this crap also). Basically what it ammounts to is that CinePaint is great for simple touchups but not good at editing(pretty much doesnt) hence why I use both CinePaint and FinalCut. POV-Ray is a toy, a simple and honestly less than impressive toy, Lightwave, Maya and the like are powerful tools which can create much more sophisticated CG.
Its funny that I find people who generally make these statements do not work regularly with the applications they are talking about. To be honest the philosophy behind the software is not a decision I use the best tool for the job and honestly I'm not too cheap to pay for good software. You can pull the blanket over your eyes and pretend like open source completely replaces proprietary software but it doesnt.(PERIOD) I will however state that GIMP is far superior to Photoshop IMHO.
I've played with voice recog stuff on my mac under OS X. I've written several AppleScripts that I tell to do things like Open FireFox, Open App. Each app i want to open has to have a seperate entry but to be honest using apple script this is an absolute cakewalk. Also the speak like nature of apple script makes me think it is going to one day be something you just starting talking at your computer and it runs what you say.
I must say this stuff is very forgiving and for the kinds of actions like open, close it works great. It however does not take dictation very well, and honestly I don't expect/want it to. What i would like to be able to do is say "computer record until monkey... say my bit monkey.. computer send last message to email friends name" and then that thing just sends that wav or mp3 or aac or whatever to my pal... And you know what with a short(reasonably) applescript I can...
Their way? To dunk their testes in water that is over 105F for an hour a day....If you're into painful male birth control, perhaps this is an option for you.
I'd hardly classify that as painful as I'd consider that to be less hot than acceptable bathwater. Also consider a sauna which for most people the ideal temperature is 180-200.
Really no big surprise, all currently implemented algorithms for security and digital signatures will be rendered useless or easily hackable in the future. The fact that a compromise seems to be soon is the part thats interesting.. however the parent fails to address how serious it is.
For the most part, big deal, all of current security procedures will be harmful ie compromised in the future...
It really is a losing battle, we don't need better tools or more IT people to combat spyware. What we need is more education of users and less use of IE. Time and time again I show my boss how the Firefox users never have any trouble, this is for 2 reasons, people willing to use firefox are generally more tech savy and browse smartly and of course because it is more resistant to that crap than IE(understatement).
My attitude is to make the users suffer and then blame there browsing habits when they piss and moan about the computer being slow(as though its my fault). Eventually I'm hoping my boss will either switch to firefox or hold safe browsing education sessions that are mandatory. Preferably both..
Right. Some tricks they use is considering you employed if you don't come talk to career placement or stop talking to them. Thats how they doctor the job offer rate, they also include things that aren't real jobs for a CS person. The average salary however is less doctorable, since it requires you to report back to career planning with your offer letter. Only those they receive are counted.
1. That cisco utilizes outsourcing as a means
to save money while domestic candidates with suitable skills are available. This is going
to be a religious issue nowadays and no amount
of ad-hominem negativity will address it adequately.
The whole point is that the poster failed to show this... The original poster claimed that since 80,000 Americans in the area and unemployed there are people cisco would want in that pool. What the poster failed to realize is that Cisco is looking for very very specific candidates. The poster assumes that all these candidates lost there jobs because companies like Cisco outsource and hire H-1B's... The poster assumes that all 80,000 are well rounded good employees that Cisco wants. The poster assumes that all 80,000 want to work for cisco.
My point was that if you are going to make blanket statements you should at least examine what it is you are saying. The poster did not, he wrongly assumed that all 80,000 people could just be tossed to cisco like you would wrenchs to a mechanic. The original poster is indeed acting a fool.
Furthermore claims that H-1B's get paid way less is largely innaccurate. Have you worked along side H-1B's who have the same title and been at the company as long as you have? If so ask to compare salaries with them and see what you find out. I think you will be surprised.
What it comes down to is that the original poster provided no proof just spouted a bunch of nonsense and a figure without backing it up with a source that showed exactly what that 80,000 meant. I wonder how many of those 80,000 actually applied at Cisco? Ever think of that one? Wouldn't that be an interesting piece of information to know? No because you see the original poster was not interesting in bringing attention to anything he was just interested in blindly attacking Cisco over a "religious" feeling about outsourcing. Without understanding at all what he was talking about.
My Claim: The college you get your degree from has a huge impact on your ability to get a job and how much you will get paid.
Evidence: Average salary of BS in CS from NMT $70,750 Source, versus $38,000 for LSU Source
This obvious is affected by location, parterships the school has, connections professors have, quality of program, reputation, etc..(doesnt really matter what affects it, this is the bottom line) My advice to you find the school that has the highest rate of successful placement of CS majors and the highest average salary and go to either one or the one if they happen to match and I expect they will.. MIT anyone?
That sure is a good way to motivate schools and students to work hard on teaching and learning computer science: drive salaries down into the gutter with an infinite supply of cheap immigrant labor.
Why not look at is in driving wages up in the countries these people come from. US monopoly on high wages has to end at some point with globalization.
the problem is that computer science is so diluted in our schools because our younger children don't learn math properly. Colleges started dropping some of the Math requiremetns for CS because of this, because there students couldnt handle the classes. But instead the norm is to shove these kids along wihtout having proper math and critical thinking skills.
Read The deliberate dumbing down of america by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt...
Well someone with real interest would have had previous employment that directly positions them to get hired by Cisco, almost as though they engineered there career to eventually arrive at Cisco. Random out of work Americans do not have these kind of tailored career paths, which is why the H-1B's are very attractive.
We could go back and forth all day without convincing eachother but personally I think we shouldn't limit the number of foreign workers and immigrants and we should make naturalization much much easier. (I was born in America by the way before I get accused of anything) Getting Americans hired over foreigners starts in schools, if we want Americans to be hired lets at least make there education and oppurtunities better to give them an advantage instead of this artificial advantage of limiting immigrants which does nothing but make it harder for companies to find acceptable candidates.
Lets face it, the reason why Americans are unemployed isnt because companies are hiring more foreigners. Its because Americans are becoming less marketable to said companies. Why is that, a number of reasons but mainly the piss poor quality of our education system.
Of those 80,000 Americans I'd bet a good number of them cared less where they'd work after endless months of unemployment
Great so Cisco is supposed to jump at hiring someone who after months of failure says well I guess Cisco is alright, ill try there, over a very enthusiastic H-1B that pushed really really hard to get an interview and a chance at Cisco because it was their first choice? Im assuming you think this is the case because well hiring an American even though he had little real interest in working in cisco is infinitely better than hiring a foreigner..
As for Cisco certs.. which makes more sense: bringing an Engineer in from overseas or training one that's already living here?
All of this hinges on the fact that these Americans obviously did not look to Cisco as there first choice. If I'm making a decision about hiring someone especially when we are talking about a long term investment in training I'm looking for someone who will stay long enough for it to pay off. Sorry but your American who can't find the job they want so they apply with me looks a whole lot less attractive than a H-1B trying his hardest to work for Cisco not because he needs a job to feed himself but just because its Cisco...
Desire and drive to work at a place is probably the most underestimated factor in getting hired. Go to a job interview and say to the interviewer, well its a job, i dont want to be here i just need to feed myself. see how far that gets you..
Worse, Cisco has also demanded that it be allowed to hire foreign engineers from India and China. According to Cisco management, it absolutely needs H-1B engineers in order to be competitive and has continued to hire H-1B engineers, never minding that 80,000 Americans were unemployed in Silicon Valley during the 2001-2003 recession.
Yes this is horrible because all 80,000 of these Americans deeply wanted to work for Cisco and oddly enough all 80,000 of them were perfectly qualified to do so... Also what the parent forgot to mention is that all 80,000 of them had all available Cisco certs.. holy crap cisco boned america on this one...
Get a clue I'm tired of fools using stats like this to claim companies dont need H-1B engineers... You simply dont have any idea how complex the workforce actually is, why dont you come back to the real world, being in touch with reality results in making yourself look like less of an ass..
umm yeah a very good reason... If you incrementally add features through a service that checks to see if you have pirated software it makes pirated junk less and less useful encouraging you to actually buy the game instead of yanking it off of kazaa..
I think the original poster was trying to point out a more subtle way of change than you seem to think appropriate. Lets say we slowly infiltrate chinese culture with american culture by opening up trade and ignoring there civil rights violations. They build McDonalds, Burger Kings, Walmarts... The little chinese kids begin to wear Levi's and old navy. At first there would be much resistance to this culture change, but 20 to 40 years later, influx of "america" companies and ideas and news because so prevalent its considered normal.
Now you might say well this won't work your being naive blah blah blah... Well your wrong and there are concrete examples of where this worked. Christianity is so prevalent now because of what I just discussed. Missionaries would erect churchs in impoverished countries and offer food, schooling, medicine at these churchs.. oh you want some of this, sure no problem, need shelter no problem.. but while your here listen to what i have to say.. What they didnt do is show up with a gun and say worship and subscribe to my way of thinking or die(some of them did).. they also didnt show up and say we wont help you unless you agree with us(again some of them did).. they said.. take our help.. but im gonna talk to you while we help you... most of them however did this less intrusive more forward thinking method..
The naivity is thinking that military action or economic sanctions have any positive effect in the long run.. What it comes down to is that military action, direct threats are remembered and dwelled upon for a long time.. they create wounds that people wont forget.. people will rebel against authority naturally so instead of giving these people a foreign authority to hate and demonize why dont we just play completely nice and help them.. become their friends and the natural tendencies of humans to rebel will be directed at there own government instead of the US
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Most cars(probably all) are used for speeding and breaking various other road laws, let's ban those as well.
I have the PC in my bedroom, it is less than 8 feet from my bed. I ponied up the extra money to get a quiet case and quiet fans. The antec black quiet case is excellent and you can even buy it from Best buy for around $100. You honestly cannot hear this thing, at first I had trouble deciding if it was actually running any of its fans but it is, no overheating and no noise.
Last time i rebooted my linux machine was 25 days ago(updated kernel from 2.4.18). Prior to that it had an uptime of 179 days. Not sure I care a whole lot about boot speed since i do it so infrequently. And honestly if your constantly rebooting and starting your linux machine something is wrong. I would however like to see my OS X machine boot faster...
Yes since 1) all tracks are not available 2) use of these DRM laden tracks is extremely restricted. The so called fair use of these tracks is the most annoying part, why should i pay a buck for a song that I can legally only hear on X number of computers, and only using X technology thats just plane rediculous.
And it's not greed that makes users turn a blind eye to legitimate online digital music offerings in favor of illegal file trading for free?
Nope. Studies have shown that the majority of people download stuff that they wouldn't buy anyways. Downloading mp3's has replaced radio. I don't need to pay for radio, radio increases exposure. The solution to this would be to require these p2p companies to pay a portion of advertising take to record labels.
This anti-establishment mentality people have manages to convince them that ownership is only important if the owner is poor. Steal from the rich, but never the poor.
Well anyone who would say stealing $5 from Bill Gates is just as bad as stealing $5 from the homeless guy who needs that for food is just plain kidding themselves or heartless. I'm sorry but impact should determine how bad a crime is.
The problem with you is that you'd consider Robin Hood to be a horrible man one that should be facing the gallows. You don't take into account that the rich and powerful use there influence to exploit the weak and poor while at the same time make it legal for them to do so(the rich control the government). I'm sorry but ownership should be tipped in the scales of the poor in order to offset the fact that the rich can afford better legal representation(in our adversarial system this matters alot) and honestly just because the poor need it more.
Basically the reason people steal music is that the industry has failed to provide the service to us adaquately. Its not the users fault, they aren't evil. Greed is the only reason why we have suits and arrests right now, the RIAA refuses to address the problem and instead is fighting a war they can't win(sound familiar see: War on drugs). Furthermore everything seems to indicate that music and film piracy has little effect on overall sales and honestly I don't see metallica starving, maybe if they bought less coke they wouldn't need the tiny bit of extra cash... You can come back and say what about the indie artists all you want, if anything this increases exposure and sales...
Also, in america it isnt libel if its a claim that no one would reasonably believe(which is why the onion can say what is does, also parody is protected. Also because of Americas libel laws it is EXTREMELY hard for public figures to win a libel suit. A good example is the Falwell vs Flynt case which everyone should be familiar with if not here is some info on it Falwell v Flint.
In America, it is not libel if its true(or not lying as you say).
No thats whats good about libel laws. This stemmed from the fact that in the 1770's in england libel was still libel even if what was said was true. So if you were a nanny and you molested children and I told your clients that you molested children and they fired you, you could claim libel against me and that was acceptable to the court I'd be paying you for lost wages even though you had no right to there services.
The founding fathers realized however that this is crap, newspapers and citizens need to be able to report the truth no matter how damaging it is to public figures.
If you want, go back to a society where you are afraid to speak the truth about public figures for fear of getting sued. I sure as hell won't.
At long last my search for a sig is over.. All hail Sc00ter the modern day Yogi Berra...
Different programs for different uses, CinePaint is not a replacement for all software and that includes video editing/authoring software(including proprietary).
Its funny that I find people who generally make these statements do not work regularly with the applications they are talking about. To be honest the philosophy behind the software is not a decision I use the best tool for the job and honestly I'm not too cheap to pay for good software. You can pull the blanket over your eyes and pretend like open source completely replaces proprietary software but it doesnt.(PERIOD) I will however state that GIMP is far superior to Photoshop IMHO.
I must say this stuff is very forgiving and for the kinds of actions like open, close it works great. It however does not take dictation very well, and honestly I don't expect/want it to. What i would like to be able to do is say "computer record until monkey... say my bit monkey.. computer send last message to email friends name" and then that thing just sends that wav or mp3 or aac or whatever to my pal... And you know what with a short(reasonably) applescript I can...
I'd hardly classify that as painful as I'd consider that to be less hot than acceptable bathwater. Also consider a sauna which for most people the ideal temperature is 180-200.
For the most part, big deal, all of current security procedures will be harmful ie compromised in the future...
Have you ever tried simply turning off the tv, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
My attitude is to make the users suffer and then blame there browsing habits when they piss and moan about the computer being slow(as though its my fault). Eventually I'm hoping my boss will either switch to firefox or hold safe browsing education sessions that are mandatory. Preferably both..
Right. Some tricks they use is considering you employed if you don't come talk to career placement or stop talking to them. Thats how they doctor the job offer rate, they also include things that aren't real jobs for a CS person. The average salary however is less doctorable, since it requires you to report back to career planning with your offer letter. Only those they receive are counted.
The whole point is that the poster failed to show this... The original poster claimed that since 80,000 Americans in the area and unemployed there are people cisco would want in that pool. What the poster failed to realize is that Cisco is looking for very very specific candidates. The poster assumes that all these candidates lost there jobs because companies like Cisco outsource and hire H-1B's... The poster assumes that all 80,000 are well rounded good employees that Cisco wants. The poster assumes that all 80,000 want to work for cisco.
My point was that if you are going to make blanket statements you should at least examine what it is you are saying. The poster did not, he wrongly assumed that all 80,000 people could just be tossed to cisco like you would wrenchs to a mechanic. The original poster is indeed acting a fool.
Furthermore claims that H-1B's get paid way less is largely innaccurate. Have you worked along side H-1B's who have the same title and been at the company as long as you have? If so ask to compare salaries with them and see what you find out. I think you will be surprised.
What it comes down to is that the original poster provided no proof just spouted a bunch of nonsense and a figure without backing it up with a source that showed exactly what that 80,000 meant. I wonder how many of those 80,000 actually applied at Cisco? Ever think of that one? Wouldn't that be an interesting piece of information to know? No because you see the original poster was not interesting in bringing attention to anything he was just interested in blindly attacking Cisco over a "religious" feeling about outsourcing. Without understanding at all what he was talking about.
Evidence: Average salary of BS in CS from NMT $70,750 Source, versus $38,000 for LSU Source
This obvious is affected by location, parterships the school has, connections professors have, quality of program, reputation, etc..(doesnt really matter what affects it, this is the bottom line) My advice to you find the school that has the highest rate of successful placement of CS majors and the highest average salary and go to either one or the one if they happen to match and I expect they will.. MIT anyone?
Why not look at is in driving wages up in the countries these people come from. US monopoly on high wages has to end at some point with globalization.
the problem is that computer science is so diluted in our schools because our younger children don't learn math properly. Colleges started dropping some of the Math requiremetns for CS because of this, because there students couldnt handle the classes. But instead the norm is to shove these kids along wihtout having proper math and critical thinking skills.
Read The deliberate dumbing down of america by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt...
We could go back and forth all day without convincing eachother but personally I think we shouldn't limit the number of foreign workers and immigrants and we should make naturalization much much easier. (I was born in America by the way before I get accused of anything) Getting Americans hired over foreigners starts in schools, if we want Americans to be hired lets at least make there education and oppurtunities better to give them an advantage instead of this artificial advantage of limiting immigrants which does nothing but make it harder for companies to find acceptable candidates.
Lets face it, the reason why Americans are unemployed isnt because companies are hiring more foreigners. Its because Americans are becoming less marketable to said companies. Why is that, a number of reasons but mainly the piss poor quality of our education system.
Great so Cisco is supposed to jump at hiring someone who after months of failure says well I guess Cisco is alright, ill try there, over a very enthusiastic H-1B that pushed really really hard to get an interview and a chance at Cisco because it was their first choice? Im assuming you think this is the case because well hiring an American even though he had little real interest in working in cisco is infinitely better than hiring a foreigner..
As for Cisco certs.. which makes more sense: bringing an Engineer in from overseas or training one that's already living here?
All of this hinges on the fact that these Americans obviously did not look to Cisco as there first choice. If I'm making a decision about hiring someone especially when we are talking about a long term investment in training I'm looking for someone who will stay long enough for it to pay off. Sorry but your American who can't find the job they want so they apply with me looks a whole lot less attractive than a H-1B trying his hardest to work for Cisco not because he needs a job to feed himself but just because its Cisco...
Desire and drive to work at a place is probably the most underestimated factor in getting hired. Go to a job interview and say to the interviewer, well its a job, i dont want to be here i just need to feed myself. see how far that gets you..
Yes this is horrible because all 80,000 of these Americans deeply wanted to work for Cisco and oddly enough all 80,000 of them were perfectly qualified to do so... Also what the parent forgot to mention is that all 80,000 of them had all available Cisco certs.. holy crap cisco boned america on this one...
Get a clue I'm tired of fools using stats like this to claim companies dont need H-1B engineers... You simply dont have any idea how complex the workforce actually is, why dont you come back to the real world, being in touch with reality results in making yourself look like less of an ass..
umm yeah a very good reason... If you incrementally add features through a service that checks to see if you have pirated software it makes pirated junk less and less useful encouraging you to actually buy the game instead of yanking it off of kazaa..
Now you might say well this won't work your being naive blah blah blah... Well your wrong and there are concrete examples of where this worked. Christianity is so prevalent now because of what I just discussed. Missionaries would erect churchs in impoverished countries and offer food, schooling, medicine at these churchs.. oh you want some of this, sure no problem, need shelter no problem.. but while your here listen to what i have to say.. What they didnt do is show up with a gun and say worship and subscribe to my way of thinking or die(some of them did).. they also didnt show up and say we wont help you unless you agree with us(again some of them did).. they said.. take our help.. but im gonna talk to you while we help you... most of them however did this less intrusive more forward thinking method..
The naivity is thinking that military action or economic sanctions have any positive effect in the long run.. What it comes down to is that military action, direct threats are remembered and dwelled upon for a long time.. they create wounds that people wont forget.. people will rebel against authority naturally so instead of giving these people a foreign authority to hate and demonize why dont we just play completely nice and help them.. become their friends and the natural tendencies of humans to rebel will be directed at there own government instead of the US