What my question was getting at, was, -- I assume most other people feel the same way, so they (you) must therefore NOT think that eg working for Microsoft is the Wrong Thing To Do. I just wonder how that works... that's all.
How is working for MS the 'Wrong Thing To Do'? I don't work for MS but I'm sure everyone working there is just feeding their families like everyone else. What makes that wrong? It's just a job. Sure MS is no angel but that's hardly the fault of the guys down the bottom. Also there's a lot of other proprietry software houses out there that's run in a perfectly ethical manner. And there's Free software houses that's dirty as your mother's underwear. Who the fuck are you to judge where others work?
Free software hippy. I swear this FS crowd gets more radical every day. I seriously wonder how long it will be before the first Free Software hippy staps a bomb to his chest and walks into some MS facility. Idiots.
Instead of showing off your 12 year old IQ why don't you wake up and remember that 99.9% of spam does not have a valid reply-to or from adress and thus those 'mailbox does not exist' messages will go nowhere. Most zombie spam / virus mails these days forge the headers to look like they came from one of your contacts, so MSC will compound the problem by spamming a random friend whenever you get spam.
Ogg is for dirty hippies. This software was created by dirty hippies. Therefore, all dirty hippies like ogg. Simple logic, my friend.
Haha! It's funny because it's true.
No seriously, OGG falls under 'it ain't broke, don't fuck with it' department when compared to MP3. So OGG is slightly more efficient than MP3. So What. Nobody outside of the dirty hippy community gives a shit if their player supports OGG. Hell 95% of the general public have never even heard of OGG.
You're forgetting that most spamvertised sites are scams, so they don't care if they get a bad reputation since they'll have a new name in a couple of days.
If you don't upload at LEAST as much as you download, then we don't want you on Bittorrent. Please go download somewhere else. You're probably one of those people that caused the downfall of other P2P systems by downloading and not sharing.
If you upload less than what you're downloading, then you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Well that depends on how many domains we're talking about. This will make them millions in revenue for what? Doing NOTHING. That's the kind of business I want!
'Hey we're short $30 mil. And I want a new Ferrari. Let's levy 75c on.net domains!'
Another cool thing about the EU's positioning system is that it can potentially be used to land commercial planes on auto-pilot. This is currently not possible with the GPS system because it's controlled by the US army. With a few year's tech advances behind us, the Galileo system should be way more accurate and predictable, making human pilots almost redundant. Perhaps in the not-too distant future we'll only need one on-boad pilot, with co-pilots assigned via remote control only when needed (i.e. when the plane is not on auto-pilot)
Cha-ching! This is a choice I had to make not long ago buying a DELL server. I could not understand how RH was planning on competing with Server 2003 with their pricing. Stupid! For me (Windows experience) I'll only consider RH if it will save me a significant amount of money over Windows server. The way it's priced on DELL makes getting 2003 a no-brainer in my case.
A malicious person can create 2 files with the same checksum. So I can create a useful app and let it loose over P2P. Once everyone trusts the app I can exchange it with my malicious one. No-one will know that it's changed and will get 0wned! Yay!
You don't need to give out your email to get spam. I get loads of spam because someone that had my email address in their Outhouse contact list got 0wned by some worm / virus / spyware which distibuted my address to some big spammer somewhere.
Getting spam is not always your own fault. Although it is pretty stupid to use your real email address to sign up for anything on the web.
Over the last 2 years I hired / fired a couple of dozen developers. I don't know how you do it, but it's virtually impossible to judge 'experience' from a couple of hours' worth of interview time. If a guy tells me he has 6 years experience working for this and that company doing X and Y that OFTEN means NOTHING. I can't tell if he was any good or if he sucked at those jobs. Just because he's been doing it for X years does not mean he's a guru now.
On the other hand if he has a degree I can say with a fair amount of confidence that he has a decent baseline competency. Why? Because to get a degree you have to pass exams, practicals, etc. Someone with at least a B.Sc.Hons. is perfect - I know that this is his passion, and that he can think for himself, etc. Maybe he's never worked with technology X before, but I know he'll be able to adapt and pick it up becuase he's been taught the theory and not specific (almost obsolote) programming languages / technologies.
Someone that's been doing only PHP for 6 years as his only experience can't suddenly start writing high-quality OO code, but a university graduate I KNOW was taught good OO and other coding practices. A lot of this stuff does NOT come natural with experience - especially if you're working alone.
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What my question was getting at, was, -- I assume most other people feel the same way, so they (you) must therefore NOT think that eg working for Microsoft is the Wrong Thing To Do. I just wonder how that works... that's all.
How is working for MS the 'Wrong Thing To Do'? I don't work for MS but I'm sure everyone working there is just feeding their families like everyone else. What makes that wrong? It's just a job. Sure MS is no angel but that's hardly the fault of the guys down the bottom. Also there's a lot of other proprietry software houses out there that's run in a perfectly ethical manner. And there's Free software houses that's dirty as your mother's underwear. Who the fuck are you to judge where others work?
Free software hippy. I swear this FS crowd gets more radical every day. I seriously wonder how long it will be before the first Free Software hippy staps a bomb to his chest and walks into some MS facility. Idiots.
Instead of showing off your 12 year old IQ why don't you wake up and remember that 99.9% of spam does not have a valid reply-to or from adress and thus those 'mailbox does not exist' messages will go nowhere. Most zombie spam / virus mails these days forge the headers to look like they came from one of your contacts, so MSC will compound the problem by spamming a random friend whenever you get spam.
Slashdot readers using 7 year-old kiddie-txt shorthand? When did this happen?
You, sir, are an idiot.
Ogg is for dirty hippies. This software was created by dirty hippies. Therefore, all dirty hippies like ogg. Simple logic, my friend.
Haha! It's funny because it's true.
No seriously, OGG falls under 'it ain't broke, don't fuck with it' department when compared to MP3. So OGG is slightly more efficient than MP3. So What. Nobody outside of the dirty hippy community gives a shit if their player supports OGG. Hell 95% of the general public have never even heard of OGG.
Your summery sucks.
You're forgetting that most spamvertised sites are scams, so they don't care if they get a bad reputation since they'll have a new name in a couple of days.
That sound like a winner! Where can I get it?
It's funny because it's true.
I, for one, welcome our new iPod sharing overlords.
It has a 1500cc engine AND an electric motor, and it could only do 130? I've done 150 in a 1100cc car! No turbo or anything. 130 is pathetic.
Yea I know it has to carry all the extra weight of the electric motor / batteries, but these cars are supposed to be more efficient, right?
Not impressed.
As usual the coral link is worse than the site.
If only it looked a bit better. It's not as ugly as some of the other players but next to the iPod mini it does come second.
If you don't upload at LEAST as much as you download, then we don't want you on Bittorrent. Please go download somewhere else. You're probably one of those people that caused the downfall of other P2P systems by downloading and not sharing.
If you upload less than what you're downloading, then you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Well that depends on how many domains we're talking about. This will make them millions in revenue for what? Doing NOTHING. That's the kind of business I want!
.net domains!'
'Hey we're short $30 mil. And I want a new Ferrari. Let's levy 75c on
'Yea! Then I can get a new boat!'
'And next year we can make it $1!'
'Or we can pick another root domain to tax.'
'W00t!'
Well they DO build LOADS of robots to automate their production lines, so I'm not that surprised.
Another cool thing about the EU's positioning system is that it can potentially be used to land commercial planes on auto-pilot. This is currently not possible with the GPS system because it's controlled by the US army. With a few year's tech advances behind us, the Galileo system should be way more accurate and predictable, making human pilots almost redundant. Perhaps in the not-too distant future we'll only need one on-boad pilot, with co-pilots assigned via remote control only when needed (i.e. when the plane is not on auto-pilot)
Go EU!
The young hip kids all have Beowulf clustered brain-scanner implants built from LEGO.
I believe in this case the EULA did in fact state that other adware apps may be deleted as part of the install process.
Cha-ching! This is a choice I had to make not long ago buying a DELL server. I could not understand how RH was planning on competing with Server 2003 with their pricing. Stupid! For me (Windows experience) I'll only consider RH if it will save me a significant amount of money over Windows server. The way it's priced on DELL makes getting 2003 a no-brainer in my case.
A malicious person can create 2 files with the same checksum. So I can create a useful app and let it loose over P2P. Once everyone trusts the app I can exchange it with my malicious one. No-one will know that it's changed and will get 0wned! Yay!
You don't need to give out your email to get spam. I get loads of spam because someone that had my email address in their Outhouse contact list got 0wned by some worm / virus / spyware which distibuted my address to some big spammer somewhere. Getting spam is not always your own fault. Although it is pretty stupid to use your real email address to sign up for anything on the web.
Yes please. I pledge $500 towards the hosting / development / running of a service like this.
Over the last 2 years I hired / fired a couple of dozen developers. I don't know how you do it, but it's virtually impossible to judge 'experience' from a couple of hours' worth of interview time. If a guy tells me he has 6 years experience working for this and that company doing X and Y that OFTEN means NOTHING. I can't tell if he was any good or if he sucked at those jobs. Just because he's been doing it for X years does not mean he's a guru now. On the other hand if he has a degree I can say with a fair amount of confidence that he has a decent baseline competency. Why? Because to get a degree you have to pass exams, practicals, etc. Someone with at least a B.Sc.Hons. is perfect - I know that this is his passion, and that he can think for himself, etc. Maybe he's never worked with technology X before, but I know he'll be able to adapt and pick it up becuase he's been taught the theory and not specific (almost obsolote) programming languages / technologies. Someone that's been doing only PHP for 6 years as his only experience can't suddenly start writing high-quality OO code, but a university graduate I KNOW was taught good OO and other coding practices. A lot of this stuff does NOT come natural with experience - especially if you're working alone.
My videophone can do decent recordings with sound. It can record to SD so if you have a big card you can record a home movie if you want.