This being the Web, parent could have saved a bunch of my bandwidth and mouse-scrolling time by doing what you just did. Interesting article, but a link and maybe a short summary is just fine, thanks.
Ya know, it could be worse. My HS also forced me to take comp lit, but in my case we had a lab full of Apple II's (this was 1990-91-ish). Our teacher (who moonlighted as the school guidance counsellor) taught directly out of a book, and had to ask ME to clarify things he didn't understand well enough to teach. I'd had an Apple II at home for years prior, so I was actually capable of answering, and thus the concepts were conveyed...although I doubt anyone in the class now can recall any of it, between the teacher's own inaptitude and their inability to take instruction from a classmate at that age. I did make out with a 100% grade for 12 consecutive terms (all of them), so at least it brought up my average, but otherwise, the class had no utility whatsoever, for myself or for the other students.
But Saturday would be a bizarre day of the week for Apple to do any product introduction, as they wouldn't get enough press coverage. Apple announcements are historically made on Tuesdays.
An anniversary is special, though. It's not like they come every year.
I've noticed virtually every comment refers to the bootlegging of software as 'piracy'. These are not our words, but the words of the propaganda machine, and yet we seem to be using them as our own. The bootlegger in question appears to have been selling their bootlegged wares (warez?), which certainly makes them the lowest level of scum, giving the rest of the casual bootleggers a bad name, but a 'pirate'? When did we drink the Kool-Aid and accept this word as the right term for this kind of activity?
Not trying to be a grammar nazi, I just hate to see the propaganda machine scoring a win, and I see many threads in other discussions disputing the use of 'piracy' as it relates to downloaded music.
Good for you (and your daughter)! I do hope that you included a bit of education for your child about how, while in this specific situation, violence is probably the best answer to violence, outside the microcosm of public school and bullies, it is not. I'd hate to see your daughter grow up to be some kind of street vigilante. How did you communicate this to her in a way she could understand (I know I had a hard time understanding souble standards when I was young)? I'm not trolling, I just like your approach and may use it myself when the situation arises with my own children, and would like to know more about how you dealt with it, since it sounds like your outcome was positive.
I guess it all depends what your server is serving. My server streams video around my house, and I have a GeForce in it to help with the video decoding.
Well, at 4 frames per day, I could probably keep up with my buddies on an online shooter.....I might actually win a few rounds, with 6 hours between frames to think about what to do next.
If they'll let me pay $10 a month to prioritize VoIP, can I pay them $10 to prioritize my bittorrent packets? Or can I use the VoIP prioritization to sidestep their traffic shaping.
Since Christmas, torrent traffic has been badly shaped on Shaw...when it takes 72 hours to download the just-released Gentoo install CD from their tracker, you know something's wrong. It's not like it wasn't well-seeded....
Hmm. An interesting thought. Perhaps the definition of 'productivity' in things like law enforcement and security needs to be revised (or at least the perception of that definition). The best security I can think of is not needing any security and still being secure.
Perhaps these semi-annual reviews could be complemented by reviews over a longer term, reviews that look at both the work of the employee under review as well as the ramifications it has had. Employees with too many false positives over time could be disciplined, let go, or even charged themselves if they went beyond the bounds. Won't fix anything in the short term, of course, but a properly implemented system could reduce the zealousness you describe, in time, and help protect us from our own 'security'.
I think they will. BD-ROM films might not work 100%, but the media and drive will likely be well-supported. Unless Sony plans to abandon their Linux hobby kit plans.
Besides (and correct me if I'm wrong), won't the PS3 be using the linux kernel in some form?
Or push it our the back through some high-speed interconnect (external SATA?). That would seem to avoid the going-back-in slowdown, if the eSATA controller was on the AGP card...
There's a cool idea. I have a multi-port PCI NIC, and I tend to do a lot of streaming around the house...it'd be handy to push out 8x the bandwidth over the LAN without being bottle-necked by the shared PCI bus. I wonder how hard it would be to adapt to AGP for that kind of use *gets his soldering iron*
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No, no, that's a flaw in X10, not X11. That missing remote behaviour is an undocumented feature.
This being the Web, parent could have saved a bunch of my bandwidth and mouse-scrolling time by doing what you just did. Interesting article, but a link and maybe a short summary is just fine, thanks.
Did you try it with Wine? Not flamebait, just curious if it'll run...
Ya know, it could be worse. My HS also forced me to take comp lit, but in my case we had a lab full of Apple II's (this was 1990-91-ish). Our teacher (who moonlighted as the school guidance counsellor) taught directly out of a book, and had to ask ME to clarify things he didn't understand well enough to teach. I'd had an Apple II at home for years prior, so I was actually capable of answering, and thus the concepts were conveyed...although I doubt anyone in the class now can recall any of it, between the teacher's own inaptitude and their inability to take instruction from a classmate at that age. I did make out with a 100% grade for 12 consecutive terms (all of them), so at least it brought up my average, but otherwise, the class had no utility whatsoever, for myself or for the other students.
How the heck does one reverse-engineer a logo? I can see it now:
:)
Engineering team in Room A, "Um, it's a logo. It's function is to make people think of SCO."
Engineering team in Room B, after being told the specifications required, draws a picture of a little pile of dog turd, with flies.
Clean room reverse engineering at it's finest.
Did you pull that right out of the playbook for front line support techs? It has that canned, almost-but-not-quite-helpful ring to it...
But Saturday would be a bizarre day of the week for Apple to do any product introduction, as they wouldn't get enough press coverage. Apple announcements are historically made on Tuesdays.
An anniversary is special, though. It's not like they come every year.
Not only that, but our Mike Geist is willing to post as other than an Anonymous Coward. ;)
I've noticed virtually every comment refers to the bootlegging of software as 'piracy'. These are not our words, but the words of the propaganda machine, and yet we seem to be using them as our own. The bootlegger in question appears to have been selling their bootlegged wares (warez?), which certainly makes them the lowest level of scum, giving the rest of the casual bootleggers a bad name, but a 'pirate'? When did we drink the Kool-Aid and accept this word as the right term for this kind of activity?
Not trying to be a grammar nazi, I just hate to see the propaganda machine scoring a win, and I see many threads in other discussions disputing the use of 'piracy' as it relates to downloaded music.
Good for you (and your daughter)! I do hope that you included a bit of education for your child about how, while in this specific situation, violence is probably the best answer to violence, outside the microcosm of public school and bullies, it is not. I'd hate to see your daughter grow up to be some kind of street vigilante. How did you communicate this to her in a way she could understand (I know I had a hard time understanding souble standards when I was young)? I'm not trolling, I just like your approach and may use it myself when the situation arises with my own children, and would like to know more about how you dealt with it, since it sounds like your outcome was positive.
oh, come on. A vulcan would never store his gym shorts in someone elses locker.
I guess it all depends what your server is serving. My server streams video around my house, and I have a GeForce in it to help with the video decoding.
I was laughing my ass off until I saw who you were, then I kinda got a cold chill....
Well, at 4 frames per day, I could probably keep up with my buddies on an online shooter.....I might actually win a few rounds, with 6 hours between frames to think about what to do next.
Wow, that actually worked. Thank you, whoever you are.
Please stop trolling The Associated Press for news.
Note to you: please stop trolling Slashdot.
It amuses me that this story was tagged 'piracy', but not 'fair use'. I guess even us Slashdotters have been sucked in by the propaganda.
Shakespeare didn't write the Bible. Too bad...it might have been funnier.
If they'll let me pay $10 a month to prioritize VoIP, can I pay them $10 to prioritize my bittorrent packets? Or can I use the VoIP prioritization to sidestep their traffic shaping.
Since Christmas, torrent traffic has been badly shaped on Shaw...when it takes 72 hours to download the just-released Gentoo install CD from their tracker, you know something's wrong. It's not like it wasn't well-seeded....
"More cost-efficient facilities"? Did they just skip all the steps and set up their headquarters in a federal prison?
Hmm. An interesting thought. Perhaps the definition of 'productivity' in things like law enforcement and security needs to be revised (or at least the perception of that definition). The best security I can think of is not needing any security and still being secure.
Perhaps these semi-annual reviews could be complemented by reviews over a longer term, reviews that look at both the work of the employee under review as well as the ramifications it has had. Employees with too many false positives over time could be disciplined, let go, or even charged themselves if they went beyond the bounds. Won't fix anything in the short term, of course, but a properly implemented system could reduce the zealousness you describe, in time, and help protect us from our own 'security'.
I doubt it.
I think they will. BD-ROM films might not work 100%, but the media and drive will likely be well-supported. Unless Sony plans to abandon their Linux hobby kit plans.
Besides (and correct me if I'm wrong), won't the PS3 be using the linux kernel in some form?
then send back the compressed data.
Or push it our the back through some high-speed interconnect (external SATA?). That would seem to avoid the going-back-in slowdown, if the eSATA controller was on the AGP card...
There's a cool idea. I have a multi-port PCI NIC, and I tend to do a lot of streaming around the house...it'd be handy to push out 8x the bandwidth over the LAN without being bottle-necked by the shared PCI bus. I wonder how hard it would be to adapt to AGP for that kind of use *gets his soldering iron*