Professor Weinstein, if you want to know his name.
And a lot of people listened to him and minored in business. The problem is, when companies require x years of experience managing or in engineering/IT to get a job, where will we get those people?
Now we have craploads of protocols and routers to handle them all. Learning about routers and interoperability was probably the best part of my Networking course. Learning protocols like X.25, Kermit, ATM, and how each one of them has to handle encapsulating data. Just think of an ethernet frame fractured into ATM frames, put into TCP/IP and and sent over the internet, and then having to be converted back.
I'm guessing the biggest buyers of antivirus, firewall, and spyware detecting software will be knowledgeable users and corporations. Even if you're talking about AOL users with their default installs, AOL still had to make a deal with MacAfee.
My guess is that most corporations and users will turn off the bundled anti-whatever, and use what they trust. After all, should you trust the company that created the problem after they sat for years without doing much, to solve the problem?
Tell him to turn it down already. Its been said before, but using technology to solve the symptoms (very high volume) instead of fixing the problem (not enforcing the idea that loud = dangerous) is a pretty bad, if not useless, idea.
I put this in the same class of ideas as seatbelt laws and lables on hairdryers warning the user not to operate them while in the shower.
What I honestly wonder about when thinking of computerized voting machines is why its so hard for them to get it right. Just approach it like this:
Q:What do you have to do? A:Provide a voting system that counts the vote totals automatically and reports the results on demand, while being able to prevent that count from being tampered.
So, to provide that, you use a computer to allow the voter to enter information into the standardized onscreen form, then...you provide a printout! The printout would look exactly like a paper ballot and would list what any standard ballot would. You return this ballot to the person who signs in the voters. That way, if the system gets hosed, hacked, or disputed there is a paper trail to follow and no interface issues because the voting machines would be standardized.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to things with a more detailed manufacturing process. Like electronics or complex mechanical devices, not soda, plastic ice cream scoops, or toothpicks.
That's why we're all better off getting DivX players, ripping your TV/DVD collections to DivX and playing them on your player. I've done it with Battlestar, Atlantis, and Stargate. It's much nicer having 20 episodes on 1 disk instead of 5.
People are sympathetic to software patent violations because software patents are stupid and unnecessary. If Microsoft needs to sue someone, how about copyright infringement. The patent system is broken, but at least copyright is broken in a way that isn't conducive to software companies.
Of course you expect something back, I do, everyone does. It's called "thank you" and I know a lot of people whose family members don't even give that, mine included.
I have to say it, your analogy falls down in a few ways.
First I'd like to ask you, how often have you had water damage or other things that a contractor could help out with? And how long did it take to fix these problems? Now, apply that question to how much computer work you did.
Then, consider how you've been asked for help. Was it expected that you'd do computer work and was it expected that your water damage would be fixed? Or, was it asked as if the possible answer might be no?
In the case of computer help, most people demand help from the "techie" family member. That is why nerds are reluctant to help family members.
Not only is it voice over voice, but if its a big topic, its voice over voice over voice.
At least in person, you can better gauge if someone is going to start talking and if you're about to interrupt them. Its not as easy for conference calls.
<jamz> hmm <jamz> I have a bottle of waterless hand cleaner <jamz> for car work and grease and stuff. <jamz> It's almost empty. <jamz> So, in order to stretch it out, I added some water to it. <jamz> In retrospect, not the smartest thing to do. <dan0_> this had better end with an explosion of some kind <jamz> and there was a huge explosion that could be seen from space.
As long as we're reciting obscure key combos, how about Windows+L which locks the workstation or goes to the switch users screen.
To keep it on topic, I like the eye candy of the switch user screen, and that its skinnable.
The closest I got to that was the professor saying that anything they'd be tested on would be in the book. And I stopped taking notes alltogether. The scary thing is, taking notes or not taking notes didn't matter.
There is a valid reason to keep your computer on continuously. And that is because of thermal expansion. Since the circuitry in a motherboard is rather small, and the same holds true for the CPU and motherboard, then the repeated heating and cooling fo these components may make them brittle and more prone to failure.
And, well, think of the CPU time wasted by not downloading from bittorrent and emule (or SETI/Folding@home for the more noble ones out there).
For the simple reason that the user will just go somewhere else that will allow them to use the computer without added work. Users just don't see being part of a botnet a problem as long as it isn't slowing down their computer. And if it is, "its time to upgrade!" Unless there are legal penalties for not blocking bots, nobody is going to sacrifice their userbase so that they look like "smart guys" or "good guys" in the eyes of those in the know.
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Professor Weinstein, if you want to know his name.
And a lot of people listened to him and minored in business. The problem is, when companies require x years of experience managing or in engineering/IT to get a job, where will we get those people?
Now we have craploads of protocols and routers to handle them all. Learning about routers and interoperability was probably the best part of my Networking course. Learning protocols like X.25, Kermit, ATM, and how each one of them has to handle encapsulating data. Just think of an ethernet frame fractured into ATM frames, put into TCP/IP and and sent over the internet, and then having to be converted back.
I'm guessing the biggest buyers of antivirus, firewall, and spyware detecting software will be knowledgeable users and corporations. Even if you're talking about AOL users with their default installs, AOL still had to make a deal with MacAfee.
My guess is that most corporations and users will turn off the bundled anti-whatever, and use what they trust. After all, should you trust the company that created the problem after they sat for years without doing much, to solve the problem?
I'm not defending google, but this is a decision that he decided to make when he went with gmail. I made that same decision, so I'm biased.
All this will probably become moot soon enough, when more governments decide to force ISPs to store all data sent to or from their customers.
And remember, as for email, you have no control over how people store what you sent them or what they sent you.
I'm shocked, dumbfounded, in fact.
Tell him to turn it down already. Its been said before, but using technology to solve the symptoms (very high volume) instead of fixing the problem (not enforcing the idea that loud = dangerous) is a pretty bad, if not useless, idea.
I put this in the same class of ideas as seatbelt laws and lables on hairdryers warning the user not to operate them while in the shower.
What I honestly wonder about when thinking of computerized voting machines is why its so hard for them to get it right. Just approach it like this:
Q:What do you have to do?
A:Provide a voting system that counts the vote totals automatically and reports the results on demand, while being able to prevent that count from being tampered.
So, to provide that, you use a computer to allow the voter to enter information into the standardized onscreen form, then...you provide a printout! The printout would look exactly like a paper ballot and would list what any standard ballot would. You return this ballot to the person who signs in the voters. That way, if the system gets hosed, hacked, or disputed there is a paper trail to follow and no interface issues because the voting machines would be standardized.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to things with a more detailed manufacturing process. Like electronics or complex mechanical devices, not soda, plastic ice cream scoops, or toothpicks.
I remember an old nova special about self-navigating robots, and at first it took about a day to cross a room.
But mostly these robots depend on the assumption that everything remains still.
d. I have the utmost ambitions for this mission, just give me some JD so I can open this Word doc.
That's why we're all better off getting DivX players, ripping your TV/DVD collections to DivX and playing them on your player. I've done it with Battlestar, Atlantis, and Stargate. It's much nicer having 20 episodes on 1 disk instead of 5.
People are sympathetic to software patent violations because software patents are stupid and unnecessary. If Microsoft needs to sue someone, how about copyright infringement. The patent system is broken, but at least copyright is broken in a way that isn't conducive to software companies.
Check the users/bugs ratio between IIS and Apache.
I guess the **AA marketingspeak is really catching on:
"There should be no legal distinction between stealing chewing gum from a shop and performing an illegal download."
Of course you expect something back, I do, everyone does. It's called "thank you" and I know a lot of people whose family members don't even give that, mine included.
I'm sorry I didn't make that more obvious.
I have to say it, your analogy falls down in a few ways.
First I'd like to ask you, how often have you had water damage or other things that a contractor could help out with? And how long did it take to fix these problems? Now, apply that question to how much computer work you did.
Then, consider how you've been asked for help. Was it expected that you'd do computer work and was it expected that your water damage would be fixed? Or, was it asked as if the possible answer might be no?
In the case of computer help, most people demand help from the "techie" family member. That is why nerds are reluctant to help family members.
You haven't gone to too many meetings, have you?
Not only is it voice over voice, but if its a big topic, its voice over voice over voice.
At least in person, you can better gauge if someone is going to start talking and if you're about to interrupt them. Its not as easy for conference calls.
<jamz> hmm
<jamz> I have a bottle of waterless hand cleaner
<jamz> for car work and grease and stuff.
<jamz> It's almost empty.
<jamz> So, in order to stretch it out, I added some water to it.
<jamz> In retrospect, not the smartest thing to do.
<dan0_> this had better end with an explosion of some kind
<jamz> and there was a huge explosion that could be seen from space.
http://www.bash.org/?88661
As long as we're reciting obscure key combos, how about Windows+L which locks the workstation or goes to the switch users screen. To keep it on topic, I like the eye candy of the switch user screen, and that its skinnable.
Well, creating .asf or .wmv files would make anyone want to shower repeatedly.
.asf/.wmv support groups* to start popping up.
I'm just waiting for the
And please mods, realize that suggesting a support group for a file format is indeed a joke.
Dude you're getting an alien?
That's definately forward thinking.
The closest I got to that was the professor saying that anything they'd be tested on would be in the book. And I stopped taking notes alltogether. The scary thing is, taking notes or not taking notes didn't matter.
So for me, paying attention was paramount.
So in other words, libertarianism doesn't fail, people do.
There is a valid reason to keep your computer on continuously. And that is because of thermal expansion. Since the circuitry in a motherboard is rather small, and the same holds true for the CPU and motherboard, then the repeated heating and cooling fo these components may make them brittle and more prone to failure.
And, well, think of the CPU time wasted by not downloading from bittorrent and emule (or SETI/Folding@home for the more noble ones out there).
For the simple reason that the user will just go somewhere else that will allow them to use the computer without added work. Users just don't see being part of a botnet a problem as long as it isn't slowing down their computer. And if it is, "its time to upgrade!" Unless there are legal penalties for not blocking bots, nobody is going to sacrifice their userbase so that they look like "smart guys" or "good guys" in the eyes of those in the know.
"because their husband would rather do himself in front of a picture."
The problem is the guy, not the entertainment. If he'd choose that over making love with his wife, he has other, more pressing mental issues.
I think any slashdotter wouldn't hesitate to to mate with someone 1/10 the attractiveness of a pornstar if given the chance.