At my place of work, I have seen a general form of apathy given to our tech. sector folks. At first they were very cherished, and salaries would be paid to them in kind without any sort of thought. Now, the business leaders (jerks) want results before pay, and overtime with little or no compensation. Granted, these are not Linux/Unix Admins, and the Network admins aren't handling $600,000 routers - but nonetheless, they don't get as much respect as they used to. I feel mainly this is due to stagnation, and due to people's apathy about the tech. sector. They don't see it as a cure all, but an obligatory part of society now. I imagine in the future that more of this will come about as kids get older. In short, they just know how to do more...and thus the mystery behind technology...vansihes. Unless some extrodinarily astounding tech. innovations come to pass, I can see this being the case. (I'm talking moving shit with our minds - BIG shit, not cursors.)
You know....why do we even try? Tangible, or not...it doesn't matter. Taxing downloads is like taxing air. This is pretty ludicrous. Leave it to politicians though....they'll try to tax underpants next. I'm sure Gnome Lobbyists wll object.
I find it funny, b/c my friends are still shelling out hundreds of dollars for M$ Office. At this point, I've decided never to pay again for an Office suite as long as Openoffice.org is around. There's no point. What I do not get, is why people are still acting stuck up when they say they use "M$ Office Professional." So, you can mail merge...OH wait OO.org can do that too...and you can play Pac Man in Excel...good for you...lol.
I don't watch TV , so I could care less about the broadcast flag, as I can build a PC to do that job. I also expect a variety of PVR broadcast flag bypassing machines to be available sometime soon. I do however care about the freedom of the web. I am glad someone upstairs isn't thinking with greed on their mind. It's about time they got some balls!
Yeah, I'd try and filter out the egoists, and pessimists here. At least you are trying to make a difference instead of whining about how someone has a five term run. You never know unless you try, that's what I say.
I can suggest using Scribus for making great quality pamphlets. I can suggest using GIMP to touch up those images of yourself with dazzling beauty.
Here is one GREAT meeting software using
Gnome.
I am dang sure there is other software out there, in addition to Skype.
I'm very upset over this, and I take it as a signal that our information handling will only generate more problems as time progresses. I am a bank of america customer, and yeah I have them deal with my credit. If I can't even trust my bank not to lose my data, then what the hell...why am I living in a civilized society then? Why am I not better off fending for myself on some remote island, using a 100% cash based system? The more I ponder, the more I get the feeling big corporations, and government agencies could give two shits about the American Citzens these days. In fact, I bet it is to their benefit that they do not.
No, not less involved - I'm saying that if you can't spot l33t speak off the top of your noggin' - there's something wrong with you.
Thus, my plug about how parents should just hand in their brains given that. It takes more than a damn code, and some internet chat for a kid to turn to violence my friend. Sex, drugs, and booze do NOT live on Counterstrike, EverQuest, or The Sims.
I'll tell you where they do breed though...go check out some poor jock's SUV, or some kid who has a parent that does drugs - and there you'll find problems. You won't find them within some child who loves computer games. As a matter of fact -- the most you'll have to worry about is him becoming a lazy bastard that plays games. Believe me, I was one of them.
And yeah, lastly, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that parents can't, and don't have the time to keep up with every SLIGHTEST DETAIL of their lives - IE their chat patterns! The parents should be SPENDING time with the kids, playing with the kids, seeing movies with the kids, TALKING with the kids, and most of all PARENTING. That's what gets the job done. Reading an online article casually on the fly while browsing a crap corporation website IS NOT where you learn to be a parent. Oh, no. And don't go into the "Internet is a wonderful place to learn things" sector either. Pick up a book, and talk to a shrink - or better yet, spend time with the kid instead of on the web.
...Pathetic thing I have ever read. Quite frankly, if you need to read a primer on how to read l33t speak - you have failed the parenting test. Go turn your kid into the authorities, and sell your brain to the Bill and Melinda Gates Borg Foundation. This really does make me sick. If there are actually parents out there who are this degrading to children, and whom love ignoring their kid's privacy completely, then by all means - keep on MS...keep on screwing up humanity.
Is that the Red Hat server was running Wine, an emulated version of IE, and several versions of MyDOOM variants all at the same time.
Don't forget the cheese spread stuck in the CPU too.
The legislators sure do get a healthy dose of money from M$'s lobbyists don't they? That's exactly why branches like the Navy won't stop using them. I just wish the Justice Department would fall down on top of M$ already. It doesn't make any sense these days. Why am I paying taxes if someone with more money can buy their empire with double talk?
Eh, no taking a processor which they didn't make at all - and making it their own, and stating the "the system is innovative" is crap.
They aren't innovative, and the slashdot audience isn't slamming them for being innovative.
What they are slamming them for is being rude about business practices - which is the "American Way".
There are going to be three versions of the XBox. The first one will be out this year, the second in 2006 in order to compete with PS3, and the last in 2007 to compete with Sony's power play to take over the living room.
Before this is over, your PC, game playing device, and DVD/Movie Player will be at the center of the betting pool for both companies.
And another thing...Halo isn't awe inspiring, and or original. It happens to be a FPS that was configured properly on a console - plain and simple. No company did it before b/c no company incorporated the "internet" into their core business model FROM THE START. FPS games exist b/c of the web - period. Sony dropped the ball, and let the internet slip. So, to repeat: it wasn't innovation - it was a shot in the dark, and they hit the big time.
If one DECENT FPS had been ported to a system with a stable internet crowd, M$ would be looking at discontinuing the system.
What I think is more important about this data, is that the gambling habits of people can be tracked easily. This is probably one of the most powerful marketing, and surveillence tools out there. Knowing how many chips a person likes to carry, and other information is kind of scary. I look at it as an invasion of privacy. There are all sorts of legal matters at stake. In Austin they already are making kids wear RFID dog tags for attendance purposes, now all we need is a casino making sure you have money in your pocket to burn. Watch them deny you a line of credit when they see you blow a mess of chips in less than three minutes, and are able to track where they went.
And I guess the Guild Hall at SMU, and Digipen, are just a bunch of hippies smoking pot and downloading porn. Yeah, right. EA has officially made me classify them as "The Big Evil." Next, you'll be able to get "Electronic Arts Game Certification" licenses. Go AHEAD EA! PAVE THE WAY for a new generation of total idiots with closed minds, and crap skills... MADDEN 4 LYFE! BLING!
I'm waiting for an angry group of Russian mobster geeks to go postal on some U.S. Cyber Crime witnesses. I can see it now "Hax0r hacked in two, two days before testifying in trial."
Now, what would be funny is if they used a rail gun to do it. HEADSHOT.
Is it just me, or does the German interviewer come off a bit slant? I'm not pro-MS or anything (I'm a linux user) but the person asking the questions sounds like someone off of Frontline, or some crap.
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At my place of work, I have seen a general form of apathy given to our tech. sector folks. At first they were very cherished, and salaries would be paid to them in kind without any sort of thought. Now, the business leaders (jerks) want results before pay, and overtime with little or no compensation. Granted, these are not Linux/Unix Admins, and the Network admins aren't handling $600,000 routers - but nonetheless, they don't get as much respect as they used to. I feel mainly this is due to stagnation, and due to people's apathy about the tech. sector. They don't see it as a cure all, but an obligatory part of society now. I imagine in the future that more of this will come about as kids get older. In short, they just know how to do more...and thus the mystery behind technology...vansihes. Unless some extrodinarily astounding tech. innovations come to pass, I can see this being the case. (I'm talking moving shit with our minds - BIG shit, not cursors.)
Move Along Nothing To See Here.
Yeah, won't be long before a subconcious police state has been setup.
You know....why do we even try? Tangible, or not...it doesn't matter. Taxing downloads is like taxing air. This is pretty ludicrous. Leave it to politicians though....they'll try to tax underpants next. I'm sure Gnome Lobbyists wll object.
1. Buy original content at blow out prices.
2. ??????
3. Profit !
Man those underpants Gnomes sure have taught M$ a lot in the last decade.
1. Steal half-broken encryption process that has an impossibly hard name to say. 2. ???? 3. Profit!
I find it funny, b/c my friends are still shelling out hundreds of dollars for M$ Office. At this point, I've decided never to pay again for an Office suite as long as Openoffice.org is around. There's no point. What I do not get, is why people are still acting stuck up when they say they use "M$ Office Professional." So, you can mail merge...OH wait OO.org can do that too...and you can play Pac Man in Excel...good for you...lol.
I don't watch TV , so I could care less about the broadcast flag, as I can build a PC to do that job. I also expect a variety of PVR broadcast flag bypassing machines to be available sometime soon. I do however care about the freedom of the web. I am glad someone upstairs isn't thinking with greed on their mind. It's about time they got some balls!
Now if we can just get flights like these down to cheaper costs... It'd be nice to goto Japan for $50.
I hope he knows we're eternally greatful for his contributions to the world of computing.
Yeah, I'd try and filter out the egoists, and pessimists here. At least you are trying to make a difference instead of whining about how someone has a five term run. You never know unless you try, that's what I say.
There is also Asterisk! http://www.asteriskpbx.com/ Good stuff all around if you have a Linux Man around.
I can suggest using Scribus for making great quality pamphlets. I can suggest using GIMP to touch up those images of yourself with dazzling beauty. Here is one GREAT meeting software using Gnome. I am dang sure there is other software out there, in addition to Skype.
I'm very upset over this, and I take it as a signal that our information handling will only generate more problems as time progresses. I am a bank of america customer, and yeah I have them deal with my credit. If I can't even trust my bank not to lose my data, then what the hell...why am I living in a civilized society then? Why am I not better off fending for myself on some remote island, using a 100% cash based system? The more I ponder, the more I get the feeling big corporations, and government agencies could give two shits about the American Citzens these days. In fact, I bet it is to their benefit that they do not.
No, not less involved - I'm saying that if you can't spot l33t speak off the top of your noggin' - there's something wrong with you.
Thus, my plug about how parents should just hand in their brains given that. It takes more than a damn code, and some internet chat for a kid to turn to violence my friend. Sex, drugs, and booze do NOT live on Counterstrike, EverQuest, or The Sims.
I'll tell you where they do breed though...go check out some poor jock's SUV, or some kid who has a parent that does drugs - and there you'll find problems. You won't find them within some child who loves computer games. As a matter of fact -- the most you'll have to worry about is him becoming a lazy bastard that plays games. Believe me, I was one of them.
And yeah, lastly, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that parents can't, and don't have the time to keep up with every SLIGHTEST DETAIL of their lives - IE their chat patterns! The parents should be SPENDING time with the kids, playing with the kids, seeing movies with the kids, TALKING with the kids, and most of all PARENTING. That's what gets the job done. Reading an online article casually on the fly while browsing a crap corporation website IS NOT where you learn to be a parent. Oh, no. And don't go into the "Internet is a wonderful place to learn things" sector either. Pick up a book, and talk to a shrink - or better yet, spend time with the kid instead of on the web.
...Pathetic thing I have ever read. Quite frankly, if you need to read a primer on how to read l33t speak - you have failed the parenting test. Go turn your kid into the authorities, and sell your brain to the Bill and Melinda Gates Borg Foundation. This really does make me sick. If there are actually parents out there who are this degrading to children, and whom love ignoring their kid's privacy completely, then by all means - keep on MS...keep on screwing up humanity.
Is that the Red Hat server was running Wine, an emulated version of IE, and several versions of MyDOOM variants all at the same time. Don't forget the cheese spread stuck in the CPU too.
The legislators sure do get a healthy dose of money from M$'s lobbyists don't they? That's exactly why branches like the Navy won't stop using them. I just wish the Justice Department would fall down on top of M$ already. It doesn't make any sense these days. Why am I paying taxes if someone with more money can buy their empire with double talk?
Eh, no taking a processor which they didn't make at all - and making it their own, and stating the "the system is innovative" is crap. They aren't innovative, and the slashdot audience isn't slamming them for being innovative. What they are slamming them for is being rude about business practices - which is the "American Way". There are going to be three versions of the XBox. The first one will be out this year, the second in 2006 in order to compete with PS3, and the last in 2007 to compete with Sony's power play to take over the living room. Before this is over, your PC, game playing device, and DVD/Movie Player will be at the center of the betting pool for both companies. And another thing...Halo isn't awe inspiring, and or original. It happens to be a FPS that was configured properly on a console - plain and simple. No company did it before b/c no company incorporated the "internet" into their core business model FROM THE START. FPS games exist b/c of the web - period. Sony dropped the ball, and let the internet slip. So, to repeat: it wasn't innovation - it was a shot in the dark, and they hit the big time. If one DECENT FPS had been ported to a system with a stable internet crowd, M$ would be looking at discontinuing the system.
AHAHAUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
This is the best news article on Slashdot I have ever read in my ENTIRE life. And yes, I am drunk.
What I think is more important about this data, is that the gambling habits of people can be tracked easily. This is probably one of the most powerful marketing, and surveillence tools out there. Knowing how many chips a person likes to carry, and other information is kind of scary. I look at it as an invasion of privacy. There are all sorts of legal matters at stake. In Austin they already are making kids wear RFID dog tags for attendance purposes, now all we need is a casino making sure you have money in your pocket to burn. Watch them deny you a line of credit when they see you blow a mess of chips in less than three minutes, and are able to track where they went.
And I guess the Guild Hall at SMU, and Digipen, are just a bunch of hippies smoking pot and downloading porn. Yeah, right. EA has officially made me classify them as "The Big Evil." Next, you'll be able to get "Electronic Arts Game Certification" licenses. Go AHEAD EA! PAVE THE WAY for a new generation of total idiots with closed minds, and crap skills... MADDEN 4 LYFE! BLING!
I'm waiting for an angry group of Russian mobster geeks to go postal on some U.S. Cyber Crime witnesses. I can see it now "Hax0r hacked in two, two days before testifying in trial."
Now, what would be funny is if they used a rail gun to do it. HEADSHOT.
1)What hawt chix are gonna CosPlay Jobs and Torvalds? 2)Where is the all night Lan Party? Cons=the win!
...this article was concerning space shuttle contract bids cockpit layout / design. Either that, or new discussion on Enterprise weapons systems.
Is it just me, or does the German interviewer come off a bit slant? I'm not pro-MS or anything (I'm a linux user) but the person asking the questions sounds like someone off of Frontline, or some crap.