Just the sort of thing I want in a computer on my lap. Something to be said for flywheels and lead acid batteries. Pretty much just dump energy into them and they'll sort it out.
You want a flywheel on your lap? No thanks. Just a little imbalance or manufacturing imperfection and watch your private parts turn into shreds.:-)
Huh? Don't forget there are lots of english accents around the world. Around these parts, we say "been" as "bean" which rhymes with "spleen" and "seen".
Ponzi scheme, promoted by benighted utopians and elitists
Does anyone have a link to a translator, such as Babelfish, than can interpret Jon Katz's articles for us dumb slashdot readers? WTF is a ponzi scheme?
Is it just me or would disclosing the details of patents before they're granted revoluti*nize the discovery process for prior art?
I could be wrong, but my understanding of patent law is that in the application process you need to lay out the details of how the patentable product feature works. If the patent is granted, those details become public knowledge. If the patent is denied, those details go back into company secrecy.
So the whole patent system is designed to offer patent holders a return for opening their design secrets - a period of time where they hold a monopoly on that product feature. Obviously if your patent is not granted you do not want to share with your competitors how *you* are doing business.
Cheap: A few sets of Legos
Medium: 1 year of @Home Cable access - $400
Expensive: 2001 BMW M5 w/ all options
Priceless: See my kids for more than an hour each day.
It's my opinion and that's all there is to it. Go ahead, flame me, mod me down, whatever...
As opposed to fact? Anyway, the last sentence is a waste. You *will* get modded down if your comment sucks in the opinion of the moderator. Are you trying to avoid that by stating that the moderator is free to do so??
Just curious why so many posts say "feel free to mod me down"... it isn't your permission that we need.
I once had a tech from Sony tell me to reboot twice. On the second reboot he told me to let the machine sit for one minute so all the "little switches" could reset. Ugh! At that point I was so frustrated with the PCI-modem I did what I was told (it still didn't work).
Yeah, I know working in IT, or programming has its disadvantages. I'm thinking of moving into management or sales myself, might be less work, and more fun. Just bullshit all day, no work.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, eh? I don't know about your company, but I *am* a marketing guy and the people I work with work just as long, do research at home on their own time etc. etc. just like you do.
And if you think sales is all fun and games, well think again. The sales people you see driving BMWs and Porsches or whatever and living it up work really hard for what they do. Sure, it looks like fun but you never see the work they put in. I am sure they say the same things about you techies - getting to play video games, surf the internet, wear jeans and sandals etc.:-) Anyway, I did sales for a while and only the *best* bullshitters are successful, and they let you know it too. You never see the people struggling to make quota or get fired.
Now I am a management type in the US (non-IT right now). The only way I got here was hard work. No 40 hour weeks *ever*. If I had wanted to work in that fashion I would still be making peanuts at the lowest level of my company.
I know this may not apply to the majority of programmers, who would rather stay coding in this good job market, but for other positions that are not so highly valued right now the only way to earn more money, more status, more control is to work harder than the rest of the peon^Hple around you. Oh, and being a brown-noser never hurts.:-)
How come we don't see postings about networks that act strangely and mysteriously, say, sending packets to an nsa.gov box? Wouldn't firewalls detect this type of thing and log it? Or maybe they send the info back to microsoft or something so the traffic looks harmless.
So what current firewall/IP logging software currently does this in an efficient fashion? I am not talking about creating a text log of all the incoming and outgoing traffic because that takes up way too much room. I'd like a database that stores the IP addresses of outgoing packets, and how many times something went there.
Of course, they could have www.yahoo.com and all my packets going there could actually be NSA supersecret packets. Then again, unless Linus and Alan Cox have been turned against us, we don't have to worry about super-secret code, eh?
p.s. Has anyone actually reviewed the code in the kernel to make sure nothing surreptitious is happening?????
Did ya hear him pronounce "subliminal" regarding the RATS commercials?
"Sub limin able"
Doh, when I heard that I thought perhaps he had never even heard the word before. And he wasn't *reading* from a script. This guy may have gone to Yale, but he doesn't appear to smart (and I just might vote for him cause Gore is a spendocrat).
Intel was never really that bad until they decided to put ID numbers on their chips. Then they became like a big imperialistic satan. That is why AMD is so popular around here - they are just an alternative.
That said, I believe that Intel is no longer placing ID numbers on their chips, although quite honestly if they were, we most likely wouldn't know it.
stuart
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Damn! I never knew how to pronounce that. So instead of saying Ki ro sheen, now I know. I feel like a real lamer now...
It's the stereotypical HMO problem again. The doctor knows of a treatment (or in your case, a device) that would improve the quality of life of a patient. The bean-counters back at the main office, however, say no. Can't have quality of life come ahead of profits and shareholder value.
You have no idea how wrong this is. Two points:
#1: The people making the decisions to deny care are medical professionals, just like your GP. In most cases, if challenges on the medical efficacy of a procedure the Medical director and person's physician will confer and agree on a recommended treatment.
#2: If you know this to be true about HMOs, then don't enroll in one. You are welcome to fund your own health care. Just don't expect Uncle Sam or anyone else to bail you out when you get nailed with sickness. For your information, many HMOs cover a whole lot of stuff that didn't use to be covered at all and started the trend towards comprehensive medical insurance... Infertility treatment, Prescription drugs, chiropractic care, preventative care etc.
Anyway, if you *are* a member of an HMO, relax in the knowledge that you are far more likely to be killed in a hospital by accident than you are by an HMO denying you care.
For years I have been sailing in Fischer's Island sound, and there were stories told of a kooky inventor who was worth millions who bought the place. The old lighthouse topped home looks like it has been renovated, there is an old Navy tender tied up to the dock (in Battleship Grey of course), the wind turbine is occasionally turning, and once in a while you will see this really freaky looking amphibious army truck roaming the beach.
It is really a very cool looking place, and you can just *feel* the jealousy on all the boaters floating by.:-) Too bad very few of them know the real story behind the man on the island -- most propbably assume it is old money or some.com investor. Nice to see someone who has earned money the hard way --> risk == return.
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Mark Twain's plan for the improvement of English spelling:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
When you have as many people as there are coding apps and programs (and re-writing the base code) for the flavours of Linux, it's pretty easy to close most, if not all of the security holes that are there.
Actually, I would say the opposite. I have written a small program that needs to be run as root to access the printer port (well, sudo anyway). Since this is a program primarily for me, I don't care about running as root on my PC especially since the machine is behind a firewall.
However, think about *all* the apps that are being coded nowadays for Linux/*nix - don't you think that there are quite a few that could possibly have some security holes? Even if only a small percentage do, with the relative increase in volumne that still means quite a few proggies out there with holes.
Furthermore, while I personally feel more secure knowing that code is open-source and subject to review, you can bet that a lot of the newer users just download the app, make install, and away they go - totally oblivious to the need for *someone* to take a look at the source code.
Make it so that a donation of computers to a refurbisher (like Goodwill, for instance) will return a tax writeof of 100% of original value of the old computers, and we will be able to kiss the Digital Divide goodbye!
And just how would you fund this tax writeoff? You may be among the many American's that don't understand that a tax break is, in essence, just *giving* money to the corporations to accomplish a specific purpose. That's why we have United Way and all the other corporate tax writeoff's now.
Also, 100% of the original value would be stupid, especially since the corporation in question has in most cases *already* taken 100% of the value of that computer in a tax writeoff. It's called depreciation. So, what you will really do is fund new computers for everyone now so that the company can depreciate *200%* of the purchase price of the thing over 7 years (it may be 3 years for computers). Great idea. Not!
However, most of that money is in the hands of a small percentage of the population.
On our intranet, the following was posted this morning:
Presidential candidates may ignore investors, but they do so at their own peril, a new Investor's Business Daily poll shows. The new investor class, defined as those with $10,000 or more in stock market investments, will likely be in the majority when they vote this presidential election. The poll shows more than half of registered voters - 53% - are investors. Just 42% are non-investors. IBDaily, P. 1
Now you tell me, if 53% of registered voters are in the stock market, how is it that you are saying so "few" people have control? I agree with the first poster - everyone has control over their stock purchases, and if even a small percentage of small time investors took action against a targeted company, that target company would make the appropriate changes.
Ack! You must be an old school coder! For your information, you cannot have main not returning an integer in standard C or C++. It is invalid code.
The following links should help refine your coding style. I only mention this because a) I am pedantic, and b) because I happen to believe new programmers reading this list shouldn't have to read crappy, non-compliant code (especially when the C standard has been around more than 10 years):
Slashdot Mirror
Just the sort of thing I want in a computer on my lap. Something to be said for flywheels and lead acid batteries. Pretty much just dump energy into them and they'll sort it out.
:-)
You want a flywheel on your lap? No thanks. Just a little imbalance or manufacturing imperfection and watch your private parts turn into shreds.
Huh? Don't forget there are lots of english accents around the world. Around these parts, we say "been" as "bean" which rhymes with "spleen" and "seen".
Anyway, I thought it was a marvelous job! Brava!
Anyone ever used DirectTV dishes for this sort of thing? I know they are expensive right now, but in the long term they might become cheap.
Thx.
Ponzi scheme, promoted by benighted utopians and elitists
Does anyone have a link to a translator, such as Babelfish, than can interpret Jon Katz's articles for us dumb slashdot readers? WTF is a ponzi scheme?
Is it just me or would disclosing the details of patents before they're granted revoluti*nize the discovery process for prior art?
I could be wrong, but my understanding of patent law is that in the application process you need to lay out the details of how the patentable product feature works. If the patent is granted, those details become public knowledge. If the patent is denied, those details go back into company secrecy.
So the whole patent system is designed to offer patent holders a return for opening their design secrets - a period of time where they hold a monopoly on that product feature. Obviously if your patent is not granted you do not want to share with your competitors how *you* are doing business.
Stuart
Cheap: A few sets of Legos
Medium: 1 year of @Home Cable access - $400
Expensive: 2001 BMW M5 w/ all options
Priceless: See my kids for more than an hour each day.
Not too geeky:
:-)
One of those Scalextric slot car sets for after hours coding breaks. Nothing like trying to beat your cube mate at the Cube500.
I guess all those prayers you guys were arguing about did some good after all!!
Glad to hear that Jason got better.
It's my opinion and that's all there is to it. Go ahead, flame me, mod me down, whatever...
As opposed to fact? Anyway, the last sentence is a waste. You *will* get modded down if your comment sucks in the opinion of the moderator. Are you trying to avoid that by stating that the moderator is free to do so??
Just curious why so many posts say "feel free to mod me down"... it isn't your permission that we need.
And I bet that I won't be able to escape the d*mn TACO BELL/PEPSI/KFC advertisments that spoil the movie
I bet you won't be able to escape the d*mn CmdrTaco advertisements for the movie either.
I once had a tech from Sony tell me to reboot twice. On the second reboot he told me to let the machine sit for one minute so all the "little switches" could reset. Ugh! At that point I was so frustrated with the PCI-modem I did what I was told (it still didn't work).
Yeah, I know working in IT, or programming has its disadvantages. I'm thinking of moving into management or sales myself, might be less work, and more fun. Just bullshit all day, no work.
:-) Anyway, I did sales for a while and only the *best* bullshitters are successful, and they let you know it too. You never see the people struggling to make quota or get fired.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, eh? I don't know about your company, but I *am* a marketing guy and the people I work with work just as long, do research at home on their own time etc. etc. just like you do.
And if you think sales is all fun and games, well think again. The sales people you see driving BMWs and Porsches or whatever and living it up work really hard for what they do. Sure, it looks like fun but you never see the work they put in. I am sure they say the same things about you techies - getting to play video games, surf the internet, wear jeans and sandals etc.
Now I am a management type in the US (non-IT right now). The only way I got here was hard work. No 40 hour weeks *ever*. If I had wanted to work in that fashion I would still be making peanuts at the lowest level of my company.
:-)
I know this may not apply to the majority of programmers, who would rather stay coding in this good job market, but for other positions that are not so highly valued right now the only way to earn more money, more status, more control is to work harder than the rest of the peon^Hple around you. Oh, and being a brown-noser never hurts.
How come we don't see postings about networks that act strangely and mysteriously, say, sending packets to an nsa.gov box? Wouldn't firewalls detect this type of thing and log it? Or maybe they send the info back to microsoft or something so the traffic looks harmless.
So what current firewall/IP logging software currently does this in an efficient fashion? I am not talking about creating a text log of all the incoming and outgoing traffic because that takes up way too much room. I'd like a database that stores the IP addresses of outgoing packets, and how many times something went there.
Of course, they could have www.yahoo.com and all my packets going there could actually be NSA supersecret packets. Then again, unless Linus and Alan Cox have been turned against us, we don't have to worry about super-secret code, eh?
p.s. Has anyone actually reviewed the code in the kernel to make sure nothing surreptitious is happening?????
Ahhh, much better!!
Did ya hear him pronounce "subliminal" regarding the RATS commercials?
"Sub limin able"
Doh, when I heard that I thought perhaps he had never even heard the word before. And he wasn't *reading* from a script. This guy may have gone to Yale, but he doesn't appear to smart (and I just might vote for him cause Gore is a spendocrat).
Intel was never really that bad until they decided to put ID numbers on their chips. Then they became like a big imperialistic satan. That is why AMD is so popular around here - they are just an alternative.
That said, I believe that Intel is no longer placing ID numbers on their chips, although quite honestly if they were, we most likely wouldn't know it.
stuart
Damn! I never knew how to pronounce that. So instead of saying Ki ro sheen, now I know. I feel like a real lamer now...
It's the stereotypical HMO problem again. The doctor knows of a treatment (or in your case, a device) that would improve the quality of life of a patient. The bean-counters back at the main office, however, say no. Can't have quality of life come ahead of profits and shareholder value.
You have no idea how wrong this is. Two points:
#1: The people making the decisions to deny care are medical professionals, just like your GP. In most cases, if challenges on the medical efficacy of a procedure the Medical director and person's physician will confer and agree on a recommended treatment.
#2: If you know this to be true about HMOs, then don't enroll in one. You are welcome to fund your own health care. Just don't expect Uncle Sam or anyone else to bail you out when you get nailed with sickness. For your information, many HMOs cover a whole lot of stuff that didn't use to be covered at all and started the trend towards comprehensive medical insurance... Infertility treatment, Prescription drugs, chiropractic care, preventative care etc.
Anyway, if you *are* a member of an HMO, relax in the knowledge that you are far more likely to be killed in a hospital by accident than you are by an HMO denying you care.
stuart
For years I have been sailing in Fischer's Island sound, and there were stories told of a kooky inventor who was worth millions who bought the place. The old lighthouse topped home looks like it has been renovated, there is an old Navy tender tied up to the dock (in Battleship Grey of course), the wind turbine is occasionally turning, and once in a while you will see this really freaky looking amphibious army truck roaming the beach.
:-) Too bad very few of them know the real story behind the man on the island -- most propbably assume it is old money or some .com investor. Nice to see someone who has earned money the hard way --> risk == return.
It is really a very cool looking place, and you can just *feel* the jealousy on all the boaters floating by.
Mark Twain's plan for the improvement of English spelling:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
When you have as many people as there are coding apps and programs (and re-writing the base code) for the flavours of Linux, it's pretty easy to close most, if not all of the security holes that are there.
Actually, I would say the opposite. I have written a small program that needs to be run as root to access the printer port (well, sudo anyway). Since this is a program primarily for me, I don't care about running as root on my PC especially since the machine is behind a firewall.
However, think about *all* the apps that are being coded nowadays for Linux/*nix - don't you think that there are quite a few that could possibly have some security holes? Even if only a small percentage do, with the relative increase in volumne that still means quite a few proggies out there with holes.
Furthermore, while I personally feel more secure knowing that code is open-source and subject to review, you can bet that a lot of the newer users just download the app, make install, and away they go - totally oblivious to the need for *someone* to take a look at the source code.
Stuart
Make it so that a donation of computers to a refurbisher (like Goodwill, for instance) will return a tax writeof of 100% of original value of the old computers, and we will be able to kiss the Digital Divide goodbye!
And just how would you fund this tax writeoff? You may be among the many American's that don't understand that a tax break is, in essence, just *giving* money to the corporations to accomplish a specific purpose. That's why we have United Way and all the other corporate tax writeoff's now.
Also, 100% of the original value would be stupid, especially since the corporation in question has in most cases *already* taken 100% of the value of that computer in a tax writeoff. It's called depreciation. So, what you will really do is fund new computers for everyone now so that the company can depreciate *200%* of the purchase price of the thing over 7 years (it may be 3 years for computers). Great idea. Not!
On our intranet, the following was posted this morning:
Now you tell me, if 53% of registered voters are in the stock market, how is it that you are saying so "few" people have control? I agree with the first poster - everyone has control over their stock purchases, and if even a small percentage of small time investors took action against a targeted company, that target company would make the appropriate changes.
void main{}
/readings/voidmain.960823.html
/faq22_25.html
/ctips01.html#int_main
Ack! You must be an old school coder! For your information, you cannot have main not returning an integer in standard C or C++. It is invalid code.
The following links should help refine your coding style. I only mention this because a) I am pedantic, and b) because I happen to believe new programmers reading this list shouldn't have to read crappy, non-compliant code (especially when the C standard has been around more than 10 years):
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq
And one of my favorite alt.lang.learnc-c++ contributors, Jack Klein:
http://home.att.net/~jackklein
Stuart
*slashdot pedant*