ISPs will not be able to oversell their DHCP pool. Back in the days of dial-up, yes, but now that every broadband ISP installs a router/modem that is on 24 hours a day not a chance. Most people will turn off or suspend a computer when it's not in use, but will never do the same for their router.
Never use a small circular motion. Always use a radial motion from the center outward. This is due to the Reed-Solomon algorithms that use the neighboring data to resurrect data underneath the scratch. If you go in a circular motion, you will add scratches that follow the data path and eliminate data and its associated correction data.
We have kiosks at our university to check your class schedule, register your account and general account changes. Pretty much everything else is locked down when you are logged in as "guest". EXCEPT, you simply open windows media player, then open explorer.exe from inside media player, and you now have access to all the programs installed without you being authenticated to use them. I know this may be "easy" to lock down, but the fact remains, it really darn near impossible to block all the holes in Windows kiosks. If it's not in the Start Menu, and Run has been disabled, doesn't mean people cannot get to it.
One local advertiser's catch phrase (radio) for its job website is "Long name... amazing results". Since their domain name is so stinking long, they spend about 40% of each commercial saying their domain name over and over. Name recognition is huge. That's why I don't get the pizza.com thing. If you spend too much time telling people the domain name that they forget your business name, it was useless advertising. A generic, domain name that does not immediately connect to the actual company name is hard for most people to identify.
When I was little, I still remember annoying the crap out of my older brother by "solving" his Rubik's cube removing and replacing the stickers in the correct location. Eventually the glue would wear off the dots and you would suddenly have a slightly easier puzzle to solve.
Yes, corporations are not people; that is where your statement stops being correct. Any corporation has the same rights as an individual. About the only thing a corporation cannot do that an individual do is to get married. Although they can bypass that limitation by merging.
Consider a military covert operation. The hardest part of the mission is not getting in and achieving the objectives, but getting out safely (even undetected). Think about Japanese kamikaze pilots of WWII. In that case the pilots were part of the equipment, and greatly eased the logistics of the operation. Without this accepted fate, the Japanese air force would have been highly crippled and less effective. FTA, McLane talks about psychology differences of current astronauts vs the US astronauts of the 1960s and the Russian cosmonauts. These old school astronauts got the job done no matter the cost. While I agree that it is good to have at least some plan, there will have to be the potential "never coming back" element. Maybe it truly is easiest to get someone there accepting the fact that no matter what future plans are in order, they never may be realized.
plus a 10% bonus if a 130% efficiency rating is maintained for the 4 quarters.
There is a built in incentive for bad patents to get through. Patents get rubber stamped simply because of the need of efficiency to get out of the whole backlog mess. Instead of actually diligently checking and rechecking for prior art conflicting patents, the employee stamps it as good, as fast as possible, and walks away with their 10% bonus. This seems to be the same problem that tech support has with call tracking. The faster a person gets you off the phone, the more money they make, and the faster they get promoted.
Sorry, I didn't specify the version, I was referring to FF in general. I currently use FF 2.0.0.12, and will probably not use FF 3.x until it has at least gotten to RC1. Although after just typing that, I may just have to recant my previous statement, and give version 3 a try. Since having multiple versions of FF on a system doesn't hurt anything, I guess my excuses to try are no longer valid. Off to check out the latest nightly build.
Mark this as off-topic if you like. I'm responding partially to the parent comment, but mostly to its score and reason.
This is a discussion board. How can you mark someone's comment as redundant? Is this an attempt to invalidate their statement? Don't blame them when it's actually a limitation of the forum system. There is no simple way to increment an "I agree" or "I have the same problem" counter, there has to be a new comment for each person who agrees. There is no way of adding weight to a comment except by increasing child nodes, or adding as many individual argument nodes that are similar. Yes, there is already one branch in this thread that talks about the memory issues, but relax not everyone perfectly gets all their statements in exactly the right location in the discussion tree. Judge it simply on what it says, not the comments location.
For what it's worth, I agree. I also have problems with memory bloating with FF. I don't really care if they are memory leaks, or memory fragments, it's still a problem that I would like to see fixed. Unfortunately I cannot fix the problem, so I will patiently wait for the next great release of FF. I have no solution, but this is my informal bug report.
Increase in speed on JavaScript will be great. There are many times when my FF instance gets temporarily grayed out when it loads a page with lots of JavaScript. This is the window manager thinking that FF is locked up and not responding.
You would think that arcades could adapt to the changes. There are bars that have Guitar Hero nights to attract different crowds. Why would I want to play Guitar Hero at a bar? It provides a unique environment that cannot be replicated in my living room. I think that the proliferation of consoles at the home gives arcades an interesting advantage. Kids normally already know what games they like and just want a place to congregate to play with their friends. If you can make the place they play that much cooler, the arcade doesn't have to have expensive and/or exotic games. Instead of investing in expensive machines, simply invest in console game rooms with awesome sound and video and easy access to food and drinks. Allow people to either bring their games, or simply offer a lot of game options. Kids can bring their saved games and memory cards, and play them in a much cooler environment. Profit!
I have a Dell Inspiron 8600. The outlet for the power adapter is a three pronged outlet, but when it's plugged into an outlet with only 2 prongs (via a 3-2 prong adapter), then if I touch the lid or bottom....zap. Of course just sitting there with your shoes is no problem, but if you are barefoot and touch the ground while in contact...ouch. The worst part is the mind tricks it plays on you. For example, you will carry it back to a chair on battery power, you plug it in to watch a couple movies, kick off your shoes and relax. After the first movie, up to get some ice cream or a drink. Not remembering getting zapped in the last few hours, you think you are fine. The second your bare feet hit the ground...zap.
I like how the NYT article includes a video of the robot, but not of the monkey. What they don't want everyone to see is some heavily drugged up monkey with all manner of electrodes protruding out of its brain (possibly exposed). Way to sanitize reality so most people will find it palatable. What's the point of the robot anyway? This essentially seems like a brain mapping exercise. So the the monkey brain could have been mapped to anything, including a simple animation.
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"This transaction is an excellent example of the great results that can be achieved for all constituencies when the shareholder activist is able to work cooperatively with management," Mr. Icahn said in a statement. (from TFA)
Translation...this hostile takeover is an excellent example of how I can buy up lots of stock, sue said company into being bought out, the stock price artificially goes up so I make tons of money, lots of employees get screwed, and I don't care about the pawns in my money game," Mr Icahn laughed as he went to the bank with his ill gotten, but "legal" gains.
I'm not really surprised that another company on the way to the venture capital bank lost any sense of morals it used to have.
If you give a website your password to your email account, you are to blame. If the company is hacking into your accounts to send out its viral invites...that's when the crap needs to hit the fan.
If you want to use this service, the downloads require Digital Rights Management 10 (DRM 10) software. This doesn't just lock out browsers that they don't know how to code for, but also all non-Microsoft operating systems.
The fact the Walmart is behind this also scares me. Walmart has changed the face of American retail for good and bad. Walmart has been able to force it's suppliers to bow to their knees for fear that Walmart doesn't carry their product. If the number one retailer in the world would have realized what their customers want, media without restrictions, this could have actually fought and easily won against the iTunes store, and NetFlix. I just hope this doesn't catch on, because it will give other retailers another justification to place Microsoft's desires above that of the consumers.
It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that. Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a bad mood. You know what I mean.
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why last week, we had some files just dissappear from a guys account while he was working on it!"
"Really?"
"Straight Up! Hey, do you want me to check your account?"
"Yes please, I've got some important stuff in there!"
"Ok, what's your username..."
He tells me. Honestly, it's like shooting a fish in a barrel. Twice. With an Elephant Gun. At point blank range. In the head.
I had the unique opportunity to work at an Indian web design firm as a project manager and technology coach. I was directly involved in screening and interviewing job applicants, and I agree many of the observations noted in the article. As nearly 100% of our clients are western companies, solid English skills are a must. We cannot compromise on this requirement, and even the office runner is required to take English classes.
To give an example of the problems with the Indian education system. One applicant brought in her senior design project, a full website, to impress us at an interview. Problem #1, every file she brought was infected with a virus. Problem #2, it was a complete patchwork job from a free scripts site (copyrights intact) pieced together with about 5% her code. Problem #3, she didn't understand the code she ripped off well enough to change a simple menu item. Problem #4, this had received a 100% grade towards her graduation. She was rewarded for searching the internet and creating a website via copy/paste. She was not taught how to create, only how to duplicate.
Any Indian with money can get a masters degree. If you pay your bill at exam time, they will pass you onto the next level. During the time I was in India, a major university was forced to shut down because of student protesting. They were protesting exam fraud investigations of the graders the university employed. Master's level exams were being graded by 10 year-olds based on: length, neatness of writing, number of paragraphs, and the 'prettiness' of the graphs. I think this is where the University of Phoenix got its model for taking people's money.
I absolutely loved my time in India, and I am not trying to bash the country. I just want to share my limited exposure to the reported problem.
The FDA is reporting that some of Apple's produce shipped after September 12th as having the E. coli bacteria. In Apple's announcement they take a swipe at Intelligent Design, "As you might imagine, we are upset at God for not making human beings more hardy against such bacteria and viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
Yesterday I was at a coffee house with some people from my church, and I met my first female CS major. I'm part of a church of around 13000 people, and she was the first one I had ever met from my church. I've been a member of this church for the past 6 years. When I asked her what she did, and she told me she was a CS major and a developer, I was caught completely off guard. I wasn't expecting CS at all. We of course talked about the gender gap, and how it can be tough for females in the CS field. Sarah, if you read Slashdot, you rock.
They are trying to equate CD sales to online track sales, which is total crap. I'm more likely to legally download the 1 to 5 tracks I like, instead of downloading the whole CD. So the whole 10 tracks makes up a CD sale statistic is flawed. If there where actually 10 tracks on the CD that I wanted, then I would have purchase the CD not downloaded it.
To take the analogy one step further, there are many people that don't like the yellow Starburst candy, and wouldn't buy them if they weren't already in the package. So if they suddenly offered sales of the candy in individual flavors, wouldn't it make sense that there would be a little drop off, unless they came up with another flavor to fill in the blank of a poorly selling yellow?
I Think that the e-paper is cool and all, but it's how it is used is my main problem. When I go to the store to buy cereal, I don't want to have to pay for a "free" toy, or any other advertising. Why should the consumer have to buffer the cost of more expensive packaging?
The premise behind a beta is to get the product into the customer's hands to increase the number of testers to improve the product. The OSS model of development uses this as a framework. Although versions are released as "final", it is understood that it can and will be changed quickly if any problems arise. I personally have gotten into several OSS while they where beta and still use them now.
I do find it frustrating when paid-for services are in perpetual beta. If a OSS is broke, I haven't paid anyone any money, and I "could" fix it myself if I wanted.
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ISPs will not be able to oversell their DHCP pool. Back in the days of dial-up, yes, but now that every broadband ISP installs a router/modem that is on 24 hours a day not a chance. Most people will turn off or suspend a computer when it's not in use, but will never do the same for their router.
Never use a small circular motion. Always use a radial motion from the center outward. This is due to the Reed-Solomon algorithms that use the neighboring data to resurrect data underneath the scratch. If you go in a circular motion, you will add scratches that follow the data path and eliminate data and its associated correction data.
We have kiosks at our university to check your class schedule, register your account and general account changes. Pretty much everything else is locked down when you are logged in as "guest". EXCEPT, you simply open windows media player, then open explorer.exe from inside media player, and you now have access to all the programs installed without you being authenticated to use them. I know this may be "easy" to lock down, but the fact remains, it really darn near impossible to block all the holes in Windows kiosks. If it's not in the Start Menu, and Run has been disabled, doesn't mean people cannot get to it.
One local advertiser's catch phrase (radio) for its job website is "Long name... amazing results". Since their domain name is so stinking long, they spend about 40% of each commercial saying their domain name over and over. Name recognition is huge. That's why I don't get the pizza.com thing. If you spend too much time telling people the domain name that they forget your business name, it was useless advertising. A generic, domain name that does not immediately connect to the actual company name is hard for most people to identify.
It will come out of beta as soon as Ad Block Plus is updated.
When I was little, I still remember annoying the crap out of my older brother by "solving" his Rubik's cube removing and replacing the stickers in the correct location. Eventually the glue would wear off the dots and you would suddenly have a slightly easier puzzle to solve.
Yes, corporations are not people; that is where your statement stops being correct. Any corporation has the same rights as an individual. About the only thing a corporation cannot do that an individual do is to get married. Although they can bypass that limitation by merging.
Consider a military covert operation. The hardest part of the mission is not getting in and achieving the objectives, but getting out safely (even undetected). Think about Japanese kamikaze pilots of WWII. In that case the pilots were part of the equipment, and greatly eased the logistics of the operation. Without this accepted fate, the Japanese air force would have been highly crippled and less effective. FTA, McLane talks about psychology differences of current astronauts vs the US astronauts of the 1960s and the Russian cosmonauts. These old school astronauts got the job done no matter the cost. While I agree that it is good to have at least some plan, there will have to be the potential "never coming back" element. Maybe it truly is easiest to get someone there accepting the fact that no matter what future plans are in order, they never may be realized.
There is a built in incentive for bad patents to get through. Patents get rubber stamped simply because of the need of efficiency to get out of the whole backlog mess. Instead of actually diligently checking and rechecking for prior art conflicting patents, the employee stamps it as good, as fast as possible, and walks away with their 10% bonus. This seems to be the same problem that tech support has with call tracking. The faster a person gets you off the phone, the more money they make, and the faster they get promoted.
Sorry, I didn't specify the version, I was referring to FF in general. I currently use FF 2.0.0.12, and will probably not use FF 3.x until it has at least gotten to RC1. Although after just typing that, I may just have to recant my previous statement, and give version 3 a try. Since having multiple versions of FF on a system doesn't hurt anything, I guess my excuses to try are no longer valid. Off to check out the latest nightly build.
In an effort to make my point clearer...I responded to the wrong comment...either that or I'm an idiot. Anyway.
Mark this as off-topic if you like. I'm responding partially to the parent comment, but mostly to its score and reason.
This is a discussion board. How can you mark someone's comment as redundant? Is this an attempt to invalidate their statement? Don't blame them when it's actually a limitation of the forum system. There is no simple way to increment an "I agree" or "I have the same problem" counter, there has to be a new comment for each person who agrees. There is no way of adding weight to a comment except by increasing child nodes, or adding as many individual argument nodes that are similar. Yes, there is already one branch in this thread that talks about the memory issues, but relax not everyone perfectly gets all their statements in exactly the right location in the discussion tree. Judge it simply on what it says, not the comments location.
For what it's worth, I agree. I also have problems with memory bloating with FF. I don't really care if they are memory leaks, or memory fragments, it's still a problem that I would like to see fixed. Unfortunately I cannot fix the problem, so I will patiently wait for the next great release of FF. I have no solution, but this is my informal bug report.
Increase in speed on JavaScript will be great. There are many times when my FF instance gets temporarily grayed out when it loads a page with lots of JavaScript. This is the window manager thinking that FF is locked up and not responding.
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You would think that arcades could adapt to the changes. There are bars that have Guitar Hero nights to attract different crowds. Why would I want to play Guitar Hero at a bar? It provides a unique environment that cannot be replicated in my living room. I think that the proliferation of consoles at the home gives arcades an interesting advantage. Kids normally already know what games they like and just want a place to congregate to play with their friends. If you can make the place they play that much cooler, the arcade doesn't have to have expensive and/or exotic games. Instead of investing in expensive machines, simply invest in console game rooms with awesome sound and video and easy access to food and drinks. Allow people to either bring their games, or simply offer a lot of game options. Kids can bring their saved games and memory cards, and play them in a much cooler environment. Profit!
I have a Dell Inspiron 8600. The outlet for the power adapter is a three pronged outlet, but when it's plugged into an outlet with only 2 prongs (via a 3-2 prong adapter), then if I touch the lid or bottom....zap. Of course just sitting there with your shoes is no problem, but if you are barefoot and touch the ground while in contact...ouch. The worst part is the mind tricks it plays on you. For example, you will carry it back to a chair on battery power, you plug it in to watch a couple movies, kick off your shoes and relax. After the first movie, up to get some ice cream or a drink. Not remembering getting zapped in the last few hours, you think you are fine. The second your bare feet hit the ground...zap.
I like how the NYT article includes a video of the robot, but not of the monkey. What they don't want everyone to see is some heavily drugged up monkey with all manner of electrodes protruding out of its brain (possibly exposed). Way to sanitize reality so most people will find it palatable. What's the point of the robot anyway? This essentially seems like a brain mapping exercise. So the the monkey brain could have been mapped to anything, including a simple animation.
"This transaction is an excellent example of the great results that can be achieved for all constituencies when the shareholder activist is able to work cooperatively with management," Mr. Icahn said in a statement. (from TFA)
Translation...this hostile takeover is an excellent example of how I can buy up lots of stock, sue said company into being bought out, the stock price artificially goes up so I make tons of money, lots of employees get screwed, and I don't care about the pawns in my money game," Mr Icahn laughed as he went to the bank with his ill gotten, but "legal" gains.
I'm not really surprised that another company on the way to the venture capital bank lost any sense of morals it used to have.
If you give a website your password to your email account, you are to blame. If the company is hacking into your accounts to send out its viral invites...that's when the crap needs to hit the fan.
If you want to use this service, the downloads require Digital Rights Management 10 (DRM 10) software. This doesn't just lock out browsers that they don't know how to code for, but also all non-Microsoft operating systems.
The fact the Walmart is behind this also scares me. Walmart has changed the face of American retail for good and bad. Walmart has been able to force it's suppliers to bow to their knees for fear that Walmart doesn't carry their product. If the number one retailer in the world would have realized what their customers want, media without restrictions, this could have actually fought and easily won against the iTunes store, and NetFlix. I just hope this doesn't catch on, because it will give other retailers another justification to place Microsoft's desires above that of the consumers.
It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that. Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a bad mood. You know what I mean.
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why last week, we had some files just dissappear from a guys account while he was working on it!"
"Really?"
"Straight Up! Hey, do you want me to check your account?"
"Yes please, I've got some important stuff in there!"
"Ok, what's your username..."
He tells me. Honestly, it's like shooting a fish in a barrel. Twice. With an Elephant Gun. At point blank range. In the head.
I had the unique opportunity to work at an Indian web design firm as a project manager and technology coach. I was directly involved in screening and interviewing job applicants, and I agree many of the observations noted in the article. As nearly 100% of our clients are western companies, solid English skills are a must. We cannot compromise on this requirement, and even the office runner is required to take English classes.
To give an example of the problems with the Indian education system. One applicant brought in her senior design project, a full website, to impress us at an interview. Problem #1, every file she brought was infected with a virus. Problem #2, it was a complete patchwork job from a free scripts site (copyrights intact) pieced together with about 5% her code. Problem #3, she didn't understand the code she ripped off well enough to change a simple menu item. Problem #4, this had received a 100% grade towards her graduation. She was rewarded for searching the internet and creating a website via copy/paste. She was not taught how to create, only how to duplicate.
Any Indian with money can get a masters degree. If you pay your bill at exam time, they will pass you onto the next level. During the time I was in India, a major university was forced to shut down because of student protesting. They were protesting exam fraud investigations of the graders the university employed. Master's level exams were being graded by 10 year-olds based on: length, neatness of writing, number of paragraphs, and the 'prettiness' of the graphs. I think this is where the University of Phoenix got its model for taking people's money.
I absolutely loved my time in India, and I am not trying to bash the country. I just want to share my limited exposure to the reported problem.
The FDA is reporting that some of Apple's produce shipped after September 12th as having the E. coli bacteria. In Apple's announcement they take a swipe at Intelligent Design, "As you might imagine, we are upset at God for not making human beings more hardy against such bacteria and viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
Yesterday I was at a coffee house with some people from my church, and I met my first female CS major. I'm part of a church of around 13000 people, and she was the first one I had ever met from my church. I've been a member of this church for the past 6 years. When I asked her what she did, and she told me she was a CS major and a developer, I was caught completely off guard. I wasn't expecting CS at all. We of course talked about the gender gap, and how it can be tough for females in the CS field. Sarah, if you read Slashdot, you rock.
They are trying to equate CD sales to online track sales, which is total crap. I'm more likely to legally download the 1 to 5 tracks I like, instead of downloading the whole CD. So the whole 10 tracks makes up a CD sale statistic is flawed. If there where actually 10 tracks on the CD that I wanted, then I would have purchase the CD not downloaded it.
To take the analogy one step further, there are many people that don't like the yellow Starburst candy, and wouldn't buy them if they weren't already in the package. So if they suddenly offered sales of the candy in individual flavors, wouldn't it make sense that there would be a little drop off, unless they came up with another flavor to fill in the blank of a poorly selling yellow?
I Think that the e-paper is cool and all, but it's how it is used is my main problem. When I go to the store to buy cereal, I don't want to have to pay for a "free" toy, or any other advertising. Why should the consumer have to buffer the cost of more expensive packaging?
The premise behind a beta is to get the product into the customer's hands to increase the number of testers to improve the product. The OSS model of development uses this as a framework. Although versions are released as "final", it is understood that it can and will be changed quickly if any problems arise. I personally have gotten into several OSS while they where beta and still use them now.
I do find it frustrating when paid-for services are in perpetual beta. If a OSS is broke, I haven't paid anyone any money, and I "could" fix it myself if I wanted.