In the 60s, it was polymer chemistry. Then consumer electronics in the 70s followed by computer and telecom hardware in the 80s. During the 90s, software became the hot field. I started in electronics and changed careers after the work dried up. What I have consistently found is that I'm by far the oldest programmer everywhere I go. The kids don't view me as a geezer yet because I'm a karate instructor and I lift weights like a convict. I'm still wilder than most of them are. But the writing is on the wall. I will have to change sooner or later, whether I want to or not.
I have some rather large neodimium magnets and I'd be more than happy to demonstrate how they can.;-)
You'd think... I've tried big speaker magnets and some really strong ones I found at a Hamfest. Neither erased floppies or zip disks. I was surprised. I thought sure they would. They were both strong enough to pick up big hammers 'n shit. The deguassing coil screwed up a zip disk such that I couldn't read it but I'm not convinced the data is unrecoverable. One guy suggested writing zeros with dd and I think that is probably going to be the most effective way for me.
Strong magnets don't erase floppies, zip disks, etc..
Radio Shack's Tape demagnetizer doesn't erase floppies and zip disks.
CRT Degaussing coils screw up zip disks but I can't tell whether everything is erased. So I don't trust it. I haven't tried hexdump. This coil didn't erase the floppy I tried so I don't have confidence that it will reliably erase media.
I don't know of anyone who has had credit card numbers stolen or traded on the internet.
My wife bought CDs in November '99 from CD Universe. Her credit card number was apparently one of the ones displayed on that Russian hacker's website when he tried to get CD Universe to pay a ransom. CD Universe notified her bank. My wife's bank called her to tell her they were cancelling that card and sending her a new one.
They should have licensed Dragon's software but instead they chose to write their own and they've botched it.
It ain't the first time. 10-11 years ago, mIcKeY$oFt cloned the popular Stacker disc compression, called it Doublespace and bundled it into M$DOS 6.0. It et the hard drive of every shmuck who enabled it. When they released M$DOS 6.22, DoubleSpace was gone. Stac Electonics won their lawsuit against M$ but went bankrupt in the process.
They want computing that works like TV does -- that's easy to use, takes little space, costs relatively little money and works every time you turn it on, year after year.
Gosh. Silly me. I thought people bought Windows because they were afraid of being left out. I'm sure glad you cleared that up.
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Unless there is a HUGE Natural barrier to entry, there will be HUNDREDS of competitors jumping in once price gouging occurs.
There is a HUGE natural barrier to entry. It's the phone lines, COs and cable infrastructure. That's why we have gouging without the prospect of competition.
A big 'old electromagnet.
Degauss the disk and it's gone for good
Could you describe this big 'old electromagnet?
I've tried this with speaker magnets and bulk tape erasers like Radio Shack sells and they didn't erase floppies, zip disks or hard drives. In fact, it didn't seem to do squat to them. If you have a electromagnet that will, I'd like to know how it's made.
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Shouldn't be a problem that 1 out of 4 liars will get away and 1 in 10 innocents will be incorrectly nailed.
1 in 20 wee wee tests are either false positives or false negatives. So, if it's a false positive, they retest the sample with the more expensive gas chromotagraphy mass spectrometry to validate it. At least, they are supposed to.:-) However, we're talking about lies here, not pee pee. There ain't a more accurate test.
They will have to adjust their retoric now. In the past, they have blasted ripping and file sharing as acttivities which deprive musicians of payment for their work. With so many major acts coming forward to differ , the RIAA's sanctimony is exposed as phony, self serving propaganda. Now they will need a new marketing strategy to sell their heads-we-win, tails-you-lose agenda.
"Meanwhile, Sen. Maria Cantwell (news - bio - voting record) is proposing legislation to help identity theft victims.
Her measure to Congress is based on a Washington state law that went into effect in July. Under the measure, retailers would have to provide identity theft victims with copies of all fraudulent records, and credit agencies would have to block bad credit information on their reports if they were the result of identity theft."
Fraudulent records? bad credit info? Sez who? you?
Will the onus still be on the victim of identity theft to prove all this? If so, I don't see how it's going to help. Some hapless victims have been told it would be easier for them to change their names, etc. than to straighten out the mess that's been made of their lives.
"When the horse is gone, the fool shuts the stable door."
Since the 9/11 attack, a disturbing pattern has emerged. The rights of law abiding citizens are being curtailed without much effect on those who would enter this country and commit terrorist acts.
Here's the deal: When you pay a cool million bucks for the software to run your enterprise, you have someone to bitch at (Microsoft) should something go horribly wrong. With Linux, the only person you can bitch at is that uber-geek you're paying $50k a year. When millions of dollars are at stake every day, you just can't trust a free piece of software.
Bingo! This is the hallmark of a manager who seeks to assign blame rather than fix problems. Their careers are built in part by keeping their butts covered. Raise too much hell with the $50k per year sysadmin and he'll walk out on you. Microsoft ain't going nowhere. They may or may not fix your problem but they are a nice big blame target.
Many developers are very cavalier in their estimates. They will say it's a piece of cake and that they can do it in 2 weeks. Then, after 2 weeks, the back peddling starts. There's alot of cocky developers who under-estimate projects. Management comes to expect this. If you say you don't know how long or tell them 3 months, they give it to the guy who says 2 weeks. So after a couple rounds of that, you say 2 weeks also.
Your civil liberties are going the way of the dinosaur. That's what is shaking out from the 9/11 events and the ongoing Anthrax episodes. As a CEO recently said about privicy, "Get over it." You can count on more of this cavity search mentality because law enforcement basically has a blank check to do as they please.
But are they going to check out people entering the US more thoroughly? Are they going to scrutinize the immigration non-policy we have today? Are we going to continue to subsidize big business's insatiable appetite for cheap labor by increasing the already excessive H1-B quota? So far, I've heard little discussion of it.
If native Americans are to lose civil liberties then it's only fair that the immigrants who aspire to citizenship bear some of the burden too.
I sure hope there will be a source for Polaroid 667 black and white film used in Tektronix oscilloscope cameras. Surely Fuji or some outfit will sell an equivalent.
Broadband will always be available, the market just won't be so damn saturated as it was.
Perhaps there are spotty areas of saturation but in many locations, people aren't being served. DSL has never been available where I live. Fortunately, you can get cable but Time Warner cable is the only game in town. I wouldn't call that saturated.
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In the 60s, it was polymer chemistry. Then consumer electronics in the 70s followed by computer and telecom hardware in the 80s. During the 90s, software became the hot field. I started in electronics and changed careers after the work dried up. What I have consistently found is that I'm by far the oldest programmer everywhere I go. The kids don't view me as a geezer yet because I'm a karate instructor and I lift weights like a convict. I'm still wilder than most of them are. But the writing is on the wall. I will have to change sooner or later, whether I want to or not.
I have some rather large neodimium magnets and I'd be more than happy to demonstrate how they can. ;-)
... I've tried big speaker magnets and some really strong ones I found at a Hamfest. Neither erased floppies or zip disks. I was surprised. I thought sure they would. They were both strong enough to pick up big hammers 'n shit. The deguassing coil screwed up a zip disk such that I couldn't read it but I'm not convinced the data is unrecoverable. One guy suggested writing zeros with dd and I think that is probably going to be the most effective way for me.
You'd think
Strong magnets don't erase floppies, zip disks, etc..
Radio Shack's Tape demagnetizer doesn't erase floppies and zip disks.
CRT Degaussing coils screw up zip disks but I can't tell whether everything is erased. So I don't trust it. I haven't tried hexdump. This coil didn't erase the floppy I tried so I don't have confidence that it will reliably erase media.
These could be assembled into a computer which could be used to pirate software.
I don't know of anyone who has had credit card numbers stolen or traded on the internet.
My wife bought CDs in November '99 from CD Universe. Her credit card number was apparently one of the ones displayed on that Russian hacker's website when he tried to get CD Universe to pay a ransom. CD Universe notified her bank. My wife's bank called her to tell her they were cancelling that card and sending her a new one.
Now they have you.
Oh, by the way, we're going to charge you for bandwidth exceeding some yet undetermined quota.
Isn't that special?
They should have licensed Dragon's software but instead they chose to write their own and they've botched it.
It ain't the first time. 10-11 years ago, mIcKeY$oFt cloned the popular
Stacker disc compression, called it Doublespace and bundled it into M$DOS
6.0. It et the hard drive of every shmuck who enabled it. When they
released M$DOS 6.22, DoubleSpace was gone. Stac Electonics won their
lawsuit against M$ but went bankrupt in the process.
In fact, for years TV has not gotten its due as one of the monumentally successful technologies of all time -- cheap, reliable, easy to use.
Well, it has been up until now. In a few years, we may screw that up with all the HDTV crap.
I always thought RAMBUS sounded like a brand of condom.
Since science and technology is booming ...
If you think this is a boom, I shudder to think of what you would consider a bust.
Who cares how bad the economy is, good developers can get a job anywhere.
... so long as they are under 35.
:^D
They want computing that works like TV does -- that's easy to use, takes little space, costs relatively little money and works every time you turn it on, year after year.
Gosh. Silly me. I thought people bought Windows because they were afraid of being left out. I'm sure glad you cleared that up.
Unless there is a HUGE Natural barrier to entry, there will be HUNDREDS of competitors jumping in once price gouging occurs.
There is a HUGE natural barrier to entry. It's the phone lines, COs and cable infrastructure. That's why we have gouging without the prospect of competition.
A big 'old electromagnet.
Degauss the disk and it's gone for good
Could you describe this big 'old electromagnet?
I've tried this with speaker magnets and bulk tape erasers like Radio Shack sells and they didn't erase floppies, zip disks or hard drives. In fact, it didn't seem to do squat to them. If you have a electromagnet that will, I'd like to know how it's made.
Shouldn't be a problem that 1 out of 4 liars will get away and 1 in 10 innocents will be incorrectly nailed.
:-) However, we're talking about lies here, not pee pee. There ain't a more accurate test.
1 in 20 wee wee tests are either false positives or false negatives. So, if it's a false positive, they retest the sample with the more expensive gas chromotagraphy mass spectrometry to validate it. At least, they are supposed to.
They will have to adjust their retoric now. In the past, they have blasted ripping and file sharing as acttivities which deprive musicians of payment for their work. With so many major acts coming forward to differ , the RIAA's sanctimony is exposed as phony, self serving propaganda. Now they will need a new marketing strategy to sell their heads-we-win, tails-you-lose agenda.
"Meanwhile, Sen. Maria Cantwell (news - bio - voting record) is proposing legislation to help identity theft victims.
Her measure to Congress is based on a Washington state law that went into effect in July. Under the measure, retailers would have to provide identity theft victims with copies of all fraudulent records, and credit agencies would have to block bad credit information on their reports if they were the result of identity theft."
Fraudulent records? bad credit info? Sez who? you?
Will the onus still be on the victim of identity theft to prove all this? If so, I don't see how it's going to help. Some hapless victims have been told it would be easier for them to change their names, etc. than to straighten out the mess that's been made of their lives.
"When the horse is gone, the fool shuts the stable door."
Since the 9/11 attack, a disturbing pattern has emerged. The rights of law abiding citizens are being curtailed without much effect on those who would enter this country and commit terrorist acts.
Here's the deal: When you pay a cool million bucks for the software to run your enterprise, you have someone to bitch at (Microsoft) should something go horribly wrong. With Linux, the only person you can bitch at is that uber-geek you're paying $50k a year. When millions of dollars are at stake every day, you just can't trust a free piece of software.
Bingo! This is the hallmark of a manager who seeks to assign blame rather than fix problems. Their careers are built in part by keeping their butts covered. Raise too much hell with the $50k per year sysadmin and he'll walk out on you. Microsoft ain't going nowhere. They may or may not fix your problem but they are a nice big blame target.
Many developers are very cavalier in their estimates. They will say it's a piece of cake and that they can do it in 2 weeks. Then, after 2 weeks, the back peddling starts. There's alot of cocky developers who under-estimate projects. Management comes to expect this. If you say you don't know how long or tell them 3 months, they give it to the guy who says 2 weeks. So after a couple rounds of that, you say 2 weeks also.
and unless I leave all the settings in their default mode, (which is idiotic)
Out of curiosity, which of the default settings do you change on your Linksys router?
Your civil liberties are going the way of the dinosaur. That's what is shaking out from the 9/11 events and the ongoing Anthrax episodes. As a CEO recently said about privicy, "Get over it." You can count on more of this cavity search mentality because law enforcement basically has a blank check to do as they please.
But are they going to check out people entering the US more thoroughly? Are they going to scrutinize the immigration non-policy we have today? Are we going to continue to subsidize big business's insatiable appetite for cheap labor by increasing the already excessive H1-B quota? So far, I've heard little discussion of it.
If native Americans are to lose civil liberties then it's only fair that the immigrants who aspire to citizenship bear some of the burden too.
I sure hope there will be a source for Polaroid 667 black and white film used in Tektronix oscilloscope cameras. Surely Fuji or some outfit will sell an equivalent.
Yeah, there's demand but at what price? The problem is that the supply demand lines ain't intersecting.
Broadband will always be available, the market just won't be so damn saturated as it was.
Perhaps there are spotty areas of saturation but in many locations, people aren't being served. DSL has never been available where I live. Fortunately, you can get cable but Time Warner cable is the only game in town. I wouldn't call that saturated.