Seriously, I'm no fan of the **AA. But if more investment companies warn folks not to buy their stock, and since these guys seem to be motivated primarily by the almighty dollar, maybe if they see their stock shrivel up into nothingness and their retirement blasted into oblivion,. . . maybe they'll finally, "get the memo," that their 19th century strategy isn't exactly working out in the 21st century. All we need is for one of the big fish to declare bankrupcy, the and rest will see that and stop their litigous ways and actual get back to giving consumers what they want,... And if they don't, then f*ck 'em!
30 million emails went through the pitt.edu email servers last year, and my account there didn't get squat during the christmas break! I wonder where all the email is going? Although the university is closed anyway, so that might have something to do with it,...
I suppose if I was crazy enough, I'd post my address here on slashdot to see if we can slashdot Pitt's email servers,... maybe we can turn 30 million messages into 60 million messages. On second thought, I don't want 30 million messages,...;-)
That 90% of that 27,000 petabyte figure isn't for archiving p0rn,... Although I guess, from the corporate IT perspective, they're not worried about backing up p0rn, since most people probably don't do that at work.
But it is mostly email they're talking about here, and I bet a HUGE part of this archiving is:
spam
Email forwards that have been sent 1,000 times that still have all the original message headers attached
Non-business-related multimedia emails sent by administrative assistants using the company's email and time to send and receive cutesy messages from/to their family & friends
Business-related powerpoint and multimedia emails by non-techie PHBs that don't know how to transfer such files via FTP, and who are too damn lazy to use a thumbdrive
Yep! Solve problems 1-3, and you'd vastly decrease the amount of email that you have to archive! I won't complain about #4, since I actually value my job, but it would be nice if more PHBs knew more about tech,...
What's really ironic is how MTV & VH1 have changed... starting in the 1980s, with mostly music videos, and then almost entirely eliminating the videos in favor of pop culture garbage sometime in the 1990s that doesn't seem to make sense to anyone with greater than an 11th grade education. Now, Youtube comes along, and still has all the pop culture garbage, but it's on demand, so those that enjoy that cr*p can watch it if they choose to, but the rest of us can enjoy our music videos again,... And the numbers are showing that people actually want the quality content over pop culture b.s. Finally, we get some numbers that actually make sense!
I guess I'm one of those "urban residents" now (just moved to Pittsburgh, PA, this month). While I do love being able to walk to work and most of the local stores in the neighborhood (Oakland & Shadyside areas), I will still drive to Wal-Mart, which is about 7 miles from where I live. The prices are good, and their selection really isn't that bad,... It's not the only place I shop, but I can't say I'm one of those Wal-Mart-hating urban dwellers,...
It depends on the video game. Games like DDR, and some of the new stuff on the Wii that actually involve more moving around, are generally not as bad (here comes the science).
Too bad that Toshiba's reactor is only a 200 kW device. It falls far short of the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity needed to power the flux capacitor! I guess we'll have to give it a couple of years (or call the Libyans?),...
Has anyone had problems with giving a cell number to hospitals, law enforcement, etc? I was given a speeding ticket and the officer said cell numbers are not acceptable.
I've never heard of that before. If anyone asks for my phone number (I only have a cell) for official business, I just give them my cell phone number. I usually just put that in the 'home' number field if it's a form. Telemarketers, of course, get nothing (if you're a telemarketer, I live in the dark ages and have no phone number! Sorry!;-)
The only landline phone I have is in the office at work, so thankfully I don't have to pay for it. I'd have to look on the phone to tell you the number, though (then again, I don't know my own cell phone number, either, but that's a different story, as I never call it;-). I use my cell phone for everything, and inter-office communication is done by email or direct face-to-face contact.
Every GOD DAMNED vendor in the world has their own fuckin' menu! Instead of programs grouped by function or task, you get "Adobe Acrobat" and "Adobe GoLive!" and "Microsoft Office" and "McAfee Virus Scanner" and SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF A MENUING SYSTEM?
Uh,... you do know you can edit your start menu, right? That's one of the first things I do when I install software or set up a new system. I simply delete all the bogus corporate subdirectories, and move all the application/executable links to sub-folders that actually make sense: like grouping all the office stuff into one called 'office applications', and all the internet stuff into one called 'internet applications', and so forth,... It's really not that hard to do.
Probably going to get modded "-1 Troll" for this, but having seen and used the product, I don't think Vista is all that bad. Granted, I still wouldn't want to try and run it on a system that only meets the "minimum specifications",... but seriously, who's going to recommend such a system anyway? True, the extra "confirmations" are a bit of a pain, but they're really not THAT bad. I honestly can't say I've seen a Windows Vista system crash any more or less than a Windows XP system (or a Mac, for that matter). Compared to Linux, on the other hand, well,... there's still no comparison,...;-)
As for all the extra "eye candy"... yeah, it's probably a little over the top. But on that same coin, Linux and MacOS have been getting their fair share of extra processor-eating-eye-candy, too, so what's the big deal here?
Still, if you have Windows XP, there's still no reason to rush out and replace it with Vista (just not worth the hassle, really). But if you're buying a new PC, I wouldn't freak out if it has Vista,...
FiOS internet – if I could only have one thing for the holidays, I'd probably be happy with fiber optic to my home,...;-) But alas, it's not available yet in my neighborhood,...:(
I'm also surprised that they don't have some real cameras on the lists,... point-and-shoots are nice and all, and I do like the fact that most of them do video, too. But real photography geeks use dSLRs,...
I do wonder how much money was paid to the media writers for these lists, because the bulk of the products listed are not really true "geek" gadgets, and more majorly overhyped and overadvertised "hot" items, like the Wii, iPhone, and others. Not that they're bad products or anything, but just overadvertised just a tad,...
Also, I believe that Toyota and Honda make their cars in the US now while the "American" brands make their cars in Mexico or some such place...
Well, on the bright side, at least they're still being built in America (Mexico is on the American continent, last time I checked;-)... Still, I'm surprised the US automakers don't make their cars in the US using Mexican workers,...;-)
Many newer PCs, particularly those with "decent" graphics cards (not the "integrated video" of the cheap ones), have S-video output built right in. Just get a standard S-video cable from Wal-Mart or Target for $10-20, and connect to your television's S-video input. If you're TV only has standard RCA inputs, you can get a converter for another $10-20.
Ok, so there's still that little "problem" of your computer being in a different room than your TV, right? Unless of course, you have a notebook PC with wi-fi -- problem solved. Many notebooks are probably more apt to have the S-video out as well, since that can be used for presentation graphics. But you still might have to shell out a bit more than $500 for your basic, el cheapo notebook PC,...
Watch it on Veoh TV's software. You get the full episode here, but you're using other software to pull the episodes, not the network's own software, so it only gets the initial ad at the beginning and not the other ads throughout the show,...;-)
Many new shows this year were leaked weeks and months before their pilot aired, undoubtedly creating early talk about the shows that they wouldn't get otherwise.
Why do you think Sci-Fi released their two minute mini-episodes, both on air and on the web, throughout the fall season? They're trying to create that buzz themselves, and get people to watch Razor and the next season in the spring,...
Many television networks are putting many of their popular shows online now, for free. All the major networks: CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox -- are all putting full episode content on their websites now. Even Sci-Fi is starting to do it, although they don't have too many shows with full episodes up (but a. they're owned by NBC, who is getting into the online distribution format quite rapidly and b. they're probably realizing that a good number of their shows are popular with geeks that know how to share their shows via bittorrent quite readily). I wouldn't be surprised if a few more networks, like Comedy Central, get into the action. I think what's happening is that the corporations that run the networks have seen how a site like Youtube has practically sprouted up overnight, and they're seeing this as a way to reach out to more people (and thereby increase their advertising streams and revenue).
Quick! I need to prepare my trademark application for the phrase, "In Soviet Russia,..." [trademark owns YOU]! Although this guy probably already did that back in the 80s,... oh well -- maybe they'll still let it slip by, with all the dupes around here already,...;-)
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose if I was crazy enough, I'd post my address here on slashdot to see if we can slashdot Pitt's email servers,... maybe we can turn 30 million messages into 60 million messages. On second thought, I don't want 30 million messages,... ;-)
is how many times did John Kerry flip-flop in 2007? ;-)
But it is mostly email they're talking about here, and I bet a HUGE part of this archiving is:
Yep! Solve problems 1-3, and you'd vastly decrease the amount of email that you have to archive! I won't complain about #4, since I actually value my job, but it would be nice if more PHBs knew more about tech,...
The Germans came out with this people's car concept back in the 1930s,... Heck, that's pretty much a direct translation of the word, "Volkswagon!
What's really ironic is how MTV & VH1 have changed ... starting in the 1980s, with mostly music videos, and then almost entirely eliminating the videos in favor of pop culture garbage sometime in the 1990s that doesn't seem to make sense to anyone with greater than an 11th grade education. Now, Youtube comes along, and still has all the pop culture garbage, but it's on demand, so those that enjoy that cr*p can watch it if they choose to, but the rest of us can enjoy our music videos again,... And the numbers are showing that people actually want the quality content over pop culture b.s. Finally, we get some numbers that actually make sense!
It's rather hard to compete when your competitor is bittorrent,... ;-)
I guess I'm one of those "urban residents" now (just moved to Pittsburgh, PA, this month). While I do love being able to walk to work and most of the local stores in the neighborhood (Oakland & Shadyside areas), I will still drive to Wal-Mart, which is about 7 miles from where I live. The prices are good, and their selection really isn't that bad,... It's not the only place I shop, but I can't say I'm one of those Wal-Mart-hating urban dwellers ,...
In the dictionary under "corporate whore", it has a picture of Hillary,... ;-)
It depends on the video game. Games like DDR, and some of the new stuff on the Wii that actually involve more moving around, are generally not as bad (here comes the science).
Too bad that Toshiba's reactor is only a 200 kW device. It falls far short of the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity needed to power the flux capacitor! I guess we'll have to give it a couple of years (or call the Libyans?),...
In a related story, the TSA has now banned laptop computers from all commercial flights in the USA.
I've never heard of that before. If anyone asks for my phone number (I only have a cell) for official business, I just give them my cell phone number. I usually just put that in the 'home' number field if it's a form. Telemarketers, of course, get nothing (if you're a telemarketer, I live in the dark ages and have no phone number! Sorry! ;-)
The only landline phone I have is in the office at work, so thankfully I don't have to pay for it. I'd have to look on the phone to tell you the number, though (then again, I don't know my own cell phone number, either, but that's a different story, as I never call it ;-). I use my cell phone for everything, and inter-office communication is done by email or direct face-to-face contact.
Uh,... you do know you can edit your start menu, right? That's one of the first things I do when I install software or set up a new system. I simply delete all the bogus corporate subdirectories, and move all the application/executable links to sub-folders that actually make sense: like grouping all the office stuff into one called 'office applications', and all the internet stuff into one called 'internet applications', and so forth,... It's really not that hard to do.
As for all the extra "eye candy" ... yeah, it's probably a little over the top. But on that same coin, Linux and MacOS have been getting their fair share of extra processor-eating-eye-candy, too, so what's the big deal here?
Still, if you have Windows XP, there's still no reason to rush out and replace it with Vista (just not worth the hassle, really). But if you're buying a new PC, I wouldn't freak out if it has Vista,...
I'm also surprised that they don't have some real cameras on the lists,... point-and-shoots are nice and all, and I do like the fact that most of them do video, too. But real photography geeks use dSLRs,...
I do wonder how much money was paid to the media writers for these lists, because the bulk of the products listed are not really true "geek" gadgets, and more majorly overhyped and overadvertised "hot" items, like the Wii, iPhone, and others. Not that they're bad products or anything, but just overadvertised just a tad,...
Well, on the bright side, at least they're still being built in America (Mexico is on the American continent, last time I checked ;-) ... Still, I'm surprised the US automakers don't make their cars in the US using Mexican workers,... ;-)
Ok, so there's still that little "problem" of your computer being in a different room than your TV, right? Unless of course, you have a notebook PC with wi-fi -- problem solved. Many notebooks are probably more apt to have the S-video out as well, since that can be used for presentation graphics. But you still might have to shell out a bit more than $500 for your basic, el cheapo notebook PC,...
Watch it on Veoh TV's software. You get the full episode here, but you're using other software to pull the episodes, not the network's own software, so it only gets the initial ad at the beginning and not the other ads throughout the show,... ;-)
Why do you think Sci-Fi released their two minute mini-episodes, both on air and on the web, throughout the fall season? They're trying to create that buzz themselves, and get people to watch Razor and the next season in the spring,...
Many television networks are putting many of their popular shows online now, for free. All the major networks: CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox -- are all putting full episode content on their websites now. Even Sci-Fi is starting to do it, although they don't have too many shows with full episodes up (but a. they're owned by NBC, who is getting into the online distribution format quite rapidly and b. they're probably realizing that a good number of their shows are popular with geeks that know how to share their shows via bittorrent quite readily). I wouldn't be surprised if a few more networks, like Comedy Central, get into the action. I think what's happening is that the corporations that run the networks have seen how a site like Youtube has practically sprouted up overnight, and they're seeing this as a way to reach out to more people (and thereby increase their advertising streams and revenue).
Big deal! Wake me when they finally put a laser here,... ;-)
Quick! I need to prepare my trademark application for the phrase, "In Soviet Russia,..." [trademark owns YOU]! Although this guy probably already did that back in the 80s,... oh well -- maybe they'll still let it slip by, with all the dupes around here already,... ;-)
Great! So the human genome now has a CowboyNeal option! ;-)