I'm no Unix time expert, but I was wondering what happens in 2038? It's really not that far away now. Are there any sites that document what happens to older systems? Is there some simple solution that I'm unaware of, or is this going to be another Y2K?
I ask because once I get my time machine going (which runs on Unix), I want to be able to go farther into the future than 2038. I'm serious... Seriously.
I started a site http://www.omninerd.com/... can you guess this startup's inspiration? I guess the big question is, what if your inspiration doesn't "suck?" Is there hope for lil' ol' me?
The PDA is small enough to take everywhere, unlike a laptop.
I guess if you have to be extremely mobile this is true, but I take a backpack everywhere for other things like pens, paper, books, accessories, etc. A small notebook takes up very little room.
I think you hit a key point. Paper vs. PDA. For me, if it's not worth pulling out my laptop, I just jot it down and input it later. I guess some prefer instant input into a computer system. I just find that paper is quicker, and when I actually get around to transferring any useful data, most of the paper notes have become irrelevant.
I guess it all just comes down to preference. Now, if I could get a helper-monkey that could take notes and make coffee, that would be even better.
Ah, yes - the "I am the world" fallacy. You are not a statistically significant sample set, so your assessment of something as !useful does not actually mean that the item is !useful.
[Insert Proper Southern Accent] Sir, I applaud you for insight. The world is ablaze with your firey intellect.
I seldom see people use PDAs for much more than address books. I know tons of people who own them, but very few that actually use them. I also understand the differences between a phone, PDA, and computer. I just fail to see why you'd spend the cash on a PDA when you can get a very small, light weight, battery efficient laptop for not much more money that does so much more for you.
I'm on the move a lot. I have a work-issued Dell laptop that acts as more of a desktop, but I use a 12" Power Book for just about everything. I just throw it in my backpack and go. With OS X's near instant sleep/wake times, I never even turn it off. I can then jump on the net, print to most any printer, and have a large enough screen to do any real work or data input I need to do.
For the brief period I carried the PDA around, I found that despite its portability, it just didn't have the functionality I needed. This was resolved with the 12" PowerBook.
Does anyone really use PDA-type devices? I work for a large organization and run around to meetings and all that jazz, but I never have the use for one. I even received a free PDA once, but just threw it in my closet never really using it. If you've got a laptop and you've got a cell phone, is there any need for a PDA?
You say "it is not journalism, but it is journaling." Isn't journalism just another word for journaling? I fail to understand the difference. Capturing events on any given media is essentially the same. I don't see how you are delineating.
...I go beat down some old lady in Russia, break into her house, and then rip all of her CD's onto my laptop? I mean, it's illegal, but I'm protected by that loophole... right?
I was curious if anyone knew of any sort of reverse analysis. What is mean is that it seems easy to figure out what sort of jobs are available based on demand, but is there any analysis that shows what sort of IT-skill-sets are available from people in the job market? This sort of info would be nice to have if you were trying to avoid being one of the thousands of lemmings all focusing on the same job market.
In college, I was the guy to go to if you had a computer problem. One night, one of the football players comes knocking on my door, "Hey Mark, my computer's acting weird, can you come look at it?" I agreed and we walked down the hall to his room. Strangely, the machine was off so I reached my hand out and turned it on. I jumped back at the sound of a loud pop and the sight of flames and smoke coming out of the back of the power supply. Immediately, I reached for the cord and pulled the plug.
"So can you fix it," he asks in all seriousness. I just looked at him in total disbelief and said, "Man, your computer was just on fire. No, I can't fix it."
Thank you very much for wasting my tax dollars, cretin!
You're welcome. And you're welcome for the year I spent in Iraq for you. But I digress...
We (DoD) don't spend money just to spend it. We come up with our needs, give them to companies, and then pay whoever says they can do the job the cheapest. That's the way it works. I haven't received any bids from the open source community.
Please read my post. I wasn't justifying, I was simply explaining the rational behind most decisions.
My point was this:
DoD has: Lots of people, lots of money, lots of computers, many mobile employees, a war to fight
DoD has not: big paychecks, many fixed location jobs, highly skilled admins
If you think you can fix DoD, then by all means, jump on board. If not, just be quiet and keep paying those taxes!:-)
I work for DoD. We tend to go with commercial software for several reasons:
1. Personnel changeover. DoD loves to move people around between departments and installations. It's hard to find people savvy enough to run open-source software and keep them in one spot. It's much easier to give whoever is holding the position a phone number and tell them to call tech support with problems.
2. Personnel skills. DoD is huge. Because of this, the chances of getting skilled and motivated people at all of your sites is slim. Again, the phone call seems to make everything better.
3. Contracts. Things are usually purchased in bundles and as part of a big plan. It's much easier to brief to a non-tech boss that you have the support of another company and not that "I'm sure we can figure it out."
4. Uncle Sam's pockets are deep.
I agree that open source software is often better. But it doesn't give the non-tech group that warm fuzzy it needs to. In the end, the boss doesn't want to up a creek without a paddle. Having that phone number to call adds a much wanted security blanket, even if it's only a facade.
Anyone know what Safari's innerworkings are like? From what I've used of it, it seems very Mozilla/Firefox'ish. Is there any relation, or is it just the path that all browsers seem to be going down?
...can the owner of a blog ever be held responsible for content posted on the site? For example, if I post military secrets (not that I have them, mwuhahaha!) on Slashdot, is Slashdot at all responsible for the content assuming they take it down once they realize the problem?
And what about the ISP that actually owns the server (assuming you're paying for server space), can they be held responsible?
I currently have two sites that allow users to post comments on them, and have always wondered this, but mostly been too lazy to do any legal research.
Good point. And I didn't totally overlook indexing when I build the site. I have index files that cointain header like info for the files and make referencing not too bad. But I see how a database would be better.
Question though: Is a database's indexing system much more efficient for searching through the body of hundreds of files if I'm doing some sort of content search?
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The world can only hope Catwoman wasn't indicative of what's to come for silver screen heroines.
I'm no Unix time expert, but I was wondering what happens in 2038? It's really not that far away now. Are there any sites that document what happens to older systems? Is there some simple solution that I'm unaware of, or is this going to be another Y2K?
I ask because once I get my time machine going (which runs on Unix), I want to be able to go farther into the future than 2038. I'm serious... Seriously.
And people still ask me why I only use OS X and Linux. Silly end-users.
According to Thursday's post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/10/180225 &tid=187, all Yahoo has to do is stop sucking! It's simple!
Classic... friggin' underpants gnomes.
I started a site http://www.omninerd.com/... can you guess this startup's inspiration? I guess the big question is, what if your inspiration doesn't "suck?" Is there hope for lil' ol' me?
The PDA is small enough to take everywhere, unlike a laptop.
I guess if you have to be extremely mobile this is true, but I take a backpack everywhere for other things like pens, paper, books, accessories, etc. A small notebook takes up very little room.
Agreed though, the price gap is significant.
I think you hit a key point. Paper vs. PDA. For me, if it's not worth pulling out my laptop, I just jot it down and input it later. I guess some prefer instant input into a computer system. I just find that paper is quicker, and when I actually get around to transferring any useful data, most of the paper notes have become irrelevant.
I guess it all just comes down to preference. Now, if I could get a helper-monkey that could take notes and make coffee, that would be even better.
Ah, yes - the "I am the world" fallacy. You are not a statistically significant sample set, so your assessment of something as !useful does not actually mean that the item is !useful.
[Insert Proper Southern Accent] Sir, I applaud you for insight. The world is ablaze with your firey intellect.
I seldom see people use PDAs for much more than address books. I know tons of people who own them, but very few that actually use them. I also understand the differences between a phone, PDA, and computer. I just fail to see why you'd spend the cash on a PDA when you can get a very small, light weight, battery efficient laptop for not much more money that does so much more for you.
I'm on the move a lot. I have a work-issued Dell laptop that acts as more of a desktop, but I use a 12" Power Book for just about everything. I just throw it in my backpack and go. With OS X's near instant sleep/wake times, I never even turn it off. I can then jump on the net, print to most any printer, and have a large enough screen to do any real work or data input I need to do.
For the brief period I carried the PDA around, I found that despite its portability, it just didn't have the functionality I needed. This was resolved with the 12" PowerBook.
Does anyone really use PDA-type devices? I work for a large organization and run around to meetings and all that jazz, but I never have the use for one. I even received a free PDA once, but just threw it in my closet never really using it. If you've got a laptop and you've got a cell phone, is there any need for a PDA?
Is it just me, or is this a HUGE contradiction?
You say "it is not journalism, but it is journaling." Isn't journalism just another word for journaling? I fail to understand the difference. Capturing events on any given media is essentially the same. I don't see how you are delineating.
If this thing can do physics homework, I'm getting two.
I'm always open to new music... even if it's old. Anyone know of any good deals on Russia-bound plane tickets? :-)
...I go beat down some old lady in Russia, break into her house, and then rip all of her CD's onto my laptop? I mean, it's illegal, but I'm protected by that loophole... right?
...we'll try to help you out at OmniNerd.com :-)
I was curious if anyone knew of any sort of reverse analysis. What is mean is that it seems easy to figure out what sort of jobs are available based on demand, but is there any analysis that shows what sort of IT-skill-sets are available from people in the job market? This sort of info would be nice to have if you were trying to avoid being one of the thousands of lemmings all focusing on the same job market.
In college, I was the guy to go to if you had a computer problem. One night, one of the football players comes knocking on my door, "Hey Mark, my computer's acting weird, can you come look at it?" I agreed and we walked down the hall to his room. Strangely, the machine was off so I reached my hand out and turned it on. I jumped back at the sound of a loud pop and the sight of flames and smoke coming out of the back of the power supply. Immediately, I reached for the cord and pulled the plug.
:-)
"So can you fix it," he asks in all seriousness. I just looked at him in total disbelief and said, "Man, your computer was just on fire. No, I can't fix it."
He was really good at football though!
Thank you very much for wasting my tax dollars, cretin! You're welcome. And you're welcome for the year I spent in Iraq for you. But I digress... We (DoD) don't spend money just to spend it. We come up with our needs, give them to companies, and then pay whoever says they can do the job the cheapest. That's the way it works. I haven't received any bids from the open source community.
Please read my post. I wasn't justifying, I was simply explaining the rational behind most decisions.
:-)
My point was this:
DoD has: Lots of people, lots of money, lots of computers, many mobile employees, a war to fight
DoD has not: big paychecks, many fixed location jobs, highly skilled admins
If you think you can fix DoD, then by all means, jump on board. If not, just be quiet and keep paying those taxes!
I work for DoD. We tend to go with commercial software for several reasons:
1. Personnel changeover. DoD loves to move people around between departments and installations. It's hard to find people savvy enough to run open-source software and keep them in one spot. It's much easier to give whoever is holding the position a phone number and tell them to call tech support with problems.
2. Personnel skills. DoD is huge. Because of this, the chances of getting skilled and motivated people at all of your sites is slim. Again, the phone call seems to make everything better.
3. Contracts. Things are usually purchased in bundles and as part of a big plan. It's much easier to brief to a non-tech boss that you have the support of another company and not that "I'm sure we can figure it out."
4. Uncle Sam's pockets are deep.
I agree that open source software is often better. But it doesn't give the non-tech group that warm fuzzy it needs to. In the end, the boss doesn't want to up a creek without a paddle. Having that phone number to call adds a much wanted security blanket, even if it's only a facade.
Anyone know what Safari's innerworkings are like? From what I've used of it, it seems very Mozilla/Firefox'ish. Is there any relation, or is it just the path that all browsers seem to be going down?
...can the owner of a blog ever be held responsible for content posted on the site? For example, if I post military secrets (not that I have them, mwuhahaha!) on Slashdot, is Slashdot at all responsible for the content assuming they take it down once they realize the problem?
And what about the ISP that actually owns the server (assuming you're paying for server space), can they be held responsible?
I currently have two sites that allow users to post comments on them, and have always wondered this, but mostly been too lazy to do any legal research.
The basics of the site are covered in a short article I posted: http://www.omninerd.com/articles/articles.php?id=m cbride-200407-acasestudyindynamicwebdesign. If you want to get into the weeds on a particular aspect of the site, shoot me an email and I'd be happy to share.
Good point. And I didn't totally overlook indexing when I build the site. I have index files that cointain header like info for the files and make referencing not too bad. But I see how a database would be better.
Question though: Is a database's indexing system much more efficient for searching through the body of hundreds of files if I'm doing some sort of content search?