I would say no, since most geeks are single with little hope of polluting the gene pool.
Is this tired old cliche really true though? I imagine most of the "geeks" in Silicon Valley were actually pretty cool guys who probably got laid a lot in school. They're generally very attractive, ride skateboards or rollerblades, and hack into mainframes in between pimpin' on their ho's. I think the idea of the traditional socially awkward "nerd" stereotype is horribly wrong and outdated. I doubt these people even exist in California*.
* Note: My view of Silicon Valley comes from movies so this may be inaccurate, but Steve Jobs is pretty good looking whereas Bill Gates is from Seattle and is ugly as fucking hell. Therefore I must only conclude that California nerds are cute.
Why not offer a lossless compression format like TIFF on these cameras instead? The only good thing about RAW is it makes it quick to work with photos without compressing/uncompressing them, but even the highest quality JPEG is lossy.
You get a tax credit from your home state for taxes paid in the state you work in. Or the other way around.
Too bad it doesn't work that way with cities. I pay 2% tax to the city I work in and 0.75% tax to the city I live in (they give me a 0.25% credit since I don't work in the city). I don't have any problems paying income tax to the city I live in, but it's criminal that I should have to pay taxes to the city I work in but have no voting rights in. It's taxation without representation. If they want to recover costs they should do it by taxing the business which resides in their city not my personal income from work.
I think you're going to be pretty pissed to only get 540p when a $50 DVD player can put out 480p.
So basically what you're saying is that I have no reason to throw away my money on an expensive HD-DVD player when I can get similar quality with a $50 DVD player and cheaper discs? Soooo... why would I want to upgrade again? I don't have an HDTV either and don't plan to buy one so it sounds like HD-DVD is useless to me.
Why is this so? Where I work there is a constant push to share knowldege across the entire organization.
Where I work it is exactly the opposite. They want the knowledge captured, but in a controlled fashion and only accessible to those in the proper groups. What we're really looking for is a full-blown content management system rather than a Wiki though and we see that now.
You may personally dislike MediaWiki and Wikimedia, and that's fine, but it's no substitute for facts.
Hey, I'm just going by their own FAQ:
What can't MediaWiki do?
While versatile, MediaWiki isn't suited to all purposes. In particular, users should remember that it is designed to allow open-editing, and doesn't provide very complex per-page access restrictions. Users seeking such functionality ought to consider using software dedicated to that purpose, such as document or content management software.
Sure, it has very rudimentary support for simple access controls like read/edit, but it is probably not sufficient for the average business. There's nothing *wrong* with it for other purposes though, especially places that are more open to editing the content, it just didn't fit our environment so I am looking elsewhere.
Because they can't justify using it in an organization. It doesn't appear to have any kind of access control system whatsoever meaning that all users can read any of the items. In any decent knowledge management system you'd want to only allow certain knowledge to certain groups that need it, not everyone. Since this is contrary to what the Mediawikians believe philisophically you're best to move on and use another product instead of trying to shoe-horn this product into place in your business.
If there is evidence that the US government pressured ICANN into making a decision that it would have made differently on its own, then it is high time for the rest of the world to establish independent DNS roots.
Go ahead. There is absolutely nothing stopping anybody from doing this.
Definitely. ESX may look like Red Hat when you're installing it, but when the service console fires up the VMKernel it is entirely separate from the console OS. The hardware supported by ESX is very limited as well so it's best to plan the purchase of it along with new hardware. We've had excellent results with IBM servers for instance since they're partners. Of course, you're going to pay a premium for the hardware, but consolidating 20-30 servers onto one quad processor server box is much nicer than having to deal with all those separate physical machines.
Kid gets an instant ticket to (in)fame, and he cries about it, because he's fat and awkward, and looks goofy. Ridiculous.
Yes, the fat people always have to play the clowns for the skinnies right? Dance for us fat boy, dance. Your awkward movements amuse us. Maybe he didn't feel comfortable with people laughing AT him and not with him.
Performance is worse compared to what? I've run AVG, Norton Antivirus, and McAfee's Antivirus and AVG blows the doors off the other two. McAfee's used to bog my system down horribly and NAV is even worse. I don't even notice AVG running.
Hopefully the support people aren't tracking your call using yellow stickies on the cube wall to remind them "Call Joe, re: code" Usually there's something more sophisticated than that for tracking support.
Hey, are you knocking my tech support methods? I'm far more likely to call someone back if I have a yellow sticky note taped to my monitor than if I have to remember to check Remedy once in awhile for open tickets.
So this is different, apparantly XM subscribers can store songs on the unit.
Still ridiculous, of coarse, after all anyone with a computer or a cassette deck can accomplish the same thing.
Not all of them can store songs on a unit. It's meant for time-shifting shows like a TiVo so people can record the show and then play it back when they're stuck without a signal like on a subway or in a building. As you said, how is this ANY different than the billions of radios that sold with cassette decks included for decades. They're really grasping at straws now and the government needs to smack these fuckers down a notch or two and stop them from wasting the courts' time. I bet 99% of the people that use that recording functionality use it to timeshift talk shows anyway and not music.
If you're going to sell me 24/7, 6MB down/1MB up, then god damn it, I expect to get just that. If that's not what I'm getting then don't call it that, and don't promise it!
I agree. The ISPs should charge per gigabyte downloaded and give everyone a 6-10 Mbit pipe into their house. Then the people that are really stressing the network pay the most money. Maybe give everyone a 5 GB included allotment and then charge $5 per gigabyte over that... I think that's fair. People that download videos with BitTorrent all day will have to rethink whether it would be cheaper to just buy cable or rent movies instead of stealing movies and TV shows off the Internet.
As for all of you that pipe up and claim to be using it for legal purposes like downloading Linux ISO images then sorry, but you shouldn't expect something for nothing. Those of us that just do light e-mail, web browsing, and the occassional video download from YouTube, but still expect a snappy response and quick download times over our 6Mbps DSL for our 10 meg videos, should not be forced to subsidize bandwidth hogs. This whole situation reminds me of assholes that used to say "I have unlimited dialup service so I can stay connected 24/7" even though they weren't in front of their computer 95% of the time.. they'd just tie up a phone line which cost the ISP more per month than they were paying for service. Businesses have been oversubscribing services for a long time and it works just fine as long as customers don't abuse it. If you were to start requiring dedicated lines or bandwidth for everyone then you need to realistically expect to pay much higher prices for the service.
I have been personally involved in wifi certifications in aircraft. I have never seen any interference with navigation systems.
Who says the system has to be WiFi? They could just put plugs on the back of every seat. It's not like people roam around aircraft much... at least not on the cattle-car flights I flew on in coach class.
Next day, a SWAT team crashes into your living room, pins you, your wife, your kids, and drag you away for questioning. After all, you were talking to someone who supplied bomb material. Were you with him? What did you two talk about? You've even been seen with him!
You have a very active imagination there. Maybe they took a couple of whacks at your kids with a nightstick while they're at it? Afterall, that 6 year old looked like he was going for a gun. You know what would really happen? The guys would show up, interview you and maybe ask if you could help them catch the guy. Why would you want to protect a criminal anyway?
On XP I have bunch of monitoring and firewalling software. On Mac I only have the knowledge that my OS is bullet proof. Now the second is not valid anymore. Oh my...
Unless you disabled it you also have firewalling and monitoring.
The majority of voters in largely Democratic areas in Ohio didn't even use electronic voting machines so this is kind of a moot point. The places where Bush scored highly used Diebold machines, true, but they also had very heavy Republican bases in the first place. This is yet another liberal urban legend people like to spread around that Diebold somehow tampered with the election. Please stop spreading this FUD.
I thought the Tivo death knell sounded off last month, and the month before, and the month before, and the month before...
TiVo and Vonage are circling the drain hand in hand. Face it, both companies are bleeding money faster than they can bring it in. TiVo simply can't compete with DVRs built into cable boxes that have multiple tuners in them and can record digital content without recording it off some crappy S-VIDEO interface using a stupid IR blaster to change channels. MAYBE their HDTV/Cablecard version coming out might hold their death off for a few more years, but the only long term option they have is to get in bed with the cable companies like they did with DirecTV and ensure their software (their hardware is essentially worthless commodity PC garbage, their software is the only thing valuable in their business model) is put on every cable DVR box that ships. The DVR software on a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 I tried for a week SUCKED ASS and was a glorified VCR... if they could capitalize on their name and get their shit into the cable DVR boxes that major cable companies rent they may just survive past 2008.
However, I really don't think this admistration seems too interested in ending dependance on foreign oil, when they electric and natural gas cars to the tune of $500+/year.
I think you're missing a verb in this sentence. Is it "tax"? If so, why did you link to a site in Singapore!? What does that have to do with the US taxes?
Hydrogen would be great & all, but what really needs to be done is to improve America's public transport infrastructure & encourage people to start using it. A gradual raising of gas taxes until pump prices are around $7/gallon, with the money raised being pumped into (free) public transport would achieve precisely that.
Why don't you go move to Europe? They have higher gas prices than that and they STILL don't have decent public transportation either. The worst of both worlds... it's exactly what you'd get in the United States because we are far too sprawling to accomodate a public transportation system that reaches the vast majority of people where they live: suburbs. Besides, public transportation is totally impractical to average people.. how the fuck would you even get groceries or other items when you go shopping home? Drag 15-20 bags of groceries onto the bus? Who the hell can carry all that shit? You can have my car when you drag the keys from my cold dead hands.
Don't forget you're dealing with stoners when any talk of hemp for fuel or clothing comes up. Naturally in their state of being continually high they'll believe any bullshit they read. Hemp also cures cancer in case you haven't checked lately.
The article claims pirated videos can "contain viruses." Am I an idiot, or how is this possible? My understanding is that a virus can only be contained in executable code.
You're not thinking like a Windows user are you? This is the platform that brought us e-mail viruses. E-MAIL VIRUSES for Christ's sake! Who would have thought 10 years ago as we were all laughing at the newbies passing around the Good Times virus hoax chain letter that Microsoft's "innovative" e-mail client Outbreak and Outbreak Express would make it entirely possible to spread very virulent e-mail viruses within a few years? You could get infected without even opening the e-mail message! Ugh. So, do you really trust your Windows PC to not be susceptible to viruses embedded in video streams? I sure don't.
Oh, and as for other platforms, I'd bet you 100 DVD-RWs that the only platform this service will support is Windows.
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Just look for where the tank treads end.
Is this tired old cliche really true though? I imagine most of the "geeks" in Silicon Valley were actually pretty cool guys who probably got laid a lot in school. They're generally very attractive, ride skateboards or rollerblades, and hack into mainframes in between pimpin' on their ho's. I think the idea of the traditional socially awkward "nerd" stereotype is horribly wrong and outdated. I doubt these people even exist in California*.
* Note: My view of Silicon Valley comes from movies so this may be inaccurate, but Steve Jobs is pretty good looking whereas Bill Gates is from Seattle and is ugly as fucking hell. Therefore I must only conclude that California nerds are cute.
Why not offer a lossless compression format like TIFF on these cameras instead? The only good thing about RAW is it makes it quick to work with photos without compressing/uncompressing them, but even the highest quality JPEG is lossy.
I don't think these were running Windows XP were they?
Too bad it doesn't work that way with cities. I pay 2% tax to the city I work in and 0.75% tax to the city I live in (they give me a 0.25% credit since I don't work in the city). I don't have any problems paying income tax to the city I live in, but it's criminal that I should have to pay taxes to the city I work in but have no voting rights in. It's taxation without representation. If they want to recover costs they should do it by taxing the business which resides in their city not my personal income from work.
So basically what you're saying is that I have no reason to throw away my money on an expensive HD-DVD player when I can get similar quality with a $50 DVD player and cheaper discs? Soooo... why would I want to upgrade again? I don't have an HDTV either and don't plan to buy one so it sounds like HD-DVD is useless to me.
Where I work it is exactly the opposite. They want the knowledge captured, but in a controlled fashion and only accessible to those in the proper groups. What we're really looking for is a full-blown content management system rather than a Wiki though and we see that now.
Hey, I'm just going by their own FAQ: What can't MediaWiki do?
While versatile, MediaWiki isn't suited to all purposes. In particular, users should remember that it is designed to allow open-editing, and doesn't provide very complex per-page access restrictions. Users seeking such functionality ought to consider using software dedicated to that purpose, such as document or content management software.
Sure, it has very rudimentary support for simple access controls like read/edit, but it is probably not sufficient for the average business. There's nothing *wrong* with it for other purposes though, especially places that are more open to editing the content, it just didn't fit our environment so I am looking elsewhere.
You'd have to be incredibly naive to believe they don't already have access to it.
Because they can't justify using it in an organization. It doesn't appear to have any kind of access control system whatsoever meaning that all users can read any of the items. In any decent knowledge management system you'd want to only allow certain knowledge to certain groups that need it, not everyone. Since this is contrary to what the Mediawikians believe philisophically you're best to move on and use another product instead of trying to shoe-horn this product into place in your business.
Go ahead. There is absolutely nothing stopping anybody from doing this.
Definitely. ESX may look like Red Hat when you're installing it, but when the service console fires up the VMKernel it is entirely separate from the console OS. The hardware supported by ESX is very limited as well so it's best to plan the purchase of it along with new hardware. We've had excellent results with IBM servers for instance since they're partners. Of course, you're going to pay a premium for the hardware, but consolidating 20-30 servers onto one quad processor server box is much nicer than having to deal with all those separate physical machines.
Yes, the fat people always have to play the clowns for the skinnies right? Dance for us fat boy, dance. Your awkward movements amuse us. Maybe he didn't feel comfortable with people laughing AT him and not with him.
Performance is worse compared to what? I've run AVG, Norton Antivirus, and McAfee's Antivirus and AVG blows the doors off the other two. McAfee's used to bog my system down horribly and NAV is even worse. I don't even notice AVG running.
Hey, are you knocking my tech support methods? I'm far more likely to call someone back if I have a yellow sticky note taped to my monitor than if I have to remember to check Remedy once in awhile for open tickets.
Still ridiculous, of coarse, after all anyone with a computer or a cassette deck can accomplish the same thing.
Not all of them can store songs on a unit. It's meant for time-shifting shows like a TiVo so people can record the show and then play it back when they're stuck without a signal like on a subway or in a building. As you said, how is this ANY different than the billions of radios that sold with cassette decks included for decades. They're really grasping at straws now and the government needs to smack these fuckers down a notch or two and stop them from wasting the courts' time. I bet 99% of the people that use that recording functionality use it to timeshift talk shows anyway and not music.
I agree. The ISPs should charge per gigabyte downloaded and give everyone a 6-10 Mbit pipe into their house. Then the people that are really stressing the network pay the most money. Maybe give everyone a 5 GB included allotment and then charge $5 per gigabyte over that... I think that's fair. People that download videos with BitTorrent all day will have to rethink whether it would be cheaper to just buy cable or rent movies instead of stealing movies and TV shows off the Internet.
As for all of you that pipe up and claim to be using it for legal purposes like downloading Linux ISO images then sorry, but you shouldn't expect something for nothing. Those of us that just do light e-mail, web browsing, and the occassional video download from YouTube, but still expect a snappy response and quick download times over our 6Mbps DSL for our 10 meg videos, should not be forced to subsidize bandwidth hogs. This whole situation reminds me of assholes that used to say "I have unlimited dialup service so I can stay connected 24/7" even though they weren't in front of their computer 95% of the time.. they'd just tie up a phone line which cost the ISP more per month than they were paying for service. Businesses have been oversubscribing services for a long time and it works just fine as long as customers don't abuse it. If you were to start requiring dedicated lines or bandwidth for everyone then you need to realistically expect to pay much higher prices for the service.
Who says the system has to be WiFi? They could just put plugs on the back of every seat. It's not like people roam around aircraft much... at least not on the cattle-car flights I flew on in coach class.
You have a very active imagination there. Maybe they took a couple of whacks at your kids with a nightstick while they're at it? Afterall, that 6 year old looked like he was going for a gun. You know what would really happen? The guys would show up, interview you and maybe ask if you could help them catch the guy. Why would you want to protect a criminal anyway?
Unless you disabled it you also have firewalling and monitoring.
The majority of voters in largely Democratic areas in Ohio didn't even use electronic voting machines so this is kind of a moot point. The places where Bush scored highly used Diebold machines, true, but they also had very heavy Republican bases in the first place. This is yet another liberal urban legend people like to spread around that Diebold somehow tampered with the election. Please stop spreading this FUD.
TiVo and Vonage are circling the drain hand in hand. Face it, both companies are bleeding money faster than they can bring it in. TiVo simply can't compete with DVRs built into cable boxes that have multiple tuners in them and can record digital content without recording it off some crappy S-VIDEO interface using a stupid IR blaster to change channels. MAYBE their HDTV/Cablecard version coming out might hold their death off for a few more years, but the only long term option they have is to get in bed with the cable companies like they did with DirecTV and ensure their software (their hardware is essentially worthless commodity PC garbage, their software is the only thing valuable in their business model) is put on every cable DVR box that ships. The DVR software on a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 I tried for a week SUCKED ASS and was a glorified VCR... if they could capitalize on their name and get their shit into the cable DVR boxes that major cable companies rent they may just survive past 2008.
I think you're missing a verb in this sentence. Is it "tax"? If so, why did you link to a site in Singapore!? What does that have to do with the US taxes?
Hydrogen would be great & all, but what really needs to be done is to improve America's public transport infrastructure & encourage people to start using it. A gradual raising of gas taxes until pump prices are around $7/gallon, with the money raised being pumped into (free) public transport would achieve precisely that.
Why don't you go move to Europe? They have higher gas prices than that and they STILL don't have decent public transportation either. The worst of both worlds... it's exactly what you'd get in the United States because we are far too sprawling to accomodate a public transportation system that reaches the vast majority of people where they live: suburbs. Besides, public transportation is totally impractical to average people.. how the fuck would you even get groceries or other items when you go shopping home? Drag 15-20 bags of groceries onto the bus? Who the hell can carry all that shit? You can have my car when you drag the keys from my cold dead hands.
Don't forget you're dealing with stoners when any talk of hemp for fuel or clothing comes up. Naturally in their state of being continually high they'll believe any bullshit they read. Hemp also cures cancer in case you haven't checked lately.
You're not thinking like a Windows user are you? This is the platform that brought us e-mail viruses. E-MAIL VIRUSES for Christ's sake! Who would have thought 10 years ago as we were all laughing at the newbies passing around the Good Times virus hoax chain letter that Microsoft's "innovative" e-mail client Outbreak and Outbreak Express would make it entirely possible to spread very virulent e-mail viruses within a few years? You could get infected without even opening the e-mail message! Ugh. So, do you really trust your Windows PC to not be susceptible to viruses embedded in video streams? I sure don't.
Oh, and as for other platforms, I'd bet you 100 DVD-RWs that the only platform this service will support is Windows.