I enjoy coding, and the stuff I code at work is very interesting and challenging. When I was unemployed for 6 months 2 years ago, guess what I did with my free time - code!
You think professional golfers just quit at the end of the tournament and say tripe like "if I golf 10 hours in my free time, I just got a 10% paycut!"
Have fun hating your job, working the bare minimum, and never getting ahead. Meanwhile I will keep enjoying my job, getting ahead, and when I am 45 I will be sipping on a margarita in the bahamas while you are still working 40 hours a week to make rent.
The content was **not accessable** through normal gameplay - it was only accessable via modding.
Classifying this as pornography is like saying that Pocahontas should be classified as pornography, because some clever video editing can remove that leather dress. The modded game is not the same as the game as sold, it is a different game.
I'd say out of a given day my computer is sitting doing absolutely nothing productive around 16 hours or so. I can't turn it on and off because I often login remotely, but during the 2/3rds of the day it's not doing anything it would be nice to have it go into a sleep state of sorts, e.g. clock the cpu down to absurdly low states, heck even halt the GPU, lower the DRAM refresh, etc...
This is a wee bit of nonsense.. look into Wake On Lan (WOL), which is readibly supported in Windows, Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, you name it.
Your PC goes into a heavy sleep state where it is essentially totally off except for a few mW to the NIC... when a UDP packet is recieved, it boots up.
And I know what you are thinking - "but how do I know what the IP is to send it a UDP packet from work!". Well, if your PC is as you say a dual-core 450W PSU, you are probably burning away almost 10 dollars a month in power at average power rates of $0.08 per kW/h... take 20 bucks, buy a router on ebay that will update your IP on a free dyndns service.
Why can't my tax dollars stay in my pocket so I can decide how to spend them?
Because if society worked this way, human greed would prevail and services such as paved roads, public parks, snow removal, and disaster relief would not exist.
Greed is good for some things (see capitalism), but a modern society can not succeed on greed alone, no mater what staunch libertarians would have you believe.
Going all the way to that extreme won't get you any further ahead than going all the way to the other extreme (marxism).
Assuming that there is a God, and evolution is the mechanism by which he designed the earth, then it is perfectly feasible that he designed humans to have a blind spot, because perhaps without our inferior eyesight, we would not have evolved some other important part of our genome.
Evolution is such a tricky thing because there is no way you can look at an organisms feature set now, and deduce what circumstances caused it to evolve over a billion years.
"Billboard companies are great, but they don't charge you to look at them. I guess the question is how long they can survive on their advertising alone."
Google can survive on advertising alone as long as they attract lots of eyeballs, and can thus charge lots of money.
Aside from that - Google has other revenue streams. They sell search appliances and services, they license products to other companies (see CNN's use of Keyhole aka. Google Earth).
You seem to presume that a company's value can be measured in terms of your personal experience with it. In fact, there are many companies which, if they went bankrupt tomorrow, would not be noticed by you, but nonetheless bring in good profits and offer strong growth.
I don't think this is the point the parent was trying to make. The point they are trying to make is that, as the gatekeeper of the internet, a valuation of 50 times next years profits may not be that big of a gamble. As more and more daily activities start to hinge around the internet, Google's importance as an indespensible tool becomes more and more valuble, both as a brand and as an eyball grabber.
Once you add in the possibilities of their foray into the browser world via Firefox, and their potentialto even make the operating system itself irrelevant to your work via things like GMail, and 50 times earnings is not so pie in the sky....
Simple - what happens if the platform goes away? What happens if microsoft moves away from.NET, and you want to move to a new platform (PowerPC for example).
Who gives a crap - I have never touched the Microsoft.Net runtime. You don't need Microsoft anything to run or use Mono.
Hell, what happens if 20 years from now you find you need an old tool you made in C#? Will it still work? Will there be a compatible.NET run-time for 256-bit computers?
You re-compile Mono for the 256 bit computer?
it is called open Source for a reason - it is open. Nothing ties mono to anything else, unless you argue patents, which could be applied to any other VM implementation as well so it is basically a moot point.
The only real difference is noawadays you have to spend an extra 30 bucks and buy the Haynes auto repair manual for your car to get that info - back then it was free.
The funny (sad?) part is that this "children's book" is more advanced in many ways than some of my CS intro classes were 7 years ago (and some people still failed out!)
This is not really accurate... there is effectivly zero difference between setuid'ing a binary and adding sudo access to it with the NOPASSWD option.
The benefit sudo gives you, however, is you can restrict the users and groups who have this sudo access on a more fine-grained basis, whereas a setuid binary can be accessed by anyone in that group.
For example, let's say that the CDC's Smallpox virus is protected by either a iris scanner or a password. If a scientist is faced with giving up a password or an eye, he'll probably be more likely to give up the password. Thus, if everything else is equal, the eye-based security is better.
You are totally missing the point. If it was a highly secured substance like smallpox, then the thief would more likely just kill you and remove your eye. So now you have a loose smallpox virus *AND* a one-eyed technician.
If it was something like your credit card number, then you would be better off with the password and just give it to the thief.
Renewable or not - those forms of power cost money and have impacts on the enviroment. It matters very much whether or not their production is used efficiently. Seven acres of solar panels to produce x amount of ethanol vice one and change acres to produce x amount of hydrogen - there is a significant difference there. (Not to mention that ethanol production also requires something that hydrogen does not - pesticides which persist in the enviroment.)
Tell me again how seven acres - or even seven thousand acres - of solar panels orbiting the planet has any impact on the environment?
And you ignore the fact that regardless of the energy source, ethanol is *still* a net sink of energy. *Regardless of the energy source*.
Of course it is. It is called "entropy". All conversion of energe from one form to another results in a net "loss", as some of the energy is lost.
The real question is not whether or not there is a net energy loss, it is wether that energy that was lost is renewable or not. Solar and Wind power is renewable. The sun will continue to shine just as brightly tomorrow, the next week, and 5000 years from now (until it goes nova), regardless of how much of it's rays we harness.
.. with hardware acceleration, the NVidia drivers will probably be the first available with the support. Meanwhile the ATI and other FLOSS drivers will implement it about 8 months later.
There are some situations in which sponsored closed software wins every time, and one of those is hardware drivers. When a new API is released, a team of paid developers that know your hardware inside and out (because they work for the company that design it) will do a better job of porting their code quickly, and will be able t o do it much faster.
I don't really care how much slashdot fanboys rant about NVidia, the people who actually use high-end video cards in Linux know the truth - NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.
They can keep the drivers closed till hell freezes over for all I care - they work, they work great, they have more frequent stable updates with bugfixes and new features than any FLOSS drivers I know of.
Your employer *has* to have your SSN, and the government *has* to know that your SSN is currently registered with X employer. THis is how the whole benefit system works.
If the government is not checking if an SSN is *already currently employed* when an unemployment claim is being filed, it is a result of pure incompetance. You would think this thing could be enforced with a foreign key constraint in the SSN claim database for god's sake.
You can look at it another way.. if I am looking for a photo editing app that is KDE-integrated, which do you think I would have more luck with? Krita, or Gimp? I can tell without even looking at the app's website that Krita will have better KDE integration.
That is the benefit of the naming convention - you know what is a KDE app and what is not. You don't need to waste your time on any GTK crap that can't even open an sftp:// link.
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..who hates their job.
I enjoy coding, and the stuff I code at work is very interesting and challenging. When I was unemployed for 6 months 2 years ago, guess what I did with my free time - code!
You think professional golfers just quit at the end of the tournament and say tripe like "if I golf 10 hours in my free time, I just got a 10% paycut!"
Have fun hating your job, working the bare minimum, and never getting ahead. Meanwhile I will keep enjoying my job, getting ahead, and when I am 45 I will be sipping on a margarita in the bahamas while you are still working 40 hours a week to make rent.
Anyone who *pays* for internet porn is so stupid that they *deserve* to pay taxes on it too.
The stuff is so widely available for free it is beyond my comprehension that people would pay for it.
... is the more likely scenario - that, for every one of these incidents that are reported, there are 10 that are not.
... then what is the difference between if the customers have free access to wired terminals, or if there is free WiFi?
Classifying this as pornography is like saying that Pocahontas should be classified as pornography, because some clever video editing can remove that leather dress. The modded game is not the same as the game as sold, it is a different game.
The whole charade is ridiculous.
9% Soft core porn
9% Hard core porn
9% Animal porn
9% Vegetable porn
2% CowboyNeal porn
Use Mozilla or Safari. It works fine.
I'd say out of a given day my computer is sitting doing absolutely nothing productive around 16 hours or so. I can't turn it on and off because I often login remotely, but during the 2/3rds of the day it's not doing anything it would be nice to have it go into a sleep state of sorts, e.g. clock the cpu down to absurdly low states, heck even halt the GPU, lower the DRAM refresh, etc...
This is a wee bit of nonsense.. look into Wake On Lan (WOL), which is readibly supported in Windows, Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, you name it.
Your PC goes into a heavy sleep state where it is essentially totally off except for a few mW to the NIC... when a UDP packet is recieved, it boots up.
And I know what you are thinking - "but how do I know what the IP is to send it a UDP packet from work!". Well, if your PC is as you say a dual-core 450W PSU, you are probably burning away almost 10 dollars a month in power at average power rates of $0.08 per kW/h... take 20 bucks, buy a router on ebay that will update your IP on a free dyndns service.
Why can't my tax dollars stay in my pocket so I can decide how to spend them?
Because if society worked this way, human greed would prevail and services such as paved roads, public parks, snow removal, and disaster relief would not exist.
Greed is good for some things (see capitalism), but a modern society can not succeed on greed alone, no mater what staunch libertarians would have you believe.
Going all the way to that extreme won't get you any further ahead than going all the way to the other extreme (marxism).
You're talking about a two-stage organism here, one stage does nothing but eat, the other stage does nothing but procreate. Which came first?
Obviously the one that procreates....
Swish!
Your experiments are not really valid...
Assuming that there is a God, and evolution is the mechanism by which he designed the earth, then it is perfectly feasible that he designed humans to have a blind spot, because perhaps without our inferior eyesight, we would not have evolved some other important part of our genome.
Evolution is such a tricky thing because there is no way you can look at an organisms feature set now, and deduce what circumstances caused it to evolve over a billion years.
Google can survive on advertising alone as long as they attract lots of eyeballs, and can thus charge lots of money.
Aside from that - Google has other revenue streams. They sell search appliances and services, they license products to other companies (see CNN's use of Keyhole aka. Google Earth).
You seem to presume that a company's value can be measured in terms of your personal experience with it. In fact, there are many companies which, if they went bankrupt tomorrow, would not be noticed by you, but nonetheless bring in good profits and offer strong growth.
I don't think this is the point the parent was trying to make. The point they are trying to make is that, as the gatekeeper of the internet, a valuation of 50 times next years profits may not be that big of a gamble. As more and more daily activities start to hinge around the internet, Google's importance as an indespensible tool becomes more and more valuble, both as a brand and as an eyball grabber.
Once you add in the possibilities of their foray into the browser world via Firefox, and their potentialto even make the operating system itself irrelevant to your work via things like GMail, and 50 times earnings is not so pie in the sky....
Simple - what happens if the platform goes away? What happens if microsoft moves away from .NET, and you want to move to a new platform (PowerPC for example).
Who gives a crap - I have never touched the Microsoft .Net runtime. You don't need Microsoft anything to run or use Mono.
Hell, what happens if 20 years from now you find you need an old tool you made in C#? Will it still work? Will there be a compatible .NET run-time for 256-bit computers?
You re-compile Mono for the 256 bit computer?
it is called open Source for a reason - it is open. Nothing ties mono to anything else, unless you argue patents, which could be applied to any other VM implementation as well so it is basically a moot point.
The only real difference is noawadays you have to spend an extra 30 bucks and buy the Haynes auto repair manual for your car to get that info - back then it was free.
The funny (sad?) part is that this "children's book" is more advanced in many ways than some of my CS intro classes were 7 years ago (and some people still failed out!)
People getting dumber? Nah.. can't be!
This is not really accurate... there is effectivly zero difference between setuid'ing a binary and adding sudo access to it with the NOPASSWD option.
The benefit sudo gives you, however, is you can restrict the users and groups who have this sudo access on a more fine-grained basis, whereas a setuid binary can be accessed by anyone in that group.
So really, the parent is right.
For example, let's say that the CDC's Smallpox virus is protected by either a iris scanner or a password. If a scientist is faced with giving up a password or an eye, he'll probably be more likely to give up the password. Thus, if everything else is equal, the eye-based security is better.
You are totally missing the point. If it was a highly secured substance like smallpox, then the thief would more likely just kill you and remove your eye. So now you have a loose smallpox virus *AND* a one-eyed technician.
If it was something like your credit card number, then you would be better off with the password and just give it to the thief.
Renewable or not - those forms of power cost money and have impacts on the enviroment. It matters very much whether or not their production is used efficiently. Seven acres of solar panels to produce x amount of ethanol vice one and change acres to produce x amount of hydrogen - there is a significant difference there. (Not to mention that ethanol production also requires something that hydrogen does not - pesticides which persist in the enviroment.)
Tell me again how seven acres - or even seven thousand acres - of solar panels orbiting the planet has any impact on the environment?
And you ignore the fact that regardless of the energy source, ethanol is *still* a net sink of energy. *Regardless of the energy source*.
Of course it is. It is called "entropy". All conversion of energe from one form to another results in a net "loss", as some of the energy is lost.
The real question is not whether or not there is a net energy loss, it is wether that energy that was lost is renewable or not. Solar and Wind power is renewable. The sun will continue to shine just as brightly tomorrow, the next week, and 5000 years from now (until it goes nova), regardless of how much of it's rays we harness.
Wild Guess...
.. with hardware acceleration, the NVidia drivers will probably be the first available with the support. Meanwhile the ATI and other FLOSS drivers will implement it about 8 months later.
There are some situations in which sponsored closed software wins every time, and one of those is hardware drivers. When a new API is released, a team of paid developers that know your hardware inside and out (because they work for the company that design it) will do a better job of porting their code quickly, and will be able t o do it much faster.
I don't really care how much slashdot fanboys rant about NVidia, the people who actually use high-end video cards in Linux know the truth - NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.
They can keep the drivers closed till hell freezes over for all I care - they work, they work great, they have more frequent stable updates with bugfixes and new features than any FLOSS drivers I know of.
Your employer *has* to have your SSN, and the government *has* to know that your SSN is currently registered with X employer. THis is how the whole benefit system works.
If the government is not checking if an SSN is *already currently employed* when an unemployment claim is being filed, it is a result of pure incompetance. You would think this thing could be enforced with a foreign key constraint in the SSN claim database for god's sake.
Because after all, we all know that before the WWW ad boom of 2000, there was no content on the web.
Oh wait - I think I have that backwards - there was *better* content on the web *before* the major corperations and their ads came on.
You -> Foot -> Mouth
You can look at it another way.. if I am looking for a photo editing app that is KDE-integrated, which do you think I would have more luck with? Krita, or Gimp? I can tell without even looking at the app's website that Krita will have better KDE integration.
That is the benefit of the naming convention - you know what is a KDE app and what is not. You don't need to waste your time on any GTK crap that can't even open an sftp:// link.