Maybe at some point MS will become the underdog and/. will feature Apple stories with a pic of Steve Jobs as a borg. And a million Apple fans will cry out, as if suddenly stripped of their exclusive status symbol as the hip outsiders.
And I get modded flamebait for pointing out earlier today that Apple is gaining market share? It's true. Apple is gaining ground. Of course, it probably doesn't help MS that Vista isn't exactly setting the world on fire.
Very few virus writers target servers, Unix or otherwise, because they're generally not admined by some grandma in Albany who will open an exe file sent to her by a stranger with the subject heading "I love you."
Andrew Johnson gets my vote for the worst overall (it's a pretty telling statement about his incompetence that a Congress controlled almost entirely by his own party impeached him). And John Adams was definitely the most heavy-handed threat to the Constitution (The Alien and Sedition Acts came *way* too close to rendering a good chunk of the Bill of Rights meaningless very early on in our history). But Bush is certainly high up there among of the worst. If you factor in the massive damage he's done to the economy and nation's future by exploding the nation debt with epic irresponsible spending and an foolish war in Iraq; he's probably even ahead of Grant, Buchanan, and Nixon.
The REAL problem will come when you try to resell the used game to someone else. That is the TRUE intention of most of this "anti-piracy" nonsense, to bring an end to the secondary market for games (something music/movie/software studios have been trying for years).
Actually, in a way, this is a good sign for them. It means that they're getting enough market share for the virus and malware writers to actually give a shit.
These days computers have become such powerful, complex monstrosities that the conventional wisdom of "Math is the language of computers" has lost a lot of its meaning. In a sense, it's still true of course. Computers are only still, at their heart, binary computational devices. But, in actual practice, those 1's and 0's don't mean anything without the people working at the levels far above assembly language to actually make the computer *DO* something. Most GUI designers don't know anything about math, but without them many programs would be basically useless to all but a handful of command-line diehards. Many programmers who've designed some of our most useful programs have some basic knowledge of a few math functions in their code and only a passing knowledge of the math of the assembler that converts their C++ into a binary. And many computer operators, technicians, and technical writers have little to no knowledge of math at all. But without each of those groups, the modern computer would be pretty useless.
Understanding the math behind the code is very useful, of course, but it's hardly fair to say that you can't do "anything meaningful" without delving deep into the underlying mathematics of your code. In fact, it would be just as fair to point out that a pure mathematician would make for a really shitty software designer in the modern world (since he likely knows little about GUI and graphic design, market needs, existing software engines and OS's, documentation, etc.)
God, there is nothing worse than someone in the IT field who just stops learning new things at some point (worked with a few of these guys over the years). Within a matter of a few years, they can go from valuable asset to completely worthless. It's like flushing a long-term investment right down the drain.
If it's one thing I've realized in years of working with a lot of freaky non-profits, it's that the only people on this planet more consistently and radically pessimistic than millennialist religious leaders and farmers are environmentalists. And all three believe with equal fervor that the world is about to end and the sky will fall anytime.
I just got a pay cut at work, I may even lose my job if things don't turn around, and my mortgage is now worth more than my house. Not really in a spending mood right now.
There really isn't a convenient way to split a check and allow the parties to all still pay with a credit card (at least not in any of the restaurants I've ever been too). We live in a credit card/debit card world now (even the Salvation Army now accepts them) and that sort of thing is actually needed.
Yeah, but the important thing is that the cell modem providers are making money, which was no doubt the intention of this whole security plan all along.
First they government wants to set up a nationwide firewall, now this? WTF is going on down there? I mean, I thought the *U.S.* was bad. Isn't Australia supposed to be all European open and sophisticated, unlike us puritanical Americans?
Are you going to pay for the staff to do this "100% exhaustive" searching? Because the citizens of South Carolina sure aren't going to accept a tax increase to pay for it. At this point SCDC can't even staff most of its guard towers. And even more budget cuts are on the way.
Prisoners are notoriously good at smuggling in and hiding contraband (they have all day to think of little else and very little to lose if they get caught). And it doesn't help that SCDC is SERIOUSLY understaffed right now (thanks to years of budget cuts and neglect).
I work right next to SCDC's main prison facility in Columbia. Right now, the thing that really concerns us is "spillover" of this jamming into our area. We have a wifi network that we depend on (and cellphones we need, of course) and so the last thing we need is this plan having unitended consequences for wireless signals. It doesn't help that South Carolina state government has a long history of hiring shoddy technology contractors who promise the world and deliver a buggy product that only makes things worse. Jon Ozmint (the head of SCDC) has sworn that it won't leak outside of their facilities, but I'm somewhat cautious.
The Ridegville test referred to in the article wasn't that worthwhile because Ridgeville is isolated (it's in the middle of nowhere and lagely self-contained.) The main facility in Columbia is a much larger, more wide open area located right next to the state police headquaters, Dept. of Public Safery, and several other state agencies and businesses--all of whom depend greatly on their cellhones, networks, and communications equipment. I just don't see how they could blanket that whole area and not have spillover jamming--Unless they restrict it to inside of their buildings which would mean that most prisoners would still have plenty of opportunities to use their cellphones (since most prisoners spend a lot of time outside the buildings, except for the really high-level ones)
It's not that we're not sympathetic to the problem of cellphones in the prison system. We're just worried that they might be rushing forward with an untested and possibly ill-advised solution that could have a deleterious effect on nearby wireless usage. We're hoping they will at least give us a testing period to see its effects before they bring it online.
Cruelly harassing some poor kid to the point of suicide in on a rock bottom level on the scale of evil shit and human depravity. Someone capable of that has no place in civil society. And, with any luck, the court is about to remove this "person" from society for a long time.
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*You* try writing a comment about either MS or Apple without using sarcasm. The temptation is just too strong for this mortal.
Maybe at some point MS will become the underdog and /. will feature Apple stories with a pic of Steve Jobs as a borg. And a million Apple fans will cry out, as if suddenly stripped of their exclusive status symbol as the hip outsiders.
And I get modded flamebait for pointing out earlier today that Apple is gaining market share? It's true. Apple is gaining ground. Of course, it probably doesn't help MS that Vista isn't exactly setting the world on fire.
Very few virus writers target servers, Unix or otherwise, because they're generally not admined by some grandma in Albany who will open an exe file sent to her by a stranger with the subject heading "I love you."
Andrew Johnson gets my vote for the worst overall (it's a pretty telling statement about his incompetence that a Congress controlled almost entirely by his own party impeached him). And John Adams was definitely the most heavy-handed threat to the Constitution (The Alien and Sedition Acts came *way* too close to rendering a good chunk of the Bill of Rights meaningless very early on in our history). But Bush is certainly high up there among of the worst. If you factor in the massive damage he's done to the economy and nation's future by exploding the nation debt with epic irresponsible spending and an foolish war in Iraq; he's probably even ahead of Grant, Buchanan, and Nixon.
The REAL problem will come when you try to resell the used game to someone else. That is the TRUE intention of most of this "anti-piracy" nonsense, to bring an end to the secondary market for games (something music/movie/software studios have been trying for years).
Actually, I think we need a "Why aren't there enough women in IT/games and what can we do?" story to make it a typical slashdot day.
Actually, in a way, this is a good sign for them. It means that they're getting enough market share for the virus and malware writers to actually give a shit.
These days computers have become such powerful, complex monstrosities that the conventional wisdom of "Math is the language of computers" has lost a lot of its meaning. In a sense, it's still true of course. Computers are only still, at their heart, binary computational devices. But, in actual practice, those 1's and 0's don't mean anything without the people working at the levels far above assembly language to actually make the computer *DO* something. Most GUI designers don't know anything about math, but without them many programs would be basically useless to all but a handful of command-line diehards. Many programmers who've designed some of our most useful programs have some basic knowledge of a few math functions in their code and only a passing knowledge of the math of the assembler that converts their C++ into a binary. And many computer operators, technicians, and technical writers have little to no knowledge of math at all. But without each of those groups, the modern computer would be pretty useless.
Understanding the math behind the code is very useful, of course, but it's hardly fair to say that you can't do "anything meaningful" without delving deep into the underlying mathematics of your code. In fact, it would be just as fair to point out that a pure mathematician would make for a really shitty software designer in the modern world (since he likely knows little about GUI and graphic design, market needs, existing software engines and OS's, documentation, etc.)
God, there is nothing worse than someone in the IT field who just stops learning new things at some point (worked with a few of these guys over the years). Within a matter of a few years, they can go from valuable asset to completely worthless. It's like flushing a long-term investment right down the drain.
If it's one thing I've realized in years of working with a lot of freaky non-profits, it's that the only people on this planet more consistently and radically pessimistic than millennialist religious leaders and farmers are environmentalists. And all three believe with equal fervor that the world is about to end and the sky will fall anytime.
Ha, I *wish* I was joking. Sadly, no.
Yeah, but on the downside, you have to live in Oklahoma.
I just got a pay cut at work, I may even lose my job if things don't turn around, and my mortgage is now worth more than my house. Not really in a spending mood right now.
And, for God's sake, don't forget the most important step:
Use lots of acronyms, without first defining them, so as to totally confuse anyone reading your post
There really isn't a convenient way to split a check and allow the parties to all still pay with a credit card (at least not in any of the restaurants I've ever been too). We live in a credit card/debit card world now (even the Salvation Army now accepts them) and that sort of thing is actually needed.
Trying to be a good guy and having to grind away while the bad guys easily rise to the top? Shit, that's not a game, it's my life story.
You should be proud. Americans were the ones who finally perfected English. It almost made up for the horror of what the Irish did to the language.
Yeah, but the important thing is that the cell modem providers are making money, which was no doubt the intention of this whole security plan all along.
First they government wants to set up a nationwide firewall, now this? WTF is going on down there? I mean, I thought the *U.S.* was bad. Isn't Australia supposed to be all European open and sophisticated, unlike us puritanical Americans?
Are you going to pay for the staff to do this "100% exhaustive" searching? Because the citizens of South Carolina sure aren't going to accept a tax increase to pay for it. At this point SCDC can't even staff most of its guard towers. And even more budget cuts are on the way.
Prisoners are notoriously good at smuggling in and hiding contraband (they have all day to think of little else and very little to lose if they get caught). And it doesn't help that SCDC is SERIOUSLY understaffed right now (thanks to years of budget cuts and neglect).
I work right next to SCDC's main prison facility in Columbia. Right now, the thing that really concerns us is "spillover" of this jamming into our area. We have a wifi network that we depend on (and cellphones we need, of course) and so the last thing we need is this plan having unitended consequences for wireless signals. It doesn't help that South Carolina state government has a long history of hiring shoddy technology contractors who promise the world and deliver a buggy product that only makes things worse. Jon Ozmint (the head of SCDC) has sworn that it won't leak outside of their facilities, but I'm somewhat cautious.
The Ridegville test referred to in the article wasn't that worthwhile because Ridgeville is isolated (it's in the middle of nowhere and lagely self-contained.) The main facility in Columbia is a much larger, more wide open area located right next to the state police headquaters, Dept. of Public Safery, and several other state agencies and businesses--all of whom depend greatly on their cellhones, networks, and communications equipment. I just don't see how they could blanket that whole area and not have spillover jamming--Unless they restrict it to inside of their buildings which would mean that most prisoners would still have plenty of opportunities to use their cellphones (since most prisoners spend a lot of time outside the buildings, except for the really high-level ones)
It's not that we're not sympathetic to the problem of cellphones in the prison system. We're just worried that they might be rushing forward with an untested and possibly ill-advised solution that could have a deleterious effect on nearby wireless usage. We're hoping they will at least give us a testing period to see its effects before they bring it online.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for you because you bet on the wrong horse? Jeez, grow up.
Cruelly harassing some poor kid to the point of suicide in on a rock bottom level on the scale of evil shit and human depravity. Someone capable of that has no place in civil society. And, with any luck, the court is about to remove this "person" from society for a long time.