it is not a winner/loser thing of who gives more. he is doing quite a bit in terms of giving. there are a lot of people who don't give anything to charity. just as there are a lot of people who give their all to charity. just because he has money left over does not diminish his gift.
my point is that he is getting the knighthood because of what he HAS DONE. not what he has not yet to do. or what software he has sold.
To everyone saying the standards of knighthood have fallen: the main standard for modern knighthood is CHARITY. to maintain a knighthood you have donate a huge percentage of your time and money to charitable causes. Bill has given over 20 billion dollars to charity. He is among the highest individual contributors to aids charities. disliking the software is one thing, but slamming him getting a knighthood like this is just lame. STFU.
I got a black box ethernet hub for christmas. the sucker is robust. survived a few 10 foot drops onto tile, and extreme heat and cold. is still working AS WE SPEAK! 4 years later under heavy use. industrial strength.
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bbc-us is on at&t's cable in redmond, and the public stations run a nightly bbc news (details escape me as i tivo it.) glad to know I am not the only expat in redmond:)
I really don't get people bitching about 95/98 support starting to end. If I said I was having problems with my linux 2.0.36 kernel, I would get zillions of replies telling me to just upgrade it. hate it or love it, you have to admit that later versions of windows do fix bugs found in earlier versions. Slashdot users seem intent on boxing microsoft into a box where they can't win.
"We demand software that is stable and secure from version 1.0 and starts with all the features we will ever need, although we will not hold ourselves to the same standard."
OS bigotry of any kind is pointless. different OS for different people for different uses, nerr!
not really, triangulation means two detectors, one working on the x axis, saying left or right is stronger, one working on the y axis saying up or down is stronger. the third point in this trangulation is the transmitter you are hunting. your explanation is correct for 3d space. where you would need a z-axis detector.
if you have no patches installed. otherwise it only applies what you need. of course i am sure a security minded/. user has all the latest patches installed on their OS, right? oh wait, you said the download for you was over 100mb. better luck next time.
some of us put the ATM technology available to us to good use a few years ago. see the results here. The CWRU Beowulf Project was mankind's last best hope for Bromberg's numerical Integration Approximation Theorem...
it is worth noting that the school is changing its aim to appeal to more "average" students, some professors in the comp sci department don't know how to use ping (true story), and the food service is getting to the point of lethal. oh and the stress is really sucky.
0) it isn't BS 1) because the original plan was ATM over fiber, and they ran fiber all over campus. 2) fiber is more flexible in terms of what runs on it (somewhat) and better for long distances than copper. 3) cisco everywhere 4) uhm, many computers can keep up with it. but the bandwidth is almost never fully utilized. so this is kind of a moot question. 5) any machine hooked up to a switch is doing full duplex. 6) the main point here is that intra-campus communication will be wicked fast allowing better collaboration. many students will not realize the basic facats of networking in that you never use the full pipe, that bandwidth is width not speed, and that the firewall will most likely still be 100BaseT to the gateway. the press is taking this way out of context. mainly the supplier of the ATM cards we were using has gone away (FORE bought by marconi, currently laying people off like crazy). the ATM cards got better, but ethernet is more common, plus, if you have a campus wired for gigabit it will do fine at lower levels of ethernet (10/100)
the aim was never to increase pr0n and war3z, although these will be issues. the tech people at CWRU are very much on the ball and nip FTP warez sites in the butt pretty much as soon as they appear.
the MX series of GeForce 4 GPUs are woefully underpowered, wait for the next revision of the motherboard that has a non MX GPU. This is such a scam and so many people are getting burned because they see a cheap Geforce4 card and think it is a great deal, when it is just a fast GeForce 2, spread the word!
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>do we really want to see Spider-Man vs. Sand Man?
Heck yes, I really want to see who they cast as lady death.:)
External regulation should not be needed. If the employees are spending all their time on the web, then clearly their work is unrewarding. If I am enjoying the code I am working on, than I can go for hours with no breaks. Employees should also be smart enough to realize that if they squander these perks, they are going to get the boot. blocking porn sites at work is acceptable. but not blocking IM ports, especially as most of my team communicated with IM. it saved a ton of time, and provided checksums on file transmissions that windows file sharing does not always do.
A draconian attitude regarding squeezing every last second of work out of an employee is pointless! all it does is breed resentment in the employees. when I was working in an environment where 5pm counterstrike matches were commonplace, we tended to do more work after the match. however, the work was interesting enough we did not mind.
the moment the management is against the workers is the moment production starts to fall. everyone should be working toward the goal.
also I highly doubt that ANYONE here could go 8 hours without a slashdot fix. dream on.
here at CWRU, microsoft showers us with donations of hardware for the labs, and software and books for the students. as well as contests, events, and has been incredibly helpful for our branch of the ACM. as for documentation, free copies of MSDN and all the microsoft press books you could ever want go a long way. A large chunk of the Comp Sci's even intern out there. myself included. I started out loving unix, but the dot-com crash and the shady recruiting of some more linuxy corps made me shift more toward MSFT. you dont see redhat coming by and pitching woo.
our beowulf team (http://home.cwru.edu/beowulf) used pvm for linux, but pvm runs on everything including the kitchen sink. there are new builds of the win9x/nt versions of pvm out on http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/ . it is a good system, i suggest putting all the doc files in one huge binder. not that bad to work with though...
I saw this in a small town in upstate NY,
walmart sent reps to all the small towns in the area, advising them to prepare to be driven out of business. the reps also took not of the average prices of certain items. when the walmart opened, all the prices were lower than the neighborhood small stores. once all the small stores were driven out of business, unable to match the prices, the walmart proceeded to raise its prices ABOVE what the small stores were selling items at. whenever a new store opened up, the walmart would lower its prices again until that store went away.
I really dont understand why slashdotters continue to harp on the evils of microsoft when walmart and AOL-Time Warner are quite a bit worse.
not very bright people is my guess,
as AOL-TW is one of the Bad Guys in the 2600 case in case you had forgotten, and that netscape lost because they wanted money for it, and that AOL loves putting ad space everywhere it can cram it. you also might want to realize that Microsoft matches employee donations to charity INCLUDING THE EFF!
unless you meant that microsoft is your friend in the battle against AOL-TW in which case i might agree with you.
ideally, distros should not make a difference, but they do.
also ideally, no one should care what OS everyone uses, but obviously people on slashdot care, as evidenced by all the MS bashing.
and as for both our experiences, different strokes for different folks. you have an easier time with linux, i have an easier time with windows or freebsd.
Linux does not really have room to talk.
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Only one linux distro out of zillions i tried played nice with my OPL3-SA2 sound chip (redhat), no matter how many gurus pointed at it. The most intuitive distro (mandrake) is not regarded as the best, and the installer won't finish on my system. ever. The debian installer still is hairy enough to make most 1st timers cringe. SuSE has a similar problem. I have yet to see an office suite that doesn't suck. StarOffice is close, but has a long way to go.
"but wait" i hear you say, "there are too many different types of hardware to support to get linux to work with everything perfectly..."
well, same is true with windows. so what point exactly is trying to be made with this article? no software is perfect, duh.
the biggest problem with windows are the number of people that don't patch their systems, that are still running the 9x code base as opposed to the NT code base, and those that are running a ton of crappy registry thrashing shareware.
windows 2000 is great, i have had insanely long runtimes, and am very happy with it. XP moreso, although i have had problems with office XP running on it.
zealotry is not an effective weapon. you are not going to win any converts to *nix by loudly claiming how much windows sucks. really. trust me here. the key is to make your side look so much better, people flock to it.
or shock horror, DUAL BOOT. jesus. every OS has a potential use or niche. get over this weird belief that there can only be one OS. if windows went away and all you had was linux, what would your arguments for using linux be? you are left with a non-centralized, fairly slow moving, non standard army. wow. I think i will stick with FreeBSD as my *nix. they don't yell as much, and they rock harder.
it is possible to have 5 years experience by the time you turn 19.
here is how i did it.
for all of high school i was lead student tech, installed 50 macs, ran cat 5 and thinnet segments, administered VMS system, then in college, lab work keeping 40 boxen of various types playing nice with each other. I turned 19 my sophomore year of college, by which point I counted 6 years of work that was applicable to my field (ie: not McDonalds). granted, the experience is not a 9 to 5 world grade experience, and i never presented it as such, but it did help having people see it on the resume and be curious about it. just food for thought.
as for the discrimination, if you worry too much you get way too paranoid. i have been in similar situations, where there was a lot of talk, but no real action, i was known as "The Kid" on a testing team, and really didn't mind. it was just friendly joshing. so take a step back and examine your situation before totally spazzing.
why are you rooting for AOL??? This is AOL/Time warner, you know, one of the people suing 2600. IMHO AOL is WAY more evil than microsoft. if you don't like passport, dont use it. use freenet! but dont say AOL and Sun's venture is better than microsoft just because it is not microsoft.
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it is not a winner/loser thing of who gives more. he is doing quite a bit in terms of giving. there are a lot of people who don't give anything to charity. just as there are a lot of people who give their all to charity. just because he has money left over does not diminish his gift.
my point is that he is getting the knighthood because of what he HAS DONE. not what he has not yet to do. or what software he has sold.
To everyone saying the standards of knighthood have fallen:
the main standard for modern knighthood is CHARITY. to maintain a knighthood you have donate a huge percentage of your time and money to charitable causes.
Bill has given over 20 billion dollars to charity. He is among the highest individual contributors to aids charities.
disliking the software is one thing, but slamming him getting a knighthood like this is just lame. STFU.
I got a black box ethernet hub for christmas.
the sucker is robust. survived a few 10 foot drops onto tile, and extreme heat and cold. is still working AS WE SPEAK! 4 years later under heavy use. industrial strength.
bbc-us is on at&t's cable in redmond, :)
and the public stations run a nightly bbc news (details escape me as i tivo it.) glad to know I am not the only expat in redmond
Now if only they could put a mac and a PC in one case
can you imagine the consequences?
Dogs and cats living together...MASS HYSTERIA!
I really don't get people bitching about 95/98 support starting to end. If I said I was having problems with my linux 2.0.36 kernel, I would get zillions of replies telling me to just upgrade it. hate it or love it, you have to admit that later versions of windows do fix bugs found in earlier versions. Slashdot users seem intent on boxing microsoft into a box where they can't win.
"We demand software that is stable and secure from version 1.0 and starts with all the features we will ever need, although we will not hold ourselves to the same standard."
OS bigotry of any kind is pointless. different OS for different people for different uses, nerr!
not really, triangulation means two detectors, one working on the x axis, saying left or right is stronger, one working on the y axis saying up or down is stronger. the third point in this trangulation is the transmitter you are hunting. your explanation is correct for 3d space. where you would need a z-axis detector.
if you have no patches installed. /. user has all the latest patches installed on their OS, right? oh wait, you said the download for you was over 100mb. better luck next time.
otherwise it only applies what you need.
of course i am sure a security minded
some of us put the ATM technology available to us to good use a few years ago. see the results here. The CWRU Beowulf Project was mankind's last best hope for Bromberg's numerical Integration Approximation Theorem...
it is worth noting that the school is changing its aim to appeal to more "average" students, some professors in the comp sci department don't know how to use ping (true story), and the food service is getting to the point of lethal. oh and the stress is really sucky.
0) it isn't BS
1) because the original plan was ATM over fiber, and they ran fiber all over campus.
2) fiber is more flexible in terms of what runs on it (somewhat) and better for long distances than copper.
3) cisco everywhere
4) uhm, many computers can keep up with it. but the bandwidth is almost never fully utilized. so this is kind of a moot question.
5) any machine hooked up to a switch is doing full duplex.
6) the main point here is that intra-campus communication will be wicked fast allowing better collaboration. many students will not realize the basic facats of networking in that you never use the full pipe, that bandwidth is width not speed, and that the firewall will most likely still be 100BaseT to the gateway.
the press is taking this way out of context. mainly the supplier of the ATM cards we were using has gone away (FORE bought by marconi, currently laying people off like crazy). the ATM cards got better, but ethernet is more common, plus, if you have a campus wired for gigabit it will do fine at lower levels of ethernet (10/100)
the aim was never to increase pr0n and war3z, although these will be issues. the tech people at CWRU are very much on the ball and nip FTP warez sites in the butt pretty much as soon as they appear.
the MX series of GeForce 4 GPUs are woefully underpowered, wait for the next revision of the motherboard that has a non MX GPU. This is such a scam and so many people are getting burned because they see a cheap Geforce4 card and think it is a great deal, when it is just a fast GeForce 2, spread the word!
>do we really want to see Spider-Man vs. Sand Man?
:)
Heck yes, I really want to see who they cast as lady death.
here is some more info:
scientists are still not sure how it interacts with known neuro-chemicals.
it was developed for the french army.
the hype about it is way overrated, you will still feel fatigue.
It did not do well in placebo tests, not well at all.
uhm, have we forgotten? what about all those calls for boycott? large company crushing opensource and using the DMCA?
External regulation should not be needed. If the employees are spending all their time on the web, then clearly their work is unrewarding. If I am enjoying the code I am working on, than I can go for hours with no breaks. Employees should also be smart enough to realize that if they squander these perks, they are going to get the boot. blocking porn sites at work is acceptable. but not blocking IM ports, especially as most of my team communicated with IM. it saved a ton of time, and provided checksums on file transmissions that windows file sharing does not always do.
A draconian attitude regarding squeezing every last second of work out of an employee is pointless! all it does is breed resentment in the employees. when I was working in an environment where 5pm counterstrike matches were commonplace, we tended to do more work after the match. however, the work was interesting enough we did not mind.
the moment the management is against the workers is the moment production starts to fall. everyone should be working toward the goal.
also I highly doubt that ANYONE here could go 8 hours without a slashdot fix. dream on.
here at CWRU, microsoft showers us with donations of hardware for the labs, and software and books for the students. as well as contests, events, and has been incredibly helpful for our branch of the ACM. as for documentation, free copies of MSDN and all the microsoft press books you could ever want go a long way. A large chunk of the Comp Sci's even intern out there. myself included. I started out loving unix, but the dot-com crash and the shady recruiting of some more linuxy corps made me shift more toward MSFT.
you dont see redhat coming by and pitching woo.
our beowulf team (http://home.cwru.edu/beowulf) used pvm for linux, but pvm runs on everything including the kitchen sink. there are new builds of the win9x/nt versions of pvm out on http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/ . it is a good system, i suggest putting all the doc files in one huge binder. not that bad to work with though...
I saw this in a small town in upstate NY,
walmart sent reps to all the small towns in the area, advising them to prepare to be driven out of business. the reps also took not of the average prices of certain items. when the walmart opened, all the prices were lower than the neighborhood small stores. once all the small stores were driven out of business, unable to match the prices, the walmart proceeded to raise its prices ABOVE what the small stores were selling items at. whenever a new store opened up, the walmart would lower its prices again until that store went away.
I really dont understand why slashdotters continue to harp on the evils of microsoft when walmart and AOL-Time Warner are quite a bit worse.
the reason the links are busted is because no one stopped to read them. 4.5 is not out until the 26th. everyone calm down, and wait.
not very bright people is my guess,
as AOL-TW is one of the Bad Guys in the 2600 case in case you had forgotten, and that netscape lost because they wanted money for it, and that AOL loves putting ad space everywhere it can cram it. you also might want to realize that Microsoft matches employee donations to charity INCLUDING THE EFF!
unless you meant that microsoft is your friend in the battle against AOL-TW in which case i might agree with you.
ideally, distros should not make a difference, but they do.
also ideally, no one should care what OS everyone uses, but obviously people on slashdot care, as evidenced by all the MS bashing.
and as for both our experiences, different strokes for different folks. you have an easier time with linux, i have an easier time with windows or freebsd.
Only one linux distro out of zillions i tried played nice with my OPL3-SA2 sound chip (redhat), no matter how many gurus pointed at it. The most intuitive distro (mandrake) is not regarded as the best, and the installer won't finish on my system. ever. The debian installer still is hairy enough to make most 1st timers cringe. SuSE has a similar problem. I have yet to see an office suite that doesn't suck. StarOffice is close, but has a long way to go.
"but wait" i hear you say, "there are too many different types of hardware to support to get linux to work with everything perfectly..."
well, same is true with windows. so what point exactly is trying to be made with this article? no software is perfect, duh.
the biggest problem with windows are the number of people that don't patch their systems, that are still running the 9x code base as opposed to the NT code base, and those that are running a ton of crappy registry thrashing shareware.
windows 2000 is great, i have had insanely long runtimes, and am very happy with it. XP moreso, although i have had problems with office XP running on it.
zealotry is not an effective weapon. you are not going to win any converts to *nix by loudly claiming how much windows sucks. really. trust me here. the key is to make your side look so much better, people flock to it.
or shock horror, DUAL BOOT. jesus. every OS has a potential use or niche. get over this weird belief that there can only be one OS. if windows went away and all you had was linux, what would your arguments for using linux be? you are left with a non-centralized, fairly slow moving, non standard army. wow. I think i will stick with FreeBSD as my *nix. they don't yell as much, and they rock harder.
it is possible to have 5 years experience by the time you turn 19.
here is how i did it.
for all of high school i was lead student tech, installed 50 macs, ran cat 5 and thinnet segments, administered VMS system, then in college, lab work keeping 40 boxen of various types playing nice with each other. I turned 19 my sophomore year of college, by which point I counted 6 years of work that was applicable to my field (ie: not McDonalds). granted, the experience is not a 9 to 5 world grade experience, and i never presented it as such, but it did help having people see it on the resume and be curious about it. just food for thought.
as for the discrimination, if you worry too much you get way too paranoid. i have been in similar situations, where there was a lot of talk, but no real action, i was known as "The Kid" on a testing team, and really didn't mind. it was just friendly joshing. so take a step back and examine your situation before totally spazzing.
why are you rooting for AOL??? This is AOL/Time warner, you know, one of the people suing 2600. IMHO AOL is WAY more evil than microsoft. if you don't like passport, dont use it. use freenet! but dont say AOL and Sun's venture is better than microsoft just because it is not microsoft.