Clearly they are targeting the $900/hr engineers out there. Since I don't make $900 an hour, I'd rather by my own more-powerfull $600 laptop and take an hour and load PCLinuxOS or FC5 myself. Yes it will eat up a hour of my time, but to save $900 and get a BETTER freaking laptop, I think I can deal with it.
Digg.com, to put it simply, sucks. Without any true editors, their focus and target audience have drifted far from their stated "we're a tech site" definition.
Most stories have no bearing at all on tech, and comments range for the childish to outright stupid.
Digg.com is more like Fark.com, except it's not as good.
As to Kevin Rose, who cares. Like his site, he's a major tech poser.
I'd be happy if Infoworld Magazine (and the rest of the trade journals) could just remember the last set of lies I told them, instead of making me make up shit every 10 months or so.
Even if all the doom and gloom is true - it's along time off. It's 2006, yet most corporations still have a handful (or more) of W2Kpro workstations. So even if Vista ships later this year, it's not like the anti-malware businesses will go out of business the week after that. There's at least a window of 3-5 years before their market dries up, and that's plenty of time for the malware writers to find a work around to MS or for the anti-malware writers to change their business model.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you my friend are a moron. My bad if you're making 200-300% above the going rate in your area, but if not, why oh why are you working there? It's obvious with a "rule" like that your employee expects to wring every last ounce of viable labor out of you without regard to your health, happiness, or well being. Take your talent and move on. Life is way to short to be shafted like that.
I live as hectic as life as anyone, but can see absolutely no purpose to this device. If I don't have time to cook, or can't wait to eat, I go to a restaurant. Otherwise, my cooking (like a nice dinner) is either planned in advance, or it's simple and done in a microwave. Even if they cost the same as a existing oven, who could possible find this device useful (and why)?
Automate the dryer to ironing to closet/dresser process, now that would be useful.
Hazen: That's a nice scary story to keep your kids frightened, but it won't play out in the real world. What you describe is self regulating in the long run. NO ONE is a perfect person, if the government, or big business, or your neighbor wants to set the "standards bar" that high, they will soon realize people like that don't exist. People need to stop worrying about their own little peccadillo's and focus on the real problems. I keep a tin foil hat handy (just in case), but I really don't think the sky is falling on this one.
How the FUCK does my comment end up labeled as FLAMEBAIT? What part of my opinion (which is what I thought slashdot comments were there for) is a fucking flame? I read the article, and then made legitimate comments on how I thought that people were making a bigger deal about the concept of public cameras then necessary. Feel free to disagree, but get your head out of your ass and stop mod'ing regular comments as flamebait. Obligatory Happy Gilmore - JACKASS!
Yes, it sure would be terrible if someone knew I was walking down a certain street at a certain time. What is the BFD? It's a public road in a public place that anyone with a pair of eyes (or in case of spotting fat people, a single eye) can spot you. Should they start banning tourists with video cam's? Privacy is becoming the next big "lets all overreact" issue.
Only way that dog of a movie could make $100K is to sue someone - that and all the chump change picked up from the PR resulting in curiosity sales.//no body = no conviction, but this is the RIAA so don't count on logic figuring into the case.
15 years old. Must be time for some international group like the UN or some other group of pussies to start DEMANDING that the control of the IMDB be handed over to some neutral international group so it can be safely controlled.
Lack of planning on their part doesn't constitute sympathy on mine.
In other words, stupid people made stupid mistakes and now are paying the price - boo hoo. Bet they're glad they went with the lowball building designer now, after all fire supression and prevention is soooooo much like rocket science... wait, it's not.
Just proves that good coders make lousy SysAdmins. They should stop futzing around and get someone who actually knows how to run a secure infrastructure.
The Sad Part is how much of that 100 million they'll spend on licensing some lame ass theme song from somebody Bill and/or Steve thinks are still "cool" (I predict something c'mon c'mon-ish).
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Clearly they are targeting the $900/hr engineers out there. Since I don't make $900 an hour, I'd rather by my own more-powerfull $600 laptop and take an hour and load PCLinuxOS or FC5 myself. Yes it will eat up a hour of my time, but to save $900 and get a BETTER freaking laptop, I think I can deal with it.
Who uses IRC these days?
Das ist nicht gut.
As an engineer that bills out at a rate that's a few hundred dollars an hour higher then a technical writer - why bother?
All I have to do is write the details clear enough to hand off to a technical writer to polish up for the final documentation.
Having me waste time on writing a full blown, prose perfect, document is a huge waste of company resources.
It's the same reason a medical doctor might have a business staff of 4 or 5. It doesn't pay to have the doctor do anything else but doctor stuff.
I work from home - my commute is done in house slippers, takes about 15 seconds no matter how many kids are in the hallway.
With SSH, VPN, VNC, and WebCam I only need to be onsite in realtime once a week or so.
Saves gas, saves time, saves money (no office space required), saves my sanity.
Digg.com, to put it simply, sucks. Without any true editors, their focus and target audience have drifted far from their stated "we're a tech site" definition.
Most stories have no bearing at all on tech, and comments range for the childish to outright stupid.
Digg.com is more like Fark.com, except it's not as good.
As to Kevin Rose, who cares. Like his site, he's a major tech poser.
I'd be happy if Infoworld Magazine (and the rest of the trade journals) could just remember the last set of lies I told them, instead of making me make up shit every 10 months or so.
Even if all the doom and gloom is true - it's along time off. It's 2006, yet most corporations still have a handful (or more) of W2Kpro workstations. So even if Vista ships later this year, it's not like the anti-malware businesses will go out of business the week after that. There's at least a window of 3-5 years before their market dries up, and that's plenty of time for the malware writers to find a work around to MS or for the anti-malware writers to change their business model.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you my friend are a moron. My bad if you're making 200-300% above the going rate in your area, but if not, why oh why are you working there? It's obvious with a "rule" like that your employee expects to wring every last ounce of viable labor out of you without regard to your health, happiness, or well being. Take your talent and move on. Life is way to short to be shafted like that.
So reading thru the comments, I see my personal favorite of using yellow sticky notes is not a good idea?
I live as hectic as life as anyone, but can see absolutely no purpose to this device. If I don't have time to cook, or can't wait to eat, I go to a restaurant. Otherwise, my cooking (like a nice dinner) is either planned in advance, or it's simple and done in a microwave. Even if they cost the same as a existing oven, who could possible find this device useful (and why)?
Automate the dryer to ironing to closet/dresser process, now that would be useful.
Hazen: That's a nice scary story to keep your kids frightened, but it won't play out in the real world. What you describe is self regulating in the long run. NO ONE is a perfect person, if the government, or big business, or your neighbor wants to set the "standards bar" that high, they will soon realize people like that don't exist. People need to stop worrying about their own little peccadillo's and focus on the real problems. I keep a tin foil hat handy (just in case), but I really don't think the sky is falling on this one.
How the FUCK does my comment end up labeled as FLAMEBAIT? What part of my opinion (which is what I thought slashdot comments were there for) is a fucking flame? I read the article, and then made legitimate comments on how I thought that people were making a bigger deal about the concept of public cameras then necessary. Feel free to disagree, but get your head out of your ass and stop mod'ing regular comments as flamebait. Obligatory Happy Gilmore - JACKASS!
Yes, it sure would be terrible if someone knew I was walking down a certain street at a certain time. What is the BFD? It's a public road in a public place that anyone with a pair of eyes (or in case of spotting fat people, a single eye) can spot you. Should they start banning tourists with video cam's? Privacy is becoming the next big "lets all overreact" issue.
Only way that dog of a movie could make $100K is to sue someone - that and all the chump change picked up from the PR resulting in curiosity sales. //no body = no conviction, but this is the RIAA so don't count on logic figuring into the case.
I get it, free speech or non-mainstream opinion = flamebait.
Which fucking moron on slashdot came up with that rule???
If you don't understand how to moderate - then don't fucking moderate.
Wake me when either a:) they invent anti-gravity or b:) they actually play in orbit.
Until then, it's just a media whore stunt.
Like car racing, people will watch just hoping for the big crash and burn.
We are, after all, talking about people that choose to live in Kansas.
15 years old. Must be time for some international group like the UN or some other group of pussies to start DEMANDING that the control of the IMDB be handed over to some neutral international group so it can be safely controlled.
Lack of planning on their part doesn't constitute sympathy on mine. In other words, stupid people made stupid mistakes and now are paying the price - boo hoo. Bet they're glad they went with the lowball building designer now, after all fire supression and prevention is soooooo much like rocket science ... wait, it's not.
Yaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ... what? ... that noise must be the sound of one hand clapping.
Just proves that good coders make lousy SysAdmins. They should stop futzing around and get someone who actually knows how to run a secure infrastructure.
Bring a topo map and show those morons where high ground is.
Yet again, the fanboys wet themselves over a dead and long buried OS.
Beating a dead horse may be a fun hobby for some, but certainly doesn't make it lie there any faster.
The Sad Part is how much of that 100 million they'll spend on licensing some lame ass theme song from somebody Bill and/or Steve thinks are still "cool" (I predict something c'mon c'mon-ish).