I was a hipster from the 300baud days too. I had text-based compuserve on a c64, watched prodigy go online, tried the first bbs's, and yes, I had a 5 digit ICQ too. I was the first on my block for 386, 486, PII, AMD. I've tasted the birth of just about every major online innovation, and a hell of a lot that failed and nobody even remembers.
But people I used to consider late coming wanna-be hipsters were using Geocities, haha... so my definition of late-comer is now the definition of old-timer.
I work with a guy that actually used punch cards. No academic, but actual production. He also knows Fortran pretty well. He thinks I'm a youngin'! It's all perspective.
Who really deserves a $1.5mil fine? And will that party ever pay? Regardless of your answer to the first question, the answer to the second question will always be no.
I have every damn right to be mad. FTA: "This follows Motorola's earlier statement that it is 'working closely with our partners to offer a bootloader solution that will enable developers to use our devices as a development platform.'"
So, for calling me a whiner... stick it up your ass, my friend.
BTW, if Google had a clue how to sell a phone through popular carrier channels to begin with instead of their stupid web-store experiment, I would have gotten one.
Actually, that's the correct answer! I just don't like the iPhone. But I have to give them all credit for regular updates, even to an old 3G I keep around as a music player.
Jee-zus! Jee-zus! Sorry, I had a RWJ moment at how geeky you two sounded... then I had another when I started wondering if we need routers in our electrical panels.
"In 2008 the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that ext4 is a stop-gap and that Btrfs is the way forward,[10] having "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs & http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/217
... to having irrefutable, see it for yourself, proof that the Bible is a fictional soap opera story book. Oh, I hope hope hope it's actually inhabited by Cuthulhu worshippers!
You let me know which manufacturers are regularly pushing updates out to phones, and I'll give you a cookie, lol. Even if you run the wildly popular Droid X, you are running 2.2.1, and there are NO expected updates. And even the best carriers drag their asses and force us to wait for them to push the update, rather than update it ourselves. The luckier users are unlocked enough to get an updatable Mod, like Cyanogen. Unlucky users like me have no such option.
Until Manufacturers supply completely unlockable phones, how "open" Android is doesn't mean shit. 2.3.4 will NEVER... EVER... be released for my phone. And I can't upgrade to Cyanogen, because it has Motorola's "fuck you in the ass" locking mechanism. I have my phone unlocked, but it's a hell of a hack, and Google removed the unlock app from their store because carriers complained that it can be used to enable tethering.
I don't blame android, but I sure as hell won't ever buy Motorola again. My next phone with be 100% update-able by me (except for the cell radio itself, obviously). I don't care if I have to wait until Android 8.0 comes out to get it.
Parents willing to pay for these schools have high expectations for their children. Some kids are brilliant by birth. Most are brilliant by good mentoring. And parents are the most readily available mentors.
Kids in the US generally do poorly because we just want them to feel good about themselves, even if they stink at math. Parents of many countries expect A's, not C's. The parents who pay for these schools expect A's, and they don't expect to get them by passing failing kids and rubber stamping A's.
... High school yearbook editors still can't seem to catch and remove all photos containing the Shocker. Does this scanner ever error "201 - Two in the Pink, One in the Stink"?
This is very important, actually. I run 2 monitors and 4 Virtual Desktops, giving me 8 desktops. I usually keep 1 as a general browser, and the monitor next to it an extra browser to most frequently used pages. On the next VD, I keep two remote desktops open. On another VD, I keep folders open to all my major destinations... a couple server shares, a couple local folders, and a couple user folders. I keep the last VD free for quickly ctrl-alt-shift moving "important" windows I want to keep.
I wouldn't add any more VDs, but I'd like a 3 monitor setup again like I had years ago, and then I could not change VD as often.
The POINT of a setup like this, is that you like a specific setup. Even non-IT office workers often want their task bar looking the same way. If you close down their email client, they will literally close everything else down just to get the email client on the left side of their task bar.
It's a waste of time to go looking around for what you want. Where you put icons, shortcuts, windows, etc. is saves thousands of hours a year for workers.
Yes they have. The fact that Microsoft is pushing integrated HyperV with Microsoft Server 2008, and integrating support for it in Win7+ with VDI and Shared Desktops means that if you are running corporate products, all new versions of Microsoft server products from Exchange to MSSQL to Active Directory are going to be integrated right out of the gate. For overworked IT people, it's sometimes a no-brainer.
If you already backed the MS horse by going with them as an OS and to Exchange and Active Directory for your major infrastructure, you're pretty damn excited because you don't have to sell a "new" product. And many executive level people have no clue even what VMWware is, but they damn well know MS. And that's who you have to convince to write the check.
So, it's integrated, you already bought into the boat, so you'll sink or swim by it anyways, and you can sell the name. Add to that that Microsoft has great internal legacy support. Say what you will about the crapware they put out like Vista, there aren't many companies that can say "Yes, the OSs we released decades ago still run in production environments and are integrated in our management tools we release today."
I'm no MS fan. Their CAL licenses are highway robbery, blackmail, whatever. But HyperV is a no brainer for me in an org that's already deeply invested in MS. Now... if they'd add USB dongle support, I'd be less inclined to release a pack of wild pitbulls to bite their nuts off!
But as adults, it's posh to eat the most foreign foods available. I impressed my friends last week by checking in on Foursquare eating at a Vietnamese restaurant and ordering the Beef Pho-Pho Bo. And, it was awesome, I might add.
I still feel like an American, and no, they didn't serve dog. I enjoy getting out of the pizza/burger box, and I don't mean Taco Hell.
This sounds like an P=NP problem to me. And considering the complexity, it's probably no more "solvable" than weather prediction is "solvable". It could make major improvements, though.
The same reason why a 1 way mirror is better in some applications than a video camera on one side of a wall with a monitor on the other.
On possible use is in security. People can avoid cameras, and small unseen microphones are not directional. Airports, casinos, police stations, and other security heavy areas will certainly have a use.
Imagine the CIA setting up a room for foreign dignitaries. The dignitaries sweep the room for bugs. But unknown to them, the floor of their room is a 1 way sound barrier, with agents sitting below with directional microphones pointed at the ceiling underneath each room.
Imagine a submarine with a section of the vessel being a 1 way sound room where large microphones reside. All other walls are sound deadened except 1 outside wall. More equipment could sit there than any outside array of microphones, listening for enemy ships... but without an outside sonar signature, and without worrying about hearing internal noises.
Even naturalists would love it. Imagine a retreat in a forrest where every outside wall was 1 way, making it sound like you weren't even in a building, but the animals were not disturbed by the sounds you make snapping pictures and talking.
You really need to learn some history. Actually, they did envision a global packet switching network because they're goal was to provide a network that could survive a nuclear disaster for the US military.
Also, in association with ARPA, the did build the first networks to universities. "ALOHAnet, the first packet radio network, developed by Norman Abramson, Univ of Hawaii, becomes operational (July) connected to the ARPANET in 1972"
Collaboration of thousands of independent organizations? They're called UNIVERSITIES that received FEDERAL FUNDING for their projects. Get your facts straight.
And Edison? Edison pretty much got out of the communications game after his stock reader. He spend most of his life on microphones, media, and electricity. He's a horrible example to make your point for inventions he's not even widely known for related to telephones. The only telephone invention he made was for a microphone used IN phones.
"The USPS's first incarnation was established by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. The Post Office Department was created from Franklin's operation in 1792, as part of the United States Cabinet, then was transformed into its current form in 1971, under the Postal Reorganization Act."
It was so important, that the Postmaster General used to be in line for succession to the President. Even in 1775, it was acknowledged that information was one of the most critical functions of a nation. It affects security, commerce, and national unity.
Why does this matter now? Because while paper mail may not seem important, the United States government must ensure information flow. That's why we regulate telephone, radio, television, and the Internet. Rain, sleet, snow or hail, information is arguably the make or break of a nation.
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I was a hipster from the 300baud days too. I had text-based compuserve on a c64, watched prodigy go online, tried the first bbs's, and yes, I had a 5 digit ICQ too. I was the first on my block for 386, 486, PII, AMD. I've tasted the birth of just about every major online innovation, and a hell of a lot that failed and nobody even remembers.
But people I used to consider late coming wanna-be hipsters were using Geocities, haha... so my definition of late-comer is now the definition of old-timer.
I work with a guy that actually used punch cards. No academic, but actual production. He also knows Fortran pretty well. He thinks I'm a youngin'! It's all perspective.
Strange multiverse then, because in mine it was ICQ.
Who really deserves a $1.5mil fine? And will that party ever pay? Regardless of your answer to the first question, the answer to the second question will always be no.
I want my BIOS so bad ass it runs BSD and needs its own BIOS.
Considering I bought it... oh, over a year ago when it was released, you contradict yourself. I Besides, We were promised it would be an unlockable bootloader!
I have every damn right to be mad. FTA: "This follows Motorola's earlier statement that it is 'working closely with our partners to offer a bootloader solution that will enable developers to use our devices as a development platform.'"
So, for calling me a whiner... stick it up your ass, my friend.
BTW, if Google had a clue how to sell a phone through popular carrier channels to begin with instead of their stupid web-store experiment, I would have gotten one.
I will suck your dick... - MacGruber
Looks like I'll be looking for a leaked version. :D
Actually, that's the correct answer! I just don't like the iPhone. But I have to give them all credit for regular updates, even to an old 3G I keep around as a music player.
Jee-zus! Jee-zus! Sorry, I had a RWJ moment at how geeky you two sounded... then I had another when I started wondering if we need routers in our electrical panels.
"In 2008 the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that ext4 is a stop-gap and that Btrfs is the way forward,[10] having "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs & http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/217
I told you, don't touch that darn thing!
... to having irrefutable, see it for yourself, proof that the Bible is a fictional soap opera story book. Oh, I hope hope hope it's actually inhabited by Cuthulhu worshippers!
You let me know which manufacturers are regularly pushing updates out to phones, and I'll give you a cookie, lol. Even if you run the wildly popular Droid X, you are running 2.2.1, and there are NO expected updates. And even the best carriers drag their asses and force us to wait for them to push the update, rather than update it ourselves. The luckier users are unlocked enough to get an updatable Mod, like Cyanogen. Unlucky users like me have no such option.
Until Manufacturers supply completely unlockable phones, how "open" Android is doesn't mean shit. 2.3.4 will NEVER... EVER... be released for my phone. And I can't upgrade to Cyanogen, because it has Motorola's "fuck you in the ass" locking mechanism. I have my phone unlocked, but it's a hell of a hack, and Google removed the unlock app from their store because carriers complained that it can be used to enable tethering.
I don't blame android, but I sure as hell won't ever buy Motorola again. My next phone with be 100% update-able by me (except for the cell radio itself, obviously). I don't care if I have to wait until Android 8.0 comes out to get it.
Parents willing to pay for these schools have high expectations for their children. Some kids are brilliant by birth. Most are brilliant by good mentoring. And parents are the most readily available mentors.
Kids in the US generally do poorly because we just want them to feel good about themselves, even if they stink at math. Parents of many countries expect A's, not C's. The parents who pay for these schools expect A's, and they don't expect to get them by passing failing kids and rubber stamping A's.
... High school yearbook editors still can't seem to catch and remove all photos containing the Shocker. Does this scanner ever error "201 - Two in the Pink, One in the Stink"?
This is very important, actually. I run 2 monitors and 4 Virtual Desktops, giving me 8 desktops. I usually keep 1 as a general browser, and the monitor next to it an extra browser to most frequently used pages. On the next VD, I keep two remote desktops open. On another VD, I keep folders open to all my major destinations... a couple server shares, a couple local folders, and a couple user folders. I keep the last VD free for quickly ctrl-alt-shift moving "important" windows I want to keep.
I wouldn't add any more VDs, but I'd like a 3 monitor setup again like I had years ago, and then I could not change VD as often.
The POINT of a setup like this, is that you like a specific setup. Even non-IT office workers often want their task bar looking the same way. If you close down their email client, they will literally close everything else down just to get the email client on the left side of their task bar.
It's a waste of time to go looking around for what you want. Where you put icons, shortcuts, windows, etc. is saves thousands of hours a year for workers.
Yes they have. The fact that Microsoft is pushing integrated HyperV with Microsoft Server 2008, and integrating support for it in Win7+ with VDI and Shared Desktops means that if you are running corporate products, all new versions of Microsoft server products from Exchange to MSSQL to Active Directory are going to be integrated right out of the gate. For overworked IT people, it's sometimes a no-brainer.
If you already backed the MS horse by going with them as an OS and to Exchange and Active Directory for your major infrastructure, you're pretty damn excited because you don't have to sell a "new" product. And many executive level people have no clue even what VMWware is, but they damn well know MS. And that's who you have to convince to write the check.
So, it's integrated, you already bought into the boat, so you'll sink or swim by it anyways, and you can sell the name. Add to that that Microsoft has great internal legacy support. Say what you will about the crapware they put out like Vista, there aren't many companies that can say "Yes, the OSs we released decades ago still run in production environments and are integrated in our management tools we release today."
I'm no MS fan. Their CAL licenses are highway robbery, blackmail, whatever. But HyperV is a no brainer for me in an org that's already deeply invested in MS. Now... if they'd add USB dongle support, I'd be less inclined to release a pack of wild pitbulls to bite their nuts off!
But as adults, it's posh to eat the most foreign foods available. I impressed my friends last week by checking in on Foursquare eating at a Vietnamese restaurant and ordering the Beef Pho-Pho Bo. And, it was awesome, I might add.
I still feel like an American, and no, they didn't serve dog. I enjoy getting out of the pizza/burger box, and I don't mean Taco Hell.
This sounds like an P=NP problem to me. And considering the complexity, it's probably no more "solvable" than weather prediction is "solvable". It could make major improvements, though.
The same reason why a 1 way mirror is better in some applications than a video camera on one side of a wall with a monitor on the other.
On possible use is in security. People can avoid cameras, and small unseen microphones are not directional. Airports, casinos, police stations, and other security heavy areas will certainly have a use.
Imagine the CIA setting up a room for foreign dignitaries. The dignitaries sweep the room for bugs. But unknown to them, the floor of their room is a 1 way sound barrier, with agents sitting below with directional microphones pointed at the ceiling underneath each room.
Imagine a submarine with a section of the vessel being a 1 way sound room where large microphones reside. All other walls are sound deadened except 1 outside wall. More equipment could sit there than any outside array of microphones, listening for enemy ships... but without an outside sonar signature, and without worrying about hearing internal noises.
Even naturalists would love it. Imagine a retreat in a forrest where every outside wall was 1 way, making it sound like you weren't even in a building, but the animals were not disturbed by the sounds you make snapping pictures and talking.
You really need to learn some history. Actually, they did envision a global packet switching network because they're goal was to provide a network that could survive a nuclear disaster for the US military.
Also, in association with ARPA, the did build the first networks to universities. "ALOHAnet, the first packet radio network, developed by Norman Abramson, Univ of Hawaii, becomes operational (July) connected to the ARPANET in 1972"
Collaboration of thousands of independent organizations? They're called UNIVERSITIES that received FEDERAL FUNDING for their projects. Get your facts straight.
And Edison? Edison pretty much got out of the communications game after his stock reader. He spend most of his life on microphones, media, and electricity. He's a horrible example to make your point for inventions he's not even widely known for related to telephones. The only telephone invention he made was for a microphone used IN phones.
Yes, I know it's not THE opposite, but that's what it sounds like to me.
BTW, what's with the 5000 fortune cookies showing up in the footer of slashdot?!?
This is awesome! I didn't know I could write a REALLY long comment, and submit it as a story!
Or have all Slashbot favorite entities merged into one? We can call it GNU WikiBuntuDroidNonymous. Like "Muad'dib" becoming a killing word....
To clarify your awesome point:
GNU - Bene Gesserit
Wiki - Orange Catholic Bible
Ubuntu - Shai Hulud
Droid - Ixian
Anonymous - Fremen
Wikileaks - Muad`dib
Information - Melange
Pi is exactly 3.2!
"The USPS's first incarnation was established by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. The Post Office Department was created from Franklin's operation in 1792, as part of the United States Cabinet, then was transformed into its current form in 1971, under the Postal Reorganization Act."
It was so important, that the Postmaster General used to be in line for succession to the President. Even in 1775, it was acknowledged that information was one of the most critical functions of a nation. It affects security, commerce, and national unity.
Why does this matter now? Because while paper mail may not seem important, the United States government must ensure information flow. That's why we regulate telephone, radio, television, and the Internet. Rain, sleet, snow or hail, information is arguably the make or break of a nation.