If it uses Secure Media for storage of said "mp3s and pictures", it's unlikely you'll be able to hack it unless you can crack the content keys, or provide your own "secured" media.
While it will be a rather different software-scape in the future, a good programmer will always be in demand. The free market may devalue some software into the commodity then into the free as in tshirt range but there will always be something to make the money off of, it's just hard to see what that would be. Support will be around forever, as I doubt anyone would freely give support time (at the magnitude of a job) beyond simple questions.
The United States is far and away the worst offender, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the world's spam.
Wait, so all of us are responsible for the actions of these spammers? The "United States" itself doesn't spam, spammers do. Perhaps it should have been:
60 percent of the world's spam comes from spammers in the Unitied States.
I believe the guilt would lay correctly with the spammers in this phrasing.
I "like" how the story posters of slashdot are blinded by these bland phrases like "good of humanity". What exactly does that mean here? Is he giving it away for free? No, but it will be cheap. Is he opening the IP up? No, it's patent pending. In fact he's begining to sound like a (*gasp*) capitalist! And we all know they been knocked around here enough to be demonized. But unsuprisingly when a capitalist helps the poor by helping himself he's a put up on a pedastal as the savior of humanity, but if he helps himself by helping the rich or even just the middle class he's deridded as a scum sucking bottom feeder business man. Why the double standard, slashdot? Why? Is it because the motives seem more pure or somehow more righteous? That perhaps, because poor people get the short end of the stick all over the world that they don't just need help, but somehow deserve it too? That we are compelled to serve them? And when we don't feel compelled by this directive we've somehow failed at an obvious yet never stated goal of life?
What this guy has done is great, not because it will help poor people but because he's been extremely clever. I hope he makes an assload of money. Of course once he does make a reasonable sum, some people will complain that his motives aren't pure anymore. One can only hope they can synthesize becoming rich and helping poor people in the same thought.
While a space station is techincally falling contiuously, is it apt to say that it is "falling apart?" Why not "floating apart" or better "drifting apart". If there's one thing that that orbiting pile of junk can do for us that's worth anything, it's to rethink some of our terrestrial metaphors when applied to near-space conditions.
ENGINEERING & CS != IT!!!! Stop giving info about IT, he's not asking for IT!
Serious design and high level architecting, what CS and Software Engineering people do nowadays in the US, is actually a nice job. Installing XP and patching for virsuses is not. IT is the latter.
I'd say go for it (NOT IT). Do something health related, as all the smart posters are saying, and you'll do fine.
We need one of those, but with an IR remote so we can program our monster universal remotes (like the MX-500 from Home Theatre Master) to go to the right switch. 'Course, that'd run a couple 100 after that.
"...or at least make it mandatory to for-profit organizations to give a certain minimum amount and take it out of their taxes?"
So let me get this straight, you want to force for-profit corporations to give OSS projects money and you think that sugar coating this insane government abuse with a gussied up tax-shelter will make it OK? ARE YOU MAD?!?!.
I doubt the advice to work at home for 50-80% off would fly. Most geeks wouldn't be able to maintain rent payments at the high end of that scale. The only thing you can do is make yourself valuable to the company. I don't mean -invaluable- as in obfuscate your job such that no one else can do it, but rather find a niche that you excel at and be the "goto" for it. This is, of course, a tough and sometime impossible thing to do. When execs see those short term dollar signs they lose some sense of reality and some sense of reason, which makes them think that outsourcing their best people is somehow a good idea. Even though it sucks to lose your job to this mentality, at least they did you a favor in that you can find a better place to work now, where perhaps, just perhaps, people at recognized and rewarded for being valuable instead of being eliminated. One can hope, desperately, that a place like that still exists.
Does anyone else find this idea of holding some nebulous "them" up to the promises of "tomorrow"? WHO made these "promises"? And WHO was fool enough to believe that they were actual promises? Why do journalists abuse this word in this fashion, all the time, everytime an "invention of the future" is mentioned?
Get a clue! No one promised you squat! Get over it!
The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
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Oh God they'll be able to know what couch I bought. Horror! Shock! Dismay! Wait, what's the effective transmitting radius of the RFID tags anyway (pdf here)? Won't "they" be able to see the couch at these sorts of distances?
And who the hell cares if they know what couch you bought? Can some rational person tell me why this is just so bad?
First off, let me say that I'm suprised how vehement the reaction to this design. Come on! You don't have to buy it people! Second I'm suprised at the luddite reaction to the numbering arrangement. Doesn't anyone have any interest in trying something new out to see if it's better? Honestly I though/. had more forward thinking people! Where are the dvorak people when you need defense for doing something different? Finally, I don't think it's ugly, it's actually quite svelt. I'd get one if it had a qwerty on it. Then again, I have an odd taste in phones, I have a Danger Hiptop (Tmobile Sidekick) afterall.
Does anyone else find these sorts of lists filled with the sort of idiocy that I do? First off, there always the standard "they promised" mentality that pervades the thinking of vaporware gadgets. Who promised? When? Where? Was it the voices in your head or was it something your saw on the TV? How can anyone actually be upset at "they"? Secondly, some of these ideas are just flat out stupid and would never have passed a common sense test, like the jetpack (admittely cool, just insanely unsafe). Thirdly, some of these things do exist, but since they are not in the form "they" said they would be in these ideas are somehow a failure? This is just rank whining.
So if it boils down to freedom of choice, source, and alteration, versus widespread acceptance, I'd go with freedom. That is, afterall, what OSS is all about; Freedom.
I do! It's the perfect TLD for people who use the correct nomenclature. I am not a company, an orginazation or a network and while I should be registered as a lethal weapon I don't qualify as a military or a seperate government. What does that leave me for an individual's site?.NAME
And why should they care about your freedom unless there is money to be made in the process? They are, after all, a business, not a charity. They want a liscense that protects their freedom to charge for their work!
Decibels aren't on a linear scale. Your 53db is a logrithmic difference. Every 3db in difference is a doubleing of intensity. 123db is twice as intense as 120db. So 53/3 = 17.6667 which means 173db is 2^17.6667 times as loud as 120db. Which is actually 208063.83 times as loud. Which means the article was still wrong. Here's a link about decibel math: here.
I found that using an iPAQ was a waste of money and time. I bought one of those back when they were still $550 for the 16MB version. At first I was using it all the time for meetings and MP3s and reading news while on the john. I discovered over a long weekend that once you loose battery you lose EVERYTHING. Your books, your news, your software, your mp3's. Everything. What in the hell??? I am a software engineer by trade and I work on mobile devices for Motorola and I can tell you that when our devices loose battery you DO NOT lose your data! What kind of idiots designed and/or managed this thing? It's exactly this kind of crap that makes PDAs ususable because they fail badly when you get a cheap one. However when you get an expensive one you really don't get a good feel for whether their expensive by design robustness or simply marked up. Give it about a decade. If PDAs are still around "they" might have gotten the cost of good design and components down far enough to produce a very robust PDA that won't pass for a "racoon coffin".
Did anyone else catch this obvious question? Do scientists have the right create life? Well, can they have childern without people fretting over some frankenstien killer virus child springing fully evil out of their groins? I don't believe anyone is challenging their ability to procreate, which by definition is creating life, so I don't see why are we asking these kind of idiodic questions. We should be far more concerned with why we let non-scientists procreate! Creating a rogue human is far more dangerous than creating a rogue crotch burning bacteria.
Aside from this not being the point of the article at all...
Free market economies are set up to reward those who work to earn value, not to give stuff away for free, just because someone needs it. If that were the case it wouldn't be a free market, it would be a socialist-style planned economy. And we all know that those don't work nearly as well as free economies (or if at all). Point is, patent holders should not have to forgo the value they created just because someone needs the thing they patented. Heck, I "need" a one-click shopping solution. Does that justify intellectual theft, however tenuous the patented IP may be? No.
Anyone who told you capitalism was supposed to give free stuff to the needy was lying.
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If it uses Secure Media for storage of said "mp3s and pictures", it's unlikely you'll be able to hack it unless you can crack the content keys, or provide your own "secured" media.
While it will be a rather different software-scape in the future, a good programmer will always be in demand. The free market may devalue some software into the commodity then into the free as in tshirt range but there will always be something to make the money off of, it's just hard to see what that would be. Support will be around forever, as I doubt anyone would freely give support time (at the magnitude of a job) beyond simple questions.
The United States is far and away the worst offender, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the world's spam.
Wait, so all of us are responsible for the actions of these spammers? The "United States" itself doesn't spam, spammers do. Perhaps it should have been:
60 percent of the world's spam comes from spammers in the Unitied States.
I believe the guilt would lay correctly with the spammers in this phrasing.
Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands.
Then, don't buy bud!
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I "like" how the story posters of slashdot are blinded by these bland phrases like "good of humanity". What exactly does that mean here? Is he giving it away for free? No, but it will be cheap. Is he opening the IP up? No, it's patent pending. In fact he's begining to sound like a (*gasp*) capitalist! And we all know they been knocked around here enough to be demonized. But unsuprisingly when a capitalist helps the poor by helping himself he's a put up on a pedastal as the savior of humanity, but if he helps himself by helping the rich or even just the middle class he's deridded as a scum sucking bottom feeder business man. Why the double standard, slashdot? Why? Is it because the motives seem more pure or somehow more righteous? That perhaps, because poor people get the short end of the stick all over the world that they don't just need help, but somehow deserve it too? That we are compelled to serve them? And when we don't feel compelled by this directive we've somehow failed at an obvious yet never stated goal of life?
What this guy has done is great, not because it will help poor people but because he's been extremely clever. I hope he makes an assload of money. Of course once he does make a reasonable sum, some people will complain that his motives aren't pure anymore. One can only hope they can synthesize becoming rich and helping poor people in the same thought.
While a space station is techincally falling contiuously, is it apt to say that it is "falling apart?" Why not "floating apart" or better "drifting apart". If there's one thing that that orbiting pile of junk can do for us that's worth anything, it's to rethink some of our terrestrial metaphors when applied to near-space conditions.
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ENGINEERING & CS != IT!!!!
Stop giving info about IT, he's not asking for IT! Serious design and high level architecting, what CS and Software Engineering people do nowadays in the US, is actually a nice job. Installing XP and patching for virsuses is not. IT is the latter. I'd say go for it (NOT IT). Do something health related, as all the smart posters are saying, and you'll do fine.
We need one of those, but with an IR remote so we can program our monster universal remotes (like the MX-500 from Home Theatre Master) to go to the right switch. 'Course, that'd run a couple 100 after that.
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
And now on to something else...
"...or at least make it mandatory to for-profit organizations to give a certain minimum amount and take it out of their taxes?"
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So let me get this straight, you want to force for-profit corporations to give OSS projects money and you think that sugar coating this insane government abuse with a gussied up tax-shelter will make it OK? ARE YOU MAD?!?!
I doubt the advice to work at home for 50-80% off would fly. Most geeks wouldn't be able to maintain rent payments at the high end of that scale. The only thing you can do is make yourself valuable to the company. I don't mean -invaluable- as in obfuscate your job such that no one else can do it, but rather find a niche that you excel at and be the "goto" for it. This is, of course, a tough and sometime impossible thing to do. When execs see those short term dollar signs they lose some sense of reality and some sense of reason, which makes them think that outsourcing their best people is somehow a good idea. Even though it sucks to lose your job to this mentality, at least they did you a favor in that you can find a better place to work now, where perhaps, just perhaps, people at recognized and rewarded for being valuable instead of being eliminated. One can hope, desperately, that a place like that still exists.
Does anyone else find this idea of holding some nebulous "them" up to the promises of "tomorrow"? WHO made these "promises"? And WHO was fool enough to believe that they were actual promises? Why do journalists abuse this word in this fashion, all the time, everytime an "invention of the future" is mentioned?
Get a clue! No one promised you squat! Get over it!
use the right units people!
Oh God they'll be able to know what couch I bought. Horror! Shock! Dismay! Wait, what's the effective transmitting radius of the RFID tags anyway (pdf here)? Won't "they" be able to see the couch at these sorts of distances?
And who the hell cares if they know what couch you bought? Can some rational person tell me why this is just so bad?
First off, let me say that I'm suprised how vehement the reaction to this design. Come on! You don't have to buy it people! Second I'm suprised at the luddite reaction to the numbering arrangement. Doesn't anyone have any interest in trying something new out to see if it's better? Honestly I though /. had more forward thinking people! Where are the dvorak people when you need defense for doing something different? Finally, I don't think it's ugly, it's actually quite svelt. I'd get one if it had a qwerty on it. Then again, I have an odd taste in phones, I have a Danger Hiptop (Tmobile Sidekick) afterall.
Does anyone else find these sorts of lists filled with the sort of idiocy that I do? First off, there always the standard "they promised" mentality that pervades the thinking of vaporware gadgets. Who promised? When? Where? Was it the voices in your head or was it something your saw on the TV? How can anyone actually be upset at "they"? Secondly, some of these ideas are just flat out stupid and would never have passed a common sense test, like the jetpack (admittely cool, just insanely unsafe).
Thirdly, some of these things do exist, but since they are not in the form "they" said they would be in these ideas are somehow a failure? This is just rank whining.
So if it boils down to freedom of choice, source, and alteration, versus widespread acceptance, I'd go with freedom. That is, afterall, what OSS is all about; Freedom .
I do! It's the perfect TLD for people who use the correct nomenclature. I am not a company, an orginazation or a network and while I should be registered as a lethal weapon I don't qualify as a military or a seperate government. What does that leave me for an individual's site? .NAME
Hopefully it'll be grandfathered.
And why should they care about your freedom unless there is money to be made in the process? They are, after all, a business, not a charity.
They want a liscense that protects their freedom to charge for their work!
Decibels aren't on a linear scale. Your 53db is a logrithmic difference. Every 3db in difference is a doubleing of intensity. 123db is twice as intense as 120db. So 53/3 = 17.6667 which means 173db is 2^17.6667 times as loud as 120db. Which is actually 208063.83 times as loud. Which means the article was still wrong. Here's a link about decibel math: here.
I found that using an iPAQ was a waste of money and time. I bought one of those back when they were still $550 for the 16MB version. At first I was using it all the time for meetings and MP3s and reading news while on the john. I discovered over a long weekend that once you loose battery you lose EVERYTHING. Your books, your news, your software, your mp3's. Everything. What in the hell??? I am a software engineer by trade and I work on mobile devices for Motorola and I can tell you that when our devices loose battery you DO NOT lose your data! What kind of idiots designed and/or managed this thing? It's exactly this kind of crap that makes PDAs ususable because they fail badly when you get a cheap one. However when you get an expensive one you really don't get a good feel for whether their expensive by design robustness or simply marked up. Give it about a decade. If PDAs are still around "they" might have gotten the cost of good design and components down far enough to produce a very robust PDA that won't pass for a "racoon coffin".
Did anyone else catch this obvious question? Do scientists have the right create life? Well, can they have childern without people fretting over some frankenstien killer virus child springing fully evil out of their groins? I don't believe anyone is challenging their ability to procreate, which by definition is creating life, so I don't see why are we asking these kind of idiodic questions. We should be far more concerned with why we let non-scientists procreate! Creating a rogue human is far more dangerous than creating a rogue crotch burning bacteria.
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Aside from this not being the point of the article at all...
Free market economies are set up to reward those
who work to earn value, not to give stuff away for free, just because someone needs it. If that were the case it wouldn't be a free market, it would be a socialist-style planned economy. And we all know that those don't work nearly as well as free economies (or if at all). Point is, patent holders should not have to forgo the value they created just because someone needs the thing they patented. Heck, I "need" a one-click shopping solution. Does that justify intellectual theft, however tenuous the patented IP may be? No.
Anyone who told you capitalism was supposed to give free stuff to the needy was lying.