Evil microsoft aside, this is actually pretty cool. I know that i keep quite a few little apps and docs and stuff inside of $home so that i can grab them via scp (pscp on windows). With this service, I won't have to go through the steps of googling PSCP, then downloading it to whoever's C:\WINDOWS\system32\ folder. Most of these files used to reside on a flash drive, but given the ubiquity of high speed internet these days, the necessity of keeping a 2-3mb file on removable media seems to be kindof gone.
This service just simplifies a process that most/. users probably perform several times a day.
Yes, but not everything requires intent from an outside source. A PC require power (food), but still does not have the ability to replicate itself without instruction from a human.
they don't care if it's a kitten in a box typing out the html every time a request comes in. but they don't have opposable thumbs! How will they hit the space bar?!?!?
Sure: lets see, we have two possible outcomes. Given a perfectly random system....hrm, carry the 5...divide by 9....the inverse of the quotient times number of pirates in existance....should be...
You're "joke" is pretty flawed. Linux does not have the ability to replicate itself without human intervention; therefore, it does not have the ability to evolve.
Its possible that you meant that linux DOES very closely follow the evolution of humans. Linus created the original single celled organism (the shell he wrote to connect to his universities computers), then allowed it to evolve while keeping a close eye on it.
I have to disagree. While one could assume that all of the staff members on a political campaign share the values of the candidate they are supporting, it is also very likely that there were just some nerds who needed a job. It is also quite possible that the decision was not even made in house. The choice of op-sys could have fallen into the hands of nerds who run the hosting company where the site is hosted.
Lets me honest, it is VERY unlikely that these candidates even KNOW what operating system their web server is running. Furthermore, i would doubt that most of them know what an operating system, or a web server even are.
(particularly considering that WEP is so broken as to be useless, and lots of devices don't support WPA). If you find me a decent handheld 5250 thin client that will run openVPN, and tell me a way to make my zebra ql420 printers use it too, i will ship you a case/box/keg/whatever of your favorite beer.
Not only that, but the care that was taken to create the recordings of yesteryear is NOT taken today. Masters KNOW that people are going to be listening to their work primarily on headphones and very lo-fi (relative to what is required to actually hear the subtleties that audiophiles get addicted to) sound systems. Guess what retard emo-hippies, those new releases that you "buy only on vinyl" are no better sounding than the cd...why? Because the vinyl was MADE FROM THE CD YOU JACKASS. Its not like the old days where a record cutting facility will get a big 'ol tape from the mastering studio, and then there will be a guy sitting at the record cutting machine overseeing the process. They get the cd, they stick it in a machine, and away it goes. Out pops a vinyl.
CD sales are down because people have become accustomed to being able to get the things that they want online. This and, due to the internet and mp3, people have started discovering more and more 'underground' music. It would be very difficult (read: impossible) for retailers like best buy, much less wal-mart, to stock the required inventory required to satisfy some customer's demands. The last to Cds that I purchased were by bands that most people have never heard of (The Breakestra, and Trevor Hall). I purchased half of the one online, and all of another. Why? Because i'm at work all day long, and i live too far away from the local record shop that would actually STOCK the bands that i wanted.
Two things have happened: 1.Big Box retailers like best buy and circuit city have pushed the mom and pop record shop out of business, meaning that in order to find the more obscure music, people are forced to go online. 2. People (like me) have gotten used to the fact that they don't HAVE to go to the cd shop to buy what they want anymore. In FACT it is sortof a pain in the neck to actually have to go. If i DO buy a physical CD, i have to take it home, get it out of the packaging, put it into my computer, rip it down to MP3 (lets face it, most modern recordings don't require a lossless format like FLAC), and upload it to my daapd server before I even really listen to it. If i buy the cd online, all i have to do is run qtfairuse copy it to a samba share and i'm ready to roll.
That's probably because of how Apple changed the face of the music player industry by making them popular for the masses. The same is quite possible for smartphones. I'm sorry but this comment is just.....wow. people have been carrying around portable cd players, portable radios, portable cassette players, portable minidisk players, hell...my little sister even had a portable record player when we were kids. Apple did not revolutionize ANYTHING about the portable music market. ALl they did was create a player that became pretty popular. Creating an (admittedly slightly improved) copy of an existing device (the hard-disk based mp3 player) is NOT revolutionary. Revolutionary would be if they had created a device that connected directly to your brain and completely bypassed your eardrums with music that it is streaming via underground hedgehog delivery system.
And smartphones...where do you live? I don't think i know anybody who DOESN'T have a smartphone.
from the gentoo article
Even if it does work on dual-layer DVDs (it usually does in my experience) it may still not work on many DVDs. You may see something like this:
dd: reading `/dev/dvd': Input/output error
after it has copied only a small part of the DVD. Opening the DVD with a media player or 'filestat' from the libdvdread package before issuing the 'dd' command can solve this problem. If that did not work try 'cat/dev/dvd >/dev/null', and cancel that command shortly after by pressing 'Ctrl+C', then try dd again. maybe that will help?
... every Google Car will have Google Maps built in... complete with Google ads based on your GPS derived location. I would actually really like this. Google maps are usually VERY accurate (as opposed to the majority of in-dash navigation systems that I have used), easily updated due to "centralized" location, and come with traffic reports (at least in Phoenix).
I know this is doable with an in-car pc + an evdo card, but something from the OEM would be really great. I would whole-heartedly embrace a partnership between GM and google.
Some of us actually have a very legitimate use for our 4x4s. I use my wrangler for camping. I have had that thing upside down, sideways, and inside out up in the mountains so many times i've lost count. I also own a Yukon XL denali that I connect a car carrier to for bringing things that don't run around the city. The denali seats my entire family (6 kids + dogs), and pulls the boat out to the lake without a problem, all with a bose sound system and in-dash navi:).
Granted, the lifted F-350 that some people feel is necessary to go to the grocery store is a bit much, but those of us that keep our monsters on a leash until we need them usually actually need them.
The main problem with this as a definition is that water expands and contracts with temperature. So, if you wanted to define the kilogram in terms of a volume of water, you need to specify the temperature at which you are making the measurement. Its almost like somebody should come up with a set of standards for these things!
No, paying more to an employee will increase the cost of the computer; which means the consumer will not purchase it. *That* is why you don't see good customer support. What grade are you in? Say you are selling computers for $500 a piece. You sell 10 computers. This means that you have $5000 gross. If you need to spend $1000 on tech support, you have $1000 material costs, you have spent $1000 on payroll, and you have spent $1000 renting your building. You have netted $1000. If you decide to upgrade your tech support, and now you are spending $1500 on tech support, you are now netting $500. Losing that $500 is referred to as "hurting the bottom line" because when you take your total amount of money, on the top line, put all of your deductions below it, each on their own line, the line on the bottom will be your total profit, or net.
So to upgrade the tech support, which would cost more, would "hurt the bottom line".
from TFA:
Microsoft doesn't like easter eggs in its products, doesn't like surprises that could make it look unprofessional or just be embaressing. Larry Osterman said, "Nowadays, adding an easter egg to a Microsoft OS is immediate grounds for termination". Jeremy Mazner has more:
Leading up the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft starting getting a lot more serious about selling servers into the government and large enterprise markets. These guys saw NT 4 as the first really credible enterprise-class product from MS, and were evaluating Win2k to see how things were progressing.
The story, as I recall it, is that one of these customers had some strong words for our easter eggs, suggesting that any company that could let such things frivolous things into their products wasn't doing a very good software engineering job, and thus couldn't be trusted to run an enterprise-scale business.
The argument never made much sense to me. Easter eggs, at least on teams I worked on, were never anywhere near critical-path code. And they often seem to have been pretty well tested by every member of the product team who wanted to verify their name showed up. Maybe there's some story I don't know about how an Easter egg caused a perf hit, or crash or something (I bet if such a story existed, Raymond would know it.). In any event, it seemed like we one day got this email that said "no more Easter eggs ever again", and that was pretty much the end of it.
Real story no ads. This isn't an anti-piracy measure, Microsoft is actually pretty upset about it. They don't like easter eggs because it makes them look unprofessional. If they find the guys that did this, they will probably be fired.
The best is to just start asking the people where they are from. Xerox recently moved all of their tech support to jamaica, so when i called them last time, i finally just said "Out of curiosity, where are you located? It sounds like your accent is from somewhere in the bahamas" The girl started laughing and said Jamaica. After a few more jokes and stuff, it was "Let me transfer you to level 2 tech support"
This is because computer tech support is actually a pretty specialized skill. It isn't something like calling visa where they have a flowchart of 5 problems in front of them.
Unfortunately, the people running the call centers don't realize this. They give their employees the same sort of flow charts that are given in "non-specialized" fields.
There are people out there with the skills required to to these jobs very very well. Some companies, like intermec (mobile computer manufacturer), zebra (industrial printer manufacturer), or CLI (provider of dumb terminals for As/400 systems) hire very very good people. I have even gotten the same person on multiple calls who recognized me "Hey RYAN! did you get that battery charger replacement i sent you?"
Unfortunately, it hurts the bottom line to pay skilled labor, so the end user ends up suffering.
Compared to the illegal wiretapping that Bush & Co. were/are doing.. this seems relatively small potatoes.. Don't be naive, the United States (and pretty much the rest of the 1st world) has been wiretapping its citizens since the 70's link
"Bush & Co" as you so elegantly called our Chief Executive and his staff, are just the first people to actually be OPEN about it.
YOU INSENSATIVE CLOD! ;-), just cause this is slashdot.
People that use I2 to trade warez, porn, music etc. are the biggest pain in my ass!
When i was attending ASU, which has internet2 (supposedly even in the dorms), I needed(wanted) to download the latest version of knoppix, which is now on a DVD (cd versions are also available). When i tried to do it (even downloading from an I2 server), speeds were HORRIBLE...somewhere in the 32kbps range.
Come to find out that while, yes, you ARE transmitting data across I2, they throttle it to prevent nightmares like the big huge DC++ hubs that used to exist.
SO I2 @ asu = pointless...i'm sure unless a grant to the university is involved.
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Evil microsoft aside, this is actually pretty cool. I know that i keep quite a few little apps and docs and stuff inside of $home so that i can grab them via scp (pscp on windows). With this service, I won't have to go through the steps of googling PSCP, then downloading it to whoever's C:\WINDOWS\system32\ folder. Most of these files used to reside on a flash drive, but given the ubiquity of high speed internet these days, the necessity of keeping a 2-3mb file on removable media seems to be kindof gone.
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Yes, but not everything requires intent from an outside source. A PC require power (food), but still does not have the ability to replicate itself without instruction from a human.
I'm going to need to see an RFC.
Sure: lets see, we have two possible outcomes. Given a perfectly random system....hrm, carry the 5...divide by 9....the inverse of the quotient times number of pirates in existance....should be...
yep, about 50/50.
You're "joke" is pretty flawed. Linux does not have the ability to replicate itself without human intervention; therefore, it does not have the ability to evolve.
Its possible that you meant that linux DOES very closely follow the evolution of humans. Linus created the original single celled organism (the shell he wrote to connect to his universities computers), then allowed it to evolve while keeping a close eye on it.
But i doubt it.
I have to disagree. While one could assume that all of the staff members on a political campaign share the values of the candidate they are supporting, it is also very likely that there were just some nerds who needed a job. It is also quite possible that the decision was not even made in house. The choice of op-sys could have fallen into the hands of nerds who run the hosting company where the site is hosted.
Lets me honest, it is VERY unlikely that these candidates even KNOW what operating system their web server is running. Furthermore, i would doubt that most of them know what an operating system, or a web server even are.
Not only that, but the care that was taken to create the recordings of yesteryear is NOT taken today. Masters KNOW that people are going to be listening to their work primarily on headphones and very lo-fi (relative to what is required to actually hear the subtleties that audiophiles get addicted to) sound systems. Guess what retard emo-hippies, those new releases that you "buy only on vinyl" are no better sounding than the cd...why? Because the vinyl was MADE FROM THE CD YOU JACKASS. Its not like the old days where a record cutting facility will get a big 'ol tape from the mastering studio, and then there will be a guy sitting at the record cutting machine overseeing the process. They get the cd, they stick it in a machine, and away it goes. Out pops a vinyl.
CD sales are down because people have become accustomed to being able to get the things that they want online. This and, due to the internet and mp3, people have started discovering more and more 'underground' music. It would be very difficult (read: impossible) for retailers like best buy, much less wal-mart, to stock the required inventory required to satisfy some customer's demands. The last to Cds that I purchased were by bands that most people have never heard of (The Breakestra, and Trevor Hall). I purchased half of the one online, and all of another. Why? Because i'm at work all day long, and i live too far away from the local record shop that would actually STOCK the bands that i wanted.
Two things have happened:
1.Big Box retailers like best buy and circuit city have pushed the mom and pop record shop out of business, meaning that in order to find the more obscure music, people are forced to go online.
2. People (like me) have gotten used to the fact that they don't HAVE to go to the cd shop to buy what they want anymore. In FACT it is sortof a pain in the neck to actually have to go. If i DO buy a physical CD, i have to take it home, get it out of the packaging, put it into my computer, rip it down to MP3 (lets face it, most modern recordings don't require a lossless format like FLAC), and upload it to my daapd server before I even really listen to it. If i buy the cd online, all i have to do is run qtfairuse copy it to a samba share and i'm ready to roll.
SO its basically convenience.
I still laugh every time i hear that greeday song:
"Wake me up....when september ends!"
people have been carrying around portable cd players, portable radios, portable cassette players, portable minidisk players, hell...my little sister even had a portable record player when we were kids. Apple did not revolutionize ANYTHING about the portable music market. ALl they did was create a player that became pretty popular. Creating an (admittedly slightly improved) copy of an existing device (the hard-disk based mp3 player) is NOT revolutionary. Revolutionary would be if they had created a device that connected directly to your brain and completely bypassed your eardrums with music that it is streaming via underground hedgehog delivery system.
And smartphones...where do you live? I don't think i know anybody who DOESN'T have a smartphone.
from the gentoo article Even if it does work on dual-layer DVDs (it usually does in my experience) it may still not work on many DVDs. You may see something like this:
dd: reading `/dev/dvd': Input/output error
after it has copied only a small part of the DVD. Opening the DVD with a media player or 'filestat' from the libdvdread package before issuing the 'dd' command can solve this problem. If that did not work try 'cat
Either that or they forgot that we are talking about digital media here.
...oops ;-)
dd if=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 of=/home/john/ohnoesthedata.ruhroh
... every Google Car will have Google Maps built inI know this is doable with an in-car pc + an evdo card, but something from the OEM would be really great. I would whole-heartedly embrace a partnership between GM and google.
Some of us actually have a very legitimate use for our 4x4s. I use my wrangler for camping. I have had that thing upside down, sideways, and inside out up in the mountains so many times i've lost count. I also own a Yukon XL denali that I connect a car carrier to for bringing things that don't run around the city. The denali seats my entire family (6 kids + dogs), and pulls the boat out to the lake without a problem, all with a bose sound system and in-dash navi :).
Granted, the lifted F-350 that some people feel is necessary to go to the grocery store is a bit much, but those of us that keep our monsters on a leash until we need them usually actually need them.
hey, i know, we could call it Standard temperature and pressure!
Say you are selling computers for $500 a piece. You sell 10 computers. This means that you have $5000 gross. If you need to spend $1000 on tech support, you have $1000 material costs, you have spent $1000 on payroll, and you have spent $1000 renting your building. You have netted $1000. If you decide to upgrade your tech support, and now you are spending $1500 on tech support, you are now netting $500. Losing that $500 is referred to as "hurting the bottom line" because when you take your total amount of money, on the top line, put all of your deductions below it, each on their own line, the line on the bottom will be your total profit, or net.
So to upgrade the tech support, which would cost more, would "hurt the bottom line".
Leading up the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft starting getting a lot more serious about selling servers into the government and large enterprise markets. These guys saw NT 4 as the first really credible enterprise-class product from MS, and were evaluating Win2k to see how things were progressing.
The story, as I recall it, is that one of these customers had some strong words for our easter eggs, suggesting that any company that could let such things frivolous things into their products wasn't doing a very good software engineering job, and thus couldn't be trusted to run an enterprise-scale business.
The argument never made much sense to me. Easter eggs, at least on teams I worked on, were never anywhere near critical-path code. And they often seem to have been pretty well tested by every member of the product team who wanted to verify their name showed up. Maybe there's some story I don't know about how an Easter egg caused a perf hit, or crash or something (I bet if such a story existed, Raymond would know it.). In any event, it seemed like we one day got this email that said "no more Easter eggs ever again", and that was pretty much the end of it.
Real story
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This isn't an anti-piracy measure, Microsoft is actually pretty upset about it. They don't like easter eggs because it makes them look unprofessional. If they find the guys that did this, they will probably be fired.
The best is to just start asking the people where they are from. Xerox recently moved all of their tech support to jamaica, so when i called them last time, i finally just said "Out of curiosity, where are you located? It sounds like your accent is from somewhere in the bahamas" The girl started laughing and said Jamaica. After a few more jokes and stuff, it was "Let me transfer you to level 2 tech support"
:-D
win
This is because computer tech support is actually a pretty specialized skill. It isn't something like calling visa where they have a flowchart of 5 problems in front of them.
Unfortunately, the people running the call centers don't realize this. They give their employees the same sort of flow charts that are given in "non-specialized" fields.
There are people out there with the skills required to to these jobs very very well. Some companies, like intermec (mobile computer manufacturer), zebra (industrial printer manufacturer), or CLI (provider of dumb terminals for As/400 systems) hire very very good people. I have even gotten the same person on multiple calls who recognized me "Hey RYAN! did you get that battery charger replacement i sent you?"
Unfortunately, it hurts the bottom line to pay skilled labor, so the end user ends up suffering.
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"Bush & Co" as you so elegantly called our Chief Executive and his staff, are just the first people to actually be OPEN about it.
YOU INSENSATIVE CLOD!
People that use I2 to trade warez, porn, music etc. are the biggest pain in my ass!
When i was attending ASU, which has internet2 (supposedly even in the dorms), I needed(wanted) to download the latest version of knoppix, which is now on a DVD (cd versions are also available). When i tried to do it (even downloading from an I2 server), speeds were HORRIBLE...somewhere in the 32kbps range.
Come to find out that while, yes, you ARE transmitting data across I2, they throttle it to prevent nightmares like the big huge DC++ hubs that used to exist.
SO I2 @ asu = pointless...i'm sure unless a grant to the university is involved.