Now maybe we'll have more posts on the stories that wouldn't normally on the front page. I usually read the games section, but alot of the stories hardly get any posts at all...
"it can be exchanged for something of value, and the user has the right to know who is using it and how."
we'll see how this works. i think if they're *buying* the info from you (aka you recieve value for it), i'm not sure how much say you have over what they do with it.
My problem as an IT guy is this: There's a fine line between something thats a real tech support issue, and something thats a matter of you having a vague idea of what you're doing.
Not saying that anybody who touches a mouse ought to be a geek by our standards. What I AM saying is that if you're in a somewhat high position working in an office, you should know how to print.
It takes a certain (small) amount of knowledge/skill to even consider yourself 'qualified' for a job. Correct? Well, if you work in an office, you should understand that you click File -> Print to print a document. That's not me having unreasonable expectations of your knowledge of the inner workings of your PC. That's you not being totally useless.
They do this already. That hardware is called a Mac.
You're missing the point entirely. OSX works because they don't have to support every crappy generic piece of gear out there. Opening OSX to the white-box world isn't a matter of Apple being stingy. There's just no way anybody can offer the support you would need for it to be even close to viable.
"Hell, I stream MP3s to my PDA already via my Bluetooth-enabled EDGE-bandwidth cell phone (150kbps low latency all over Chicagoland)."
Clearly, you're in touch with the same reality that all other US citizens inhabit.
Granted, not as many people listen to radio nowdays. But it's not completely dead. It's still everywhere, and everyone has access to it. Believe it or not, even having a broadband connection at home puts you in the minority, buddy.
I dont know about you guys, but I have more trouble with Microsoft's updates than i do with actual exploits.
Just yesterday, somebody tried to reboot our print queue server here at the hospital. When it comes back up, *nobody* can print. Lo and behold, I find an article at microsoft support about printing problems after installing a patch. sure enough, roll back the windows update, make a registry change, and boom. Printing is restored. Thanks alot guys, i appreciate that. It'd be nice if the Add/Remove programs list gave a date which those things were installed (w2k).
I've still got a problem on one of my 2003 servers. Some windows update about a video driver exploit constantly changes the desktop appearance colors on the server. regular grey windows are now purple/black. or worse: white text on white background. Try setting permissions when you can't tell if a box is checked or not. It's not too easy. Again, figure out which patch it is, roll it back (which requires a server reboot), and it works again... until that patch gets re-installed.
i'm sorry to say, but i somehow find this hard to believe. You mean you actually optimize your mixes to sound better on an ipod? or just with the apple earbuds?
really, what kind of studio do you work at? audio engineer, or just m-box owner?
I think the book thats most helpful to the novice programmer wouldn't be a book about any language at all.
It'd be a book about programming and algorithms in general. Its MUCH easier to root around in a 'hello world' program or the like if you understand things like loops, if/then/else statments, function calls, etc. Even the fundamental idea of declaring and using a variable.
Also interesting to note that many universities start students programming in C. The reason they do is because they want computer science students to get a good understand alot of what's going on in the background, not just learning a specific language.
The kicker: If you understand the principles behind it, you can easily learn any language.
You probably want to skip alot of the theory behind data structures and whatnot at the beginning though.
audio engineers (people that work with sound production, recording studios) will normally burn the master of whatever you do in the studio at 1x.
this is because you want as few read/write errors as possible when the duplication place makes a real stamp for your disc.
'audiophiles' see this as slower burn speed = better sound.
It should also be noted that to many audio engineers, an audiophile is a euphemism for a poser. Your average best buy shopper who thinks that louder = better. or crazy boosted eq curves (huge bass, sharp stinging treble) sound better.
Like I said in another post, the mission critical stuff in the Siemens and GE gear is unix. But all that radiology gear and whatnot sends their images to a PACS server where everything is archived (windows based). Granted, the Siemens machines can print straight to the film printers, but past that, it goes through the PACS system.
The real comment was along the lines of 'if your life at a hospital depended on a either windows or linux, which would you choose'. I'm just saying that like most others, our hospital is 100%-full-fledged-active-directory-wielding-window s-based.
Actually, most of the equipment you're talking about (EKG, CT scan, etc) is stand-alone stuff from Siemens or GE that runs Unix. It doesn't have anything to do with PCs. Nurses and whatnot use windows machines to pull up patient info and stuff, but even then, that system is just a terminal server connection to a unix system in philadelphia or something.
That I have a handily available broadband internet connection.
With authentication servers and whatnot, that means that portable players are a pain in the rear. Or whatabout watching a movie at grandma's house. Does grandma need a cable modem to be able to watch a video? There's countless examples...
First time I saw this stuff was in 1999. Taking a tour of a computer farm in the NSA in Washington DC. They had a special basement level with the pumps that shot the stuff all over the building, and the floors were built up 1ft to accomodate the pipes running to all the Cray machines. Being in highschool, I thought it was cool.
I see alot of people burning music cd's for use in their car, and then wonder why they stop working (or skip horribly) after not long at all. It's because of the heat.
Here in south Louisiana, the inside of your car can get to literally oven temperatures for the majority of the day (if you park outside of course). I've seen new cd-r disks in the summer that become almost transparent in a matter of a month. You can literally hold the disk up, and see your hand right through it. Its because cd's are 'burned' by changing the color of the dye using heat. The heat used to burn the cd is NOTHING compared to the bowels-of-hell type heat that its submitted to in your car.
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Now maybe we'll have more posts on the stories that wouldn't normally on the front page. I usually read the games section, but alot of the stories hardly get any posts at all...
I think its great too. Keep up the good work!
"it can be exchanged for something of value, and the user has the right to know who is using it and how."
we'll see how this works. i think if they're *buying* the info from you (aka you recieve value for it), i'm not sure how much say you have over what they do with it.
You're also making the assumption that two warring nations WANT to level the playing field...
Yeah, but they're still slashdot users.
If you think that a new version of the standard in gaming benchmarks is no big deal, then YOU must be new here.
My problem as an IT guy is this: There's a fine line between something thats a real tech support issue, and something thats a matter of you having a vague idea of what you're doing.
Not saying that anybody who touches a mouse ought to be a geek by our standards. What I AM saying is that if you're in a somewhat high position working in an office, you should know how to print.
It takes a certain (small) amount of knowledge/skill to even consider yourself 'qualified' for a job. Correct? Well, if you work in an office, you should understand that you click File -> Print to print a document. That's not me having unreasonable expectations of your knowledge of the inner workings of your PC. That's you not being totally useless.
They do this already. That hardware is called a Mac.
You're missing the point entirely. OSX works because they don't have to support every crappy generic piece of gear out there. Opening OSX to the white-box world isn't a matter of Apple being stingy. There's just no way anybody can offer the support you would need for it to be even close to viable.
"Hell, I stream MP3s to my PDA already via my Bluetooth-enabled EDGE-bandwidth cell phone (150kbps low latency all over Chicagoland)."
Clearly, you're in touch with the same reality that all other US citizens inhabit.
Granted, not as many people listen to radio nowdays. But it's not completely dead. It's still everywhere, and everyone has access to it. Believe it or not, even having a broadband connection at home puts you in the minority, buddy.
This thing has been around for a while, and as for your question... the latter is true. Its ridiculous.
People keep trying this custom keyboard stuff, and it never takes hold.
I dont know about you guys, but I have more trouble with Microsoft's updates than i do with actual exploits.
Just yesterday, somebody tried to reboot our print queue server here at the hospital. When it comes back up, *nobody* can print. Lo and behold, I find an article at microsoft support about printing problems after installing a patch. sure enough, roll back the windows update, make a registry change, and boom. Printing is restored. Thanks alot guys, i appreciate that. It'd be nice if the Add/Remove programs list gave a date which those things were installed (w2k).
I've still got a problem on one of my 2003 servers. Some windows update about a video driver exploit constantly changes the desktop appearance colors on the server. regular grey windows are now purple/black. or worse: white text on white background. Try setting permissions when you can't tell if a box is checked or not. It's not too easy. Again, figure out which patch it is, roll it back (which requires a server reboot), and it works again... until that patch gets re-installed.
Old news... I've already got the title for my acre of lunar turf.
www.lunarembassy.com
What are you talking about? You've always got the overlords to fall back on...
Dang it!
Why couldn't I have been born *after* this...
I didn't think this was a troll at all. Thats a very good point about keeping some familiarity. I completely agree.
you're an audio engineer that mixes for the ipod?
i'm sorry to say, but i somehow find this hard to believe. You mean you actually optimize your mixes to sound better on an ipod? or just with the apple earbuds?
really, what kind of studio do you work at? audio engineer, or just m-box owner?
"To me it seems that a smart competitor could easily improve the ipod/itunes combo."
kind of a bold statement, eh?
I think the book thats most helpful to the novice programmer wouldn't be a book about any language at all.
It'd be a book about programming and algorithms in general. Its MUCH easier to root around in a 'hello world' program or the like if you understand things like loops, if/then/else statments, function calls, etc. Even the fundamental idea of declaring and using a variable.
Also interesting to note that many universities start students programming in C. The reason they do is because they want computer science students to get a good understand alot of what's going on in the background, not just learning a specific language.
The kicker: If you understand the principles behind it, you can easily learn any language.
You probably want to skip alot of the theory behind data structures and whatnot at the beginning though.
audio engineers (people that work with sound production, recording studios) will normally burn the master of whatever you do in the studio at 1x.
this is because you want as few read/write errors as possible when the duplication place makes a real stamp for your disc.
'audiophiles' see this as slower burn speed = better sound.
It should also be noted that to many audio engineers, an audiophile is a euphemism for a poser. Your average best buy shopper who thinks that louder = better. or crazy boosted eq curves (huge bass, sharp stinging treble) sound better.
Like I said in another post, the mission critical stuff in the Siemens and GE gear is unix. But all that radiology gear and whatnot sends their images to a PACS server where everything is archived (windows based). Granted, the Siemens machines can print straight to the film printers, but past that, it goes through the PACS system.
w s-based.
The real comment was along the lines of 'if your life at a hospital depended on a either windows or linux, which would you choose'. I'm just saying that like most others, our hospital is 100%-full-fledged-active-directory-wielding-windo
Actually, most of the equipment you're talking about (EKG, CT scan, etc) is stand-alone stuff from Siemens or GE that runs Unix. It doesn't have anything to do with PCs. Nurses and whatnot use windows machines to pull up patient info and stuff, but even then, that system is just a terminal server connection to a unix system in philadelphia or something.
Well I work in IT at a hospital, and sorry, but if your life depends on an OS, that OS will be Windows.
But then again its not up to me. and look how great it worked out with the whole katrina thing.
This is also making a huge assumption:
That I have a handily available broadband internet connection.
With authentication servers and whatnot, that means that portable players are a pain in the rear. Or whatabout watching a movie at grandma's house. Does grandma need a cable modem to be able to watch a video? There's countless examples...
First time I saw this stuff was in 1999. Taking a tour of a computer farm in the NSA in Washington DC. They had a special basement level with the pumps that shot the stuff all over the building, and the floors were built up 1ft to accomodate the pipes running to all the Cray machines. Being in highschool, I thought it was cool.
I see alot of people burning music cd's for use in their car, and then wonder why they stop working (or skip horribly) after not long at all. It's because of the heat.
Here in south Louisiana, the inside of your car can get to literally oven temperatures for the majority of the day (if you park outside of course). I've seen new cd-r disks in the summer that become almost transparent in a matter of a month. You can literally hold the disk up, and see your hand right through it. Its because cd's are 'burned' by changing the color of the dye using heat. The heat used to burn the cd is NOTHING compared to the bowels-of-hell type heat that its submitted to in your car.