I understand that drivers can't count on tips to be consistent or even provided. It's also common to tip Uber drivers. I don't see these articles taking tipping into account. Probably fair since Uber probably didn't assume any tip in their $100k figure. I'd find it interesting to hear how tipping might change that hourly wage figure.
I know this will come across as being a Google fanboy, but I've been really impressed with Google recently, completely counter to the poster's question. We work in the same industry, but that doesn't mean a whole lot as there is no mention of what langue(s) they work with, so maybe it's something obscure that even Google isn't good at returning search results for. For me? I think it's great and I use it to do exactly what's described. It would take a lot of cycles to compute the exact amount of time Google saves me these days (compared to doing the same job in 2000, for example) doing exactly what it does today for queries I assume must be similar to the posters.
Some background. I'm a US tech worker. I worked in software development for a major US corporation starting in college and continued as my first full time "grown up" job until 2007 when I couldn't ignore the itch to get involved in the US's War on Terror; I joined the US Army as an infantryman, enlisted. I had very supportive colleagues who said "technology will always be there" but with the quick pace at which the sector moves I knew there was no real way to keep up. Fast forward to 2013 when I had done my time and was getting geared back up to re-enter the tech sector, I had a real fear that I wouldn't be able to get up to speed or keep up. Honestly, Google has helped immeasurably. Using Google, it's been way easier to get up to speed and stay up to speed than it was when I was starting out, and my mind was much sharper back then I think (age alone, setting aside the impacts of a few years at war and around my share of large explosions). I'm not sure I could have jumped back in, at least nearly as quickly, if it weren't for the present state of "search" and the advancements at Google. Plus, their services rock pretty hard.
I'm impressed when they search through the world of straight crap (unintentional) and the world of the intentionally misleading to deliver to me results I actually find useful. I don't think I'd get as useful a result from a search engine that returned results based on page content and meta data alone. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't found Google lacking and because I had to get up to speed I'd wager I've used it more heavily than most in the last couple years.
I joined the US Army as an Infantryman. Can't get much farther away from IT than that. I wasn't trying to move away from IT, it was response to my country at war and the subsequent loss of a friend to insurgent action in Iraq that made my decision for me.
I obviously work with people in an entirely different way than I did in IT. For the record, I was a software engineer with IBM in Pittsburgh on the Websphere Competency Center team. I loved my job and still can't imagine a better group of co-workers and business partners to work with. Maybe I'll get back to tech after my time in the Army, maybe I won't.
In the Army I'm currently a 240B medium machine gun team leader. My age (29 when I joined the Army) and experience (good civilian job, college) earned me a little more flexibility in promotions, but no more respect with my peers. The average age in my company is approximately 21. It's been an uphill battle to compete physically, but it's a challenge I've found fascinating.
As for the money, better make sure you're in a good position before making a move like this. Thanks to my 7 years at IBM, I was, but it would be a nightmare to try to live off lower enlisted salary when you're used to much more.
My previous experience did land me one unfortunate headache, the CO/1SG found out that I was "good with computers" and stuck me in company operations for 10 months. Try to avoid talking about your previous IT experience if you go this route.
I love the Simpsons, and I firmly believe that everything people take too seriously needs to be looked at from the angle of humor by SOMEONE.
But on the other hand I LOVE FOX NEWS. That's right, I'm a right wing, Bush lovin, baby seal killin, uh, jerkface, or whatever great slam the left wing commies can come up with today. Seriously, have you watched Fox News? It simply rules. CNN Headline news makes me sick, smart viewers choose Fox News.
Wow, Who knew the Skins from Peter Hamilton's Fallen Dragon were so close?
I'm also flashing back to the first Star Trek TNG episodes, Encounter at Farpoint, where Q puts the crew on trial and in one of the scenes, when he's flashing through earths "history" he shows up dress as a suppsed 22nd century soldier in a "battle suit" of sorts. Good Stuff(tm).
How about, everyone stated working becuase they didn't want to get the axe. Most peoples credit card bills, car payments, morgages, rent, hbo subscriptions, etc are enough incentive to make them work harder so they don't loose their job. Unlike a failing marrage, you can't get more money becuase you "were use to a higher quality of life". I'll do just about anything I'm asked with a minimum amount of fuss these days. Infact I'll do stuff I wouldn't have even considered taking on before, and I'll do it with a smile, just to keep the checks rollin in. Especially after you've watched friends and coworkers brave the current job pool. Talk about motivation. There you have it. Simply put, we have the same (maybe a bit more) work to do, but everyone's afraid NOT to do it. Almost as much as they are afraid to miss a ship date. I predict burnout will be a lot more frequent, and turnover may start to go up. Or maybe it'll just be career change.
This falls under the category of win32 only software, but it will pass the physical tests.
This is a great transition tool from windows to linux, as most window managers under X have a concept of virtual desktops.
This is one of those things I really missed on a windows machine (yes I have ONE of the four machines on my desktop at work. Necessary for testing, Lotus Notes, network printing (NO FLAME), and a few other things). I am one of those people that has 30+ applications running (between putty sessions, wait, there's another good app...) and I don't like to be minimizing and maximizing every five seconds. I found JS Pager while searching for a virtual desktop on windows and fell in love with it. I've got everyone else here at work hooked and it's helped people to get use to gnome and KDE desktop environments.
I aggree with this in part. I use Pricewatch not to find a merchant, but to find a "good" price for the component I'm shopping for if I'm unfamiliar with the pricing.
I have purchased from pricewatch listed merchants that I had no dealings with in the past. I have only been burned a few times, and have no REAL horror stories, but it's always a risk.
The statement has been made that most of the best prices you find also carry some outrageously horrible shipping price. This is norally true, but if you are up for the risk, it is easy to check the shipping price without placing an order and can turn out to be very beneficial.
Some of the places I know and trust I frequently see in the best price ranges while browsing on pricewatch.
It's a fine balance between price and shipping charge and your "level of knowledge" of the merchant. You can get burned, you can get hosed, you can get abused, but you will always save money on buying a brand name PC (there may come a time in the future when this is not true, but I've never seen it). Most notably because in a home built PC you get exactly what you want. It is hard to get that form a brand name without paying out the butt for a custom job.
Some good places to shop, if you want to take my word (I have made multiple orders from each):
Newegg Comp-U-Plus (You will find yourself saying "The sipping is horrible! Why would he recomend this site?!?!" and all I have to say is, check out the price on the 9GB Ultra 160 SCSI drive from Maxtor/Quantum. They have sneak deals like this everywhere on their site. I don't know how they come in $80-$100 dollars less than everyone else, but it makes the shipping way worth it.)
I could list them all day, but those two are my current favorite. I can find everything I'm looking for right there. I sometimes shop buy.com, if they have the product I want at a reasonable price and they are pulling one of their "no shipping cost" deals, like RIGHT NOW. I used to love egghead.com, especially the auction, but that has gone the way of the dodo.
somewhere else that is great to check is sharkyextreme.com, and look at their cpu price or memory price sections. I have bought from a number of these retailers. They only list people who aren't jerking people around on the deals, and they are accuratly reporting the best prices.
Final note (I swear). Don't shop pricewatch form RAM. You'll get the first 8 pages filled with that nasty generic like CAS1000 crap. More holes than swiss cheese. The price is good enough to sucker some, but nothing beats going straigt to crucial.com for RAM. Good prices, and great quality. I hate cheap RAM. I have coworkers who only buy the stuff, swearing that one bad stick out of 5 with a no return policy is better than shelling out the same price for the 5 for one stick (which is a little exagerated, but at the right place you can honesly find deals that are close). I'll never buy anything less than CAS2, 8ns with a resonable chip density, but do what makes you happy.
I'm sure the FBI is flooded with an abundance of the word "Taliban" these days, and I'm sure they'll appreciate your passing it on. Seeing as how I was using it to describe how SOFTWARE should eject a user, I would say that you just wasted someone's precious time. Thanks for clogging the wheels of justice.
As for what I do with my time, I work my buns off often pulling 50+ hours a week, and I'm happy to do it. Some people go out for smoke breaks, I read slashdot. I think my breaks are a little more healthy and they keep me technically focused as I receive a lot of useful information from slashdot.
To sum up, I didn't "threaten" anyone, just suggested that the software should expunge them with prejudice. That's my opinion. I wasn't posting an article on the front page for all the read, I was commenting on a comment that he had made, which I felt was stupid and uncalled for. Michael's work is very good and I appreciate it. My opinion. I'm just glad that you don't have super powers and feel the need to deal with crime vigilante style because you're barking up the wrong tree.
Lastly, thanks for flaming me for including my contact information in my profile then posting as an AC, it proves my point very nicely. I prefer to be able to be CONTACTED DIRECTLY when someone has a problem with something I've done. You are a very cowardly person.
Hey RETARD, do me a favor and stop reading slashdot. There's nothing worse than having to read your tripe just because some idiot moderated you up.
As for the actual article and the actual problem, they should scare you and piss you off also. That a major corporation would pull such crap should enrage us all.
When software companies promote software that can cripple the entire net and make sure it's on as many desktops as they can sequester they are in the wrong and deserve all the wrath and hatred that gets thrown at them.
They are once again turning their back on the user , who paid through the nose for their bug infested, dangerous product, because they want to save face. Ask yourself, why else would they deny that such a hideous bug is a problem? I hope that you weren't effected by this problem, because if you were, or ARE, and you are not severely pissed off at the fact that your machine is vulnerable, or is possibly running DDOS attacks for some script kiddy, you don't deserve the right to have an opinion.
My vote is: KEEP Michael! I like the stuff he posts and the way he posts it. What we need to do is work in a patch for slashcode that will eliminate, and I mean Taliban style, morons like this guy.
For some reason Slashdot gets a lot of submissions of wacko energy concepts
Let's think about this: I have atleast 6 computers with 300 watt power supplies running continuously in my appartment.
Why would I be interested in new forms of power? Well, energy from nothing sounds like it should be cheap.... Not to mention that a few bucks saved on gas is a few bucks for more hardware, which takes more power.... I sense a race condition coming on. If only I could stop spending money on hardware.
Sometimes I think life would be better if I weren't such a geek. Then I try and sleep at someone elses house, and I can't because there is no comforting hum of all the hardware singing me to sleep.
It's a good life, and I'd go down fighting if it meant that a few more people could live with this kind of freedom. Damn terrorists make me so ANGRY. Every time I try and do anything these days, WHAM, those mfer's pop into my head. Screw basic training, get me a gun tell me who to shoot. Wow, this got off topic fast. Sorry....
I must also admit that I was sickend by the response of many slashdotters and the lack of clear thinking that many of the posts have shown.
We (as a country) have been a little soft on these terrorist acts for too long. I think that we have given the "retaliate through civil means" (embargos, political pressure, removing aid and support for aid) approach a fair shot.
When you get sucker punched, you don't take it lying down. Or maybe most of you do and maybe that's the problem. Have you ever been picked on by someone who was bigger than you, or smaller than you but had greater numbers, when you were a kid? Did letting it go help at all? Did telling your parents or a teacher help at all? Maybe for the short term, a day or a week, but I'll bet the next chance that person or persons got, you just got it worse. You have to stand up for yourself, because in the real world no one is going to do it for you.
There is no reasoning with the lawless, souless and heartless. All they know is hate and they have shown they are willing to do the unthinkable. We've got to do what we can do, and that's hit them back so hard that they can't get up and hit us again.
But what about the innocents? This isn't person to person. I'm not saying I, as an individual, want to go kill the children of the people who did this. But this attack wasn't aimed at me, as an individual. It was aimed at America.
We have lots of suspects who are suspect becuase of actions they have taken in the past. We didn't do anything (effective) about it then and this is where it has gotten us. There are nations who are harboring these people. In some cases the leaders of these nations are responsible for aggressive actions themselves. This was one nation to another, not person to person and this needs to be delt with as such. Even if these terrorists try and blur the lines. If the nations that house these people don't handel the sitation themselves they are condoning the actions and by protecting ther perpetrators they are guilty of these actions themselves.
IMO these terrorists are seen by these contries as a successful, covert military. Explain to me how, if we took the uniforms of half of our troops and denounced their actions, but let them operate out of our country while they carried out terrorist activies in other countries, this would not be seen as an act of war, deserving of retaliation?
I wish your mother worked on the 99th floor of the
WTC. You can pick which tower, I really don't care. Just try and think before you speak, you retarded fuck.
I guess this should be followed with a HOT GRITS DOWN MY PANTS!!! or some other nonsense. Is it just me or does anyone else have a distain for Kuro5hin?
This is all true, but using liquid nitrogen would slow down the human being even more, and accourding to your theory, the slower we can move the human, the faster the computer appears! Very shortly after immersion, the human won't be able to move at all, just imagine how fast the computer will seem then!
Wow, those are some crazy twits with too much time and money!
Spending $1000 on an non-conductive liquid cooling agent that you didn't even bother to check the freezing point on is just STUPID. I'm a regular old dumb guy and even I would have thought of that. End rant #1
But other than that little rant, it was a crazy cool idea! Great idea and a very kewl setup. Worth the 10 minutes I spent scanning the site. Too bad some of the pictures with really interesting captions didn't exist.
Oh, I am gonna say one more thing, if you have $1000 to spend on a cooling liquid that you didn't really even research, shouldn't you have a little money to put into a decent monitor? IMHO it's the most essential part of the PC because it's what you have to look at the most. End rant #2
Not a bad idea guys, just think some more before tossing around money like that!:-)
Yeah man, same guy. He really is a very cutting edge writter, big time scientist too, that's why I think I like his work so much. I really like the middle ground of science fiction, a mixture of hard and soft sci-fi leaning toward the hard, and that's where he writes, always a lot of thought on the science part, but also a great story teller. Cheers to you Chuck!
Personally I think they should be trying to develop the McAndrew balanced drive because:
At 100Gs, I've had longer naps...
Vacuum energy, no waste save the planet!
Compressed matter disks, amaze your friends!
Seriously, as the worlds largest Chuck Sheffield fan, you should all go out to Borders and buy and read The Compleat McAndrew. Chuck has been so kind as to collect all these stories into one place, so we can be kind enough to buy it.
Ride the Lightening Lars! Harvest the Sorrow of all the all who were accused of stealing your music.
Do you really care about Napster or did the record company need a spokes person and you drew The Shortest Straw?
Rip out the Blackened souls of these Napster pirates and torture them till they are on The Frayed Ends of Sanity and they renouce their wrong doing and send you some money, right Lars?
Is this legit, or just some Master of Puppets power trip? Stand up you Disposable Hero and stop this, The Thing That Should Not Be.
Hell, Hit the Lights and Kill'em All. You should feel No Remorse, cuz you're justified my friend, as the poor staving artist. We all know Kid Rock was the first, you could be next! This Napster could throw you down to poverty so fast that you get Whiplash, but you know we will make fighting it as tough as Pulling Teeth.
We all should have guessed you'd be the first to make something of this with yur Seek and Destroy mentality. Don't get all Holier Than Thou because it's Sad but True, you pirate too. So, Don't Tread on Me when you're the God that Failed.
My Friend of Misery, join us, The Unforgiven! May I suggest FREEDOM FOR ALL because, in truth, Nothing Else Matters.....
I took the RH300 course and RHCE certification exam earlier this month. I was very impressed with the facilities, the instructor, and the SNACKS! The class was informative, the labs were fun and, while not difficult, thought provoking. You could complete the labs in 20 minutes if you run through it, but that wasn't the point, you see. The point was to play with the material that had just been presented in lecture, and I had the distinct impression that some people in my class, also some of the same people who didn't pass the exam, did understand this fact. As for my instructor, he was one of the kewlest guys I have met in a long time. A former Unix system administrator, he was very knowledgable in his field. He also had a great passion for teaching, and loved to answer questions, even the most bazar ones I could dream up. As for not getting into the building of source RPMS, all you had to do was ask. I did and we ended up having an optional additional lab on building source RPMS, which I found very educational as our instructure loved to play with building various pacages in his free time. It was actually illuded to that some of the RPMS we were installing from the distribution server on the LAN were his own custom pacages. As for the test, it was as well done as it could be. I would just like to point out that the "extra credit" on the installation and configuration section MAY not be totaly correct, I believe that there was some element of "extra credit" as it was the only section of the test that was completely open ended. As we all know there are more ways to get one objective done with Linux than there are configurations for the whole of an winblows product, so I think there were different point value assesments for different ways of doing the same thing, being that some ways are more correct than others. The promotional crap they give out is truely nothing great, so if you're going for the free stuff, lets just say it ain't worth your 2500. I'll never wear the ball cap, the mouse pad is alright, but nothing great, and the stickers, are well, stickers. Givem to your kids and tell them to stick them on the computers at school, and you'll be doing something really educational with them. Now one area where you can get your 2500 dollars worth is the lunches and the snacks! They do a great job on the food, and the free snacks rock. I'll just say I didn't go hungry, and I only feel like I payed 2000 instead of 2500 all because of the snacks. Oh, take a car or get a car if you're going down there, you can't do anything without one, it's a very spread out area. If you havn't picked up on it so far, I payed for the certification out of my own pocket. That's how much I wanted it and that's how much I believe in it. And I didn't do too bad on the exam either. Not a piece of cake, but not really all that difficult. RH seems to take a lot of crap, and I love/., but they do seem to get a lot of flack from this direction, and trust me, they will comment on it. Everyone I met admitted they loved slashdot, but it seems to be the running joke that they can't wait to see what will be said about them next. Everyone I met was good people, and I won't be caught bad mouthing them for some time, so let's take it easy, okay?
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I understand that drivers can't count on tips to be consistent or even provided. It's also common to tip Uber drivers. I don't see these articles taking tipping into account. Probably fair since Uber probably didn't assume any tip in their $100k figure. I'd find it interesting to hear how tipping might change that hourly wage figure.
I know this will come across as being a Google fanboy, but I've been really impressed with Google recently, completely counter to the poster's question. We work in the same industry, but that doesn't mean a whole lot as there is no mention of what langue(s) they work with, so maybe it's something obscure that even Google isn't good at returning search results for. For me? I think it's great and I use it to do exactly what's described. It would take a lot of cycles to compute the exact amount of time Google saves me these days (compared to doing the same job in 2000, for example) doing exactly what it does today for queries I assume must be similar to the posters.
Some background. I'm a US tech worker. I worked in software development for a major US corporation starting in college and continued as my first full time "grown up" job until 2007 when I couldn't ignore the itch to get involved in the US's War on Terror; I joined the US Army as an infantryman, enlisted. I had very supportive colleagues who said "technology will always be there" but with the quick pace at which the sector moves I knew there was no real way to keep up. Fast forward to 2013 when I had done my time and was getting geared back up to re-enter the tech sector, I had a real fear that I wouldn't be able to get up to speed or keep up. Honestly, Google has helped immeasurably. Using Google, it's been way easier to get up to speed and stay up to speed than it was when I was starting out, and my mind was much sharper back then I think (age alone, setting aside the impacts of a few years at war and around my share of large explosions). I'm not sure I could have jumped back in, at least nearly as quickly, if it weren't for the present state of "search" and the advancements at Google. Plus, their services rock pretty hard.
I'm impressed when they search through the world of straight crap (unintentional) and the world of the intentionally misleading to deliver to me results I actually find useful. I don't think I'd get as useful a result from a search engine that returned results based on page content and meta data alone. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't found Google lacking and because I had to get up to speed I'd wager I've used it more heavily than most in the last couple years.
I joined the US Army as an Infantryman. Can't get much farther away from IT than that. I wasn't trying to move away from IT, it was response to my country at war and the subsequent loss of a friend to insurgent action in Iraq that made my decision for me.
I obviously work with people in an entirely different way than I did in IT. For the record, I was a software engineer with IBM in Pittsburgh on the Websphere Competency Center team. I loved my job and still can't imagine a better group of co-workers and business partners to work with. Maybe I'll get back to tech after my time in the Army, maybe I won't.
In the Army I'm currently a 240B medium machine gun team leader. My age (29 when I joined the Army) and experience (good civilian job, college) earned me a little more flexibility in promotions, but no more respect with my peers. The average age in my company is approximately 21. It's been an uphill battle to compete physically, but it's a challenge I've found fascinating.
As for the money, better make sure you're in a good position before making a move like this. Thanks to my 7 years at IBM, I was, but it would be a nightmare to try to live off lower enlisted salary when you're used to much more.
My previous experience did land me one unfortunate headache, the CO/1SG found out that I was "good with computers" and stuck me in company operations for 10 months. Try to avoid talking about your previous IT experience if you go this route.
I love the Simpsons, and I firmly believe that everything people take too seriously needs to be looked at from the angle of humor by SOMEONE.
But on the other hand I LOVE FOX NEWS. That's right, I'm a right wing, Bush lovin, baby seal killin, uh, jerkface, or whatever great slam the left wing commies can come up with today. Seriously, have you watched Fox News? It simply rules. CNN Headline news makes me sick, smart viewers choose Fox News.
Wow, Who knew the Skins from Peter Hamilton's Fallen Dragon were so close?
I'm also flashing back to the first Star Trek TNG episodes, Encounter at Farpoint, where Q puts the crew on trial and in one of the scenes, when he's flashing through earths "history" he shows up dress as a suppsed 22nd century soldier in a "battle suit" of sorts. Good Stuff(tm).
How about, everyone stated working becuase they didn't want to get the axe. Most peoples credit card bills, car payments, morgages, rent, hbo subscriptions, etc are enough incentive to make them work harder so they don't loose their job. Unlike a failing marrage, you can't get more money becuase you "were use to a higher quality of life". I'll do just about anything I'm asked with a minimum amount of fuss these days. Infact I'll do stuff I wouldn't have even considered taking on before, and I'll do it with a smile, just to keep the checks rollin in. Especially after you've watched friends and coworkers brave the current job pool. Talk about motivation. There you have it. Simply put, we have the same (maybe a bit more) work to do, but everyone's afraid NOT to do it. Almost as much as they are afraid to miss a ship date. I predict burnout will be a lot more frequent, and turnover may start to go up. Or maybe it'll just be career change.
I'm totally shocked that no one has mentioned this yet! Check JS Pager Virtual Desktop
This falls under the category of win32 only software, but it will pass the physical tests.
This is a great transition tool from windows to linux, as most window managers under X have a concept of virtual desktops.
This is one of those things I really missed on a windows machine (yes I have ONE of the four machines on my desktop at work. Necessary for testing, Lotus Notes, network printing (NO FLAME), and a few other things). I am one of those people that has 30+ applications running (between putty sessions, wait, there's another good app...) and I don't like to be minimizing and maximizing every five seconds. I found JS Pager while searching for a virtual desktop on windows and fell in love with it. I've got everyone else here at work hooked and it's helped people to get use to gnome and KDE desktop environments.
I aggree with this in part. I use Pricewatch not to find a merchant, but to find a "good" price for the component I'm shopping for if I'm unfamiliar with the pricing.
I have purchased from pricewatch listed merchants that I had no dealings with in the past. I have only been burned a few times, and have no REAL horror stories, but it's always a risk.
The statement has been made that most of the best prices you find also carry some outrageously horrible shipping price. This is norally true, but if you are up for the risk, it is easy to check the shipping price without placing an order and can turn out to be very beneficial.
Some of the places I know and trust I frequently see in the best price ranges while browsing on pricewatch.
It's a fine balance between price and shipping charge and your "level of knowledge" of the merchant. You can get burned, you can get hosed, you can get abused, but you will always save money on buying a brand name PC (there may come a time in the future when this is not true, but I've never seen it). Most notably because in a home built PC you get exactly what you want. It is hard to get that form a brand name without paying out the butt for a custom job.
Some good places to shop, if you want to take my word (I have made multiple orders from each):
Newegg
Comp-U-Plus
(You will find yourself saying "The sipping is horrible! Why would he recomend this site?!?!" and all I have to say is, check out the price on the 9GB Ultra 160 SCSI drive from Maxtor/Quantum. They have sneak deals like this everywhere on their site. I don't know how they come in $80-$100 dollars less than everyone else, but it makes the shipping way worth it.)
I could list them all day, but those two are my current favorite. I can find everything I'm looking for right there. I sometimes shop buy.com, if they have the product I want at a reasonable price and they are pulling one of their "no shipping cost" deals, like RIGHT NOW. I used to love egghead.com, especially the auction, but that has gone the way of the dodo.
somewhere else that is great to check is sharkyextreme.com, and look at their cpu price or memory price sections. I have bought from a number of these retailers. They only list people who aren't jerking people around on the deals, and they are accuratly reporting the best prices.
Final note (I swear). Don't shop pricewatch form RAM. You'll get the first 8 pages filled with that nasty generic like CAS1000 crap. More holes than swiss cheese. The price is good enough to sucker some, but nothing beats going straigt to crucial.com for RAM. Good prices, and great quality. I hate cheap RAM. I have coworkers who only buy the stuff, swearing that one bad stick out of 5 with a no return policy is better than shelling out the same price for the 5 for one stick (which is a little exagerated, but at the right place you can honesly find deals that are close). I'll never buy anything less than CAS2, 8ns with a resonable chip density, but do what makes you happy.
I'm sure the FBI is flooded with an abundance of the word "Taliban" these days, and I'm sure they'll appreciate your passing it on. Seeing as how I was using it to describe how SOFTWARE should eject a user, I would say that you just wasted someone's precious time. Thanks for clogging the wheels of justice.
As for what I do with my time, I work my buns off often pulling 50+ hours a week, and I'm happy to do it. Some people go out for smoke breaks, I read slashdot. I think my breaks are a little more healthy and they keep me technically focused as I receive a lot of useful information from slashdot.
To sum up, I didn't "threaten" anyone, just suggested that the software should expunge them with prejudice. That's my opinion. I wasn't posting an article on the front page for all the read, I was commenting on a comment that he had made, which I felt was stupid and uncalled for. Michael's work is very good and I appreciate it. My opinion. I'm just glad that you don't have super powers and feel the need to deal with crime vigilante style because you're barking up the wrong tree.
Lastly, thanks for flaming me for including my contact information in my profile then posting as an AC, it proves my point very nicely. I prefer to be able to be CONTACTED DIRECTLY when someone has a problem with something I've done. You are a very cowardly person.
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Hey RETARD, do me a favor and stop reading slashdot. There's nothing worse than having to read your tripe just because some idiot moderated you up.
As for the actual article and the actual problem, they should scare you and piss you off also. That a major corporation would pull such crap should enrage us all.
When software companies promote software that can cripple the entire net and make sure it's on as many desktops as they can sequester they are in the wrong and deserve all the wrath and hatred that gets thrown at them.
They are once again turning their back on the user , who paid through the nose for their bug infested, dangerous product, because they want to save face. Ask yourself, why else would they deny that such a hideous bug is a problem? I hope that you weren't effected by this problem, because if you were, or ARE, and you are not severely pissed off at the fact that your machine is vulnerable, or is possibly running DDOS attacks for some script kiddy, you don't deserve the right to have an opinion.
My vote is: KEEP Michael! I like the stuff he posts and the way he posts it. What we need to do is work in a patch for slashcode that will eliminate, and I mean Taliban style, morons like this guy.
Peace. Love. Linux.
Doest this meen that I'm allowed to like amazon again?
For some reason Slashdot gets a lot of submissions of wacko energy concepts
Let's think about this:
I have atleast 6 computers with 300 watt power supplies running continuously in my appartment.
Why would I be interested in new forms of power? Well, energy from nothing sounds like it should be cheap.... Not to mention that a few bucks saved on gas is a few bucks for more hardware, which takes more power.... I sense a race condition coming on. If only I could stop spending money on hardware.
Sometimes I think life would be better if I weren't such a geek. Then I try and sleep at someone elses house, and I can't because there is no comforting hum of all the hardware singing me to sleep.
It's a good life, and I'd go down fighting if it meant that a few more people could live with this kind of freedom. Damn terrorists make me so ANGRY. Every time I try and do anything these days, WHAM, those mfer's pop into my head. Screw basic training, get me a gun tell me who to shoot. Wow, this got off topic fast. Sorry....
I must also admit that I was sickend by the response of many slashdotters and the lack of clear thinking that many of the posts have shown.
We (as a country) have been a little soft on these terrorist acts for too long. I think that we have given the "retaliate through civil means" (embargos, political pressure, removing aid and support for aid) approach a fair shot.
When you get sucker punched, you don't take it lying down. Or maybe most of you do and maybe that's the problem. Have you ever been picked on by someone who was bigger than you, or smaller than you but had greater numbers, when you were a kid? Did letting it go help at all? Did telling your parents or a teacher help at all? Maybe for the short term, a day or a week, but I'll bet the next chance that person or persons got, you just got it worse. You have to stand up for yourself, because in the real world no one is going to do it for you.
There is no reasoning with the lawless, souless and heartless. All they know is hate and they have shown they are willing to do the unthinkable. We've got to do what we can do, and that's hit them back so hard that they can't get up and hit us again.
But what about the innocents? This isn't person to person. I'm not saying I, as an individual, want to go kill the children of the people who did this. But this attack wasn't aimed at me, as an individual. It was aimed at America.
We have lots of suspects who are suspect becuase of actions they have taken in the past. We didn't do anything (effective) about it then and this is where it has gotten us. There are nations who are harboring these people. In some cases the leaders of these nations are responsible for aggressive actions themselves. This was one nation to another, not person to person and this needs to be delt with as such. Even if these terrorists try and blur the lines. If the nations that house these people don't handel the sitation themselves they are condoning the actions and by protecting ther perpetrators they are guilty of these actions themselves.
IMO these terrorists are seen by these contries as a successful, covert military. Explain to me how, if we took the uniforms of half of our troops and denounced their actions, but let them operate out of our country while they carried out terrorist activies in other countries, this would not be seen as an act of war, deserving of retaliation?
I wish your mother worked on the 99th floor of the
WTC. You can pick which tower, I really don't care. Just try and think before you speak, you retarded fuck.
Okay so you're a closet K5 freak and a /. hater. Don't push it off on me.
Kuro5hin SUX!!! WANABEEEEEE!!!
I guess this should be followed with a HOT GRITS DOWN MY PANTS!!! or some other nonsense. Is it just me or does anyone else have a distain for Kuro5hin?
I don' even know where this rant came from.....
This is all true, but using liquid nitrogen would slow down the human being even more, and accourding to your theory, the slower we can move the human, the faster the computer appears! Very shortly after immersion, the human won't be able to move at all, just imagine how fast the computer will seem then!
Wow, those are some crazy twits with too much time and money!
Spending $1000 on an non-conductive liquid cooling agent that you didn't even bother to check the freezing point on is just STUPID. I'm a regular old dumb guy and even I would have thought of that. End rant #1
But other than that little rant, it was a crazy cool idea! Great idea and a very kewl setup. Worth the 10 minutes I spent scanning the site. Too bad some of the pictures with really interesting captions didn't exist.
Oh, I am gonna say one more thing, if you have $1000 to spend on a cooling liquid that you didn't really even research, shouldn't you have a little money to put into a decent monitor? IMHO it's the most essential part of the PC because it's what you have to look at the most. End rant #2
Not a bad idea guys, just think some more before tossing around money like that!
I wonder what the RESERVE PRICE on an item like this is?
It would be kewler with a real Chim Chim to go with it.
On a lighter note, anyone ever seen the Dexter's Lab episode with the speed racer parody? Now that was funny.
Yeah man, same guy. He really is a very cutting edge writter, big time scientist too, that's why I think I like his work so much. I really like the middle ground of science fiction, a mixture of hard and soft sci-fi leaning toward the hard, and that's where he writes, always a lot of thought on the science part, but also a great story teller. Cheers to you Chuck!
Personally I think they should be trying to develop the McAndrew balanced drive because:
At 100Gs, I've had longer naps...
Vacuum energy, no waste save the planet!
Compressed matter disks, amaze your friends!
Seriously, as the worlds largest Chuck Sheffield fan, you should all go out to Borders and buy and read The Compleat McAndrew. Chuck has been so kind as to collect all these stories into one place, so we can be kind enough to buy it.
What are you waiting for? Get thee to Borders!
Ride the Lightening Lars! Harvest the Sorrow of all the all who were accused of stealing your music.
Do you really care about Napster or did the record company need a spokes person and you drew The Shortest Straw?
Rip out the Blackened souls of these Napster pirates and torture them till they are on The Frayed Ends of Sanity and they renouce their wrong doing and send you some money, right Lars?
Is this legit, or just some Master of Puppets power trip? Stand up you Disposable Hero and stop this, The Thing That Should Not Be.
Hell, Hit the Lights and Kill'em All. You should feel No Remorse, cuz you're justified my friend, as the poor staving artist. We all know Kid Rock was the first, you could be next! This Napster could throw you down to poverty so fast that you get Whiplash, but you know we will make fighting it as tough as Pulling Teeth.
We all should have guessed you'd be the first to make something of this with yur Seek and Destroy mentality. Don't get all Holier Than Thou because it's Sad but True, you pirate too. So, Don't Tread on Me when you're the God that Failed.
My Friend of Misery, join us, The Unforgiven! May I suggest FREEDOM FOR ALL because, in truth, Nothing Else Matters.....
I took the RH300 course and RHCE certification exam earlier this month. I was very impressed with the facilities, the instructor, and the SNACKS! The class was informative, the labs were fun and, while not difficult, thought provoking. You could complete the labs in 20 minutes if you run through it, but that wasn't the point, you see. The point was to play with the material that had just been presented in lecture, and I had the distinct impression that some people in my class, also some of the same people who didn't pass the exam, did understand this fact. As for my instructor, he was one of the kewlest guys I have met in a long time. A former Unix system administrator, he was very knowledgable in his field. He also had a great passion for teaching, and loved to answer questions, even the most bazar ones I could dream up. As for not getting into the building of source RPMS, all you had to do was ask. I did and we ended up having an optional additional lab on building source RPMS, which I found very educational as our instructure loved to play with building various pacages in his free time. It was actually illuded to that some of the RPMS we were installing from the distribution server on the LAN were his own custom pacages. As for the test, it was as well done as it could be. I would just like to point out that the "extra credit" on the installation and configuration section MAY not be totaly correct, I believe that there was some element of "extra credit" as it was the only section of the test that was completely open ended. As we all know there are more ways to get one objective done with Linux than there are configurations for the whole of an winblows product, so I think there were different point value assesments for different ways of doing the same thing, being that some ways are more correct than others. The promotional crap they give out is truely nothing great, so if you're going for the free stuff, lets just say it ain't worth your 2500. I'll never wear the ball cap, the mouse pad is alright, but nothing great, and the stickers, are well, stickers. Givem to your kids and tell them to stick them on the computers at school, and you'll be doing something really educational with them. Now one area where you can get your 2500 dollars worth is the lunches and the snacks! They do a great job on the food, and the free snacks rock. I'll just say I didn't go hungry, and I only feel like I payed 2000 instead of 2500 all because of the snacks. Oh, take a car or get a car if you're going down there, you can't do anything without one, it's a very spread out area. If you havn't picked up on it so far, I payed for the certification out of my own pocket. That's how much I wanted it and that's how much I believe in it. And I didn't do too bad on the exam either. Not a piece of cake, but not really all that difficult. RH seems to take a lot of crap, and I love /., but they do seem to get a lot of flack from this direction, and trust me, they will comment on it. Everyone I met admitted they loved slashdot, but it seems to be the running joke that they can't wait to see what will be said about them next. Everyone I met was good people, and I won't be caught bad mouthing them for some time, so let's take it easy, okay?