If they treated kids like this in the 70's, I would have been declared a threat to the free world. I taught myself how to solder when I was 10, and I was into building all kinds of electronics kits and projects. I was also into model rocketry and built multi-stage rockets capable of reaching altitudes of 2500 ft. I brought crap to school to show my class all the time. Luckily, I didn't grow up to be an international terrorist - I became an engineer. We are in deep trouble when our education system treats the kids that should be leading us to the next technology leap forward as criminals.
Our species will either adapt to climate changes, or we won't. Douglas Adams said it better than I ever could:
"Far out, in the uncharted backwaters at the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy, lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended lifeforms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
It just doesn't matter one way or the other. The human ego simply can't grasp the idea that the universe doesn't give a damn whether we exist or not. Our futile scratchings at the crust and atmosphere of this planet are insignificant on the galactic scale. I say "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!"
Anyone who has needed to deal with credit card security concerns and being audited by Visa or one of the big processors for PCI compliance will run to a commercially supported ecommerce product or ASP payment service. The days of custom coded carts for a serious online business is over. It doesn't matter whether the custom coded cart is more or less secure, and it also doesn't matter if 90% of online credit card security concerns are total bullshit propagated by the security consultants - this is about risk mitigation and about business owners having someone they can point to if the PCI audit is required. So, yeah, you can continue to make a few bucks selling custom carts or low-cost carts to micro-businesses, but you won't be making a living off any well-known brands.
What incredible hypocrisy! An employee working for a corporation has NO expectation of privacy - they can be fired for sending emails to coworkers, using facebook on a company computer, or many other activities, but that same corporation can then turn around and claim privacy when the Federal government wants to investigate their actions? That is complete BS. We, as a people, need to rise up and demand our basic right to live as more than mindless corporate drones! Big brother *is* watching, and his title is CEO...
...there's nothing to see here. My 3 year old Pioneer plasma TV uses Linux and several open source libraries. The manual has the GPL text in the back. Pioneer didn't market it as a "Linux TV" - they marketed it as one of the best plasma TVs available - and that's why I bought it!
Will you tell them that although no one in IT has the time to monitor email, if an employee pisses off someone in management or HR enough that they become the target of an "investigation", then every stupid little email where an f-bomb was dropped between friends or the hot chicks ta-tas are discussed will suddenly be used as "evidence" of violation of corporate policy and they will be terminated?
Micro$oft recently released Harwell OS 7, which uses all of the available registers to create a waving M$ flag using the Harwell's front panel lights. Unfortunately, it has since been determined that the new OS really requires two Harwell computers wired in a parallel configuration to perform adequately. The M$ product manager for the Harwell OS stated: "The hardware requirements on the side of the box clearly state that one Harwell computer is the MINIMUM requirement, not the optimum configuration."
The ONLY thing that makes the status quo of a business change is the revenue forecast. Advertising developers are not going to suddenly become caring & socially conscious citizens. I have no idea who the first sleazeball was who determined that being annoying and misleading resulted in more sales - but from that point in history, capitalism has had an evil underbelly. The problem is, there's no better economic system...
...Our EMC sales rep has been putting the hard sell on us to buy some SSD product. I think they are worried about their profit margins on conventional drives, and they want to move customers to a product with a higher margin - and along the way they can also try to get you to upgrade head units, etc.
Great sci-fi is rarely about the technology. Neuromancer was first and foremost a great cyberpunk story. The technology that the main character Case used was secondary to who Case was - a guy from the underbelly of society who lived by his own brand of ethics and was being manipulated by evil-doers. The technoworld in which he lived is simply an interesting setting - like Sam Spade's San Francisco.
I'm all for consistency - and I agree that most of the pages on Myspace are so bad they make me nauseous - but I also want Facebook to allow me to have more control over the types of updates I receive on my wall, what "suggestions" I'm willing to get from Facebook and other ways that I interact with the system. I should be able to specify different "types" of friends and put them into friend groups - and then be able to specify what kinds of content each friend group can see. That would allow me to add people like my boss as a friend, and allow him to see only what I want him to see. That's what I mean by personalization - give me options for my facebook experience and the content I publish - even if the entire world see's a consistent template skin.
Wait - is this the same Facebook that locks out your account if you post too much? And that refuses to post the rules for how they determine you are "abusing" their system? Facebook is a prime example of the least common denominator becoming the market leader. A horrible user interface, pathetic functionality, zero personalization - and a jillion users. AOL 2.0
HG Wells said it in 1895. The human species will bifurcate into the Morlocks who build machines and technology, and the Eloi who pick flowers. The bad news is that we are the Morlocks. The good news is that we eat the Eloi.
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If they treated kids like this in the 70's, I would have been declared a threat to the free world. I taught myself how to solder when I was 10, and I was into building all kinds of electronics kits and projects. I was also into model rocketry and built multi-stage rockets capable of reaching altitudes of 2500 ft. I brought crap to school to show my class all the time. Luckily, I didn't grow up to be an international terrorist - I became an engineer. We are in deep trouble when our education system treats the kids that should be leading us to the next technology leap forward as criminals.
Our species will either adapt to climate changes, or we won't. Douglas Adams said it better than I ever could:
"Far out, in the uncharted backwaters at the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy, lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended lifeforms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
It just doesn't matter one way or the other. The human ego simply can't grasp the idea that the universe doesn't give a damn whether we exist or not. Our futile scratchings at the crust and atmosphere of this planet are insignificant on the galactic scale. I say "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!"
Anyone who has needed to deal with credit card security concerns and being audited by Visa or one of the big processors for PCI compliance will run to a commercially supported ecommerce product or ASP payment service. The days of custom coded carts for a serious online business is over. It doesn't matter whether the custom coded cart is more or less secure, and it also doesn't matter if 90% of online credit card security concerns are total bullshit propagated by the security consultants - this is about risk mitigation and about business owners having someone they can point to if the PCI audit is required. So, yeah, you can continue to make a few bucks selling custom carts or low-cost carts to micro-businesses, but you won't be making a living off any well-known brands.
I don't trust anyone from a country where they put mayonnaise on french fries.
...Judge, he needed killing, and my family is involved!
What incredible hypocrisy! An employee working for a corporation has NO expectation of privacy - they can be fired for sending emails to coworkers, using facebook on a company computer, or many other activities, but that same corporation can then turn around and claim privacy when the Federal government wants to investigate their actions? That is complete BS. We, as a people, need to rise up and demand our basic right to live as more than mindless corporate drones! Big brother *is* watching, and his title is CEO...
...teach them how to say "Yes Sir" in Mandarin & Cantonese...
...there's nothing to see here. My 3 year old Pioneer plasma TV uses Linux and several open source libraries. The manual has the GPL text in the back. Pioneer didn't market it as a "Linux TV" - they marketed it as one of the best plasma TVs available - and that's why I bought it!
Will you tell them that although no one in IT has the time to monitor email, if an employee pisses off someone in management or HR enough that they become the target of an "investigation", then every stupid little email where an f-bomb was dropped between friends or the hot chicks ta-tas are discussed will suddenly be used as "evidence" of violation of corporate policy and they will be terminated?
Not that it's happened to me - I'm just sayin'...
...they can pull up to my neighbor's scum-covered swimming pool, fill their tank and then go merrily down the road for another 300 miles.
...all we needed was NMEA 0183 and a serial port...
Micro$oft recently released Harwell OS 7, which uses all of the available registers to create a waving M$ flag using the Harwell's front panel lights. Unfortunately, it has since been determined that the new OS really requires two Harwell computers wired in a parallel configuration to perform adequately. The M$ product manager for the Harwell OS stated: "The hardware requirements on the side of the box clearly state that one Harwell computer is the MINIMUM requirement, not the optimum configuration."
The ONLY thing that makes the status quo of a business change is the revenue forecast. Advertising developers are not going to suddenly become caring & socially conscious citizens. I have no idea who the first sleazeball was who determined that being annoying and misleading resulted in more sales - but from that point in history, capitalism has had an evil underbelly. The problem is, there's no better economic system...
The only thing on foxnews.com that I read is Pop Tarts. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537022,00.html
Oh well, from now on I guess I will have to get all my news from TMZ.com.
...Our EMC sales rep has been putting the hard sell on us to buy some SSD product. I think they are worried about their profit margins on conventional drives, and they want to move customers to a product with a higher margin - and along the way they can also try to get you to upgrade head units, etc.
Everyone knows the Earth is a disc, balanced on 4 elephants, and all sitting on the back of the Great A'tuin.
Reading /. stories that include the phrase "...first proposed by physicist Richard Feynman..." make my head explode.
Great sci-fi is rarely about the technology. Neuromancer was first and foremost a great cyberpunk story. The technology that the main character Case used was secondary to who Case was - a guy from the underbelly of society who lived by his own brand of ethics and was being manipulated by evil-doers. The technoworld in which he lived is simply an interesting setting - like Sam Spade's San Francisco.
...when you have demonstrated wheelchair control of a brain.
I'm all for consistency - and I agree that most of the pages on Myspace are so bad they make me nauseous - but I also want Facebook to allow me to have more control over the types of updates I receive on my wall, what "suggestions" I'm willing to get from Facebook and other ways that I interact with the system. I should be able to specify different "types" of friends and put them into friend groups - and then be able to specify what kinds of content each friend group can see. That would allow me to add people like my boss as a friend, and allow him to see only what I want him to see. That's what I mean by personalization - give me options for my facebook experience and the content I publish - even if the entire world see's a consistent template skin.
Wait - is this the same Facebook that locks out your account if you post too much? And that refuses to post the rules for how they determine you are "abusing" their system? Facebook is a prime example of the least common denominator becoming the market leader. A horrible user interface, pathetic functionality, zero personalization - and a jillion users. AOL 2.0
My bet is all the applicants responded with: "What's a web page?"
HG Wells said it in 1895. The human species will bifurcate into the Morlocks who build machines and technology, and the Eloi who pick flowers. The bad news is that we are the Morlocks. The good news is that we eat the Eloi.
The Global IQ goes up.
Big fan of Scott & Greg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino, Claudia Katz and the rest of the crew! http://www.roughdraftstudios.com/