call me a troll, call me what you will, but this is NOT some arc angel send from high upon tech mountain to solve all our meatworld woes. the guy spent arguably his entire career at microsoft trying to find ways to fuck other businesses out of a competing edge with his products through "embrace extend extinguish" and chillaxed on the coat-tails of a shitty but defacto standard operating system that was a pile of security flaws, mystery code, and undocumented standards.
This man couldnt prevent windows, a manmade operating system resting on the shoulders of thousands of coders, from bluescreening at a tech conference during a SIMPLE runthrough of plug-and-pray scanner access. he couldnt find a way to innovate past the browser wars, and he couldnt figure out how to make a media player capable of competing with things like realplayer. What in GODS NAME makes us think he can tackle a force of nature?!
if he manages to do it, what will he have sought to accomplish?
bad joke here, but "patenting hurricane
system for cloud based services" doesnt seem like its going to work in the meatworld. on the plus side, the next microsoft hurricane to hit will probably segfault somewhere off the coast of florida and turn into a turtle-mocha cheesecake, or ask if im trying to wreck florida again and need help.
something about doing it. my cable co (insight) decided to do it silently and redirect my faulted queries to advertisements.
simple solution: run my own fscking DNS server.
the lucene based nutch has been a big help to our group. we currently index 60 sites across the company, dive through PDF files and even shockwave flash and powerpoint with ease. the search results are extremely fast and the results are so accurate theyve blown our corporate engine completely out of the water.
sure bugatti carries an exclusive pricetag, but its not THAT expensive. i traded my old one in last month for $450k so i could upgrade to this years model with IPod support.
now, ive heard slashdotters ramble on about global warming and of course im concerned as well. To make sure i dont contribute to the problem i make sure the tires are always properly inflated so they never get too hot on the road. I also try to park in the garage so i dont reflect any o-zone into the atmosphere.
we stop using proprietary filesystems from microsoft, stop making them less lethal to linux, and start making it easier for normal everyday people to stop using them too! a sanitizing program for thumb drives that converts your fat data to EXT perhaps?
youve effectively avoided the meatgrinder aspect of traditional war, which means you can increase recruiting and start at least coming close to quota. people can still be drummed up, things can still be sold, patriotasm maintained and politicians given worth.
weve had to create a more efficient war that can be turned on and off depending on respective correlation to circus attention span and appetite for peanuts. that, and we just dont seem to have much money or support for our current real world wars so i cant blame the marketing department for trying on this "cyber" one.
who gives a shit? this is political/financial news, not news for nerds. TFA never mentions new tech, emerging tech,or existing tech in ANY light that seems slashworthy.
brought to you once again by slashdot. we all knew he would be sentenced harshly, so its hardly news. this doesnt seem to have anything to do with nerds or nerd culture, so aside from finding a face to put on the financial crisis and kick the teeth out of, i do not see how this story matters to slashdotters.
if i wanted to find out what happened in meatworld politics, id hit NBC or something.
i keep slashdot bookmarked and in my RSS feed list. critical and up to the minute information on content load times and ping response times related to michael jackson content on the web is crucial for system administrators tuning and building the next dimension of web 2.0 applications and cloud services. these services, which have also in the past been dutifully covered by slashdot as well as service oriented architectures and grid computing, will continue to have a profound impact on the ways users and netizens alike gather important michael jackson death information in the times to come.
the content workaround to employ adblock is a brilliant first step to ensuring those in the meat-world are updated constantly through twitter, boingboing, facebook, and myspace via their iphone and android phone as to the ever changing and dynamic status of Michael Jacksons inanimate plastic corpse.
how many mips does it take to run a database full of one-liner updates about someones cat, or boyfriends girlfriends ex fiance?
unless bejewelled is actually running as a computational cluster app, you folks have far LESS to bitch about than a web-business or the worlds largest search engine in my opinion. find a more efficient operating system, and insist more efficient code. you dont bitch at vendors for performance, you find other ones if it gets bad enough. im sure Cray would love to hear from you guys, or perhaps maybe SGI?
check the cron? i think something is set up to generate one of these stories periodically (like monthly it seems) for "testing reader sanity and intelligence" purposes.
it sounds like a simple case of a misconfigured great wall of china. of course, ill stay tuned for the round-the-clock coverage from CNN on this critical human rights violation.
begin collecting ring metrics so you can request audio ringtone royalties from our customers whom we routinely sell to advertisers. dont be surprised to see a professional services invoice for this custom solution from your friendly AT&T engineering and development team.
trollmod for devils advocate against amazon, but what the hey..
'good job' is a qualifier to which i object.
this is the same company violently trying to patent 1click...they released the source code because the community has an established habit of targeting offenders and demanding compliance and cash.
will i still be able to open these files in VI?? if not, im willing to try EMACS as a workaround, but only if i can virtualize it like my other operating systems.
seem to do the trick for about 80% of my users. sure, not all users are going to read up on how to properly use it, and alot may not get the scope of the problem clearly documented on the first try, but those are the breaks as they say on the polls.
the other 20% indeed have a habit of treating me like a janitor, or plumber. i side with slashdot in saying "check your ego at the door." its just work, and people have a good deal of fear surrounding IT. they know twitter and youtube, and can write macros in office, but when it comes to the corporate lotus server or the BES...they are large and daunting pieces of infrastructure managed by usually one guy with a mohawk listening to angry music all day long (if you're me...)
fear begets anger, and they naturally want to control the situation. as you, the tech, are the only part they come close to understanding they will of course tend to be a bit firmer with you than their peers.
i dont have alot in common with my workplace comrades other than a paycheck and a parking space...eating my lunch with them as one slashdotter suggested is counter-productive as i didn't watch last nights episode of show X, play a round of golf at course Y, or see the latest movie Z. besides, they're just going to monopolize your lunch with questions about requests, or center the conversation needlessly around tech they may not understand entirely. they either perceive it as something you want, or they dont realize they wouldn't gather around accounting and wax intellectual about bank earnings.
yeah you can get burned out, and it can definitely lead to some heavy drinking if youre the all in one wonderpup for the 'computers' at work. top management always seems to get top priority, and users feel snubbed about that as though you have a special relationship with that manager.
IT can be a stressful job at times, and other times it can look like you have nothing to do. I think a healthy personal life is the key. find a city that embraces things you like, offers entertainment you seek, and holds the values you do. For me there arent alot of combichrist concerts in the deep south, but the bbq ribs are tasty.
its imperative to see that the Iphone is fundamentally just a communications device. the network may be powerful but at its luxury pricepoint will you find it useful? what do you seriously use it for and how is it still benefiting you when youre faced with the inevitability that large corporations burdoned by recessions are leaning on loyal customers for that extra push toward the 4th quarters earnings?
whats to stop them from charging 800 or 1000 for next years model?
less protection under ancient us copyright laws it thrives on to maintain closed source monopoly .less relevance and access to the us legal courts to sue and harass competitors
buying your american competitors becomes difficult.
pay the guys. they invested the effort to crack your impenetrable fortress of code, and you were stupid enough to encourage them. dont turn this into something akin to the qmail bounty.
of course the idea of foss software comes to mind...where everyone has access to your obviously lacking source and can suggest cool new security features that arent cracked at a near zero day rate.
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if my insight into the delay is correct, we're set to use microsoft Exchange for interstellar email.
they appear to be censoring specific topics like#&^#
[NO CARRIER]
welcome our new all seeing, all knowing skyball overlord and hope it resembles the comforting familiarity of "the walking eye"
call me a troll, call me what you will, but this is NOT some arc angel send from high upon tech mountain to solve all our meatworld woes. the guy spent arguably his entire career at microsoft trying to find ways to fuck other businesses out of a competing edge with his products through "embrace extend extinguish" and chillaxed on the coat-tails of a shitty but defacto standard operating system that was a pile of security flaws, mystery code, and undocumented standards.
This man couldnt prevent windows, a manmade operating system resting on the shoulders of thousands of coders, from bluescreening at a tech conference during a SIMPLE runthrough of plug-and-pray scanner access. he couldnt find a way to innovate past the browser wars, and he couldnt figure out how to make a media player capable of competing with things like realplayer. What in GODS NAME makes us think he can tackle a force of nature?!
if he manages to do it, what will he have sought to accomplish?
bad joke here, but "patenting hurricane system for cloud based services" doesnt seem like its going to work in the meatworld. on the plus side, the next microsoft hurricane to hit will probably segfault somewhere off the coast of florida and turn into a turtle-mocha cheesecake, or ask if im trying to wreck florida again and need help.
something about doing it. my cable co (insight) decided to do it silently and redirect my faulted queries to advertisements. simple solution: run my own fscking DNS server.
the lucene based nutch has been a big help to our group. we currently index 60 sites across the company, dive through PDF files and even shockwave flash and powerpoint with ease. the search results are extremely fast and the results are so accurate theyve blown our corporate engine completely out of the water.
sure bugatti carries an exclusive pricetag, but its not THAT expensive. i traded my old one in last month for $450k so i could upgrade to this years model with IPod support.
now, ive heard slashdotters ramble on about global warming and of course im concerned as well. To make sure i dont contribute to the problem i make sure the tires are always properly inflated so they never get too hot on the road. I also try to park in the garage so i dont reflect any o-zone into the atmosphere.
we stop using proprietary filesystems from microsoft, stop making them less lethal to linux, and start making it easier for normal everyday people to stop using them too! a sanitizing program for thumb drives that converts your fat data to EXT perhaps?
youve effectively avoided the meatgrinder aspect of traditional war, which means you can increase recruiting and start at least coming close to quota. people can still be drummed up, things can still be sold, patriotasm maintained and politicians given worth.
weve had to create a more efficient war that can be turned on and off depending on respective correlation to circus attention span and appetite for peanuts. that, and we just dont seem to have much money or support for our current real world wars so i cant blame the marketing department for trying on this "cyber" one.
who gives a shit? this is political/financial news, not news for nerds. TFA never mentions new tech, emerging tech,or existing tech in ANY light that seems slashworthy.
brought to you once again by slashdot. we all knew he would be sentenced harshly, so its hardly news. this doesnt seem to have anything to do with nerds or nerd culture, so aside from finding a face to put on the financial crisis and kick the teeth out of, i do not see how this story matters to slashdotters.
if i wanted to find out what happened in meatworld politics, id hit NBC or something.
i keep slashdot bookmarked and in my RSS feed list. critical and up to the minute information on content load times and ping response times related to michael jackson content on the web is crucial for system administrators tuning and building the next dimension of web 2.0 applications and cloud services. these services, which have also in the past been dutifully covered by slashdot as well as service oriented architectures and grid computing, will continue to have a profound impact on the ways users and netizens alike gather important michael jackson death information in the times to come.
the content workaround to employ adblock is a brilliant first step to ensuring those in the meat-world are updated constantly through twitter, boingboing, facebook, and myspace via their iphone and android phone as to the ever changing and dynamic status of Michael Jacksons inanimate plastic corpse.
how many mips does it take to run a database full of one-liner updates about someones cat, or boyfriends girlfriends ex fiance?
unless bejewelled is actually running as a computational cluster app, you folks have far LESS to bitch about than a web-business or the worlds largest search engine in my opinion. find a more efficient operating system, and insist more efficient code. you dont bitch at vendors for performance, you find other ones if it gets bad enough. im sure Cray would love to hear from you guys, or perhaps maybe SGI?
check the cron? i think something is set up to generate one of these stories periodically (like monthly it seems) for "testing reader sanity and intelligence" purposes.
it sounds like a simple case of a misconfigured great wall of china. of course, ill stay tuned for the round-the-clock coverage from CNN on this critical human rights violation.
begin collecting ring metrics so you can request audio ringtone royalties from our customers whom we routinely sell to advertisers. dont be surprised to see a professional services invoice for this custom solution from your friendly AT&T engineering and development team.
trollmod for devils advocate against amazon, but what the hey..
'good job' is a qualifier to which i object.
this is the same company violently trying to patent 1click...they released the source code because the community has an established habit of targeting offenders and demanding compliance and cash.
data mining and wiretaps found still patriotastic and OKAY for your computer and facebook...film at 11.
will i still be able to open these files in VI?? if not, im willing to try EMACS as a workaround, but only if i can virtualize it like my other operating systems.
seem to do the trick for about 80% of my users. sure, not all users are going to read up on how to properly use it, and alot may not get the scope of the problem clearly documented on the first try, but those are the breaks as they say on the polls.
the other 20% indeed have a habit of treating me like a janitor, or plumber. i side with slashdot in saying "check your ego at the door." its just work, and people have a good deal of fear surrounding IT. they know twitter and youtube, and can write macros in office, but when it comes to the corporate lotus server or the BES...they are large and daunting pieces of infrastructure managed by usually one guy with a mohawk listening to angry music all day long (if you're me...)
fear begets anger, and they naturally want to control the situation. as you, the tech, are the only part they come close to understanding they will of course tend to be a bit firmer with you than their peers.
i dont have alot in common with my workplace comrades other than a paycheck and a parking space...eating my lunch with them as one slashdotter suggested is counter-productive as i didn't watch last nights episode of show X, play a round of golf at course Y, or see the latest movie Z. besides, they're just going to monopolize your lunch with questions about requests, or center the conversation needlessly around tech they may not understand entirely. they either perceive it as something you want, or they dont realize they wouldn't gather around accounting and wax intellectual about bank earnings.
yeah you can get burned out, and it can definitely lead to some heavy drinking if youre the all in one wonderpup for the 'computers' at work. top management always seems to get top priority, and users feel snubbed about that as though you have a special relationship with that manager.
IT can be a stressful job at times, and other times it can look like you have nothing to do. I think a healthy personal life is the key. find a city that embraces things you like, offers entertainment you seek, and holds the values you do. For me there arent alot of combichrist concerts in the deep south, but the bbq ribs are tasty.
wandering incident?! who was the marketing genius that made it sound like a particle physics event??
its imperative to see that the Iphone is fundamentally just a communications device. the network may be powerful but at its luxury pricepoint will you find it useful? what do you seriously use it for and how is it still benefiting you when youre faced with the inevitability that large corporations burdoned by recessions are leaning on loyal customers for that extra push toward the 4th quarters earnings?
whats to stop them from charging 800 or 1000 for next years model?
try this shit...import tariffs and taxes.
less protection under ancient us copyright laws it thrives on to maintain closed source monopoly
.less relevance and access to the us legal courts to sue and harass competitors
buying your american competitors becomes difficult.
pay the guys. they invested the effort to crack your impenetrable fortress of code, and you were stupid enough to encourage them. dont turn this into something akin to the qmail bounty.
of course the idea of foss software comes to mind...where everyone has access to your obviously lacking source and can suggest cool new security features that arent cracked at a near zero day rate.
that hop into bed with the RIAA and MPAA, but i dont see china or other countries allowing this anytime soon.
we're also assuming there is readable evidence on the disks which is not, say, encrypted by GPG.
i thought we all used torrents these days anyway?