im a pretty scientifically minded person, but i think anything with more than one 'mega' or 'exo' needs to be reported exclusively by Carl Sagan...you know...for effect.
the icon...an article reporting on the Australian National University's particle physics research being tagged with Crocodile Dundee's hat?? at best its goofy, at worst its degrading.
can we try for something like Ayers rock or the Usana amphitheater next time? even better, something related to physics instead of some hollywood stereotypes prop?
"articles" of this nature. When a company hocking a security product releases earth-shattering statistics for hackers and malware it is not research, or an investigation with any independent credibility. This is marketing fearmongering designed to get people to buy the product.
historically, and i mean since the inception of a "corporation" as an entity created to sell things to consumers, freedom hasnt been at
the forefront...no more obvious is it than in software and computing where the idea of "patent everything, share nothing" has dominated the industry for decades....
Im sure for all slashdotters the idea of a "neutrality" act being crafted by two of americas most monolithic corporations sends up red flags and klaxons
as it naturally should. consumer "freedom" acts, as a parallel, normally only afford the consumer the freedom to continue consuming from the provider. Only when
governments intervene do consumers begin to realize real freedom...an example being the banking reform that prevents banks from automagically enacting overdraft
protection fees and overdraft protection in general...bankruptcy as a "service."
as the internet was invented by a government, do corporations have the power to regulate its usage terms? Could this be a tipping point where corporations change? or their lobbyists and greased politicians become too ineffective to resist public outcry...I dont know if anyone will have a clear understanding of what was going on here for years to come.
just as soon as i put this sql group back into rotation and i need to doublecheck the logs on the new smtp relays to make sure they arent doing that weird bounce thing they were last night...er...morning right? it was 2ish?
Aptare's latest version of reporting software, StorageConsole 8, costs about $30,000 to $40,000 for small companies, $75,000 to $80,000 for midsize firms, and just over $250,000 for large enterprises.
"Our customers can see a return on the price of the software typically in about six months through better utilization rates and preventing the unnecessary purchase of storage," Clark said.
just another industry slashvertisement. nothing to see here that we didnt know about already. please move along.
oracle exec's would have "money cant buy me love" stuck in their heads all day, and the FLOSS community would see more forks in a week than a dishwasher at the hofbrauhaus.
1. sony and panasonic set to work debuting 3d video and television technology.
2. lets be realistic: sonar advances wont do much for this expedition as 3d sonar models already exist for the titanic and are used ad-nauseum by the discovery channel, history, etc...for their reenactment porn
3. Premier Exhibitions Inc. of Atlanta is running out of steam, and wants a video commissioned to take advantage of the latest 3d craze thats sweeping the nation, as their exhibits are only 2 dimensional film and actual artifacts. Plus the reinactments on discovery are really pounding them.
4. a scientific "study" is commisioned....set sail for profit.
5. dont expect "findings" or "discoveries" to be made to the scientific community without a DMCA or copyright attached.
another slashdot post designed to scientifically test the efficacy of my acid reflux medication, my bloodpressure medication, and the sound dampening properties of my cubicle walls at the same time.
researchers at cornell, or "researchers at cornell" meaning burned out grad students under the cracking whip. if the sounds vaguely resemble someone squishing a bag of taytos....
right now using firefox, all i can think is not about how much the firefox team would be glad to receive my find, but how amazed the pub will be when I start my $3000 tab for top shelf microbrews!
only thing that comes to mind is discourse with clippy as he asks, "Its looks like you're rendering a terapixel image of the earths night sky. Would you like to use a template?"
works for content providers because customers are either locked in or there are no other viable choices. this does not work for game developers because if your game is annoying enough, hard enough, or crashes enough i can always find another game.
oncemore the definition of morning is somewhat of a contested point. Talk to the happy admin at 5 am
about how gleeful and chipper his workday began and im certain you'll earn a LART of epic proportion.
richard stallman wont stop laughing until lunch over this one. I for one really with GPL3 would become more prevalent to combat this type of activity but moreover i really hope to see a class-action lawsuit out of this malarkey. motorola has never been known as open source friendly, but the corporate culture must have played some role in designing IBM's efuse into a non-military product.
for those who havent seen it in action. if the math is correct we tend to affirm our intention to have visited the planet. should the math be flagrantly bogus, a press statement is quickly issued to confirm our original intent to send millions of dollars of exotic probe hardware hurtling into the surface of a far away world for science.
if you're a space alien, dont worry. eventually a probe will either land or explode violently on your homeworld. its the intergalactic equivalent of throwing rocks down a dark alley to make friends.
problem solved once again. seriously guys, that dystopian wasteland we all giggle about at the movies is becoming more and more a reality every day. climate change, mercury in fish, dioxins in meat, produce contamination from pig farm and bovine wastewater runoff, megacorps like monsanto pushing unsafe genetically modified foods and silencing dissenters, and a growing population of adults that are completely fucking incapable of cooking anything outside hotdogs and microwave hot pockets should be a call to action.
exactly how much in the office, not the datacenter, we're failing to "go green." I know its off topic but aside from the lights-out datacenter not much has really been done for large datacenters like the one i work in, while the office seems like an energy hog with no end in sight
I do hear constantly however of minimum light levels that must be maintained in offices, and the temperature in a cube farm being forcibly maintained at 72 degrees. the vending machines run 24/7 when nobody is around, and the parking lot is constantly lit up like a runway.
someone has got to play devils advocate. the latest round of carefully cultivated pop stars and rock bands could very well be designed from their inception to be too outright stupid to determine how this scheme works. Rap stars are groomed and trained to pay attention only to the lambos, the parties, and the mansions. the quick-change mainstream music is where the RIAA is getting the most bang for their buck, and despite some artists attempts to buck the trend by creating their own labels their efforts are sadly misplaced. anything in the industry that so much as glances at a musical instrument is shackled to the wagon of the RIAA and regardless of whether artists select an independent distribution channel or the more commonly recognized channels its extremely difficuly to avoid paying at least some funding to the RIAA.
beaten up alot in school, but i had better things to do. calculus, geometry, biology, chemistry, all these things took precedence over the day-in-day-out fisticuffs i never warranted. I dressed in alot of black clothing partly to detract attention from me, and partly because i just liked it. Lots of bauhaus and sister machine gun but it was just what i liked, no personal angst or vendettas buried deep within the sonic musings of KMFDM did i cling tenaciously to.
I stayed on the internet alot and learned new things constantly
then one day someone spread a rumour i was going to kill my spanish teacher, and I was detained for several hours in the principals office while a sherrifs department combed my locker and i was accused of plotting the demise of the entire faculty. Turns out with my high GPA and low social standing i was considered a stunningly dangerous nerd who should be ashamed for tying up the phone line so as no administrator could properly accost my parents as to my fiendish plot to edit wad files in doom levels and include beavis and butthead sound effects.
thanks to "no tolerance" policies i failed calculus, failed spanish, and my ending GPA was 3.1 so yeah, do i blame bullies? sure, but the alternatives to the average bullshit school culture for the seemingly intellectual elite in school are pretty fucking dismal indeed.
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im a pretty scientifically minded person, but i think anything with more than one 'mega' or 'exo' needs to be reported exclusively by Carl Sagan...you know...for effect.
thank goodness I saw this article...i was seconds away from clicking on the attachment in Pine.
the icon...an article reporting on the Australian National University's particle physics research being tagged with Crocodile Dundee's hat??
at best its goofy, at worst its degrading.
can we try for something like Ayers rock or the Usana amphitheater next time?
even better, something related to physics instead of some hollywood stereotypes prop?
"articles" of this nature. When a company hocking a security product releases earth-shattering statistics for hackers and malware it is not research, or an investigation with any independent credibility. This is marketing fearmongering designed to get people to buy the product.
historically, and i mean since the inception of a "corporation" as an entity created to sell things to consumers, freedom hasnt been at the forefront...no more obvious is it than in software and computing where the idea of "patent everything, share nothing" has dominated the industry for decades....
Im sure for all slashdotters the idea of a "neutrality" act being crafted by two of americas most monolithic corporations sends up red flags and klaxons as it naturally should. consumer "freedom" acts, as a parallel, normally only afford the consumer the freedom to continue consuming from the provider. Only when governments intervene do consumers begin to realize real freedom...an example being the banking reform that prevents banks from automagically enacting overdraft protection fees and overdraft protection in general...bankruptcy as a "service."
as the internet was invented by a government, do corporations have the power to regulate its usage terms? Could this be a tipping point where corporations change? or their lobbyists and greased politicians become too ineffective to resist public outcry...I dont know if anyone will have a clear understanding of what was going on here for years to come.
just as soon as i put this sql group back into rotation and i need to doublecheck the logs on the new smtp relays to make sure they arent doing that weird bounce thing they were last night...er...morning right? it was 2ish?
BTW whats the cake for today.
Aptare's latest version of reporting software, StorageConsole 8, costs about $30,000 to $40,000 for small companies, $75,000 to $80,000 for midsize firms, and just over $250,000 for large enterprises. "Our customers can see a return on the price of the software typically in about six months through better utilization rates and preventing the unnecessary purchase of storage," Clark said. just another industry slashvertisement. nothing to see here that we didnt know about already. please move along.
oracle exec's would have "money cant buy me love" stuck in their heads all day, and the FLOSS community would see more forks in a week than a dishwasher at the hofbrauhaus.
1. sony and panasonic set to work debuting 3d video and television technology.
2. lets be realistic: sonar advances wont do much for this expedition as 3d sonar models already exist for the titanic and are used ad-nauseum by the discovery channel, history, etc...for their reenactment porn
3. Premier Exhibitions Inc. of Atlanta is running out of steam, and wants a video commissioned to take advantage of the latest 3d craze thats sweeping the nation, as their exhibits are only 2 dimensional film and actual artifacts. Plus the reinactments on discovery are really pounding them.
4. a scientific "study" is commisioned....set sail for profit.
5. dont expect "findings" or "discoveries" to be made to the scientific community without a DMCA or copyright attached.
question would be not "will we replace ballmer?" but "will replacing ballmer rally do anything?"
another slashdot post designed to scientifically test the efficacy of my acid reflux medication, my bloodpressure medication, and the sound dampening properties of my cubicle walls at the same time.
researchers at cornell, or "researchers at cornell" meaning burned out grad students under the cracking whip. if the sounds vaguely resemble someone squishing a bag of taytos....
right now using firefox, all i can think is not about how much the firefox team would be glad to receive my find, but how amazed the pub will be when I start my $3000 tab for top shelf microbrews!
now a few thousand admins from around the globe have just logged into their home boxes to "double check on everything"
only thing that comes to mind is discourse with clippy as he asks, "Its looks like you're rendering a terapixel image of the earths night sky. Would you like to use a template?"
works for content providers because customers are either locked in or there are no other viable choices. this does not work for game developers because if your game is annoying enough, hard enough, or crashes enough i can always find another game.
we started doing this 3 weeks ago when youtube began offering synchro for gmail accounts.
oncemore the definition of morning is somewhat of a contested point. Talk to the happy admin at 5 am about how gleeful and chipper his workday began and im certain you'll earn a LART of epic proportion.
richard stallman wont stop laughing until lunch over this one. I for one really with GPL3 would become more prevalent to combat this type of activity but moreover i really hope to see a class-action lawsuit out of this malarkey. motorola has never been known as open source friendly, but the corporate culture must have played some role in designing IBM's efuse into a non-military product.
for those who havent seen it in action. if the math is correct we tend to affirm our intention to have visited the planet. should the math be flagrantly bogus, a press statement is quickly issued to confirm our original intent to send millions of dollars of exotic probe hardware hurtling into the surface of a far away world for science.
if you're a space alien, dont worry. eventually a probe will either land or explode violently on your homeworld. its the intergalactic equivalent of throwing rocks down a dark alley to make friends.
on the internet, i felt my coffee mug rumble and the tubes begin to quake...i felt a fork looming in the distance.
problem solved once again. seriously guys, that dystopian wasteland we all giggle about at the movies is becoming more and more a reality every day. climate change, mercury in fish, dioxins in meat, produce contamination from
pig farm and bovine wastewater runoff, megacorps like monsanto pushing unsafe genetically modified foods and silencing dissenters, and a growing population of adults that are completely fucking incapable of cooking anything outside hotdogs and microwave hot pockets should be a call to action.
exactly how much in the office, not the datacenter, we're failing to "go green." I know its off topic but aside from the lights-out datacenter not much has really been done for large datacenters like the one i work in, while the office seems like an energy hog with no end in sight
I do hear constantly however of minimum light levels that must be maintained in offices, and the temperature in a cube farm being forcibly maintained at 72 degrees. the vending machines run 24/7 when nobody is around, and the parking lot is constantly lit up like a runway.
someone has got to play devils advocate. the latest round of carefully cultivated pop stars and rock bands could very well be designed from their inception to be too outright stupid to determine how this scheme works. Rap stars are groomed and trained to pay attention only to the lambos, the parties, and the mansions. the quick-change mainstream music is where the RIAA is getting the most bang for their buck, and despite some artists attempts to buck the trend by creating their own labels their efforts are sadly misplaced. anything in the industry that so much as glances at a musical instrument is shackled to the wagon of the RIAA and regardless of whether artists select an independent distribution channel or the more commonly recognized channels its extremely difficuly to avoid paying at least some funding to the RIAA.
beaten up alot in school, but i had better things to do. calculus, geometry, biology, chemistry, all these things took precedence over the day-in-day-out fisticuffs i never warranted. I dressed in alot of black clothing partly to detract attention from me, and partly because i just liked it. Lots of bauhaus and sister machine gun but it was just what i liked, no personal angst or vendettas buried deep within the sonic musings of KMFDM did i cling tenaciously to. I stayed on the internet alot and learned new things constantly
then one day someone spread a rumour i was going to kill my spanish teacher, and I was detained for several hours in the principals office while a sherrifs department combed my locker and i was accused of plotting the demise of the entire faculty. Turns out with my high GPA and low social standing i was considered a stunningly dangerous nerd who should be ashamed for tying up the phone line so as no administrator could properly accost my parents as to my fiendish plot to edit wad files in doom levels and include beavis and butthead sound effects.
thanks to "no tolerance" policies i failed calculus, failed spanish, and my ending GPA was 3.1 so yeah, do i blame bullies? sure, but the alternatives to the average bullshit school culture for the seemingly intellectual elite in school are pretty fucking dismal indeed.