I'm 25 now. I got my first job when I was 16 at Bell Northern Research developing a software platform for testing hardware. I have never in my entire career felt that anyone has treated me the way you describe. I'm the youngest one at my company. There is a guy who is a year older than me, but acts very young. People treat him accordingly.
Perhaps you should look towards yourself to see why people feel you are immature. People here know my age, but they constantly forget about it.
Although, a 20 hour/week low paying job is good for an admin assistant position. Basically the repetitive shit jobs get dumped on the assistant. The admin is still on call to break the 1 in 10 that randomly decide to fail.
Still, right now is a bad time for 16 year olds, because of the economy. Then again, a 16 year old won't have a "I used to have a real job" attitude.
I disagree with your last line. I agree that writing commodity applications wouldn't use enginerring discipline, but embedded devices and life-critical systems can have engineering discipline applied to them. At U(Waterloo), there is a software engineering option which I one of the classes in it (they were part of my CS+OR double major).
I believe that software engineering is in its infancy, but it is engineering in the same way that making an electronic device is engineering. Code may never be bug free, but neither will a building or bridge. The twin towers were supposed to stand longer when hit by an aircraft but they didn't consider the heat involved in that amount of jet fuel. A flaw in a middle guidance system could have similar effects.
But certainly engineering wouldn't be used in all or even most computer programs.
I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing. Excution of murderers can be thought as a preventative measure to ensure they don't kill again and as a deterrent to others. Families of victims feel closure at an execution, but not necessarily retribution. The victim feels nothing at all (presumably). Obviously murder isn't analagous anyway, since you can't bring back the person in question (whereas it is possible to bring back competition).
Taking away stolen money from a robber isn't retribution. Is it really punishment if you take back the $100 I jacked from you? But getting your $100 back is like getting the ability to compete back.
But you and I probably don't have fundamental differences of what an internet service provider is. This is a separate point, but still a valid example: Microsoft bundles software in it's operating system that gives free advertising to its ISP.
The monopoly laws are pretty clear: you can have a monopoly, but you can't use it to gain advantage in other markets. MSN advertising bundled with a monopoly OS is an anticompetitive practice.
Microsoft also doesn't want you setting up a linux network and having a few Windows machines that are remotely accessible via VNC, unless you license your applications for each of the linux boxes that may use them to open documents that Star Office can't.
I think this is an over generalization. My experience is that, outside of my arty friends, my geek friends were the only ones that had been to the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. I used to go pretty regularily (they have some great relaxation rooms). When the Renoir exhibit was in, I snuck my digital camera in and took some snaps.
Also, one of the geekiest Mac mofo's I knew in university was taking a minor in art (major in CS) and created some of the most brilliant paintings of anyone I've known in person.
So, I really don't see where you're at. Sure, many geeks don't partake in art. Many people don't either. I don't see a trend.
That is odd. Now I'm getting what you're getting, but I know I cut and pasted the URL and that when I went to your link I got WinZip first. Maybe google is remembering that I clicked on your link and is re-adjusting it's scores.
I'd like to know examples of these bands that never do live performance but are financially independant from their recordings. Maybe I've been reading the wrong things, but I have this impression that the RIAA takes almost all of the money involved in a recording. What royalties the band gets gets eaten up by other fees and it's only by keeping the hype of the band up via touring that artists can make money. I'd say that the current model also works against the type of band you are talking about.
And even the existance of this type of band doesn't prove that the RIAA model is more friendly to this kind of band. There are ways for such a band to thrive under my proposed model. If they are that good then eventually the GAP will want to use their song in and ad. There will always be fans that buy memorabilia for their favorite band. File sharing exposes the work to more people, because all it takes is a recommendation or random curiosity for someone to get interested. As for a giant step backwards, what about the bands that the label decides aren't worth another run of CDs, and the band can't do anythign because they no longer own their work's copyright.
It all comes back to the fact that the RIAA are there as a means of distribution. They come from a world where inorder for a band to get it's works out, it would have to talk to thousands of different stores/chains/etc and convince them to keep some inventory. They have become moot through home recording technology, broadband, and audio compression. A store doesn't need to take a risk on keeping a CD in stock, when a burning kiosk can create only the CDs a customer chooses. A band has more options than Walmart for getting its music out.
Ultimately, all I'm really asking for is what is already written into law in this country: that we can have access to technology that can make a copy of a work and that we can noncommercially use this technology make copies of a work. The writers of the law thought it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea.
almost no Flash site actually delivers anything that's still interesting after the first visit so who'd miss it?
Yeah, but there are a few gems out there and there are sites that allow users to upload flash games and thing. There is a lot of fun content in flash, and I've seen one or two useful flash files.
Still, I've never seen anything that really needs it to be integrated into the browser so that the files appear inline.
I'm not getting it as number one, instead getting WinZip. However, if I put a + in front of "of" I get it as number 1 out of 2 million. Perchance you have a setting that always includes the common words?
And how is this physically challenged person going to make money in the current model? The label takes pretty much all of the money from the CD sales. Without touring, this person isn't going to retain much of a fan base. If they do, however, there is always the kiosk sales.
Also, not all physically challenged people can't play live. A guy in a wheelchair is perfectly able to play live.
But ultimately, if they can't perform live and they can't get enough sales via the kiosks, then yeah, it's too bad. Just like it's too bad they can't get a job as a contrucion worker or a bus driver or many other things. It sucks to be handicapped.
So can you point me to the list of current artists that have been so debilitated throughout their career that they could never tour and have rocketed to fame and financial independance under the current RIAA business model? I'm curious about who you were thinking about.
NaN folding will strengthen the argument that there are not enough good desktop applications for Linux. It will also strengthen the claims that Linux users will not pay for software.
I don't really understand. Blender was on Windows as well as Linux. Does this mean that there are not enough good desktop applications for Windows and that Windows users won't pay for software?
I tried blender. It was very confusing to me. I'm sure it was a great product for those who did know how to use it, but I never did figure it out. It now sits in My Programs.
Loki is gone - no games. Blender is gone - no 3d.
Loki and Blender were far from the sole providers of native games and 3D on linux. And wine is getting better each day. It seems to be running lightwave for some people.
"What would the music scene look like if the industry disappeared? I imagine things like the Royal family paying for the production of Handel's Water Music."
This is one possibility, but this is the carrier path I see for a future musician.
A musician forms a band, they practice and eventually come up with some of their own songs. They play local functions/high schools/clubs, etc from which they make enough money to rent a recording studio for a day to record some of their songs. Then they put the songs out on their webpage and send them to local and nonlocal clubs in an attempt to get gigs. They send them to more famous bands to get a chance at opening for them. The clubs/tours that hire them for a night put the MP3s on their website so that customers can know what the band-they've-never-heard-of sounds like. The band works on their stage performance so that it is bigger and better than just listening to the MP3s. Maybe they have lasers, maybe they have choreography, maybe they have a giant inflatible pig. Who knows. Just something that makes going to the show worth it. Eventually the good entertainers will build up a reputation and they will now be the more famous band looking for opening acts. As more people come to the shows, the band can afford more effects, they'll play at larger venues, and their files will be traded more. Eventually a music video may be made, and it will be put on MTV and their website as a way of marketing a tour and the band in general.
Without owning the copyright to their works, the band could never do this. They would have to wait for their label to promote them. The clubs won't get as many people in since only people who have heard the band will know if they want to go.
Eventually, there will be companies that aide in the promotion of bands by finding them clubs, maintaining their websites, and getting them in contact with choreographers/lazer manufacuters/giant pig balloon makers. I imagine these companies already exist, since bands do all this already. These companies will not own the copyright to the band's work.
Also, they'll sell their CDs at their gigs and most of the money will go to them. People will buy them for the glossy liner notes and as a momento of the concert (much like a shirt purchase). This allows them to upgrade their recordings and make new ones. I also evision kiosks that burn CDs for people without a computer, paying back some of the take to the band. Once the band is large enough Walmart will start carrying the CDs.
Note that this follows pretty much the career of a musician now. It has the potential to make a band even richer than the present system because they retain their copyright the whole time. They make money directly off their CDs and they can sell the rights for commerical use. Since no one had to pay for their music, people who really like them can more easily recruit their friends. At the very least, they can share the music with them to convince them to go to the concert.
File sharing has made the RIAA redundant. The RIAA was important for distribution of works that acted as advertising for tours. Broadband has made distribution a nonissue. Home recording technology has made distribution a nonissue. A band doesn't have to convince thousands of stores to take the risk on carrying their CD in inventory, they just have to put their works out for free and submit their MP3s to the kiosk networks.
So, you see, there are business models for musical artists in a personal file sharing world.
Not really. First, it never has to update all references. The references are to a lookup table, which points to the physical location.
If an UPDATE does require the object to move locations, then it only takes a little more time (basically two operations). But in most cases, an UPDATE won't cause the record to move because there are few cases (possibly 0, depending on how the DBS is implemented) when a object needs to grow. The time to move the object would be the same as for moving a growing record in an RDBMS, so there isn't any extra time there. Some OODBMS may have reference counting, but updating a pointer's reference count will always be faster than updating a foreign key (unless you don't have an index on your foreign key, which will make your DELETEs and joins from the other table slow. If you don't have any DELETEs and joins, of course, you don't need to worry about it, but in those cases you would turn off reference counting for that table).
As for DELETEs, I don't see why this is any slower. Finding if you have a referrer is the same as finding foreign keys at worst, and if you have reference counting, O(1). Contrast this to O(mlogn) (m number of tables with foreign keys, n is the size of those tables). And reference counting has the same problem with circular referencing as foreign keys.
Also, I don't know much about the business applications you've written, but the several that I have written have always been all about the SELECTs. Sure, you'll have 100s of people updating/inserting a single record here and there, but those 100s of people will also select 100s of records with a single click. Having a save screen take 1.2ms instead of 1ms isn't as big a deal as having a search screen take 2000ms instead of 200ms. Just my experience.
But really, the point is that in the analysis I've seen, OODBMSs come out on top well. There's just no standard so you either have to find rare developers or train them, and then you are locked into a vendor. Plus the implementations are often much slower because the products aren't as mature. Plus there's no tools. A lot is stacked against OODBMS that isn't speed related, so RDBMS is used.
When I have noticed is some of the speed ups that OODBMSs have are being put more and more into RDBMS (the idea of references, for example). I've used a little of the Object-relational stuff in Postgres (inheritance) and read a bit about it in Oracle 8i (but haven't used it) and it looks like some good steps towards the a faster solution, with good organization and the Standard Querying Language as an interface.
relational is the choice of DB for almost all projects for its sheer speed
This is odd. I thought that OO was faster, since the db has references to the objects you link to in foreign tables. This makes it a O(1) to join rather than O(log n).
I thought relational databases were chosen because they are more proven in the reliability front than OODBs. The standardization for interaction via SQL is also a great thing, since that also leads itself to more tools.
I may be wrong, though. I do relational DB admin, tho I'm mostly a programmer. I recall this from looking at OODBs, but I've never used one and it wasn't really clear to me as to wether or not this is how it could be or how it was.
BTW, if anyone knows of a good Free OODB that I can try out, it'd be much appreciated.
I'm going to have to disagree. In Windows 98, it's easy to know what type a file is: it's listed along with the file in the details view. The only reason 3LEs are easier now is because that's what everyone uses. If everyone relied on the type column of the details view, then they would think to go there.
Metadata does have more serious problems though. What about traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP that don't have a metadata mechanism? The only solution I can think of is having a separate file convention (like.meta.filename) to transfer the metadata before/after getting/sending the file. Microsoft is going to have to patch other RFCs like MIME and HTTP to include how their data is sent, and they'll have to get the P2P people on board. It's semi-doable, but still a hurdle.
Re:Manipulation doesn't strengthen Google
on
Google Juice
·
· Score: 1
I think the parent was saying how hard it is to form an attack on Google. The thing about this attack is that, yes, it's an attack, but what is the defence? What would yeild better results? Until we figure that out and implement it in a search engine that has about the same sized repository as Google, it still makes sense to go to google for your searching.
I think an AOLinux would be more like RH7 where it has a control panel and it does stuff without you being able to know what it's doing. That's more in line with AOL.
But I think your idea is cooler. I just set up a RH7 box and had to do a some networking and service related stuff. I can pretty much guess what the service panel was doing, because I already know System V, but I have no idea what it did to the network stuff (I switched from a DHCP client to a DHCP server). It would have been nice if there was a tab, like in TOAD (where it shows the SQL for your table), where it showed the commands it was doing.
Note: I'm not saying Suse or Mandrake aren't as good as RH7 (in fact I've heard they are better). It's just that's what I have experience with.
Can you give me some more info on this? I have a friend at a company in a similar situation. He isn't making any salary and he's only been paid in advance. Plus he hasn't gotten a 1099, but his "advance" wasn't on his W2.
I explained the danger to him, but he (and others at the place with the same arrangement) feel that they don't have anything to worry about, they just have to explain that this really was salary, but I see them on very shakey legal ground. Can you give me case laws or even just examples to search on (I, for obvious reasons, care more about this than you).
Can you give me some more info on this? I understand what you are saying but I'm trying to find some cases where the "salary as loan" has occured and what happened in that case. The reason I'm interested is because some people at my work are in the same boat (I'm not, thankfully)
"Just install the obfust beta, using rpm -x/nd4/35r -DNr with the gchunk v6.0.12.099 library installed in d5 mode while running as root, and everything will be fine." -- Commandline obviously made up
Crap. I patched my gchunk source dinited to 5 for nothing.
Actually I laughed out loud when I read that. Way too familiar.
As for your query, sorry. I've never been a Novell person and only a BBS user, never a sysop. This page seems to imply you already have inbound telnet access. I think I need to know more about why you don't have the access? Does your netware server only have IPX? Or is it just forwarding on to the BBS that you need?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm 25 now. I got my first job when I was 16 at Bell Northern Research developing a software platform for testing hardware. I have never in my entire career felt that anyone has treated me the way you describe. I'm the youngest one at my company. There is a guy who is a year older than me, but acts very young. People treat him accordingly.
Perhaps you should look towards yourself to see why people feel you are immature. People here know my age, but they constantly forget about it.
Although, a 20 hour/week low paying job is good for an admin assistant position. Basically the repetitive shit jobs get dumped on the assistant. The admin is still on call to break the 1 in 10 that randomly decide to fail.
Still, right now is a bad time for 16 year olds, because of the economy. Then again, a 16 year old won't have a "I used to have a real job" attitude.
I disagree with your last line. I agree that writing commodity applications wouldn't use enginerring discipline, but embedded devices and life-critical systems can have engineering discipline applied to them. At U(Waterloo), there is a software engineering option which I one of the classes in it (they were part of my CS+OR double major).
I believe that software engineering is in its infancy, but it is engineering in the same way that making an electronic device is engineering. Code may never be bug free, but neither will a building or bridge. The twin towers were supposed to stand longer when hit by an aircraft but they didn't consider the heat involved in that amount of jet fuel. A flaw in a middle guidance system could have similar effects.
But certainly engineering wouldn't be used in all or even most computer programs.
I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing. Excution of murderers can be thought as a preventative measure to ensure they don't kill again and as a deterrent to others. Families of victims feel closure at an execution, but not necessarily retribution. The victim feels nothing at all (presumably). Obviously murder isn't analagous anyway, since you can't bring back the person in question (whereas it is possible to bring back competition).
Taking away stolen money from a robber isn't retribution. Is it really punishment if you take back the $100 I jacked from you? But getting your $100 back is like getting the ability to compete back.
But you and I probably don't have fundamental differences of what an internet service provider is. This is a separate point, but still a valid example: Microsoft bundles software in it's operating system that gives free advertising to its ISP.
The monopoly laws are pretty clear: you can have a monopoly, but you can't use it to gain advantage in other markets. MSN advertising bundled with a monopoly OS is an anticompetitive practice.
Microsoft also doesn't want you setting up a linux network and having a few Windows machines that are remotely accessible via VNC, unless you license your applications for each of the linux boxes that may use them to open documents that Star Office can't.
I think this is an over generalization. My experience is that, outside of my arty friends, my geek friends were the only ones that had been to the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. I used to go pretty regularily (they have some great relaxation rooms). When the Renoir exhibit was in, I snuck my digital camera in and took some snaps.
Also, one of the geekiest Mac mofo's I knew in university was taking a minor in art (major in CS) and created some of the most brilliant paintings of anyone I've known in person.
So, I really don't see where you're at. Sure, many geeks don't partake in art. Many people don't either. I don't see a trend.
That is odd. Now I'm getting what you're getting, but I know I cut and pasted the URL and that when I went to your link I got WinZip first. Maybe google is remembering that I clicked on your link and is re-adjusting it's scores.
I'd like to know examples of these bands that never do live performance but are financially independant from their recordings. Maybe I've been reading the wrong things, but I have this impression that the RIAA takes almost all of the money involved in a recording. What royalties the band gets gets eaten up by other fees and it's only by keeping the hype of the band up via touring that artists can make money. I'd say that the current model also works against the type of band you are talking about.
And even the existance of this type of band doesn't prove that the RIAA model is more friendly to this kind of band. There are ways for such a band to thrive under my proposed model. If they are that good then eventually the GAP will want to use their song in and ad. There will always be fans that buy memorabilia for their favorite band. File sharing exposes the work to more people, because all it takes is a recommendation or random curiosity for someone to get interested. As for a giant step backwards, what about the bands that the label decides aren't worth another run of CDs, and the band can't do anythign because they no longer own their work's copyright.
It all comes back to the fact that the RIAA are there as a means of distribution. They come from a world where inorder for a band to get it's works out, it would have to talk to thousands of different stores/chains/etc and convince them to keep some inventory. They have become moot through home recording technology, broadband, and audio compression. A store doesn't need to take a risk on keeping a CD in stock, when a burning kiosk can create only the CDs a customer chooses. A band has more options than Walmart for getting its music out.
Ultimately, all I'm really asking for is what is already written into law in this country: that we can have access to technology that can make a copy of a work and that we can noncommercially use this technology make copies of a work. The writers of the law thought it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea.
almost no Flash site actually delivers anything that's still interesting after the first visit so who'd miss it?
Yeah, but there are a few gems out there and there are sites that allow users to upload flash games and thing. There is a lot of fun content in flash, and I've seen one or two useful flash files.
Still, I've never seen anything that really needs it to be integrated into the browser so that the files appear inline.
I'm not getting it as number one, instead getting WinZip. However, if I put a + in front of "of" I get it as number 1 out of 2 million. Perchance you have a setting that always includes the common words?
And how is this physically challenged person going to make money in the current model? The label takes pretty much all of the money from the CD sales. Without touring, this person isn't going to retain much of a fan base. If they do, however, there is always the kiosk sales.
Also, not all physically challenged people can't play live. A guy in a wheelchair is perfectly able to play live.
But ultimately, if they can't perform live and they can't get enough sales via the kiosks, then yeah, it's too bad. Just like it's too bad they can't get a job as a contrucion worker or a bus driver or many other things. It sucks to be handicapped.
So can you point me to the list of current artists that have been so debilitated throughout their career that they could never tour and have rocketed to fame and financial independance under the current RIAA business model? I'm curious about who you were thinking about.
NaN folding will strengthen the argument that there are not enough good desktop applications for Linux. It will also strengthen the claims that Linux users will not pay for software.
I don't really understand. Blender was on Windows as well as Linux. Does this mean that there are not enough good desktop applications for Windows and that Windows users won't pay for software?
I tried blender. It was very confusing to me. I'm sure it was a great product for those who did know how to use it, but I never did figure it out. It now sits in My Programs.
Loki is gone - no games. Blender is gone - no 3d.
Loki and Blender were far from the sole providers of native games and 3D on linux. And wine is getting better each day. It seems to be running lightwave for some people.
"What would the music scene look like if the industry disappeared? I imagine things like the Royal family paying for the production of Handel's Water Music."
This is one possibility, but this is the carrier path I see for a future musician.
A musician forms a band, they practice and eventually come up with some of their own songs. They play local functions/high schools/clubs, etc from which they make enough money to rent a recording studio for a day to record some of their songs. Then they put the songs out on their webpage and send them to local and nonlocal clubs in an attempt to get gigs. They send them to more famous bands to get a chance at opening for them. The clubs/tours that hire them for a night put the MP3s on their website so that customers can know what the band-they've-never-heard-of sounds like. The band works on their stage performance so that it is bigger and better than just listening to the MP3s. Maybe they have lasers, maybe they have choreography, maybe they have a giant inflatible pig. Who knows. Just something that makes going to the show worth it. Eventually the good entertainers will build up a reputation and they will now be the more famous band looking for opening acts. As more people come to the shows, the band can afford more effects, they'll play at larger venues, and their files will be traded more. Eventually a music video may be made, and it will be put on MTV and their website as a way of marketing a tour and the band in general.
Without owning the copyright to their works, the band could never do this. They would have to wait for their label to promote them. The clubs won't get as many people in since only people who have heard the band will know if they want to go.
Eventually, there will be companies that aide in the promotion of bands by finding them clubs, maintaining their websites, and getting them in contact with choreographers/lazer manufacuters/giant pig balloon makers. I imagine these companies already exist, since bands do all this already. These companies will not own the copyright to the band's work.
Also, they'll sell their CDs at their gigs and most of the money will go to them. People will buy them for the glossy liner notes and as a momento of the concert (much like a shirt purchase). This allows them to upgrade their recordings and make new ones. I also evision kiosks that burn CDs for people without a computer, paying back some of the take to the band. Once the band is large enough Walmart will start carrying the CDs.
Note that this follows pretty much the career of a musician now. It has the potential to make a band even richer than the present system because they retain their copyright the whole time. They make money directly off their CDs and they can sell the rights for commerical use. Since no one had to pay for their music, people who really like them can more easily recruit their friends. At the very least, they can share the music with them to convince them to go to the concert.
File sharing has made the RIAA redundant. The RIAA was important for distribution of works that acted as advertising for tours. Broadband has made distribution a nonissue. Home recording technology has made distribution a nonissue. A band doesn't have to convince thousands of stores to take the risk on carrying their CD in inventory, they just have to put their works out for free and submit their MP3s to the kiosk networks.
So, you see, there are business models for musical artists in a personal file sharing world.
Not really. First, it never has to update all references. The references are to a lookup table, which points to the physical location.
If an UPDATE does require the object to move locations, then it only takes a little more time (basically two operations). But in most cases, an UPDATE won't cause the record to move because there are few cases (possibly 0, depending on how the DBS is implemented) when a object needs to grow. The time to move the object would be the same as for moving a growing record in an RDBMS, so there isn't any extra time there. Some OODBMS may have reference counting, but updating a pointer's reference count will always be faster than updating a foreign key (unless you don't have an index on your foreign key, which will make your DELETEs and joins from the other table slow. If you don't have any DELETEs and joins, of course, you don't need to worry about it, but in those cases you would turn off reference counting for that table).
As for DELETEs, I don't see why this is any slower. Finding if you have a referrer is the same as finding foreign keys at worst, and if you have reference counting, O(1). Contrast this to O(mlogn) (m number of tables with foreign keys, n is the size of those tables). And reference counting has the same problem with circular referencing as foreign keys.
Also, I don't know much about the business applications you've written, but the several that I have written have always been all about the SELECTs. Sure, you'll have 100s of people updating/inserting a single record here and there, but those 100s of people will also select 100s of records with a single click. Having a save screen take 1.2ms instead of 1ms isn't as big a deal as having a search screen take 2000ms instead of 200ms. Just my experience.
But really, the point is that in the analysis I've seen, OODBMSs come out on top well. There's just no standard so you either have to find rare developers or train them, and then you are locked into a vendor. Plus the implementations are often much slower because the products aren't as mature. Plus there's no tools. A lot is stacked against OODBMS that isn't speed related, so RDBMS is used.
When I have noticed is some of the speed ups that OODBMSs have are being put more and more into RDBMS (the idea of references, for example). I've used a little of the Object-relational stuff in Postgres (inheritance) and read a bit about it in Oracle 8i (but haven't used it) and it looks like some good steps towards the a faster solution, with good organization and the Standard Querying Language as an interface.
relational is the choice of DB for almost all projects for its sheer speed
This is odd. I thought that OO was faster, since the db has references to the objects you link to in foreign tables. This makes it a O(1) to join rather than O(log n).
I thought relational databases were chosen because they are more proven in the reliability front than OODBs. The standardization for interaction via SQL is also a great thing, since that also leads itself to more tools.
I may be wrong, though. I do relational DB admin, tho I'm mostly a programmer. I recall this from looking at OODBs, but I've never used one and it wasn't really clear to me as to wether or not this is how it could be or how it was.
BTW, if anyone knows of a good Free OODB that I can try out, it'd be much appreciated.
It would be hard to get people to start using a new FS is the only new feature was that it would decide what files you may or may not save.
Even better: use yEnc
I'm going to have to disagree. In Windows 98, it's easy to know what type a file is: it's listed along with the file in the details view. The only reason 3LEs are easier now is because that's what everyone uses. If everyone relied on the type column of the details view, then they would think to go there.
.meta.filename) to transfer the metadata before/after getting/sending the file. Microsoft is going to have to patch other RFCs like MIME and HTTP to include how their data is sent, and they'll have to get the P2P people on board. It's semi-doable, but still a hurdle.
Metadata does have more serious problems though. What about traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP that don't have a metadata mechanism? The only solution I can think of is having a separate file convention (like
I think the parent was saying how hard it is to form an attack on Google. The thing about this attack is that, yes, it's an attack, but what is the defence? What would yeild better results? Until we figure that out and implement it in a search engine that has about the same sized repository as Google, it still makes sense to go to google for your searching.
I think an AOLinux would be more like RH7 where it has a control panel and it does stuff without you being able to know what it's doing. That's more in line with AOL.
But I think your idea is cooler. I just set up a RH7 box and had to do a some networking and service related stuff. I can pretty much guess what the service panel was doing, because I already know System V, but I have no idea what it did to the network stuff (I switched from a DHCP client to a DHCP server). It would have been nice if there was a tab, like in TOAD (where it shows the SQL for your table), where it showed the commands it was doing.
Note: I'm not saying Suse or Mandrake aren't as good as RH7 (in fact I've heard they are better). It's just that's what I have experience with.
Can you give me some more info on this? I have a friend at a company in a similar situation. He isn't making any salary and he's only been paid in advance. Plus he hasn't gotten a 1099, but his "advance" wasn't on his W2.
I explained the danger to him, but he (and others at the place with the same arrangement) feel that they don't have anything to worry about, they just have to explain that this really was salary, but I see them on very shakey legal ground. Can you give me case laws or even just examples to search on (I, for obvious reasons, care more about this than you).
Can you give me some more info on this? I understand what you are saying but I'm trying to find some cases where the "salary as loan" has occured and what happened in that case. The reason I'm interested is because some people at my work are in the same boat (I'm not, thankfully)
"Just install the obfust beta, using rpm -x /nd4 /35r -DNr with the gchunk v6.0.12.099 library installed in d5 mode while running as root, and everything will be fine." -- Commandline obviously made up
Crap. I patched my gchunk source dinited to 5 for nothing.
Actually I laughed out loud when I read that. Way too familiar.
As for your query, sorry. I've never been a Novell person and only a BBS user, never a sysop. This page seems to imply you already have inbound telnet access. I think I need to know more about why you don't have the access? Does your netware server only have IPX? Or is it just forwarding on to the BBS that you need?
My wife has cancer. The waiting list here is no better.