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I wonder if my Microsoft shirt is protected?I created the "Micropoly" shirt last year, and haven't had any problems. It is a combination of the Monopoly logo and Mr Gates himself. Personally, I think it is hilariously clever.
I guess I would be in big trouble if anyone ever actually bought them.
www.poundingsand.com and look for Micropoly. (view larger image to see it better)
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Photoshop alternative that is worth the moneyIf I lose Photoshop or After Effects, I don't have a whole lot of good choices to replace them with, especially for the money.
Now I am not a graphics designer, but I have dabbled a little bit. Just a little bit. FOR THE MONEY, I don't know if you can do much better than The Gimp . Like I said, I am sure if you are a professional designer, Photoshop is THE way to go. However, after hearing great things about the Gimp, I downloaded it. Free. Not much easier on your wallet than that. From what I have found, it is quite powerful. I am not a Photoshop user, but I was and continue to be quite impressed. Maybe it isn't up to your standards, but it fully meets mine. Oh, did I mention it was free?
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Tshirts are now available!
I put these up on my cafepress store, at no profit to myself. I put them at the bottom cost that cafepress charges, so I don't get any commission! http://www.cafepress.com/grubbylaws or you can get there from my Tshirt website Poundingsand.com , and I have other "freedom" type tees as well.
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Keep your grubby laws off my computer - Tshirts !!OK, in honor of this, I have put this phrase on T-shirts: "Keep your grubby laws off my computer!". I put it in my cafepress store, at no profit to myself. The price is the bottom line price that CafePress charges. Get them in my grubby laws store .
Check out my other Tshirts if you want.
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Re:Calls for a 10 questions InterviewAbsolutely. A bunch of no-names submitting things may seem impressive simply by the numbers, but a semi-organized set of comments may seem, well, more organized. A short history of slashdot, including number of daily hits and registered readers, would set the tone for where these comments are coming from, and (maybe) give them a little more credibility.
I am sure some wordsmith out there can actually make
I can't belive nobody has purchased my Micropoly shirts. It is a hilarious melding of the Monopoly logo with the M$ logo. I am thinking of making these shirts Open Source... Get them here
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This is not a review of the articleI think the point is, this isn't a review of the article, it is simply an advertisement. Advertisements go in the flashy banners, everyone knows that.
Poundingsand.com - Tshirts, including Micropoly and DMCAEVIL. This has been a plug, and not an ad.
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Response for saleIn response to this article, I have a little tidbit of information that the govenrment doesn't want you or anyone else to know about. It will affect the way the internet functions in all areas, from personal affairs to business to entertainment.
Click Here to order my response. Cost is only $16.99, all major credit cards accepted.
Sheesh.
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You get what you pay for (support)This is why companies like Dell have the "extended service plan", or whatever they choose to call it. A coworker's cat knocked over a glass of water onto his Dell laptop and fried it. He paid extra for the service plan, and after calling support, they quickly did some troubleshooting and said that someone would come out to replace the motherboard. (he didn't tell them about the water, and they didn't ask)
I am guessing that if he had just purchased it off of eBay, or from BestBuy, he wouldn't have gotten that kind of service. He bought it through our company's PC purchase plan, and we buy a lot of systems. Maybe it is because of that, maybe he just got lucky.
Maybe companies got tired of people trying to rip them off, and they only really listen to those who can afford to pay for the service plan.
Fight the monopoly , fight the DMCA - Tshirts from poundingsand.com
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Re:Using the Linux community as pawnsYou say that "it would not be used against a legitimate programmer...". Bottom line is, it COULD be. How can you say that it woulnd't be? The fact of the matter is, if there is a legal precedent set, it can be used for all kinds of "wrong" things that shouldn't be done.
Who is to say a certain large company, who apparantly is above the law, couldn't sue someone in the Linux community using the DMCA as their backbone?
Nahh, they wouldn't do that.
Would they?
Fight the Monopoly and the Evil DMCA
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From the horses mouth...From the author himself, in an interview:
5. Do you accept help and source code or bug fixes from third parties? Do you put restrictions to third parties regarding coding style etc?
Robert Szeleney: Until version 3.0, SkyOS was open source. But now, I don`t want SkyOS to be open source. I put so many work into this project, that I don`t want to give to source away. But I accept project members. If someone want to code for SkyOS he can have source. Also, I accept source codes and bugfixes for SkyOS. I don`t put restrictions for coding style. If someone coded for example a new driver, I will change the code to fit into the whole SkyOS coding style.
gosand (bracing for the "all your base" comments)
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It isn't about competition...Your quotes make sense only if there is an enemy. If there is no "enemy" then the whole argument collapses. Linus has no enemies - he just does what he does.
Read his book, you really get the idea that he doesn't really care about all the hoo-hah. He just wanted to make a great OS, simply to do it.
Personally, I love his philosophy. He doesn't try to tell everyone else how things should be, he just does them the way he sees fit.
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Down with Monopolies , down with the DMCA - more at Pounding Sand -
Why N'Sync? (seriously)....Apart from the fact that this doesn't affect me, why would they do this to one of the largest selling acts out there? Don't they have the largest selling album over a single weekend? If anything, N'Sync is a testament to the fact that even though there are rippers and downloaders out there, people will still buy CDs from stores.
But if you are going to do a market study on a group, I guess you would want to test it out on one of the biggest selling groups out there.
Let's hope that it crashes and burns, and people, including parents, get up in arms about it.
Michael
Fight the Monopoly and the Evil. . More at Poundingsand.com
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They teach programming, not software developmentI think the biggest problem with college courses, in CS anyway, is that they teach PROGRAMMING, and not SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. There is such a huge difference.
The best course I took was a senior level class called Software Engineering. I worked with 3 other guys on a project all semester, and we didn't write a line of code. We had to come up with requirements, a schedule, a budget, test plans, designs, etc. But we didn't write any code at all. The goal wasn't to program, it was to design software. There is so much more that goes into software in real world companies.
I don't even know if they still offer that course, it was back in '92. I still have the book from it. I ended up getting into Quality Assurance, which they DEFINITELY don't teach you in school.
When I interviewed at Motorola after I graduated, I brought my project from that class. I was to interview with 5 or 6 people throughout the day. I showed the project to the first person I interviewed with, and she said to make sure I showed every other person I talked to. I later found out that it was a big part in getting me the job.
You can talk all you want about "being able to work in a team" but until you do it, you don't know how tough it can be. Organizing, planning around people's schedules, and yes, dealing with people who aren't as motivated as you are all real world applications.
Maybe things have changed in college since I was there (there was no internet back then - ack!). But knowing that the instructors probably are having a hard enough time keeping up with trends, they probably haven't. I think in addition to programming, they should teach sound software engineering principles as well.
Michael
Fight the monopoly and the evil
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Ingrates!Why on earth would you need net access in class? I could see how it might enhance some classes, but for the most part, you don't need it. I am not THAT old, (going to be 32), but real internet access didn't even exist when I was in college. Unless you count FTP sites.
Come on. My fiancee is teaching at a university, and I get to hear all the horror stories about how lazy students are today. I get to see it in their homework - they can't even follow simple directions and they just don't seem to care! If anything, they need LESS distractions in the classrooms. Cell phones and pagers are a big enough problem.
Haven't people realized how friggin superficial their "problems" are, and how everyone is always bitching about how their "rights" are being infringed? Wahhh, you can't surf the net during class. Maybe if your mommy and daddy weren't paying for everything for you, and you had to pay your own damn way through school, you might care a little more about actually getting an education!!
Michael
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Not just the US...This is so far reaching, considering that foreign companies would have to manufacture "approved" devices. If actually enforced, it would affect nearly everything, including cars. Who exactly would be in charge of "approving" these devices? There are many more questions than solutions.
Do they even REALIZE how many digital devices there are out there? It goes wayyyyy beyond CD and DVD players. It even applies to FUTURE products!
Surely this cannot become a reality.
Michael
Creator of Micro$oft's new logo as well as other stuff at Pounding Sand
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Re:DMCA
Everyone should show their "support" of the DMCA with this Tshirt
You can get other good ones at www.poundingsand.com . (I like micropoly too.)
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CDRs are used for much more than musicPlease. That assumes that everyone who buys CDRs is using them to burn music. What about backups? What about photo CDs? What about documents? What about all the other myraid of uses of CDRs?
Now I am not naive, and I use them to burn audio CDs too. But I am not a big downloader of MP3s, I have a large CD collection, as does my fiancee. It is legal (and rightfully so) for me to burn a copy of a CD I bought for use in my car.
*If* someone were using CDRs to burn illegal copies of CDs and selling them, the only thing taxing CDRs would do is shrink their profit a little. Unless the goal is to make CDRs unaffordable for the average person, which would be really really bad.
Michael
M$ = Monopoly? Check out "Micropoly" at Pounding Sand Tshirts.
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Another reason for pr0n? :-)That is why pr0n is so prevalent on the net, people are communicating! ROFL. When I want to send my mom a message thanking her for my birthday card, I just hide that message within a fisting photo.
If anyone wants more info on this kind of thing (information hiding) pick up a book by Simon Singh . I recommend The Code Book.
[shameless plug] Pounding Sand Tshirts. Get your Micro$oft satire here!
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Return the favor...Of course a lot of people have said "send them beer", and that is a good suggestion. If you want to be more creative, put together a care-package.
You could include:
a beer of the month subscription
caffeinated stuff (thinkgeek.com sells sampler packs)
gift certificates for places like Think Geek.
Tshirts ( Shameless Plug )
A sincere thank you telling them the reason you like what they have done.
Cash is always nice, but doesn't take much thought.
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Return the favor...Of course a lot of people have said "send them beer", and that is a good suggestion. If you want to be more creative, put together a care-package.
You could include:
a beer of the month subscription
caffeinated stuff (thinkgeek.com sells sampler packs)
gift certificates for places like Think Geek.
Tshirts ( Shameless Plug )
A sincere thank you telling them the reason you like what they have done.
Cash is always nice, but doesn't take much thought.
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Kudos to themMaybe it is standard practice to send a notification like this, maybe not - I really don't know. But I commend them for doing it. Do you think Micropoly would ever do anything like this for their customers?
Sure, AMD is probably doing it to make more money, but as long as they keep making processors that make the boys at Intel sweat, I say more power to them.
BTW, one of my best friends works for Intel in quality control in processor manufacturing, and he is pissed at me for having an AMD900, 650, and Duron700.
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Re:People get upset about THIS?!I wonder how much money it actually takes to filter/block questionable (in their minds) content. I think it would be much easier, and would therefore be pretty cost effective. You control the infrastructure, you control all the users of it. I suppose it might take more time and knowledge, but overall I think it is a much more effective way of controlling people. They can monitor people and track them down very easily. Pretty scary. --
Pounding Sand Designs - check it out for cool Tshirts.
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People get upset about THIS?!With all of the other atrocities that governments do (including the US Gov) people get upset about them limiting or filtering electronic content?
What, now that someone in China may not be able to bid on your collection of Playboys on eBay, it is time to stand up?
Puh-lease. Rape, spy, kill, cheat, lie, steal, oppress - but don't limit our internet access! I know, the internet should be free, but a lot of things "should" be. Let's get everyone some food, shelter, and safe living conditions before we worry about whether they can ride the information superhighway. (haven't heard that term in a LONG time)
www.poundingsand.com - Tshirt designs - check out Micropoly!
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The inevitible will happenExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde
Give the "15 year olds" time, and they will have experience. What was I doing at 15? That was over half my life ago, it is hard to remember. Worrying about getting a driver's licence, if I would ever get laid, why I couldn't get all the points on the bonus levels of Galaga, how to throw a curve ball, etc.
I didn't really have a life, and now kids have one online, even though it isn't real. They'll figure it out, or they won't make it. Eventually they will have to interact with real people, and will be in for a shock. But they are willing to jump in with both feet, and by doing so make mistakes. They can learn from them, and get better, or crawl into their own little world and become outcasts.
We had the same thing, technology is just an added pressure. Does anyone care that I sucked at Defender? (not now, but I felt like a dumbass then)Bottom line is that people still have to learn how to interact with other people, that is what our society is based on. They'll grow up, they don't have much of a choice.
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