Created from nothing! There are other theoretical physicists in the world besides Stephen Hawking. He just happens to be the most famous of them all. Stephen Hawking is effectivley the only exposure people have to physics. Therefore whatever he says people assume must be true. After all he's in a wheelchair and speaks like a robot. If that's not credible then I don't know what is.
I imagine the increased prices will cause people to migrate over to just pure P2P internet surfing rather than delaing with the hassle of typing 'www' every bloody time they want to go somewhere on the internet. IP addresses are so much more intimate anyway.
Well the new office building is getting ready to open and the building inspectors are getting ready to do what they do best. Except in this case if the inspectors find any load bearing beams they'll losen whatever bolts they can find in an attempt to collapse a couple floors.
I used to be a social engineer. Once I managed to get into the mayors house dressed as a chimney sweep. The trouble was the mayor didn't actually have a conventional chimney in his house, he had one of those gas dealies. He told me there must be some mistake, since he didn't have a chimney. Then I told him chimney sweeps don't make mistakes. Then he said in this case I did. So then I asked him what he was implying. Then he said he was implying I must be incompetant. So then I said, I took offense to that sort of allegation, and he'd better let me into his house or there damn well was gonna be trouble. Then he tried to slam the door in my face, but I managed to cram my foot in before he closed it. SO then he pulled out a golf club and started hitting me through the space in the door to get me to take my foot out. So then I took one of my brooms and started hitting him back, then he shouted at his wife to call the police. At that point I pulled my foot out of the door and he slammed it shut, but then I rammed the handle of my broom through the mail slot and jabbed him in the stomach. Then I opened the door and ran up stairs as fast as I could. When I got up stairs I found his home office and grabbed the tower from his computer and ran back down stairs again. On the way down I knocked the mayor over as he was persuing me. I managed to escape scot free. Later on I hacked into his computer, which co-incidentally had no passwords on ANYTHING to speak of, then I phoned him up and told him I managed to get into his house dressed as a chimney sweep and hack into his computer. He went completely ballistic. Rightly so I imagine, since I had managed to hack his computer with no troubles at all.
My overall goal of social engineering though, was to demonstate to people how easy it is for somebody to commit identity theft or break into their networks. I don't consider what I did to be a crime. It was a public service.
I always had some comfort knowing that if I was in a plane crash the pilot would be killed along with everybody else. I imagine it would make a good point of conversation with the other screaming passengers. J'know I could turn to the guy next to me and say 'Well at least the pilot is dieing with us' but then he'd say 'Yeah, but think about it this way. He's probably got insurance, his family will get a big payoff for his incompetance while we're all totally frigging screwed here' Then I'd probably think for a minute and say 'Well okay, how bout this. Let's storm the cockpit and force the pilot into a parachute and throw him off the plane so he'll survive to get fired' then the guy would say 'well that wouldn't really work either, he'll just claim he went out to get help. He'll be hailed as a hero, and he'll probably recieve some great reward for that'. Then I'd probably say 'Okay, what if.. WE took the parachutes, escaped the crashing plane and survived so we could tell everybody that the pilot was incompetant?' Then he'd say 'Once again, that wouldn't work. Historically speaking airplane crash survivors are the most hated out of all accident survivors. If we don't get flogged just on the virtue of our survival we'll probably be thrown in jail for trying to slander the pilot'. Then I'd say 'You know it's times like this I wish airplanes were remote controlled. If the pilot was back at the airport and we all died he'd get fired, and his life might be ruined because of that' Then he'd say 'Yes, that does seem like it would be some small comfort'
You follow my meaning. It gets annoying. I saw this show where they had an expert on car breaks. This guy actually said using your breaks is bad, the best thing to do is to try an gauge how long it'll take you to stop your car and just take your foot off the gas pedal and let your car roll to a stop. In the event you have to stop on a hill you can ease on the break a BIT but allow your car to rest against the bumper in the car in front or behind you depending on the case; that way your breaks will be saved. AND if you need to stop in a hurry it's better if you just jump out of the car while it's still moving and let it crash into whatever gets in its way. He said provided you're not on a bridge, statistally your car won't sustain that much damage and would likely still be driveable after the crash with the breaks completely in tact.
I don't actually listen to anything back experts say. If it was up to them nobody would ever bend their backs in any circumstances. Have you ever actually tried to shovel out your driveway by doing all the bending and lifting with only your legs? It's next to impossible. It's always 'lift with your legs, lift with your legs'. It seems to me back experts are just extremely lazy. They don't want to treat any back injuries so they tell people not to use their backs, passing the buck off to the poor knee and leg experts. I can only imagine how many cases those folks get of people throwing out their knees and breaking their hips because they tried to do some activity without bending their back.
I'm all for it. I've pretty much had my limit of people trying to recruit me into terrorist organizations. It'd be nice if the government cracked down on them. Bloody ringing my doorbell at 9:00 am every saturday. Waiting in the train station handing out their phamplets. NO I'M NOT GOD DAMNED INTERESTED IN SACRIFICING MY LIFE IN THE NAME OF ALLAH! PISS THE FRIG OFF!! You just can't win. One day I was running late for work and one of these guys shoved one of their pamphlets in my face and I grabbed it from him and ripped it up. Then a cop sees me and gives me a ticket for littering. If it's not one thing it's another.
Think about it historically if you will. When in the history of war has the country doing the recruiting said something like.. 'Well, you'll probably be injured, disfigured, tortured. There's a good chance you'll be killed and we won't be able to recover your body. Now we're not making any garantees here.. but we may have a good chance at winning this war. That's MAYBE. It all depends on the ferocity with which the geurillas fight. You know how this sort of thing is, we're not actually being viewed as liberators so when you're over there you're pretty much gonna have to watch out for everybody who's not in a uniform. Oh what else.. Oh yeah, the new guns we've been issued are total crap, I wouldn't even shoot my mother in law with one of those things. But they will fire bullets if you keep sand out of them, not all consecutivley though, maybe one or two shots then you'll have to take it apart and clean it. On the plus side you probably won't have to worry about gunners hand! So I think that about covers it, now to enlist in the army all we'll need is your signature and you'll be on your way!'
The whole point is to glamorise war. That's how it works, all glory and hot forigen chicks.
I can just see it now, I open up my email to find the latest listings of my recent mail.. And there's a picture of my GST rebate cheque... And it's been shredded for my convenience. Thankyou remote mail you've certainly made my life easier.
The trouble with this whole situation is the TV broadcasters are all willing to go web only. It's been known for a long time they have the capacity to go with this sort of system. Overall it'd be cheaper and better for this sort of setup. The only problem with that IS the TV broadcasters have their nuts in the vice by the big TV makers. Sony and Panasonic are forcing the broadcasters to stick to the regular conventions so they can sell their expensive and unnecessary TV. Most people when asked said they are perfectly content with watching a little 7" tv screen just so long as there's something good on. For years we've been brainwashed to think that crystal clear picture and surround sound on a 90" TV screen is the best way to enjoy our favorite shows. Now that the internet has come along and is offering people a cheap alternative viewing experience they're getting scared. Web based TV is also affecting the big couch makers, but not as bad since most of those companies also make some sort of desk chairs. Mind you they'd still be at a significant loss if web TV took over.
I intend to throw the gauntlet down right now and propose a proper name change. From now on the wi-fi phones will be called 'wi-phones' that's right I said it. It's nothing fancy but it describes what it is with no added crazyness.
It's interesting that a company might even sorta consider porting their games over to Linux. It seems to me like it's more out of the goodness or thier hearts than generating any actual revenue. It almost sort of warms my heart.
Well forget it. It seems to me that article is a little biased towards the ipod, but overall it seems to hit the nail on the head. I was hoping that the Zune would cripple the ipod then I could come here and laugh and get neg modded.. But that's probably not going to be the case. I haven't even seen a bloody commercial for the Zune. There's apparently no solid release date for Canada yet. Not that I'd buy one after that scathing review. MIND YOU, Microsoft could very well go the same way they went with the Xbox and bleed money till they get it right. It would be nice though if apple includes a native radio player in their next incarnation of the ipod, that could be at least one good thing the Zune would accomplish.
I've been in the software development buisness for nearly 14 years now. I have to tell you, we generally try not to burn our bridges. I'm sure it's easy for a lot people who aren't in the biz to go and say that something is 'un-linuxy' but when the bottom line is you either starving to death or scuttling a potential contract because you feel a particular kinship so some piece of software I think you should probably re-evaluate your priorities. Mind you, the whole thing goes the other way, in a sense. I've walked out on several potentially lucrative contracts in my carrear just because I wan't in the mood for all the software and platform changes that came with it. Those were in the early days though. By god in those days were were kings among men!
I'm sure at the lab it went something like this...
'Hey professor Roy, have you figured out how that ancient calculator works yet?'
'Well no.. eh heh... It's sort of a mystery.. Those olden days people were a lot more cleaver than we gave them credit for. I think we might have to change our hypothesis'
'ARE YOU INSANE?! We'll be a laughing stock! I can imagine the headlines now... "Scientists Change Hypothesis: Community Laughs at Expense".. I can't go through that again! You remember the Stone Henge fiasco?! The Bloody Scots threatened to raise Fingal!!'
Looks like mankind has finally conquered nature. Mind you it's not so much a case of conquering nature as it is something like getting the newspaper in the morning only to find that the fella who delivers it accidently gave you an extra elastic. You think to yourself 'Yes! The joke's on him! He'll never see this again!' Then a week later you find the newpaper guy broke into your house and set your electric kettle boiling and left it going while you were at work, so when you get home the thing's broken.
When windows XP came out people were all saying that Microsoft could spy on whatever you download and shut down your computer at any time or call the cops on you if you did anything naughty. Overall though I think this is more widespread hysteria on the part of the people who get hysterical about this sort of thing. I'm not some new fangled business educated type person but I would imagine the business strategy of 'disenfranchising' users based on heresay or whatever other means Microsoft could potentially use would be bad for business.
Imagine for whatever reason an entire animation studio running vista and all the computer get shut down and locked up cause Vista decided they were being bad. If the studio recovers from that disaster it's likely they'll switch over to Linux. Same goes for any other business. Microsoft is going to go Neo-Hoober on everybody just cause the feature exists.
What's wrong with saying this is the way ths system works. You'll have to deal with it? Why is it we have to change the way things work just because it's not precisely perfect in the minds of some people.
The bloody middle east censors their internet anway. I imagine whatever dictatorships over there could claim a victory over the west by declaring that they've given in to their demands and now the populous can access their propoganda websites with the address of their native tounge.
I'm quite pleased that heaven for pedophiles and sex offenders is getting what it deserves. I hope this stuff eventually brings Second Life down.
'There' never had any issues like that... I wonder why.
I have to agree with that. I would have figured Microsoft would have done some amazing ad campaign. So far NOTHIN. NUUUTTTTHIIINNNN.
I'd like to see the ipod seriously hobbled by the Zune, but it's not gonna happen if Microsoft doesn't tell people this thing exists.
Explain to me how you can format a hard drive 10 times and still get the information back.
That means that my current hard drive has all the information on it from its previous incarnations as a portable drive and a paperweight.
What in the hell do we need a space elevator for in the first place?! Oh so we can get little shrink wrapped bags of dried up crap to our brave astronauts doing studies on how clipboards react to spinning around in zero G. Or maybe so millionares and stupid idiots can go visit the horrifying endless black abyss that is the universe we inhabit.
The only non useless aspect of space is it's a good place to put satellites. Even then we get astronauts complaining that if they run into one they'll be killed. I say good! Astronauts are all jerks anyway. We'd be better off.
Course you didn't. You don't have any concept of what the 'mass market' as you call it will grab on to.
It's all aboot waiting and seeing. Not being some psuedo intillectual economist wannabe applefucker.
Sorry if that sounded rude but it's true.
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Created from nothing! There are other theoretical physicists in the world besides Stephen Hawking. He just happens to be the most famous of them all. Stephen Hawking is effectivley the only exposure people have to physics. Therefore whatever he says people assume must be true. After all he's in a wheelchair and speaks like a robot. If that's not credible then I don't know what is.
I imagine the increased prices will cause people to migrate over to just pure P2P internet surfing rather than delaing with the hassle of typing 'www' every bloody time they want to go somewhere on the internet. IP addresses are so much more intimate anyway.
Well the new office building is getting ready to open and the building inspectors are getting ready to do what they do best. Except in this case if the inspectors find any load bearing beams they'll losen whatever bolts they can find in an attempt to collapse a couple floors.
I used to be a social engineer. Once I managed to get into the mayors house dressed as a chimney sweep. The trouble was the mayor didn't actually have a conventional chimney in his house, he had one of those gas dealies. He told me there must be some mistake, since he didn't have a chimney. Then I told him chimney sweeps don't make mistakes. Then he said in this case I did. So then I asked him what he was implying. Then he said he was implying I must be incompetant. So then I said, I took offense to that sort of allegation, and he'd better let me into his house or there damn well was gonna be trouble. Then he tried to slam the door in my face, but I managed to cram my foot in before he closed it. SO then he pulled out a golf club and started hitting me through the space in the door to get me to take my foot out. So then I took one of my brooms and started hitting him back, then he shouted at his wife to call the police. At that point I pulled my foot out of the door and he slammed it shut, but then I rammed the handle of my broom through the mail slot and jabbed him in the stomach. Then I opened the door and ran up stairs as fast as I could. When I got up stairs I found his home office and grabbed the tower from his computer and ran back down stairs again. On the way down I knocked the mayor over as he was persuing me. I managed to escape scot free. Later on I hacked into his computer, which co-incidentally had no passwords on ANYTHING to speak of, then I phoned him up and told him I managed to get into his house dressed as a chimney sweep and hack into his computer. He went completely ballistic. Rightly so I imagine, since I had managed to hack his computer with no troubles at all.
My overall goal of social engineering though, was to demonstate to people how easy it is for somebody to commit identity theft or break into their networks. I don't consider what I did to be a crime. It was a public service.
I always had some comfort knowing that if I was in a plane crash the pilot would be killed along with everybody else. I imagine it would make a good point of conversation with the other screaming passengers. J'know I could turn to the guy next to me and say 'Well at least the pilot is dieing with us' but then he'd say 'Yeah, but think about it this way. He's probably got insurance, his family will get a big payoff for his incompetance while we're all totally frigging screwed here' Then I'd probably think for a minute and say 'Well okay, how bout this. Let's storm the cockpit and force the pilot into a parachute and throw him off the plane so he'll survive to get fired' then the guy would say 'well that wouldn't really work either, he'll just claim he went out to get help. He'll be hailed as a hero, and he'll probably recieve some great reward for that'. Then I'd probably say 'Okay, what if.. WE took the parachutes, escaped the crashing plane and survived so we could tell everybody that the pilot was incompetant?' Then he'd say 'Once again, that wouldn't work. Historically speaking airplane crash survivors are the most hated out of all accident survivors. If we don't get flogged just on the virtue of our survival we'll probably be thrown in jail for trying to slander the pilot'. Then I'd say 'You know it's times like this I wish airplanes were remote controlled. If the pilot was back at the airport and we all died he'd get fired, and his life might be ruined because of that' Then he'd say 'Yes, that does seem like it would be some small comfort'
You follow my meaning. It gets annoying. I saw this show where they had an expert on car breaks. This guy actually said using your breaks is bad, the best thing to do is to try an gauge how long it'll take you to stop your car and just take your foot off the gas pedal and let your car roll to a stop. In the event you have to stop on a hill you can ease on the break a BIT but allow your car to rest against the bumper in the car in front or behind you depending on the case; that way your breaks will be saved. AND if you need to stop in a hurry it's better if you just jump out of the car while it's still moving and let it crash into whatever gets in its way. He said provided you're not on a bridge, statistally your car won't sustain that much damage and would likely still be driveable after the crash with the breaks completely in tact.
I don't actually listen to anything back experts say. If it was up to them nobody would ever bend their backs in any circumstances. Have you ever actually tried to shovel out your driveway by doing all the bending and lifting with only your legs? It's next to impossible. It's always 'lift with your legs, lift with your legs'. It seems to me back experts are just extremely lazy. They don't want to treat any back injuries so they tell people not to use their backs, passing the buck off to the poor knee and leg experts. I can only imagine how many cases those folks get of people throwing out their knees and breaking their hips because they tried to do some activity without bending their back.
It maks me SICK
I'm all for it. I've pretty much had my limit of people trying to recruit me into terrorist organizations. It'd be nice if the government cracked down on them. Bloody ringing my doorbell at 9:00 am every saturday. Waiting in the train station handing out their phamplets. NO I'M NOT GOD DAMNED INTERESTED IN SACRIFICING MY LIFE IN THE NAME OF ALLAH! PISS THE FRIG OFF!! You just can't win. One day I was running late for work and one of these guys shoved one of their pamphlets in my face and I grabbed it from him and ripped it up. Then a cop sees me and gives me a ticket for littering. If it's not one thing it's another.
Think about it historically if you will. When in the history of war has the country doing the recruiting said something like.. 'Well, you'll probably be injured, disfigured, tortured. There's a good chance you'll be killed and we won't be able to recover your body. Now we're not making any garantees here.. but we may have a good chance at winning this war. That's MAYBE. It all depends on the ferocity with which the geurillas fight. You know how this sort of thing is, we're not actually being viewed as liberators so when you're over there you're pretty much gonna have to watch out for everybody who's not in a uniform. Oh what else.. Oh yeah, the new guns we've been issued are total crap, I wouldn't even shoot my mother in law with one of those things. But they will fire bullets if you keep sand out of them, not all consecutivley though, maybe one or two shots then you'll have to take it apart and clean it. On the plus side you probably won't have to worry about gunners hand! So I think that about covers it, now to enlist in the army all we'll need is your signature and you'll be on your way!'
The whole point is to glamorise war. That's how it works, all glory and hot forigen chicks.
I can just see it now, I open up my email to find the latest listings of my recent mail.. And there's a picture of my GST rebate cheque... And it's been shredded for my convenience. Thankyou remote mail you've certainly made my life easier.
The trouble with this whole situation is the TV broadcasters are all willing to go web only. It's been known for a long time they have the capacity to go with this sort of system. Overall it'd be cheaper and better for this sort of setup. The only problem with that IS the TV broadcasters have their nuts in the vice by the big TV makers. Sony and Panasonic are forcing the broadcasters to stick to the regular conventions so they can sell their expensive and unnecessary TV. Most people when asked said they are perfectly content with watching a little 7" tv screen just so long as there's something good on. For years we've been brainwashed to think that crystal clear picture and surround sound on a 90" TV screen is the best way to enjoy our favorite shows. Now that the internet has come along and is offering people a cheap alternative viewing experience they're getting scared. Web based TV is also affecting the big couch makers, but not as bad since most of those companies also make some sort of desk chairs. Mind you they'd still be at a significant loss if web TV took over.
I intend to throw the gauntlet down right now and propose a proper name change. From now on the wi-fi phones will be called 'wi-phones' that's right I said it. It's nothing fancy but it describes what it is with no added crazyness.
It's interesting that a company might even sorta consider porting their games over to Linux. It seems to me like it's more out of the goodness or thier hearts than generating any actual revenue. It almost sort of warms my heart.
-How do you get DosBox to work on OSX?
Well forget it. It seems to me that article is a little biased towards the ipod, but overall it seems to hit the nail on the head. I was hoping that the Zune would cripple the ipod then I could come here and laugh and get neg modded.. But that's probably not going to be the case. I haven't even seen a bloody commercial for the Zune. There's apparently no solid release date for Canada yet. Not that I'd buy one after that scathing review. MIND YOU, Microsoft could very well go the same way they went with the Xbox and bleed money till they get it right. It would be nice though if apple includes a native radio player in their next incarnation of the ipod, that could be at least one good thing the Zune would accomplish.
I've been in the software development buisness for nearly 14 years now. I have to tell you, we generally try not to burn our bridges. I'm sure it's easy for a lot people who aren't in the biz to go and say that something is 'un-linuxy' but when the bottom line is you either starving to death or scuttling a potential contract because you feel a particular kinship so some piece of software I think you should probably re-evaluate your priorities. Mind you, the whole thing goes the other way, in a sense. I've walked out on several potentially lucrative contracts in my carrear just because I wan't in the mood for all the software and platform changes that came with it. Those were in the early days though. By god in those days were were kings among men!
I'm sure at the lab it went something like this...
'Hey professor Roy, have you figured out how that ancient calculator works yet?'
'Well no.. eh heh... It's sort of a mystery.. Those olden days people were a lot more cleaver than we gave them credit for. I think we might have to change our hypothesis'
'ARE YOU INSANE?! We'll be a laughing stock! I can imagine the headlines now... "Scientists Change Hypothesis: Community Laughs at Expense".. I can't go through that again! You remember the Stone Henge fiasco?! The Bloody Scots threatened to raise Fingal!!'
'...I'll get my gun'
Looks like mankind has finally conquered nature. Mind you it's not so much a case of conquering nature as it is something like getting the newspaper in the morning only to find that the fella who delivers it accidently gave you an extra elastic. You think to yourself 'Yes! The joke's on him! He'll never see this again!' Then a week later you find the newpaper guy broke into your house and set your electric kettle boiling and left it going while you were at work, so when you get home the thing's broken.
When windows XP came out people were all saying that Microsoft could spy on whatever you download and shut down your computer at any time or call the cops on you if you did anything naughty. Overall though I think this is more widespread hysteria on the part of the people who get hysterical about this sort of thing.
I'm not some new fangled business educated type person but I would imagine the business strategy of 'disenfranchising' users based on heresay or whatever other means Microsoft could potentially use would be bad for business.
Imagine for whatever reason an entire animation studio running vista and all the computer get shut down and locked up cause Vista decided they were being bad. If the studio recovers from that disaster it's likely they'll switch over to Linux. Same goes for any other business.
Microsoft is going to go Neo-Hoober on everybody just cause the feature exists.
What's wrong with saying this is the way ths system works. You'll have to deal with it? Why is it we have to change the way things work just because it's not precisely perfect in the minds of some people. The bloody middle east censors their internet anway. I imagine whatever dictatorships over there could claim a victory over the west by declaring that they've given in to their demands and now the populous can access their propoganda websites with the address of their native tounge.
I'm quite pleased that heaven for pedophiles and sex offenders is getting what it deserves. I hope this stuff eventually brings Second Life down. 'There' never had any issues like that... I wonder why.
I have to agree with that. I would have figured Microsoft would have done some amazing ad campaign. So far NOTHIN. NUUUTTTTHIIINNNN. I'd like to see the ipod seriously hobbled by the Zune, but it's not gonna happen if Microsoft doesn't tell people this thing exists.
Explain to me how you can format a hard drive 10 times and still get the information back. That means that my current hard drive has all the information on it from its previous incarnations as a portable drive and a paperweight.
What in the hell do we need a space elevator for in the first place?! Oh so we can get little shrink wrapped bags of dried up crap to our brave astronauts doing studies on how clipboards react to spinning around in zero G. Or maybe so millionares and stupid idiots can go visit the horrifying endless black abyss that is the universe we inhabit.
The only non useless aspect of space is it's a good place to put satellites. Even then we get astronauts complaining that if they run into one they'll be killed. I say good! Astronauts are all jerks anyway. We'd be better off.
Course you didn't. You don't have any concept of what the 'mass market' as you call it will grab on to. It's all aboot waiting and seeing. Not being some psuedo intillectual economist wannabe applefucker. Sorry if that sounded rude but it's true.
Bless you sir.