That's why people often post links to such things in their Tweets. They don't try to teach ideas within 140 characters, but they say, "Hey, I just posted this HowTo or such here. -tinyurl-"
If anyone knows a better way of spreading that kind of info, short of Slashdot, let me know.
Or maybe they should have a website with links to their websites, so you can go and load up dozens if not hundreds of differents websites to learn about their websites?
I like the notifications I get on Twitter (and Facebook) of new blogs, videos, forum posts, etc. It's a good way to condense and follow numerous sources at once.
Wow, fantastic... I've always wondered what was wrong with me. I've recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea, but I think I actually have them both. I always thought I'd developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from having gotten mono in my 20s (when it can be dangerous), and indeed I might have had it for a while, but I still exhibit all of these symptoms. I've never had much trouble with overnight shifts or 2nd shift, but put me on a 9a-5p shift and I'm a zombie. Like now... maybe I should start looking specifically for 2nd/3rd shift jobs from now on...
When I say "Wow, fantastic..." I didn't mean it in a snarky fashion, I actually meant that that was a good post and I appreciate it and the link to DSPD. I'll bring it up with my doctor next time I get health insurance and can see him, heh.
No command 'take' found, did you mean:
Command 'tmake' from package 'tmake' (universe)
Command 'bake' from package 'bake' (universe)
Command 'fake' from package 'fake' (universe)
Command 'rake' from package 'rake' (universe)
Command 'toke' from package 'fcode-utils' (universe)
Command 'make' from package 'make' (main)
Command 'cake' from package 'cakephp-scripts' (universe) take: command not found $ sudo apt-get remove bra-38.0d
If I can play and beat the game in three hours, and it has no replay value, then it sucks.
Did you enjoy those 3 hours? I find it telling that this didn't even factor into the equation of whether the game was good or not.
Judging a game based on its length or replay-ability is as idiotic as judging a movie by its running time or the content of the DVD/blu-ray special features.
And I can only assume you despise movies and books too which tend to have no "replay value" either, and which also only deliver a few hours of enjoyment for the cost...
I fully agree. I play a lot of free Flash games and there have been some that I blew threw in less than an hour, but I thought were really good for that hour. There are also some that I put hours of time into trying to squeeze some level of enjoyment out of with little or no success. Length of time of the game means nothing. That's in the same category as, "Graphics make or break a game!" It's just a really stupid benchmark.
Your car has no stickers, stripes, or 5" exhaust tip, so it must suck!
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I disagree. I've worked in both industries. As an IT admin, I have yet to be slapped or had a plateful of food thrown my face. I've never been punched in the junk by a child while leaning over a table to deliver food, then yelled at by the parents for almost dropping the food without a word to the giggling child who's winding up to do it again. You really want to compare having to go into work at 2am for a downed server once in a while or putting up with an idiot PHB to working 16hr shifts on your feet with no break and a screeching boss?
I also make at least 4-5 times more than I did in the restaurant business. In an air conditioned office. With actual benefits like health insurance and vacation days (not that I get to use my vacation days much, but at least I *have* them...) Generally sitting on my butt too. At my busiest I'm still just sitting on my butt. I might be busy tapping away at a computer and having users calling me and whining about their slow connections or stupid problems, but it's still heavenly compared to working in a restaurant.
I dare you to quit your IT job and go work in a restaurant for a few months. Then feel free to come back and say that again with a straight face.
Well, there's "respect" and then there's "being respectful". I think you can be respectful of the personal space and privacy of those around you without really "respecting" them. Holding a door for someone is being respectful, doesn't mean you respect them.
I think this answers the age of question of "what it means to me". You just found out!
And eventually the government will make attempts to hide illegal. "Oh you use type X encryption? That's 1-3yrs in jail for not registering with the Federal Encryption Maintenance Bureau!"
Isn't it illegal to not vote? And voting requires registration... My point is sooner or later there'll be a requirement to keep the government fully informed of everything you do at all times. Online and off.
If you're trying to remain anonymous, Facebook is the least of your worries.
That anchor was removed a long time ago, something about a (tele?)communications freedom act or something, I think. I've ported my number from Verizon landline service to AT&T wireless to Verizon wireless and back to AT&T wireless... that's 3 ports, and when my current contract with AT&T ends, I'll probably port it back to Verizon to get me a shiny Droid phone. Although where I live AT&T has better service, not by so much that it wouldn't be worth the switch. I still have 8 months left on my contract though, so if AT&T pulls a nice Droid phone of their own out of their butts... we'll see.
And I've been putting serious thought into switching to Credo Mobile, to support some good causes.
Point is, in all those ports, I never had any issues porting my number, it happened within the day I made the xfr each time.
Torchlight has come up in many conversations I've had in varied groups of gamer friends. But not once has anyone ever tied it to Fate. Am I the only one who remembers that little game? Diablo-esque in a way, but Torchlight is WAY more of a knock-off of that than of Diablo. Weapons, upgrades, the PET. There was no pet in Diablo that I recall. There was in Fate. And guess what, you could fish for special fish you could feed your pet to change him into other creatures to help you fight. Sound familiar? Yes, that's right, that's just like Torchlight... except Fate came out YEARS ago. The brighter colors and more-"cartoony"-than-Diablo artwork featured in Torchlight? Yes, a LOT like Fate. I played the Torchlight demo and I could not stop thinking how much more similar it was to Fate than to Diablo.
The "It's just like Diablo so it sucks!" attitude is getting really old. It's like saying Doom, Unreal, or any other FPS is just like Wolfenstein 3D. Try the game, try to enjoy it for it's own merit. Few things are truly original these days, but in the end, you have to ask yourself, "Did you enjoy playing it?" If you didn't, and the only reason you didn't, is because you felt it was a "ripoff" of a prior game, then I feel very sad for you. You must hate 99% of all music, movies, and games that are produced these days. I would kill myself if I were that cynical, 'cause life would be really boring.
BTW, words also have connotations, and the connotation of "tinkerer" is very different than that of "hacker". If the continued use of "hacker" in this context bothers you too much, propose a new usage --- if it's catchy enough, maybe it'll catch on. But "tinkerer" won't (for the above reason).
Aren't those the people who follow the Way of the Leaf and don't believe in violence under any circumstances? Oh wait...
"Been in the family" doesn't mean owned by the same person. Son could've bought it from dad. No matter how much you love your kids, I'm sure there's some pause before you decide to simply give them a $300K house that you spent the last 20-30yrs paying off. (I didn't read TFA, so maybe that's not the case, but it's a reasonable possibility, I think).
How many people find it so implausible that he was so drunk that he couldn't feel his dog eating off his toe...
But have no problems believing a guy could get so drunk that his wife can cut off his dangly bit and take it for a ride?
(and others have already posted the logical reasons as to why he didn't notice: diabetes-related neuropathy most likely, my dad's got it, dropped a razer sharp knife on his foot, went straight through, didn't feel a thing)
Good to know, remind me not to let my kids come over and play with yours at your house, knowing your house is probably a disaster waiting to happen. And when you sell it, I'm sure the next person will be able to spot all of the illegal and dangerous code violations.
Oh don't get me wrong, I recognize that sometimes (often) governments, especially small town local governments, take licensing, permits, zoning, property control, and the like way too far (I'm actually experiencing it first hand in my own place, but that's beside the point), but believe it or not we do live in a world where there are other people around us and as such we do need SOME level of structure to keep the idiots of the world from killing us or screwing us over.
What we need is balance and reason. (yeah, I know, unlikely at best, but one can wish)
As I recall, every time a new technology for movie-making came out, there were some great directors that fought against it. Talking films?? That will never work! *Color* movies?? That's just a fad. Seriously, do you really need more than 300 lines of horizontal resolution?? I mean, come on, what do you really need with DVDs? Tapes work just fine.
It's no different here. Every time a new technology comes out in the entertainment world there are going to be protractors and detractors. Some will hail it as a great advance, others will stick up their noses at it. It's nothing new.
Every single one of these have had both producers and consumers who found some reasons they were fantastic, and some who had reasons why they would never see any benefit from them and/or weren't worth the time/money to implement or use them. Anyone else know someone who was positive that DVDs were a fad and that laser discs would make a big comeback? Many years ago I worked at a Suncoast video and while stocking a shelf near the register a lady came in and bought 3 videos, all in full screen. My manager was the one who rung her up and pointed out that the wide screen version was better, and in at least one of the movies, some useful bits of the movie were cut off the sides. She insisted she never saw any difference and that the black bars along the top/bottom bothered her. She had even upgraded to a wide-screen TV, which took away the black bars, but now the movie looked too... wide for her.
640K isn't necessarily enough for everyone, but for some it works just fine.
That doesn't mean we should form our cultural evolution around the lowest common denominator.
When I read the title and started reading the article for a minute I thought someone had taken a spork and built an OpenSolaris system into it. Now I'm sad and disappointed.:(
Not a bad argument, used for many "laissez faire" open/free market arguments. The problem is when it comes to basic and near-basic utilities (electric, gas, oil, cable, internet, health care), there are quite often only one or two companies in your area that provide those services. They often know it, and without some sort of government oversight, they can do whatever they feel will net their upper management a few extra $$$ so they can get their kids yachts for Xmas.
What if Verizon gets no signal near your home or work? Are you going to cancel your AT&T contract and get a Verizon Droid phone you can't use?
Where I live in MA I am lucky enough that I can pick from Comcast or Verizon, but I started a new job up in NH and my boss, who lives locally, was pointing out that in most of the areas around here there's just one residential ISP (someone I'd never even heard of). What happens when Net Neutrality is quashed and this ISP decides to jump on the money machine and start charging Google, Wikipedia, Fark, Facebook, CNN, Yahoo, or hell, AT&T to use their network or be slowed? What do you do when you take a WFH day and decide to remote in to work but since AT&T didn't pay the no-name ISP enough, they get throttled and it takes you an hour to do what could've taken 10 minutes? Cancel your ISP and go stare at the wall? Or worse, get DirecTV satellite Internet? *gag* Oh I know, you could complain to your single ISP! Enjoy the laughter.
And while competition might limit the effects of losing net neutrality, it wouldn't stop it. Sure, Comcast might run an ad campaign touting how they don't slow down Fark and Google like Verizon does, and Verizon might run ads saying they don't slow down Bing and Spankwire like Comcast does, but what gets shuffled under the carpet is the fact that in the background, they BOTH slow down bbc.co.uk, Washington Post, and Slashdot, just because they can.
I'm not a fan of big government or government interference in daily life, but I'm definitely not a fan of monolithic, unregulated corporations either.
Also, there is an increasing tendency in American business culture to undervalue the PhD as a foreigner or nerd degree and require anyone who makes real money to have an MBA.
I don't think that's an "increasing tendency", I think that's a solid fact. Without doing much real research (since we all know facts hold far less weight than our own opinions and gut feelings, right?), I'm willing to bet that of the top, say, 500 richest people in the country (who have a degree at all), you'll be lucky to find more than a handful of PhD's, but plenty of MBAs. I've never heard anyone mention Dr. Bill Gates, Dr. Sam Walton, Dr. Warren Buffet, or Dr. Larry Ellison...
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That's why people often post links to such things in their Tweets. They don't try to teach ideas within 140 characters, but they say, "Hey, I just posted this HowTo or such here. -tinyurl-"
If anyone knows a better way of spreading that kind of info, short of Slashdot, let me know.
Or maybe they should have a website with links to their websites, so you can go and load up dozens if not hundreds of differents websites to learn about their websites?
I like the notifications I get on Twitter (and Facebook) of new blogs, videos, forum posts, etc. It's a good way to condense and follow numerous sources at once.
Wow, fantastic... I've always wondered what was wrong with me. I've recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea, but I think I actually have them both. I always thought I'd developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from having gotten mono in my 20s (when it can be dangerous), and indeed I might have had it for a while, but I still exhibit all of these symptoms. I've never had much trouble with overnight shifts or 2nd shift, but put me on a 9a-5p shift and I'm a zombie. Like now... maybe I should start looking specifically for 2nd/3rd shift jobs from now on...
When I say "Wow, fantastic..." I didn't mean it in a snarky fashion, I actually meant that that was a good post and I appreciate it and the link to DSPD. I'll bring it up with my doctor next time I get health insurance and can see him, heh.
No command 'take' found, did you mean:
Command 'tmake' from package 'tmake' (universe)
Command 'bake' from package 'bake' (universe)
Command 'fake' from package 'fake' (universe)
Command 'rake' from package 'rake' (universe)
Command 'toke' from package 'fcode-utils' (universe)
Command 'make' from package 'make' (main)
Command 'cake' from package 'cakephp-scripts' (universe)
take: command not found
$ sudo apt-get remove bra-38.0d
Doesn't "danger" indicate the potential for loss or harm to human life? It's not a manned flight, so there's no "danger" to anyone...
Just like Predator drones exist to keep humans out of dangerous situations. Well, the humans on the controlling end, anyway...
No, but the zombies in L4D 2 are more animated than the ones you find in r/l K-Mart. ;-P
If I can play and beat the game in three hours, and it has no replay value, then it sucks.
Did you enjoy those 3 hours? I find it telling that this didn't even factor into the equation of whether the game was good or not.
Judging a game based on its length or replay-ability is as idiotic as judging a movie by its running time or the content of the DVD/blu-ray special features.
And I can only assume you despise movies and books too which tend to have no "replay value" either, and which also only deliver a few hours of enjoyment for the cost...
I fully agree. I play a lot of free Flash games and there have been some that I blew threw in less than an hour, but I thought were really good for that hour. There are also some that I put hours of time into trying to squeeze some level of enjoyment out of with little or no success. Length of time of the game means nothing. That's in the same category as, "Graphics make or break a game!" It's just a really stupid benchmark.
Your car has no stickers, stripes, or 5" exhaust tip, so it must suck!
I disagree. I've worked in both industries. As an IT admin, I have yet to be slapped or had a plateful of food thrown my face. I've never been punched in the junk by a child while leaning over a table to deliver food, then yelled at by the parents for almost dropping the food without a word to the giggling child who's winding up to do it again. You really want to compare having to go into work at 2am for a downed server once in a while or putting up with an idiot PHB to working 16hr shifts on your feet with no break and a screeching boss?
I also make at least 4-5 times more than I did in the restaurant business. In an air conditioned office. With actual benefits like health insurance and vacation days (not that I get to use my vacation days much, but at least I *have* them...) Generally sitting on my butt too. At my busiest I'm still just sitting on my butt. I might be busy tapping away at a computer and having users calling me and whining about their slow connections or stupid problems, but it's still heavenly compared to working in a restaurant.
I dare you to quit your IT job and go work in a restaurant for a few months. Then feel free to come back and say that again with a straight face.
Now they know who I am and that I read an article with "child porn" in the title, aw man, they're coming to get me as we speak. >.
Well, there's "respect" and then there's "being respectful". I think you can be respectful of the personal space and privacy of those around you without really "respecting" them. Holding a door for someone is being respectful, doesn't mean you respect them.
I think this answers the age of question of "what it means to me". You just found out!
And eventually the government will make attempts to hide illegal. "Oh you use type X encryption? That's 1-3yrs in jail for not registering with the Federal Encryption Maintenance Bureau!"
Isn't it illegal to not vote? And voting requires registration... My point is sooner or later there'll be a requirement to keep the government fully informed of everything you do at all times. Online and off.
If you're trying to remain anonymous, Facebook is the least of your worries.
Does that include the copy that the DMV secretly sent to the Federal government before deleting it from their own system? :)
Personally I think we should all push to drop the inefficient decimal system and move to hexadecimal. Final Fantasy 15 would be FF F!
Well then. Yes, that's a good reason indeed, heh. Thank you for that nugget of knowledge, I didn't know that.
That anchor was removed a long time ago, something about a (tele?)communications freedom act or something, I think. I've ported my number from Verizon landline service to AT&T wireless to Verizon wireless and back to AT&T wireless... that's 3 ports, and when my current contract with AT&T ends, I'll probably port it back to Verizon to get me a shiny Droid phone. Although where I live AT&T has better service, not by so much that it wouldn't be worth the switch. I still have 8 months left on my contract though, so if AT&T pulls a nice Droid phone of their own out of their butts... we'll see.
And I've been putting serious thought into switching to Credo Mobile, to support some good causes.
Point is, in all those ports, I never had any issues porting my number, it happened within the day I made the xfr each time.
Torchlight has come up in many conversations I've had in varied groups of gamer friends. But not once has anyone ever tied it to Fate. Am I the only one who remembers that little game? Diablo-esque in a way, but Torchlight is WAY more of a knock-off of that than of Diablo. Weapons, upgrades, the PET. There was no pet in Diablo that I recall. There was in Fate. And guess what, you could fish for special fish you could feed your pet to change him into other creatures to help you fight. Sound familiar? Yes, that's right, that's just like Torchlight... except Fate came out YEARS ago. The brighter colors and more-"cartoony"-than-Diablo artwork featured in Torchlight? Yes, a LOT like Fate. I played the Torchlight demo and I could not stop thinking how much more similar it was to Fate than to Diablo.
The "It's just like Diablo so it sucks!" attitude is getting really old. It's like saying Doom, Unreal, or any other FPS is just like Wolfenstein 3D. Try the game, try to enjoy it for it's own merit. Few things are truly original these days, but in the end, you have to ask yourself, "Did you enjoy playing it?" If you didn't, and the only reason you didn't, is because you felt it was a "ripoff" of a prior game, then I feel very sad for you. You must hate 99% of all music, movies, and games that are produced these days. I would kill myself if I were that cynical, 'cause life would be really boring.
So Diablo 1 and 2 were boring? Well then, I guess this genre of game isn't your thing.
BTW, words also have connotations, and the connotation of "tinkerer" is very different than that of "hacker". If the continued use of "hacker" in this context bothers you too much, propose a new usage --- if it's catchy enough, maybe it'll catch on. But "tinkerer" won't (for the above reason).
Aren't those the people who follow the Way of the Leaf and don't believe in violence under any circumstances? Oh wait...
"Been in the family" doesn't mean owned by the same person. Son could've bought it from dad. No matter how much you love your kids, I'm sure there's some pause before you decide to simply give them a $300K house that you spent the last 20-30yrs paying off. (I didn't read TFA, so maybe that's not the case, but it's a reasonable possibility, I think).
How many people find it so implausible that he was so drunk that he couldn't feel his dog eating off his toe...
But have no problems believing a guy could get so drunk that his wife can cut off his dangly bit and take it for a ride?
(and others have already posted the logical reasons as to why he didn't notice: diabetes-related neuropathy most likely, my dad's got it, dropped a razer sharp knife on his foot, went straight through, didn't feel a thing)
Good to know, remind me not to let my kids come over and play with yours at your house, knowing your house is probably a disaster waiting to happen. And when you sell it, I'm sure the next person will be able to spot all of the illegal and dangerous code violations.
Oh don't get me wrong, I recognize that sometimes (often) governments, especially small town local governments, take licensing, permits, zoning, property control, and the like way too far (I'm actually experiencing it first hand in my own place, but that's beside the point), but believe it or not we do live in a world where there are other people around us and as such we do need SOME level of structure to keep the idiots of the world from killing us or screwing us over.
What we need is balance and reason. (yeah, I know, unlikely at best, but one can wish)
As I recall, every time a new technology for movie-making came out, there were some great directors that fought against it. Talking films?? That will never work! *Color* movies?? That's just a fad. Seriously, do you really need more than 300 lines of horizontal resolution?? I mean, come on, what do you really need with DVDs? Tapes work just fine.
It's no different here. Every time a new technology comes out in the entertainment world there are going to be protractors and detractors. Some will hail it as a great advance, others will stick up their noses at it. It's nothing new.
Talking films, color films, blue-red 3D, laser discs, Dolby, VHS, DVDs, Blu-ray/HD-DVD, progressive scan, 720i, 1080i/1080p, DTS, THX, flat screen, wide screen, LCD, LED, plasma.
Every single one of these have had both producers and consumers who found some reasons they were fantastic, and some who had reasons why they would never see any benefit from them and/or weren't worth the time/money to implement or use them. Anyone else know someone who was positive that DVDs were a fad and that laser discs would make a big comeback? Many years ago I worked at a Suncoast video and while stocking a shelf near the register a lady came in and bought 3 videos, all in full screen. My manager was the one who rung her up and pointed out that the wide screen version was better, and in at least one of the movies, some useful bits of the movie were cut off the sides. She insisted she never saw any difference and that the black bars along the top/bottom bothered her. She had even upgraded to a wide-screen TV, which took away the black bars, but now the movie looked too... wide for her.
640K isn't necessarily enough for everyone, but for some it works just fine.
That doesn't mean we should form our cultural evolution around the lowest common denominator.
..and you'd still have to convince enough people to go along with it to pull it off.
And that's what slave labor is for. :)
When I read the title and started reading the article for a minute I thought someone had taken a spork and built an OpenSolaris system into it. Now I'm sad and disappointed. :(
Not a bad argument, used for many "laissez faire" open/free market arguments. The problem is when it comes to basic and near-basic utilities (electric, gas, oil, cable, internet, health care), there are quite often only one or two companies in your area that provide those services. They often know it, and without some sort of government oversight, they can do whatever they feel will net their upper management a few extra $$$ so they can get their kids yachts for Xmas.
What if Verizon gets no signal near your home or work? Are you going to cancel your AT&T contract and get a Verizon Droid phone you can't use?
Where I live in MA I am lucky enough that I can pick from Comcast or Verizon, but I started a new job up in NH and my boss, who lives locally, was pointing out that in most of the areas around here there's just one residential ISP (someone I'd never even heard of). What happens when Net Neutrality is quashed and this ISP decides to jump on the money machine and start charging Google, Wikipedia, Fark, Facebook, CNN, Yahoo, or hell, AT&T to use their network or be slowed? What do you do when you take a WFH day and decide to remote in to work but since AT&T didn't pay the no-name ISP enough, they get throttled and it takes you an hour to do what could've taken 10 minutes? Cancel your ISP and go stare at the wall? Or worse, get DirecTV satellite Internet? *gag* Oh I know, you could complain to your single ISP! Enjoy the laughter.
And while competition might limit the effects of losing net neutrality, it wouldn't stop it. Sure, Comcast might run an ad campaign touting how they don't slow down Fark and Google like Verizon does, and Verizon might run ads saying they don't slow down Bing and Spankwire like Comcast does, but what gets shuffled under the carpet is the fact that in the background, they BOTH slow down bbc.co.uk, Washington Post, and Slashdot, just because they can.
I'm not a fan of big government or government interference in daily life, but I'm definitely not a fan of monolithic, unregulated corporations either.
Also, there is an increasing tendency in American business culture to undervalue the PhD as a foreigner or nerd degree and require anyone who makes real money to have an MBA.
I don't think that's an "increasing tendency", I think that's a solid fact. Without doing much real research (since we all know facts hold far less weight than our own opinions and gut feelings, right?), I'm willing to bet that of the top, say, 500 richest people in the country (who have a degree at all), you'll be lucky to find more than a handful of PhD's, but plenty of MBAs. I've never heard anyone mention Dr. Bill Gates, Dr. Sam Walton, Dr. Warren Buffet, or Dr. Larry Ellison...
Honorary degrees aside.