Add me to the jaded column as well then. I think your translation is pretty spot on. This is picking up where Portals left off - "We don't really know what we will do with it, but we need it!" Like the business world needs 200,000 more empty MyJournal pages...
Exactly. Most people eventually come to value their time with family, friends, nature, hobbies, or whatever more than a bit of extra cash from working 60+ hour weeks. I enjoy my job just fine, but I think my wife deserves my time as well and I think 40 hours a week is enough for work.
I doubt you'll hear many people lamenting on their death bed, "Ohh, I just wish I would have worked more....".
Let's be perfectly clear - people buy high speed internet connections so that they can pirate stuff. That is a completely ridiculous assertion and makes you look incredibly ignorant. There is a lot more media available via the net than just pirated stuff. Pirated content may or may not make up a majority portion of that content, but to assert the only use for broadband is to pirate stuff is just plain stupid.
People start taking a lot of things more seriously when they lose money on them. Griefing and bots are more than just an irritation when your online account is getting debited on each death.
Exactly. The average cost of a 30-second commercial is ~$150,000. 50k for the eyeball time this page has received is nothing. Especially compared to the ill-will cost of their handling of the matter.
Edit on a related note:
People are capable of being used as a medium to display pornographic images?
People are pervasive, making it practically impossible to prevent your childrens exposure to it!!... you should probably burn them as well.
Well, yes of course! Those fluorescents wash out the golden-goodness color of my fries, and the extra glare from the smoke-filled air make the pronstars look a little pasty on the 80-inch plasma tv... Innovation my ass!
Does anyone have any experience with the other filter set lists? Personally, I don't mind updating/adding things to the filter myself, but there's no way my wife or my parents would mess with that. Any recommendations on a good hands-off subscription I could install for them?
I wonder how long it's going to be before certain unnamed agencies are bitch-slapped back into legal and logical operations. Longer than many will probably like. A good number of people just take in on the chin and say "Well, if it's making me safer, they can do whatever they want." Demagoguery is a wonderful thing.
That's been my take on it ever since they went apeshit over security after 9-11. They slammed a bunch of kneejerk overreaction policies into place, made air travel a huge pain in the ass for the normal everyday person taking a flight, and pushed airline security hand-wringing to the forefront of everyone's eyes and minds - all to effect an illusion of having everything under control. I mean, just look at how hard they are scrutinizing us, it must be secure, right?
Thanks TSA. Preventing us from traveling with a lighter and shampoo has made the US a safer place to fly.
Whether or not custom code is appropriate in their particular case is irrelevant. The point is that if you have spent a considerable amount of time fixing or improving open source software that you rely on, there is considerable benefit in contributing that code back to the project. There is the maintenance piece as already mentioned. Additionally, you benefit from continued testing and perhaps bug fixing or further improvement of your code by the larger user community. This alone can be a huge benefit, because the company who has paid for your time on these improvements can essentially reap additional free work on their software.
I can't see where concern over whether or not your changes make it in in time can really apply in this case either. You already have your changes in. They are right there in your modified version of the source. You're already having to merge them with any updates that may come out. If they are merged into the base project, that is much less work you face to integrate the newer version. In the mean time, nothing has really changed while waiting for your changes to go in.
Yes, unfortunately Colbert often quashes what could be interesting points in his interviews with his shtick. It's a shame, as I really like his angle and wit, but often he forces the satire just a little too much in the interview portion of the show. His fake interviews back when he was on the Daily Show were some of the best, but he hasn't yet grown into the live interview role it seems. Perhaps he will mellow into it more with time.
You definitely are not alone in your aversion. The frequency with which I see an ad for a product varies inversely with my likelihood to purchase it. My wife finds it pretty amusing how irritated I get over some ads and often asks me if talking back to the TV has made me feel better (yeah, it does). She on the other hand just tunes them out and says they don't bother her. I've often wondered how many others share my extreme aversion to all forms of advertising. Obviously it has not reached a sufficiently critical mass, as the ads show no sign of retreat.
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Add me to the jaded column as well then. I think your translation is pretty spot on. This is picking up where Portals left off - "We don't really know what we will do with it, but we need it!" Like the business world needs 200,000 more empty MyJournal pages...
I doubt you'll hear many people lamenting on their death bed, "Ohh, I just wish I would have worked more....".
Wonderful! So not only are you violating the game TOS, you're cheating on your taxes as well! Bravo!
Yes, of course, buying gold supports terrorism and makes baby jesus cry. The fact that that even comes out of someone's mouth just galls me.
... or the chainsaw.
I'm pretty sure that hammer ownership is still even within the rights of the student himself... though I'm sure that oversight will soon be corrected.
People start taking a lot of things more seriously when they lose money on them. Griefing and bots are more than just an irritation when your online account is getting debited on each death.
Exactly. The average cost of a 30-second commercial is ~$150,000. 50k for the eyeball time this page has received is nothing. Especially compared to the ill-will cost of their handling of the matter.
Edit on a related note: People are capable of being used as a medium to display pornographic images? People are pervasive, making it practically impossible to prevent your childrens exposure to it!! ... you should probably burn them as well.
Well, yes of course! Those fluorescents wash out the golden-goodness color of my fries, and the extra glare from the smoke-filled air make the pronstars look a little pasty on the 80-inch plasma tv... Innovation my ass!
Thank you, I'll give that one a try.
Does anyone have any experience with the other filter set lists? Personally, I don't mind updating/adding things to the filter myself, but there's no way my wife or my parents would mess with that. Any recommendations on a good hands-off subscription I could install for them?
That's been my take on it ever since they went apeshit over security after 9-11. They slammed a bunch of kneejerk overreaction policies into place, made air travel a huge pain in the ass for the normal everyday person taking a flight, and pushed airline security hand-wringing to the forefront of everyone's eyes and minds - all to effect an illusion of having everything under control. I mean, just look at how hard they are scrutinizing us, it must be secure, right?
Thanks TSA. Preventing us from traveling with a lighter and shampoo has made the US a safer place to fly.
Whether or not custom code is appropriate in their particular case is irrelevant. The point is that if you have spent a considerable amount of time fixing or improving open source software that you rely on, there is considerable benefit in contributing that code back to the project. There is the maintenance piece as already mentioned. Additionally, you benefit from continued testing and perhaps bug fixing or further improvement of your code by the larger user community. This alone can be a huge benefit, because the company who has paid for your time on these improvements can essentially reap additional free work on their software.
I can't see where concern over whether or not your changes make it in in time can really apply in this case either. You already have your changes in. They are right there in your modified version of the source. You're already having to merge them with any updates that may come out. If they are merged into the base project, that is much less work you face to integrate the newer version. In the mean time, nothing has really changed while waiting for your changes to go in.
Yes, unfortunately Colbert often quashes what could be interesting points in his interviews with his shtick. It's a shame, as I really like his angle and wit, but often he forces the satire just a little too much in the interview portion of the show. His fake interviews back when he was on the Daily Show were some of the best, but he hasn't yet grown into the live interview role it seems. Perhaps he will mellow into it more with time.
You definitely are not alone in your aversion. The frequency with which I see an ad for a product varies inversely with my likelihood to purchase it. My wife finds it pretty amusing how irritated I get over some ads and often asks me if talking back to the TV has made me feel better (yeah, it does). She on the other hand just tunes them out and says they don't bother her. I've often wondered how many others share my extreme aversion to all forms of advertising. Obviously it has not reached a sufficiently critical mass, as the ads show no sign of retreat.