I'm with ya brother! There's a lot of things we can give up to liberate ourselves from the shackles of the rat race.
For instance, I don't own any pants. I don't intend to either. I save hundreds of dollars a year. Images the TSA saves from me on their backscatter x-ray devices are hardly a concern anymore. I never suffer the humiliation of realizing that my lost car keys are, in fact, in my pocket. It's great!
As a bonus, i don't have anything to undo when nature calls. I can afford to push off rushing to the bathroom by 2 or 3 seconds. Over a lifetime of not wearing pants that amounts to hours. That's HOURS people are wasting buckling and unbuckling their pants just to take a dump!
I attended blizzard's talk on this at GDC. They presented the case that this esport thing is really taking off. It's not just in korea, but here and in europe as well. SC2 is played at live and broadcast events by the pros. Yes. there are only a handful of pros so they aren't going to bankroll you entirely, but it becomes something like celebrity endorsement. Hundreds of thousands of people are watching these pros. The pros are saying SC2 is the game to play.
sure, many users won't rise to the level of the pros. that's the case with any sport. people don't stop playing basketball or throwing a football around because they can't perform on the level of the pros. The pros inspire a lot of people to participate
iphone users seem pretty happy to share this information anyway. they post geocoded pictures to twitter and facebook. they check in on foursquare and countless other networks. I think one of the main desires of the majority of iphone's demographic is to constantly share this information.
It seems more like a sound architectural decision than an evil ulterior motive. If you have an audience of geolocation-sharing hungry consumers, it seems reasonable that your product would keep a log of locations.
If you don't want anyone to be able to find out anything about you, i don't think it's wise to get any cell phone to begin with.
They didn't decide what you can buy or use. You decided not to get an iphone. jailbreakers decided to jailbreak. It's true that if Apple had their way, they would force people to not jailbreak, but they can't. As it stands right now apple decides the terms on which their store is used and you decide if you want to shop there or not.
no, the strategy today is to get something that mostly works out the door as fast as you can. That way you can gauge how much people use it and decide to invest resources into patching it.
Chess also dispenses with any pretense of friendship or hidden ulterior motives. You can start with the basic assumption that your opponent is your enemy and needs to be vanquished. That assumption, carried into politics, doesn't seem to play out as well.
The best minds of the mayans wasted their lives building pyramids just so the priests could gut some people on them. This pattern has been going on a long time.
There seems to be a lot of stuff with 3d movies that would cause headaches. Bad directorial decisions to use depth of field, arbitrary depths that don't match our learned perception of depth, dual images separated by a one size fits all viewpoint offset that doesn't closely match the viewer's eyes, even poorly fitting glasses. until there's some kind of true holographic display, or something that can match your biometrics and produce an image just for you, it's probably always going to be problematic.
Indeed. I'm glad i can afford to buy a year's supply of toilet paper at Sam's Club. If i had to buy each pack of 4 rolls individually, i'm certain the price per gigawipe would increase tenfold!
I have long been a proponent of bring your own computer plans. I've been using my own machines at work for years now. My employer's cool with it. I get the machine i want. I upgrade it when i want. I get to file a tax deduction because i need it for work. Financially it seems to make sense both for me and my employer. The way i see it, some jobs require a closet full of $2000 + suits, mine just requires that i buy a nice machine every 1.5 - 2 years.
I am aware that some employers even give out a stipend for computers (and clothes).
I understand there are implications for IT. It's easier to support a homogenous locked down network, etc. But, i think people also take better care of the machines when they own them.
I'm a programmer, so i'm what i would consider a competent user. I know what i need. I know how to service my stuff. We do have sales people and project managers who do the same thing though. It's worked well for them.
The laws of physics and chemistry say i can't propel a car, a human payload, life support, and a snowboard from milwaukee to denver either. Somehow i manage to bypass them by stopping at a gas station.
I didn't rtfa or even the summary. The title implies that the chinese made human-like milk which produces cows. That's the way i always want it to stay for me.
That's an awesome idea! what the world needs is a social networking site that is the opposite of facebook. Instead of liking posts, your only course of action is to dislike posts. i would call it assbook.
The article didn't really say. I went looking for the same information. All i found was a lot of talk about what you will find on an infected site. The takeaway seems to be: If your site is serving up weird links that you didn't put there, sanitize everything.
Many people's idea of an improved pc seems to be something that doesn't offer them too many options or a confusing file system. They just want something that shows them pictures within seconds of picking it up.
This is a good story about stifling innovation, but did the fact that AT&T was a monopoly really stifle it? It's easy for us to look back and say, "This one guy made something game changing and it was covered up by a monopoly", but why was it just that one guy? How was the monopoly preventing others from finding this out on their own? Was AT&T running around and silencing everyone in the world who could have experimented with magnetic tape? Did busting up the monopoly free this technology up?
Even in the current market, it's possible for some dude at AT&T to come up with something that threatens their business model and be stifled. Is it somehow better because t-mobile is still out there? Nobody came up with that idea at t-mobile or verizon. it's still just as stifled and in 60 years we can look back and say, "oh man, if at&t hadn't hidden this we'd have had gigabit wireless everywhere for decades!" or whatever it is.
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I'm with ya brother! There's a lot of things we can give up to liberate ourselves from the shackles of the rat race.
For instance, I don't own any pants. I don't intend to either. I save hundreds of dollars a year. Images the TSA saves from me on their backscatter x-ray devices are hardly a concern anymore. I never suffer the humiliation of realizing that my lost car keys are, in fact, in my pocket. It's great!
As a bonus, i don't have anything to undo when nature calls. I can afford to push off rushing to the bathroom by 2 or 3 seconds. Over a lifetime of not wearing pants that amounts to hours. That's HOURS people are wasting buckling and unbuckling their pants just to take a dump!
I attended blizzard's talk on this at GDC. They presented the case that this esport thing is really taking off. It's not just in korea, but here and in europe as well. SC2 is played at live and broadcast events by the pros. Yes. there are only a handful of pros so they aren't going to bankroll you entirely, but it becomes something like celebrity endorsement. Hundreds of thousands of people are watching these pros. The pros are saying SC2 is the game to play.
sure, many users won't rise to the level of the pros. that's the case with any sport. people don't stop playing basketball or throwing a football around because they can't perform on the level of the pros. The pros inspire a lot of people to participate
iphone users seem pretty happy to share this information anyway. they post geocoded pictures to twitter and facebook. they check in on foursquare and countless other networks. I think one of the main desires of the majority of iphone's demographic is to constantly share this information.
It seems more like a sound architectural decision than an evil ulterior motive. If you have an audience of geolocation-sharing hungry consumers, it seems reasonable that your product would keep a log of locations.
If you don't want anyone to be able to find out anything about you, i don't think it's wise to get any cell phone to begin with.
They didn't decide what you can buy or use. You decided not to get an iphone. jailbreakers decided to jailbreak. It's true that if Apple had their way, they would force people to not jailbreak, but they can't. As it stands right now apple decides the terms on which their store is used and you decide if you want to shop there or not.
Sometimes dentists and hairdressers make mistakes as well.
no, the strategy today is to get something that mostly works out the door as fast as you can. That way you can gauge how much people use it and decide to invest resources into patching it.
Chess also dispenses with any pretense of friendship or hidden ulterior motives. You can start with the basic assumption that your opponent is your enemy and needs to be vanquished. That assumption, carried into politics, doesn't seem to play out as well.
I hacked slashdot. As evidence, i found this in the slashdot servers:
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The best minds of the mayans wasted their lives building pyramids just so the priests could gut some people on them. This pattern has been going on a long time.
lol! you are some kind of genius, pedantic or comic, i can't decide.
There seems to be a lot of stuff with 3d movies that would cause headaches. Bad directorial decisions to use depth of field, arbitrary depths that don't match our learned perception of depth, dual images separated by a one size fits all viewpoint offset that doesn't closely match the viewer's eyes, even poorly fitting glasses. until there's some kind of true holographic display, or something that can match your biometrics and produce an image just for you, it's probably always going to be problematic.
yeah. but a title that says people pay more per unit when they commit to buying less at a time is hardly exciting. that applies to canned peas.
Indeed. I'm glad i can afford to buy a year's supply of toilet paper at Sam's Club. If i had to buy each pack of 4 rolls individually, i'm certain the price per gigawipe would increase tenfold!
with a couple exceptions, the 2600 only had 2 kinds of games space invaders and pac man.
I have long been a proponent of bring your own computer plans. I've been using my own machines at work for years now. My employer's cool with it. I get the machine i want. I upgrade it when i want. I get to file a tax deduction because i need it for work. Financially it seems to make sense both for me and my employer. The way i see it, some jobs require a closet full of $2000 + suits, mine just requires that i buy a nice machine every 1.5 - 2 years.
I am aware that some employers even give out a stipend for computers (and clothes).
I understand there are implications for IT. It's easier to support a homogenous locked down network, etc. But, i think people also take better care of the machines when they own them.
I'm a programmer, so i'm what i would consider a competent user. I know what i need. I know how to service my stuff. We do have sales people and project managers who do the same thing though. It's worked well for them.
The laws of physics and chemistry say i can't propel a car, a human payload, life support, and a snowboard from milwaukee to denver either. Somehow i manage to bypass them by stopping at a gas station.
I'm in my 40's and have a full head of wavy locks. The chicks really dig my hair, but I chose to shave it off. The chicks dig my bald head to.
maybe I'm just lucky, but I really think it's the in-between states that don't work. Everyone I know who embraces baldness is a hit with the ladies.
There are also plenty of americans that hate chevrolet ads. They drive fords.
I didn't rtfa or even the summary. The title implies that the chinese made human-like milk which produces cows. That's the way i always want it to stay for me.
That's an awesome idea! what the world needs is a social networking site that is the opposite of facebook. Instead of liking posts, your only course of action is to dislike posts. i would call it assbook.
I can't help but take your post as a direct challenge to participate in this conversation without rtfa.
Google is become evil!
The article didn't really say. I went looking for the same information. All i found was a lot of talk about what you will find on an infected site. The takeaway seems to be: If your site is serving up weird links that you didn't put there, sanitize everything.
that hardly seems like news.
Isn't there another story about how a kid was able to scrape enough material from glow in the dark clock faces?
Many people's idea of an improved pc seems to be something that doesn't offer them too many options or a confusing file system. They just want something that shows them pictures within seconds of picking it up.
This is a good story about stifling innovation, but did the fact that AT&T was a monopoly really stifle it? It's easy for us to look back and say, "This one guy made something game changing and it was covered up by a monopoly", but why was it just that one guy? How was the monopoly preventing others from finding this out on their own? Was AT&T running around and silencing everyone in the world who could have experimented with magnetic tape? Did busting up the monopoly free this technology up?
Even in the current market, it's possible for some dude at AT&T to come up with something that threatens their business model and be stifled. Is it somehow better because t-mobile is still out there? Nobody came up with that idea at t-mobile or verizon. it's still just as stifled and in 60 years we can look back and say, "oh man, if at&t hadn't hidden this we'd have had gigabit wireless everywhere for decades!" or whatever it is.