Okay, for all the negativity about nonsense like law and building codes and safety, I have the perfect solution. Bury it!
Build a big pit when no one's looking and have your friends help drop it in the ground, cut open a hatch, put a well on it and bury the rest before day breaks. There will be absolutely nothing suspicious about you crawling in and out of the ground.
I'll second this. I'm an architect and have a friend who is also an architect who had a plan to add to his existing house using some shipping containers. After drawing the detailed plans, the city refused to permit (I'm not sure exactly why, but he scrapped the idea).
In my limited experience of dealing with that shit, I can tell you 9/10s of the time it's because "it doesn't look pretty."
I worked for a company that almost exclusively made fancy 3D renderings of buildings from CAD files just so that the city would allow the buildings to be built. These contractors dropped tens of thousands for these previews because the biggest hassle in construction was a panel of "experts" who thought the difference between verde and baby shit green was the color.
Yeah, I read about that right after I posted that comment. I had no idea that helium could shoot out of the atmosphere. I'm just impressed it hasn't all leaked out already.
I was one of those phone-hack-happy teens who worshiped Kevin Poulsen after reading The Watchman. I was excited to see him reporting on Wired, but over time his comments became very disillusioning.
Heroes are fine and dandy until you grow up and learn that they only exist as long as you don't suspect them of being a human being. Of course, he wasn't so much a hero as a fucking lunatic who exploited everything he came across...
It could lead to a foreign country taking over the USA and then we'd really be in for a change when the national language is changed to mandarin or russian, even french.
Interesting possibilities on the languages I might have to learn should I survive the invasion, but I think it's far more likely I'll have to learn Spanish.
Much of Central and South America lack the sense of law and order people in the US have and the opportunity to freely alter the political map of the continent would bring millions.
The government is full of competitors, people who fight for their "right" to rule. The next logical step is to force your views on the playing field and try to protect the integrity of your memes.
Other politicians are risk enough, but it's the vast number of citizens who can cause real change if they wanted. That's why politicians want the people who take orders from them to be the only ones with guns. Now that the internet is a serious threat because of the power it gives to people that shadows the threat of guns.
"If the console doesn't get as much ventilation as it needs to operate properly, a red light is displayed in the middle of the power ring, and the console shuts down by itself. Upon doing so, a message is displayed on the users' television, alerting them to the overheating issue."
(emphasis mine)
Oh, very nice. Maybe they could have saved themselves hundreds of millions if it just did that in the first place...
Light goes until it stops and hits something. Those free-floating projections from the movies are, based on current knowledge, impossible. And so are fucking lightsabers.
Well, at least he didn't order the execution through twitter. Just imagine if that account got comprised, or any account involved in stupid shit like that.
I'm confident it isn't necessary to waste resources on three new lines of consoles and shitty accessories just yet. It's the software that needs to improve. Better hardware just makes developers lazy but better practices in programming is an investment in every individual.
I don't see how Microsoft and Sony diversifying will harm the rest of their business. They could get some pretty bright minds in on the motion control that could impact other concepts greatly.
Howdy cow... Steve Jobs reality distortion field is growing stronger than even!
I guess that for the kids who have been around computers and IT just in the last 10 years, Jobs is the inventor of all electronic devices.
OK, I'll shut up and keep laughing at how people spill the kool-aid while drinking more than they can
Maybe Steve Jobs really does have some kind of reality distortion field because it really is plain as day to me. Sure, tablets have been around a pretty good while and have been sold as "the next big thing" over and over, but it isn't until Apple does it that anyone tries to do it thriftily to undercut their popularity.
You're also terribly presumptive. I started with a 386, I hate Apple to its core (tee hee), and I can configure Debian just fine but still prefer Ubuntu for its flexibility and consistency across every computer I've installed it on.
The PC was never "primordial". It was an assemblage of mostly off-the-shelf components that was inferior to its competition but had the IBM label slapped on it. Immediately, it became the reference standard against which competitors benchmarked themselves in order to be able to advertise "100% PC Compatible", with the ability to run Microsoft Flight Simulator being the strongest test of compatibility. A reference standard is not "primordial". To the contrary, it took years to add the slightest bit of flexibility to this rigid standard -- e.g. defining the bus timings independent of the CPU clock in order to accommodate faster CPUs.
It's true... it's even an insult to the decades of work from millions of people to get us where we are today in convenient computing. People can bitch all they like about how hard computers are to use but the man-hours that made them as easy to use as they are is staggering.
Now that we will be integrating all sorts of bells and whistles, we could just boot from a cd...using a bootcd, and bypass the BIOS and this would then allow the computer to boot the HDD...or usb...just a thought.
In short, before you can boot from a CD or anything at all, you have to tell anything that will be utilizing that CD drive or anything else *where* that device resides in the system.
A BIOS doesn't have to specify everything you'll be using but it does need to make available the least you need.
Like [em]back in the proverbial day[/em] a BIOS would be designed to provide input from a PS/2 keyboard and maybe even map a USB controller, but it would have to specifically provide support for USB keyboards if you wanted to use one before getting into an environment that took over and mapped the system (probably all over again). For me that meant breaking out a PS/2 keyboard when I needed to change BIOS settings and when I first used Linux for selecting my OS in LILO.
It's like testing several cars with similar performance on a very long, winding racetrack covered with obstacles and comparing their lap times to that of another car that drives around a very short and straight loop.
It's easy to say who gets first place when you get to choose the conditions of winning. Doesn't matter, though, the point here isn't to make Internet Explorer more popular, it's to make Microsoft look like they're competing fairly and remaining relevant.
So, restrictive DRM is a waste of time, but B.Net is nothing more than a sad facebook copy with DRM on top.
Removing LAN support is a waste of time AND money. The waste of time is the time that will take someone to code a B.Net emulator. The waste of money is the money you won't get from people like me. You can shove the game up your ass Blizzard. And the same goes for Diablo 3.
At least man up and admit what you're doing. But of course, if you don't there will always be people that will go "oh, how I love Blizzard, they're so good" while you keep removing functionality from the sequel.
Bastards.
Yeah, I love how thanks to everyone else doing something much worse it makes "one time online activation" seem like such an okay thing.
There was something... so long long ago... I can't remember, it's such a blurry lost memory... something about Half Life 2 and pissed off people... Oh well, I guess it wasn't important enough to remember.
But: there is indeed a change taking place. As the article in the NY Times says, "Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping [endpoint information] technology".
Except, the consumer is broke, can't pay the mortgage on his house, and is getting deeper in debt again this year. The Dow and S&P are trading now under their 200 day moving averages. That puts us roughly in the same spot we were in Oct 2007. We're headed down again economy-wise, and it's about time - there wasn't enough blood 2 years ago. But the day of the $600 PDA is coming to a close.
Interesting, maybe Apple's taking the flag because rich people buy Apple and poor people buy something else.
Apple isn't outnumbered, they just have more targets to shoot.
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Okay, for all the negativity about nonsense like law and building codes and safety, I have the perfect solution. Bury it!
Build a big pit when no one's looking and have your friends help drop it in the ground, cut open a hatch, put a well on it and bury the rest before day breaks. There will be absolutely nothing suspicious about you crawling in and out of the ground.
I'll second this. I'm an architect and have a friend who is also an architect who had a plan to add to his existing house using some shipping containers. After drawing the detailed plans, the city refused to permit (I'm not sure exactly why, but he scrapped the idea).
In my limited experience of dealing with that shit, I can tell you 9/10s of the time it's because "it doesn't look pretty."
I worked for a company that almost exclusively made fancy 3D renderings of buildings from CAD files just so that the city would allow the buildings to be built. These contractors dropped tens of thousands for these previews because the biggest hassle in construction was a panel of "experts" who thought the difference between verde and baby shit green was the color.
Yeah, I read about that right after I posted that comment. I had no idea that helium could shoot out of the atmosphere. I'm just impressed it hasn't all leaked out already.
Yeah, it's not like it disappears and goes away forever, especially being a noble gas.
I was one of those phone-hack-happy teens who worshiped Kevin Poulsen after reading The Watchman. I was excited to see him reporting on Wired, but over time his comments became very disillusioning.
Heroes are fine and dandy until you grow up and learn that they only exist as long as you don't suspect them of being a human being. Of course, he wasn't so much a hero as a fucking lunatic who exploited everything he came across...
It could lead to a foreign country taking over the USA and then we'd really be in for a change when the national language is changed to mandarin or russian, even french.
Interesting possibilities on the languages I might have to learn should I survive the invasion, but I think it's far more likely I'll have to learn Spanish.
Much of Central and South America lack the sense of law and order people in the US have and the opportunity to freely alter the political map of the continent would bring millions.
The government is full of competitors, people who fight for their "right" to rule. The next logical step is to force your views on the playing field and try to protect the integrity of your memes.
Other politicians are risk enough, but it's the vast number of citizens who can cause real change if they wanted. That's why politicians want the people who take orders from them to be the only ones with guns. Now that the internet is a serious threat because of the power it gives to people that shadows the threat of guns.
Didn't follow the link, did you?
"If the console doesn't get as much ventilation as it needs to operate properly, a red light is displayed in the middle of the power ring, and the console shuts down by itself. Upon doing so, a message is displayed on the users' television, alerting them to the overheating issue."
(emphasis mine)
Oh, very nice. Maybe they could have saved themselves hundreds of millions if it just did that in the first place...
Those free-floating projections from the movies are, based on current knowledge, impossible.
No, they're not. The MIT Media lab was building them about a decade ago.
Those require a diffuser and a limited point of interest. They are not "Star Wars holograms".
The iPhone vs. Android flamebait stories are getting real fucking boring, guys.
Then either lobby for change or quit reading Slashdot. Don't just sit there and bitch about it.
Light goes until it stops and hits something. Those free-floating projections from the movies are, based on current knowledge, impossible. And so are fucking lightsabers.
Of course the damn thing could just turn itself off when it gets too hot.
Well, at least he didn't order the execution through twitter. Just imagine if that account got comprised, or any account involved in stupid shit like that.
Lead paint is far from a perfect Faraday cage.
I'm confident it isn't necessary to waste resources on three new lines of consoles and shitty accessories just yet. It's the software that needs to improve. Better hardware just makes developers lazy but better practices in programming is an investment in every individual.
I don't see how Microsoft and Sony diversifying will harm the rest of their business. They could get some pretty bright minds in on the motion control that could impact other concepts greatly.
Hi Steve, do you still "shit different"?
Yeah, the IBS is really acting up lately.
Howdy cow... Steve Jobs reality distortion field is growing stronger than even!
I guess that for the kids who have been around computers and IT just in the last 10 years, Jobs is the inventor of all electronic devices.
OK, I'll shut up and keep laughing at how people spill the kool-aid while drinking more than they can
Maybe Steve Jobs really does have some kind of reality distortion field because it really is plain as day to me. Sure, tablets have been around a pretty good while and have been sold as "the next big thing" over and over, but it isn't until Apple does it that anyone tries to do it thriftily to undercut their popularity.
You're also terribly presumptive. I started with a 386, I hate Apple to its core (tee hee), and I can configure Debian just fine but still prefer Ubuntu for its flexibility and consistency across every computer I've installed it on.
Are you claiming that apple invented the tablet computer?
They put it on the map, regardless of how long it's been there.
The PC was never "primordial". It was an assemblage of mostly off-the-shelf components that was inferior to its competition but had the IBM label slapped on it. Immediately, it became the reference standard against which competitors benchmarked themselves in order to be able to advertise "100% PC Compatible", with the ability to run Microsoft Flight Simulator being the strongest test of compatibility. A reference standard is not "primordial". To the contrary, it took years to add the slightest bit of flexibility to this rigid standard -- e.g. defining the bus timings independent of the CPU clock in order to accommodate faster CPUs.
It's true... it's even an insult to the decades of work from millions of people to get us where we are today in convenient computing. People can bitch all they like about how hard computers are to use but the man-hours that made them as easy to use as they are is staggering.
Now that we will be integrating all sorts of bells and whistles, we could just boot from a cd...using a bootcd, and bypass the BIOS and this would then allow the computer to boot the HDD...or usb...just a thought.
I am thinking you do not understand what a BIOS is for... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
In short, before you can boot from a CD or anything at all, you have to tell anything that will be utilizing that CD drive or anything else *where* that device resides in the system.
A BIOS doesn't have to specify everything you'll be using but it does need to make available the least you need.
Like [em]back in the proverbial day[/em] a BIOS would be designed to provide input from a PS/2 keyboard and maybe even map a USB controller, but it would have to specifically provide support for USB keyboards if you wanted to use one before getting into an environment that took over and mapped the system (probably all over again). For me that meant breaking out a PS/2 keyboard when I needed to change BIOS settings and when I first used Linux for selecting my OS in LILO.
It's all so clear now... my days of nihilism are finally over...
Fuck that. Car analogy.
It's like testing several cars with similar performance on a very long, winding racetrack covered with obstacles and comparing their lap times to that of another car that drives around a very short and straight loop.
It's easy to say who gets first place when you get to choose the conditions of winning. Doesn't matter, though, the point here isn't to make Internet Explorer more popular, it's to make Microsoft look like they're competing fairly and remaining relevant.
So, restrictive DRM is a waste of time, but B.Net is nothing more than a sad facebook copy with DRM on top.
Removing LAN support is a waste of time AND money. The waste of time is the time that will take someone to code a B.Net emulator. The waste of money is the money you won't get from people like me. You can shove the game up your ass Blizzard. And the same goes for Diablo 3.
At least man up and admit what you're doing. But of course, if you don't there will always be people that will go "oh, how I love Blizzard, they're so good" while you keep removing functionality from the sequel.
Bastards.
Yeah, I love how thanks to everyone else doing something much worse it makes "one time online activation" seem like such an okay thing.
There was something... so long long ago... I can't remember, it's such a blurry lost memory... something about Half Life 2 and pissed off people... Oh well, I guess it wasn't important enough to remember.
Why would I recommend a linux/Windows, or even Apple computer to anyone, when the vast majority of them can surf the web/IM/email with an iPad.
Because you have to have another computer to activate your iPad.
But: there is indeed a change taking place. As the article in the NY Times says, "Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping [endpoint information] technology".
Except, the consumer is broke, can't pay the mortgage on his house, and is getting deeper in debt again this year. The Dow and S&P are trading now under their 200 day moving averages. That puts us roughly in the same spot we were in Oct 2007. We're headed down again economy-wise, and it's about time - there wasn't enough blood 2 years ago. But the day of the $600 PDA is coming to a close.
Interesting, maybe Apple's taking the flag because rich people buy Apple and poor people buy something else.
Apple isn't outnumbered, they just have more targets to shoot.