I'd take John Oliver's approach to rebranding the NSA. He suggested "Mr Tiggles" with a pink background and smiling cat, to General Keith Alexander. How about "Mr Tiggle's Friend, the Fuffy Bunny"
- All those tools built in the 70s for UNIX and ported / rewritten many times over the years. - Also, Model M keyboards (even though I use my MBP15r for everything, I still need those keyboards). - Atari 2600 - it just feels better than playing on an emulator. - I suppose electricity and the wheel - two of the greatest inventions.
OR they went to the suburbs first because running fiber in a metropolis such as New York City is complicated and expensive. In Manhattan the average monthly apartment cost of $3,973 I'd hardly say it's full of poor people. Yes, Verizon covered the rest of the state with FIOS long before it made any decent headway in NYC, but now they're reaching the end of their agreed upon timeline to complete their network buildout (which provided them fewer obstacles than other companies).
The way I see it, the beauty of GNU-Linux, the *BSD's, and any other Open Source Operating System or OS-Project, is you cannot pigeon hole any one of them into one application. (I mean task or purpose, not software application) We can take a trimmed down kernel, XF86, or a DIFFERENT gui, and install it on flash, and put it in some thin little sexy appliance who's only purpose is to provide access to recipes in the kitchen.
These Open Source Operating systems are so versatile, therefore I think it's almost unfar to say that we're trying to push a round peg into a square hole. Are we trying too hard to make XF86 answer all of our desktop needs? (possibly)... because you are right, your mother should never have to tweak her kernel or edit her XF86Config file. How fortunate we are that she never has to hear the word kernel, or play with a configuration file in a text editor... because all of this can be automated, or restricted/hidden. Everyone distribution or appliance, or application that uses or builds on an Open Source Operating System or other OS-Projects doesn't necessarily need to do all of this.
Everyday we have the ability to re-think all of this, and redesign things without starting over, and reinventing the wheel along the way. We can take all of these wonderfully complicated projects, and combine them, subtract from them, and develop into them to create something that the Average Joe (or Mom) can use daily, without seriously altering their computing experience in a negative manner.
We've seen examples of this in the past, and it's happening more all the time. It's up to us to make this a reality.
The idea of getting three of them to vote is pretty interesting. If they were setup in such a configuration, do you think that they'd all get the same result? Being that I don't know enough about how this is done, I certainly can't answer...
I have to agree with you. ATI has implemented terrible 3d. Whether it's because they standardized on poorer tech, or because they have inferior hardware, they definetely have crumby cards when it comes to 3d.
Their 2d isn't too shabby though... in fact, I like to sue their cards in boxes that will never need to run a 3d game, like servers, etc.
The amount of things they don't want you to know about their products that run on YOUR hardware is growing rapidly. SDMI isn't a thought in most users minds... and they (Microsoft) would like to keep it that way. As long as advertisers keep visions of people flying through open fields with laptops in their hands present in the minds of the consumers while they're at OfficeDepot, then M$ is happy.
I'm interested to see where Apple stands on these issues. There will be a time in the not so distant future where we will have NO rights whatsoever to the content we bought licenses to enjoy.
It's extremely unfortunate that they succeeded in getting this judgement. One would only hope that this entire case could be before the public. In keeping the media out, they can now control our opinions of the case by leaking the information they want people to hear.
I have been debating that exact issue for years... "Is it possible for a creative person to be succeed in a technical field?" I answer that question every day of my life. I am an extremely creative person with a heavy background in theatre, painting, sketch, and jewelry who happens to really enjoy computer science... networking, unix and linux specifically.
I've been administering networks for six or seven years now, and I would like to think that, yes, it is possible for the both to co-exist. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the two are extremely dependant on each other. My creative side gets me through the ugly situations that call for quick thinking and unconventional ideas. The technical side helps me break down problems to account for every step that's needed in the planning process. I can't put my finger on exactly what makes me different, probably nothing particularly noticable... but I know my background doesn't hinder me.... I think it helps more than anything! Coworkers never had to explain subnetting to me... it was usually the other way around...and I've never had a problem with picking up a book when I need to.
I think all the techies out there are kidding themselves when they say that they're not creative. Don't you think you have to be pretty damn creative to dream up a programming language? Programming in and of itself is creating things... whether the creations take a physical form with colors, and shades like painting, or they are expressed in code, there's no denying that someone had to be awefully creative to write something they dreamed up.
I always try to purchase parts separately as I like to get excatly what I want. I used to be able to save money doing that... but nowadays with all the megalomarts selling 500 dollar pcs it's hard to do that.
I have had serious backpain for more than six yeares. I am only in my mid twenties, and I have been in and out of the hospital for this. I started taking pain killers about six years ago for a pinched nerve/bulged disc after injuring my lower back lifting an HP 4mv (big laser printer). I was only 18, and they didn't want to consider surgery at the time. The doctor said that the pain killers would help with the immediate pain, and physical therapy would help after that.
At first they relieved the pain without a problem. I went to therapy and after a few months things seemed to get much better. I continued my job as a system administrator for a small newspaper. I spent at least 10 hours a day 5 to 7 days a week sitting in a chair hunched over a keyboard. My back seemed ok, but six months later, I was disconnecting a patch cable from a computer that needed to be taken into my office, and what do you know... I threw my back out again.!
I went back to the doctor, and immediately, they gave me another prescription of pain killers. I took these until my back was well enough to go to physical therapy again. This time my doctor warned me that if I didn't really start to get active and take better care of my back, that it could get worse on it's own. I finished out my physical therapy and wen back to work. While I was at work, sitting in my chair, to all hours of the night, my back started hurting me. It would hurt no matter what I was doing. I didn't need to be lifting something to have it bother me. I went to my doctor and he gave me something else for pain. It was a less powerful pain killer. It didn't seem to cut the pain like the previous presccriptions did. I ended up taking more of them to acheive the same level of pain relief. It was really hard to go to work and sit in a chair for nearly 60 hours a week, because my lower back was always hurting.
My doctor ended up cutting me off the pills, so that I wouldn't develop an addiction problem. Unfortunately it was probably too late. That night I was in a lot of pain, and I ended up calling my family doctor (at almost midnight) at his home, to get him to call me in some pain killers. He did so, but told me never to ask him again, without having an appointment. After all, he wasn't treating me for my back problems, my nuerologist was.
I went through those pretty fast, and ended up going back to him for more. He turned me down, and ended up sending me back to a physical therapist. The therapist told me that I needed to take better care of my back, and put me through vigorous therapy, until I built up my muscles in my back enough to go without pain everyday.
Move ahead two years in the story, and throw in a a few more stints with back injuries (some work related, some not) and there I was, back on pain killers. it was a fulltime job to get doctors to keep prescribing them to me. One of my close friends had a similar problem, and he was on them all the time too. We joined efforts, and contributed to each others addiction. Years went by, and before long, we were really, hardcore opiate addicts. I still had the back pain, because I never changed my lifestyle enough to make a difference. I spent 60+ hours a week at work, developing my career at a fortune 500 corporation. I was 23, and I had it all. I was making 50k/year, living in my home town, working as the Data/Voice Network Engineer for said company. I had a reputation for going way beyond what was expected of me when it came to work. I had secured myself into the Executive I.S. Development Program in the corporation. That meant I was in training (at a corporate level) for a position as a Information Systems Director at one of the 200 hundred daily newspapers that my fortune 500 corporation owned.
I was on top of the world... at least I thought. I also had a bad pain killer addiction, that up until now, had not proved to be a real problem in my life. I was able to juggle the doctors, and keep the pills coming in, because I was making real good money, and the cost of living is really low in my city in southern Florida.
Things were about to get much worse, and I was in no way prepared to deal with what was to come. My friend, who also took painkiller, found a source for "opium"... but it was in pouder form. He brought it over, and we played around with it, snorting it. Before I knew it, I liked it a lot. I ended up buying it frequently, to fill in for pain killers when I was low. Little did I know, this was heroin. I ended up getting hooked on it in a relatively short period of time. It was so much like pain killers, but it was better. I couldn't quit. It started interfering with my job, and getting in betweenme and my friends. When I found out what it really was, I was already doing a lot of it, and didn't think anything of it. I was stupid, and blinded. I knew that I needed something for my pain, because my back was serious problem, but heroin was NOT the answer. Six months went by, and I tried to get help. I talked to my alreday suspicious family and boss. I took a sabatical from work, and tried to get treatment. I moved out of my house, and in with my family, who helped me through some really rough times.
I ended up going back to work, but things were not the same. I had really ruined what I spent almost four years building. All the trust, and all the smiles had gone away. Work became a hard thing to deal with. I was still dealing with pain, because I was no longer taking pain killers, or H. I ended up getting an email from some head hunter, looking for a network engineer to be a consultant for a regional hospital chain. I took the offer right away. I wanted a clean start, and they were offering much more money than I was making at the current company.
After a few months of working at the new job, clean and sober, until I met a girl who was going through the same thing I was. She had just quit H, and needed help getting clean. I figured who better to help than someone who has been there. We started dating, and before long we were both back on H. Within a month, I had lost my job, my new apartment, and I was living with her. I continued to use, but found a new job. A few months went by, and we both wanted to get clean. We tried going cold turkey, but it didn't work. After months of attempting to get clean, and many times, almost lodingmy new job, I ended up in a methadone clinic. After a couple weeks, I wasn't using at all. It helped me get clean, and it also helped a lot with pain in my back. Things were getting much better at work, because I was more there, mentally, and I wasn't missing work all the time.
I am still with that employer. It was only two months ago that I got on methadone. I am the network admin for a local ISP. I don't make nearly what I used to. I have really damamaged my friendship with my family and friends. I'm in debt, and I still have back pain. It's no where near the same level if pain that I used to have, but at least I'm not taking pills everyday. I don't want to be on methadone for much longer, but I'm scared.
I am your average, everyday Joe. None of my friends ever would have guessed what I was going through. I hid it from everyone because I was salways in fear of losing my job, or worse, someone finding out what I was really going through. If anyone out there is having a "problem" with pills, after having back problems, please, don't let it get out of control. I regret what I went through everyday of my life. No one should have to go through this. Ever.
Let the flames begin.... I'm going to post this as AC also, because this account is fucked up. Someone at work has been posting with it, because my login was left on my previous computer.
The story actually doesn't say that Transmeta will help AMD make code-morphing chips. The description here is all wrong. The article actaully says that Transmeta has licensed the rights to AMD's upcoming new technology, Sledgehammer, to be included in a line of their chips. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads the articles here.
It was AMD and Transmeta working out licensing issues for AMD's new technology that is coming out in 2002. It's for their server line of chips. Transmeta will be emulating their new instruction set.
I think it's attrocious that our country still uses the Electoral College. It's not fair for someone in one state with fewer electoral votes to have less of a voice in the election. We need major electoral reform. We the people, need to start working at moving towards an approval based system, and eliminate the Electoral College all together.
With more direct voting, like an approval based system, more people would turn out to vote. The level of apathy among voters, especially young voters, is sad. I'm 24, and the only connection I feel towards politics is helping a third party get federal funding. But I know that my vote for them didn't help at all... and plenty of other people must feel the same way.
Is it any wonder why only 50% of our population turned out to vote in the last election? People need more interaction with government, and that has to start with a fair, modern election system!
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Hey, don't knock the TSA––they're not completely useless: They have a VERY amusing Instagram feed.
http://instagram.com/tsa
I'd take John Oliver's approach to rebranding the NSA. He suggested "Mr Tiggles" with a pink background and smiling cat, to General Keith Alexander.
How about "Mr Tiggle's Friend, the Fuffy Bunny"
- All those tools built in the 70s for UNIX and ported / rewritten many times over the years.
- Also, Model M keyboards (even though I use my MBP15r for everything, I still need those keyboards).
- Atari 2600 - it just feels better than playing on an emulator.
- I suppose electricity and the wheel - two of the greatest inventions.
THIS
Seriously, how did this get promoted?
Or non-Windows users can use GasMask to accomplish the same thing: http://www.clockwise.ee/gasmask/
OR they went to the suburbs first because running fiber in a metropolis such as New York City is complicated and expensive. In Manhattan the average monthly apartment cost of $3,973 I'd hardly say it's full of poor people. Yes, Verizon covered the rest of the state with FIOS long before it made any decent headway in NYC, but now they're reaching the end of their agreed upon timeline to complete their network buildout (which provided them fewer obstacles than other companies).
The way I see it, the beauty of GNU-Linux, the *BSD's, and any other Open Source Operating System or OS-Project, is you cannot pigeon hole any one of them into one application. (I mean task or purpose, not software application) We can take a trimmed down kernel, XF86, or a DIFFERENT gui, and install it on flash, and put it in some thin little sexy appliance who's only purpose is to provide access to recipes in the kitchen.
These Open Source Operating systems are so versatile, therefore I think it's almost unfar to say that we're trying to push a round peg into a square hole. Are we trying too hard to make XF86 answer all of our desktop needs? (possibly)... because you are right, your mother should never have to tweak her kernel or edit her XF86Config file. How fortunate we are that she never has to hear the word kernel, or play with a configuration file in a text editor... because all of this can be automated, or restricted/hidden. Everyone distribution or appliance, or application that uses or builds on an Open Source Operating System or other OS-Projects doesn't necessarily need to do all of this.
Everyday we have the ability to re-think all of this, and redesign things without starting over, and reinventing the wheel along the way. We can take all of these wonderfully complicated projects, and combine them, subtract from them, and develop into them to create something that the Average Joe (or Mom) can use daily, without seriously altering their computing experience in a negative manner.
We've seen examples of this in the past, and it's happening more all the time. It's up to us to make this a reality.
If you want it, build it.
-- Jaxn
The idea of getting three of them to vote is pretty interesting. If they were setup in such a configuration, do you think that they'd all get the same result? Being that I don't know enough about how this is done, I certainly can't answer...
I have to agree with you. ATI has implemented terrible 3d. Whether it's because they standardized on poorer tech, or because they have inferior hardware, they definetely have crumby cards when it comes to 3d.
Their 2d isn't too shabby though... in fact, I like to sue their cards in boxes that will never need to run a 3d game, like servers, etc.
Umm, apple shift 3 worked on Macintosh's before OS X.
Today, Apple intends for you to capture screenshots with Grab, an application they bundled with their latest operating system.
The amount of things they don't want you to know about their products that run on YOUR hardware is growing rapidly. SDMI isn't a thought in most users minds... and they (Microsoft) would like to keep it that way. As long as advertisers keep visions of people flying through open fields with laptops in their hands present in the minds of the consumers while they're at OfficeDepot, then M$ is happy.
I'm interested to see where Apple stands on these issues. There will be a time in the not so distant future where we will have NO rights whatsoever to the content we bought licenses to enjoy.
THE MORE YOU CONSUME THE LESS YOU LIVE!!!
It's extremely unfortunate that they succeeded in getting this judgement. One would only hope that this entire case could be before the public. In keeping the media out, they can now control our opinions of the case by leaking the information they want people to hear.
...The battle of My Mind:
I have been debating that exact issue for years... "Is it possible for a creative person to be succeed in a technical field?" I answer that question every day of my life. I am an extremely creative person with a heavy background in theatre, painting, sketch, and jewelry who happens to really enjoy computer science... networking, unix and linux specifically.
I've been administering networks for six or seven years now, and I would like to think that, yes, it is possible for the both to co-exist. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the two are extremely dependant on each other. My creative side gets me through the ugly situations that call for quick thinking and unconventional ideas. The technical side helps me break down problems to account for every step that's needed in the planning process. I can't put my finger on exactly what makes me different, probably nothing particularly noticable... but I know my background doesn't hinder me.... I think it helps more than anything! Coworkers never had to explain subnetting to me... it was usually the other way around...and I've never had a problem with picking up a book when I need to.
I think all the techies out there are kidding themselves when they say that they're not creative. Don't you think you have to be pretty damn creative to dream up a programming language? Programming in and of itself is creating things... whether the creations take a physical form with colors, and shades like painting, or they are expressed in code, there's no denying that someone had to be awefully creative to write something they dreamed up.
Techies should embrace their creativity!
I always try to purchase parts separately as I like to get excatly what I want. I used to be able to save money doing that... but nowadays with all the megalomarts selling 500 dollar pcs it's hard to do that.
The angle of the dangle is congruent to the heat of the beat.
I have had serious backpain for more than six yeares. I am only in my mid twenties, and I have been in and out of the hospital for this. I started taking pain killers about six years ago for a pinched nerve/bulged disc after injuring my lower back lifting an HP 4mv (big laser printer). I was only 18, and they didn't want to consider surgery at the time. The doctor said that the pain killers would help with the immediate pain, and physical therapy would help after that.
At first they relieved the pain without a problem. I went to therapy and after a few months things seemed to get much better. I continued my job as a system administrator for a small newspaper. I spent at least 10 hours a day 5 to 7 days a week sitting in a chair hunched over a keyboard. My back seemed ok, but six months later, I was disconnecting a patch cable from a computer that needed to be taken into my office, and what do you know... I threw my back out again.!
I went back to the doctor, and immediately, they gave me another prescription of pain killers. I took these until my back was well enough to go to physical therapy again. This time my doctor warned me that if I didn't really start to get active and take better care of my back, that it could get worse on it's own. I finished out my physical therapy and wen back to work. While I was at work, sitting in my chair, to all hours of the night, my back started hurting me. It would hurt no matter what I was doing. I didn't need to be lifting something to have it bother me. I went to my doctor and he gave me something else for pain. It was a less powerful pain killer. It didn't seem to cut the pain like the previous presccriptions did. I ended up taking more of them to acheive the same level of pain relief. It was really hard to go to work and sit in a chair for nearly 60 hours a week, because my lower back was always hurting.
My doctor ended up cutting me off the pills, so that I wouldn't develop an addiction problem. Unfortunately it was probably too late. That night I was in a lot of pain, and I ended up calling my family doctor (at almost midnight) at his home, to get him to call me in some pain killers. He did so, but told me never to ask him again, without having an appointment. After all, he wasn't treating me for my back problems, my nuerologist was.
I went through those pretty fast, and ended up going back to him for more. He turned me down, and ended up sending me back to a physical therapist. The therapist told me that I needed to take better care of my back, and put me through vigorous therapy, until I built up my muscles in my back enough to go without pain everyday.
Move ahead two years in the story, and throw in a a few more stints with back injuries (some work related, some not) and there I was, back on pain killers. it was a fulltime job to get doctors to keep prescribing them to me. One of my close friends had a similar problem, and he was on them all the time too. We joined efforts, and contributed to each others addiction. Years went by, and before long, we were really, hardcore opiate addicts. I still had the back pain, because I never changed my lifestyle enough to make a difference. I spent 60+ hours a week at work, developing my career at a fortune 500 corporation. I was 23, and I had it all. I was making 50k/year, living in my home town, working as the Data/Voice Network Engineer for said company. I had a reputation for going way beyond what was expected of me when it came to work. I had secured myself into the Executive I.S. Development Program in the corporation. That meant I was in training (at a corporate level) for a position as a Information Systems Director at one of the 200 hundred daily newspapers that my fortune 500 corporation owned.
I was on top of the world... at least I thought. I also had a bad pain killer addiction, that up until now, had not proved to be a real problem in my life. I was able to juggle the doctors, and keep the pills coming in, because I was making real good money, and the cost of living is really low in my city in southern Florida.
Things were about to get much worse, and I was in no way prepared to deal with what was to come. My friend, who also took painkiller, found a source for "opium"... but it was in pouder form. He brought it over, and we played around with it, snorting it. Before I knew it, I liked it a lot. I ended up buying it frequently, to fill in for pain killers when I was low. Little did I know, this was heroin. I ended up getting hooked on it in a relatively short period of time. It was so much like pain killers, but it was better. I couldn't quit. It started interfering with my job, and getting in betweenme and my friends. When I found out what it really was, I was already doing a lot of it, and didn't think anything of it. I was stupid, and blinded. I knew that I needed something for my pain, because my back was serious problem, but heroin was NOT the answer. Six months went by, and I tried to get help. I talked to my alreday suspicious family and boss. I took a sabatical from work, and tried to get treatment. I moved out of my house, and in with my family, who helped me through some really rough times.
I ended up going back to work, but things were not the same. I had really ruined what I spent almost four years building. All the trust, and all the smiles had gone away. Work became a hard thing to deal with. I was still dealing with pain, because I was no longer taking pain killers, or H. I ended up getting an email from some head hunter, looking for a network engineer to be a consultant for a regional hospital chain. I took the offer right away. I wanted a clean start, and they were offering much more money than I was making at the current company.
After a few months of working at the new job, clean and sober, until I met a girl who was going through the same thing I was. She had just quit H, and needed help getting clean. I figured who better to help than someone who has been there. We started dating, and before long we were both back on H. Within a month, I had lost my job, my new apartment, and I was living with her. I continued to use, but found a new job. A few months went by, and we both wanted to get clean. We tried going cold turkey, but it didn't work. After months of attempting to get clean, and many times, almost lodingmy new job, I ended up in a methadone clinic. After a couple weeks, I wasn't using at all. It helped me get clean, and it also helped a lot with pain in my back. Things were getting much better at work, because I was more there, mentally, and I wasn't missing work all the time.
I am still with that employer. It was only two months ago that I got on methadone. I am the network admin for a local ISP. I don't make nearly what I used to. I have really damamaged my friendship with my family and friends. I'm in debt, and I still have back pain. It's no where near the same level if pain that I used to have, but at least I'm not taking pills everyday. I don't want to be on methadone for much longer, but I'm scared.
I am your average, everyday Joe. None of my friends ever would have guessed what I was going through. I hid it from everyone because I was salways in fear of losing my job, or worse, someone finding out what I was really going through. If anyone out there is having a "problem" with pills, after having back problems, please, don't let it get out of control. I regret what I went through everyday of my life. No one should have to go through this. Ever.
Let the flames begin.... I'm going to post this as AC also, because this account is fucked up. Someone at work has been posting with it, because my login was left on my previous computer.
Jaxn
The Autobots will destroy the evil forces of, The Decepticons!
You're so sexy, Phox!
The story actually doesn't say that Transmeta will help AMD make code-morphing chips. The description here is all wrong. The article actaully says that Transmeta has licensed the rights to AMD's upcoming new technology, Sledgehammer, to be included in a line of their chips. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads the articles here.
It was AMD and Transmeta working out licensing issues for AMD's new technology that is coming out in 2002. It's for their server line of chips. Transmeta will be emulating their new instruction set.
Yeah, Yeah...
Big shocker. In my oinion it was never about the movement... but more about the incredible writings that were finally being recognized.
Where the hell did you find that anyway?... and why did you post it here?
WOW... the sarcasm is running really deep in this thread.
Funny stuff!
I think it's attrocious that our country still uses the Electoral College. It's not fair for someone in one state with fewer electoral votes to have less of a voice in the election. We need major electoral reform. We the people, need to start working at moving towards an approval based system, and eliminate the Electoral College all together.
With more direct voting, like an approval based system, more people would turn out to vote. The level of apathy among voters, especially young voters, is sad. I'm 24, and the only connection I feel towards politics is helping a third party get federal funding. But I know that my vote for them didn't help at all... and plenty of other people must feel the same way.
Is it any wonder why only 50% of our population turned out to vote in the last election? People need more interaction with government, and that has to start with a fair, modern election system!
I'm sure it must be hard to believe that someone might have read something before it was posted on slashdot.
The site is called "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters" -- NOT "Bleeding Edge News, Stuff That Happened Tomorrow"