Re: Models -
Yeah, if you're not interested in actually assembling the individual pieces and then painting them... you aren't really interested in modeling. If you're buying a snap together kit with pre-painted pieces you might as well just buy a pre-made assembled model and stop pretending. If it only takes you 10 minutes to make the model then you didn't really make anything.
From what I've heard... they already make those. Not linking b/c it's NSFW. Google it and find out for yourself though. I've heard that they also make sacrilegious ones as well.
Guys, guys, guys, it's obvious this was all just done on a movie set or something. The shadows are all weird and where'd that wind come from? The blog entries are just there to help trick you into believing all of it.
Wow. That's jacked. Had he just not shot anything in a while and figured that a dog was more convenient than a person? Unbelievable. Innocent until proven guilty is a fallacy. It's just not the way business is done anymore. You're treated like you're guilty from when the cops first see you until you get a "not guilty" verdict or they dismiss the charges.
I don't see the advantage either. Even if it's coated to make it slicker... what happens when the coating wears through? Then you've got a "rough" spot? If I can wear out mouse feet and mouse pads, I can certainly wear out a trackpad coating. Besides, aside from typical Apple "oooh shiny" reasoning, is there a reason to reinvent the wheel here? I've never had any trouble with any old touchpads.
Yikes, good luck selling 99 of them for a profit. Unless of course... you follow the eBay way and offer them up for $0.01 and then charge $175 for shipping. (ugh)
The intent is obviously different in that scenario as well. Pirates are making money off of those bootleg DVDs and CDs... Filesharers are just doing it for fun.
The entire situation is fascinating. For an industry that makes their entire living off of marketing and PR you'd think they'd be a bit smarter about choosing who to target and how they go about doing it... I've never heard anyone cry foul when a professional pirating ring (of any sort, be it CDs, purses, whatever) is busted, but you can't be surprised when people get pissed because their gramma just got slapped with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
The trouble is... the amount necessary to dissuade a company from doing it is pretty different from an individual. $50,000 would probably convince average joe that it's a bad idea... but megacorps spend that on free coffee for employees in a year.
Well if that's the case... we're screwed. I'm pretty sure that if you gave just about anyone 15 minutes and a pretty picture you could convince congress that the world is actually flat.
You are right. I've been suckered into using the vernacular. Although I must say... it seems that in the same way that the British add the letter "r" onto the end of some words Americans do the same with "s".
I use the bus example pretty regularly. It's the same reason that I expect documentation for everything. Is writing documentation fun? no. Is it necessary? Perhaps not... but does it save days, or possibly weeks from being wasted? Yes.
As far as I'm concerned... passwords are just the beginning. Configurations and such can also be a nightmare to replicate when they're undocumented. Ever stepped into a project where they only guy working on it is gone and you have to figure out how to setup your machine / development environment just to get it to run? It's awful. All of the "don't install that patch, it ruins everything" or "you have to install these components in this order so that they don't interfere with one another" is gone and you have a horrific puzzle before you.
This is just more ammunition for when someone asks me why I care about DRM.
Definitely - I have a hard time getting through to my friends sometimes on this issue and stories like this will help. This is also why I continue to shop around for and purchase $10 CDs. I get higher quality music, a hardcopy for backup and album art for the same price as a DRM laden digital version that's been compressed to crap. Wal-Mart and amazon.com both have $10 CDs pretty regularly.
Most distance learning classes I've taken were based on assignments... not tests. The few that did have tests had a time limit - the assumption being that if you give students a brief period of time to answer a lot of questions only the people that really know it will have time to finish... while everyone else is busy googling and reading their books.
I've actually seen a number of articles on brute forcing one-way hashed passwords when you have access to the hashed passwords. Length in this case actually *does* make a huge difference. A dictionary attack on a pass phrase won't be any simpler than brute forcing a regular number/alpha/special character password. The only reason dictionary attacks work is because you're guessing that the *entire* password is just that word. Once you get into phrases and you have to guess "Mary had a little lamb"... then you're no longer required to guess *a* word but an entire sequence. As far as brute forcing is concerned - a longer password takes much, much more time to hack. Additionally, when I use passphrases I usually throw in punctuation, spaces and other characters. They don't have to be just alpa.
Wikipedia definitely suffers from the problem of having a lot of know nothing jackasses writing articles, random defacements, and a lot of useless crap.
Have you considered an intercom system? Nerdy and convenient! Alternatively... you could just set up a text-to-speech unit and strap that to her and then send text messages to it giving her various messages like... need food, need laundry, need bath... Or I suppose you could just stop yelling and get yourself a megaphone - saves the voice for rock band.
Why does it cost you money? Are you retrieving it from your cell phone only? You know that you can just call your cell phone number and then hit "#" and then your password and just listen to it that way... right? I've been able to do that on the last three carriers I've been on. It's worth a try if you haven't already tried it.
Hmm, I think the second option would probably be the most common use. I can think of a number of people that are basically telecommunications black holes. Once you get sucked in... you can never escape. If you text them you get 10 back. If you actually end up talking to them you pretty much have to tell them that your leg is on fire before they'll let you off the phone. Outside of that... listening to voicemail messages sucks. I avoid leaving them unless I must.
"That song" is the Smashing Pumpkins - "The end is the beginning is the End". There are countless remixes of it... and yes, it was used for the Batman and Robin soundtrack!
I didn't realize Construx was discontinued so long ago... now I feel old. Those were one of my favorites. I played with those as much as I did legos. Plus, they had nifty glow in the dark "laser gun" pieces so... you know... once you built your awesome spaceship you could turn of the lights and run around and pretend you were space... until you ran into something and broke it / yourself. Good times.
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Re: Models -
Yeah, if you're not interested in actually assembling the individual pieces and then painting them... you aren't really interested in modeling. If you're buying a snap together kit with pre-painted pieces you might as well just buy a pre-made assembled model and stop pretending. If it only takes you 10 minutes to make the model then you didn't really make anything.
From what I've heard... they already make those. Not linking b/c it's NSFW. Google it and find out for yourself though. I've heard that they also make sacrilegious ones as well.
Guys, guys, guys, it's obvious this was all just done on a movie set or something. The shadows are all weird and where'd that wind come from? The blog entries are just there to help trick you into believing all of it.
Wow. That's jacked. Had he just not shot anything in a while and figured that a dog was more convenient than a person? Unbelievable. Innocent until proven guilty is a fallacy. It's just not the way business is done anymore. You're treated like you're guilty from when the cops first see you until you get a "not guilty" verdict or they dismiss the charges.
I don't see the advantage either. Even if it's coated to make it slicker... what happens when the coating wears through? Then you've got a "rough" spot? If I can wear out mouse feet and mouse pads, I can certainly wear out a trackpad coating. Besides, aside from typical Apple "oooh shiny" reasoning, is there a reason to reinvent the wheel here? I've never had any trouble with any old touchpads.
With specs like that. It's pretty much useless.
That's what she said.
Yikes, good luck selling 99 of them for a profit. Unless of course... you follow the eBay way and offer them up for $0.01 and then charge $175 for shipping. (ugh)
The intent is obviously different in that scenario as well. Pirates are making money off of those bootleg DVDs and CDs... Filesharers are just doing it for fun.
The entire situation is fascinating. For an industry that makes their entire living off of marketing and PR you'd think they'd be a bit smarter about choosing who to target and how they go about doing it... I've never heard anyone cry foul when a professional pirating ring (of any sort, be it CDs, purses, whatever) is busted, but you can't be surprised when people get pissed because their gramma just got slapped with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
*pinky to mouth* One MEEELION DOLLARS!
The trouble is... the amount necessary to dissuade a company from doing it is pretty different from an individual. $50,000 would probably convince average joe that it's a bad idea... but megacorps spend that on free coffee for employees in a year.
Well if that's the case... we're screwed. I'm pretty sure that if you gave just about anyone 15 minutes and a pretty picture you could convince congress that the world is actually flat.
You are right. I've been suckered into using the vernacular. Although I must say... it seems that in the same way that the British add the letter "r" onto the end of some words Americans do the same with "s".
No, it looks like crap. I love legos, but I also love architecture and ye olde buildings.... cheesy plastic bricks + old buildings = garbage.
I use the bus example pretty regularly. It's the same reason that I expect documentation for everything. Is writing documentation fun? no. Is it necessary? Perhaps not... but does it save days, or possibly weeks from being wasted? Yes.
As far as I'm concerned... passwords are just the beginning. Configurations and such can also be a nightmare to replicate when they're undocumented. Ever stepped into a project where they only guy working on it is gone and you have to figure out how to setup your machine / development environment just to get it to run? It's awful. All of the "don't install that patch, it ruins everything" or "you have to install these components in this order so that they don't interfere with one another" is gone and you have a horrific puzzle before you.
This is just more ammunition for when someone asks me why I care about DRM.
Definitely - I have a hard time getting through to my friends sometimes on this issue and stories like this will help. This is also why I continue to shop around for and purchase $10 CDs. I get higher quality music, a hardcopy for backup and album art for the same price as a DRM laden digital version that's been compressed to crap. Wal-Mart and amazon.com both have $10 CDs pretty regularly.
Most distance learning classes I've taken were based on assignments... not tests. The few that did have tests had a time limit - the assumption being that if you give students a brief period of time to answer a lot of questions only the people that really know it will have time to finish... while everyone else is busy googling and reading their books.
I've actually seen a number of articles on brute forcing one-way hashed passwords when you have access to the hashed passwords. Length in this case actually *does* make a huge difference. A dictionary attack on a pass phrase won't be any simpler than brute forcing a regular number/alpha/special character password. The only reason dictionary attacks work is because you're guessing that the *entire* password is just that word. Once you get into phrases and you have to guess "Mary had a little lamb"... then you're no longer required to guess *a* word but an entire sequence. As far as brute forcing is concerned - a longer password takes much, much more time to hack. Additionally, when I use passphrases I usually throw in punctuation, spaces and other characters. They don't have to be just alpa.
Wikipedia definitely suffers from the problem of having a lot of know nothing jackasses writing articles, random defacements, and a lot of useless crap.
So it's like slashdot then?
ZOMGPONIES!!!
Have you considered an intercom system? Nerdy and convenient! Alternatively... you could just set up a text-to-speech unit and strap that to her and then send text messages to it giving her various messages like... need food, need laundry, need bath... Or I suppose you could just stop yelling and get yourself a megaphone - saves the voice for rock band.
Why does it cost you money? Are you retrieving it from your cell phone only? You know that you can just call your cell phone number and then hit "#" and then your password and just listen to it that way... right? I've been able to do that on the last three carriers I've been on. It's worth a try if you haven't already tried it.
Hmm, I think the second option would probably be the most common use. I can think of a number of people that are basically telecommunications black holes. Once you get sucked in... you can never escape. If you text them you get 10 back. If you actually end up talking to them you pretty much have to tell them that your leg is on fire before they'll let you off the phone.
Outside of that... listening to voicemail messages sucks. I avoid leaving them unless I must.
"That song" is the Smashing Pumpkins - "The end is the beginning is the End". There are countless remixes of it... and yes, it was used for the Batman and Robin soundtrack!
Whooosh. (Sadly I can't "whoosh" three replies at once.) FYI - The "But seriously" was your clue that he was joking.
I didn't realize Construx was discontinued so long ago... now I feel old. Those were one of my favorites. I played with those as much as I did legos. Plus, they had nifty glow in the dark "laser gun" pieces so... you know... once you built your awesome spaceship you could turn of the lights and run around and pretend you were space... until you ran into something and broke it / yourself. Good times.