Thanks for picking up the ball and running with it, my friend. I was just reading the guy's response, and my mouth was hanging open from the assumptions he was making and the cherry-picked situations he was trying to mis-apply. I could maybe add a couple of other angles (such as US economic and diplomatic measures routinely used to make things harder for South American "socialist" countries), but why guild the lily? Your response was about as comprehensive as it gets.
Yeah, those hurricanes never do as much damage as those Third World socialist creeps try to claim (cough) Katrina (cough). If they weren't socialists, there wouldn't be a problem.
If you're so concerned about CYA, why don't you install any of the freeware alternatives to WinZip that blow the freakin' doors off it? It would take you all of ten seconds at a site like SnapFiles or MajorGeeks to track one down. Same with any other shareware that concerns you.
You could also suggest freeware alternatives for the pirated stuff, along with the advantages of being able to update the stuff.
It's a hockey term, actually. I imagine roller derby appropriated it because it's basically the same kind of hit. In hockey, though, you can get much better arc on your opponent if you catch them just right.
Our thoughts are running in a similar direction. L4 and L5 would make it necessary to beam the energy a long, long way. I imagine the Japanese have something a bit more local in mind.
Manufacturing, transporting, loading and attaching stickers takes a lot more materials and energy than the tiny bit needed to fire a message out of a laser. In short, covering fruit with stickers would be expensive and difficult to accomplish. As for the idea that people like their fruit to look nice...that could be dealt with by design, price, or simply by not giving you a choice. If all your bananas are 1/4 covered with messages, what are you going to do about it? Not buy any?
Once this is in use, I don't imagine it will be long before your fruit is covered with more ads than a NASCAR racing suit. On the up-side, the opportunities for a bit of creative pranking are just about limitless.
Vista's security was overrated. So, apparently, is Win7's.
This comment might not be around for long, because a good way to get your commenting status on Lifehacker revoked, or to get modded down to "Flamebait" on Slashdot, apparently, is to question whether Win7 is all it's cracked up to be. I hold the seemingly-illegal view that Win7 is basically Vista with some of the really ugly stuff patched up a bit. I might consider moving over to it at around SP2. Certainly not before.
I'm with you, but I have to point out that Avast recently missed a worm that came through with a Samsung PC3 Studio update. The free version of Malwarebytes caught it on the same scan, though, so no harm done.
You won't hear a lot about virus problems with Windows 7 at Lifehacker. Just about everybody over there who says bad things about Vista In Lipstick...sorry, I mean Vista SP2...damn, happened again...WIN7, gets their commenting privileges yanked.
I imagine one of their little contests in the next week or two will be encouraging their pet Win7 lovers to vote on the best on-line anti-virus scanner.
Why isn't Fox there? The answer is simple. They don't deal in news, but rather in propaganda. A news organization wants to get some return on the investment of time, effort and money spent gathering and reporting news. Fox deals in propaganda, and doesn't care so much about profit. Fox is all about getting the message out and influencing public opinion. There will always be people willing to throw money at Fox for its consistent backing of a certain, predetermined point of view. They don't want to shut down people who are using their work. They'll give it away for free.
By the way, did you catch the video of that Fox News producer cheerleading a small crowd to make it look like there was a massive, enthusiastic demonstration occurring behind her reporter when in fact it was just a pathetic, lost-looking pack of redneck cretins?
We really have to start looking more carefully at posts like this, which clearly contain entire paragraphs of unexamined assertions by company PR drones that may or may not be true. Bottom line: Kill this shit unless a trustworthy, honest reviewer with a decent track record says it. If that isn't happening, quit posting it here, where we have more important stuff to spend time on.
By the way, that "more important stuff" includes pulling our dicks and/or replaying World Championship Monopoly games move by move.
...until that old joke about the robot hand that takes direction by microphone resurfaces. I believe it ends with the line, "Bionic hand, jerk it off." The subsequent scream is, in the grammatical sense at least, silent.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but I've always had a slightly different view of corporate culture...especially at the very top. I is easily summed up thus: Whether the water is salty or fresh, shit floats to the top.
Jeez...sorry about the missing "er", Mr. BeckERman. I'm normally smarter than that. I plead the pressure of other open tabs and two concurrent conversations, Your Honour.
Ray Beckman has been fighting an uphill battle against the recording industry for years, and it's past time he got a bit more recognition for his efforts. A lot of people don't appreciate that every time one of the RIAA's outrageous tactics receives even limited support in a court of law, that tactic will inevitably make its way into normal corporate practice.
This struggle is about a lot more than alleged theft of music. It's about abuse of the legal system by corporations and individuals with deep pockets as they enforce their will on average people by threatening to bankrupt them in court if they dare to fight back against blatantly unfair practices.
I have great respect for Ray Beckman. We need a thousand more like him.
You should be fine as long as the next company you apply to doesn't have a god addict in the HR department. If that's the case, the company's probably doomed anyway, and you're better off not working there.
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Thanks for picking up the ball and running with it, my friend. I was just reading the guy's response, and my mouth was hanging open from the assumptions he was making and the cherry-picked situations he was trying to mis-apply. I could maybe add a couple of other angles (such as US economic and diplomatic measures routinely used to make things harder for South American "socialist" countries), but why guild the lily? Your response was about as comprehensive as it gets.
Cheers!
Yeah, those hurricanes never do as much damage as those Third World socialist creeps try to claim (cough) Katrina (cough). If they weren't socialists, there wouldn't be a problem.
If you're so concerned about CYA, why don't you install any of the freeware alternatives to WinZip that blow the freakin' doors off it? It would take you all of ten seconds at a site like SnapFiles or MajorGeeks to track one down. Same with any other shareware that concerns you.
You could also suggest freeware alternatives for the pirated stuff, along with the advantages of being able to update the stuff.
It's a hockey term, actually. I imagine roller derby appropriated it because it's basically the same kind of hit. In hockey, though, you can get much better arc on your opponent if you catch them just right.
Surely umpires and referees everywhere will weep tears of gratitude.
Our thoughts are running in a similar direction. L4 and L5 would make it necessary to beam the energy a long, long way. I imagine the Japanese have something a bit more local in mind.
How much of that energy would have reached Earth anyway, albeit in a less concentrated form?
Manufacturing, transporting, loading and attaching stickers takes a lot more materials and energy than the tiny bit needed to fire a message out of a laser. In short, covering fruit with stickers would be expensive and difficult to accomplish. As for the idea that people like their fruit to look nice...that could be dealt with by design, price, or simply by not giving you a choice. If all your bananas are 1/4 covered with messages, what are you going to do about it? Not buy any?
Good luck with that.
Once this is in use, I don't imagine it will be long before your fruit is covered with more ads than a NASCAR racing suit. On the up-side, the opportunities for a bit of creative pranking are just about limitless.
Vista's security was overrated. So, apparently, is Win7's.
This comment might not be around for long, because a good way to get your commenting status on Lifehacker revoked, or to get modded down to "Flamebait" on Slashdot, apparently, is to question whether Win7 is all it's cracked up to be. I hold the seemingly-illegal view that Win7 is basically Vista with some of the really ugly stuff patched up a bit. I might consider moving over to it at around SP2. Certainly not before.
I'm with you, but I have to point out that Avast recently missed a worm that came through with a Samsung PC3 Studio update. The free version of Malwarebytes caught it on the same scan, though, so no harm done.
You won't hear a lot about virus problems with Windows 7 at Lifehacker. Just about everybody over there who says bad things about Vista In Lipstick...sorry, I mean Vista SP2...damn, happened again...WIN7, gets their commenting privileges yanked.
I imagine one of their little contests in the next week or two will be encouraging their pet Win7 lovers to vote on the best on-line anti-virus scanner.
They're still in circulation in Canada. My girl friend got one as a Christmas bonus last year.
Fucking moron.
I just started lighting Altadis Behike cigars with $1,000 bills. As long as I smoked at least a couple a week, my income stayed about the same.
Why isn't Fox there? The answer is simple. They don't deal in news, but rather in propaganda. A news organization wants to get some return on the investment of time, effort and money spent gathering and reporting news. Fox deals in propaganda, and doesn't care so much about profit. Fox is all about getting the message out and influencing public opinion. There will always be people willing to throw money at Fox for its consistent backing of a certain, predetermined point of view. They don't want to shut down people who are using their work. They'll give it away for free.
By the way, did you catch the video of that Fox News producer cheerleading a small crowd to make it look like there was a massive, enthusiastic demonstration occurring behind her reporter when in fact it was just a pathetic, lost-looking pack of redneck cretins?
"Two Hundred Interesting Ways to Wok Your Dog"
We really have to start looking more carefully at posts like this, which clearly contain entire paragraphs of unexamined assertions by company PR drones that may or may not be true. Bottom line: Kill this shit unless a trustworthy, honest reviewer with a decent track record says it. If that isn't happening, quit posting it here, where we have more important stuff to spend time on.
By the way, that "more important stuff" includes pulling our dicks and/or replaying World Championship Monopoly games move by move.
Thanks for the link. That was fascinating.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but I've always had a slightly different view of corporate culture...especially at the very top. I is easily summed up thus: Whether the water is salty or fresh, shit floats to the top.
Jeez...sorry about the missing "er", Mr. BeckERman. I'm normally smarter than that. I plead the pressure of other open tabs and two concurrent conversations, Your Honour.
Ray Beckman has been fighting an uphill battle against the recording industry for years, and it's past time he got a bit more recognition for his efforts. A lot of people don't appreciate that every time one of the RIAA's outrageous tactics receives even limited support in a court of law, that tactic will inevitably make its way into normal corporate practice.
This struggle is about a lot more than alleged theft of music. It's about abuse of the legal system by corporations and individuals with deep pockets as they enforce their will on average people by threatening to bankrupt them in court if they dare to fight back against blatantly unfair practices.
I have great respect for Ray Beckman. We need a thousand more like him.
If they build a heart valve out if this stuff, my ex might actually wind up living forever.
You should be fine as long as the next company you apply to doesn't have a god addict in the HR department. If that's the case, the company's probably doomed anyway, and you're better off not working there.