...I'm all for hippies buying biodiesel. I think that without interest from the individual, there would be no biodiesel or biomass industry.
What I do have a problem with is when certain types go out on their own to make a biofuel that claims to be a fuel but is such low quality that it puts the "real" biofuel market in a bad light. This is exactly what happened in the parent's example in the UK (Wales). The news media all over the world treated these people as wacky (true) but then also slammed the principle behind trying to make biofuel (not good).
In case you haven't figured it out yet I am in this industry and working to get general acceptance (and usage) by the masses. Cranks like these people who ruin engines only give ammunition to those that are afraid of biofuels.
Unfortunately, it's people like these people in Wales that give industrially produced biofuels (such as biodiesel manufactured to ASTM D6751-02) a bad name. A bunch of wankers that ruin engines with chip particles and undecanted glycerin deserve to have the engines fail... Not to mention that it is technically illegal to evade taxes in this manner.
For anyone wishing to get the non-hippie version of the biodiesel industry, check out www.biodiesel.org.
The Dream is Alive can be seen at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They added a bit to talk about the Challenger accident and how 3? of the astronauts show up in the movie. It's free with general admission to the complex.
Rain was also successfully averted at least three times in the past decade, twice for public sporting events and once during a panda festival, [Wang Wang] says.
Wow! Rain was averted a total of four times in the past ten years. Out of what is likely hundreds or thousands of attempts, that's almost as good as pure luck!
Using aircraft, rockets and even land-based furnaces...
At least they are also trying to be kind to the environment.;)
So now Beijing is banishing polluting factories from city limits, planting trees to keep out dust blown in from the Gobi Desert and clamping down on vehicle emissions in hopes of guaranteeing blue skies by 2008.
Now if only they can stop people from peeing in the street (seriously).
The reason why this comes up on Slashdot so often: Slashdotters are more likely to want to run X under OS X so they can run ported UNIX apps. X requires 3 buttons...
Sometimes I get this really odd feeling that His Steveness is developing a three-button (or more) mouse but keeps putting it off every time CmdrTaco complains about it. Sort of like how CT wrote in a FAQ file somewhere that he would delay updating SlashCode every time someone complained about the next version being released later than promised.
Though I wonder why someone doesn't just modify their open source X server to simulate the three (seven counting chords) buttons with the same modifiers used by the Mac on its single button.
You would think that the geeks that try to make web servers out of their telephones, PDAs and Olivettis would have no problem with this. I'm not enough of a geek to know why it's not done more often.
Apple went from a one-button mouse to a zero-button mouse. If anything, the next interface device will be some sort of device that depends on telepathy or eye movement.
But seriously, Apple will design new hardware for a single piece of software that very few use? If anyone can afford a third-party mouse, it's a Shake user.
Count on Apple simply rewriting the necessary code for version 2.6.
... I could make up a joke about Apple being less of a terrorist company by supplying mice that are only single-barrel rather than the double- or triple-barrel variety, or even the machine guns that a lot of us favor.
... I could, but I'm a bit off today. Make up your own joke.
We have no CIO, no IT department, and no policies whatsoever as regards data retention or backup...As a consequence, it is now my job to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Someone must be in charge of IT at the main office. Someone must have been in a position of power to tell you that "this doesn't happen again." Get that person on your side and tell him/her that without their support and approval, it WILL happen again.
As it has been said already by many others, you NEED management support or you are destined to fail due to lack of support or get fired for being a maverick.
Sometimes the best way to make users conform to policy is to not give them a choice in the first place.
If your user base is as apathetic as you described, Cliff's advice is a must. No choices. Get management to use its iron fist so as not to make you the lone bad guy.
Don't forget that we're talking about 1988 or 1989. CGI was not exactly as easy as it is today. The SFX in the movie were pretty low key and not supposed to get in the way of the story. I think it's a pretty safe bet that a few hours of filming and minor disruption in the middle of Iowa easily beat the expense of trying to go with a computer.
The car scene was easily the most emotional one in the movie. A fake shot would have killed the mood. Ah shucks... you've made a geek get all teary.
I'm at the video store the other day and start browsing over at the beginning of the New Release section. A man says to his (wife?), "What about Ali?" A woman perfectly fitting the stereotype of trailer trash responds with, "No I hear that's pretty stupid. I mean all it is is some guy who... Hey! They have Corky Romano!!"
I almost wet my pants laughing and had to run away before they heard me laughing at their expense.
So Katz is telling me that I am an idiot for wanting to see a movie that is not the highest grossing movie at the time. I'm an idiot because the film I saw did not meet revenue expectations. I'm an idiot because somehow Lucas has abandoned his principles. I should be ashamed to be seeing a non-patriotic movie.
All I wanted to do was be entertained for a couple hours. The movies in question were not documentaries. Their job was not to provoke social awareness or peace on Earth. It's a freakin' movie!
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the Net."
and
"We know that credit card numbers are bought and sold over the Internet because they have real cash value."
must mean there are a lot of very stupid criminals who do not ever sell these for their "real cash value." Or maybe there are idiots who pay for stolen numbers and do not use them???
Now if only I could get one of these stupid criminals to pay one of my bills...
On a side note, does Mr. Schneier ever pay with a CC at a restaurant? Does he leave it on the table for the server, or does he make sure that the server picks it up and then follows him/her back to the "secure" area of the restaurant and deposits it in a safe with a timelock?;-) His air of paranoia in the article makes me think that he may do this... or maybe that's the sucject of his next in-depth article.
Please stop arguing every one ! Its a mute point.;-)
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I would never complain about you unless you said, "You're screwing it up!!!" as one of the checkout guys (the only one working at that time because there is obviously a contest to make the line as long as possible) said to me when I dared to question the pricing on a printer ink refill cartridge. Guess who was right after all.;-)
See you at the store! I'll be the one leaving drool slobber all over the Apple Cinema Displays.
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Umm... I hope you complained to his manager about his unacceptable behavior.
No, I didn't. Aside from time considerations (I had to go back to work because this was done on a lunchtime break), I have found that there are some fights that are not winnable. Complaining to restaurant managers usually works (as I see you know, but I would hope that you didn't try to actually get this person fired), department stores usually go all right too, but electronics retailers seem to care far, far less than other types of sales outlets.
Maybe that's just my experience. Maybe it's the high turnover. My apologies to all the electronics store managers that do have a clue. (giggle)
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An older guy at "good stuff"... hmmm. I think that was the same guy that berated me about 8-12 months ago for asking the price of the full version of MS Office (to compare against Corel's suite for my workplace, honest). He said that only "the government" bought the full version and that anyone who wasn't stupid bought MS Works and then the MS Office upgrade. Nevermind that I was asking about a product that they sell right off the shelf. I had to summon all the power I could to not go BOFH on him.
Must Carry rules went into effect in the beginning of January. I was under the impression that satellite and cable operators had to offer all local channels if they offered any at all. Like the other posters said, if you are eligible for locals on satellite, you can get WB and UPN.
You don't need the actual Three's Company episodes, I'll give you a synopsis. Enjoy!
Episode 24: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 25: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 26: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 27: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 28: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 29: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 30: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
If you want, I'll let you know the plot of Gilligan's Island too!
True story: Actual synopsis of Dr. Who last month on DBS... "The Doctor must defeat various foes."
Good ideas. However, I suggest that you don't put in "yea" or "uh-huh" or any other similar yes-type answer. After all, they could be asking you if you want to buy something and a yes would a bad thing at that moment. If someone figured out you were not actually on on the line, he could slam you by asking you again and again if you wanted to switch long distance companies until "yea" came up.
Personal anecdote: I once asked the telemarketer how much of his time I had wasted (in a smug way) and he still wanted to hold the line for another 2 minutes while I put the phone down to "check something." I then asked him two more times after that about how much of his time I had wasted. It took more than 5 more minutes of me "checking something" before he figured out what was happening and I still got him to listen to me rant about telemarketers for another 2 minutes.
Another fun thing to do is try to say only one word, in different tones, the entire conversation. The word "dude" can be used is so many ways!
Also wanted to point out that G4 towers start at $1250 for students.
And if you are really lucky, your school will have a special Apple store that sells the entry level machine for $1201. At least that's what I could get it for if I wanted it. Last time I checked, the iPod was $354 instead of $369. Every little bit counts!
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What I do have a problem with is when certain types go out on their own to make a biofuel that claims to be a fuel but is such low quality that it puts the "real" biofuel market in a bad light. This is exactly what happened in the parent's example in the UK (Wales). The news media all over the world treated these people as wacky (true) but then also slammed the principle behind trying to make biofuel (not good).
In case you haven't figured it out yet I am in this industry and working to get general acceptance (and usage) by the masses. Cranks like these people who ruin engines only give ammunition to those that are afraid of biofuels.
Unfortunately, it's people like these people in Wales that give industrially produced biofuels (such as biodiesel manufactured to ASTM D6751-02) a bad name. A bunch of wankers that ruin engines with chip particles and undecanted glycerin deserve to have the engines fail... Not to mention that it is technically illegal to evade taxes in this manner.
For anyone wishing to get the non-hippie version of the biodiesel industry, check out www.biodiesel.org.
They have the space station movie too.
Wow! Rain was averted a total of four times in the past ten years. Out of what is likely hundreds or thousands of attempts, that's almost as good as pure luck!
Using aircraft, rockets and even land-based furnaces...
At least they are also trying to be kind to the environment. ;)
So now Beijing is banishing polluting factories from city limits, planting trees to keep out dust blown in from the Gobi Desert and clamping down on vehicle emissions in hopes of guaranteeing blue skies by 2008.
Now if only they can stop people from peeing in the street (seriously).
Sometimes I get this really odd feeling that His Steveness is developing a three-button (or more) mouse but keeps putting it off every time CmdrTaco complains about it. Sort of like how CT wrote in a FAQ file somewhere that he would delay updating SlashCode every time someone complained about the next version being released later than promised.
Though I wonder why someone doesn't just modify their open source X server to simulate the three (seven counting chords) buttons with the same modifiers used by the Mac on its single button.
You would think that the geeks that try to make web servers out of their telephones, PDAs and Olivettis would have no problem with this. I'm not enough of a geek to know why it's not done more often.
But seriously, Apple will design new hardware for a single piece of software that very few use? If anyone can afford a third-party mouse, it's a Shake user.
Count on Apple simply rewriting the necessary code for version 2.6.
Someone must be in charge of IT at the main office. Someone must have been in a position of power to tell you that "this doesn't happen again." Get that person on your side and tell him/her that without their support and approval, it WILL happen again.
As it has been said already by many others, you NEED management support or you are destined to fail due to lack of support or get fired for being a maverick.
Sometimes the best way to make users conform to policy is to not give them a choice in the first place.
If your user base is as apathetic as you described, Cliff's advice is a must. No choices. Get management to use its iron fist so as not to make you the lone bad guy.
Computer-Generated Imagery.
The car scene was easily the most emotional one in the movie. A fake shot would have killed the mood. Ah shucks... you've made a geek get all teary.
I'm at the video store the other day and start browsing over at the beginning of the New Release section. A man says to his (wife?), "What about Ali?" A woman perfectly fitting the stereotype of trailer trash responds with, "No I hear that's pretty stupid. I mean all it is is some guy who... Hey! They have Corky Romano!!"
I almost wet my pants laughing and had to run away before they heard me laughing at their expense.
220, 221... whatever it takes.
All I wanted to do was be entertained for a couple hours. The movies in question were not documentaries. Their job was not to provoke social awareness or peace on Earth. It's a freakin' movie!
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the Net."
and
"We know that credit card numbers are bought and sold over the Internet because they have real cash value."
must mean there are a lot of very stupid criminals who do not ever sell these for their "real cash value." Or maybe there are idiots who pay for stolen numbers and do not use them???
Now if only I could get one of these stupid criminals to pay one of my bills...
On a side note, does Mr. Schneier ever pay with a CC at a restaurant? Does he leave it on the table for the server, or does he make sure that the server picks it up and then follows him/her back to the "secure" area of the restaurant and deposits it in a safe with a timelock? ;-) His air of paranoia in the article makes me think that he may do this... or maybe that's the sucject of his next in-depth article.
I am sorry but I thought that the bold, italics, and smiley face combo made it show as an obvious attempt at humor.
Please stop arguing every one ! Its a mute point. ;-)
See you at the store! I'll be the one leaving drool slobber all over the Apple Cinema Displays.
No, I didn't. Aside from time considerations (I had to go back to work because this was done on a lunchtime break), I have found that there are some fights that are not winnable. Complaining to restaurant managers usually works (as I see you know, but I would hope that you didn't try to actually get this person fired), department stores usually go all right too, but electronics retailers seem to care far, far less than other types of sales outlets.
Maybe that's just my experience. Maybe it's the high turnover. My apologies to all the electronics store managers that do have a clue. (giggle)
An older guy at "good stuff"... hmmm. I think that was the same guy that berated me about 8-12 months ago for asking the price of the full version of MS Office (to compare against Corel's suite for my workplace, honest). He said that only "the government" bought the full version and that anyone who wasn't stupid bought MS Works and then the MS Office upgrade. Nevermind that I was asking about a product that they sell right off the shelf. I had to summon all the power I could to not go BOFH on him.
Must Carry rules went into effect in the beginning of January. I was under the impression that satellite and cable operators had to offer all local channels if they offered any at all. Like the other posters said, if you are eligible for locals on satellite, you can get WB and UPN.
Episode 24: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 25: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 26: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 27: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 28: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 29: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
Episode 30: Jack gets involved in a sexual misunderstanding with the girls. Mr. Roeper thinks Jack is gay. Mrs. Roeper makes fun of Mr. Roper's sexual performance.
If you want, I'll let you know the plot of Gilligan's Island too!
True story: Actual synopsis of Dr. Who last month on DBS... "The Doctor must defeat various foes."
Personal anecdote: I once asked the telemarketer how much of his time I had wasted (in a smug way) and he still wanted to hold the line for another 2 minutes while I put the phone down to "check something." I then asked him two more times after that about how much of his time I had wasted. It took more than 5 more minutes of me "checking something" before he figured out what was happening and I still got him to listen to me rant about telemarketers for another 2 minutes.
Another fun thing to do is try to say only one word, in different tones, the entire conversation. The word "dude" can be used is so many ways!
And if you are really lucky, your school will have a special Apple store that sells the entry level machine for $1201. At least that's what I could get it for if I wanted it. Last time I checked, the iPod was $354 instead of $369. Every little bit counts!
No! It was modded as "overrated!!!" How the $@^# can you mod an unmodded post as overrated?
The reverse psychology didn't work, so let me try another tact... Linux rules! M$ sux!
It's not offtopic. But then again, "funny" has recently been a very strange mod by moderators.
Name three things that will be modded funny in an article about patenting...
I patented breathing. Pay up!!!
I patented the letter "e" so pay up!!!
I patented the patenting of silly patents. Pay up!!!
I guess if you don't get the joke you shouldn't moderate.
Agreed. I would also add that moderators should actually read the post they mod and not just simply copy previous mods.
Oh wait, let me say that I expect this post to be modded down as offtopic. Reverse psychology is sure to work!!!