What if instead of sharing Jolly Ranchers the kid was sharing a single serve box of Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks or Cocoa Puffs? Just as sugary but one could argue (albeit not 100% convincingly) it has some nutritional value. And its just as messy (try eating cereal with your fingers without spilling any.) Would the rules apply then?
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important we forgot to tell you.
Ivan Arce: What?
ES: Advise your clients to install security update MS10-024.
IA: Why? What would happen if they didn't?
ES: It would be bad.
IA: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
ES: Try to image all their Exchange servers locking up all at once and all their mail traffic being rerouted to parts unknown, effectively bringing about the end of your client's existence as a functioning company.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Total packet reversal!
IA: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
"Ladies and gentlemen, coming to to you all the way from Seattle, Washington, the one, the only - Patch Fiasco!"
or perhaps...
(Twelve bad guys lie dead or mortally wounded on the street, surrounded by astonished and bewildered townsfolk. One speaks up.)
- Who are you? (the man lights a cigarette, drags it in and exhales, then adjust the brim of his hat.)
- My name... is Patch Fiasco. (turns around and starts walking away. music: mournful slide guitar)
I was thinking the same thing. I imagine this could be used for those long long term data storage needs, say, thousands or millions of years. Beats using gold-plated LPs that's for sure.
Jobs wanted the Mac to revolutionise the PC market - so he insisted that the team
deliver perfection.
Andy Hertzfeld
Steve was upset that the Mac took too long to boot to boot up when you first
turned it on so he tried motivating Larry Kenyon by telling him well you know how
many millions of people are going to buy this machine - it's going to be millions
of people and let's imagine that you can make it boot five seconds faster well
that's five seconds times a million every day that's fifty lifetimes, if you can
shave five seconds off that you're saving fifty lives. And so it was a nice way of
thinking about it, and we did get it to go faster.
Larry Tesler
And the little things he did would create incredible pressure unlike I'd ever
experienced before just tearing you to the bone ripping you apart and making you
feel worthless.
Bill Atkinson
I mean, he would sometimes tell people this is shit and you had to understand
what that meant in Jobs language, you see.
BOB: What did it mean?
BILL: As an engineer, if you understood his language you would understand
that that was a request to teach me about this.
Steve Jobs
No that's not usually what I meant. I you know when you get really good people
they know they're really good and you don't have to baby peoples egos so much.
Bill Atkinson
And maybe in the process of that dialogue Steve will suggest something that
caused his engineers to go back and make it better yet and that's actually what
a happened a lot of times Steve really did make the product better without even
knowing exactly how the engineer was doing it.
Come on now, it wasn't that bad. He didn't kill anybody.
That reminds me an anecdote from a Apple engineer working on the first Mac (from a PBS special way back when; probably on YouTube somewhere.) Steve Jobs was pressuring him to knock a few more seconds on the time required for the Mac to boot up. They're already trying to meet the deadline for rollout and the guy is completely stressed out and asks Why, it's only a few seconds, what's the big deal? Steve replies that the Macs collectively will be started up hundreds of millions of times over their lifespans. So if we manage to reduce the boot time by ten seconds, that'll add up to decades of time saved amongst all the Mac users. That's the equivalent of saving the lives of one or more Mac users! The engineer says that Steve putting such issues in perspective like that is one of the ways he motivates the folks at Apple to go that extra mile to deliver (for the most part) stellar products.
So who knows? From Steve Jobs' point of view, maybe this guy did kill somebody.
At least that what Computerworld's IT Blogwatch has determined:
There's a few pundits with egg on their faces this morning, as Apple approves Opera Mini. Against predictions of rejection, the alternative Web browser is now available from the App Store. Initial reviews are mostly positive, bar some fanboi grumbling. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle and try it out.
I'd like to see a pad or netbook that's an explicit extension of a smartphone. You pop your Android / iPhone / etc. smartphone into the device. You're still using your smartphone but the "mothership" pad / netbook gives you a bigger touchscreen, more battery life, a real keyboard, webcam, better (if still not necessarily great) audio, etc. etc. No worries about syncing since the mothership has no RAM or SSDs (at least none intended for explicit use by the user.) Pop the smartphone out of it on the fly when you don't want to carry the mothership around. Basically a dumb terminal for your smartphone.
CmdrTaco: We here at Slashdot recognize our obligation to bring resposible opposing viewpoints to our articles. Here now with an editorial reply is Miss Emily Litella.
Emily Litella: What all this fuss I keep hearing about Verizon's CEO wanting to hunt down heavy users? Why it's outrageous! Hunt down fellow human beings? Why that's murder! A man gains a little power and he thinks he can do whatever he wants! Any why single out the heavy users? They're slower and make bigger targets! Is he a cannibal? If he wants real sport he should be hunting the skinny ones! And it's a fine way to be treating customers anyway! He should be going after people who use Boost Mobile! If I hear one more person saying "Where You At?" I'll get a gun myself!
CT: Um, Ms. Litella..
EL: What, what?!
CT: Mr. Seidenberg was referring to heavy broadband users, not heavy people. And when he said "hunt them down" he was speaking metaphorically. He wants to charge people who use broadband all the time more than those who don't.
EL: Oh, I see. That's very different.
CT: Yes.
EL: Kind of a misleading headline.
CT: Well, we'll speak to timothy about that.
EL: Never mind. But this guy's still being a dick though.
NASA engineers and astronauts have used duct tape in the course of their work,
including in some emergency situations. One such usage occurred in 1970, when
the square carbon dioxide filters from Apollo 13's failed command module had
to be modified to fit round receptacles in the lunar module, which was being
used as a lifeboat after an explosion en route to the moon. A workaround was
made using duct tape and other items on board Apollo 13, with the ground crew
relaying directions to the spacecraft and its crew. The lunar module CO2 scrubbers
started working again, saving the lives of the three astronauts on board.
Ed Smylie, who designed the scrubber modification in just two days, said later
that he knew the problem was solvable when it was confirmed that duct tape was
on the spacecraft: "I felt like we were home free", he said in 2005.
"One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will
fix it.'"[3]
Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars was the definition of awesome, which used much of the same Japanese cinematic styling (not anime styling) that made Samurai Jack a breath of fresh air. It was this same influence from Japanese cinema that made Star Wars IV the film that it was (check out The Hidden Fortress if you don't know what I mean.)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the 3D-CGI-ified version of this series, done without Tarakovsky's involvement but purloining his character design, is what Episodes 1-2-3 are to Episodes 4-5-6.
1) 10 minutes of video of someone else using a computer. E.g. someone filling out billing and shipping info on a web form, using the mouse to move to one field to the next, then when all the fields are just about filled out, clicking Back because they forgot to add an item to the shopping cart.
2) 10 minutes of a PowerPoint presentation. Just about anything with lots of text. Have the presenter read out everything on the slides, word for word.
Microsoft has been consistently successful - in and of itself, that makes it hard to "leave the past behind".
More to the point, its customers won't let it. How many times has consumer backlash basically forced Microsoft to continue support for older products, backwards compatibility for documents going back decades, and "classic" views within their newer products?
I'm currently in a CS class that uses Java to teach software design; although the emphasis is made that the principles involved are applicable to most other software languages.
So what are considered the "write your own ticket in this job market" languages if you know them backwards, forwards, and sideways?
Despite Apple's ban on sexy apps, the iPad seems destined for pr0n and other lascivious uses. Which makes me wonder: if one were to develop a tablet specifically for that purpose, what features would you expect it to have in terms of video support, security, etc? (Not to dissuade musings on "special attachments" but it's already been done (pretty much NSFW).)
The best lo-fi ol-skool version of this type of prank is the black-construction-paper-between-the-monitor-and-the-anti-glare-screen trick. But you start to feel bad when floor support shows up.
Slashdot Mirror
...that they can't punish you for doing your job too well.
Unless of course it brings recriminations within e.g. whistleblowing.
It'd be nice to see this situation reversed someday.
.
What if instead of sharing Jolly Ranchers the kid was sharing a single serve box of Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks or Cocoa Puffs? Just as sugary but one could argue (albeit not 100% convincingly) it has some nutritional value. And its just as messy (try eating cereal with your fingers without spilling any.) Would the rules apply then?
Particularly technology news and discussion sites.
Just sayin'.
.
(on conference call)
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important we forgot to tell you.
Ivan Arce: What?
ES: Advise your clients to install security update MS10-024.
IA: Why? What would happen if they didn't?
ES: It would be bad.
IA: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
ES: Try to image all their Exchange servers locking up all at once and all their mail traffic being rerouted to parts unknown, effectively bringing about the end of your client's existence as a functioning company.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Total packet reversal!
IA: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
.
If you think this massive oil spill didn't have to happen, well, you're right.
Oh, and BP bears responsibility for Exxon Valdez too.
http://www.gregpalast.com/slick-operator-the-bp-ive-known-too-well/?print=1
.
a pharaoh faucet major.
.
Adobe CS 6 - Now available for Windows 7, Linux...and that's it.
We said that's it! What, what!!?
.
Possible outcomes:
1) try > succeed > learn
2) try > fail > learn
Given the amazing low price tag for the mission, both are good outcomes.
"Ladies and gentlemen, coming to to you all the way from Seattle, Washington, the one, the only - Patch Fiasco!"
or perhaps...
(Twelve bad guys lie dead or mortally wounded on the street, surrounded by astonished and bewildered townsfolk. One speaks up.)
- Who are you?
(the man lights a cigarette, drags it in and exhales, then adjust the brim of his hat.)
- My name... is Patch Fiasco. (turns around and starts walking away. music: mournful slide guitar)
I was thinking the same thing. I imagine this could be used for those long long term data storage needs, say, thousands or millions of years. Beats using gold-plated LPs that's for sure.
Here's the straight dope:
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html
Jobs wanted the Mac to revolutionise the PC market - so he insisted that the team deliver perfection.
Andy Hertzfeld
Steve was upset that the Mac took too long to boot to boot up when you first turned it on so he tried motivating Larry Kenyon by telling him well you know how many millions of people are going to buy this machine - it's going to be millions of people and let's imagine that you can make it boot five seconds faster well that's five seconds times a million every day that's fifty lifetimes, if you can shave five seconds off that you're saving fifty lives. And so it was a nice way of thinking about it, and we did get it to go faster.
Larry Tesler
And the little things he did would create incredible pressure unlike I'd ever experienced before just tearing you to the bone ripping you apart and making you feel worthless.
Bill Atkinson
I mean, he would sometimes tell people this is shit and you had to understand what that meant in Jobs language, you see.
BOB: What did it mean?
BILL: As an engineer, if you understood his language you would understand that that was a request to teach me about this.
Steve Jobs
No that's not usually what I meant. I you know when you get really good people they know they're really good and you don't have to baby peoples egos so much.
Bill Atkinson
And maybe in the process of that dialogue Steve will suggest something that caused his engineers to go back and make it better yet and that's actually what a happened a lot of times Steve really did make the product better without even knowing exactly how the engineer was doing it.
Would it really be that hard to make digital copiers that - by default - sanitize their hard drives every night?
They could even reformat the entire drive every week or so if the OS resides in firmware or a 2nd drive.
Come on now, it wasn't that bad. He didn't kill anybody.
That reminds me an anecdote from a Apple engineer working on the first Mac (from a PBS special way back when; probably on YouTube somewhere.) Steve Jobs was pressuring him to knock a few more seconds on the time required for the Mac to boot up. They're already trying to meet the deadline for rollout and the guy is completely stressed out and asks Why, it's only a few seconds, what's the big deal? Steve replies that the Macs collectively will be started up hundreds of millions of times over their lifespans. So if we manage to reduce the boot time by ten seconds, that'll add up to decades of time saved amongst all the Mac users. That's the equivalent of saving the lives of one or more Mac users! The engineer says that Steve putting such issues in perspective like that is one of the ways he motivates the folks at Apple to go that extra mile to deliver (for the most part) stellar products.
So who knows? From Steve Jobs' point of view, maybe this guy did kill somebody.
Thinq.co.uk is either glitching or trolling for ad views.
At least that what Computerworld's IT Blogwatch has determined:
There's a few pundits with egg on their faces this morning, as Apple approves Opera Mini. Against predictions of rejection, the alternative Web browser is now available from the App Store. Initial reviews are mostly positive, bar some fanboi grumbling. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle and try it out.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15917/apple_oks_opera_for_iphone_its_really_quite_good?source=CTWNLE_nlt_blogs_2010-04-13
I'd like to see a pad or netbook that's an explicit extension of a smartphone. You pop your Android / iPhone / etc. smartphone into the device. You're still using your smartphone but the "mothership" pad / netbook gives you a bigger touchscreen, more battery life, a real keyboard, webcam, better (if still not necessarily great) audio, etc. etc. No worries about syncing since the mothership has no RAM or SSDs (at least none intended for explicit use by the user.) Pop the smartphone out of it on the fly when you don't want to carry the mothership around. Basically a dumb terminal for your smartphone.
CmdrTaco: We here at Slashdot recognize our obligation to bring resposible opposing viewpoints to our articles. Here now with an editorial reply is Miss Emily Litella.
Emily Litella: What all this fuss I keep hearing about Verizon's CEO wanting to hunt down heavy users? Why it's outrageous! Hunt down fellow human beings? Why that's murder! A man gains a little power and he thinks he can do whatever he wants! Any why single out the heavy users? They're slower and make bigger targets! Is he a cannibal? If he wants real sport he should be hunting the skinny ones! And it's a fine way to be treating customers anyway! He should be going after people who use Boost Mobile! If I hear one more person saying "Where You At?" I'll get a gun myself!
CT: Um, Ms. Litella..
EL: What, what?!
CT: Mr. Seidenberg was referring to heavy broadband users, not heavy people. And when he said "hunt them down" he was speaking metaphorically. He wants to charge people who use broadband all the time more than those who don't.
EL: Oh, I see. That's very different.
CT: Yes.
EL: Kind of a misleading headline.
CT: Well, we'll speak to timothy about that.
EL: Never mind. But this guy's still being a dick though.
Actually - they did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#Usage_in_spaceflight
NASA engineers and astronauts have used duct tape in the course of their work, including in some emergency situations. One such usage occurred in 1970, when the square carbon dioxide filters from Apollo 13's failed command module had to be modified to fit round receptacles in the lunar module, which was being used as a lifeboat after an explosion en route to the moon. A workaround was made using duct tape and other items on board Apollo 13, with the ground crew relaying directions to the spacecraft and its crew. The lunar module CO2 scrubbers started working again, saving the lives of the three astronauts on board.
Ed Smylie, who designed the scrubber modification in just two days, said later that he knew the problem was solvable when it was confirmed that duct tape was on the spacecraft: "I felt like we were home free", he said in 2005. "One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'"[3]
Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars was the definition of awesome, which used much of the same Japanese cinematic styling (not anime styling) that made Samurai Jack a breath of fresh air. It was this same influence from Japanese cinema that made Star Wars IV the film that it was (check out The Hidden Fortress if you don't know what I mean.)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the 3D-CGI-ified version of this series, done without Tarakovsky's involvement but purloining his character design, is what Episodes 1-2-3 are to Episodes 4-5-6.
1) 10 minutes of video of someone else using a computer. E.g. someone filling out billing and shipping info on a web form, using the mouse to move to one field to the next, then when all the fields are just about filled out, clicking Back because they forgot to add an item to the shopping cart.
2) 10 minutes of a PowerPoint presentation. Just about anything with lots of text. Have the presenter read out everything on the slides, word for word.
Microsoft has been consistently successful - in and of itself, that makes it hard to "leave the past behind".
More to the point, its customers won't let it. How many times has consumer backlash basically forced Microsoft to continue support for older products, backwards compatibility for documents going back decades, and "classic" views within their newer products?
Dropping one component into another that add keys? Old hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdYL_DPrrs
Although Mattel never did actually make the Keyboard Component. Some of us are still pissed off.
I'm currently in a CS class that uses Java to teach software design; although the emphasis is made that the principles involved are applicable to most other software languages.
So what are considered the "write your own ticket in this job market" languages if you know them backwards, forwards, and sideways?
Despite Apple's ban on sexy apps, the iPad seems destined for pr0n and other lascivious uses. Which makes me wonder: if one were to develop a tablet specifically for that purpose, what features would you expect it to have in terms of video support, security, etc? (Not to dissuade musings on "special attachments" but it's already been done (pretty much NSFW).)
The best lo-fi ol-skool version of this type of prank is the black-construction-paper-between-the-monitor-and-the-anti-glare-screen trick. But you start to feel bad when floor support shows up.