I'm around 6'5" (~195cm). I can cover a full octave on a keyboard/piano and then a couple keys past that. I'll be damned if I'm going to fiddle with tiny little keys. While I do have weight on me, my hands aren't like little sausages, and yet I still incorrectly strike keys on some of these midget netbooks. (Don't even get me started on this trend with cellphones to have a "full QWERTY" keypad in a 2 inch by 2 inch space, or the iPhone's touch typing software...)
Even a full-sized laptop keyboard is no good to me. I need the texture of the keys of classic style keyboards or I can't type worth a damn. I can top out at around 100 WPM, and it gets smacked down to 70-80 on flat-key inputs. I haven't even bothered with small, flat keyboards (*cough* EEE PC) because I'm sure the number will be lower than Forrest Gump's IQ.
and/or funny that they would qualify as parody and be protected.
You draw a picture of Barney Rubble banging a dinosaur, some Internet dwellers are going to see it as sexy, but the majority of people (including, say, a judge) are going to interpret it as a joke. A sick joke, but a joke, and thus protected as parody.
Nintendo conspiracy, they see the movie, they like it, and then they get it taken down claiming trademark blabbity blah. They have... something? to gain from it. I don't know. There's lots of angles that could be worked here.
Filmmaker's conspiracy, they know it's not kosher to make this movie. They also know that Nintendo has a brand image to uphold and while they will threaten litigation, they won't really bring down the hammer too hard because it would tarnish their image. Streisand Effect takes place, people see it, and all of a sudden these fan film makers are a hot property. It's a great way to manipulate geeks into doing P.R. for you for free.
I imagine that there are hundreds of people who will read this and laugh at its absurdity. I'd also imagine that there's a small handful of people laughing and saying "Holy shit, he figured it out... good thing no one would ever believe him."
It's typically some low-level drone on the other end of the phone line that's saying "unfortunately". I think they really do empathize with you in that respect. I've had calls relating to service like this in my life where the dude says (in not so many words) "Dude, I wish I could help you, but it's against the stupid rules we have and I can't afford to get my ass shitcanned."
Amish is a religious denomination. During Rumspringa, they leave the community for a short time to experience the outside world. They must then choose whether to stay within the Amish community or live in the modern world. During Rumspringa they can essentially get away with anything an average American of that age would get away with - premarital sex, drinking, drugs, partying, etc. They are supposed to get a taste of the way the majority of America lives and then make a choice about which is more important to them, and I don't believe that they are really harshly judged for their behavior during this time.
I tend to think of a widget as more of a little (computer) desktop thing like a clock or calender. XP and OSX are really more like highly-evolved Widgets.
Back when I was in elementary school, my school was privaledged to have a special weather program for the more advanced students. A special satellite dish was installed on the roof hooked up to special terminals in our classroom; we had a direct downlink from the satellite.
I recall seeing a big hurricane coming towards us. With the data we had (a few hours worth), I knew it would hit by tomorrow. The meteorologists said it was a low chance of it coming in, but the basic signs - cold fronts, warm fronts, wind, the path of the hurricane, etc. - indicated to me that it was more likely that it would hit us. In short, I stayed up late and got two days off from school due to heavy rain. It was fun indeed.
Even with the limited data I had (compared to modern meteorologists), though, it still could have passed us by. It just would have been more and more unlikely.
The parent(s) are right about the unpredictability of weather, though. I generally don't trust forecasts beyond the next day (and sometimes not even then), because a shift in air pressure, wind, temperature, etc. can divert an incoming storm miles and miles away. It all falls down to computer models and what is "most likely", but until they invent magic crystal balls it will never really be accurate enough to satisfy the people who would depend on long-range forecasts. Not without human intervention (cloud-seeding, etc.) at least.
I wonder how long it would take an asteroid to get from the outside of our solar system inbound to our planet. An early-warning system would be something quite nice to have.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I believe that anything that could conceivably hit us would have to fly by a few predetermined paths (due to the effects of gravity from other bodies in our system), no? At the very least, we should start with setting up deep-space radar satellites at the most likely inbound paths.
Choosing a Gucci bag because it's a Gucci bag is shameless commercialism; a status symbol. Broadcasting your wealth. Some people even go as far as spending money they don't have so they can get expensive shit like this.
Choosing a Gucci bag because you like the way it looks (irrespective of the brand name) is based on aesthetics.
Picking out clothes, accessories, etc. based on their appearance rather than their brand name is significantly less shallow in my book.
To me, Warren Buffet should have been the person of the decade. He manages his money (and company) responsible and lives way, way within his means. He's an example to everyone.
Of course, now that I've said this I'm sure he'll be indicted for something. It's the Hero's paradox, as soon as someone is lauded as a hero for whatever reason dirt is immediately dug up on them.
In every French company and administration (including ministries) I have worked with you find at least one multi-TB server with more recent movies, music, software and books you could ever find time for in your whole life.
In America if you want that you can just go to college.
I visited a friend at an unnamed New Jersey college a few hours drive away from where I live. There they had a custom DC++ network set up because the campus firewalls blocked torrents and P2P traffic. Since you couldn't get stuff from the inside, a few smart persons just hooked up this custom network.
It was for all intents and purposes a Darknet. You didn't know about it if you weren't invited by someone already in (hell, how many of you reading this knew about DC++ before this post? Exactly.). The major contributor was one of the lead campus IT guys - a student there for a few years - who had a 2TB fileserver in his dorm room just for stuff on the DC++ network. And this was back in the mid 2000s when 2TB would run you almost a G with the associated RAID hardware and whatnot.
After every major break - holidays, spring break, summer break, etc. - you could be sure to find a wealth of new material brought in on DVDs, portable drives, etc. from home. There was no kiddie porn or any sick shit on the network because the administrator(s?) didn't tolerate it - they'd track down the dorm room by IP address and have a little discussion after blacklisting the files in question.
It was really cool. I've never seen students work together like that, haha...
The kind of people who care about brand name clothes are ultimately shallow IMO.
There's a difference between getting something for the brand name and getting something for the particular signature style of the brandname.
For instance, Gucci purses have a distinct style. Do you like how it looks (and let me translate to woman, "Does it work with one of your outfits, gurrrrfrien?") and can you afford the luxury? Get it. But if you're getting it because it's a Gucci, that's shallow IMO.
Well, presumably the botnet outputs data to an address, right? Like let's say everything it collected was sent to a particular IP adadress. The "uninstaller" could have just been, say, something that edits the hosts file and just blocks the IP at that level. It doesn't risk harming the computers (it only adds one address that will fail to connect) and it completely cripples the botnet.
Anyone higher up in the chain - say, government - looks at the bigger picture. 3,000 people died that day. That's 0.00001% of our population. It is statistically insignificant.
That's not to say the families of the dead do not feel legitimate pain. It was an indeed a tragedy. But rather than using a foreign attack on our own soil - the first major one in something like 60 years - as a way to galvanize people into being more security conscious, the government goes and takes the opportunity to reduce people's rights more and more.
These rules are only going to stop the most incompetent of terrorists, anyway.
Let's say your primary goal is to mess up public transportation for a few days - disrupt the infrastructure, as it were. You're not going to get a bomb on a plane. Shooting one down with a rocket (guided or otherwise) - that's possible. But why bother with that? You can just have a suicide bomber walk into the huge crowd of people lined up for security checks.
Then they move the barriers further out. You now have to wait outside of the airport before you're checked and scanned. That's when they pull up a truck bomb.
Now cars can't even use the roads near the airport, so an attacker can just open up on the crowds of people outside with an RPG, sniper fire, biological weapons, etc.
The proverbial "Security Line" is going to get pushed further and further back. It's going to make flying more and more desirable (Greyhound and Amtrak have a huge hardon for when this day comes, I'm sure). It's going to discourage tourism because foreigners are less and less likely to deal with this shit. We're going to lose the immigrants that IMO most of us agree we want to come to America - the ones who already have 4-12 years of education and are coming here to work a good job or find a new life.
This security stupidity is only going to help keep our economy in the shitter longer and longer.
Do it like Langley does it. Make the exterior of the airport terminal(s) blast-proof. Have chemical/biological/nuclear/explosive sniffers at the doors. Pass through this to even get in and you've solved a major problem. They have such devices already in testing.
Once inside the perimeter, do the standard (random) bag check. Don't make people take off their shoes, that's outright stupidity.
This would be more than enough of a reasonable level of security. All the shit we do now is just security theater that is ultimately hurting the travel industry and the economy in general. This shit has got to stop.
A good friend of mine started out as a temp worker doing boxing and stuff for Amazon. It's typically simple stuff like taking items out of a big box, scanning the individual items, shelving them,.etc. Lots of work with a barcode scanner.
The cool thing Amazon does, though, is encourage competition. They have leaderboards. His first week there my buddy was something like #4 out of a few dozen people at that particular warehouse. A few months later he was brought on board as a permanent employee because he was doing the job like a 5-year veteran.
There are a hell of a lot of companies out there that wouldn't go so far as to give incentives for hard work like that..
Even after he's been hired, there's still the incentive to bust your butt. Not only because of the pride of being on the leaderboard, but you get bonuses for working quickly. He's often gotten paid hours to go home (or just got to leave early unpaid, still great) because he gets through the work so quickly.
Strangest of all, he actually likes his job a lot. I don't think I could do something like that (one day in a factory and I nearly went nuts from boredom and the neverending work), but damn if he isn't happy.
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Then do what any good American businessman would do and create a shell company of sorts. Pastafarianism, anyone?
I'm pretty sure the I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts alone would cover a lot of the bullshit that the various churches shovel on the public.
Part of the problem is hardware, though.
I'm around 6'5" (~195cm). I can cover a full octave on a keyboard/piano and then a couple keys past that. I'll be damned if I'm going to fiddle with tiny little keys. While I do have weight on me, my hands aren't like little sausages, and yet I still incorrectly strike keys on some of these midget netbooks. (Don't even get me started on this trend with cellphones to have a "full QWERTY" keypad in a 2 inch by 2 inch space, or the iPhone's touch typing software...)
Even a full-sized laptop keyboard is no good to me. I need the texture of the keys of classic style keyboards or I can't type worth a damn. I can top out at around 100 WPM, and it gets smacked down to 70-80 on flat-key inputs. I haven't even bothered with small, flat keyboards (*cough* EEE PC) because I'm sure the number will be lower than Forrest Gump's IQ.
The thing is, some of these pictures are so ridiculous (mildly NSFW)
and/or funny that they would qualify as parody and be protected.
You draw a picture of Barney Rubble banging a dinosaur, some Internet dwellers are going to see it as sexy, but the majority of people (including, say, a judge) are going to interpret it as a joke. A sick joke, but a joke, and thus protected as parody.
There's two possible conspiracies here.
Nintendo conspiracy, they see the movie, they like it, and then they get it taken down claiming trademark blabbity blah. They have... something? to gain from it. I don't know. There's lots of angles that could be worked here.
Filmmaker's conspiracy, they know it's not kosher to make this movie. They also know that Nintendo has a brand image to uphold and while they will threaten litigation, they won't really bring down the hammer too hard because it would tarnish their image. Streisand Effect takes place, people see it, and all of a sudden these fan film makers are a hot property. It's a great way to manipulate geeks into doing P.R. for you for free.
I imagine that there are hundreds of people who will read this and laugh at its absurdity. I'd also imagine that there's a small handful of people laughing and saying "Holy shit, he figured it out... good thing no one would ever believe him."
Someone needs to upload a torrent and include this sound file.
It's typically some low-level drone on the other end of the phone line that's saying "unfortunately". I think they really do empathize with you in that respect. I've had calls relating to service like this in my life where the dude says (in not so many words) "Dude, I wish I could help you, but it's against the stupid rules we have and I can't afford to get my ass shitcanned."
Amish is a religious denomination. During Rumspringa, they leave the community for a short time to experience the outside world. They must then choose whether to stay within the Amish community or live in the modern world. During Rumspringa they can essentially get away with anything an average American of that age would get away with - premarital sex, drinking, drugs, partying, etc. They are supposed to get a taste of the way the majority of America lives and then make a choice about which is more important to them, and I don't believe that they are really harshly judged for their behavior during this time.
And if I am to trust the advertisers - and my instincts say I can - Usenet has blazing fast speeds.
Keep up with the puns and I'll start using Corporal punishment.
I tend to think of a widget as more of a little (computer) desktop thing like a clock or calender. XP and OSX are really more like highly-evolved Widgets.
Widgeotto? Widgeot, even.
Only in America can you get people to pay you to beta test your product.
Back when I was in elementary school, my school was privaledged to have a special weather program for the more advanced students. A special satellite dish was installed on the roof hooked up to special terminals in our classroom; we had a direct downlink from the satellite.
I recall seeing a big hurricane coming towards us. With the data we had (a few hours worth), I knew it would hit by tomorrow. The meteorologists said it was a low chance of it coming in, but the basic signs - cold fronts, warm fronts, wind, the path of the hurricane, etc. - indicated to me that it was more likely that it would hit us. In short, I stayed up late and got two days off from school due to heavy rain. It was fun indeed.
Even with the limited data I had (compared to modern meteorologists), though, it still could have passed us by. It just would have been more and more unlikely.
The parent(s) are right about the unpredictability of weather, though. I generally don't trust forecasts beyond the next day (and sometimes not even then), because a shift in air pressure, wind, temperature, etc. can divert an incoming storm miles and miles away. It all falls down to computer models and what is "most likely", but until they invent magic crystal balls it will never really be accurate enough to satisfy the people who would depend on long-range forecasts. Not without human intervention (cloud-seeding, etc.) at least.
I wonder how long it would take an asteroid to get from the outside of our solar system inbound to our planet. An early-warning system would be something quite nice to have.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I believe that anything that could conceivably hit us would have to fly by a few predetermined paths (due to the effects of gravity from other bodies in our system), no? At the very least, we should start with setting up deep-space radar satellites at the most likely inbound paths.
It's like burrowing a single Zergling to detect incoming armies. It's just good sense.
Yes there is.
Choosing a Gucci bag because it's a Gucci bag is shameless commercialism; a status symbol. Broadcasting your wealth. Some people even go as far as spending money they don't have so they can get expensive shit like this.
Choosing a Gucci bag because you like the way it looks (irrespective of the brand name) is based on aesthetics.
Picking out clothes, accessories, etc. based on their appearance rather than their brand name is significantly less shallow in my book.
To me, Warren Buffet should have been the person of the decade. He manages his money (and company) responsible and lives way, way within his means. He's an example to everyone.
Of course, now that I've said this I'm sure he'll be indicted for something. It's the Hero's paradox, as soon as someone is lauded as a hero for whatever reason dirt is immediately dug up on them.
Interesting, so you're saying that the netbooks would in effect run a mesh network of sorts? It would certainly reduce Google's overhead.
Wow man, I'm sure you have a future career as a publicist. I think you've just discovered quantum bullshitting.
It's a new feature in Patch 4.69.11, you can cross-class music genres.
Like many geeks, I got a lot more interested in exercise once I made the connection to leveling up.
In every French company and administration (including ministries) I have worked with you find at least one multi-TB server with more recent movies, music, software and books you could ever find time for in your whole life.
In America if you want that you can just go to college.
I visited a friend at an unnamed New Jersey college a few hours drive away from where I live. There they had a custom DC++ network set up because the campus firewalls blocked torrents and P2P traffic. Since you couldn't get stuff from the inside, a few smart persons just hooked up this custom network.
It was for all intents and purposes a Darknet. You didn't know about it if you weren't invited by someone already in (hell, how many of you reading this knew about DC++ before this post? Exactly.). The major contributor was one of the lead campus IT guys - a student there for a few years - who had a 2TB fileserver in his dorm room just for stuff on the DC++ network. And this was back in the mid 2000s when 2TB would run you almost a G with the associated RAID hardware and whatnot.
After every major break - holidays, spring break, summer break, etc. - you could be sure to find a wealth of new material brought in on DVDs, portable drives, etc. from home. There was no kiddie porn or any sick shit on the network because the administrator(s?) didn't tolerate it - they'd track down the dorm room by IP address and have a little discussion after blacklisting the files in question.
It was really cool. I've never seen students work together like that, haha...
The kind of people who care about brand name clothes are ultimately shallow IMO.
There's a difference between getting something for the brand name and getting something for the particular signature style of the brandname.
For instance, Gucci purses have a distinct style. Do you like how it looks (and let me translate to woman, "Does it work with one of your outfits, gurrrrfrien?") and can you afford the luxury? Get it. But if you're getting it because it's a Gucci, that's shallow IMO.
Well, presumably the botnet outputs data to an address, right? Like let's say everything it collected was sent to a particular IP adadress. The "uninstaller" could have just been, say, something that edits the hosts file and just blocks the IP at that level. It doesn't risk harming the computers (it only adds one address that will fail to connect) and it completely cripples the botnet.
A life sentence would be preferable to most of those locations. At least you'd have a better chance of surviving in lockup.
Anyone higher up in the chain - say, government - looks at the bigger picture. 3,000 people died that day. That's 0.00001% of our population. It is statistically insignificant.
That's not to say the families of the dead do not feel legitimate pain. It was an indeed a tragedy. But rather than using a foreign attack on our own soil - the first major one in something like 60 years - as a way to galvanize people into being more security conscious, the government goes and takes the opportunity to reduce people's rights more and more.
These rules are only going to stop the most incompetent of terrorists, anyway.
Let's say your primary goal is to mess up public transportation for a few days - disrupt the infrastructure, as it were. You're not going to get a bomb on a plane. Shooting one down with a rocket (guided or otherwise) - that's possible. But why bother with that? You can just have a suicide bomber walk into the huge crowd of people lined up for security checks.
Then they move the barriers further out. You now have to wait outside of the airport before you're checked and scanned. That's when they pull up a truck bomb.
Now cars can't even use the roads near the airport, so an attacker can just open up on the crowds of people outside with an RPG, sniper fire, biological weapons, etc.
The proverbial "Security Line" is going to get pushed further and further back. It's going to make flying more and more desirable (Greyhound and Amtrak have a huge hardon for when this day comes, I'm sure). It's going to discourage tourism because foreigners are less and less likely to deal with this shit. We're going to lose the immigrants that IMO most of us agree we want to come to America - the ones who already have 4-12 years of education and are coming here to work a good job or find a new life.
This security stupidity is only going to help keep our economy in the shitter longer and longer.
Do it like Langley does it. Make the exterior of the airport terminal(s) blast-proof. Have chemical/biological/nuclear/explosive sniffers at the doors. Pass through this to even get in and you've solved a major problem. They have such devices already in testing.
Once inside the perimeter, do the standard (random) bag check. Don't make people take off their shoes, that's outright stupidity.
This would be more than enough of a reasonable level of security. All the shit we do now is just security theater that is ultimately hurting the travel industry and the economy in general. This shit has got to stop.
A good friend of mine started out as a temp worker doing boxing and stuff for Amazon. It's typically simple stuff like taking items out of a big box, scanning the individual items, shelving them,.etc. Lots of work with a barcode scanner.
The cool thing Amazon does, though, is encourage competition. They have leaderboards. His first week there my buddy was something like #4 out of a few dozen people at that particular warehouse. A few months later he was brought on board as a permanent employee because he was doing the job like a 5-year veteran.
There are a hell of a lot of companies out there that wouldn't go so far as to give incentives for hard work like that..
Even after he's been hired, there's still the incentive to bust your butt. Not only because of the pride of being on the leaderboard, but you get bonuses for working quickly. He's often gotten paid hours to go home (or just got to leave early unpaid, still great) because he gets through the work so quickly.
Strangest of all, he actually likes his job a lot. I don't think I could do something like that (one day in a factory and I nearly went nuts from boredom and the neverending work), but damn if he isn't happy.