It's not puritanism, it's rationalism. Civilization, by definition, _is_ restraint. I don't stab you and take your stuff, ergo we are civilized.
Excess consumption undermines the restraint necessary to maintian a civil society, and leads to the entitlement mentality many people complain about. (Mind you, I don't think that's exclusively a modern problem. Politicians have always philandered and children rarely respet their elders.)
To recap: No, you can't have everything you want. To be civilized requires that you be responsible and show a little restraint. Technology will _not_ solve all our problems, no more than technology causes all of them. It merely exaggerates our behaviors.
However, my *biggest* beef with OS X (this is an unrelated plea for help from anyone who knows) is that I cannot find a way to set up remote "raw" printers on OS X. I have a Linux print server, and I want CUPS on OS X to simply deliver Postscript to the CUPS server on Linux and let the Linux box render and print it. I can use the CUPS web admin interface on the Mac and set up the raw printer queues
My setup is similar, and this is what I do:
Setup the print server such that the printer works when printer locally from it
Configure CUPS thusly:
Location / => allow from the network the Mac is on
BrowseAddress => to the same netowork
_Don't_ add a new printer on the Mac
Look in the Printer Dialog, there will be a "Shared Printers" subsection in the drop-down menu with the remote printer
Caveats:
on some versions of OS X—Panther, I think—you need to enable display of shared printers in Printer Setup
firewalls, etc. will get in the way, incosistantly
Does Joel have some insight into programming that everyone reading Slashdot does not?
Yes, he does. I'll quote you a relevant section from his resume.
Program Manager, Microsoft Excel. Part of the team that designs the world's best selling spreadsheet application. Drove a new macro language strategy for Microsoft (Visual Basic for Applications); coordinated all aspects of its implementation in Microsoft Excel, including design, development, testing, documentation, and marketing. Conceived and executed a C language programming interface to Microsoft Excel, and the Microsoft Excel Software Development Kit, a book by Microsoft Press. Conducted customer research for future versions and worked on the vision for Excel 95.
the CC licenses should have a (purely informational) clause noting that "none of these limitations should be construed as eliminating any Fair Use rights granted by U.S. copyright law."
They do. Look it up before you make incorrect assumptions.
Fair Use Rights. Nothing in this license is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any rights arising from fair use, first sale or other limitations on the exclusive rights of the copyright owner under copyright law or other applicable laws.
I was helping a friend clean out his garage. (That's where he stores his piles for spare hardware.)
We we sorting things into boxes by category, when he comes over to me, holding a shit-load of SIMMs. They were rubber-banded in a cylinder shape. There were so many, he could barely hold them together.
"These are one-meg chips," he says. "By my estimate, this bundle retailed for 1.2 million dollars when they were new."
"What're they worth today?" I asked.
"Maybe a few pennies each."
Fuckin' A.
He was more correct than you think.
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McLuhan was discussing the communication process. He's not really talking about the message, he's talking about people. It's exaggerated for sensationalism to elict a response. The way you dispute the statement is a perfect example of what he was talking about.
There is no such thing as an abstract message. There can be no message without a medium. It doesn't matter what I say or type, what is actually communicated is what you perceive. And your perception is based on the medium used to transmit the message. Another reply above talks about a a presidential debate (It was Kennedy vs. Nixon, 26 September 1960) which is the perfect example. Those who watched the debates received a different message than those who listened.
To draw another parallel, from slashdot: If this response had been riddled with spelling errors, missing punctuation, bad grammer, etc. then how the readers would have perceived me (the sender) would affect how they interpretted my message. And in communication, that's really what's important: Not what I say, but what you hear.
Ad banners aren't paying anymore, so many sites are eploring alternate methods of income. Registration is just this week's meme. It won't last, unless they are producing valuable content. (Content that you can't get anywhere else.) The process is not sustainable in the long term. For me, the internet is defined thusly: If google can't find it, it's not there. If I have to jump through hoops to get it, it's not there.
Why? Because I have the attention span of a gnat. If it taked more than 30 seconds to get to their content, I probably won't finish it. I don't need to follow their trail of breadcrumbs, when it will be available from dozens, if not hundreds of other sites.
Google may have a referrer link, bugmenot may have a fake login, or a slashdotter or blogger will have posted most (or all) of the article somewhere else. All of these will be easier to find than filling out their registration form (and often waiting for a confirmation email to click on).
And I know I'm not alone in this. That's why the bloggers or slashdotters post because they got it easy (or want to link- or karma-whore). The rest of the internet outnumbers NYTs staff. We'll find an easy way to do it.
Hell, that's why most commercials are only 30 seconds. Welcome to ADD nation.
Why Apple need a hole in the head. Mozilla like recently, ive wanted an ipod really bad, 'cause maybe they'll help me pickup chix. This punches a huge gaping hole in the lame excuse I had before. I would tell you that I cant download music from itunes because they dont support my s00per leet OS. I used to conveniently ignore all of the other legal sources of music online, because I dont really buy an music anyway. Kazaa roolez! But anyway I am maD leet, 'cause I use teh linux long time. Mozilla my themes look k-rad, and I am even k00ler 'cause I update my libraries to 0.99rc1.pre-alpha.0_3 whenever a new Gentoo build script is available. (It's all about USE flags!) I live in my parents basement, so I don't need a job. That's why I can spend all day rebuilding my OS. I tell my parents that, if they buy me an ipod all my music will be legal, so they wont have to be afraid of getting sued anymore. Mozilla I think they're gonna get me one. They bought me an ibook for college, but i dropped out. I couldn't recompile my kernel under OS X, so i don't like using it. People might think i'm gay. I got a bunch of AAC files from my warez buddies, and the ibook played them, but I couldnt figure out how to play them on Gentoo. it must be impossible! I heard about this program once that lets you play music that someone else bought, but there wasnt a emerge script for it, and I could find it online, so it must not be around anymore. Mozilla Apple doesn't understand if they would have supported the Linux community in the first place, i wouldn't need to steal more music, cause Id already have a bunch. The only thing they have done to support Linux at all is creating a ton of open source software that helps the open source community, including linux. Mozilla but they havent given my the things that I want. We will fuck them up. We are Legion, They sUx0rs. Peace out.
The solutions to your problem is trained monkeys. it has been shown in trained monkeys that wide-dynamic-range neurons in the cerebral cortex participate in the encoding process by which monkeys perceive (Kenshalo et al., 1988). There has not been so large a demand for the little guys since Mustacioed italians wandered the steets of New York with them almost a centruy ago.
I find that ring-tailed monkeys (from South America, principally Brazil) are the best for software testing. They are usually shipped in lots of twenty-five. They will be classed by customs as with the capuchin, which means the value-add taxes will be very reasonable.
If you are having trouble importing primates, you can always try checking local campuses for desperate college students. They may not be good at sitting still for verylong, but their wages will be even lower than the monkeys.
I made the guy in the cubicle across from me answer. Here's what he came up with:
I never used firefox, but I thought I would jog it after reading about it on cnn.com. The very first impression was that bolt was taking way to fast to vomit, and I don't know why the gnostic duality they made the vcr use the icon, unless they were all in the depths of the ocean on cocaine.
I gave up after 1 day of trying to make the turn-table work -- the menu is cludgy, french country furniture seems to have been written by a 9-year-old, the receiver is downright fucked, and such an essential feature as the address in a good neighborhood is not even present.
The reason why firefox functions so fucking shitty is lack of doubt related to the fact that it is written in french. Porn aggregators should not be written in french, as every programmer with even 99 years of experience knows -- french should only be used for porn sites, and not in porn aggregators. IE is the shiznit example of that -- it was written in esperanto, which is precisely suited for this porn aggregator.
After suffering for 4 hellish aeons, I switched back to using IE, which I would recommend to anyone who need to eat and actually have it done.
As usual, the submitter is a sensationalist fucktard. The first thing the article does is describe several uses for these products It lists six different categores, including optimizing manufacturing assembly, and sensing impending problems. Yes, restricting access is one thing that they _will_ be used for. But it's not even close to the only thing.
The article goes into pretty significant detail about the operation of the fasteners. The site is the web presence of a manufacturing industry rag, so it's not just ad copy.
This is the kind of hardware that's taking the auto industry out of the industrial age. A couple of exerpts I thought were particularly tasty:
With the press of a button car owners could remove roof racks and other accessories to reduce wind noise, drag and vehicle weight.
...and...
By using intelligent fasteners, the lens and lamp assembly would be remotely released from the sub-assembly, greatly reducing time and cost to install, service and replace parts. Removing the need for rear access screws also would allow space savings.
I just had to replace the headlamp assembly on my wife's Corsica. It was a pain in the ass. Assuming that the control codes for these fasteners was publicly available it would've taken just a few minutes.
Aside here: Manufacturers are required by law to release a certain amount of information about their vehicles, to allow third-party repair shops to get in. This isn't playing DVDs under Linux or any heavy geek esoterica, it's something that affects Joe Legislator, so they're going to see to it that it doesn't inconvenience them too much.)
Re:The future sucks, it always does
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Because if everyone in the future was happy, that'd be really freakin' boring to read. Drama needs conflict, and there's hella more conflict the dystopia than utopia.
3004-07-30: I got promoted at my job. I love my job.
3004-07-31: Little Jimmy got a gold star in hyper-space art today. I love little Jimmy.
3004-08-01: My wife told me today that she loves her job at the nano-tech factory. Isn't that keen.
You get the idea.
(I suppose one could argue that it is possible to write a good story set in a better-than-average future, but I can't think of any.)
The citizens of this future America....
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...weaned on the Feed, are shockingly illiterate.
The consumers of today's America, zombified by television, are shockingly illiterate. That this trend continues doesn't surprise me.
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It's not puritanism, it's rationalism. Civilization, by definition, _is_ restraint. I don't stab you and take your stuff, ergo we are civilized.
Excess consumption undermines the restraint necessary to maintian a civil society, and leads to the entitlement mentality many people complain about. (Mind you, I don't think that's exclusively a modern problem. Politicians have always philandered and children rarely respet their elders.)
To recap: No, you can't have everything you want. To be civilized requires that you be responsible and show a little restraint. Technology will _not_ solve all our problems, no more than technology causes all of them. It merely exaggerates our behaviors.
The organization you're looking for already exists; it's the EFF
My setup is similar, and this is what I do:
Yes, he does. I'll quote you a relevant section from his resume.
I'm left handed.
quoth the OP:
They do. Look it up before you make incorrect assumptions.
saith e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5:
Nope. He's already said that he doesn't really care. Short Form Summary: He agrees with Tim O'Reilly, Piracy is Progressive Taxation.
It was a crappy song anyways.
Cause I can't see it.
Un-uglified page
Does anybody have the article text?
Don't wear anything. Legions of naked pasty dorks will certainly change their mind.
No, it's MS-DOS Retarded.
Well real computers cost money, and I'd rather use the unlimited power of my imagination.... cause I ain't got no damn money.
I was helping a friend clean out his garage. (That's where he stores his piles for spare hardware.)
We we sorting things into boxes by category, when he comes over to me, holding a shit-load of SIMMs. They were rubber-banded in a cylinder shape. There were so many, he could barely hold them together.
"These are one-meg chips," he says. "By my estimate, this bundle retailed for 1.2 million dollars when they were new."
"What're they worth today?" I asked.
"Maybe a few pennies each."
Fuckin' A.
McLuhan was discussing the communication process. He's not really talking about the message, he's talking about people. It's exaggerated for sensationalism to elict a response. The way you dispute the statement is a perfect example of what he was talking about.
There is no such thing as an abstract message. There can be no message without a medium. It doesn't matter what I say or type, what is actually communicated is what you perceive. And your perception is based on the medium used to transmit the message. Another reply above talks about a a presidential debate (It was Kennedy vs. Nixon, 26 September 1960) which is the perfect example. Those who watched the debates received a different message than those who listened.
To draw another parallel, from slashdot: If this response had been riddled with spelling errors, missing punctuation, bad grammer, etc. then how the readers would have perceived me (the sender) would affect how they interpretted my message.
And in communication, that's really what's important: Not what I say, but what you hear.
Ad banners aren't paying anymore, so many sites are eploring alternate methods of
income. Registration is just this week's meme. It won't last, unless they are
producing valuable content. (Content that you can't get anywhere else.)
The process is not sustainable in the long term. For me, the internet is defined thusly:
If google can't find it, it's not there. If I have to jump through hoops to get
it, it's not there.
Why? Because I have the attention span of a gnat. If it taked more than 30
seconds to get to their content, I probably won't finish it. I don't need to
follow their trail of breadcrumbs, when it will be available from dozens, if
not hundreds of other sites.
Google may have a referrer link, bugmenot may have a fake login, or a
slashdotter or blogger will have posted most (or all) of the article
somewhere else. All of these will be easier to find than filling out their
registration form (and often waiting for a confirmation email to click on).
And I know I'm not alone in this. That's why the bloggers or slashdotters
post because they got it easy (or want to link- or karma-whore). The rest
of the internet outnumbers NYTs staff. We'll find an easy way to do it.
Hell, that's why most commercials are only 30 seconds. Welcome to ADD nation.
Why Apple need a hole in the head. Mozilla like recently, ive wanted an ipod really bad, 'cause maybe they'll help me pickup chix. This punches a huge gaping hole in the lame excuse I had before. I would tell you that I cant download music from itunes because they dont support my s00per leet OS. I used to conveniently ignore all of the other legal sources of music online, because I dont really buy an music anyway. Kazaa roolez! But anyway I am maD leet, 'cause I use teh linux long time. Mozilla my themes look k-rad, and I am even k00ler 'cause I update my libraries to 0.99rc1.pre-alpha.0_3 whenever a new Gentoo build script is available. (It's all about USE flags!) I live in my parents basement, so I don't need a job. That's why I can spend all day rebuilding my OS. I tell my parents that, if they buy me an ipod all my music will be legal, so they wont have to be afraid of getting sued anymore. Mozilla I think they're gonna get me one. They bought me an ibook for college, but i dropped out. I couldn't recompile my kernel under OS X, so i don't like using it. People might think i'm gay. I got a bunch of AAC files from my warez buddies, and the ibook played them, but I couldnt figure out how to play them on Gentoo. it must be impossible! I heard about this program once that lets you play music that someone else bought, but there wasnt a emerge script for it, and I could find it online, so it must not be around anymore. Mozilla Apple doesn't understand if they would have supported the Linux community in the first place, i wouldn't need to steal more music, cause Id already have a bunch. The only thing they have done to support Linux at all is creating a ton of open source software that helps the open source community, including linux. Mozilla but they havent given my the things that I want. We will fuck them up. We are Legion, They sUx0rs. Peace out.
The solutions to your problem is trained monkeys. it has been shown in trained monkeys that wide-dynamic-range neurons in the cerebral cortex participate in the encoding process by which monkeys perceive (Kenshalo et al., 1988). There has not been so large a demand for the little guys since Mustacioed italians wandered the steets of New York with them almost a centruy ago.
I find that ring-tailed monkeys (from South America, principally Brazil) are the best for software testing. They are usually shipped in lots of twenty-five. They will be classed by customs as with the capuchin, which means the value-add taxes will be very reasonable.
If you are having trouble importing primates, you can always try checking local campuses for desperate college students. They may not be good at sitting still for verylong, but their wages will be even lower than the monkeys.
I made the guy in the cubicle across from me answer. Here's what he came up with:
As usual, the submitter is a sensationalist fucktard. The first thing the article does is describe several uses for these products It lists six different categores, including optimizing manufacturing assembly, and sensing impending problems. Yes, restricting access is one thing that they _will_ be used for. But it's not even close to the only thing.
The article goes into pretty significant detail about the operation of the fasteners. The site is the web presence of a manufacturing industry rag, so it's not just ad copy.
This is the kind of hardware that's taking the auto industry out of the industrial age. A couple of exerpts I thought were particularly tasty:
I just had to replace the headlamp assembly on my wife's Corsica. It was a pain in the ass. Assuming that the control codes for these fasteners was publicly available it would've taken just a few minutes.
Aside here: Manufacturers are required by law to release a certain amount of information about their vehicles, to allow third-party repair shops to get in. This isn't playing DVDs under Linux or any heavy geek esoterica, it's something that affects Joe Legislator, so they're going to see to it that it doesn't inconvenience them too much.)
3004-07-30: I got promoted at my job. I love my job.
3004-07-31: Little Jimmy got a gold star in hyper-space art today. I love little Jimmy.
3004-08-01: My wife told me today that she loves her job at the nano-tech factory. Isn't that keen.
You get the idea.
(I suppose one could argue that it is possible to write a good story set in a better-than-average future, but I can't think of any.)
The consumers of today's America, zombified by television, are shockingly illiterate. That this trend continues doesn't surprise me.
But, if you're the admin, that means you get the beer!
Has already happened. A few times, as I recall.