If the RIAA wants to keep me from downloading music, all they have to do is make sure that the only people making music are the "Artists" that appear on MTV's "people to promote" lists. I have yet to even consider the music of Madonna, Brittney Spears, Creed, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Metallica... the list goes on and on.
"Gosh, nobody is buying our music! It must be piracy! It can't be the fact that the shit we're spitting out like a diseased chorizo grinder is as likely to be listenable as the sounds of chainsaws mating."
RIAA/MPAA? ProTip: All that merchandise of yours that I didn't buy? It wasn't because I downloaded it like a naughty pirate. It was because you were too busy shoveling shit onto the shelves to notice it wasn't worth the effort of getting it -free- let alone buying.
I don't have an HD TV, nor do I really have intent to get one in the next year. Same goes for the HD players.
As long as studios treat me like a video copying pirate, why should I give them more money?
What's the deal with my TV and my DVD player needing to authenticate to each other, and the signal from one to the other being encrypted to be sent the few mere feet down the cable? I bought the disk, I bought the player and the television. Do I have to ask -permission- to watch this stuff now?
I don't buy DVDs much, if at all anymore. At most one every three or four months. I used to get one or two a week.
And then I ran out of content that I wanted to purchase.
But I guess to the studios, the fact that I stopped buying movies, doesn't mean "I don't like what pablum you are shoving at me" it means "He must be pirating movies"
No, it means that I find the shit you are cranking out displeasing, and I'm spending my money elsewhere...
I'll invest in the next generation (and that's what it is, when you look at the costs of it) of entertainment, when I find "next gen" entertainment worth my money.
By his line of thought, backdoor programs should be in every OS, so TERRERISTS can't hide their actions. OMG! Think of all the child Porn People We could catch! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Don't tell me you are siding with the Child Porn People!
PGP (and its ilk) should have a Master Government Key to keep TERRERISTS from hiding data!
We shouldn't allow libraries to exist. After all TERRORISTAS can learn how to make bombs at one!
Footwear!! Lets make all footwear illegal! TERRORISTS all had footwear. Everyone should have thin sandals with small straps. If it was good enough for JESUS it will be good enough for everyone!!!!
I have looked at the other models, and right now, I don't see any that have told me "upgrade to me!" other than the "holy crap, 4k!" Nikon D2Xs.
Please, check out http://www.dpreview.com/ before you purchase a camera. No, seriously. When I was a salesdroid, I recommended -everyone- check that site at least once before spending $money on camera.
I saw the D80, and I looked at "What does it offer?" well, okay, its 10mp vs 6mp. But thats not enough to make me buy it. The D80 uses SD cards vs the CF/MD cards of the D70. No benefit there. I have $500 in microdrives. The extra resolution is nice, but not -by it self- enough. A 4x6 image only needs a "3mp" area to be displayed at "80% of humans will never discern it from film"
As a former salesman, you need to ask "What is my end result?" if the answer is "To send pics to grandma" Then -ANY- digital camera will do it. DSLR's bring forth the power of film cameras. If you don't need that power, you don't need a DSLR.
I have a half dozen lenses for my camera. But I'm a semi-pro photographer. A situation that inspires me to get a $400 lens, you might not feel the same on.
Go, Decide for yourself. I can lay out ten thousand reasons why I love my rig and gear. The will -NOT- apply to you. Such is art.
Yes, but as I said, as an Average Voter, my shot at altering my particular voting place might as well been 0. I do not have any info as to the circumstances FOR a pollster worker. PERHAPS they could have loaded the virii before the 7am poll opening, and then taped the machines with the sec tape. I have no proof of Yea or Nay. I just report on my experience.
You are quite correct. My post, as well as my own experience comes from a default assumption that the poll workers were not corrupt, nor were they given "Non-Honorable" machines. My post was in reference to "Could a voter hack these..." and assuming the poll workers were 100% honorable.
I'd install Vista on a new computer if it came with Vista (I do not trust default loadouts. I -always- re-install, or at the minimum, print the drive from a ghosted image)
Office 2007, I'd do across the whole company. We had a procedure to upgrade people. Now mind you we had 120 employees, so our problems/solutions may not match yours. We had a requirement where -EVERY- user had to come to the IT room for the upgrade, and we checked off the whiteboard who got what. After $time, anyone who didn't, got locked off the network for not following procedures. (with upgrade paths and 'forgive' paths for certain classes)
This allowed us to track who got what license onto what machine, and allowed us to guarantee $x licenses of $y product.
Until Sunday, I was like the parentmost post. I had no opinion. Sure, I could have voted randomly, or not voted at all.
I sat down and spent two hours with a browser reading up and becoming informed. I looked at my local ballot, and took the time to understand the issues on it so I would not go to the booth with a wild guess.
I would rather someone -not- vote, than randomly/blindly/uninformed-ly vote.
Finding the information on my own ballot (since each location would have a localized ballot, where I found my information, and you, are two different places) was not difficult. And I felt it was my own duty as a member of a voting-capable society to inform -myself- on the matters. (Since my wife and I do not watch television, we were not polluted by TV campaign ads. BUT we had to educate ourselves.)
GO learn for yourself. It does not take long, and it is not HARD.
I voted. With a touchscreen. And I think a lot of fears for voting problems were solved by the system they had there. There was no "OMG DIEBOLD" label. (Post voting research turned up the machines were 'Edge VeriVote' systems) I got my strangely notched smart card from the attendant, and went to the terminal. They had six at my location (I live in a relatively small town), arranged in a circle, each machine had its own "privacy blinders" so only the voter could see the screen. They were on their own stands, and all six went to power outlets, and nothing else. The circle of machines was in the open, and the seals on the machines had blatant security tape. Each machine faced inwards, so had anyone gone to the 'hackable' portion of the machine, five other people would have instantly seen it. To "hack" these, you would have had to tell two dozen people "EVERYONE! LOOK OVER THERE FOR A FEW MINUTES!".... just to start.
After casting my votes on all the people, and measures, and propositions, it put up a screen to review. I confirmed, and then it printed the ballot on a roll of paper in a locked box for me to visually confirm. It had a form of "voter id" hash on it, and a "polling location" as well. Then at the bottom, a multi-row barcode and a few other visual/human readable 'checksums'
Perfect? Maybe or maybe not. Maybe it was a good fake, and I'd have to watch the paper rolls getting moved. At least there is the appearance of a paper-based audit trail as well as solutions to many of the other concerns I've seen raised here, and many other forums.
I met a video 'pirate' the other day while doing my laundry. He was offering current-run movies for $5 a disk. But wouldn't sell them to me, in fact, wouldn't even let me look at the stack. "You know English, you can go see these in the theater."
He said that he downloaded them, and subtitled them in Spanish, then made DVD's. He said that he started it by getting frustrated that his family wanted to go -legally- patronize the theater, but they can't, because they do not know English well enough. And said he'd close up shop, when there was a theater his family could go see new release movies.
(Admittedly, I'm new to the San Francisco area, so I've no idea if there -is- a theater like that, and he's bullshitting me. But it -sounded- good.)
---
In my own way. I'd buy more DVDs if they would put out more movies that I'd -want- on my shelf. Simple as that. Hell, I had a friend who downloaded a copy of "The Core" and said he -still- felt ripped off at how -bad- the movie was.
"Oh yay, full seasons of 'Full House' on DVD... yeah, they'll blame -piracy- for the bad sales."
Stop making shitty movies. You want my stupidly high ticket price, and DVD sale? (And CD purchase and...) stop cranking out stupid shit.
I occasionally interview for junior php programmer positions. My technique isn't as much to test rote memorization (since even the best of us have to hit php.net for reference now and then) but a sort of 'Bene Gesserit' way to test someone by observation.
So, I throw questions that are -way- above the level of programmer that I'm looking for.
I don't care if they solve it. It is a -big- bonus if they do. What I -want- is to watch them solve it. Do they answer "I don't know."? (Which is actually a valid answer to me.) Do they come to a solution that is at least along the proper direction towards the solution? Or do they make a wild guess?
The test is not 'can you solve this' but 'How do you work under a very tight time limit, in a very stressful situation, being told these "Senior++" level questions are "Junior" level questions?'. I can train the technical skills needed, if you already have the foundation dicipline and the mind to take the hit. But I can tell from the three "killer" questions I ask, if you have the mental durability and flexability to be able to be a good programmer here.
I have two "geeks" who call me "Sir" ( even though I tell them not to. They still call me "sir". ) and I have found that the best way to manage them is to give them the problem, and say "Go solve this." and let them go and Just Do It. (Nike Swoosh(tm))
When they need "Elevated Authority" they come to me, but I've found that telling them the problem, and letting -their own- judgement dictate the methods of solving the problem, often A: makes them -HAPPY- to work for me. and B: Solves the problem. Is INFINTELY better than micromanaging them.
"Here is $Problem, take care of it." and let them do -whatever they need- to, has worked far better for us than any other management(of interns) methods yet.
This way we are letting them decide what is the best way to reach the goal. and -TRUSTING- them to reach that goal. (which is often more valuable than the goal itself) and in the end, if they fail, I can show them why.
I have two "geeks" in my charge, that would kill themselves if I asked them to. They'd take my hardest tasks -any- day, over the HRs mindless shuffling of paperwork, because I let -their own- judgement choose how to solve the problem.
You want to manage geeks? Tell them what needs to be accomplished, and give them free reign to do whatever their training and personal skills tells them is necessary to solve the problem. I've never -ever- had one come to me with a failure.
But! There is a Caveat. You have to be willing to let your "geek" run free. Not only that. You will have to let your "geek" know (consiously or unconsiously) that you will take the hit, for his failures. Because at the end of the day... his glory is yours.. his failure is yours. If you let him -Run- with whatever he wants.. Let him -know- that you will absorb his fuck ups. You -will- get magic. BUT! You have to let your "Geek" run.
Its this same line of thought that'll cause the GPS system to be turned back down to crap for non-military use. "OMG! They might go to a building and mark where it is, then use a GPS Guided Missle to Blow it up!"
Right.
Because Terrorists never just -drive- a bomb someplace.
I'm not going to lie that there aren't pirated psp games out there. But I look at my psp. VNC Client, a text reader, sudoku, pspCalendar
I've even dabbled in coding for it myself.
I would gladly pay a reasonable amount of money, for a "Homebrew Compiler".
Look at bittorrent. Same arguments. "Look at all the piracy it supports!!!!*fap*" meanwhile, its legitimatized.
People will -always- pirate software. This isn't something that can be solved. I paid for my PSP with my honestly earned money. If I want to keep ebooks on it to read, or utilize it to its greater potential above and beyond a game machine, I -will-.
Sure, if it looks like meat, tastes like meat, and if my body doesn't know the difference, I'll give it a shot.
However, having grown up on a dairy and beef farm, there is nothing more satisfying than a good slab of heated cow flesh.
I'm an omnivore, have always been. I hate plants as well as animals.
There was a militant vegan in my office. Ignoring her leather shoes and so on, she used to scoff me for my lunch. Smirkingly and smarmingly eating a banana like she was -superior- to me. "You know. Cows are superior to Bananas." "Impossible!" "Sure. After I'm done eating -MY- lunch, -I- can wear the peel."
Unlike her, I've -seen- cows in person. I grew up on a farm. I -know- just how mind numbingly stupid cows are. I mean, they're nearly as dumb as your average member of $political_party. I mean, the cow's -ONLY- saving grace, is that they are tasty. (Mind you, I'm not of the faith that considers cows to be sacred.)
I eat steak, chicken, fish, you name it. If its the flesh of a formerly living creature, there's a good chance I'd consider it food. Make it as rare as safe. I want to -taste- the meat. Steak Sauce? Sure, but -only- if I really, really f'ed up the cooking. She? Strictly Vegan, has been most of her life.
I take practically no sick leave from work. If I'm out sick, people are surprised, and wonder about me when I return. Her? She was out sick constantly. Anyone so much as wrote 'Germs' on a post-it, and she had a three day cold.
I'd like to think that -maybe- my diet contributed to a more formidable immune system.
I get VARBusiness here at work. Free. I've no idea how I got on their subscription list, other than probably my work address appearing in a list somewhere. I've never paid for it, nor is there a price on it or even a UPC/ISBN.
This issue mentioned above, came plastic wrapped with an add in "True Stories Of Adventure And Success" (sic) a Microsoft|Partner Program leaflet.
I trust them as far as I can comfortably spit a dead mouse.
When I got my Nikon D70, it came -WITH- a copy of Nikon Capture. And if it didn't, even though I've got the "Raw Converter" programs for GIMP, I -still- would have bought the Nikon Capture program. $100 for a program that does what NC does, is -quite- fair. And yes, it is -quite- superior to rawwrite that you can get for GIMP. Not only that, the "Batch Process" tools that allow me to take all the raws from a days's shooting, and make them into.jpg's for a "Proof sheet" with minimal effort, saves me -ages- of time.
Oh hell yes. Makes me wish I could mod this above a 5.
I've sent more people to dpreview than I could dare count. -Any- time people ask me for advice on a digital camera, ( I'm a semi-pro photographer ) and I tell them about dpreview.
Some of the reviews are -HORRIBLE- but thats what you get when you let the public post. Their own reviews are -very- top notch, and their side-by-side is worth its weight in gold.
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If the RIAA wants to keep me from downloading music, all they have to do is make sure that the only people making music are the "Artists" that appear on MTV's "people to promote" lists. I have yet to even consider the music of Madonna, Brittney Spears, Creed, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Metallica... the list goes on and on.
"Gosh, nobody is buying our music! It must be piracy! It can't be the fact that the shit we're spitting out like a diseased chorizo grinder is as likely to be listenable as the sounds of chainsaws mating."
RIAA/MPAA? ProTip: All that merchandise of yours that I didn't buy? It wasn't because I downloaded it like a naughty pirate. It was because you were too busy shoveling shit onto the shelves to notice it wasn't worth the effort of getting it -free- let alone buying.
Not only that, they also put it on one of their parking "Domain Available!" pages too.
www.hitler-had-only-one-ball.com,
Tried on godaddy, showed up as open.
Same on NS, showed up as blank.
Went back to Godaddy, clicked it again, "DOMAIN TAKEN"
Whois shows it up as;
Domain Name: HITLER-HAD-ONLY-ONE-BALL.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009
Within seconds of having it hit.
As for the "domain tasting" drop after $n days, why not just 're-search' for it, after 3 days, so it stays registered until it costs them money?
I don't have an HD TV, nor do I really have intent to get one in the next year. Same goes for the HD players.
As long as studios treat me like a video copying pirate, why should I give them more money?
What's the deal with my TV and my DVD player needing to authenticate to each other, and the signal from one to the other being encrypted to be sent the few mere feet down the cable? I bought the disk, I bought the player and the television. Do I have to ask -permission- to watch this stuff now?
I don't buy DVDs much, if at all anymore. At most one every three or four months. I used to get one or two a week.
And then I ran out of content that I wanted to purchase.
But I guess to the studios, the fact that I stopped buying movies, doesn't mean "I don't like what pablum you are shoving at me" it means "He must be pirating movies"
No, it means that I find the shit you are cranking out displeasing, and I'm spending my money elsewhere...
I'll invest in the next generation (and that's what it is, when you look at the costs of it) of entertainment, when I find "next gen" entertainment worth my money.
By his line of thought, backdoor programs should be in every OS, so TERRERISTS can't hide their actions. OMG! Think of all the child Porn People We could catch! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Don't tell me you are siding with the Child Porn People!
PGP (and its ilk) should have a Master Government Key to keep TERRERISTS from hiding data!
We shouldn't allow libraries to exist. After all TERRORISTAS can learn how to make bombs at one!
Footwear!! Lets make all footwear illegal! TERRORISTS all had footwear. Everyone should have thin sandals with small straps. If it was good enough for JESUS it will be good enough for everyone!!!!
I once snuck up on and yelled "Boo" at a rather high strung cat. He levitated about three feet in the air for a moment too.
That's acoustic levitation if I ever saw it.
I have looked at the other models, and right now, I don't see any that have told me "upgrade to me!" other than the "holy crap, 4k!" Nikon D2Xs.
Please, check out http://www.dpreview.com/ before you purchase a camera. No, seriously. When I was a salesdroid, I recommended -everyone- check that site at least once before spending $money on camera.
I saw the D80, and I looked at "What does it offer?" well, okay, its 10mp vs 6mp. But thats not enough to make me buy it. The D80 uses SD cards vs the CF/MD cards of the D70. No benefit there. I have $500 in microdrives. The extra resolution is nice, but not -by it self- enough. A 4x6 image only needs a "3mp" area to be displayed at "80% of humans will never discern it from film"
As a former salesman, you need to ask "What is my end result?" if the answer is "To send pics to grandma" Then -ANY- digital camera will do it. DSLR's bring forth the power of film cameras. If you don't need that power, you don't need a DSLR.
I have a half dozen lenses for my camera. But I'm a semi-pro photographer. A situation that inspires me to get a $400 lens, you might not feel the same on.
Go, Decide for yourself. I can lay out ten thousand reasons why I love my rig and gear. The will -NOT- apply to you. Such is art.
Yes, but as I said, as an Average Voter, my shot at altering my particular voting place might as well been 0. I do not have any info as to the circumstances FOR a pollster worker. PERHAPS they could have loaded the virii before the 7am poll opening, and then taped the machines with the sec tape. I have no proof of Yea or Nay. I just report on my experience.
You are quite correct. My post, as well as my own experience comes from a default assumption that the poll workers were not corrupt, nor were they given "Non-Honorable" machines. My post was in reference to "Could a voter hack these..." and assuming the poll workers were 100% honorable.
I'd install Vista on a new computer if it came with Vista (I do not trust default loadouts. I -always- re-install, or at the minimum, print the drive from a ghosted image)
Office 2007, I'd do across the whole company. We had a procedure to upgrade people. Now mind you we had 120 employees, so our problems/solutions may not match yours. We had a requirement where -EVERY- user had to come to the IT room for the upgrade, and we checked off the whiteboard who got what. After $time, anyone who didn't, got locked off the network for not following procedures. (with upgrade paths and 'forgive' paths for certain classes)
This allowed us to track who got what license onto what machine, and allowed us to guarantee $x licenses of $y product.
Until Sunday, I was like the parentmost post. I had no opinion. Sure, I could have voted randomly, or not voted at all.
I sat down and spent two hours with a browser reading up and becoming informed. I looked at my local ballot, and took the time to understand the issues on it so I would not go to the booth with a wild guess.
I would rather someone -not- vote, than randomly/blindly/uninformed-ly vote.
Finding the information on my own ballot (since each location would have a localized ballot, where I found my information, and you, are two different places) was not difficult. And I felt it was my own duty as a member of a voting-capable society to inform -myself- on the matters. (Since my wife and I do not watch television, we were not polluted by TV campaign ads. BUT we had to educate ourselves.)
GO learn for yourself. It does not take long, and it is not HARD.
I voted. With a touchscreen. And I think a lot of fears for voting problems were solved by the system they had there. There was no "OMG DIEBOLD" label. (Post voting research turned up the machines were 'Edge VeriVote' systems) I got my strangely notched smart card from the attendant, and went to the terminal. They had six at my location (I live in a relatively small town), arranged in a circle, each machine had its own "privacy blinders" so only the voter could see the screen. They were on their own stands, and all six went to power outlets, and nothing else. The circle of machines was in the open, and the seals on the machines had blatant security tape. Each machine faced inwards, so had anyone gone to the 'hackable' portion of the machine, five other people would have instantly seen it. To "hack" these, you would have had to tell two dozen people "EVERYONE! LOOK OVER THERE FOR A FEW MINUTES!".... just to start.
After casting my votes on all the people, and measures, and propositions, it put up a screen to review. I confirmed, and then it printed the ballot on a roll of paper in a locked box for me to visually confirm. It had a form of "voter id" hash on it, and a "polling location" as well. Then at the bottom, a multi-row barcode and a few other visual/human readable 'checksums'
Perfect? Maybe or maybe not. Maybe it was a good fake, and I'd have to watch the paper rolls getting moved. At least there is the appearance of a paper-based audit trail as well as solutions to many of the other concerns I've seen raised here, and many other forums.
Dear Hollywood.
I met a video 'pirate' the other day while doing my laundry. He was offering current-run movies for $5 a disk. But wouldn't sell them to me, in fact, wouldn't even let me look at the stack. "You know English, you can go see these in the theater."
He said that he downloaded them, and subtitled them in Spanish, then made DVD's. He said that he started it by getting frustrated that his family wanted to go -legally- patronize the theater, but they can't, because they do not know English well enough. And said he'd close up shop, when there was a theater his family could go see new release movies.
(Admittedly, I'm new to the San Francisco area, so I've no idea if there -is- a theater like that, and he's bullshitting me. But it -sounded- good.)
---
In my own way. I'd buy more DVDs if they would put out more movies that I'd -want- on my shelf. Simple as that. Hell, I had a friend who downloaded a copy of "The Core" and said he -still- felt ripped off at how -bad- the movie was.
"Oh yay, full seasons of 'Full House' on DVD... yeah, they'll blame -piracy- for the bad sales."
Stop making shitty movies. You want my stupidly high ticket price, and DVD sale? (And CD purchase and...) stop cranking out stupid shit.
I occasionally interview for junior php programmer positions. My technique isn't as much to test rote memorization (since even the best of us have to hit php.net for reference now and then) but a sort of 'Bene Gesserit' way to test someone by observation.
So, I throw questions that are -way- above the level of programmer that I'm looking for.
I don't care if they solve it. It is a -big- bonus if they do. What I -want- is to watch them solve it. Do they answer "I don't know."? (Which is actually a valid answer to me.) Do they come to a solution that is at least along the proper direction towards the solution? Or do they make a wild guess?
The test is not 'can you solve this' but 'How do you work under a very tight time limit, in a very stressful situation, being told these "Senior++" level questions are "Junior" level questions?'. I can train the technical skills needed, if you already have the foundation dicipline and the mind to take the hit. But I can tell from the three "killer" questions I ask, if you have the mental durability and flexability to be able to be a good programmer here.
I have two "geeks" who call me "Sir" ( even though I tell them not to. They still call me "sir". ) and I have found that the best way to manage them is to give them the problem, and say "Go solve this." and let them go and Just Do It. (Nike Swoosh(tm))
When they need "Elevated Authority" they come to me, but I've found that telling them the problem, and letting -their own- judgement dictate the methods of solving the problem, often A: makes them -HAPPY- to work for me. and B: Solves the problem. Is INFINTELY better than micromanaging them.
"Here is $Problem, take care of it." and let them do -whatever they need- to, has worked far better for us than any other management(of interns) methods yet.
This way we are letting them decide what is the best way to reach the goal. and -TRUSTING- them to reach that goal. (which is often more valuable than the goal itself) and in the end, if they fail, I can show them why.
I have two "geeks" in my charge, that would kill themselves if I asked them to. They'd take my hardest tasks -any- day, over the HRs mindless shuffling of paperwork, because I let -their own- judgement choose how to solve the problem.
You want to manage geeks? Tell them what needs to be accomplished, and give them free reign to do whatever their training and personal skills tells them is necessary to solve the problem. I've never -ever- had one come to me with a failure.
But! There is a Caveat. You have to be willing to let your "geek" run free. Not only that. You will have to let your "geek" know (consiously or unconsiously) that you will take the hit, for his failures. Because at the end of the day... his glory is yours.. his failure is yours. If you let him -Run- with whatever he wants.. Let him -know- that you will absorb his fuck ups. You -will- get magic. BUT! You have to let your "Geek" run.
Only then, will your "Geek" truely shine.
-rdewalt
Its this same line of thought that'll cause the GPS system to be turned back down to crap for non-military use. "OMG! They might go to a building and mark where it is, then use a GPS Guided Missle to Blow it up!"
Right.
Because Terrorists never just -drive- a bomb someplace.
I'm not going to lie that there aren't pirated psp games out there. But I look at my psp. VNC Client, a text reader, sudoku, pspCalendar
I've even dabbled in coding for it myself.
I would gladly pay a reasonable amount of money, for a "Homebrew Compiler".
Look at bittorrent. Same arguments. "Look at all the piracy it supports!!!!*fap*" meanwhile, its legitimatized.
People will -always- pirate software. This isn't something that can be solved. I paid for my PSP with my honestly earned money. If I want to keep ebooks on it to read, or utilize it to its greater potential above and beyond a game machine, I -will-.
Silly little Anonymous Cocksneeze... You try so hard, yet you still fall back on needing one of Carlin's Seven Dirty Words...
You donkeyhumping popefelchers! Only grabastic nunblowing babyraping cumburpers use such pedestrian terms like "Fuck".
On-the-fly Creatific Curse Constructions, is a great way to keep even the most guttermouthed cock-master off guard in a linguistic duel.
Sure, if it looks like meat, tastes like meat, and if my body doesn't know the difference, I'll give it a shot.
However, having grown up on a dairy and beef farm, there is nothing more satisfying than a good slab of heated cow flesh.
I'm an omnivore, have always been. I hate plants as well as animals.
There was a militant vegan in my office. Ignoring her leather shoes and so on, she used to scoff me for my lunch. Smirkingly and smarmingly eating a banana like she was -superior- to me. "You know. Cows are superior to Bananas." "Impossible!" "Sure. After I'm done eating -MY- lunch, -I- can wear the peel."
Unlike her, I've -seen- cows in person. I grew up on a farm. I -know- just how mind numbingly stupid cows are. I mean, they're nearly as dumb as your average member of $political_party. I mean, the cow's -ONLY- saving grace, is that they are tasty. (Mind you, I'm not of the faith that considers cows to be sacred.)
I eat steak, chicken, fish, you name it. If its the flesh of a formerly living creature, there's a good chance I'd consider it food. Make it as rare as safe. I want to -taste- the meat. Steak Sauce? Sure, but -only- if I really, really f'ed up the cooking. She? Strictly Vegan, has been most of her life.
I take practically no sick leave from work. If I'm out sick, people are surprised, and wonder about me when I return. Her? She was out sick constantly. Anyone so much as wrote 'Germs' on a post-it, and she had a three day cold.
I'd like to think that -maybe- my diet contributed to a more formidable immune system.
"I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing"
Sort of like how "we" (the US) won't rest until we eliminate terrorism?
I get VARBusiness here at work. Free. I've no idea how I got on their subscription list, other than probably my work address appearing in a list somewhere. I've never paid for it, nor is there a price on it or even a UPC/ISBN.
This issue mentioned above, came plastic wrapped with an add in "True Stories Of Adventure And Success" (sic) a Microsoft|Partner Program leaflet.
I trust them as far as I can comfortably spit a dead mouse.
I've had this issue of InformationWeek on my desk since last friday... I usually try and get my breaking news from online... not dead trees.
When I got my Nikon D70, it came -WITH- a copy of Nikon Capture. And if it didn't, even though I've got the "Raw Converter" programs for GIMP, I -still- would have bought the Nikon Capture program. $100 for a program that does what NC does, is -quite- fair. And yes, it is -quite- superior to rawwrite that you can get for GIMP. Not only that, the "Batch Process" tools that allow me to take all the raws from a days's shooting, and make them into .jpg's for a "Proof sheet" with minimal effort, saves me -ages- of time.
NC is $100, but -well- worth it.
Perhaps the justice is in the fact that you've got a wife, and... they're left with nothing to do but make a RAID of ipods?
-Another married slashdotter...
Oh hell yes. Makes me wish I could mod this above a 5.
I've sent more people to dpreview than I could dare count. -Any- time people ask me for advice on a digital camera, ( I'm a semi-pro photographer ) and I tell them about dpreview.
Some of the reviews are -HORRIBLE- but thats what you get when you let the public post. Their own reviews are -very- top notch, and their side-by-side is worth its weight in gold.