There's just no way the average teenager could not find a means of disabling the GPS feature, or befriending a nerd capable of accomplishing the same. Still, nice work if you can get it. Not a Jew
Shut the fuck up. Harlan is a pioneer, and he stands head and shoulders with the founding fathers of the genre: Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, to speak nothing of Verne et al before them. It's about time one of the living legends of speculative fiction made some noise about just how badly publishers and their lackeys screw authors.
This is a fantastic story, but the article is almost entirely fluff: anyone care to explain/how/ a [brown?] recluse spider bite's neurotoxic venom induces nerve growth? Just curious.
If the AP lost market share, would anyone (besides their employees and shareholders) care? Would it be so terrible if one of the primary sources of vapid, meaningless and primarily irrelevant drivel became marginalized? After all, we've tens of thousands of foot soldiers fighting the Good Fight Towards Truth ready and willing to take their place: bloggers. Have bloggers ever led us wrong? Are bloggers not the very souls of objectivity?
I'm out of beer. Thanks for playing.
N. a J.
Am I the only one who finds it more than mildly amusing that this enlightened teacher calls Austin, Texas her home? Doesn't Austin perenially rank in the top five cities nationwide for information technology careers?
Ha ha.
Not A Jew
"But cheaters came up with a clever way of winning deals on an automated basis by continuously running scripts to bid on items for $1."
I'd like to think that I'm not a dumbass -- but how is this cheating? Isn't laissez-faire capitalism the point of eBay? In a free market, the cunning are the victors. Plain and simple.
Did they really expect folks to waste two entire weeks searching the world's worst flea market for their picayune door prizes? Furthermore, when a punk kid can outwit your marketing promotion of the year with a few lines of code, maybe it's time to rethink your strategy.
I took a look at the slides on the full story. This ought to be good for a chuckle. One of the stated goals of the program is to "Avoid technological requirements that might impact our networks or hinder innovation." Isn't that nice, an industry which has crusaded against the Internet suddenly taking an interest in our connection speeds?
How do they propose to accomplish this? Lotsa fun ways:
"* Institutions make a reasonable effort to estimate the number of downloads per song
o Might monitor traffic through a cache"
Hold the phone. What about not impeding technology? It gets better, gang.
"o Determined by the campus
o Experimentation encouraged"
Doesn't that sound like a fun way to lose your geek card -- shilling for Warner Media Group? I thought so.
Last comment from me, on the remarks from WMG slide: "* We've started a non-profit company to be clear we intend to operate with good intentions and not profit as a motive." He also has a bridge to sell us.
It's been a maximum about as long as I've been alive -- people either understand technology, they don't manage, or they manage technology, they don't understand.
By the logic of the moron who started this thread, Jack Welch should have never gotten the job as CEO of General Electric, as he is not an engineer.
Thanks for making us look bad in front of the audience, fucko.
Not A Jew
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...to get our hands on good cheese.
A central government with no de facto legislative authority? Sounds good to me -- where do I sign up?
From California with love,
N.a.J.
If you want a good programmer, pick the one who knows math. If you want a good software designer, pick the one who can lie convincingly to damagement.
Hope this helps.
N.a.J.
>create a guest account
. . . and charge 'em five bucks each time they bug you. Problem solved.
93
There's just no way the average teenager could not find a means of disabling the GPS feature, or befriending a nerd capable of accomplishing the same.
Still, nice work if you can get it.
Not a Jew
As anyone who's sat through a half hour of his program can attest, Steven Colbert is not an influenza virus, he is a plague.
And this, my friends, is why CalTech is the better of the two institutions of postsecondary education.
Also, the cheerleaders at the Rose Bowl always fall for the frog trick.
Not A Jew
Another satisfied customer.
Shut the fuck up. Harlan is a pioneer, and he stands head and shoulders with the founding fathers of the genre: Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, to speak nothing of Verne et al before them. It's about time one of the living legends of speculative fiction made some noise about just how badly publishers and their lackeys screw authors.
Thank you and good night.
Not A Jew
This is a fantastic story, but the article is almost entirely fluff: anyone care to explain /how/ a [brown?] recluse spider bite's neurotoxic venom induces nerve growth? Just curious.
Not a Jew
April Fool's Day isn't for two more weeks -- I say somebody screwed up.
Not A Jew
If the AP lost market share, would anyone (besides their employees and shareholders) care? Would it be so terrible if one of the primary sources of vapid, meaningless and primarily irrelevant drivel became marginalized? After all, we've tens of thousands of foot soldiers fighting the Good Fight Towards Truth ready and willing to take their place: bloggers. Have bloggers ever led us wrong? Are bloggers not the very souls of objectivity? I'm out of beer. Thanks for playing. N. a J.
Am I the only one who finds it more than mildly amusing that this enlightened teacher calls Austin, Texas her home? Doesn't Austin perenially rank in the top five cities nationwide for information technology careers? Ha ha. Not A Jew
"But cheaters came up with a clever way of winning deals on an automated basis by continuously running scripts to bid on items for $1."
I'd like to think that I'm not a dumbass -- but how is this cheating? Isn't laissez-faire capitalism the point of eBay? In a free market, the cunning are the victors. Plain and simple.
Did they really expect folks to waste two entire weeks searching the world's worst flea market for their picayune door prizes? Furthermore, when a punk kid can outwit your marketing promotion of the year with a few lines of code, maybe it's time to rethink your strategy.
Not a Jew
I took a look at the slides on the full story. This ought to be good for a chuckle. One of the stated goals of the program is to "Avoid technological requirements that might impact our networks or hinder innovation." Isn't that nice, an industry which has crusaded against the Internet suddenly taking an interest in our connection speeds?
How do they propose to accomplish this? Lotsa fun ways:
"* Institutions make a reasonable effort to estimate the number of downloads per song
o Might monitor traffic through a cache"
Hold the phone. What about not impeding technology? It gets better, gang.
"o Determined by the campus
o Experimentation encouraged"
Doesn't that sound like a fun way to lose your geek card -- shilling for Warner Media Group? I thought so.
Last comment from me, on the remarks from WMG slide: "* We've started a non-profit company to be clear we intend to operate with good intentions and not profit as a motive." He also has a bridge to sell us.
Not a Jew
Juggling chainsaws one-handed again, Yagu?
Not A Jew
...when he crashes, will he win a Darwin award? Thank you very much.
It's been a maximum about as long as I've been alive -- people either understand technology, they don't manage, or they manage technology, they don't understand. By the logic of the moron who started this thread, Jack Welch should have never gotten the job as CEO of General Electric, as he is not an engineer. Thanks for making us look bad in front of the audience, fucko. Not A Jew