I know a lot of people who are "Hackers" who work in IT... Hiring someone who writes worms and virii though? not bloody likely... Hackers aren't always malicious, and more then likely they know what they are doing with system administration then someone whore just reads a few FAQs and manuals...
I was thinking you meant "someone who" but honestly, if that was a typo, it still works.
Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure aimed at curbing sales of violent video games to children. AB 1793, by Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, requires stores to post signs and offer brochures about the industry's game-rating system.
I doubt that even accomplishes anything. But if it does what it is intended to do, inform parents/consumers, more power to them. Parents should be aware when they are buying San Andreas for their kid.
As far as the email is concerned? Ludicrously unenforceable, so I'm not paying attention to it.
Teoma.com : Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links leading to them, Teoma analyzes the Web as it is organically organized-in naturally-occurring communities that are about or related to the same subject-to determine which sites are most relevant. Teoma is the only search technology that can locate communities on the Web within their specific subject areas, as they actually exist. And this allows us to finely tune our search process, providing more precise results.
There's a few other ones, but honestly I only use Google.
Someone mentioned earlier that the previous generation could survive with one income. Today many families need two incomes to make ends meet.
"Ends meet" is now defined as being able to afford a $200,000* house (much bigger than its 1970 counterpart), a big-screen TV qith high-end digital cable, and a digital camera. I don't know how many people I've talked to that are having financial difficulty and have these things in their home. For the most part I do, but I don't act hypocritically about how tough times are now.
That doesn't mean everyone who's in a tough financial situation deserves it or put themselves there, but it's not as grim as you put it.
Also, this whole X% owns Y% of the wealth, all it does for me is motivate me to become one of those 2,942,321 people in the U.S. who own 35% of the wealth. An economics professor at NYU estimates that 5% of USians hold about 60% of the wealth (that's over 14.7m people).
I think I've got a pretty good chance of hitting that 5% number, hopefully. I'm not going to say it's guaranteed, I'm not going to say other people are lazy, I'm not even going to say I'm smarter than 95% of Americans -- but I don't mind living in a system where this is possible.
Think... Where do you think you've got a better chance of, over your lifetime, becoming a millionaire?** Here in the U.S.? Bangalore? Paris? Nepal? Morocco? I'll take my chances in the U.S. I'm not heartless, and I'm not going to write a long post getting into that discussion, but that's my view.
I'm sure a lot of the (legitimate) dot-com "millionaires" will agree with me.
* Living in CA or other real-estate-insane states? Add $300,000! ** If that is your goal.
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.
European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult - for example, cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations. In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter. There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it kould be announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'. This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o' kould be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.
Back on topic, I found these ideas to be nice, but I couldn't really get a handle on them without some illustrations or sketches.
My thoughts exactly. I've had this ability for month's now. It's good to just type history of marie antoinette and come up to a relevant page. In fact, it's dangerous because it's not Google-branded and you could just not know it's actually Google doing the search.
Reminds me of the guy that rigged his ex-wife's/ex-girlfriend's phone in such a way that it would turn-on anytime it moved. He planted it under her car and was able to track her movements via GPS.
How easy will it be to hack this phone to become a miniature security camera? Just place a couple of them around --- pretty inconspicuous since they're just phones. I'm sure it can be done with current tech, this device just seems to combine all those things into a mass-market product.
I always like to think of FUD as Fucked Up Data, which is what MS shows in their reports. Works well so far.
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I'll go you one better: the Stumble Upon toolbar. It's a non-spywarey toolbar that you click and randomly puts you on a site from a list of topics selected... for example, my topics are Jazz, Alcoholic Drinks, Bizarre/Oddities, and Photography. But I could easily add anything from Postmodernism to Nuclear Science to Sufism to Cumshot/Facial. Once you've selected your topics, you hit a "Stumble!" button on your toolbar and you go to a site in the topics you've picked. You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down which will affect the likelihood of future stumblers finding it. You can also comment on the website (sample comment for Slashdot: "seriously, this is for nerds.") and add your review. If you find a new website, you can add it to StumbleUpon's database. It's not 100% bug free but it's pretty darn cool.
Bonus points since it's available for IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox in Windows, Mac, or Linux.
This is what Philly needs... Unfortunately the city is a bit stagnant in certain areas and always feeling overshadowed by Washington D.C. or New York City (for non-USians, those cities are about 2 hours away from each).
Knowing the history of Philadelphia, this will come out 5 years after Longhorn and/or Duke Nukem and cost $3.5 billion New World Dollars (the currency established in 2045).
Taking away non-animé animated animations, we come up with:
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) *^
Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) *^
Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) ^
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky) *^
Sennen joyu (Millenium Actress) ^
Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) *^
Majo no takkyubin (Kiki's Delivery Service) *^
Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni (Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion)
Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds) *^
Mimi wo sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart) *^
Akira
Kurenai no buta (Flying Pig/Porco Rosso) *^
Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell)
Jûbei ninpûchô (Ninja Scroll)
Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro) *^
Vampire Hunter D
Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie)
Jin-Rô (Jin Roh)^
Perfect Blue^
* A Hayao Miyazaki film. ^ Not a film about giant robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas fighting each other. Not a film set in a dystopian future or filled with demons.
So, of the top 50, we've got 19 features being animé (and half of the Bottom 10 are animé). Of the top 10, 5 are animé, 4 are by Pixar, and one is Shrek.
Anime has been in music videos since at least Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" and that was back in 1991, already three years after Akira hit the U.S. shores.
My litmus test for anime becoming mainstream is when people will talk about a film like Spirited Away or Perfect Blue (that is to say, no fighting robots), and not call it an anime film -- or see it because the story is good, not because it's "anime".
No, movies are still good. I could name about 100 that have come out in the past 15 years that are spectacular. As shorthand, please note that 20 of IMDB's Top 50 Movies are from 1990 or more recent. I'm not saying all those are masterpieces, but they're damn good.
The issue, if you'll let me troll for a paragraph or so, is that you're old and/or not interested in researching truly good films being made now. The quality of films right now, I'd say, is probably better than before, certainly not worse. For every Empire Strikes Back there were five American Ninja movies. It's just that, over time, we forget bad movies. I mean, who remembers movies like Fklesh & Blood? But we remember Sunset Blvd.. In 15 years no one will remember Avp. Just give it time. All the good stuff will rise to the surface.
However I find this story a little strange, the article claims that the five hubs each contained 40 petabytes (7200 Libraries of Congress) which at my count is about 160,000 250GB hard drives
What's next? A virtual boyfriend who will only talk to you if you encourage him to spend all his time watching the game and going to strip clubs with his friends?
This seems like the classic misunderstanding of your market. My cut-and-dry view.
1. Market: People who abhor the Dell keyboards that have 10 buttons for shopping and other keyboards filled with other useless crap.
2. Product: Keyboard filled with useless crap.
A better idea would be one with some fully customizable hot keys but with an emphasis on monitoring -- maybe a keyboard with some LCDs monitoring temperature, disk usage, etc. so precious screen space isn't used. Now that I would consider buying.
I would switch over the entire company I work for (at least the East Coast offices) immediately, if it weren't for the fact that one of the main websites we use (accounting for about 30-50% of time spent using a browser) does not work. So, until that change is made, we're SOL.
How would you go about suggesting this to someone? We're in the financial services industry, and the website belongs to one of the biggest players. I know they have the budget to change, but even with us providing a couple of million dollars of business per month, we're still a minor player.
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Dear Microsoft,
Damn you! You shot me!
Sincerely,
Your Foot
I was thinking you meant "someone who" but honestly, if that was a typo, it still works.
I doubt that even accomplishes anything. But if it does what it is intended to do, inform parents/consumers, more power to them. Parents should be aware when they are buying San Andreas for their kid.
As far as the email is concerned? Ludicrously unenforceable, so I'm not paying attention to it.
Teoma.com : Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links leading to them, Teoma analyzes the Web as it is organically organized-in naturally-occurring communities that are about or related to the same subject-to determine which sites are most relevant. Teoma is the only search technology that can locate communities on the Web within their specific subject areas, as they actually exist. And this allows us to finely tune our search process, providing more precise results.
There's a few other ones, but honestly I only use Google.
That usage okay? In your dreams.
"Ends meet" is now defined as being able to afford a $200,000* house (much bigger than its 1970 counterpart), a big-screen TV qith high-end digital cable, and a digital camera. I don't know how many people I've talked to that are having financial difficulty and have these things in their home. For the most part I do, but I don't act hypocritically about how tough times are now.
That doesn't mean everyone who's in a tough financial situation deserves it or put themselves there, but it's not as grim as you put it.
Also, this whole X% owns Y% of the wealth, all it does for me is motivate me to become one of those 2,942,321 people in the U.S. who own 35% of the wealth. An economics professor at NYU estimates that 5% of USians hold about 60% of the wealth (that's over 14.7m people).
I think I've got a pretty good chance of hitting that 5% number, hopefully. I'm not going to say it's guaranteed, I'm not going to say other people are lazy, I'm not even going to say I'm smarter than 95% of Americans -- but I don't mind living in a system where this is possible.
Think... Where do you think you've got a better chance of, over your lifetime, becoming a millionaire?** Here in the U.S.? Bangalore? Paris? Nepal? Morocco? I'll take my chances in the U.S. I'm not heartless, and I'm not going to write a long post getting into that discussion, but that's my view.
I'm sure a lot of the (legitimate) dot-com "millionaires" will agree with me.
* Living in CA or other real-estate-insane states? Add $300,000!
** If that is your goal.
Sources:
The wealthiest 5% controlled 59.2% of the nation's wealth in 2001.
U.S. Population a bit over 294m
ML's 2004 WWR
is that this is the only time I want to see the word "synchronicity" being used.
Damn it, I almost had a double diagonal if they had said "enterprise" and "legacy" --- drat!.
Back on topic, I found these ideas to be nice, but I couldn't really get a handle on them without some illustrations or sketches.
Downward! And always spinning, spinning...
My thoughts exactly. I've had this ability for month's now. It's good to just type history of marie antoinette and come up to a relevant page. In fact, it's dangerous because it's not Google-branded and you could just not know it's actually Google doing the search.
Reminds me of the guy that rigged his ex-wife's/ex-girlfriend's phone in such a way that it would turn-on anytime it moved. He planted it under her car and was able to track her movements via GPS.
How easy will it be to hack this phone to become a miniature security camera? Just place a couple of them around --- pretty inconspicuous since they're just phones. I'm sure it can be done with current tech, this device just seems to combine all those things into a mass-market product.
I always like to think of FUD as Fucked Up Data, which is what MS shows in their reports. Works well so far.
I'll go you one better: the Stumble Upon toolbar. It's a non-spywarey toolbar that you click and randomly puts you on a site from a list of topics selected... for example, my topics are Jazz, Alcoholic Drinks, Bizarre/Oddities, and Photography. But I could easily add anything from Postmodernism to Nuclear Science to Sufism to Cumshot/Facial. Once you've selected your topics, you hit a "Stumble!" button on your toolbar and you go to a site in the topics you've picked. You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down which will affect the likelihood of future stumblers finding it. You can also comment on the website (sample comment for Slashdot: "seriously, this is for nerds.") and add your review. If you find a new website, you can add it to StumbleUpon's database. It's not 100% bug free but it's pretty darn cool.
Bonus points since it's available for IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox in Windows, Mac, or Linux.
This is what Philly needs... Unfortunately the city is a bit stagnant in certain areas and always feeling overshadowed by Washington D.C. or New York City (for non-USians, those cities are about 2 hours away from each).
Knowing the history of Philadelphia, this will come out 5 years after Longhorn and/or Duke Nukem and cost $3.5 billion New World Dollars (the currency established in 2045).
Taking away non-animé animated animations, we come up with:
* A Hayao Miyazaki film.
^ Not a film about giant robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas fighting each other. Not a film set in a dystopian future or filled with demons.
So, of the top 50, we've got 19 features being animé (and half of the Bottom 10 are animé). Of the top 10, 5 are animé, 4 are by Pixar, and one is Shrek.
Anime has been in music videos since at least Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" and that was back in 1991, already three years after Akira hit the U.S. shores.
My litmus test for anime becoming mainstream is when people will talk about a film like Spirited Away or Perfect Blue (that is to say, no fighting robots), and not call it an anime film -- or see it because the story is good, not because it's "anime".
It creates all kinds of jobs, just not IT jobs.
In theory.
No, movies are still good. I could name about 100 that have come out in the past 15 years that are spectacular. As shorthand, please note that 20 of IMDB's Top 50 Movies are from 1990 or more recent. I'm not saying all those are masterpieces, but they're damn good.
The issue, if you'll let me troll for a paragraph or so, is that you're old and/or not interested in researching truly good films being made now. The quality of films right now, I'd say, is probably better than before, certainly not worse. For every Empire Strikes Back there were five American Ninja movies. It's just that, over time, we forget bad movies. I mean, who remembers movies like Fklesh & Blood? But we remember Sunset Blvd.. In 15 years no one will remember Avp. Just give it time. All the good stuff will rise to the surface.
Hey. How you doin'?
This seems like the classic misunderstanding of your market. My cut-and-dry view.
1. Market: People who abhor the Dell keyboards that have 10 buttons for shopping and other keyboards filled with other useless crap.
2. Product: Keyboard filled with useless crap.
A better idea would be one with some fully customizable hot keys but with an emphasis on monitoring -- maybe a keyboard with some LCDs monitoring temperature, disk usage, etc. so precious screen space isn't used. Now that I would consider buying.
From the looks of that picture, you can run either a bordello or some sort of opium house.
I would switch over the entire company I work for (at least the East Coast offices) immediately, if it weren't for the fact that one of the main websites we use (accounting for about 30-50% of time spent using a browser) does not work. So, until that change is made, we're SOL.
How would you go about suggesting this to someone? We're in the financial services industry, and the website belongs to one of the biggest players. I know they have the budget to change, but even with us providing a couple of million dollars of business per month, we're still a minor player.
Place your sign against a wall, point the webcam to it. Sign says,
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE ARE CALLING YOUR PARENTS.
Sure, you never find out what happens, but it might be fun.