I doubt Open Source would be as big as it is now. Microsoft gave all the open source programmers something to emulate (for free) as well as something to fight. Open source wouldn't be as counterculture as it is without as "evil empire" to wage war against. -Rylfaeth
I LOVE the fact that I'm sitting here procrastinating by reading an article about overcoming procrastination by way of anecdotal evidence. Seriously, at what point in human evolution did life become this easy? -Rylfaeth
It's true! Didn't you ever see that Seinfeld where George had to play real-life Frogger to get his Frogger machine across a busy street before the battery that held his high score ran out?
This sounds suspiciously like the DeBeers diamond monopoly.. I know there are activists that oppose DeBeers but I'm curious, does anybody know how that fight is going? The entire industry is built off of creating artificial scarcity, enforcement via violence/murder, little-to-no pay for employees (miners, etc), destroying competition by any means necessary, etc.. but on the consumer level, I don't see any changes whatsoever. Is my comparison accurate and if so, how can we make the raging giant that is the RIAA topple and fall down for good? -Rylfaeth
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I think this is probably not the right crowd to be asking this question... a ton of us tech types are unemployed, those that have jobs sit at work playing solitaire and the ones that both have a job and actually do it are far too busy to join in this crappy discussion:P
-Rylfaeth
Merchant accounts are usually set up so that these fees are deducted from the account that the funds are deposited into... so when I process a transaction and it posts to my account, I'm shown both a deposit and a withdrawl, the withdrawl being the processor fee. That said, I think the fees are tied into the 40 cents the site gets. -Rylfaeth
"Could this be the forerunner of many such cases in the future, where our cars tell the unadulterated facts, rather than subjective personal accounts?"
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
-Rylfaeth
People who do well in stocks and real estate don't diversify. They learn to manage risk and invest in a few non-risky (however not necessarily without risk) ventures. It's like in monopoly... you buy a few houses then sell them for a hotel, not necessarily buy nothing but houses.
Learn to manage your risk.. in the case of security, make sure everything is patched and monitored.. not just set up 14 clustered firewalls behind an armed guard and a giant griffon and cross your fingers:P
Yes, it's stupid to cancel a grant that funds a highly useful and beneficial project.
Yes, the government is getting out of hand trying to stamp out an invisible, intangible enemy.
The thing is though, we see this shit all the time. Company X releases a product (or TV Network Y airs a show) with questionable content or usage. Extreme Rights Group S (for Stupid) pitches a bitch and demands the product pulled. Company/Network doesn't feel like risking a potential PR nightmare by openly treading upon the wishes of potential customers or losing potential ad revenue and acquiesces. It's very possible that DARPA's funding was in some sort of jeopardy unless it stopped supporting these projects or other pressure was being placed on the organization to stop funding these projects. It's not like the government made it illegal to work on OpenBSD. They just said 'we're not paying for it'.
Life isn't fair. All financial matters throughout the history of time have been resolved by protecting the interests of the owner of the money far before worrying about the well-being of anybody else. In other words, I'll give you the raw end of the deal long before I let myself get screwed.
Young members of society generally have less income but tend to spend far more on entertainment products than older members of society. This article (mcommercetimes.com), for instance, "predicts that five-to-24-year-olds will spend 13.4 billion euros ($14.24 billion) on mobile data services this year, and more than 20 billion euros ($21.26 billion) in 2006."
Lack of credit card is almost a thing of the past with new types of cards aimed specifically at young people that require parental cosign or are fixed-limit debit cards or linked to a checking account.
Haven't you all seen the commercial for the PS2 port of EverQuest? The players appear to all be friends from different racial backgrounds, know martial arts in real life and like to strike dynamic poses when making affirmative statements such as 'Let's do this!'
It all seems to work out too:
The white guy plays the archetypal white male barbarian character.
The asian girl plays the underdressed yet powerful female wizard character.
The black guy plays the dirty green ogre barbarian character.
this may be a backwards solution, but I usually buy used monitors from those one-off computer stores that tend to have 200-300 second-hand monitors in stock at any given time simply because I can get a perfectly good monitor (current one is a 17" IBM G76, flawless screen, barely seems to be used) for $50 instead of $190 new... that way if the piece of shit craps out, I can just go replace it with an equivalently non-used "second-hand" monitor 4 times before spending what I would have initially put out on a brand-new one. YMMV but 4 high quality used monitors tend to have a longer lifespan than 1 brand new monitor. -Rylfaeth
What's wrong with tables, other than they let you lay things out exactly how they are supposed to look, or easily categorizing information? Sure it's the web designer's fault if they can't create a scalable graphic design + layout but there's nothing wrong with using tables.
The midnight showing last night was playing on THIRTEEN screens at the AMC Lennox in Columbus, Ohio. We apparently set some sort of record with regards to most people sitting in one place watching the same thing simultaneously. 13 out of 24 screens, including the 2 huge auditoriums, makes for a shitload of people emptying into the streets at 3:30am. -Rylfaeth
I wrote my congressperson a while back regarding a certain drug bill that congress is pondering. I got a fairly complete response [from Deborah Pryce of Ohio] thanking me for my letter and detailing why "she feels the way she does".. only problem is, I was in Pennsylvania 2 weeks ago and saw a response regarding the same bill that was sent to a friend who lives in New Jersey.. and it was almost exactly the same wording.
Does the government decide on a suggested stance for these people to take and then give them a generic form letter to tailor to their constituency?
I think there should be a '... For Retards' series. It would be more specialized than the other book series, such as 'Life Goes On For Retards';)
-Rylfaeth
If the worst case scenario is implemented, you won't be able to record your PERFECT *digital* television signal... you will still be able to record an analog signal though, which is more than sufficient for bootleg purposes. If you can record perfect digital copies, what's the point in getting like a DVD set of a season of a show? I dunno, I just get the feeling that you guys are constituting "fair use" as "I bought my digital TV, which entitles me to watch any signal I damn well please" when in reality it is "I bought my digital TV which displays any signal that comes through it". If someone were taking away your fair use rights, it would disable your TV until their show came on... you don't see people suing ISPs for not *giving* them access just because they have a modem...
-Rylfaeth
...I work a tech job and it feckin' sucks. I make good money [well, relative to my age (18) and other jobs I would be working] but to be honest, it's 1/3rd to 1/4th of what I would be making if I really busted my ass and worked for a diff company. Don't get me wrong, my company is really great to me, but with all the training that I've had in my various endeavors, I really, honestly hate doing the computer stuff as a job. I don't have expensive tastes, I don't ever get stressed out, money doesn't mean anything to me... my only goal in life is to never have to work again.
-Rylfaeth
I'm sick and god damned tired of all you bleeding heart thin-skinned politically correct do-gooders. How is AmIHotOrNot.com any different than going to a bar or pub crusing for women [or men], or for that matter, how is it ANY different than the entire concept of finding a mate? Deny it all you want, but physical appearance the FIRST thing that people notice about someone else, and every single person on this planet assigns a 'hotness' rating to every person they see. You are a liar if you say otherwise. This website is just a reflection of the way society operates, whether you like it or not. Rapists and murderers aren't turned crazy by porn or looking at some pictures of some college girl on amihotornot... they're fucked up long before they see these things. They're wired to be psychopathic, and they'll end up committing their horrible deeds regardless of whether they are provoked by the internet, a book, animals in the zoo or an invisible Leprechaun that tells them to burn things. That's life, my friend, and so is the human instinct that makes amihotornot.com a success.
-Rylfaeth thinks that if he gave this speech in person and was found to be attractive by the listener, they would heed his words more closely. Coincidence? I think not.
Let me preface this by saying that I am a more than competant programmer who is currently employed full time doing as such [out of high school, no college]. I am also a fairly lazy, unmotivated person when it comes to things that I'm not interested in. I like coding and doing computer-related things, but to be honest, I've begun to reconsider whether I want to do it as a career. Sure, the money's good, but money doesn't impress me. Neither do fancy cars or other trappings of wealth. I don't have much of a clue of what I want to do with my life [that is profitable and I would enjoy, which I'm starting to not enjoy programming as a profession]. Maybe I'll end up being like Dilbert's garbage man: blue collar job, white collar brain. I would be perfectly happy doing something like that.
-Rylfaeth
Are you stupid or just not paying attention?? Joe Lieberman is for censorship FOR CHILDREN, not censorship FOR EVERYONE "to protect the children". He has stated many times that Hollywood and videogame companies and any other entertainment companies should be allowed to make their products, whether they be violent or pornographic, et al. He feels that these products should not be marketed towards or sold to children. That is not the mark of a right-wing religious censoring nut...that's the mark of somebody with a brain. Children SHOULDN'T watch porn and children SHOULDN'T watch people be gruesomely murdered on-screen day after day after day...these are products for adults, and Joe Lieberman is only trying to keep them for adults.
-Rylfaeth
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Maybe I have a bad attitude, but I don't want a job that restricts what I can and cannot do outside of work. To me, a job is simply a means to obtain money to exist off of. The job itself really doesn't mean anything. Granted, if I'm not willing to go along with my employer's wishes, I'm certainly not fit for the job and should relenquish the position. Being "professional" is for the birds. Being yourself isn't.
-Rylfaeth
The people making those comments are probably young [i.e. generation y] Americans. And everybody knows we don't give a shit about our freedoms:P Just as long as you don't take Carson off TRL, we'll be just fine!!!
-Rylfaeth
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I doubt Open Source would be as big as it is now. Microsoft gave all the open source programmers something to emulate (for free) as well as something to fight. Open source wouldn't be as counterculture as it is without as "evil empire" to wage war against.
-Rylfaeth
I LOVE the fact that I'm sitting here procrastinating by reading an article about overcoming procrastination by way of anecdotal evidence. Seriously, at what point in human evolution did life become this easy?
-Rylfaeth
It's true! Didn't you ever see that Seinfeld where George had to play real-life Frogger to get his Frogger machine across a busy street before the battery that held his high score ran out?
If only he had a little more practice..
-Rylfaeth
This sounds suspiciously like the DeBeers diamond monopoly .. I know there are activists that oppose DeBeers but I'm curious, does anybody know how that fight is going? The entire industry is built off of creating artificial scarcity, enforcement via violence/murder, little-to-no pay for employees (miners, etc), destroying competition by any means necessary, etc .. but on the consumer level, I don't see any changes whatsoever. Is my comparison accurate and if so, how can we make the raging giant that is the RIAA topple and fall down for good?
-Rylfaeth
I think this is probably not the right crowd to be asking this question ... a ton of us tech types are unemployed, those that have jobs sit at work playing solitaire and the ones that both have a job and actually do it are far too busy to join in this crappy discussion :P
-Rylfaeth
Merchant accounts are usually set up so that these fees are deducted from the account that the funds are deposited into... so when I process a transaction and it posts to my account, I'm shown both a deposit and a withdrawl, the withdrawl being the processor fee. That said, I think the fees are tied into the 40 cents the site gets.
-Rylfaeth
"Could this be the forerunner of many such cases in the future, where our cars tell the unadulterated facts, rather than subjective personal accounts?"
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
-Rylfaeth
People who do well in stocks and real estate don't diversify. They learn to manage risk and invest in a few non-risky (however not necessarily without risk) ventures. It's like in monopoly... you buy a few houses then sell them for a hotel, not necessarily buy nothing but houses.
:P
Learn to manage your risk.. in the case of security, make sure everything is patched and monitored.. not just set up 14 clustered firewalls behind an armed guard and a giant griffon and cross your fingers
-KevinSync
Yes, it's stupid to cancel a grant that funds a highly useful and beneficial project.
;)
Yes, the government is getting out of hand trying to stamp out an invisible, intangible enemy.
The thing is though, we see this shit all the time. Company X releases a product (or TV Network Y airs a show) with questionable content or usage. Extreme Rights Group S (for Stupid) pitches a bitch and demands the product pulled. Company/Network doesn't feel like risking a potential PR nightmare by openly treading upon the wishes of potential customers or losing potential ad revenue and acquiesces. It's very possible that DARPA's funding was in some sort of jeopardy unless it stopped supporting these projects or other pressure was being placed on the organization to stop funding these projects. It's not like the government made it illegal to work on OpenBSD. They just said 'we're not paying for it'.
Life isn't fair. All financial matters throughout the history of time have been resolved by protecting the interests of the owner of the money far before worrying about the well-being of anybody else. In other words, I'll give you the raw end of the deal long before I let myself get screwed.
This is just capitolism rearing its ugly head
-Rylfaeth
Young members of society generally have less income but tend to spend far more on entertainment products than older members of society. This article (mcommercetimes.com), for instance, "predicts that five-to-24-year-olds will spend 13.4 billion euros ($14.24 billion) on mobile data services this year, and more than 20 billion euros ($21.26 billion) in 2006."
Lack of credit card is almost a thing of the past with new types of cards aimed specifically at young people that require parental cosign or are fixed-limit debit cards or linked to a checking account.
-Rylfaeth
Haven't you all seen the commercial for the PS2 port of EverQuest? The players appear to all be friends from different racial backgrounds, know martial arts in real life and like to strike dynamic poses when making affirmative statements such as 'Let's do this!'
It all seems to work out too:
The white guy plays the archetypal white male barbarian character.
The asian girl plays the underdressed yet powerful female wizard character.
The black guy plays the dirty green ogre barbarian character.
Everybody has their place! LET'S DO THIS!!
-Rylfaeth
this may be a backwards solution, but I usually buy used monitors from those one-off computer stores that tend to have 200-300 second-hand monitors in stock at any given time simply because I can get a perfectly good monitor (current one is a 17" IBM G76, flawless screen, barely seems to be used) for $50 instead of $190 new... that way if the piece of shit craps out, I can just go replace it with an equivalently non-used "second-hand" monitor 4 times before spending what I would have initially put out on a brand-new one. YMMV but 4 high quality used monitors tend to have a longer lifespan than 1 brand new monitor.
-Rylfaeth
Tel'aran'rhiod ;)
-Rylfaeth
What's wrong with tables, other than they let you lay things out exactly how they are supposed to look, or easily categorizing information? Sure it's the web designer's fault if they can't create a scalable graphic design + layout but there's nothing wrong with using tables.
A pox on layers and DHTML instead.
-Rylfaeth
The midnight showing last night was playing on THIRTEEN screens at the AMC Lennox in Columbus, Ohio. We apparently set some sort of record with regards to most people sitting in one place watching the same thing simultaneously. 13 out of 24 screens, including the 2 huge auditoriums, makes for a shitload of people emptying into the streets at 3:30am.
-Rylfaeth
I wrote my congressperson a while back regarding a certain drug bill that congress is pondering. I got a fairly complete response [from Deborah Pryce of Ohio] thanking me for my letter and detailing why "she feels the way she does".. only problem is, I was in Pennsylvania 2 weeks ago and saw a response regarding the same bill that was sent to a friend who lives in New Jersey.. and it was almost exactly the same wording.
Does the government decide on a suggested stance for these people to take and then give them a generic form letter to tailor to their constituency?
-Rylfaeth
I think there should be a '... For Retards' series. It would be more specialized than the other book series, such as 'Life Goes On For Retards' ;)
-Rylfaeth
If the worst case scenario is implemented, you won't be able to record your PERFECT *digital* television signal... you will still be able to record an analog signal though, which is more than sufficient for bootleg purposes. If you can record perfect digital copies, what's the point in getting like a DVD set of a season of a show? I dunno, I just get the feeling that you guys are constituting "fair use" as "I bought my digital TV, which entitles me to watch any signal I damn well please" when in reality it is "I bought my digital TV which displays any signal that comes through it". If someone were taking away your fair use rights, it would disable your TV until their show came on... you don't see people suing ISPs for not *giving* them access just because they have a modem...
-Rylfaeth
...I work a tech job and it feckin' sucks. I make good money [well, relative to my age (18) and other jobs I would be working] but to be honest, it's 1/3rd to 1/4th of what I would be making if I really busted my ass and worked for a diff company. Don't get me wrong, my company is really great to me, but with all the training that I've had in my various endeavors, I really, honestly hate doing the computer stuff as a job. I don't have expensive tastes, I don't ever get stressed out, money doesn't mean anything to me... my only goal in life is to never have to work again.
-Rylfaeth
I'm sick and god damned tired of all you bleeding heart thin-skinned politically correct do-gooders. How is AmIHotOrNot.com any different than going to a bar or pub crusing for women [or men], or for that matter, how is it ANY different than the entire concept of finding a mate? Deny it all you want, but physical appearance the FIRST thing that people notice about someone else, and every single person on this planet assigns a 'hotness' rating to every person they see. You are a liar if you say otherwise. This website is just a reflection of the way society operates, whether you like it or not. Rapists and murderers aren't turned crazy by porn or looking at some pictures of some college girl on amihotornot... they're fucked up long before they see these things. They're wired to be psychopathic, and they'll end up committing their horrible deeds regardless of whether they are provoked by the internet, a book, animals in the zoo or an invisible Leprechaun that tells them to burn things. That's life, my friend, and so is the human instinct that makes amihotornot.com a success.
-Rylfaeth thinks that if he gave this speech in person and was found to be attractive by the listener, they would heed his words more closely. Coincidence? I think not.
Let me preface this by saying that I am a more than competant programmer who is currently employed full time doing as such [out of high school, no college]. I am also a fairly lazy, unmotivated person when it comes to things that I'm not interested in. I like coding and doing computer-related things, but to be honest, I've begun to reconsider whether I want to do it as a career. Sure, the money's good, but money doesn't impress me. Neither do fancy cars or other trappings of wealth. I don't have much of a clue of what I want to do with my life [that is profitable and I would enjoy, which I'm starting to not enjoy programming as a profession]. Maybe I'll end up being like Dilbert's garbage man: blue collar job, white collar brain. I would be perfectly happy doing something like that.
-Rylfaeth
Are you stupid or just not paying attention?? Joe Lieberman is for censorship FOR CHILDREN, not censorship FOR EVERYONE "to protect the children". He has stated many times that Hollywood and videogame companies and any other entertainment companies should be allowed to make their products, whether they be violent or pornographic, et al. He feels that these products should not be marketed towards or sold to children. That is not the mark of a right-wing religious censoring nut...that's the mark of somebody with a brain. Children SHOULDN'T watch porn and children SHOULDN'T watch people be gruesomely murdered on-screen day after day after day...these are products for adults, and Joe Lieberman is only trying to keep them for adults.
-Rylfaeth
Maybe I have a bad attitude, but I don't want a job that restricts what I can and cannot do outside of work. To me, a job is simply a means to obtain money to exist off of. The job itself really doesn't mean anything. Granted, if I'm not willing to go along with my employer's wishes, I'm certainly not fit for the job and should relenquish the position. Being "professional" is for the birds. Being yourself isn't.
-Rylfaeth
The people making those comments are probably young [i.e. generation y] Americans. And everybody knows we don't give a shit about our freedoms :P Just as long as you don't take Carson off TRL, we'll be just fine!!!
-Rylfaeth
Hmmm...what an interesting acronym. I think PCP is what this inventor is all coked up on!!
-Rylfaeth