Canter and Siegel's place in history will be less on the magnitude of Jimi Hendrix, and more like the name of the first concertgoer through the gates at Woodstock-- a piece of trivia at a historical event.
I beg to differ. These clowns weren't just the first through the floodgates, they were the ones who opened them too. Not only did they make a fortune doing what they did, they set an example. They were the poster boys for every spammer to come afterwards. "Look! That guy made $100,000 in two weeks doing this! I should try that too!" said 1000 potential spammers the very next day.
And then a little while later, they wrote and published a book that not only explained *how* to do it, but that it was okay to do it, that it was their right to free speech or something to advertise the sleaziest possible scams to alt.sex because "the sort of people in there are as morally bankrupt as you anyway" or some bullshit.
This prick deserves to be forced to read every last one of those 300 spam e-mailings he gets every day.
And spammers get *lots* of e-mail back. 90% of that mail is automated bounce messages, and the other 10% are death threats. Heck, to make money, the spammers would probably send out tons of invalid mail just so that they can extract the toll from the sender. Spammers as a rule don't use the network legitimately, they exploit the network to its fullest technical extent that they can get away with over the 15 minute period before the ISP roasts their account.
You know, I think that the real problem here is that Mr. Omnifarious is upset that he can't play blizzard games for free. That is to say, he can't pirate them and expect to play multiplayer games.
Well boo fucking hoo. I'm so very sorry for you because Blizzard actually found a way to legitimately make sure you pay for a game that you actually like to play. Especially since I've obviously fallen into the trap of actually paying for the game myself thus giving my hard-earned money to a bunch of driven, hard-working, and spectacularly creative people who clearly deserve it. I must be some kind of a dumb animal for voting with my money for the deranged psychopaths at Blizzard - who's only goal in life is clearly total world domination through big corporate control. Stupid sheep. Keep bleating "four legs good, two legs baaaaaad."
Heh. Get this, I have a box running as a NAT-router only (ie, no firewall) with zonealarm on my desktop. (the reason I'm doing this is mostly because all I need the NAT box for is to share a single IP, and having a real firewall on that got to be too much of a hassle with things like Starcraft and Quake) The NAT box is a P100 running FreeBSD 4.3-Release with natd and ipfw. More interesting is that my NAT box is currently behind *another* NAT box that acts as the gateway router for my ADSL service, also running FreeBSD. (I work for my ISP, which is why I know this:)
When my download started from the site, it was at ~150Kbps. (pretty much the max for my 1.5M/640K ADSL) It slowed down a little as the upstream bandwidth went up, but that was fine, as it consistently stayed at over 100Kbps.
I have a question though. How the hell is it that my upload is working at all? I'm on a network so private that it's scary.
Heh. When I *have* to write passwords down (I've got at least 20 completely different work-related passwords that I use maybe once a week if I'm lucky, and then they change in 6 weeks) I never write down the actual usernames. Now, all the really important and immediately obvious accounts are memorized because I use them a lot, so these aren't going to be easy to find accounts for.
the reason is that in a professional lab environment, if you're taken to court, the only thing that is admissable evidence is your lab notebook (kept in pen) properly kept (dated, signed, scribles initialed, etc, etc)
So... that bit where Microsoft was taken to court and all that e-mail was used as evidence... that wasn't really evidence?
the worst thing about a physics (or any other science) lab course with a laptop and a spreadsheet is that you still have to maintain a lab notebook, so you have to write all that sh?t down anyhow.
Which just begs the question: "Why?" Is there any spectacularly good reason for putting any of this into actual handwriting with a pen? Why not just cut and paste it into word and do the write-up that way? Even better is that you can do your graphs in excel as well, inside of a few minutes.
I may just have written it all down when I was in college too, (although if I recall correctly at least some of my labs were handed in fresh off a laser printer) but it just wouldn't be science if you didn't ask "why", now would it?:)
Heh. This is actually pretty funny because when I was in college, I snagged an old 386 laptop off ebay that had windows 3.11 on it and best of all, MS Office.
Now, since it was version 2.0 or something, it ran fine, and goddamn, I can tell you that physics class is a hell of a lot more fun when you've got a spreadsheet doing all those repetitive calculations for you! And of course, notetaking doesn't require horsepower, even if you're using MS Word 2.0.
This guy probably already knows that if you want to use old hardware, you have to use old software too. Don't worry about him.
Advantages of a floppy over a harddrive for a firewall:
1) if you write-protect a floppy, noone can log in as root and change the write attribute on the mounted partition.
2) because of 1), if (when) someone cracks the box, they can't install a rootkit or otherwise compromise your binaries (except in memory, in which case the fix is to reinstall by rebooting).
3) you don't want to keep log files on the firewall anyway. You want to use the syslog facility to log elsewhere where they can be stored out of harm's way. (ideally on a dot matrix printer, less ideally on a computer on the network.) Without a/var partition and minmal binaries, why do you need a hard drive at all?
It's true that you could use a CDrom for all this instead, but at the same time, you can only tweak the configuration on a CDRW drive so many times, which can be an irritating process in and of itself.
Considering its setting -- Las Vegas -- and its subject matter - decomposing pigs, corpse-sucking larvae, transgender serial killers, serial killer make-up artists, murderous and skate-wielding hockey fiends -- and its near total absence of traditional TV fare like sex or shoot-em-ups, this show shatters conventional wisdom about what people want to see on TV.
How exactly does this "shatter conventional wisdom about what people want to see on TV?"
This is exactly what TLC has become: sensationalistic, dumbed-down crap, more of a cross between the X files seasons of late and Jerry Springer than actual writing.
The problem is, the biggest "whine" was from "poor Netscape" regarding the browser war.
Well, actually Netscape has some of the best arguments against Microsoft when it comes to breaking antitrust laws.
Antitrust being defined as "when a company with a monopoly uses their monopoly proceeds to undercut their competition in other markets by selling below cost." For example, Standard Oil did this in the earlier part of the century (when gasoline was a new market, kind of like software is today) by obtaining a monopoly in certain cities, then jacking up the price of gasoline so that they could undersell everyone else in other cities, repeating the process as needed. They could have easily extended this monopoly ad infinitum to completely different markets, like cars or electric razors if it pleased them, and noone would have a hope in hell with competing with them. Thankfully the DOJ bitchslapped them and broke up Standard Oil before they started making electric razors. Microsoft used the funds they generate in operating systems to fund development of Internet Explorer. Microsoft then gave Internet Explorer away for free, among other things. This is a product that Microsoft has spent millions of dollars developing, but "out of the goodness of their hearts" they gave it away for free. You might argue from a completely subjective point of view that "noone ever bought Navigator" but Netscape Inc says otherwise, with the books to prove it (which were used in court as evidence by the way). Navigator was a significant source of revenue for Netscape right up until they had to give it away to compete with Microsoft.
Now, you also argue that Netscape died due to its own bungling and IE's technical superiority, rather than because Microsoft went out of their way to kill it, but you might have noticed that development of IE has slowed drastically since Netscape was bought by AOL. Why is that? Microsoft has already clinched the market through exclusive licensing deals, their control over OEMs and "special deals" with big businesses that ensure that they wouldn't dare buy another browser from anyone else ever again. They no longer have to invest in a money-losing market by actually developing software. The internet explorer design team now probably consists of five guys in a forgotten office somewhere who occasionally fix bugs not when CERT says it's a good idea, but after a billion script kiddies take advantage of some security flaw, bringing the internet to its knees with unintentional DOS attacks. (Okay, maybe that's really exaggerating, but to say the least, MS doesn't care about IE much anymore, and is allowing it to stagnate because there's no competition and there never will be either.)
So the process? Microsoft spends millions of dollars on a product that eventually stagnates, for no other reason than to put Netscape out of business. Those millions of dollars didn't come out of thin air, they came out of the lucrative monopoly Microsoft has on the desktop. And that's Antitrust boys and girls.
Of course as someone mentioned it does hit the lower income people harder,
Not really. Especially in Britain, where a good chunk of the population bikes anyways. This is in no small part due to the fact that most of their towns and cities were never built with cars in mind, but pedestrians and horses instead, and many of the landmarks and heritage buildings would suffer if they widened the roads to accomodate cars. These towns are also much more compact as a result, which means that getting around by foot or bike is not as much of a problem as it is in the US.
Heh. No you don't. The US has some of the lowest gasoline prices in in the world. And the taxes you levy on your gasoline are the reason. By and large, roads are built with money from taxes on property or retail sales or personal income (depending on jurisdiction) more than anything else.
Britain on the other hand, entirely pays for its roads with gas taxes. That's why the price of gasoline there is the highest in the world. It never ceases to amaze me that when the price of gasoline in the US gets to almost half that of gasoline in Europe and Asia, everyone is up in arms and ready to nuke the Middle East. For the love of god, if it bothers you so much, just stop burning so goddamn much of it.
would be the option of letting it pick recipes randomly based on the ingredients in the fridge. I think this has already been done on some website or another, just that this would be that much more automatic.:)
To do what this guy is doing actually improves MicroSoft's position, because it plays into their hands by turning the Internet into disconnected islands.
He's right. Once it's "the open source camp" vs "the Microsoft 2nd Armoured Division," it's over. The problem lies in the fact that no matter *what* we do, this *will* happen. Microsoft will simply use existing open standards so that *their* users can read everything, and adapt them so that everyone else can't read the stuff generated by their users, thus creating a need to move to their platform. The only alternative is to try playing the catch-up game by using Microsoft as the standard, which again means you're screwed because your product always comes out last.
You want to know what I think? I think he didn't send it at all. Maybe I'm just cynical. After all, we receive at least two or three phone calls at the ISP I work for every week from people who say they'd send us a cheque if we hook them up today. Of course, if we go and believe them (like we used to for a short tine), it never happens. And if we don't believe them and let them know they can always drop by the office in person, that never happens either.
The difference between what people *say* and what people *do* is often quite large. Especially when we're talking about people like this.
This has been done. PC manufacturers in days of old did their best to make desktops nice and small, because well, we used to put them *on* our desks under the monitor, instead of next to the desk on the floor. I'm sure some of us remember *why* that idea was thrown out the window - it was a royal pain in the ass to do something inside, like upgrade the harddrive or the RAM. The odd thing is that this article is aimed at exactly the sort of people who would have their hands inside the case on a regular basis. Sorry, but I don't really feel like removing *all* the hardware from the box before I can get at the RAM.
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It's not so much that this isn't a geeky topic. It's more to the effect that most of the movies I've seen JonKatz review have been the sort of movies that Beavis and Butthead would just love. Don't get me wrong, as I love *good* comedies, but this doesn't qualify, I'm sorry. Plus I would find them incredibly irritating, and I would much rather gouge my eyes out than pay $8 to see it.
So to say the least, this geek would really rather not see these reviews, thank you very much.
When the NEXT person in line is going to be there maybe 4 hours before the movie. That, and how the movie is going to blow goats.
And moreso, I take this quote from their website:
"I wonder if our fast-paced society is willing to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy."
I really don't think this one is going to qualify guys. In fact, I think that as you mature, you're going to see this episode of your life as a massive waste of time for something that wasn't that great. As you grow older, you'll probabably realise that in fact, this movie isn't one of the greatest things in life, but just a shallow facade that will put lots of money into George Lucas' wallet. If you're intellectually older than 8 years old, you will probably realise this even before the credits start rolling at the end of the movie.
What's really funny though is the fact that you'll get to see commercials for Coke, Smirnoff, and Porsche for the priviledge of seeing it for free on TV, as well as paying to see it on the big screen.
Not anymore. As of 10:45 AM PST, I get the error from Netscape "Unable to connect to server. The server may be down or unreachable." That means that the massive DDOS attack that is slashdot has been successful and either the server melted or was shut down because of it.
But that's okay. After all, other linux ventures that have been slashdotted have survived, right?
At one of my most recent jobs, I had the fortune of working with my best friend. This turned out to be a very important factor in my professional development, because he did *not* want me to get fired. He might have been harsh, he might have been blunt, but he was also *right*. I fought against his complaints about my work attitude tooth and nail with every excuse I had, to the point where I got into a fight with him at work and my boss walked in. Thankfully, my boss at the time was a much better people person than my friend is, and he could lay it all out for me in a way that didn't bruise my ego so badly.
My girlfriend had also had to give this sort of speech to a friend of hers at work at one point in time. Even though she was much more delicate about it than my friend was, she made the poor girl cry at the end of it. Afterwards though, she was much better at her job because she took the advice to heart. The fact of the matter is that many or most of us at that age think that we're doing our very best, that we're working our very hardest, when in fact the problem isn't that we're not working hard enough, but we're not doing it right, even though we think we are. And it's often a very hard lesson to learn, because it means that there's one thing we've always thought to be true that's not.
What was my "one thing?" I had always *known* that working with other people in a team meant that you specialize in one thing, do it well, and never stray from that specialization. Those of you that know as well as I do (now) know that this is utter crap. Teamwork is where everyone does everything they can to accomplish a common goal, and doesn't have to be told what it is they need to do to accomplish it. You don't hear "that's not my job" from team members.
The author of this article may just have such a problem. Or maybe it's a different problem altogether. But the best thing he can do is ask his boss "What's wrong with me" and "what exactly do I need to do to fix it?" The very fact that someone is complaining about it means that that someone *wants* to *fix* it. The cluetrain has arrived. Please take deliveries.
I live in Vancouver, and wintertime reduces the range of these devices to much less than 1 KM. Much of the time when it's raining, visibility isn't that great, and these things require telescopic lenses to get even 1KM range.
I would have to wonder whether this would be much more effective indoors however. It's much more secure (to block packet sniffers, simply close the curtains) than wireless would be, if only you could make the device small enough to put a little blinkenlight in your ceiling that would relay packets around. (in the ceiling because you don't want your cat getting in the way of your data transfers...) It might be a neat project.:)
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Canter and Siegel's place in history will be less on the magnitude of Jimi Hendrix, and more like the name of the first concertgoer through the gates at Woodstock-- a piece of trivia at a historical event.
I beg to differ. These clowns weren't just the first through the floodgates, they were the ones who opened them too. Not only did they make a fortune doing what they did, they set an example. They were the poster boys for every spammer to come afterwards. "Look! That guy made $100,000 in two weeks doing this! I should try that too!" said 1000 potential spammers the very next day.
And then a little while later, they wrote and published a book that not only explained *how* to do it, but that it was okay to do it, that it was their right to free speech or something to advertise the sleaziest possible scams to alt.sex because "the sort of people in there are as morally bankrupt as you anyway" or some bullshit.
This prick deserves to be forced to read every last one of those 300 spam e-mailings he gets every day.
Heh. I see flaws in this.
Spammers don't use Eudora, for starters.
And spammers get *lots* of e-mail back. 90% of that mail is automated bounce messages, and the other 10% are death threats. Heck, to make money, the spammers would probably send out tons of invalid mail just so that they can extract the toll from the sender. Spammers as a rule don't use the network legitimately, they exploit the network to its fullest technical extent that they can get away with over the 15 minute period before the ISP roasts their account.
Choose to sysadmin.
You know, I think that the real problem here is that Mr. Omnifarious is upset that he can't play blizzard games for free. That is to say, he can't pirate them and expect to play multiplayer games.
Well boo fucking hoo. I'm so very sorry for you because Blizzard actually found a way to legitimately make sure you pay for a game that you actually like to play. Especially since I've obviously fallen into the trap of actually paying for the game myself thus giving my hard-earned money to a bunch of driven, hard-working, and spectacularly creative people who clearly deserve it. I must be some kind of a dumb animal for voting with my money for the deranged psychopaths at Blizzard - who's only goal in life is clearly total world domination through big corporate control.
Stupid sheep. Keep bleating "four legs good, two legs baaaaaad."
Heh. Get this, I have a box running as a NAT-router only (ie, no firewall) with zonealarm on my desktop. :)
(the reason I'm doing this is mostly because all I need the NAT box for is to share a single IP, and having a real firewall on that got to be too much of a hassle with things like Starcraft and Quake) The NAT box is a P100 running FreeBSD 4.3-Release with natd and ipfw. More interesting is that my NAT box is currently behind *another* NAT box that acts as the gateway router for my ADSL service, also running FreeBSD. (I work for my ISP, which is why I know this
When my download started from the site, it was at ~150Kbps. (pretty much the max for my 1.5M/640K ADSL) It slowed down a little as the upstream bandwidth went up, but that was fine, as it consistently stayed at over 100Kbps.
I have a question though. How the hell is it that my upload is working at all? I'm on a network so private that it's scary.
Sure, and at that point you can pick up some good used stuff for $100.
Heh. When I *have* to write passwords down (I've got at least 20 completely different work-related passwords that I use maybe once a week if I'm lucky, and then they change in 6 weeks) I never write down the actual usernames. Now, all the really important and immediately obvious accounts are memorized because I use them a lot, so these aren't going to be easy to find accounts for.
the reason is that in a professional lab environment, if you're taken to court, the only thing that is admissable evidence is your lab notebook (kept in pen) properly kept (dated, signed, scribles initialed, etc, etc)
:)
So... that bit where Microsoft was taken to court and all that e-mail was used as evidence... that wasn't really evidence?
Keep questioning.
the worst thing about a physics (or any other science) lab course with a laptop and a spreadsheet is that you still have to maintain a lab notebook, so you have to write all that sh?t down anyhow.
:)
Which just begs the question: "Why?" Is there any spectacularly good reason for putting any of this into actual handwriting with a pen? Why not just cut and paste it into word and do the write-up that way? Even better is that you can do your graphs in excel as well, inside of a few minutes.
I may just have written it all down when I was in college too, (although if I recall correctly at least some of my labs were handed in fresh off a laser printer) but it just wouldn't be science if you didn't ask "why", now would it?
Heh. This is actually pretty funny because when I was in college, I snagged an old 386 laptop off ebay that had windows 3.11 on it and best of all, MS Office.
Now, since it was version 2.0 or something, it ran fine, and goddamn, I can tell you that physics class is a hell of a lot more fun when you've got a spreadsheet doing all those repetitive calculations for you! And of course, notetaking doesn't require horsepower, even if you're using MS Word 2.0.
This guy probably already knows that if you want to use old hardware, you have to use old software too. Don't worry about him.
Advantages of a floppy over a harddrive for a firewall:
/var partition and minmal binaries, why do you need a hard drive at all?
1) if you write-protect a floppy, noone can log in as root and change the write attribute on the mounted partition.
2) because of 1), if (when) someone cracks the box, they can't install a rootkit or otherwise compromise your binaries (except in memory, in which case the fix is to reinstall by rebooting).
3) you don't want to keep log files on the firewall anyway. You want to use the syslog facility to log elsewhere where they can be stored out of harm's way. (ideally on a dot matrix printer, less ideally on a computer on the network.) Without a
It's true that you could use a CDrom for all this instead, but at the same time, you can only tweak the configuration on a CDRW drive so many times, which can be an irritating process in and of itself.
Considering its setting -- Las Vegas -- and its subject matter - decomposing pigs, corpse-sucking larvae, transgender serial killers, serial killer make-up artists, murderous and skate-wielding hockey fiends -- and its near total absence of traditional TV fare like sex or shoot-em-ups, this show shatters conventional wisdom about what people want to see on TV.
How exactly does this "shatter conventional wisdom about what people want to see on TV?"
This is exactly what TLC has become: sensationalistic, dumbed-down crap, more of a cross between the X files seasons of late and Jerry Springer than actual writing.
The problem is, the biggest "whine" was from "poor Netscape" regarding the browser war.
Well, actually Netscape has some of the best arguments against Microsoft when it comes to breaking antitrust laws.
Antitrust being defined as "when a company with a monopoly uses their monopoly proceeds to undercut their competition in other markets by selling below cost." For example, Standard Oil did this in the earlier part of the century (when gasoline was a new market, kind of like software is today) by obtaining a monopoly in certain cities, then jacking up the price of gasoline so that they could undersell everyone else in other cities, repeating the process as needed. They could have easily extended this monopoly ad infinitum to completely different markets, like cars or electric razors if it pleased them, and noone would have a hope in hell with competing with them. Thankfully the DOJ bitchslapped them and broke up Standard Oil before they started making electric razors. Microsoft used the funds they generate in operating systems to fund development of Internet Explorer. Microsoft then gave Internet Explorer away for free, among other things. This is a product that Microsoft has spent millions of dollars developing, but "out of the goodness of their hearts" they gave it away for free. You might argue from a completely subjective point of view that "noone ever bought Navigator" but Netscape Inc says otherwise, with the books to prove it (which were used in court as evidence by the way). Navigator was a significant source of revenue for Netscape right up until they had to give it away to compete with Microsoft.
Now, you also argue that Netscape died due to its own bungling and IE's technical superiority, rather than because Microsoft went out of their way to kill it, but you might have noticed that development of IE has slowed drastically since Netscape was bought by AOL. Why is that? Microsoft has already clinched the market through exclusive licensing deals, their control over OEMs and "special deals" with big businesses that ensure that they wouldn't dare buy another browser from anyone else ever again. They no longer have to invest in a money-losing market by actually developing software. The internet explorer design team now probably consists of five guys in a forgotten office somewhere who occasionally fix bugs not when CERT says it's a good idea, but after a billion script kiddies take advantage of some security flaw, bringing the internet to its knees with unintentional DOS attacks. (Okay, maybe that's really exaggerating, but to say the least, MS doesn't care about IE much anymore, and is allowing it to stagnate because there's no competition and there never will be either.)
So the process? Microsoft spends millions of dollars on a product that eventually stagnates, for no other reason than to put Netscape out of business. Those millions of dollars didn't come out of thin air, they came out of the lucrative monopoly Microsoft has on the desktop. And that's Antitrust boys and girls.
Of course as someone mentioned it does hit the lower income people harder,
Not really. Especially in Britain, where a good chunk of the population bikes anyways. This is in no small part due to the fact that most of their towns and cities were never built with cars in mind, but pedestrians and horses instead, and many of the landmarks and heritage buildings would suffer if they widened the roads to accomodate cars. These towns are also much more compact as a result, which means that getting around by foot or bike is not as much of a problem as it is in the US.
You know, if I had moderator points, I'd mod you up. Except that you're already at +5.
:)
This is a spectacularly good idea.
In the US, we pay for roads with taxes on fuel.
Heh. No you don't. The US has some of the lowest gasoline prices in in the world. And the taxes you levy on your gasoline are the reason. By and large, roads are built with money from taxes on property or retail sales or personal income (depending on jurisdiction) more than anything else.
Britain on the other hand, entirely pays for its roads with gas taxes. That's why the price of gasoline there is the highest in the world. It never ceases to amaze me that when the price of gasoline in the US gets to almost half that of gasoline in Europe and Asia, everyone is up in arms and ready to nuke the Middle East. For the love of god, if it bothers you so much, just stop burning so goddamn much of it.
would be the option of letting it pick recipes randomly based on the ingredients in the fridge. I think this has already been done on some website or another, just that this would be that much more automatic. :)
:)
Especially useful shortly before payday.
To do what this guy is doing actually improves MicroSoft's position, because it plays into their hands by turning the Internet into disconnected islands.
He's right. Once it's "the open source camp" vs "the Microsoft 2nd Armoured Division," it's over. The problem lies in the fact that no matter *what* we do, this *will* happen. Microsoft will simply use existing open standards so that *their* users can read everything, and adapt them so that everyone else can't read the stuff generated by their users, thus creating a need to move to their platform. The only alternative is to try playing the catch-up game by using Microsoft as the standard, which again means you're screwed because your product always comes out last.
You want to know what I think? I think he didn't send it at all. Maybe I'm just cynical. After all, we receive at least two or three phone calls at the ISP I work for every week from people who say they'd send us a cheque if we hook them up today. Of course, if we go and believe them (like we used to for a short tine), it never happens. And if we don't believe them and let them know they can always drop by the office in person, that never happens either.
The difference between what people *say* and what people *do* is often quite large. Especially when we're talking about people like this.
This has been done. PC manufacturers in days of old did their best to make desktops nice and small, because well, we used to put them *on* our desks under the monitor, instead of next to the desk on the floor. I'm sure some of us remember *why* that idea was thrown out the window - it was a royal pain in the ass to do something inside, like upgrade the harddrive or the RAM. The odd thing is that this article is aimed at exactly the sort of people who would have their hands inside the case on a regular basis. Sorry, but I don't really feel like removing *all* the hardware from the box before I can get at the RAM.
It's not so much that this isn't a geeky topic. It's more to the effect that most of the movies I've seen JonKatz review have been the sort of movies that Beavis and Butthead would just love. Don't get me wrong, as I love *good* comedies, but this doesn't qualify, I'm sorry. Plus I would find them incredibly irritating, and I would much rather gouge my eyes out than pay $8 to see it.
So to say the least, this geek would really rather not see these reviews, thank you very much.
When the NEXT person in line is going to be there maybe 4 hours before the movie. That, and how the movie is going to blow goats.
And moreso, I take this quote from their website:
"I wonder if our fast-paced society is willing to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy."
I really don't think this one is going to qualify guys. In fact, I think that as you mature, you're going to see this episode of your life as a massive waste of time for something that wasn't that great. As you grow older, you'll probabably realise that in fact, this movie isn't one of the greatest things in life, but just a shallow facade that will put lots of money into George Lucas' wallet. If you're intellectually older than 8 years old, you will probably realise this even before the credits start rolling at the end of the movie.
What's really funny though is the fact that you'll get to see commercials for Coke, Smirnoff, and Porsche for the priviledge of seeing it for free on TV, as well as paying to see it on the big screen.
Not anymore. As of 10:45 AM PST, I get the error from Netscape "Unable to connect to server. The server may be down or unreachable." That means that the massive DDOS attack that is slashdot has been successful and either the server melted or was shut down because of it.
But that's okay. After all, other linux ventures that have been slashdotted have survived, right?
At one of my most recent jobs, I had the fortune of working with my best friend. This turned out to be a very important factor in my professional development, because he did *not* want me to get fired. He might have been harsh, he might have been blunt, but he was also *right*. I fought against his complaints about my work attitude tooth and nail with every excuse I had, to the point where I got into a fight with him at work and my boss walked in. Thankfully, my boss at the time was a much better people person than my friend is, and he could lay it all out for me in a way that didn't bruise my ego so badly.
My girlfriend had also had to give this sort of speech to a friend of hers at work at one point in time. Even though she was much more delicate about it than my friend was, she made the poor girl cry at the end of it. Afterwards though, she was much better at her job because she took the advice to heart. The fact of the matter is that many or most of us at that age think that we're doing our very best, that we're working our very hardest, when in fact the problem isn't that we're not working hard enough, but we're not doing it right, even though we think we are. And it's often a very hard lesson to learn, because it means that there's one thing we've always thought to be true that's not.
What was my "one thing?" I had always *known* that working with other people in a team meant that you specialize in one thing, do it well, and never stray from that specialization. Those of you that know as well as I do (now) know that this is utter crap. Teamwork is where everyone does everything they can to accomplish a common goal, and doesn't have to be told what it is they need to do to accomplish it. You don't hear "that's not my job" from team members.
The author of this article may just have such a problem. Or maybe it's a different problem altogether. But the best thing he can do is ask his boss "What's wrong with me" and "what exactly do I need to do to fix it?" The very fact that someone is complaining about it means that that someone *wants* to *fix* it. The cluetrain has arrived. Please take deliveries.
I live in Vancouver, and wintertime reduces the range of these devices to much less than 1 KM. Much of the time when it's raining, visibility isn't that great, and these things require telescopic lenses to get even 1KM range.
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I would have to wonder whether this would be much more effective indoors however. It's much more secure (to block packet sniffers, simply close the curtains) than wireless would be, if only you could make the device small enough to put a little blinkenlight in your ceiling that would relay packets around. (in the ceiling because you don't want your cat getting in the way of your data transfers...) It might be a neat project.