... or maybe just go back a few versions. No movies, no scripting, no interactivity other than hyperlinks and form elements, no live connection to the Web, no motion of any kind. Just vector shapes and a handful of well-known image formats. Please, just go back to what PDF was originally supposed to be: a virtual print that looked the same anywhere, including a small handful of well-known image formats. Oh, and make it "safe", which it never would have occurred to me to ask for in the past but I guess we need to specifically request that that these days. (Hi, GM, can you please make a car without an array of eight-inch spike in the middle of the steering wheel?) And, as long as I've got this crackpipe, I'll ask them to make the spec simple enough and open enough that anyone can make a program to generate them or read them.
I don't know what features Adobe is packing into the spec these days but to the best of my knowledge there's nothing I do today that couldn't be handled by PDF 1.2 and Acrobat 3. The only problem is, when people make PDFs, they tick the little box that says "Require Acrobat _ or greater" and I always have to update.
... does Dell feel the need to make so much stuff? Nobody ever bought their crap MP3 players, I've never seen a Dell phone anywhere,* and now here they are, killing two tablets that were barely a year old. Are there companies who will buy from no one but Dell, and Dell feels that the more stuff they make, the more sales they'll get from these few customers? If that's what they think, it's obviously not working out. A lot of their products have lifespans measurable in months.
* I admit it's possible I've seen one and not known it.
Funny. Maybe I've been working with databases too long that it's affected my mind (or maybe I got *into* databases because that was *already* how my mind worked) but I've *always* wanted to be able to say things like "show me all messages from my mom, dad, or sister, that arrived in 2005 and had attachments, and sort with the biggest at the top."
On a related note, the fact that Gmail doesn't let you click column headings to sort absolutely kills me.
More like this, please, and less about the Apple/Andoid/MS/Samsung/**AA suit-of-the-minute. I know, I know, flamewars == pageviews == Step 3, but you've occasionally gotta throw something out there for us old-timers.
You should go a little easier on him until you have all the facts. For all you know, his "hacking" amounts to "I changed the URL from ``...?mode=show-account&userid=1'' to ``...?mode=show-account&userid=2'' "
That said, people freak out about "hacks" as minor as this, and anyone who's been on Slashdot long enough (sorry, I don't feel like doing the searches right now myself) knows that lots of people in exactly his position have been royally screwed over (up to and including fines and jail time) for trying to do exactly what he's doing, so my advice to him is the same as yours, though for different reasons: walk the fuck away and say no more.
> They're responsible for their own security, not some random > passerby... If they blow security, they're on the hook for the > consequences. We have very well established methods > for doing that kind of reinforcement.
Yeah. It's called "all the customers get fucked in the ass and have to spend months repairing their credit and nothing bad happens to the company."
... I would have said "OK AT&T, you say costs will go down after you merge? All right then, fine, merge. But if costs go up, we'll nuke you from orbit."
I used the "levels" tool to prove to someone that a photoshopped version of NASA's famous "Earthlights" picture was NOT a real satellite photo of the big blackout in the northeast a few years ago. Besides recognizing the original picture right away and knowing the story behind it (that it was a composite made of pictures taken over many months), lightening it a whole lot showed which parts were natural (dark but not quite black) and which parts were merely the result of someone using a big, soft-edged brush to put down a lot of pure black.
As the saying goes, I really can tell from some of the pixels, and from having seen quite a few 'shops in my time.:-) (Some of which weren't fake celebrity nudes.)
We were coming to a red light, and he shoots right through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" He tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to another red light, and again, he shoots right through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" Again, he tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to a green light, and he slams on the brakes. My heart nearly goes into my throat. I shouted at him, "Why do you do that?!"
He replied, "You never know, my brother could be coming the other way."
> Everywhere I have been that makes you sort recyclables has been way > too picky about what can and can't be recycled. "Plastic, but not this type, > paper not including newspaper, x glass but not y glass". Pain in the ass.
Pain, you say? OK then, just quit eating food that comes in packages. Eat nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables, and remember that meat products do NOT get composted but eggshells do. Then all you have left are milk containers (I don't expect you to raise your own dairy cows) and that's only one thing so therefore doesn't need to be "sorted", technically. Problem solved.:-D
I do appreciate that you're willing to pay more for better service, but that's just the thing--someone needs to do the work, and until everyone agrees to pay more to have someone else do it, you'll be stuck doing it. Me, I just figure it's part of the price of living with all the conveniences a modern supermarket affords, and I'm glad to know that one way or another it's not just all going into a landfill. (Except when it doesn't.) But to say it's a pain in the ass is a little much. The biggest pain for me is when places don't even put a number on the plastic and I just have to trash it.
Besides, it'll get better over time. I live in a place (FL) where plastics #s 1 and 2 have been OK for over 10 years, and a couple years ago they started accepting #s 5 and 6 if they're bottles with a neck (yes, really) but where my mom lives (CA), you just mix all your stuff together. Then again, she pays for her own garbage collection (along with water and something else, IIRC) whereas here it's paid for by the city through taxes.
Exactly. All I can say is, good for him. Does anyone here realizing he is literally living every boy's dream?!?!? Is there anyone here who wouldn't jump at the chance to strap themselves into this thing if offered?
If anything, get made at the video's producers, for whom a flying man isn't dramatic enough, that they felt they had to add the title "Jetman vs. Jets"
Step 1: replace "throw away" with "give away". Your local library or school would probably be THRILLED to get a bunch of empty DVD cases. Or, there's also craigslist (as mentioned in #2) or freecycle etc. (Speaking of libraries, also consider donating anything you watched but didn't love. DVDs typically have low resale value but you can claim the full value or close to it (note: I am not a tax accountant) as a deduction.)
Step 2: Binders cost more but are WAY easier to flip through. We have a couple hundred discs and it's typically a minute or less to find one.
Step 3: In addition to alphabetizing, arrange y category. It's tough with some things that span categories (and the more specific your categories are, the harder it gets) but a basic breakdown of action/comedy/romance works pretty well.
Other than that, I'm curious (in a nice way, not an area-man-doesn't-watch-TV kind of way)--how did you get/what do you do with 4,000 DVDs? That's one DVD every day for eleven years! My family (for the most part) quit buying DVDs a couple years ago when we realized there's plenty of good stuff on and we've only watched about half of what we own. Pretty much all we get now are kids' DVDs (most of which are gifts anyways) which DO get watched heavily. Even things we got into late and love, like Boston Legal--we bought Season 1 two years ago and I said we wouldn't buy Season 2 until we finished watching Season 1. I think we got partway into Disc 2 and we haven't touched it in over a year.
No, you don't have a view, but they carry actual sunlight, so you get the little natural variations in intensity (caused by clouds, etc.) that make people more comfortable in addition to natural coloring. And it doesn't have to be straight-line basic skylights, either--you can use fiber optics to carry light pretty far down.
> Other sellers have reported that the Groupon salespeople do > their very best to convince companies not to put any cap at > all on the amount of product available, downplaying the > probability of just something like this.
It is very, very important to remember that a salesman's interests are the exact opposite of yours. You want to keep as much of your own money as possible, and they want to take as much of your money as possible. On the one hand, you both want the same thing: for you to give them some money in exchange for something you want. And yeah, in theory, they want you to be happy, buy again, and tell your friends. But on the other, much bigger hand, they just want your money, period. When you're having a moment of doubt as to whether the salesman really wants to help you or not, remember the big hand.
Also remember: until you hand over the money, you have ALL the power in the transaction. If you're feeling overwhelmed or worried or anxious, take a breath and wait. You can ALWAYS say "no" and walk away. If they start saying things like "You can save 10% but only if you sign today", WALK AWAY. Do you REALLY think they're going to turn away your business tomorrow? They will ABSOLUTELY offer you the same deal in a day or a week or a month if it means they get the sale. And the flip side of that is this: once you hand over your money, you have no power at all. If anything goes wrong, you are probably fucked. Yes, in theory you could sue, but that is usually not practical, especially in the realm of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
You'll enjoy it. About 6 years ago I got a projector with multiple inputs, so a TiVo can do what it does well (shows from networks) and a Mac mini does what it does well (DVDs and ripped DVDs).
... next time someone tries to get a multi-million dollar fine against a file sharer? I would say ($2 billion) / (the number of songs in the catalog) = EXACTLY what a single song is "worth".
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... so Han can shoot first!
MythBusters: "And remember, don't try this at home!"
Luckless Homeowner: "I had no choice!"
>> I remember the days when you'd go buy a computing device and
>> it would just be yours, without the need to "jailbreak" it.
> PCs still exist, as do Android tablets.
Maybe he meant, like, earlier today. Though I don't see why remembering something from earlier in the day is worth mentioning on a public forum.
... or maybe just go back a few versions. No movies, no scripting, no interactivity other than hyperlinks and form elements, no live connection to the Web, no motion of any kind. Just vector shapes and a handful of well-known image formats. Please, just go back to what PDF was originally supposed to be: a virtual print that looked the same anywhere, including a small handful of well-known image formats. Oh, and make it "safe", which it never would have occurred to me to ask for in the past but I guess we need to specifically request that that these days. (Hi, GM, can you please make a car without an array of eight-inch spike in the middle of the steering wheel?) And, as long as I've got this crackpipe, I'll ask them to make the spec simple enough and open enough that anyone can make a program to generate them or read them.
I don't know what features Adobe is packing into the spec these days but to the best of my knowledge there's nothing I do today that couldn't be handled by PDF 1.2 and Acrobat 3. The only problem is, when people make PDFs, they tick the little box that says "Require Acrobat _ or greater" and I always have to update.
Here, in handy picture form.
Here it is in handy picture form. Anyone who thinks Apple sells devices cheap to make it up on software and content is grossly misinformed.
... does Dell feel the need to make so much stuff? Nobody ever bought their crap MP3 players, I've never seen a Dell phone anywhere,* and now here they are, killing two tablets that were barely a year old. Are there companies who will buy from no one but Dell, and Dell feels that the more stuff they make, the more sales they'll get from these few customers? If that's what they think, it's obviously not working out. A lot of their products have lifespans measurable in months.
* I admit it's possible I've seen one and not known it.
Funny. Maybe I've been working with databases too long that it's affected my mind (or maybe I got *into* databases because that was *already* how my mind worked) but I've *always* wanted to be able to say things like "show me all messages from my mom, dad, or sister, that arrived in 2005 and had attachments, and sort with the biggest at the top."
On a related note, the fact that Gmail doesn't let you click column headings to sort absolutely kills me.
More like this, please, and less about the Apple/Andoid/MS/Samsung/**AA suit-of-the-minute. I know, I know, flamewars == pageviews == Step 3, but you've occasionally gotta throw something out there for us old-timers.
You should go a little easier on him until you have all the facts. For all you know, his "hacking" amounts to "I changed the URL from ``...?mode=show-account&userid=1'' to ``...?mode=show-account&userid=2'' "
That said, people freak out about "hacks" as minor as this, and anyone who's been on Slashdot long enough (sorry, I don't feel like doing the searches right now myself) knows that lots of people in exactly his position have been royally screwed over (up to and including fines and jail time) for trying to do exactly what he's doing, so my advice to him is the same as yours, though for different reasons: walk the fuck away and say no more.
> They're responsible for their own security, not some random
> passerby... If they blow security, they're on the hook for the
> consequences. We have very well established methods
> for doing that kind of reinforcement.
Yeah. It's called "all the customers get fucked in the ass and have to spend months repairing their credit and nothing bad happens to the company."
... I would have said "OK AT&T, you say costs will go down after you merge? All right then, fine, merge. But if costs go up, we'll nuke you from orbit."
You can imagine my surprise when I discovered that clip wasn't from CSI. Seriously.
I used the "levels" tool to prove to someone that a photoshopped version of NASA's famous "Earthlights" picture was NOT a real satellite photo of the big blackout in the northeast a few years ago. Besides recognizing the original picture right away and knowing the story behind it (that it was a composite made of pictures taken over many months), lightening it a whole lot showed which parts were natural (dark but not quite black) and which parts were merely the result of someone using a big, soft-edged brush to put down a lot of pure black.
As the saying goes, I really can tell from some of the pixels, and from having seen quite a few 'shops in my time. :-) (Some of which weren't fake celebrity nudes.)
Old joke:
I was recently riding with a friend of mine.
We were coming to a red light, and he shoots right through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" He tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to another red light, and again, he shoots right through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" Again, he tells me this is how his brother drives.
We come to a green light, and he slams on the brakes. My heart nearly goes into my throat. I shouted at him, "Why do you do that?!"
He replied, "You never know, my brother could be coming the other way."
> Everywhere I have been that makes you sort recyclables has been way
> too picky about what can and can't be recycled. "Plastic, but not this type,
> paper not including newspaper, x glass but not y glass". Pain in the ass.
Pain, you say? OK then, just quit eating food that comes in packages. Eat nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables, and remember that meat products do NOT get composted but eggshells do. Then all you have left are milk containers (I don't expect you to raise your own dairy cows) and that's only one thing so therefore doesn't need to be "sorted", technically. Problem solved. :-D
I do appreciate that you're willing to pay more for better service, but that's just the thing--someone needs to do the work, and until everyone agrees to pay more to have someone else do it, you'll be stuck doing it. Me, I just figure it's part of the price of living with all the conveniences a modern supermarket affords, and I'm glad to know that one way or another it's not just all going into a landfill. (Except when it doesn't.) But to say it's a pain in the ass is a little much. The biggest pain for me is when places don't even put a number on the plastic and I just have to trash it.
Besides, it'll get better over time. I live in a place (FL) where plastics #s 1 and 2 have been OK for over 10 years, and a couple years ago they started accepting #s 5 and 6 if they're bottles with a neck (yes, really) but where my mom lives (CA), you just mix all your stuff together. Then again, she pays for her own garbage collection (along with water and something else, IIRC) whereas here it's paid for by the city through taxes.
You could show this video to Chuck Norris, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Ron Jeremy, and they'd all say "man, I wish I was that guy."
Of course, it's just a money-and-training issue, so any of them could do it (though Ron would probably have to drop a few pounds first.)
Oblig. Louis CK: Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. He nails it.
(Jump to 2:00. I'm linking to that because it's much better quality than the copies on youtube.)
Exactly. All I can say is, good for him. Does anyone here realizing he is literally living every boy's dream?!?!? Is there anyone here who wouldn't jump at the chance to strap themselves into this thing if offered?
If anything, get made at the video's producers, for whom a flying man isn't dramatic enough, that they felt they had to add the title "Jetman vs. Jets"
A couple suggestions...
Step 1: replace "throw away" with "give away". Your local library or school would probably be THRILLED to get a bunch of empty DVD cases. Or, there's also craigslist (as mentioned in #2) or freecycle etc. (Speaking of libraries, also consider donating anything you watched but didn't love. DVDs typically have low resale value but you can claim the full value or close to it (note: I am not a tax accountant) as a deduction.)
Step 2: Binders cost more but are WAY easier to flip through. We have a couple hundred discs and it's typically a minute or less to find one.
Step 3: In addition to alphabetizing, arrange y category. It's tough with some things that span categories (and the more specific your categories are, the harder it gets) but a basic breakdown of action/comedy/romance works pretty well.
Other than that, I'm curious (in a nice way, not an area-man-doesn't-watch-TV kind of way)--how did you get/what do you do with 4,000 DVDs? That's one DVD every day for eleven years! My family (for the most part) quit buying DVDs a couple years ago when we realized there's plenty of good stuff on and we've only watched about half of what we own. Pretty much all we get now are kids' DVDs (most of which are gifts anyways) which DO get watched heavily. Even things we got into late and love, like Boston Legal--we bought Season 1 two years ago and I said we wouldn't buy Season 2 until we finished watching Season 1. I think we got partway into Disc 2 and we haven't touched it in over a year.
Solved problem.
No, you don't have a view, but they carry actual sunlight, so you get the little natural variations in intensity (caused by clouds, etc.) that make people more comfortable in addition to natural coloring. And it doesn't have to be straight-line basic skylights, either--you can use fiber optics to carry light pretty far down.
> Other sellers have reported that the Groupon salespeople do
> their very best to convince companies not to put any cap at
> all on the amount of product available, downplaying the
> probability of just something like this.
It is very, very important to remember that a salesman's interests are the exact opposite of yours. You want to keep as much of your own money as possible, and they want to take as much of your money as possible. On the one hand, you both want the same thing: for you to give them some money in exchange for something you want. And yeah, in theory, they want you to be happy, buy again, and tell your friends. But on the other, much bigger hand, they just want your money, period. When you're having a moment of doubt as to whether the salesman really wants to help you or not, remember the big hand.
Also remember: until you hand over the money, you have ALL the power in the transaction. If you're feeling overwhelmed or worried or anxious, take a breath and wait. You can ALWAYS say "no" and walk away. If they start saying things like "You can save 10% but only if you sign today", WALK AWAY. Do you REALLY think they're going to turn away your business tomorrow? They will ABSOLUTELY offer you the same deal in a day or a week or a month if it means they get the sale. And the flip side of that is this: once you hand over your money, you have no power at all. If anything goes wrong, you are probably fucked. Yes, in theory you could sue, but that is usually not practical, especially in the realm of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
You don't even need to go as far as the EULA -- iOS 5 actually asks you during setup if you want to allow usage data to be sent.
http://www.thewwwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ipad-ios-5-diagnostics-7.jpg
(From http://www.thewwwblog.com/apple-ios-5-setup-steps-apple-ipad.html )
You'll enjoy it. About 6 years ago I got a projector with multiple inputs, so a TiVo can do what it does well (shows from networks) and a Mac mini does what it does well (DVDs and ripped DVDs).
... next time someone tries to get a multi-million dollar fine against a file sharer? I would say ($2 billion) / (the number of songs in the catalog) = EXACTLY what a single song is "worth".
> Make this a Slashdot survey
> Seriously, most of the responses are going to be along
> the same lines: games, work, not on windows.
Anyone who is actually happy with Windows can vote for the "Cowboy Neal" option. :-)