Yeah that's what you need when you're in emotional turmoil: lots and lots of a depressant. What may help is the social aspect of drinking since it's usually done with friends and the fact that it relaxes you enough to let the emotion out, not the alcohol itself. It's called "crying in your beer" for a reason.
Huh? Isn't crippling crippling like a double negative? In effect they uncrippled it allowing unrestricted access to the software, something that paying customers don't even get. I think they're on to something. Microsoft should take note.
Hah - you might want to remember the last guy who uncrippled the crippled. It's generally frowned upon by the powers that be.
These aren't 4 random guys pirating Windows for their own use, so your suggestion to just use Linux isn't relevant. These assholes were trying to be 1337. From TFA:
Hong "created the Tomato Garden version of the Windows XP," which crippled the program's authentication and certification barriers, said Xinhua, allowing users unrestricted access to the popular Microsoft software.
Millions of Internet users then had free access to the software on a website, tomatolei.com, which made its earnings from advertisements on the site, it said.
I think 3,5 years (and 2 years for 2 others) for maliciously ripping off someone else's work and distributing it is quite mild by China's standards. Hell with the current laws it might be mild by US standards.
OK so say your the NSA and have access to that kind of tech. How do you know where to point your electron microscope ? You weren't planning on going through the entire surface of all platters in the disk with a microscope were you ? And even if you did you'd have to deal with many parts of the disk that were overwritten multiple times in its natural life making the results harder to find and more ambiguous. Let's face it what you're talking about is highly theoretical.
Man I hate it when people do that. Don't talk to me while you're pissing, taking a dump or in the bath. In fact anytime your pants are down, just leave the phone alone and get to the business at hand (as it were.)
Read Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea for an interesting introduction to the history of mathematics. Our current base 10 system is mostly cultural. There have been cultures that counted in many different numeral systems. We see some vestiges of this in our culture : a dozen eggs, 24 hour clock, 360 degree circles, etc.
I will give you the gift of science but curse you with such poor spelling nobody will pay any attention to what you say because they are too incandescent with rage. *evil laughter*
This is the UK where kids are becoming parents at 13. They're in the maternity ward before they get sex-education. And those are the good kids, the other ones are knifing each other.
When I was young I had a book called "Weet je waarom... ?" ("Do you why... ?") which contained funny and informative answers to general questions. From silly kid questions to just generally how the world works. Beats google every time for kids, everyone should have one of these in their house and look up stuff with their kids for fun.
Altavista worked fine, HotBot too. I started using Google primarily because of the cached pages, not because the search was that much better. Plus like you say the Google interface was a breath of fresh air.
I always wanted to do something like thissawed off USB. Looks just like a cut off wire, put it in your "junk" container. Or hide the drive in a seemingly whole wire and run it to the printer with the drive part connected to the printer.
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You could put it like this : his words are open, so he wanted the article to have the same openness so he could correct obvious mistakes. So RMS open source words are viral, infecting articles with their openness:-)
I never could decide wether he was a genius or a nutjob, so I figure he's probably both.
"if I were graduating today, I would get on a boat and I would get off in Shanghai."
Here's a protip for Mr. Siebel and all those people who are sending their kids to chinese lessons: the chinese aren't any more likely to give you a good job than you would a chinese getting off the boat. It's not like they're starved for people willing to work. So you'd better get off your ass and innovate over here instead of playing patent and copyright games.
That's also why the world used to be a much more brutal place. Teenagers and their hormones and persecution and superiority complexes and need to prove themselves need to be contained until they mature a bit. Alexander the great sounds cool until you realize it was a guy with a god-complex (literally) running around with a private army slaughtering people everywhere he went to prove he was bigger and better than his daddy Philip.
Damn forgot to mention, ofcourse there's the whole "mutual aid" as an evolutionary advantage thing. But that's a REALLY old idea, I mean 1890's old. People just ignore it though, doesn't fit in with the ideology and the travesty they've made of the whole "survival of the fittest" thing.
It actually seems pretty obvious -- a community which was altruistic would, in the long run, have a higher chance of survival than a community which wasn't.
Yeah evolution made altruism feel good, who doesn't want to feel good ? Todays attitudes might make you think there's something wrong with that, but there really isn't. I do something good for you and I get to feel good about myself, see it's even in the language! Altruism = selfishness.
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It's OK, I use a unix based OS which means I have to reboot my computer about as often as I get laid. So ronery.
"Alcohol -- still your best drug value."
Yeah that's what you need when you're in emotional turmoil: lots and lots of a depressant. What may help is the social aspect of drinking since it's usually done with friends and the fact that it relaxes you enough to let the emotion out, not the alcohol itself. It's called "crying in your beer" for a reason.
Does it mean that painkillers like Ibuprofen would help to lessen the pain of being dumped? That is a kind of an acute issue for me right now.
Yes, a whole bottle of painkillers at once and you'll never feel pain again. That'll show them all !
Huh? Isn't crippling crippling like a double negative? In effect they uncrippled it allowing unrestricted access to the software, something that paying customers don't even get. I think they're on to something. Microsoft should take note.
Hah - you might want to remember the last guy who uncrippled the crippled. It's generally frowned upon by the powers that be.
These aren't 4 random guys pirating Windows for their own use, so your suggestion to just use Linux isn't relevant. These assholes were trying to be 1337. From TFA:
Hong "created the Tomato Garden version of the Windows XP," which crippled the program's authentication and certification barriers, said Xinhua, allowing users unrestricted access to the popular Microsoft software. Millions of Internet users then had free access to the software on a website, tomatolei.com, which made its earnings from advertisements on the site, it said.
I think 3,5 years (and 2 years for 2 others) for maliciously ripping off someone else's work and distributing it is quite mild by China's standards. Hell with the current laws it might be mild by US standards.
OK so say your the NSA and have access to that kind of tech. How do you know where to point your electron microscope ? You weren't planning on going through the entire surface of all platters in the disk with a microscope were you ? And even if you did you'd have to deal with many parts of the disk that were overwritten multiple times in its natural life making the results harder to find and more ambiguous. Let's face it what you're talking about is highly theoretical.
Plus at least Jobs has flair and style. Even the people he's screwed over talk of the man in awe. I believe the term is "Magnificent Bastard"
Man I hate it when people do that. Don't talk to me while you're pissing, taking a dump or in the bath. In fact anytime your pants are down, just leave the phone alone and get to the business at hand (as it were.)
Read Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea for an interesting introduction to the history of mathematics. Our current base 10 system is mostly cultural. There have been cultures that counted in many different numeral systems. We see some vestiges of this in our culture : a dozen eggs, 24 hour clock, 360 degree circles, etc.
Maybe you're "gratified" by counting your money and assets. If hoarding wasn't enjoyable there wouldn't be any collectors.
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I accidentally the whole verb. Is this bad ?
I will give you the gift of science but curse you with such poor spelling nobody will pay any attention to what you say because they are too incandescent with rage. *evil laughter*
This is the UK where kids are becoming parents at 13. They're in the maternity ward before they get sex-education. And those are the good kids, the other ones are knifing each other.
When I was young I had a book called "Weet je waarom ... ?" ("Do you why ... ?") which contained funny and informative answers to general questions. From silly kid questions to just generally how the world works. Beats google every time for kids, everyone should have one of these in their house and look up stuff with their kids for fun.
Altavista worked fine, HotBot too. I started using Google primarily because of the cached pages, not because the search was that much better. Plus like you say the Google interface was a breath of fresh air.
I always wanted to do something like thissawed off USB. Looks just like a cut off wire, put it in your "junk" container. Or hide the drive in a seemingly whole wire and run it to the printer with the drive part connected to the printer.
You could put it like this : his words are open, so he wanted the article to have the same openness so he could correct obvious mistakes. So RMS open source words are viral, infecting articles with their openness :-)
I never could decide wether he was a genius or a nutjob, so I figure he's probably both.
They like hunting, big families, and the right to bear arms
Jeez, that's one though cat. Mine just brings back a dead mouse one in a while, not bear arms.
I don't know. Maybe the most jarring thing was that I, Robot didn't just have a few lingering shots of a product name. It just incorporated the whole look and feel of a commercial. The inane banter that only serves to mention the product along with him putting the product (shoes) on the table, the athletic half naked guy who puts on his sound system (I don't actually remember if it mentions JVC explicitly now you mention it) and relaxes to the sounds, the car racing through tunnels lights flashing. They are all ad clichés used directly in the movie. It's not just an ad, it uses the visual vocabulary of ads which makes it doubly stand out (to me).
"if I were graduating today, I would get on a boat and I would get off in Shanghai."
Here's a protip for Mr. Siebel and all those people who are sending their kids to chinese lessons: the chinese aren't any more likely to give you a good job than you would a chinese getting off the boat. It's not like they're starved for people willing to work. So you'd better get off your ass and innovate over here instead of playing patent and copyright games.
That's also why the world used to be a much more brutal place. Teenagers and their hormones and persecution and superiority complexes and need to prove themselves need to be contained until they mature a bit. Alexander the great sounds cool until you realize it was a guy with a god-complex (literally) running around with a private army slaughtering people everywhere he went to prove he was bigger and better than his daddy Philip.
You hold the same view on gambling as Descartes
Do you mean Pascal maybe ? Come on, the guy had a programming language named after him and everything.
Damn forgot to mention, ofcourse there's the whole "mutual aid" as an evolutionary advantage thing. But that's a REALLY old idea, I mean 1890's old. People just ignore it though, doesn't fit in with the ideology and the travesty they've made of the whole "survival of the fittest" thing.
Example: Altruism.
It actually seems pretty obvious -- a community which was altruistic would, in the long run, have a higher chance of survival than a community which wasn't.
Yeah evolution made altruism feel good, who doesn't want to feel good ? Todays attitudes might make you think there's something wrong with that, but there really isn't. I do something good for you and I get to feel good about myself, see it's even in the language! Altruism = selfishness.