There's also a clause about 'organ harvesting' that I seem to have missed.
Think about that next time you tweet about your kitty cat spilling milk on your keyboard.
Tweet this instead: "My cat just spilled my daily glass urine from goats infected with dengue. I use so many self discovered homeopathic cures and all my organs are still failing."
I've found saying "no" helps a lot, as does being in a relationship since I'm no longer allowed to fix things based solely on the hotness of the user.
I find at the relationship point your instead forced to fix things based on whether the user is your significant other. And the user is, quite often, and your relationship depends on your fix being satisfactory.
it's the "your skills aren't worth anything" part that upsets the PC fixer.
Personally I'm already upset at the "Your skills" part of that quote: I've had brief periods in my life where I had a dedicated personal computer I could screw with and those were some time ago. I'm probably worse off here, than your average 'free computer fixer' but everyone has a similar story, which, unfortunately, the open letter did not cover.
So now my friends think somehow, years of studying design patterns and programming languages, this somehow gives me insight into why your browser, that I've never heard of, running on your mac, an operating system I've barely used, is going kinda slow. What do they want me to do? gdb it? I'm often offered money to help out with peoples computers, but I have to reject it, because I will make no promises. Just because someone said I was a 'computer guy' does not mean I can fix every random glitch a computer makes anymore than being a plumber can help someone diagnose my electrical problems. If you want to pay me for being a smart guy or even just literate enough to read your manual to you, then maybe I'll come over and take your money, but if my brainpower makes the problem worse, well this isn't the first time.
No one wants an 80 year old warn out liver, kidney, heart, etc. Instead they one one from the healthy 25 year old that just ran his motorcycle into the side of a bus.
Ok, new pricing scheme: Pay the young healthy people with risky lifestyles a small reverse mortgage until their age or health determines that the organ is no longer useful at which point the organ traders write off the loss. I stress a small reverse mortgage to prevent abuses of the system from both ends. For example I recall some sci-fi setting has had people buy their organs back, or part with them.
Until women turn 30. Then they wake up one morning and realize that this biological clock thing is running and it becomes a sellers market.
Uh, I don't think that's the sex your looking for. Word of warning: if a woman sells you sex because her biological clock tells her to, it's going to take 20+years to pay off that debt.
An elderly person has no incentive to donate his organs on death, if his surviving loved ones do not profit from it.
Please, do continue.
Profit for loved ones? Altruism is already the motivating factor for people who have become organ donors. The selfish aren't going to give up their organs for compensation to their heirs (who already get a hefty life insurance payout). If you want to buy organs, let people take out a reverse mortgage on their body. I suspect that would work better.
Back when I was single, sitting out there for a couple hours on a Sunday afternoon hoping the wind would die or knowing a particular mob would leave, I would totally go for some wireless web surfing.
You are obviously not a surfer. What is obvious or useful about this?
You are obviously not a nerd. What is NOT obvious or useful about more data.
I skimmed the article just far enough to figure out I NEED to put a GPS on my surf board. I've got a few theoretical models about paddle speed, wave speed, velocity along the face and height changes that partially work out with videos. But to get real data? I'm already thinking about how you could incorporate your top paddle speed on various boards against an expert system to choose a board based on needed speed in various conditions. BTW, I'm totally serious about all of this.
As a surfer, I understand that no amount of data gathering will surpass the dead reckoning of even meagerly experienced surfers (including myself), and only time in the water will really make you a better surfer and better at board design. However, as geek: data! I recommend you turn in your geek and go back to 'real' surfing.
it got seen off by the surfing equivalent of the "get off my lawn"brigade
If there was such a brigade with any influence whatsoever, paddle boards would not have happened.
I only saw it (in videos) for tow surfing on hideously large waves, and there it did not appear to me to give the speed or control of a typical big wave board. I doubt you could paddle that thing up to speed on smaller waves, and if it endangers your life on waves that are larger, I don't really see it becoming popular.
Whats the difference between police mugshots and facebook mugshots? I wouldn't think much..
Police mug shots are of your face, facebook mugshots are of whatever. I hope Robert Pattinson doesn't get into any trouble, because I'll be in the long line of suspects with perfect matches in such a system.
I come from a country which has experienced a revolution in my lifetime.
Why can't you?
We can. We choose not to.
If your question is, "why don't you?" Then that is because I don't feel like a revolution will solve the fact that wall street is using substandard formulas (that is what we are talking about right?) and would probably cause more problems for my sound long-term investments than any pockets of casino capitalism do.
I really didn't needed it to be thinner, I needed it to be lighter. 1.3 lbs is still too heavy to carry single handed like a writing pad.
My mom wields clipboards that are heavier than that. I know, as nerds, we are expected to be out of shape, but really, if you can't hold 1.3lbs, maybe its time you hit the gym.
50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph
Take it from a professional photographer, 90% of the time, the angle and lighting are all that matter between a good and a bad photo.
I zeroed in on that quote as well, but for a different reason. Take it from a boyfriend, 100% of someones satisfaction of how they look in a photograph comes down to gender. Badly lit blurry photos to professionally retouched photos, my girlfriends always hate "the way their faces look in a photograph." I'm thinking this retouch feature won't help anything.
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
Although the short article did not say so, when I have read about these scams before, the victim goes to their friends and family and tearfully begs them to help. Even if he couldn't quite make 200K appear, a few of his friends and family might have been able to get some loans and remortgages to help him reach the sum.
life literally depends on the good graces of the company you work for
Exactly.
Savings has little to do with it and varies widely depending on the sub-culture you are in. As far as safety net? Many of my _young_ friends coasted on unemployment the last few years during our economic downturn. Meanwhile, my older friends (who already have health conditions cropping up) were scrambling for jobs before their COBRA ran out.
Really? If an autorun menu doesn't pop up what do I do? How do I make the CD, y'know do stuff?
and the up date is not forced on you
Microsoft is pushing it on me. I think my computer gets those automatically. I can't make CD work and you want me to stop the whole of Microsoft pushing an update?
He pulled the information from the library; the books were in English, which he did not speak. Can't you imagine someone like him pulling similar instructions from makezine.com and running it through babel fish on his OLPCsystem? Even learning another language in the hopes of getting out of their impoverished area would be useful. Sure, all I use the internet for is pr0n and celebrity gossip, and every so often/., but there is no dearth of information out there that is actually useful (the ratio of useful to useless is likely small, I'll give you that).
There is alot of other stuff we take for granted: quickly looking up things on wikipedia, knowing areas we've never been with google earth. In some places, all you know about the world is what you've seen and what you your parents thought to tell you. Further, almanacs and weather predictions, which many of us don't need anymore, would be hideously valued if your lively hood is agriculture.
in a small town or village in a place that takes hours or days to drive to
If it takes you hours or days to get to a library or get the news, slow internet would be huge.
My point is this, if you have any doubts of whether it works or not, then study it and practice it...If you think that Sun Sign Astrology is real Astrology (the kind you see in the newspapers and magazines) then you are WAY off from knowing what Astrology is
I am "WAY off from knowing what astrology is", as I assume most other readers are, making it rather difficult to follow the advice in your point. Care enlighten us about what the real astrology is?
Six months ago I don't remember posting: "I AM THE WORLDS FLAMIEST HOMO!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!1!!!!" Liking it, then commenting: "Also I leave myself logged into facebook at internet cafes"
Right, my mom is the only person I know who uses her face on her facebook account and I think it would be really awesome to see her on a billboard or something
Yeah it is. The lines are set up under the assumption that my time is free and safety is the only concern. Now an event has said: hey queuing up for an hour to get a Rapiscan is an hour YOU COULD DIE!
Safety vs. Safety lets you bring this argument to the only playing field some people will listen to. Since, "I think I could better spend this hour commenting on news feeds", sounds ludicrous to scared people, I now get to change it to "What if someone in line has a Bword? Can we get this line moving before we all die?! Please?!"
BTW: Am I the only person who noticed those things are called Rapiscans? Do you pronounce it differently maybe?
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There's also a clause about 'organ harvesting' that I seem to have missed.
Think about that next time you tweet about your kitty cat spilling milk on your keyboard.
Tweet this instead: "My cat just spilled my daily glass urine from goats infected with dengue. I use so many self discovered homeopathic cures and all my organs are still failing."
I've found saying "no" helps a lot, as does being in a relationship since I'm no longer allowed to fix things based solely on the hotness of the user.
I find at the relationship point your instead forced to fix things based on whether the user is your significant other. And the user is, quite often, and your relationship depends on your fix being satisfactory.
it's the "your skills aren't worth anything" part that upsets the PC fixer.
Personally I'm already upset at the "Your skills" part of that quote: I've had brief periods in my life where I had a dedicated personal computer I could screw with and those were some time ago. I'm probably worse off here, than your average 'free computer fixer' but everyone has a similar story, which, unfortunately, the open letter did not cover.
So now my friends think somehow, years of studying design patterns and programming languages, this somehow gives me insight into why your browser, that I've never heard of, running on your mac, an operating system I've barely used, is going kinda slow. What do they want me to do? gdb it? I'm often offered money to help out with peoples computers, but I have to reject it, because I will make no promises. Just because someone said I was a 'computer guy' does not mean I can fix every random glitch a computer makes anymore than being a plumber can help someone diagnose my electrical problems. If you want to pay me for being a smart guy or even just literate enough to read your manual to you, then maybe I'll come over and take your money, but if my brainpower makes the problem worse, well this isn't the first time.
No one wants an 80 year old warn out liver, kidney, heart, etc. Instead they one one from the healthy 25 year old that just ran his motorcycle into the side of a bus.
Ok, new pricing scheme:
Pay the young healthy people with risky lifestyles a small reverse mortgage until their age or health determines that the organ is no longer useful at which point the organ traders write off the loss. I stress a small reverse mortgage to prevent abuses of the system from both ends. For example I recall some sci-fi setting has had people buy their organs back, or part with them.
Until women turn 30. Then they wake up one morning and realize that this biological clock thing is running and it becomes a sellers market.
Uh, I don't think that's the sex your looking for. Word of warning: if a woman sells you sex because her biological clock tells her to, it's going to take 20+years to pay off that debt.
An elderly person has no incentive to donate his organs on death, if his surviving loved ones do not profit from it.
Please, do continue.
Profit for loved ones? Altruism is already the motivating factor for people who have become organ donors. The selfish aren't going to give up their organs for compensation to their heirs (who already get a hefty life insurance payout). If you want to buy organs, let people take out a reverse mortgage on their body. I suspect that would work better.
A board with a PC and wireless connectivity.
Back when I was single, sitting out there for a couple hours on a Sunday afternoon hoping the wind would die or knowing a particular mob would leave, I would totally go for some wireless web surfing.
You are obviously not a surfer. What is obvious or useful about this?
You are obviously not a nerd. What is NOT obvious or useful about more data.
I skimmed the article just far enough to figure out I NEED to put a GPS on my surf board. I've got a few theoretical models about paddle speed, wave speed, velocity along the face and height changes that partially work out with videos. But to get real data? I'm already thinking about how you could incorporate your top paddle speed on various boards against an expert system to choose a board based on needed speed in various conditions. BTW, I'm totally serious about all of this.
As a surfer, I understand that no amount of data gathering will surpass the dead reckoning of even meagerly experienced surfers (including myself), and only time in the water will really make you a better surfer and better at board design. However, as geek: data! I recommend you turn in your geek and go back to 'real' surfing.
it got seen off by the surfing equivalent of the "get off my lawn"brigade
If there was such a brigade with any influence whatsoever, paddle boards would not have happened.
I only saw it (in videos) for tow surfing on hideously large waves, and there it did not appear to me to give the speed or control of a typical big wave board. I doubt you could paddle that thing up to speed on smaller waves, and if it endangers your life on waves that are larger, I don't really see it becoming popular.
Whats the difference between police mugshots and facebook mugshots? I wouldn't think much..
Police mug shots are of your face, facebook mugshots are of whatever. I hope Robert Pattinson doesn't get into any trouble, because I'll be in the long line of suspects with perfect matches in such a system.
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I come from a country which has experienced a revolution in my lifetime.
Why can't you?
We can. We choose not to.
If your question is, "why don't you?" Then that is because I don't feel like a revolution will solve the fact that wall street is using substandard formulas (that is what we are talking about right?) and would probably cause more problems for my sound long-term investments than any pockets of casino capitalism do.
I really didn't needed it to be thinner, I needed it to be lighter. 1.3 lbs is still too heavy to carry single handed like a writing pad.
My mom wields clipboards that are heavier than that. I know, as nerds, we are expected to be out of shape, but really, if you can't hold 1.3lbs, maybe its time you hit the gym.
50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph
Take it from a professional photographer, 90% of the time, the angle and lighting are all that matter between a good and a bad photo.
I zeroed in on that quote as well, but for a different reason. Take it from a boyfriend, 100% of someones satisfaction of how they look in a photograph comes down to gender. Badly lit blurry photos to professionally retouched photos, my girlfriends always hate "the way their faces look in a photograph." I'm thinking this retouch feature won't help anything.
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
Although the short article did not say so, when I have read about these scams before, the victim goes to their friends and family and tearfully begs them to help. Even if he couldn't quite make 200K appear, a few of his friends and family might have been able to get some loans and remortgages to help him reach the sum.
One word: healthcare.
life literally depends on the good graces of the company you work for
Exactly.
Savings has little to do with it and varies widely depending on the sub-culture you are in. As far as safety net? Many of my _young_ friends coasted on unemployment the last few years during our economic downturn. Meanwhile, my older friends (who already have health conditions cropping up) were scrambling for jobs before their COBRA ran out.
Now I don't know whether I should be stocking up on EMP weapons or coathangers in order to battle the robot uprising. Thanks a lot, Japan.
It'll be easy now, just don't put plug protectors over your electrical sockets and the uprisers will take care of themselves.
you can still run stuff manually
Really? If an autorun menu doesn't pop up what do I do? How do I make the CD, y'know do stuff?
and the up date is not forced on you
Microsoft is pushing it on me. I think my computer gets those automatically. I can't make CD work and you want me to stop the whole of Microsoft pushing an update?
I'm suing.
What's probably a more pertinent concern is the dearth of relevant information for those people.
Well, everyone remembers: http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/ we had a few posts here at /. about him.
He pulled the information from the library; the books were in English, which he did not speak. Can't you imagine someone like him pulling similar instructions from makezine.com and running it through babel fish on his OLPCsystem? Even learning another language in the hopes of getting out of their impoverished area would be useful. Sure, all I use the internet for is pr0n and celebrity gossip, and every so often /., but there is no dearth of information out there that is actually useful (the ratio of useful to useless is likely small, I'll give you that).
There is alot of other stuff we take for granted: quickly looking up things on wikipedia, knowing areas we've never been with google earth. In some places, all you know about the world is what you've seen and what you your parents thought to tell you. Further, almanacs and weather predictions, which many of us don't need anymore, would be hideously valued if your lively hood is agriculture.
in a small town or village in a place that takes hours or days to drive to
If it takes you hours or days to get to a library or get the news, slow internet would be huge.
What's with the gates icon in the first place? He hasn't been working with Microsoft for a year and a half.
My point is this, if you have any doubts of whether it works or not, then study it and practice it...If you think that Sun Sign Astrology is real Astrology (the kind you see in the newspapers and magazines) then you are WAY off from knowing what Astrology is
I am "WAY off from knowing what astrology is", as I assume most other readers are, making it rather difficult to follow the advice in your point. Care enlighten us about what the real astrology is?
True but the fact that you said it is a fact.
Six months ago I don't remember posting:
"I AM THE WORLDS FLAMIEST HOMO!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!1!!!!"
Liking it, then commenting:
"Also I leave myself logged into facebook at internet cafes"
How many IP 4 blocks do you think Egypt does not need anymore? That ought to help us out for awhile.
Right, my mom is the only person I know who uses her face on her facebook account and I think it would be really awesome to see her on a billboard or something
Better than seeing your elbow, or worse...
but there's no reason to set up a bogus argument.
Yeah it is. The lines are set up under the assumption that my time is free and safety is the only concern. Now an event has said: hey queuing up for an hour to get a Rapiscan is an hour YOU COULD DIE!
Safety vs. Safety lets you bring this argument to the only playing field some people will listen to. Since, "I think I could better spend this hour commenting on news feeds", sounds ludicrous to scared people, I now get to change it to "What if someone in line has a Bword? Can we get this line moving before we all die?! Please?!"
BTW: Am I the only person who noticed those things are called Rapiscans? Do you pronounce it differently maybe?
"You and I didn't have a say in it at all"
Sure you did. In 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
But as normal, you all picked Dems or Republicans, so nothing changed.
I picked independents many of those years. So I would like back the liberties "you all" gave away. Thanks!