I put most of my laundry out in the open. My homepage, http://www.littleblur.com, has a link to my google calendar and my livejournal, both of which contain many very personal details. There are social benefits to this kind of openness that I would not want to trade in for a job.
The closest thing to creepy that has ever happened to me because of this openness is that some gay guys who are into beards favorited a few pictures of me with my shirt off on flickr. Once, someone pretending to be Congolese royalty said they wanted to lick my ex girlfriend's armpit. This I can handle.
This Sunday I got friended on LJ by this cool/weird girl who took the bus with me in junior high. She's... surprisingly hot now.
If some potential employer has a problem with my vanity, I don't want to spend eight hours with them anyway. I'm delighted if they can figure that out before the interview. Thankfully, I live in a city filled to the brim with people who really don't care about shit like that. It's quite a privilege.
Gmail deals with this flawlessly. If there is a large chunk of quoted text, it's collapsed. It doesn't even matter if people are top or bottom posters, because Gmail shows you exactly the text you should read in the order you should read it, based on who sent it & when.
Dunno why y'all are saying that the wrist straps are fine for normal use.
My friends always wear the straps, have never let the wiimote fly out of their hands or even dangle by the strap, and still the little thread that holds the strap on is fraying and will soon come apart.
Unless my friends really do have a defective wiimote strap, and the rest are totally different, then I rather agree that the straps are defective and unsuitable for any safety-related purpose.
Iduno. I don't mind people being obsessed with the failures of their forebears if it prevents them from doing similarly fucked up things. Of course, jailing holocaust deniers seems like the wrong lesson learned.
But maybe if they paid the right kind of attention, they wouldn't truck w/ this militarization of their police force. Of course, ditto for us in the states.
Trust neocon apologists to bring you the latest in retroactive justification for the Iraq war. The United States didn't have any economic interests in Iraq to protect. Were we going in to protect our economic interests in Israel? Are they safer now?
My photo teacher in high school brought in a wall calendar that was sent to her for free in the mail. The twelve photos were excellent commercial nature photography, macro shots of rusty bulkheads, and the last one was a pier lit by moonlight. The moonlit waves were contrasty enough that the ocean was jet black, and it kindof looked like oil.
Everyone in her town got one of those calendars for free in the mail, and on the back in tiny print it said "(c) 1997 Exxon Mobile Corp" or whatever. Exxon Mobile was attempting to open a refinery nearby.
Awww, the poor multi billion dollar corporation wants some compulsory licensing.
I will be so pissed if YouTube manages to get some kind of compulsory licensing legislation passed that has a high barrier to entry, so that large corporations can use it but people can't on their own. We'd get all the artist-harming and none of the economic benefits of compulsory licensing (not that it's necessarily a perfect idea on its own).
Ah, but licensing fees would be royalties which they'd have to split with artists. Clearly you can see that these are not licensing fees. They are instead getting $50 million dollar investment stakes, which Google is buying them out of.
The implication is that the contract giving them the money actually said "You only get the $50 million if you sue our competitors".
If you see one dumbass 14-year old kick someone in the crotch, you've seen them all.
You sound like someone who says they hate hip hop because it's misogynistic and "it's just talking anyway". Sure, you use YouTube to watch 14 year olds kick each other in the crotch. Other people don't.
The problem with YouTube is the same as the problem with Myspace, though. Its owners are censor-happy. But unlike myspace, you can just take your ball & go home to some other host, like revver or Google Video. So this is of much less consequence than on Myspace.
Accountants. Even when they're using OLAP systems rather than linked Excel monstrosities, they will want to have as much data open & visible as possible. They'd use 4GB of RAM if we'd give it to them. The dumber ones need it more than the smarter ones. It's either that or spend a $large on better models. Like, move to Oracle. DDR RAM is cheaper.
Programmers at least know to close stuff when we start paging to disk.
It is still a product that can be withheld from consumers in particular areas if the business or businesses decide to not sell in that area.
The point is that it cannot be withheld. There's no cartel of oil companies that can shut out a specific purchaser. If they try, then any of their customers can just resell to California for a profit. All the cartel would be doing is robbing themselves of profits. So they wouldn't do it.
Although I guess it would be hilarious for Unocal (Chevron, whatever) to stop selling oil in California.
Yes, this legislation would reduce the profitability of selling oil in California, but it would still be profitable. Prices might go up (even though they say they will not go up), but it wouldn't mean there'd be no oil imported to California. If the legislation actually has some way to fix prices, and there are shortages nationally, then maybe this could make the shortages focus in CA. I guess. We'd need someone who understood both this bill + world oil economics to tell us, though.
How do I check if my host's cPanel is fixed without logging in & handing them my password?
I mean, I could contact my hosting provider, but I would prefer to check before harassing them.
Also, as good as they've been, I haven't really tested their professionalism before. I'd like to check w/o logging in, whether or not they say they've installed the patch. Is this remotely feasible?
Why would helping to ensure a future for free software as a legal product be all that bad, unless you really believe deep down that it's impossible to have good, free software out there that doesn't steal from others?
You just took a wrong turn, dude.
Then Stallman drops the bombshell: he doesn't believe a software developer should have any right to protect its intellectual property in the first place. Whoops!
Oh! You're just a troll. If that was a bombshell (him being opposed to software patents, not "intellectual property"), it was pretty well detonated in 1983.
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Yes, but the usability improvements will mean that they will have fewer questions in the first place.
I put most of my laundry out in the open. My homepage, http://www.littleblur.com, has a link to my google calendar and my livejournal, both of which contain many very personal details. There are social benefits to this kind of openness that I would not want to trade in for a job.
The closest thing to creepy that has ever happened to me because of this openness is that some gay guys who are into beards favorited a few pictures of me with my shirt off on flickr. Once, someone pretending to be Congolese royalty said they wanted to lick my ex girlfriend's armpit. This I can handle.
This Sunday I got friended on LJ by this cool/weird girl who took the bus with me in junior high. She's... surprisingly hot now.
If some potential employer has a problem with my vanity, I don't want to spend eight hours with them anyway. I'm delighted if they can figure that out before the interview. Thankfully, I live in a city filled to the brim with people who really don't care about shit like that. It's quite a privilege.
Gmail deals with this flawlessly. If there is a large chunk of quoted text, it's collapsed. It doesn't even matter if people are top or bottom posters, because Gmail shows you exactly the text you should read in the order you should read it, based on who sent it & when.
Dunno why y'all are saying that the wrist straps are fine for normal use.
My friends always wear the straps, have never let the wiimote fly out of their hands or even dangle by the strap, and still the little thread that holds the strap on is fraying and will soon come apart.
Unless my friends really do have a defective wiimote strap, and the rest are totally different, then I rather agree that the straps are defective and unsuitable for any safety-related purpose.
Iduno. I don't mind people being obsessed with the failures of their forebears if it prevents them from doing similarly fucked up things. Of course, jailing holocaust deniers seems like the wrong lesson learned.
But maybe if they paid the right kind of attention, they wouldn't truck w/ this militarization of their police force. Of course, ditto for us in the states.
Trust neocon apologists to bring you the latest in retroactive justification for the Iraq war. The United States didn't have any economic interests in Iraq to protect. Were we going in to protect our economic interests in Israel? Are they safer now?
trauma shears.
Should be able to pick them up for $4 or so. Get a couple. They're extremely handy.
No good for precision cutting, but perfect for cutting through tough, thick plastic, cardboard, or card stock.
I thought that was along the lines of "brand new leopardskin pillbox hat".
My photo teacher in high school brought in a wall calendar that was sent to her for free in the mail. The twelve photos were excellent commercial nature photography, macro shots of rusty bulkheads, and the last one was a pier lit by moonlight. The moonlit waves were contrasty enough that the ocean was jet black, and it kindof looked like oil.
Everyone in her town got one of those calendars for free in the mail, and on the back in tiny print it said "(c) 1997 Exxon Mobile Corp" or whatever. Exxon Mobile was attempting to open a refinery nearby.
Those fuckers are sharp.
large processing jobs; bittorrent
Does their little dictionary contain all of the latin names for every genus and species, or only the ones that occur in text-off competitions?
Does open-ended mean they can deduce the spellings of new words through the power of mental telepathy?
I like to consider myself extremely gullible, but that video isn't working on me.
Google Desktop has indexing plugins. fyi.
Awww, the poor multi billion dollar corporation wants some compulsory licensing.
I will be so pissed if YouTube manages to get some kind of compulsory licensing legislation passed that has a high barrier to entry, so that large corporations can use it but people can't on their own. We'd get all the artist-harming and none of the economic benefits of compulsory licensing (not that it's necessarily a perfect idea on its own).
Ah, but licensing fees would be royalties which they'd have to split with artists. Clearly you can see that these are not licensing fees. They are instead getting $50 million dollar investment stakes, which Google is buying them out of.
The implication is that the contract giving them the money actually said "You only get the $50 million if you sue our competitors".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXdCYRppCc
The problem with YouTube is the same as the problem with Myspace, though. Its owners are censor-happy. But unlike myspace, you can just take your ball & go home to some other host, like revver or Google Video. So this is of much less consequence than on Myspace.
Accountants. Even when they're using OLAP systems rather than linked Excel monstrosities, they will want to have as much data open & visible as possible. They'd use 4GB of RAM if we'd give it to them. The dumber ones need it more than the smarter ones. It's either that or spend a $large on better models. Like, move to Oracle. DDR RAM is cheaper.
Programmers at least know to close stuff when we start paging to disk.
Although I guess it would be hilarious for Unocal (Chevron, whatever) to stop selling oil in California.
Yes, this legislation would reduce the profitability of selling oil in California, but it would still be profitable. Prices might go up (even though they say they will not go up), but it wouldn't mean there'd be no oil imported to California. If the legislation actually has some way to fix prices, and there are shortages nationally, then maybe this could make the shortages focus in CA. I guess. We'd need someone who understood both this bill + world oil economics to tell us, though.
Someone needs to put together a $$ vs Radness chart using that data & the price information from this new article.
How do I check if my host's cPanel is fixed without logging in & handing them my password?
I mean, I could contact my hosting provider, but I would prefer to check before harassing them.
Also, as good as they've been, I haven't really tested their professionalism before. I'd like to check w/o logging in, whether or not they say they've installed the patch. Is this remotely feasible?