Whatever is scary enough to convince us to give up privacy, that's the threat of the day. Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
I'm not kidding. When I work at home, I use a laydown desk (basically a cot/lawn chair with some strategically placed pillows), and my monitor is placed on the edge of a small table, and I drink a lot of liquids (mostly water), so I'm constantly forced to get up and reposition. It's not the most efficient way to work, but it seems to have the least impact on my body. My keyboard is in my lap, and I use a bamboo tablet on a stack of books. I wouldn't be able to do this at an office, but if I was asked to work extra hours I would be working those hours at home anyway.
All that being said, hacks like this aren't really solutions. We all need to exercise and minimize our computer use, there's just no real way around that. I think this is all just damage control.
"Or we would be, if it weren't for mobile pushing us back to client-side development.'" Slashdot submission right before this one: "Facebook iOS App Ditching HTML5 For ObjectiveC"
So it's neither long nor a death for fat clients after all?
Am I that old? Since when could someone be a "sports nerd"? That's like saying you're an "MMA nerd" because you know the best way to kick someone in the face while they're trying to tackle you.
...and this same god Apple who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Jobs, the anointed one. Thus as Jobs spake of the iPhone 5, we shall be blessed by it's reception.
If this is what is keeping him from producing more of that crap, then I'm all for it.
Although he clearly means he just needs cheaper animators in to throw annoying effects on the screen. If he just made the shows the way he made A New Hope, he wouldn't have this problem (or in our case, solution).
Those emails are already compromised by spammers, since I use them to communicate with family members, and they all distribute my address in those idiotic email forwards. They also get their laptops pwned once a month for good measure.
It's not mercury that he turns into, it's a mimetic polyalloy, and I still pee myself whenever I see that. Didn't you know that's what it was??! It's liquid metal, liquid magic!
This is an outrage! How DARE they try and sell me things! This is almost as infuriating as Vons/Safeway and their "club card", tracking my purchases to try and "Better serve me". Horsefeathers! The fact that the products I want are in stock at any given point is PROOF that they've been using my spending habits to PREDICT MY NEEDS, which goes against everything I believe in.
When I say I want a free social networking site, it's not good enough that I not be billed directly for using it. The company hosting it must be desperately trying to sustain the bandwidth and CPU time for my constant page refreshes. At no point should they be even breaking even, let alone PROFITING from their service. Information wants to be free! Down with Big Brother! Doublethink! Free as in beer!...What else... Oh! And my cell phone bill is too high!
Which is good news for me, because that's where I've hidden my stolen trillion dollar bill.
"We still believe Burns has the bill in his house somewhere, but all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof!" --Agent Johnson, "The Trouble With Trillions"
That works for me. I can survive without social interaction, which I see as an advantage. There's too much work to be done to be spending time dilly-dallying around in social gatherings.
If this is what you guys consider entertaining, I can only wonder what you'd do if construction workers started learning hieroglyphics.
"Oh well, I guess now I'll have more time to spend reading things I find lying on the ground. Lay-Tex Con-Dome. Boy I'd like to live in one of those!" -Abraham J. Simpson
Well we have the internet's best minds working on solving this "Fizzer" problem, don't worry!
"Interesting, and mostly productive results have occurred so far from such a meeting of the IRC minds."
IRC Log: Session Start: Wed May 14 02:20:29 2003 Session Ident: #fizzer [02:20] * Now talking in #fizzer [02:20] * Topic is 'RULES: No TRADING|RATIOS|TRIGGERS|FSERVES|GAMES|ONJOINS, Speak english|DONT msg ops|Use plain txt|Say 'hi' & be polite' [02:20] * Set by BabyJesus on Fri Apr 28 04:50:28 [02:22] * dobxid32 has joined #fizzer [02:22] * dobje32 has quit IRC (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)) [02:22] * dobxid32 is now known as dobje32 [02:22] * |DTM| has joined #fizzer [02:23] <|SKYNET|> [SKYNETS LAIR] 211.29.46.40 port:2254 download: <ur nick>/cumgetsum (2 users) look: look/look. -=PASV Mode OFF=- retry: 60+ sec or ban [02:23] * BabyJesus sets mode: +v |DTM| [02:23] <SB_Stuff> Serpent's FTP: ftp.spstuff.net port: 1234 Username: [(your name)] Password: DL:[3dwarez] View:[view] Upload:[upload] Looking for: Pr0n, pr0n, pr0n! Upload any pr0n you have, please. Enjoy:) [02:23] * digi-tal has joined #fizzer [02:24] * BabyJesus sets mode: +v digi-tal [02:25] * O_R_K has joined #fizzer [02:25] * Zooey has joined #fizzer [02:26] * GeBs has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 186 seconds) [02:48] <[SiD]> hi all [02:49] <nota|WORk> whaddup [02:53] <nota|WORk> nice url isp;) [02:53] <[IsP]> hehe [02:53] <[IsP]> my g/f sent it to me;) [02:54] <[IsP]> hey u stold skynet about his status thing? [02:54] <nota|WORk> well, that sounds like you'll have a nice meal soon [02:54] <nota|WORk> yeah [02:54] <[IsP]> lol [02:54] <nota|WORk> other chan;P [02:55] <DEBOTRON> damn fizzer [03:00] <nota|WORk> [SiD], that's a very very old app [03:00] <nota|WORk> ancient basiaclly [03:04] * PaulD has joined #fizzer [03:05] * Braqua has quit IRC [03:14] <S-Clas2> why does the fuc.. DF doesnt support XP [03:16] <DEBOTRON> we should fix this fizzer thing now [03:17] <|SKYNET|> mmmmmm Session Close: Mon Mar 31 03:19:58 2003
You laugh now, but just wait. 10 years from now, all the author jobs will be taken by overseas authors who have degrees in literature, and there will be NOTHING LEFT for the poor american authors! Just you wait and see.. The jobs will be lost because THEIR GUYS can publish their books ONLINE and we can just DOWNLOAD all the books. Everything that involves typing something will be written overseas by brown guys with masters degrees for $1.20/hour! We'll all be screwed!
I'd might as well just drop out of university right now and find a good corner on the street to panhandle from the rest of my life. I've got my eye on the corner by the local Mac's.
Ah the hell with it, I think I'll just roll over and die right now. It takes less effort, and I don't have to compete with anyone this way. Because I really hate trying. It's so hard.
"Before a weapon like the TIS-1 could be adopted, a number of technichal hurdles would have to be successfully negotiated, such as..."
1. Getting the guns to make that "Peww!" sound whenever they shoot.
2. Making the lasers shoot at a slow enough velocity so that you can actually watch it travel from the end of the barrel to the target in no less than 0.4 seconds. This way massive hallway gun-fights involving garbage-shoot-getaways look that much cooler.
Personally, I'm with it just as long as they make one that looks like a broomhandle mauser.
The firearms community is very traditional and relucant to adopt new gun designs, which is obvious in the fact that the 100-year-old guns are still some of the most popular.
If you can make an explosion, you can make a gun. Inmates in prisons have made guns with rolled-up magazines and match heads. It's impossible to control guns. The sooner gun control and fear stop being used to motivate silly projects like this, the sooner we can move on to better things, like getting the robots to do the shooting for us! They can use the 1911s, we have plenty.
I've used this material myself. It takes temps as hot as 2300F, becomes a more or less solid block once it set, can be built a vertical foot at a session. Amazing amazing stuff.
Hey, we could use the cob in our underground tunnels!
"We'll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast, go there for our holidays! Nothing can stop men like us! I've made a start already. Come on down here and have a look.
In the cellar there was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long. It had taken him a week to dig. I could have dug that much in a day..." -Brave New World
Hell, in theory I could run nighttime bombing ops from a F-117 and probably make it back to the base in one piece if the simulators are even half-accurate.
Maybe if we didn't spend so much time+money blowing each other up, we'd probably have that clean Jetson's-like utopia by now. Although pretending to blow each other up with computer games is an achievement in itself.
The very thought of 1100 nerds in one room at once frightens The Ladies Man. As I live in Edmonton, I'll be sure to stay clear of the Mayfield during this horrifying event. Comp sci lectures are bad enough, y'know?
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Whatever is scary enough to convince us to give up privacy, that's the threat of the day. Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
Hey, in India that's like $20,000. Why don't they just outsource it?
I'm not kidding. When I work at home, I use a laydown desk (basically a cot/lawn chair with some strategically placed pillows), and my monitor is placed on the edge of a small table, and I drink a lot of liquids (mostly water), so I'm constantly forced to get up and reposition. It's not the most efficient way to work, but it seems to have the least impact on my body. My keyboard is in my lap, and I use a bamboo tablet on a stack of books. I wouldn't be able to do this at an office, but if I was asked to work extra hours I would be working those hours at home anyway.
All that being said, hacks like this aren't really solutions. We all need to exercise and minimize our computer use, there's just no real way around that. I think this is all just damage control.
"Or we would be, if it weren't for mobile pushing us back to client-side development.'"
Slashdot submission right before this one:
"Facebook iOS App Ditching HTML5 For ObjectiveC"
So it's neither long nor a death for fat clients after all?
Very good, Louis. Short, but pointless.
Am I that old? Since when could someone be a "sports nerd"? That's like saying you're an "MMA nerd" because you know the best way to kick someone in the face while they're trying to tackle you.
...and this same god Apple who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Jobs, the anointed one. Thus as Jobs spake of the iPhone 5, we shall be blessed by it's reception.
If this is what is keeping him from producing more of that crap, then I'm all for it.
Although he clearly means he just needs cheaper animators in to throw annoying effects on the screen. If he just made the shows the way he made A New Hope, he wouldn't have this problem (or in our case, solution).
Another reason that may not be a good idea is is some potential employers have marketing departments.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-11-13/
Those emails are already compromised by spammers, since I use them to communicate with family members, and they all distribute my address in those idiotic email forwards. They also get their laptops pwned once a month for good measure.
It's not mercury that he turns into, it's a mimetic polyalloy, and I still pee myself whenever I see that. Didn't you know that's what it was??! It's liquid metal, liquid magic!
How about:
"Do you like our owl?"
"It's artificial?"
"Of course it is."
"...Must be expensive."
"Very."
This is an outrage! How DARE they try and sell me things! This is almost as infuriating as Vons/Safeway and their "club card", tracking my purchases to try and "Better serve me". Horsefeathers! The fact that the products I want are in stock at any given point is PROOF that they've been using my spending habits to PREDICT MY NEEDS, which goes against everything I believe in.
When I say I want a free social networking site, it's not good enough that I not be billed directly for using it. The company hosting it must be desperately trying to sustain the bandwidth and CPU time for my constant page refreshes. At no point should they be even breaking even, let alone PROFITING from their service. Information wants to be free! Down with Big Brother! Doublethink! Free as in beer! ...What else... Oh! And my cell phone bill is too high!
That or they could just fake this one too!
Which is good news for me, because that's where I've hidden my stolen trillion dollar bill.
"We still believe Burns has the bill in his house somewhere, but all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof!"
--Agent Johnson, "The Trouble With Trillions"
That or sick Steve Ballmer on them.
"Ballmer SMASH!"
That works for me. I can survive without social interaction, which I see as an advantage. There's too much work to be done to be spending time dilly-dallying around in social gatherings.
If this is what you guys consider entertaining, I can only wonder what you'd do if construction workers started learning hieroglyphics.
"Oh well, I guess now I'll have more time to spend reading things I find lying on the ground. Lay-Tex Con-Dome. Boy I'd like to live in one of those!" -Abraham J. Simpson
They should hire the Bum Hunter to do the dirty work of tagging all them lil' devils. He's got a knack for it, that's for sure.
Well we have the internet's best minds working on solving this "Fizzer" problem, don't worry!
:) ;) ;) ;P
"Interesting, and mostly productive results have occurred so far from such a meeting of the IRC minds."
IRC Log:
Session Start: Wed May 14 02:20:29 2003
Session Ident: #fizzer
[02:20] * Now talking in #fizzer
[02:20] * Topic is 'RULES: No TRADING|RATIOS|TRIGGERS|FSERVES|GAMES|ONJOINS, Speak english|DONT msg ops|Use plain txt|Say 'hi' & be polite'
[02:20] * Set by BabyJesus on Fri Apr 28 04:50:28
[02:22] * dobxid32 has joined #fizzer
[02:22] * dobje32 has quit IRC (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer))
[02:22] * dobxid32 is now known as dobje32
[02:22] * |DTM| has joined #fizzer
[02:23] <|SKYNET|> [SKYNETS LAIR] 211.29.46.40 port:2254 download: <ur nick>/cumgetsum (2 users) look: look/look. -=PASV Mode OFF=- retry: 60+ sec or ban
[02:23] * BabyJesus sets mode: +v |DTM|
[02:23] <SB_Stuff> Serpent's FTP: ftp.spstuff.net port: 1234 Username: [(your name)] Password: DL:[3dwarez] View:[view] Upload:[upload] Looking for: Pr0n, pr0n, pr0n! Upload any pr0n you have, please. Enjoy
[02:23] * digi-tal has joined #fizzer
[02:24] * BabyJesus sets mode: +v digi-tal
[02:25] * O_R_K has joined #fizzer
[02:25] * Zooey has joined #fizzer
[02:26] * GeBs has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 186 seconds)
[02:48] <[SiD]> hi all
[02:49] <nota|WORk> whaddup
[02:53] <nota|WORk> nice url isp
[02:53] <[IsP]> hehe
[02:53] <[IsP]> my g/f sent it to me
[02:54] <[IsP]> hey u stold skynet about his status thing?
[02:54] <nota|WORk> well, that sounds like you'll have a nice meal soon
[02:54] <nota|WORk> yeah
[02:54] <[IsP]> lol
[02:54] <nota|WORk> other chan
[02:55] <DEBOTRON> damn fizzer
[03:00] <nota|WORk> [SiD], that's a very very old app
[03:00] <nota|WORk> ancient basiaclly
[03:04] * PaulD has joined #fizzer
[03:05] * Braqua has quit IRC
[03:14] <S-Clas2> why does the fuc.. DF doesnt support XP
[03:16] <DEBOTRON> we should fix this fizzer thing now
[03:17] <|SKYNET|> mmmmmm
Session Close: Mon Mar 31 03:19:58 2003
You laugh now, but just wait. 10 years from now, all the author jobs will be taken by overseas authors who have degrees in literature, and there will be NOTHING LEFT for the poor american authors! Just you wait and see.. The jobs will be lost because THEIR GUYS can publish their books ONLINE and we can just DOWNLOAD all the books. Everything that involves typing something will be written overseas by brown guys with masters degrees for $1.20/hour! We'll all be screwed!
I'd might as well just drop out of university right now and find a good corner on the street to panhandle from the rest of my life. I've got my eye on the corner by the local Mac's.
Ah the hell with it, I think I'll just roll over and die right now. It takes less effort, and I don't have to compete with anyone this way. Because I really hate trying. It's so hard.
"Before a weapon like the TIS-1 could be adopted, a number of technichal hurdles would have to be successfully negotiated, such as..."
1. Getting the guns to make that "Peww!" sound whenever they shoot.
2. Making the lasers shoot at a slow enough velocity so that you can actually watch it travel from the end of the barrel to the target in no less than 0.4 seconds. This way massive hallway gun-fights involving garbage-shoot-getaways look that much cooler.
Personally, I'm with it just as long as they make one that looks like a broomhandle mauser.
The firearms community is very traditional and relucant to adopt new gun designs, which is obvious in the fact that the 100-year-old guns are still some of the most popular.
If you can make an explosion, you can make a gun. Inmates in prisons have made guns with rolled-up magazines and match heads. It's impossible to control guns. The sooner gun control and fear stop being used to motivate silly projects like this, the sooner we can move on to better things, like getting the robots to do the shooting for us! They can use the 1911s, we have plenty.
www.geekswithguns.com
I've used this material myself. It takes temps as hot as 2300F, becomes a more or less solid block once it set, can be built a vertical foot at a session. Amazing amazing stuff.
Hey, we could use the cob in our underground tunnels!
"We'll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast, go there for our holidays! Nothing can stop men like us! I've made a start already. Come on down here and have a look.
In the cellar there was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long. It had taken him a week to dig. I could have dug that much in a day..."
-Brave New World
Hell, in theory I could run nighttime bombing ops from a F-117 and probably make it back to the base in one piece if the simulators are even half-accurate.
Maybe if we didn't spend so much time+money blowing each other up, we'd probably have that clean Jetson's-like utopia by now. Although pretending to blow each other up with computer games is an achievement in itself.
The very thought of 1100 nerds in one room at once frightens The Ladies Man. As I live in Edmonton, I'll be sure to stay clear of the Mayfield during this horrifying event. Comp sci lectures are bad enough, y'know?