This is HYSTERICAL. A school with "engineers" and millions for so called amature sports, and no one can cob job their own desks back together? glue, screws, a clamp? the tech leaders of tomorrow who will take us to mars and give us mr. fusion reactors? HAHAHAHA! A simple door off a hinge repair, and NO ONE does it in a year?
Umm, I don't think that was Parent's point. His point was, things in his school that are used every day were shitty and in disrepair, yet they have tons of money for a f-king sports stadium, and that was the problem. Not that he didn't know how to work a saw and wrench.
Sheesh, everyone's jumping all over this guy's because they think he can't engineer and doesn't have practical experience yadda yadda. They're missing the point, that higher education in this country SUCKS ASS unless you are going to an Ivy or almost-Ivy and paying out the ass. It's true, you get out of college what you put into it and engineering is tough, but does it really need to be like attacking the beaches at Normandy? Is it too much to ask that a TA knows how to speak English and have even a slight clue about how to deliver a lecture? Come on now!
actually profiling doesn't work so well, once the criminals and terrorists figure out the profile they can manipulate their travels to be off the profile and thus have alower chance of being searched than if checks were systematic/random
Mod parent up!! When the terrorists figure this out and appear as little old ladies, we are doomed! DOOMED, I TELL YA! Search them old ladies and 3-year-olds, THEY'RE TERRORISTS!!! Especially the toddlers, they're the craftiest ones, them!
"Dear Slashdot, I just won the lottery, what should I do with the lucre?"
"Dear Slashdot, I never believed these stories were real until it happened to me..."
"Dear Slashdot, my SO just broke up with me, what should I do? And can I keep her kickin' computer?"
"Dear Slashdot, I'm a 23 year old male with a double major in CompSci and Etruscian Literature, what kind of jobs have you heard of that would be challenging and use both majors?"
And the best for last, "Dear Slashdot, how do you spell 'liturgy', and should it be capitalized?"
Come on, they'd be better than the crappy "Ask Slashdot"s tonite (If this looks familiar, I crossposed it to the other crappy ask question tonite.)
"Dear Slashdot, I just won the lottery, what should I do with the lucre?"
"Dear Slashdot, I never believed these stories were real until it happened to me..."
"Dear Slashdot, my SO just broke up with me, what should I do? And can I keep her kickin' computer?"
"Dear Slashdot, I'm a 23 year old male with a double major in CompSci and Etruscian Literature, what kind of jobs have you heard of that would be challenging and use both majors?"
And the best for last, "Dear Slashdot, how do you spell 'liturgy', and should it be capitalized?"
Come on, they'd be better than the crappy "Ask Slashdot"s tonite!
Has anyone received a useful call on a landline in the past few years, one where the caller would not have called your mobile if they hadn't got through?.... If they'll only call my landline, the call can't be important.
I hate to burst your bubble, but just because something works for you doesn't mean that everyone else does it that way too. See also "egocentric".
Seriously. Throw them out. Especially if more than 5 years old. What are the chances that you are going to need to refer to them? Compare the time and effort to what you could be doing instead.
If you really need to keep them, throw them in boxes and put them in document storage somewhere. Then, on the off chance you might need them for patent disputes, etc., you can hire someone for $8/hr to go thru them.
OK, did they have 40 CD-ROM drives installed on the system? Because I'm sure that most of these games use SafeDisk which requires the CD as a key. Oh, they wouldn't rip them to HD and then use a cd clone program, would they?:-)
When you have games that are this huge with high production quality, there is no way shorter games can compete for the hard-core gamer's dollar. Once I started playing GTA:III, I have basically played nothing else but GTA series since. I have Halo, UT, and other games that I used to love playing just gathering dust on my shelf, and because of that I don't buy other games because they likewise won't be played either.
Part of the reason I spend so long playing is that I game only 5-10 hrs/wk (compared to 5-10 hrs per day for a MMORPG). But, the other part is that the GTA series is so rich and deep. It's no MMORPG, but the game world is huge for the genre (which is it, an FPS? RPG? Driving game?:-] ). It's fun to jack a car and drive around the city for a while, because you'll always find something new even after playing GTA Vice City for a year. And the game world in the new GTA San Andreas is many times bigger, with lots more stuff, adventures, mini-games, Hot Coffee (!), etc. thrown in.
You want/. to adapt to IE's... standards?.... IE should be effectively killed.
Y'know, that's a great idea, why target what is most prevalent on the Internet when one can target for some superior solution which NOBODY has completely implemented.
I guess next articles for you are:
The OSI standard and you
Why I love Betamax
"Pragmatic," the new four-letter word
"The most elegant solution": how I've spent hours thinking rather than doing.
From TFA, libraries pay a fee ($5k) and get a set number of downloads, which if exceeded require more payment.
This is the crux of the DRM problem: YOU DO NOT OWN ANYTHING!!! These libraries will be paying $5k in perpetuity if they want to continue to provide these books.
It's like Napster2, if you decide to stop paying, you lose all of your music. If they raise their fees, you pay. If they change license terms, you pay. If they go out of business, you pay (someone else).
Sounds like someone's going to be getting a raise, because this is pure genius on the part of NetLibrary and OverDrive.
Couldn't someone just use an audio program (cubase, cakewalk etc) to make a loopback recording, effectively making a non-DRM copy? This technology seems effective in expiration dates, but ineffective against piracy. Still.
Definitely possible, but think about the time required to rip, say, a 20-cd Clancy or King novel. Even though one doesn't need to sit by the computer the whole time, you're still talking A FULL DAY to rip the audio. And you lose niceities like tracks in the process.
Ahh, I love the smell of ad-hominem attacks in the morning, it smells like...victory. By the way, thanks for the laugh, I needed it this monday morning.
Yeah, true, but the rich are already supporting the modern welfare state by paying a shitload more taxes in absolute dollars and receiving virtually no services in return.
You missed off law enforcement - the thing that keeps the rich rich, by preventing the vastly more numerous poor from taking all their wealth.
Ah, I guess you got me there! F__k using taxes as a means of distributing wealth, just take it forcibly! Anarchy is such a simple, yet elegant, solution to the world's problems. Sheesh, next you're going to blame The Man for keeping the poor down.
You have a great theory, and it seems very well thought out.
But, have you ever heard of "Occam's Razor"? Briefly, it states that the simplest solution is oftentimes the correct one. And the simplest one in this case is that today's movies suck ass. As proof I offer "Bewitched" (even though it has the glorious Nicole Kidman), "Stealth", "Dukes", "Herbie", "Fantastic Four", etc.
You know, you might have made some very good point in there, but it was lost in the noise of your liberal bullshit.
Here's a hint for you: enlightened debates don't include the words "USians", "willy-nilly", "jihad", and ad-hominem attacks on sitting presidents. Really, you were doing well until your 80's pop singer metaphor, then it was, as they say, all downhill from there.
I think the thing Gore did poorly was explain that proportionally to disposable income and tax burden the richest people in the population would be paying significantly less in taxes than the poorest people.
Yeah, true, but the rich are already supporting the modern welfare state by paying a shitload more taxes in absolute dollars and receiving virtually no services in return. (Yeah, yeah, national defense, transportation, yadda yadda, but welfare and medicaid are far more costly.)
Gore-bot's argument was to soak the rich. Great for the nightly news soundbites and firing up the Left with the veiled threats of class warfare, but it is hardly a winning strategy. How about the people in the lower tax bracket(s) who pay little if any into the system but receive so many benefits? If you're going to look at statistics, lets look at all of them.
Offtopic, but I'm on a roll: some would argue that the thing Gore (and Kerry, natch) did poorly was to try to be everything to everybody; see also "Waffle House". And, for the DNC for 2 national elections relying on animatronic candidates rather than real people. Hell, at least scream-boy and Alfred E Neuman have personalities!
Also, no politician points out what's losing funding. I complain all the time about the poor quality of the roads in Houston. If politician A came in and said he'd lower my taxes and politician B points out that it would be at the expense of repairing roads. I'd vote for B.
I agree with you 1000% on this one. Problem is, the sheeple will never ever vote for someone who promises to raise their taxes.
Having dealt with outsourced projects, I can tell you from experience that IT MOST DEFINITELY IS an issue
Agreed, BTDT. Unless you have the most trivial of problems, it is very bad to have to wait a day for a fix to a problem, especially when there's a deadline looming or UAT is in progress. It's a hassle even between East Coast US and UK where there's only a 5-hr time difference.
In Soviet Russia, Michael J Fox watches YOU!!
I, for one, welcome our new DeLorean-driving, time-travelling, Rube Goldberg ice maker-building overlords!
Yeah, I can really sympathize with those Real guys. I feel bad for them they're such good sports, and likeable too! Weren't they the original "do no evil" people? ]:-)
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Sheesh, everyone's jumping all over this guy's because they think he can't engineer and doesn't have practical experience yadda yadda. They're missing the point, that higher education in this country SUCKS ASS unless you are going to an Ivy or almost-Ivy and paying out the ass. It's true, you get out of college what you put into it and engineering is tough, but does it really need to be like attacking the beaches at Normandy? Is it too much to ask that a TA knows how to speak English and have even a slight clue about how to deliver a lecture? Come on now!
Mod parent up!! When the terrorists figure this out and appear as little old ladies, we are doomed! DOOMED, I TELL YA! Search them old ladies and 3-year-olds, THEY'RE TERRORISTS!!! Especially the toddlers, they're the craftiest ones, them!
Come on, they'd be better than the crappy "Ask Slashdot"s tonite (If this looks familiar, I crossposed it to the other crappy ask question tonite.)
Come on, they'd be better than the crappy "Ask Slashdot"s tonite!
I hate to burst your bubble, but just because something works for you doesn't mean that everyone else does it that way too. See also "egocentric".
If you really need to keep them, throw them in boxes and put them in document storage somewhere. Then, on the off chance you might need them for patent disputes, etc., you can hire someone for $8/hr to go thru them.
OK, did they have 40 CD-ROM drives installed on the system? Because I'm sure that most of these games use SafeDisk which requires the CD as a key. Oh, they wouldn't rip them to HD and then use a cd clone program, would they? :-)
Part of the reason I spend so long playing is that I game only 5-10 hrs/wk (compared to 5-10 hrs per day for a MMORPG). But, the other part is that the GTA series is so rich and deep. It's no MMORPG, but the game world is huge for the genre (which is it, an FPS? RPG? Driving game? :-] ). It's fun to jack a car and drive around the city for a while, because you'll always find something new even after playing GTA Vice City for a year. And the game world in the new GTA San Andreas is many times bigger, with lots more stuff, adventures, mini-games, Hot Coffee (!), etc. thrown in.
Y'know, that's a great idea, why target what is most prevalent on the Internet when one can target for some superior solution which NOBODY has completely implemented.
I guess next articles for you are:
How the hell has this been marked "Informative"? Oh yeah, because there isn't a mod for "F-king Advertisement".
This is the crux of the DRM problem: YOU DO NOT OWN ANYTHING!!! These libraries will be paying $5k in perpetuity if they want to continue to provide these books.
It's like Napster2, if you decide to stop paying, you lose all of your music. If they raise their fees, you pay. If they change license terms, you pay. If they go out of business, you pay (someone else).
Sounds like someone's going to be getting a raise, because this is pure genius on the part of NetLibrary and OverDrive.
Ok Mulder, the truth is out there...somewhere.
But, have you ever heard of "Occam's Razor"? Briefly, it states that the simplest solution is oftentimes the correct one. And the simplest one in this case is that today's movies suck ass. As proof I offer "Bewitched" (even though it has the glorious Nicole Kidman), "Stealth", "Dukes", "Herbie", "Fantastic Four", etc.
"More movies! Less suckage!"
Here's a hint for you: enlightened debates don't include the words "USians", "willy-nilly", "jihad", and ad-hominem attacks on sitting presidents. Really, you were doing well until your 80's pop singer metaphor, then it was, as they say, all downhill from there.
Gore-bot's argument was to soak the rich. Great for the nightly news soundbites and firing up the Left with the veiled threats of class warfare, but it is hardly a winning strategy. How about the people in the lower tax bracket(s) who pay little if any into the system but receive so many benefits? If you're going to look at statistics, lets look at all of them.
Offtopic, but I'm on a roll: some would argue that the thing Gore (and Kerry, natch) did poorly was to try to be everything to everybody; see also "Waffle House". And, for the DNC for 2 national elections relying on animatronic candidates rather than real people. Hell, at least scream-boy and Alfred E Neuman have personalities!
I agree with you 1000% on this one. Problem is, the sheeple will never ever vote for someone who promises to raise their taxes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor
And don't forget, "it's The Hacker to you!"
Just to piss off the mods,
Yeah, I can really sympathize with those Real guys. I feel bad for them they're such good sports, and likeable too! Weren't they the original "do no evil" people? ]:-)