Just felt like a rant @ 4am:-) Ignore me. Language evolves I guess and meanings change.
I guess we could say that irony is a method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense.
Or as the Oxford English says "A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as though in mockery of the promise and fitness of things."
An example of situational irony would be a man lost in a hot desert and near death from thirst, he crawled aimlessly in search of water. He could hardly believe his good fortune when he came across an oasis. He crawled forward onto its bank, leaned down and was just about to drink his fill when the bank collapsed under him. He fell in the water and drowned.
As Ralph Wiggam said "Me fail English? that's unpossible".
How is that Ironic? I blame Alanis for this total misuse of the word... That's just a coincidence.
While I'm at it, will the people that insist on using the word "literally" to mean metaphorically give it a rest: "That was so funny I literally shit myself" or "That last tackle literally ripped his head off".
Everybody in the Cisco gig knows that the PIXs are nothing more than basic PCs, complete with floppy drive for software upgrades, this really is no revelation.
This guy just comes across as some network wanna be. Learning the commands is the simple bit, RTFM, (or just reverse normal IOS commands for a PIX) know when to use these commands and exactly what they do and how this will affect the enterprise is the bit that makes you CCIE material.
No doubt Cisco will get there own back when he does the CCIE lab.
OK, I doubt any/.ers would fall for these but they are worth knowing about as they are getting very popular right now. The way they work is simple but very elegant and even has a Dr. of Physics is well & truly sucked in to one of them.
It's basically a "new age" take on the old evangelists' preacher routine, "send me money and you will be saved".
If anyone wants to make a bit of money here's the magic formula: Setup a web site that reveals the "end of the world" such as PlanetX, Earth Changes, Comet collisions, alien invasion or all of the above. Link this in with bits of information from "psychics" like Edgar Cacye, Nostrodamus, and even the bible structured it in a way to provide proof of what you say (if you look hard enough you can find apparent evidence for anything). It is also advisable to have your own private channeled aliens as well. The idea is to make people as paranoid as possible.
Then sell a "savior kit" including detailed information gained from your aliens, maybe a map, of where is safe during the Earth Changes, how to signal UFOs to be rescued or other variations.
If using the channeled alien approach, your little ETs must state that every other bit of info around is from negative entities that wish to mislead. Also have your ETs state that anyone who tries to warn your suckers is being controlled by dark forces / is possessed / not in their soul plan to survive / has no soul.
Furthermore, state something like "If you have found this web site, you must have been spiritually guided to it, it must be your destiny to survive the earth changes", that's a killer and works almost every time as all people want to believe they are special. Never ever claim to sell anything; your web site must appear as an information source not a sales pitch for your hacked up book, introduce the book / tapes later on when you know people are hooked.
If people send you emails that disagree with your web site, always snidely reply something like "Ask for a refund at the door", if they really show you for what you are, use your channeled ETs to attack them. While waiting to spring the book / tapes / savior kit on people do drop in the fact that the web site costs money to maintain etc and ask for no pressure donations. Same ploy with the book, state that you needed to get it independently published and hence that is why it is expensive.
The only tricky side of this is of course you have to claim to care about people and that is why you are bringing this information out in public but the flip side is, you have to charge money for the actual information that you claim will help people. Not very spiritual, in fact totally materialistic and shows your motive is to make money from the gullible but the way to avoid this is to make people as paranoid as possible then they will not notice. If a few people do in fact notice that you have a big web site that you already pay for and you could publish the information for free without additional cost & killing a load of trees for the book, state that you have to make a living somehow in this horrible materialistic world, that you don't like it but you have to eat and Porches are expensive to run. This usually works even though you also claim their are massive spiritual rewards for helping people, use the "spiritual rewards" ploy to get others to forward your emails around to attract new customers.
This scam sounds very bizarre to anyone that hasn't come across it but its in full swing right now as there is certainly a lot of money to be made from the gullible new age crowd, I have met a lot of people that believe in this stuff and they have spent a fortune on it. Certainly a great money spinner for out of work techies, you need to learn the lingo and beliefs of the new age gang but that is entertainment in its self.
RIAA certainly lost my business indirectly due to file sharing, you see when an industry treats me like a criminal I very quickly stop being a customer.
The only thing I regret is buying all the CDs I did before I saw the RIAA's true colours.
Which is akin to the makers of a hammer claiming they own the house you built with it. Don't you think that sounds a bit too ridiculous? So, its about 2 years off I guess.
Not again. Every few years when a new console is released someone makes exactly the same statement, I'm not saying you are wrong it might well happen this time (especially with MS involved) but its been predicted on a regular basis for almost 10 years.... The PC is dead long live the PC.
I have purchased Snapstream and I would really urge anyone that is even thinking about it to read snapstream's own discusion forum first. This is one software purchase I really regret, the trial version kinda works but it is of course fairly limited, its only when you really start using the software seriously that the flaws show up. Crashes are fairly common, tunning is a major issue if you are outside the US and the *only* recording format that is supported is Windows media. The quality of the recordings isn't exactly great either (when the software actually does record that it).
What does surprise me is nobody has really stated that they are running Linux to do PVCR functions. What software is around on the Linux front?
Would you trust a tech writter that made statements like this: "The new Doom likely will require a no less powerful chip than the soon-to-be-released Nvidia GeForce3. Soon to be replaced more like.
I actually thought Adrian Carmack was Johns brother as I remember reading it somewhere, one of the articles was obviously wrong. I'm sure someone will give an autoritive answer on that one.
Streambox had a nasty phone home, spyware thing built in. At the link below you can download
streambox, the cracks to remove the "phone home" problem and also an intercept tool.
OK, reading all these comments is annoying me. Some of you guys are fucking stupid, I gave the average/.'er a little too much credit I feel.
The Washington Post article that is linked from the story is missing a small little fact; the cards will include biometric information about the holder. Have a look here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/business/20020131 -3 2817256.htm
I feel sorry for you guys, this is a back door way to get national ID cards in place if ever I saw one. Some of you people even quote Thomas Jefferson "those Who Desire To Give Up Freedom In Order To Gain Security, Will Not Have, Nor Do They Deserve, Either One." however most comments lean in favour of this. Those comments that don't, congratulations.
Learn from the Israeli prick that posted in this crap in this story "Yes we have national IDs and soldiers and security guards everywhere, but we have freedom of speech (at least to some extent).". This misguided fool thinks he has freedom (despite the soldiers etc) because he can rent zone 1 DVDs, well lets put this in context: Forced military service for 2 years (killing 10 year olds) but if you can rent zone 1 DVDs you must be free, brainwashed scum.
You Americans are going down a very very slippery slope quickly and I'm actually very affraid of where this will lead the world. Think for yourselves, geeks are meant to think and not just follow what you are told. Does what the media are telling you make sense?
The facts involved in 911 are a long way from known, the majority here seem to have accepted the official story of events, think for your selfs. All you lot know about 911 is from the American mass media, you have been given hardly any facts at all and yet you "know" it was 19 or 20 Arabs. Somethings don't make any sense:
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/mediafile. ra m
*sigh*. Actually what's the point, this is a waste of time, no doubt this will get a lot of patriotic nonsense replies. You go and get those oil fields^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H evil arabs.
Spot on I don't have MS's history, I'm a fairly honest guy and would never dream of robbing a bank however, the average guy doesn't really know how bad Microsoft is. Microsoft create jobs and if you watch Bush's state of the union address I'm sure that's what he'll mention after the "war" (read, need for oil) on terrorism (read oil rich countries).
Realistically, people actually don't care that much about M$, we do in our corner of the world and as we have to deal in IT circles everyday we see the unfair, anti-competitive ways. Most people unfortunately don't give two shits including attorney generals unless there is a real crime to investigate*. Given the questions that need to be asked about 9/11 and just haven't been by the general population or the media, I'm sure Microsoft planning a backdoor take over bid for all online transactions won't even raise an eye.
Sometimes I really wonder when America will wake up; given the obvious lies and deceit spun by the press and the government that most people educated to a normal level could see through, I'm sure it will be any day now but alas I've thought that for the last 5 years.
*The proof of a crime does not even mean that an investigation will take place, depends of serval factors including campain funds / can it be put down to a suicide or swimming accident.
This is an old trick, let the other side name the film, start getting press attention, let them print the posters etc then slap an restraining order on them. Next go for an out of court settlement to the tune of (pinky to mouth) one million dollars. This has been timed perfectly so that it did not lead to questions like "why wait this long" but still so that the studio had commitments to the name "Goldmember".
To me, you average geek, most of the letter refers to what Microsoft could possibly do in the future. I could possibly go out and rob a bank in the next week but does this mean the police should arrest me? Actually, isn't that what the homeland (fatherland) security acts is all about, I digress.
I'm on EPIC's side and I agree with most of the point of the *potential* problems with Passport but if M$ haven't done anything wrong yet ot EPIC offers no proof except the potential for harm then this isn't going to get much notice.
The uninformed, unthinking AC. I agree, they are POWs unfortunatly your president doesn't want them treated as such as that would afford them the rights of the Geneva Convention. Have a look at what the red cross has to say here:
Yeap, your spot on but here in Holland (and maybe the rest of Europe), retailers are legally not allowed to sell region 1 disks. A company called fame music got caught and was fined here in Amsterdam. Crazy really, whores and drugs are easy to buy but a region 1 encoded DVD, no way. Doesn't this highlight how much the media industry control things.
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Just felt like a rant @ 4am :-) Ignore me. Language evolves I guess and meanings change.
I guess we could say that irony is a method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense.
Or as the Oxford English says "A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as though in
mockery of the promise and fitness of things."
An example of situational irony would be a man lost in a hot desert and near death from thirst, he crawled aimlessly in search of water. He could hardly believe his good fortune when he came across an oasis. He crawled forward onto its bank, leaned down and was just about to drink his fill when the bank collapsed under him. He fell in the water and drowned.
As Ralph Wiggam said "Me fail English? that's unpossible".
How is that Ironic? I blame Alanis for this total misuse of the word... That's just a coincidence.
While I'm at it, will the people that insist on using the word "literally" to mean metaphorically give it a rest: "That was so funny I literally shit myself" or "That last tackle literally ripped his head off".
Everybody in the Cisco gig knows that the PIXs are nothing more than basic PCs, complete with floppy drive for software upgrades, this really is no revelation.
This guy just comes across as some network wanna be. Learning the commands is the simple bit, RTFM, (or just reverse normal IOS commands for a PIX) know when to use these commands and exactly what they do and how this will affect the enterprise is the bit that makes you CCIE material.
No doubt Cisco will get there own back when he does the CCIE lab.
OK, I doubt any /.ers would fall for these but they are worth knowing about as they are getting very popular right now. The way they work is simple but very elegant and even has a Dr. of Physics is well & truly sucked in to one of them.
It's basically a "new age" take on the old evangelists' preacher routine, "send me money and you will be saved".
If anyone wants to make a bit of money here's the magic formula: Setup a web site that reveals the "end of the world" such as PlanetX, Earth Changes, Comet collisions, alien invasion or all of the above. Link this in with bits of information from "psychics" like Edgar Cacye, Nostrodamus, and even the bible structured it in a way to provide proof of what you say (if you look hard enough you can find apparent evidence for anything). It is also advisable to have your own private channeled aliens as well. The idea is to make people as paranoid as possible.
Then sell a "savior kit" including detailed information gained from your aliens, maybe a map, of where is safe during the Earth Changes, how to signal UFOs to be rescued or other variations.
If using the channeled alien approach, your little ETs must state that every other bit of info around is from negative entities that wish to mislead. Also have your ETs state that anyone who tries to warn your suckers is being controlled by dark forces / is possessed / not in their soul plan to survive / has no soul.
Furthermore, state something like "If you have found this web site, you must have been spiritually guided to it, it must be your destiny to survive the earth changes", that's a killer and works almost every time as all people want to believe they are special. Never ever claim to sell anything; your web site must appear as an information source not a sales pitch for your hacked up book, introduce the book / tapes later on when you know people are hooked.
If people send you emails that disagree with your web site, always snidely reply something like "Ask for a refund at the door", if they really show you for what you are, use your channeled ETs to attack them. While waiting to spring the book / tapes / savior kit on people do drop in the fact that the web site costs money to maintain etc and ask for no pressure donations. Same ploy with the book, state that you needed to get it independently published and hence that is why it is expensive.
The only tricky side of this is of course you have to claim to care about people and that is why you are bringing this information out in public but the flip side is, you have to charge money for the actual information that you claim will help people. Not very spiritual, in fact totally materialistic and shows your motive is to make money from the gullible but the way to avoid this is to make people as paranoid as possible then they will not notice. If a few people do in fact notice that you have a big web site that you already pay for and you could publish the information for free without additional cost & killing a load of trees for the book, state that you have to make a living somehow in this horrible materialistic world, that you don't like it but you have to eat and Porches are expensive to run. This usually works even though you also claim their are massive spiritual rewards for helping people, use the "spiritual rewards" ploy to get others to forward your emails around to attract new customers.
This scam sounds very bizarre to anyone that hasn't come across it but its in full swing right now as there is certainly a lot of money to be made from the gullible new age crowd, I have met a lot of people that believe in this stuff and they have spent a fortune on it. Certainly a great money spinner for out of work techies, you need to learn the lingo and beliefs of the new age gang but that is entertainment in its self.
RIAA certainly lost my business indirectly due to file sharing, you see when an industry treats me like a criminal I very quickly stop being a customer.
The only thing I regret is buying all the CDs I did before I saw the RIAA's true colours.
Don't feed the trolls! Not even a good one, sigh.
Which is akin to the makers of a hammer claiming they own the house you built with it. Don't you think that sounds a bit too ridiculous? So, its about 2 years off I guess.
Not again. Every few years when a new console is released someone makes exactly the same statement, I'm not saying you are wrong it might well happen this time (especially with MS involved) but its been predicted on a regular basis for almost 10 years.... The PC is dead long live the PC.
I have purchased Snapstream and I would really urge anyone that is even thinking about it to read snapstream's own discusion forum first. This is one software purchase I really regret, the trial version kinda works but it is of course fairly limited, its only when you really start using the software seriously that the flaws show up. Crashes are fairly common, tunning is a major issue if you are outside the US and the *only* recording format that is supported is Windows media. The quality of the recordings isn't exactly great either (when the software actually does record that it).
What does surprise me is nobody has really stated that they are running Linux to do PVCR functions. What software is around on the Linux front?
I actually thought Adrian Carmack was Johns brother as I remember reading it somewhere, one of the articles was obviously wrong. I'm sure someone will give an autoritive answer on that one.
Some how I managed to put a space in the URL, god knows how... DOH. Link does work though (if you take the space out).
Streambox had a nasty phone home, spyware thing built in. At the link below you can download
e /a udio_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm
streambox, the cracks to remove the "phone home" problem and also an intercept tool.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_softwar
I haven't tested the download, so naturally use it at your own risk.
Buy one now before Bush bombs the factory.
/.'ed the site.
Its a joke OK? More than likely the factory is in South Korea however, I can't check as you bastards have
Actually though, if the US Airforce can bomb the Red Cross food center in Kabul by mistake (twice), hitting the wrong country could very well happen.
But as a purely geek toy, I like it. For Joe sixpack, no chance.
The government is taking advantage of this to push through legislation that in a pre 9-11 world would have been laughed at scornfully.
Point one. When investigating a crime, the mostly likely suspect is the one with the most to gain from the crime.
People need to realize that rather than do this, maybe we should have more intensive screening for foreigners coming INTO THE COUNTRY.
Point two. Dead right, common sense isn't it. Unless of course you were more intested in keeping control over your own population.
The Washington Post article that is linked from the story is missing a small little fact; the cards will include biometric information about the holder. Have a look here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/business/2002013
I feel sorry for you guys, this is a back door way to get national ID cards in place if ever I saw one. Some of you people even quote Thomas Jefferson "those Who Desire To Give Up Freedom In Order To Gain Security, Will Not Have, Nor Do They Deserve, Either One." however most comments lean in favour of this. Those comments that don't, congratulations.
Learn from the Israeli prick that posted in this crap in this story "Yes we have national IDs and soldiers and security guards everywhere, but we have freedom of speech (at least to some extent).". This misguided fool thinks he has freedom (despite the soldiers etc) because he can rent zone 1 DVDs, well lets put this in context: Forced military service for 2 years (killing 10 year olds) but if you can rent zone 1 DVDs you must be free, brainwashed scum.
You Americans are going down a very very slippery slope quickly and I'm actually very affraid of where this will lead the world. Think for yourselves, geeks are meant to think and not just follow what you are told. Does what the media are telling you make sense?
The facts involved in 911 are a long way from known, the majority here seem to have accepted the official story of events, think for your selfs. All you lot know about 911 is from the American mass media, you have been given hardly any facts at all and yet you "know" it was 19 or 20 Arabs. Somethings don't make any sense:
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/mediafile
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/01_25_02_revise
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/inde
*sigh*. Actually what's the point, this is a waste of time, no doubt this will get a lot of patriotic nonsense replies. You go and get those oil fields^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H evil arabs.
Sorry to hear about that, isn't their anything you can do? Maybe you could get in a pest control company?
Realistically, people actually don't care that much about M$, we do in our corner of the world and as we have to deal in IT circles everyday we see the unfair, anti-competitive ways. Most people unfortunately don't give two shits including attorney generals unless there is a real crime to investigate*. Given the questions that need to be asked about 9/11 and just haven't been by the general population or the media, I'm sure Microsoft planning a backdoor take over bid for all online transactions won't even raise an eye.
Sometimes I really wonder when America will wake up; given the obvious lies and deceit spun by the press and the government that most people educated to a normal level could see through, I'm sure it will be any day now but alas I've thought that for the last 5 years.
*The proof of a crime does not even mean that an investigation will take place, depends of serval factors including campain funds / can it be put down to a suicide or swimming accident.
Sucks doesn't it but thats business.
I'm on EPIC's side and I agree with most of the point of the *potential* problems with Passport but if M$ haven't done anything wrong yet ot EPIC offers no proof except the potential for harm then this isn't going to get much notice.
Kids Passport? *shiver*.
Apprently Donald Rumsfeld wants the name of the movie changed to "Kung illegal combatants".
The uninformed, unthinking AC. I agree, they are POWs unfortunatly your president doesn't want them treated as such as that would afford them the rights of the Geneva Convention. Have a look at what the red cross has to say here:
o ry .jsp?story=115743
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/st
Yeap, your spot on but here in Holland (and maybe the rest of Europe), retailers are legally not allowed to sell region 1 disks. A company called fame music got caught and was fined here in Amsterdam. Crazy really, whores and drugs are easy to buy but a region 1 encoded DVD, no way. Doesn't this highlight how much the media industry control things.
DVD movies are infact movies.