Laws are nothing more than public oppinion. We all agree to certain rules (more or less) and generally try to get along. When public oppinion changes, so do the laws... that's how democracies work (in therory anyway). So I want to play Loadrunner and don't feel like dredging up an AppleII... I'm going to be sued for breaking some archaic copyright law? Please. Don't we have better things to worry about?
I'd say I'm one of those nature freak, get the heck away from tech when I'm not at work, types. Flying sites are always out in the middle of nowhere in the most beautiful parts of the country. Imagine the view from the top of a thousand foot mountian, overlooking a lush green valley. Now, imagine the view from three thousand feet above that mountain with a retail hawk off your wingtip (yup, some birds will let us fly with them). Soaring above the earth for hours at a time is true bliss. It's a total zen thing:)
We used to dial into a local "server" back in the days to check our newsgroups. Just a couple computers talking to each other. It was "neat" back then, and just like this, it was "something that could never grow". Then someone starts relaying email from server to server... all over a few phone connections. Yeah, I guess they were right... it'll never work. I'll go home now.
So, what happens when wireless connections get bigger and fatter (as they are heading already) and people realize that their home wireless network can talk to their neighbors wireless network? Hrm, now files can travel around without the local telco. Now we're back to skipping around the world but without Big Brother this time.
Sure, there's tons of hurdles, but if everyone sat around nay-saying everything we wouldn't even have an internet. Sheesh.
This is a giant leap for web design... it'd be great if someone patented every bad idea out there. Once the lawsuits start flying, people will stop using them.
Of couse, we'll just replace the old dumb idea with a new dumb idea.. but hey, it'll be fun to watch.
Take off the superman cape and step away from the phone booth. Once you realise the implications of "The internet is broke", the path to tech support becomes clear.
We'd like you to take a survey... 1) What do you think about our new offer we're sending to people? 2) Would our recent pricing changes convince you to switch to our company? 3) PROFIT!
Having been on the hiring end of things, I'd definately say you should put it in. How you do it is up to you.
Think about what kind of company you want to work for. If they don't see this as an asset, then you're not missing anything. The difference between canidates for us can be tipped by "other" work. It shows a true interest in your work, not just "showing up for a paycheck". You're also actively encouraged to continue after your hired... experience only makes you more valuable and productive.
It's this atmosphere that keeps me at my job... hrm, "how to retain good employees?"
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept." -JFK
Not to say that there isn't wisdom in questioning "do I really want to launch a couple hundred dollars worth of equipment into the air", but it alone shouldn't stop you.
You've just got to be kidding me. When sending up weather balloons, flying model airplanes/rockets, making robots or building home computers in your garage are cause for suspicion, then perhaps it's time to re-evaluate what a "free society" is. Hrm, maybe the Canadian winter is worth it... wait, Mexico's warm!
Now shut up and hand over that those Lego Mindstorms!
Perhaps a Google cache link would have been better..... http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache: wr-6HfL-OZEC: homepage.ntlworld.com/hjcurtis/uavs.html+miniature +uav+military&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Removing their own java isn't the same as installing Sun's. Just stalling for time... "Yeah, it'll be in the 'next one'". Couldn't fit it into this one? Run out of disk space or something? Ba.
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Halon is deadly, with a capital D.
Backup your data, drop it in a fireproof box.
I'd like the apple green Imac....
Hrm, I think the red one's faster.
Ok, Cherry Red it is then.
Laws are nothing more than public oppinion. We all agree to certain rules (more or less) and generally try to get along. When public oppinion changes, so do the laws... that's how democracies work (in therory anyway).
So I want to play Loadrunner and don't feel like dredging up an AppleII... I'm going to be sued for breaking some archaic copyright law? Please. Don't we have better things to worry about?
I'd say I'm one of those nature freak, get the heck away from tech when I'm not at work, types. Flying sites are always out in the middle of nowhere in the most beautiful parts of the country. Imagine the view from the top of a thousand foot mountian, overlooking a lush green valley. Now, imagine the view from three thousand feet above that mountain with a retail hawk off your wingtip (yup, some birds will let us fly with them). Soaring above the earth for hours at a time is true bliss. It's a total zen thing :)
We used to dial into a local "server" back in the days to check our newsgroups. Just a couple computers talking to each other. It was "neat" back then, and just like this, it was "something that could never grow". Then someone starts relaying email from server to server... all over a few phone connections. Yeah, I guess they were right... it'll never work. I'll go home now.
So, what happens when wireless connections get bigger and fatter (as they are heading already) and people realize that their home wireless network can talk to their neighbors wireless network? Hrm, now files can travel around without the local telco. Now we're back to skipping around the world but without Big Brother this time.
Sure, there's tons of hurdles, but if everyone sat around nay-saying everything we wouldn't even have an internet. Sheesh.
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Minor correction...
> one of the evil communists
You're posing as CNN, it's the evil _terrorists_ now.
This is a giant leap for web design... it'd be great if someone patented every bad idea out there. Once the lawsuits start flying, people will stop using them.
Of couse, we'll just replace the old dumb idea with a new dumb idea.. but hey, it'll be fun to watch.
Just switch it to the "off" position... website secure :)
Those guys down the hall that don't seem to care about titles.
I'm a code monkey of course! ;)
And a Sanitary Engineer cleans up all the crap I fling
If they weren't guilty, they wouldn't be suspect would they?
Not exactly.
They can't use an auto-dialer, but they can call you.
http://www.junkbusters.com/fcc.html
> Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, and anyone who jokes about it is just showing their ignorance. (sorry timothy)
Well, ignorance OR perhaps that they have sense of freakin humor.
Take off the superman cape and step away from the phone booth. Once you realise the implications of "The internet is broke", the path to tech support becomes clear.
Now now, all things in good time.
Watching the inevitable come to pass is both frightening and oddly entertaining.
We'd like you to take a survey...
1) What do you think about our new offer we're sending to people?
2) Would our recent pricing changes convince you to switch to our company?
3) PROFIT!
Hrm... TechTV? How do we moderate an entire topic to Flaimbait?
Not to worry... the thought police will be around to handle this sort of thing soon.
Having been on the hiring end of things, I'd definately say you should put it in. How you do it is up to you.
Think about what kind of company you want to work for. If they don't see this as an asset, then you're not missing anything. The difference between canidates for us can be tipped by "other" work. It shows a true interest in your work, not just "showing up for a paycheck". You're also actively encouraged to continue after your hired... experience only makes you more valuable and productive.
It's this atmosphere that keeps me at my job... hrm, "how to retain good employees?"
Absolutely. ;)
I'm sure he learned a lot and had fun doing it though... even if he just learned not to launch $200 worth of equipment
Cheers
Jim
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept." -JFK
Not to say that there isn't wisdom in questioning "do I really want to launch a couple hundred dollars worth of equipment into the air", but it alone shouldn't stop you.
You've just got to be kidding me.
When sending up weather balloons, flying model airplanes/rockets, making robots or building home computers in your garage are cause for suspicion, then perhaps it's time to re-evaluate what a "free society" is. Hrm, maybe the Canadian winter is worth it... wait, Mexico's warm!
Now shut up and hand over that those Lego Mindstorms!
Perhaps a Google cache link would have been better.....: wr-6HfL-OZEC: homepage.ntlworld.com/hjcurtis/uavs.html+miniature +uav+military&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache
Don't laugh too hard... it already is.
;)t s.ht ml
They call them UAV's
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hjcurtis/uavs.html
These might look familiar
http://www.micropilot.com/Projects/CustProjec
The military didn't stop with the Preditor and Global Hawk.
I don't think the Homeland security goons are going to be dropping by my local flight park anytime soon, but still.
Removing their own java isn't the same as installing Sun's. Just stalling for time... "Yeah, it'll be in the 'next one'". Couldn't fit it into this one? Run out of disk space or something? Ba.