Ha! ya I don't acutally listen to him either. Regardless, he is talented and it's better than having the Backstreet Boys (Nintendo generation) in your ears.
I personally think the last scene in Fight Club said it best.. I mean who didn't love watching TRW, Equifax and Visa blow up good. Seriously I was stuck in the Kafkaesque nightmare of trying to clear a loan once which was being blocked because My wife and daughter allegedly sued me for $35,000 when I was 12 and I never paid... these idiots put the information in my file based on name only. The worst thing was after fighting them for a month to remove it. It re-appeared a year later from York who got it from Equifax and then gave it back to them.
Yeah I was thinking of RAW's SNAFU ramblings but I think they just need to allow for streams of misinformation between cells in their visualization software to correct this.
Yeah it reminds me of my favorite Steve Vai (the virtuoso guitarist) quote: "If they had Nintendo when I was a kid, I'd probably be a great Nintendo player now instead."
The thing that always surprises me; whenever someone finds a backdoor or other major security flaw in any Open Source (much like the weak key generation in pgp a while back), especially when the problem was there for a long time is how surprised people are that it was missed in an Open Source environment. There was even an earlier comment that Open Source makes this sort of thing impossible. What makes Open Source superior is that we can all scrutinize the code... but how many do. How many times does some auditor skip past some obfusicated section rather than puzzle over it for hours. I think anyone who ran this software has to assume some responsibility once it became OpenSource.. once you have the code your lack of diligence is as much to blame as the authors stupidity. Especially in a large company.. If you don't have the kind of programmers who can vet code then hire one|them.
Actually the link said 2months of Web TV.. but yeah that's pretty lame regardless - just M$ trying to get a little free publicity. Still though nice chair.. just needs the shiatsu massage rollers and a fridge but other than that it's pretty nifty.
Yeah it's all well and good that the manager of the Developer Technical Support is interested but I can just see a hastily drawn team of greedhead Corporhoids sweating it out in a meeting room throwing things up the flagpole like:
BSD rights, hmmm - Is that ours? who would scuttle or horribly twist any valid effort to assist the OpenSource community.
MicroPayments are going to be the next huge revolution. I have no doubt that as soon as some micro-payment systems become trusted and widespread; authors, musicians, even programmers will finally start getting fair payment for their efforts. The surplus of their labours will no longer fatten the bourgeoisie.
It's an interesting idea but not very pratical. It would seem to give ISP's an awfull lot of work to do, between the tracking, reporting, billing, and paying the various media publishers. It mentions that the cost could be passed on to the ISP's customers as a blanket charge for bandwidth. In a sense ISP's already charge by bandwidth.. or at least the bandwidth they provide is a large part of their costs which they bill back to their customers. Now your suggesting that the ISPs should give a cut of their money back to copyright holders. So the ISP does more work and makes less money; I don't think many will be interested.
Man their propaganda reads funny, this was my favorite excerpt:
"The power Luke speaks of is easily evident in the raised ribs that run across the rich, black exterior of the console, giving it the look of a supercharged car stereo amplifier."
Yes the Xbox, with plush corinthian leather...
Man they are just sooo lame
The war on drugs has always been a joke.
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The very premise of telling people what they should and should not put into their bodies is ridiculous from the get go and a violation of their liberties. When one considers that 80% of prisoners in American penal system are there because of using, selling, manufacturing or trafficing drugs it shows how much more insane the policy is. Think about how many real criminals could be prosecuted if drugs were legalized. The last American Pres and Vice Pres both admittedly used illegal drugs in their past.. should they go serve their time? Everyone knows Bush used Cocaine in his youth.. Is he going to go do his time now? No, of course not rich white people usually don't have to ('cept maybe John Delorean). Even the freaking ex Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop said that drugs should be decriminalized and that the war was not only a failure but was ultimately responsible for killing more people than drugs ever could. This is the same nonsense that people argued about during alcohol prohibition, before they came to their senses and did the right thing. Legalize all drugs and everything will be much better than it is now.
OMG They have major financial problems... so what? Just like the recording industry may they all choke and die from their greed.
Dickens knew what they are all about...
``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?''
``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.''
``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge.
``Both very busy, sir.''
``Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. ``I'm very glad to hear it.''
So be it; that is the nature of commerce. Tough beans.. if there are those willing to do a better job for free then the company selling it for more money might die; good! Realistically, I think RedHat makes some money selling a free product that usually retails for around $50 Cdn in the Future Shop. Once micropayments are easy this problem will be solved - because I for one would happily pay $5 for DiabloII for the right to Karmically own it and support it.. especially knowing the money was distributing amongst the contributors in some sort of fair manner and bypassed all the greedheads and middlemen.
I don't necessarily agree with points 1 and 3.
Point 1>
If what you were saying was true then there wouldn't be any good free open source software available now.
Point 3>
PSX CD's and bajillions of other PC games are duped, copied and "ripped off left and right" but Sony, Blizzard, etc. seem to be doing fine. This is just like the claptrap the recording industry always spews against MP3 distributers.
I think were getting to the point where we need a linux based set-top console box that can play PS, DC, Linux games maybe even M$-Xbox games.
It would be much easier to do networked games. It would be the ultimate universal gaming engine it could even have old Atari and Nintendo emulators. Toppling the greedhead console gaming industry.
Really, I can already see Bob Izumi describing how to rig a 'football scarf shapped polymer eel' bait Texas style; for when you wanna go after great-whites and tigers. The beauty of it is it will also power your trolling motor.
Not to be rude, but a Project Manager... Hmmmm tell me what you are doing and how long it will take. I will document a timeline for the project and drag you into meetings for hours on end so that we can discuss the project and the timeline. Then I will go into management meetings to discuss how my project is progressing relative to my original timeline and assign blame when it is not.
Then I will call more meetings with the project resources and explain the dire straights we are in because we are nowhere close to my original timeline. This cycle will repeat until it reaches a crescendo where I will inform the resources that we have to "pull out all the stops", "drop everything else" and "give this 110%" eventually the resources will have reached the project goals. I will then hold a kick-off meeting and take credit for the work of the resources on the project. I will also get a mention in the company newlsetter the following month but be quoted saying that I couldn't have done it without my team.
Management eating their Project Managers is as natural as Gerbils eating their young; it's disturbing but a part of the natural order of things... (present Project Managers excluded - you're doing a great job keep it up.)
Smithers, fire that project manager! Gantt chart indeed.
That was very cool; I can't believe the ET's and Globes and Enquirers aren't going ape over the "new proof that the NSA talks to the Aliens"..
But then I guess their readership would be lost @NSA... maybe "new proof the CIA talks to the Space people"...
I wish they'd give some more details or pic's of the "Golf Ball".. maybe one of the Astronomers is a/.er....
Americium and Neptunium should only be used for there god-given purpose. Cool little mini-nukes!
It is a waste of our precious scientists time trying to speed travel to Mars. First we must have popcan sized mini-nukes, then we can move on to such ungainly pursuits as space exploitation.
Yes, that was the first thing that came to my mind as well. God bless the Simpsons they are now so entrenched in my reality map that they are the bedrock of my perceptions. I will start a religion around the hiddin teachings in the Simpsons.. when enough people are ready.
Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
The teachings of Homer
Thank god you asked? I forgot about that one..
I stared at the skullbock, moving my cursor over it vainly trying to find the link for a few moments. Beats me, I'm sure it's like GABBO!
some lame teaser that'll make good obscure movie trivia when the movie hits DVD next month.
Seriously, they actually have acting roles in the movie? I figured maybe tops they were called on the phone so they could use them as "consultants".
Do you know where this is mentioned anywhere else?
I tried to post this one this morning - just the interviews part but as always was rejected. But I know what you mean; I went through the site and it doesn't credit them with anything. I was bewildered.. I think it's supposed to be some sort geek placement as marketing spin. The did enough research to realize their demographic was too clever to care what Bill Gates had to say and plugged "k3wl Underground Hacker" types, the prototypical 'old beard' and 'the kid'. There are other hip tech but unrelated things scattered through the site.
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Ha! ya I don't acutally listen to him either. Regardless, he is talented and it's better than having the Backstreet Boys (Nintendo generation) in your ears.
I personally think the last scene in Fight Club said it best.. I mean who didn't love watching TRW, Equifax and Visa blow up good. Seriously I was stuck in the Kafkaesque nightmare of trying to clear a loan once which was being blocked because My wife and daughter allegedly sued me for $35,000 when I was 12 and I never paid... these idiots put the information in my file based on name only. The worst thing was after fighting them for a month to remove it. It re-appeared a year later from York who got it from Equifax and then gave it back to them.
Yeah I was thinking of RAW's SNAFU ramblings but I think they just need to allow for streams of misinformation between cells in their visualization software to correct this.
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Yeah it reminds me of my favorite Steve Vai (the virtuoso guitarist) quote: "If they had Nintendo when I was a kid, I'd probably be a great Nintendo player now instead."
The thing that always surprises me; whenever someone finds a backdoor or other major security flaw in any Open Source (much like the weak key generation in pgp a while back), especially when the problem was there for a long time is how surprised people are that it was missed in an Open Source environment. There was even an earlier comment that Open Source makes this sort of thing impossible. What makes Open Source superior is that we can all scrutinize the code... but how many do. How many times does some auditor skip past some obfusicated section rather than puzzle over it for hours. I think anyone who ran this software has to assume some responsibility once it became OpenSource.. once you have the code your lack of diligence is as much to blame as the authors stupidity. Especially in a large company.. If you don't have the kind of programmers who can vet code then hire one|them.
Actually the link said 2months of Web TV.. but yeah that's pretty lame regardless - just M$ trying to get a little free publicity. Still though nice chair .. just needs the shiatsu massage rollers and a fridge but other than that it's pretty nifty.
Yeah it's all well and good that the manager of the Developer Technical Support is interested but I can just see a hastily drawn team of greedhead Corporhoids sweating it out in a meeting room throwing things up the flagpole like:
BSD rights, hmmm - Is that ours? who would scuttle or horribly twist any valid effort to assist the OpenSource community.
MicroPayments are going to be the next huge revolution. I have no doubt that as soon as some micro-payment systems become trusted and widespread; authors, musicians, even programmers will finally start getting fair payment for their efforts. The surplus of their labours will no longer fatten the bourgeoisie.
Anyway, well done musings in comic form.
It's an interesting idea but not very pratical. It would seem to give ISP's an awfull lot of work to do, between the tracking, reporting, billing, and paying the various media publishers. It mentions that the cost could be passed on to the ISP's customers as a blanket charge for bandwidth. In a sense ISP's already charge by bandwidth.. or at least the bandwidth they provide is a large part of their costs which they bill back to their customers. Now your suggesting that the ISPs should give a cut of their money back to copyright holders. So the ISP does more work and makes less money; I don't think many will be interested.
Man their propaganda reads funny, this was my favorite excerpt:
"The power Luke speaks of is easily evident in the raised ribs that run across the rich, black exterior of the console, giving it the look of a supercharged car stereo amplifier."
Yes the Xbox, with plush corinthian leather...
Man they are just sooo lame
The very premise of telling people what they should and should not put into their bodies is ridiculous from the get go and a violation of their liberties. When one considers that 80% of prisoners in American penal system are there because of using, selling, manufacturing or trafficing drugs it shows how much more insane the policy is. Think about how many real criminals could be prosecuted if drugs were legalized. The last American Pres and Vice Pres both admittedly used illegal drugs in their past.. should they go serve their time? Everyone knows Bush used Cocaine in his youth.. Is he going to go do his time now? No, of course not rich white people usually don't have to ('cept maybe John Delorean). Even the freaking ex Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop said that drugs should be decriminalized and that the war was not only a failure but was ultimately responsible for killing more people than drugs ever could. This is the same nonsense that people argued about during alcohol prohibition, before they came to their senses and did the right thing. Legalize all drugs and everything will be much better than it is now.
OMG They have major financial problems... so what? Just like the recording industry may they all choke and die from their greed.
Dickens knew what they are all about...
``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?''
``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.''
``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge.
``Both very busy, sir.''
``Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. ``I'm very glad to hear it.''
So be it; that is the nature of commerce. Tough beans.. if there are those willing to do a better job for free then the company selling it for more money might die; good! Realistically, I think RedHat makes some money selling a free product that usually retails for around $50 Cdn in the Future Shop. Once micropayments are easy this problem will be solved - because I for one would happily pay $5 for DiabloII for the right to Karmically own it and support it.. especially knowing the money was distributing amongst the contributors in some sort of fair manner and bypassed all the greedheads and middlemen.
There seem to be plenty of open source emulators right now... not to mention "licensed" legit ones.
Thank you for your deep insight into the world of copywrite law.. it was very enlightning.
I don't necessarily agree with points 1 and 3.
Point 1>
If what you were saying was true then there wouldn't be any good free open source software available now.
Point 3>
PSX CD's and bajillions of other PC games are duped, copied and "ripped off left and right" but Sony, Blizzard, etc. seem to be doing fine. This is just like the claptrap the recording industry always spews against MP3 distributers.
I think were getting to the point where we need a linux based set-top console box that can play PS, DC, Linux games maybe even M$-Xbox games.
It would be much easier to do networked games. It would be the ultimate universal gaming engine it could even have old Atari and Nintendo emulators. Toppling the greedhead console gaming industry.
Really, I can already see Bob Izumi describing how to rig a 'football scarf shapped polymer eel' bait Texas style; for when you wanna go after great-whites and tigers. The beauty of it is it will also power your trolling motor.
Not to be rude, but a Project Manager... Hmmmm tell me what you are doing and how long it will take. I will document a timeline for the project and drag you into meetings for hours on end so that we can discuss the project and the timeline. Then I will go into management meetings to discuss how my project is progressing relative to my original timeline and assign blame when it is not.
Then I will call more meetings with the project resources and explain the dire straights we are in because we are nowhere close to my original timeline. This cycle will repeat until it reaches a crescendo where I will inform the resources that we have to "pull out all the stops", "drop everything else" and "give this 110%" eventually the resources will have reached the project goals. I will then hold a kick-off meeting and take credit for the work of the resources on the project. I will also get a mention in the company newlsetter the following month but be quoted saying that I couldn't have done it without my team.
Management eating their Project Managers is as natural as Gerbils eating their young; it's disturbing but a part of the natural order of things... (present Project Managers excluded - you're doing a great job keep it up.)
Smithers, fire that project manager! Gantt chart indeed.
That was very cool; I can't believe the ET's and Globes and Enquirers aren't going ape over the "new proof that the NSA talks to the Aliens".. /.er....
But then I guess their readership would be lost @NSA... maybe "new proof the CIA talks to the Space people"...
I wish they'd give some more details or pic's of the "Golf Ball".. maybe one of the Astronomers is a
Americium and Neptunium should only be used for there god-given purpose. Cool little mini-nukes!
It is a waste of our precious scientists time trying to speed travel to Mars. First we must have popcan sized mini-nukes, then we can move on to such ungainly pursuits as space exploitation.
Yes, that was the first thing that came to my mind as well. God bless the Simpsons they are now so entrenched in my reality map that they are the bedrock of my perceptions. I will start a religion around the hiddin teachings in the Simpsons.. when enough people are ready.
Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
The teachings of Homer
Thank god you asked? I forgot about that one..
I stared at the skullbock, moving my cursor over it vainly trying to find the link for a few moments. Beats me, I'm sure it's like GABBO!
some lame teaser that'll make good obscure movie trivia when the movie hits DVD next month.
Seriously, they actually have acting roles in the movie? I figured maybe tops they were called on the phone so they could use them as "consultants".
Do you know where this is mentioned anywhere else?
I tried to post this one this morning - just the interviews part but as always was rejected. But I know what you mean; I went through the site and it doesn't credit them with anything. I was bewildered.. I think it's supposed to be some sort geek placement as marketing spin. The did enough research to realize their demographic was too clever to care what Bill Gates had to say and plugged "k3wl Underground Hacker" types, the prototypical 'old beard' and 'the kid'. There are other hip tech but unrelated things scattered through the site.
Add some Dremel accessories and a small soldering torch and you could do some pretty decent flyweight Survival Research Labs type stuff.