I listed my membership on my résumé, along with the ACM logo. This was 15 years ago and I was a contractor around Washington, DC, doing many short-term contracts.
Yes, it was effective. In the course of interviews, the interviewer would often tell me that they had been meaning to join, or had heard of it, but not once that they were themselves a member. Just a little psychological advantage, I guess. This helped,too, because I never went to college.
That said, I got absolutely nothing from their articles or other content.
Apparently they were fairly awful creatures—flocks of a few million birds blackening the skies, decimating crops and crapping on everything. Couldn't we direct our sympathies to a more like-able creature? Wooly mammoths or great awks, perhaps?
Maybe we eradicated them and it's actually a *good* thing. It's not quite the same as how we (as a species) are still hunting the poor ortolan
It's also not available to facebook accounts that are under "administrative hold", the term they use for accounts and those under subpoenas and national security letters.
If the apocalypse were to come in my lifetime or a couple centuries after, there would be plenty of bicycles that would be tremendously useful if there was someone to keep them running.
I'm with you guys. I lived overseas when I signed up for Grand Central, which became Google Voice, so I could get a US number for my mom to call me on, that I would route to a skype number (it's harder to keep the same skype dial-in number if you're as forgetful as me at keeping a balance on it).
Now I have Google Voice going to an app on an old iPhone with no cell service, and use WiFi for 99% of my calls, occasionally sending the traffic to any number of 'burner' phones if I won't be near WiFi.
The funny thing is I had never noticed the MMS issue.
When I'm at the computer, I use the Hangouts plugin for chrome to make and receive calls and it works well, where before I had to be logged into the right Gmail account and have the page open for it to ring. If you use Chrome, I highly recommend it.
Jerry: David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck... Alice: What about them? Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman... Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names. Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn't die. If Reagan had died, I'm pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley's middle name was.
I had gigabit in Japan in 2007 or do, as did my girlfriend across town. I could mount a disk at her place using AFP and a little port forwarding and play movies from her disk as well as if they were on my desktop.
Seriously sweet, especially considering that in around 1999 or 2000, the best you could get was 56K ISDN and evening rates where you didn't pay by the minute.
I would recommend teaching her x86 Assembly Language. The instructions are simple little things like MOV, PUSH, POP, CALL, and INT. She can and should comment heavily and that can be in any language. The mnemonics come from English, but are abstracted enough that they shouldn't turn her off for language's sake. The concepts are basic as well. What she learns now will always be relevant. Consider this: [...] a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage, and input and output mechanisms. Von Neumann wrote that in 1945 and it all still applies today.
Over the years, I've bought hundreds of CDs that I've listened to once or twice and then sold to recover a few bucks. (Much of this before I was ripping CD music to my computer.) I now often purge my music collection both of CD media, as well as digital copies.
Now if I buy a song as a digital download, I no longer have that option.
Seriously. All of the important advances in Internet technology have been driven in some part by better access to pornography:
"Sir, with the new multi-widgeted-gigaplexing in the new Roto-Router2k, you'll have greater compliance with IETF standards and fewer packet-collision-related neck and back injuries."
"Ummm... I dunno."
"Oh, you'll also be able to anonymously download pr0n 1000x faster and get immediate access to young hotties in your neighborhood who are looking to Hook Up Tonight."
"I'll take it, whatever the cost." Later that night... "Honey, I upgraded the Interweb thing so you can watch your cat videos and Ice Dancing on YouTube in Holographic HD..."
I'm really looking forward to going back to having every PC with a globally routable IP address
You really think having every *Windows* machine out there having a globally-routable IP address would be a Good Thing?
While of course it's possible to run a clean Windows box if you have half a brain, millions of people don't. The idea of having them all directly on the Internet scares me.
A proper "English" keyboard? For Japanese text? Because Japanese input is complex, the predictive input on a Japanese numerical keyboard is quite sophisticated. Typing texts all in romaji is far less efficient, actually.
More likely, it's because the West too often fails to design products specifically for Japan, rather than try to retrofit existing products or even worse, merely "market" Western products in Japan.
Japanese companies are designing products for Japanese people who live in Japan.
For example, written Japanese is a lot more "dense" than English. One character can convey a meaning that it would take many letters to express. For that reason, they are not bothered by screens so small as to be considered unusable by most Westerners. The iPhone's bigger screen becomes less important. Japanese input on a Japanese phone has a steeper learning curve, but everyone learned it years ago. The iPhone requires learning a new one, I suspect. (Haven't really tried it.)
"Personally I just want a fucking eyetap built into some Oakley M-frames with photo-gray tint, and a discreet wearable computer so I don't look like a total tard at all times..."
Actually, wearing M-Frames all the time will make you look like a "tard," even if there's no computer attached.
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I listed my membership on my résumé, along with the ACM logo.
This was 15 years ago and I was a contractor around Washington, DC, doing many short-term contracts.
Yes, it was effective.
In the course of interviews, the interviewer would often tell me that they had been meaning to join, or had heard of it, but not once that they were themselves a member. Just a little psychological advantage, I guess. This helped,too, because I never went to college.
That said, I got absolutely nothing from their articles or other content.
Oh, man. Did I do that?
Of course I did
"Auk"? "A-U-K"? Nope, I've been sitting at a terminal too long for that to *ever* look right
Apparently they were fairly awful creatures—flocks of a few million birds blackening the skies, decimating crops and crapping on everything.
Couldn't we direct our sympathies to a more like-able creature? Wooly mammoths or great awks, perhaps?
Maybe we eradicated them and it's actually a *good* thing. It's not quite the same as how we (as a species) are still hunting the poor ortolan
Call me insensitive, but I really hate pigeons.
And it goes great with Yellow Cake
It's also not available to facebook accounts that are under "administrative hold", the term they use for accounts and those under subpoenas and national security letters.
If the apocalypse were to come in my lifetime or a couple centuries after, there would be plenty of bicycles that would be tremendously useful if there was someone to keep them running.
I'm with you guys. I lived overseas when I signed up for Grand Central, which became Google Voice, so I could get a US number for my mom to call me on, that I would route to a skype number (it's harder to keep the same skype dial-in number if you're as forgetful as me at keeping a balance on it).
Now I have Google Voice going to an app on an old iPhone with no cell service, and use WiFi for 99% of my calls, occasionally sending the traffic to any number of 'burner' phones if I won't be near WiFi.
The funny thing is I had never noticed the MMS issue.
When I'm at the computer, I use the Hangouts plugin for chrome to make and receive calls and it works well, where before I had to be logged into the right Gmail account and have the page open for it to ring. If you use Chrome, I highly recommend it.
Jerry: David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck...
Alice: What about them?
Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman...
Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names.
Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn't die. If Reagan had died, I'm pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley's middle name was.
I had gigabit in Japan in 2007 or do, as did my girlfriend across town.
I could mount a disk at her place using AFP and a little port forwarding and play movies from her disk as well as if they were on my desktop.
Seriously sweet, especially considering that in around 1999 or 2000, the best you could get was 56K ISDN and evening rates where you didn't pay by the minute.
One funny side effect of feeding Facebook red herrings is that for a while, I was getting ads targeted at dating for Latvian seniors
I figure it might be this little guy:
http://www.theamazingpics.com/transparent-fish/
It was a very simple, very clear service that I could actually use with non-technical clients for project management.
Good thing is, you could probably duplicate the functionality in Ruby on Rails in a weekend
I would recommend teaching her x86 Assembly Language.
The instructions are simple little things like MOV, PUSH, POP, CALL, and INT. She can and should comment heavily and that can be in any language.
The mnemonics come from English, but are abstracted enough that they shouldn't turn her off for language's sake.
The concepts are basic as well. What she learns now will always be relevant. Consider this:
[...] a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage, and input and output mechanisms.
Von Neumann wrote that in 1945 and it all still applies today.
Galileo,Galileo,
Galileo Galileo
Galileo figaro-Magnifico!
Sorry to post that, but you put it in my head. Now it's stuck there
You apparently don't get it at all, AC.
The "warhead" is the encrypted file that the defaced page served to distribute.
They took down the server not to cause a disruption as much as to advertise and draw awareness to their cause.
Does China have some sort of late-1990s nostalgia thing going on that I haven't heard of?
"No. Bad boy/girl!"
Actually, yes.
Over the years, I've bought hundreds of CDs that I've listened to once or twice and then sold to recover a few bucks. (Much of this before I was ripping CD music to my computer.) I now often purge my music collection both of CD media, as well as digital copies.
Now if I buy a song as a digital download, I no longer have that option.
"Also, what the hell are you going to do with a CD once you have it but rip it?"
Sell it used.
Wel, if yer buyin' fancy store-bought likker, mebbe
Seriously.
All of the important advances in Internet technology have been driven in some part by better access to pornography:
"Sir, with the new multi-widgeted-gigaplexing in the new Roto-Router2k, you'll have greater compliance with IETF standards and fewer packet-collision-related neck and back injuries."
"Ummm... I dunno."
"Oh, you'll also be able to anonymously download pr0n 1000x faster and get immediate access to young hotties in your neighborhood who are looking to Hook Up Tonight."
"I'll take it, whatever the cost."
Later that night...
"Honey, I upgraded the Interweb thing so you can watch your cat videos and Ice Dancing on YouTube in Holographic HD..."
I'm really looking forward to going back to having every PC with a globally routable IP address
You really think having every *Windows* machine out there having a globally-routable IP address would be a Good Thing?
While of course it's possible to run a clean Windows box if you have half a brain, millions of people don't. The idea of having them all directly on the Internet scares me.
Thank you.
A proper "English" keyboard? For Japanese text?
Because Japanese input is complex, the predictive input on a Japanese numerical keyboard is quite sophisticated. Typing texts all in romaji is far less efficient, actually.
It's because the Japanese hate your freedom. ;-)
More likely, it's because the West too often fails to design products specifically for Japan, rather than try to retrofit existing products or even worse, merely "market" Western products in Japan.
Japanese companies are designing products for Japanese people who live in Japan.
For example, written Japanese is a lot more "dense" than English. One character can convey a meaning that it would take many letters to express. For that reason, they are not bothered by screens so small as to be considered unusable by most Westerners. The iPhone's bigger screen becomes less important. Japanese input on a Japanese phone has a steeper learning curve, but everyone learned it years ago. The iPhone requires learning a new one, I suspect. (Haven't really tried it.)
"Personally I just want a fucking eyetap built into some Oakley M-frames with photo-gray tint, and a discreet wearable computer so I don't look like a total tard at all times..."
Actually, wearing M-Frames all the time will make you look like a "tard," even if there's no computer attached.