You fuck up your PS2, then, cowboy. If I want expandability, I'll stick with my PC...
That's a good consumer. Good boy. Don't act like a hacker. Just consume the devices you're spoon fed and don't question what else they may be capable of doing or how to improve them. Good boy.
Speaking of sticking with your PC, you should probably just re-install Windows on it, since that's what they intended it to be used for. Everything on an Intel box after Windows 3.1 is a dangerous hack...
[insert-platform-name-here] doesnt have much memory and its unexpandable anyway
Famous last words! (Where's the hacker spirit?!)
I get to pay for the priviledge...
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...of researching, submitting, getting rejected, and finally commenting on posts by other paying users? That seems a little perverse. Lay the ads on me, baby, cause I ain't paying to post, read, and discuss what I'm contributing in the first place!
I see lots of OT threads being created on Brit versus American spelling here. Maybe this reference will shed some light.
Canada is (as usual) comfortably wedged between the Brit and American columns of the table -- sometimes Canucks use the Brit spelling exclusively, sometimes they use the American one exclusively, and sometimes they use both. How diplomatic!
I love hiring and working with quirky people. But for all the romance of having a rag-tag, superhero-caliber team, you'd better be prepared to step up to the management plate in a big way. If you hire sheep and lemmings, your job as project leader will be relatively simple. If you hire the moody geniuses, you better give them some clear goals, lots of milestones (that are verifiable), and for god's sake, when you hire someone, put them on probation or under contract with some really explicit goals for a few months. If you can black-box their responsibilities, even better, because then you don't have to worry about tracking hours or social interaction as much. But make the terms of probation very clear and tell them 1) you don't care how they do it (this will earn their respect), 2) what you expect to be delivered and how you plan to test/verify it very critically, 3) that time is of the essense (eventually, they'll be put on a project where it is), and 4) what the consequences will be if they succeed and if they fail. Keep the trial period short and make no excuses or apologies in the end if you cut your losses. Try to keep the candidate on relevant tasks but out of the critical path of current projects. That's ideal, I know, and doing so can be very expensive, especially for a small company. But consider it part of the investment in acquiring an employee and be prepared to walk away from your sunk costs spent evaluating someone. I've met very few managers who can do this well, including myself.
The guy in the article was no guru or genius -- he was a burned-out slob, whose sole accomplishment was rising to the challenge of getting hired.
The terrorists would say, "See, the impotent, decadent Americans are powerless to defend themselves" and accelerate their attacks, relying on safe havens in places like Afghanistan from which to plan and launch these attacks.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. In anything that approaches a democracy, you've got to sell a popular response to important events. It's really really difficult for the American leaders (political and military) to sell a non-military response when it means you have to essentially bite your lip and take the insults. You'd have to just cross fingers and hope that criminal justice will be served in the end and that the net result is less lives lost with the same amount of justice. It's hard to have the patience and faith required to persist with a non-military response. Especially for a superpower like the USA.
Based on your broad definition of "bloody, military vengence" is there any military action that results in one or more deaths that would fail to qualify?
I'll break it down for you:
"bloody" : if blood was spilled, it's bloody, to a greater or lesser degree. So to answer your question... yes, most military killing could be considered "bloody". But now let's be clear that not all military action results in death. I believe the best ones don't.
"vengeance" : if the military punishes someone for something they did wrong, it is correctly called vengeance. Part of what's going on right now is vengeance. But again, not all military action is centered around punishment after-the-fact. I believe that the best things the military do are in defense (proper use of the word) and prevention rather than after-the-fact punishment (ie, vengeance).
the current campaigns against Afghanisatan do not qualify
Only time will tell. We still hear estimates that vary by an order of magnitude regarding the political, military, and civilian lives lost in Iraq in the Gulf War. A couple of weeks after it's "over", nobody really cares what the death toll over there really was.
As far as your comment about "bloody, military vengence," you should use words like that more carefully
Maybe there's a better military definition of bloody vengeance that specifies how many must be killed before it's considered "bloody". I'm not aware of it. As far as the "vengeance" part goes, well, the Cowboy President and his people have spoken and they're coming back with heads on platters. All in the name of proven crimes, mind you.
the U.S. system of government is intentionally designed to impede the popular will
The popular will after 9/11 was to strike back with bloody, military vengeance against the first acceptable target. In this case, the popular will was not slowed down. Is the war a win or a loss for the mythical "system"?
CD Player: NAD 512
Interconnects: Kimber Kable PBJ
Speaker Cables: Kimber Kable 4VS
I declare you test void. Kimber does not list MP3 as a supported audio format for its cables. Furthermore, your NAD CD player is very prone to MIWJ (MP3-Induced WAV Jitter) unless you carefully pad your MP3 ID3 tags with equal portions of character 0x0F and 0xF0. This will keep things balanced during the critical decoding to WAV step. You didn't mention what brand of CDR you used. At any rate, I assume you had the sense to outline both the inner and outer edges of the CDR with a green felt pen.
Fair enough, but consider that the bill is floating around Washington, DC, USA. Emphasis on USA. All your bill are not belong to us. Some of the finest electronic components right now aren't the ones available to the US market. The highest quality, the coolest features, etc. aren't what sells in the the largest, dumbed-down, mass-consumption markets. High end Sony ES home audio gear, the coolest DVD features, region-free players, etc. for example are regularly imported from the UK and Japan by people who want/need that type of gear. Perhaps your bill will prevent you from importing non-DRMS devices though. Where there's a will (and a market elsewhere), there's a way.
I do know my grandmother, and she doesn't have an e-mail account. My mom has access to e-mail, but that's because my dad is nice enough to print it out and show it to her.... My mother might learn, but my grandmother never will.
Your desire for past romantic and technically simpler times is touching. But your mom and grandma have a choice here and maybe this is an opportunity for them. Society makes changes during times of war, and it's not all bad. New technologies are born, new customs, new neighbors and friends are made, new skills are learned. Maybe your grandmother can exercise a few neurons (with your help), learn how to read and write an e-mail and expand her horizons. Maybe she'll go to a chat room and meet a new friend. Maybe the internet is what she's been looking for to publish some of her thoughts. In my opinion, more good wisdom could be spread thru e-mail, chat rooms, web sites, online journals, etc. But we need the old, wise people to contribute just as much as the young, spastic geeks!
I left them after one of the first debacles where they kept sending out the same packet of data to most everyone.
If you abandon every free-thinking project the first time a bug is exposed, well, you're probably a very frustrated guy. Especially in the Open Source, Free Software, or Linux camps! Have some patience. (News flash: They fixed that bug you think of as a "debacle".)
I say, make them all by hand for a couple of years until you are so flooded with orders that you just can't keep up. Then take it to the next step.
That's good advice, unless you find it turns to a nightmare of technical support, repairs, warranty, and eyesight-loss/seizure-related lawsuits that become too much to handle yourself. Then you'll have take it to the next level.;-) Okay, maybe that's a bit cynical. It sounds like you're onto something good with your device, so I guess what I'm saying is don't let a good idea starve or die because you didn't pay attention to boring/annoying (but important) details that you could have farmed out to someone else (even if that means spending money, giving away equity, revenue sharing, whatever).
Pretty simple. This technique has proven itself at cash machines. Biometrics may marginally help prevent someone from stealing a machine outright when you're not there. So if someone really needs the data, it just means they're going to wait for the owner/key to arrive. Yoink.
Removing the Twin Towers seems wrong
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We don't erase images of our fallen war heros. We don't erase images of our assassinated presidents. Why change history now? When they filmed the movie, they were standing. Now they're not. So what? I'll tell you a litle story... My favorite pizza joint is Nat's New York Pizzeria (I'm not in New York, but these guys claim to do an authentic NY style pizza). So I'm sitting there a few days ago, chowing down on a couple of thin slabs of za. And I turn to my left and nearly choke in awe to see a huuuge photo of the Twin Towers framed on the wall. It's about 6 feet by 4 feet and includes the Brooklyn Bridge in the forground for added context. Anyways, beautiful picture and it's been there forever (I asked). I guess I never noticed it. But I'm glad I did now and I'm glad they didn't erase their history. (I'm also glad to see that they're not playing it up at all to take advantage of it.)
Puhleeez, Slashdot, dramatic headlines are great, but when they come at the expense of truth, it gets to be a drag.
Your headline reads: Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Enigma Machine
The story itself states clearly several times in the first few sentences: that he "admitted handling stolen goods" and that he "pleaded guilty... to handling a stolen Enigma encoding machine". That's quite a bit different than admitting he stole them. It may well be a crime to handle stolen goods after the fact, and there's possibly a good story here also. But this guy didn't plead guilty to stealing it so the more interesting story of how/why it was stolen and by whom is still out there. Consider saving this headline for a later day...
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You fuck up your PS2, then, cowboy. If I want expandability, I'll stick with my PC...
That's a good consumer. Good boy. Don't act like a hacker. Just consume the devices you're spoon fed and don't question what else they may be capable of doing or how to improve them. Good boy.
Speaking of sticking with your PC, you should probably just re-install Windows on it, since that's what they intended it to be used for. Everything on an Intel box after Windows 3.1 is a dangerous hack...
[insert-platform-name-here] doesnt have much memory and its unexpandable anyway
Famous last words! (Where's the hacker spirit?!)
...of researching, submitting, getting rejected, and finally commenting on posts by other paying users? That seems a little perverse. Lay the ads on me, baby, cause I ain't paying to post, read, and discuss what I'm contributing in the first place!
I see lots of OT threads being created on Brit versus American spelling here. Maybe this reference will shed some light.
Canada is (as usual) comfortably wedged between the Brit and American columns of the table -- sometimes Canucks use the Brit spelling exclusively, sometimes they use the American one exclusively, and sometimes they use both. How diplomatic!
I love hiring and working with quirky people. But for all the romance of having a rag-tag, superhero-caliber team, you'd better be prepared to step up to the management plate in a big way. If you hire sheep and lemmings, your job as project leader will be relatively simple. If you hire the moody geniuses, you better give them some clear goals, lots of milestones (that are verifiable), and for god's sake, when you hire someone, put them on probation or under contract with some really explicit goals for a few months. If you can black-box their responsibilities, even better, because then you don't have to worry about tracking hours or social interaction as much. But make the terms of probation very clear and tell them 1) you don't care how they do it (this will earn their respect), 2) what you expect to be delivered and how you plan to test/verify it very critically, 3) that time is of the essense (eventually, they'll be put on a project where it is), and 4) what the consequences will be if they succeed and if they fail. Keep the trial period short and make no excuses or apologies in the end if you cut your losses. Try to keep the candidate on relevant tasks but out of the critical path of current projects. That's ideal, I know, and doing so can be very expensive, especially for a small company. But consider it part of the investment in acquiring an employee and be prepared to walk away from your sunk costs spent evaluating someone. I've met very few managers who can do this well, including myself.
The guy in the article was no guru or genius -- he was a burned-out slob, whose sole accomplishment was rising to the challenge of getting hired.
The terrorists would say, "See, the impotent, decadent Americans are powerless to defend themselves" and accelerate their attacks, relying on safe havens in places like Afghanistan from which to plan and launch these attacks.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. In anything that approaches a democracy, you've got to sell a popular response to important events. It's really really difficult for the American leaders (political and military) to sell a non-military response when it means you have to essentially bite your lip and take the insults. You'd have to just cross fingers and hope that criminal justice will be served in the end and that the net result is less lives lost with the same amount of justice. It's hard to have the patience and faith required to persist with a non-military response. Especially for a superpower like the USA.
Good analysis, by the way.
Based on your broad definition of "bloody, military vengence" is there any military action that results in one or more deaths that would fail to qualify?
I'll break it down for you:
"bloody" : if blood was spilled, it's bloody, to a greater or lesser degree. So to answer your question... yes, most military killing could be considered "bloody". But now let's be clear that not all military action results in death. I believe the best ones don't.
"vengeance" : if the military punishes someone for something they did wrong, it is correctly called vengeance. Part of what's going on right now is vengeance. But again, not all military action is centered around punishment after-the-fact. I believe that the best things the military do are in defense (proper use of the word) and prevention rather than after-the-fact punishment (ie, vengeance).
...that they used MySQL.
the current campaigns against Afghanisatan do not qualify
Only time will tell. We still hear estimates that vary by an order of magnitude regarding the political, military, and civilian lives lost in Iraq in the Gulf War. A couple of weeks after it's "over", nobody really cares what the death toll over there really was.
As far as your comment about "bloody, military vengence," you should use words like that more carefully
Maybe there's a better military definition of bloody vengeance that specifies how many must be killed before it's considered "bloody". I'm not aware of it. As far as the "vengeance" part goes, well, the Cowboy President and his people have spoken and they're coming back with heads on platters. All in the name of proven crimes, mind you.
Just calling it as I see it.
the U.S. system of government is intentionally designed to impede the popular will
The popular will after 9/11 was to strike back with bloody, military vengeance against the first acceptable target. In this case, the popular will was not slowed down. Is the war a win or a loss for the mythical "system"?
CD Player: NAD 512
Interconnects: Kimber Kable PBJ
Speaker Cables: Kimber Kable 4VS
I declare you test void. Kimber does not list MP3 as a supported audio format for its cables. Furthermore, your NAD CD player is very prone to MIWJ (MP3-Induced WAV Jitter) unless you carefully pad your MP3 ID3 tags with equal portions of character 0x0F and 0xF0. This will keep things balanced during the critical decoding to WAV step. You didn't mention what brand of CDR you used. At any rate, I assume you had the sense to outline both the inner and outer edges of the CDR with a green felt pen.
the SSSCA bill that's floating around Washington
Fair enough, but consider that the bill is floating around Washington, DC, USA. Emphasis on USA. All your bill are not belong to us. Some of the finest electronic components right now aren't the ones available to the US market. The highest quality, the coolest features, etc. aren't what sells in the the largest, dumbed-down, mass-consumption markets. High end Sony ES home audio gear, the coolest DVD features, region-free players, etc. for example are regularly imported from the UK and Japan by people who want/need that type of gear. Perhaps your bill will prevent you from importing non-DRMS devices though. Where there's a will (and a market elsewhere), there's a way.
I can't imagine that the RIAA would ever let someone make a hardware MP3 player that's reprogrammable.
Thank goodness the RIAA doesn't have any say in the matter.
Hey, I'm a software developer. What am I going to do with a girlfriend? But a Talking Palm... now THAT's cool!
I do know my grandmother, and she doesn't have an e-mail account. My mom has access to e-mail, but that's because my dad is nice enough to print it out and show it to her. ... My mother might learn, but my grandmother never will.
Your desire for past romantic and technically simpler times is touching. But your mom and grandma have a choice here and maybe this is an opportunity for them. Society makes changes during times of war, and it's not all bad. New technologies are born, new customs, new neighbors and friends are made, new skills are learned. Maybe your grandmother can exercise a few neurons (with your help), learn how to read and write an e-mail and expand her horizons. Maybe she'll go to a chat room and meet a new friend. Maybe the internet is what she's been looking for to publish some of her thoughts. In my opinion, more good wisdom could be spread thru e-mail, chat rooms, web sites, online journals, etc. But we need the old, wise people to contribute just as much as the young, spastic geeks!
I left them after one of the first debacles where they kept sending out the same packet of data to most everyone.
If you abandon every free-thinking project the first time a bug is exposed, well, you're probably a very frustrated guy. Especially in the Open Source, Free Software, or Linux camps! Have some patience. (News flash: They fixed that bug you think of as a "debacle".)
There is no blue room.
I say, make them all by hand for a couple of years until you are so flooded with orders that you just can't keep up. Then take it to the next step.
;-) Okay, maybe that's a bit cynical. It sounds like you're onto something good with your device, so I guess what I'm saying is don't let a good idea starve or die because you didn't pay attention to boring/annoying (but important) details that you could have farmed out to someone else (even if that means spending money, giving away equity, revenue sharing, whatever).
That's good advice, unless you find it turns to a nightmare of technical support, repairs, warranty, and eyesight-loss/seizure-related lawsuits that become too much to handle yourself. Then you'll have take it to the next level.
If you were smart, you'd copyright those instructions. ;-)
What, no seasonal reference?
Funny, I saw "winter". As in:
purchased and copied,
sharing my boy-band music!
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H4R3-br41N3D, not hare-brained, not hare-braned, not hare braned, not hair brained.....
Pretty simple. This technique has proven itself at cash machines. Biometrics may marginally help prevent someone from stealing a machine outright when you're not there. So if someone really needs the data, it just means they're going to wait for the owner/key to arrive. Yoink.
We don't erase images of our fallen war heros. We don't erase images of our assassinated presidents. Why change history now? When they filmed the movie, they were standing. Now they're not. So what? I'll tell you a litle story... My favorite pizza joint is Nat's New York Pizzeria (I'm not in New York, but these guys claim to do an authentic NY style pizza). So I'm sitting there a few days ago, chowing down on a couple of thin slabs of za. And I turn to my left and nearly choke in awe to see a huuuge photo of the Twin Towers framed on the wall. It's about 6 feet by 4 feet and includes the Brooklyn Bridge in the forground for added context. Anyways, beautiful picture and it's been there forever (I asked). I guess I never noticed it. But I'm glad I did now and I'm glad they didn't erase their history. (I'm also glad to see that they're not playing it up at all to take advantage of it.)
Puhleeez, Slashdot, dramatic headlines are great, but when they come at the expense of truth, it gets to be a drag.
... to handling a stolen Enigma encoding machine". That's quite a bit different than admitting he stole them. It may well be a crime to handle stolen goods after the fact, and there's possibly a good story here also. But this guy didn't plead guilty to stealing it so the more interesting story of how/why it was stolen and by whom is still out there. Consider saving this headline for a later day...
Your headline reads: Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Enigma Machine
The story itself states clearly several times in the first few sentences: that he "admitted handling stolen goods" and that he "pleaded guilty