Typical MBA thinking... If you are not making a profit, obviously you need to sue someone or lobby congress to change the law so that you can continue to make a profit. It's not your fault you can't make any money doing whatever you want to do. If this weren't the way it works, all innovation would be stifled.
All said and done, the P4 is still the kludge that x86 has always been. It's very fast, and we're locked into it due to legacy hardware, but it's prevented more innovation by virtue of its entrenched position in the market than it has inspired.
They better not. Leaning back on Moore's Law enabled them to avoid innovation. Getting successively smaller and faster is a matter of refinement, not revolution.
Debian just needs to start advertising itself using images of naked people, too. Then popularity will go up for Debian, until they achieve parity with Ubuntu, and more people will release packages that work well with Sarge.
Infant mortality and life expectancy were both much worse back then. People did in fact die more. And what's more, disease was poorly understood, so a lot of what killed people back then, they didn't even know what it was.
Now Tank can just upload the experience of having played the game into my cortex; no longer will I have to waste hours of my life mastering some shitty game!
And if you remember the old Transformers series, you'll notice if you watch them again that Optimus and George W. Bush apparently have the same dialog writers.
Did the movie bomb? (Fared poorly at the box office?) Was the movie da bomb? (Good, eg critically acclaimed?) Did they bomb pearl harbor? (historically accurate!)
How about coating space suits with a layer of grease? The grease would trap the particles and keep them from penetrating into seals as quickly. When you go back to the base, the suit can go into a cleaner which would dissolve the grease and wash everything away.
Another idea would be a high-pressure shower and filtering and recycling the water.
OK, I'll give you the one on the military technology. That one was pretty much sucked. However, wasn't that one of the few backup speakers?
That's the thing. I didn't go there to see that speaker. That's what I ended up seeing, because something else that I DID want to see wasn't happening when it was supposed to.
You were there 5 or 6 hours... huh... it sounds like you gave it a really fair shot.
At that point, I'd seen enough. I couldn't tell when anything was supposed to happen, and all indications were that whoever put this together had zero experience with organizing an event. Why should I continue to waste my time putting up with that kind of bullshit?
And the threats of physical abuse? Talk about unprofessional.
I don't like to mix business with pleasure, and punching the organizers would have definitely been pleasure. So OF COURSE I'm unprofessional. Charging people $50 for admission and then giving them SHIT is also unprofessional.
If you expect to be given then the world on a silver platter for FIVE BUCKS, you are sadly, sadly mistaken my friend. Heck, I don't know how I'd put on something like it for 5 bucks a head.
Well, you start by stripping your bedsheets and using them as projection screens for your presenters, most of whom were selected by walking down the hall of your dorm at college and saying, "Hey anyone want to give a talk on some kind of technology that they know something about?" Then you put up a web site that makes it look like you're professional, competent, maybe even cutting edge. Rent out a convention room at a Holiday Inn, and sell enough tickets to cover expenses. Seriously, I would have been disappointed if my ticket HAD cost $5, but I wouldn't have been pissed off. But for 10x that much, I feel robbed. Wanting to punch someone who robs you is understandable, isn't it?
But, the rest of it, I mean, come on. A/V problems are endemic to any event such as this.
Not if the people putting it together plan, prepare, and do some basic testing. If you go to a professionally produced presentation, it's fucking slick. If you go to some half-assed amateur bullshit hour, you get endemic problems. A/V tech is easy enough, if you're a supposed 1337 haxor you shouldn't be having problems getting a laptop to talk to a DLP.
- Competent, knowledgable speakers. There might have been a few, but most of what I saw was amateur. The self-professed "military technology history expert" who maybe was 14 years old and obviously had no actual military service record takes the boobie prize. - Presentations that didn't suck. (Maybe you should test whether your laptop can talk to the projector BEFORE the presentation begins!) - A published, printed schedule that was accurate. And if they had to change the schedule, quit disseminating the outdated schedule!
After about 5-6 hours of this lameness, I got fed up and walked out. I wish I knew the person who organized it so I could punch him. For $5, it might have been an OK time, but for $50 I felt like I got conned by NotACon.
I went to NotACon last year, and was very much unimpressed with it. It was small, obviously operating on a shoestring budget, and generally unprofessional. Last year I felt ripped off for paying to get in. The speakers they had presenting weren't all that knowledgable about their topics in most cases, had no polish or presentation skills, and their equipment setup as often as not wasn't working as intended, and the printed schedule of events was completely wrong. I'd go in to hear someone talk about a topic that I was interested in, and something completely different would be going on in the room, and then I'd ask someone and find out that the speaker I wanted to hear either canceled or was rescheduled for an earlier time and I'd missed them. I hope they've improved things for this year, but I won't be going to find out.
Making it line up neatly with copyright? Life of the owner, plus 75 years? That way, when copyright expires, the media will just self-destruct, and there will be nothing to fall back into the public domain. Of course, as we simply keep extending copyright, it'll mean that media will never self-destruct.
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Typical MBA thinking... If you are not making a profit, obviously you need to sue someone or lobby congress to change the law so that you can continue to make a profit. It's not your fault you can't make any money doing whatever you want to do. If this weren't the way it works, all innovation would be stifled.
Or something.
All said and done, the P4 is still the kludge that x86 has always been. It's very fast, and we're locked into it due to legacy hardware, but it's prevented more innovation by virtue of its entrenched position in the market than it has inspired.
They better not. Leaning back on Moore's Law enabled them to avoid innovation. Getting successively smaller and faster is a matter of refinement, not revolution.
Not as long as we have access to the source code...
Debian just needs to start advertising itself using images of naked people, too. Then popularity will go up for Debian, until they achieve parity with Ubuntu, and more people will release packages that work well with Sarge.
Infant mortality and life expectancy were both much worse back then. People did in fact die more. And what's more, disease was poorly understood, so a lot of what killed people back then, they didn't even know what it was.
Obviously, they're planning on paying for the thing with British currency.
Shit, and here I though Ocean's 11 was a realistic, well-researched movie. Well, looks like that trip I was planning to Vegas is called off...
Note: BSoD and BSD are not the same thing.
Now Tank can just upload the experience of having played the game into my cortex; no longer will I have to waste hours of my life mastering some shitty game!
And if you remember the old Transformers series, you'll notice if you watch them again that Optimus and George W. Bush apparently have the same dialog writers.
What does this mean?
Did the movie bomb? (Fared poorly at the box office?)
Was the movie da bomb? (Good, eg critically acclaimed?)
Did they bomb pearl harbor? (historically accurate!)
How about coating space suits with a layer of grease? The grease would trap the particles and keep them from penetrating into seals as quickly. When you go back to the base, the suit can go into a cleaner which would dissolve the grease and wash everything away.
Another idea would be a high-pressure shower and filtering and recycling the water.
Now I can go about delivering my candygrams.
Your highness, the peasants won't eat cookies?
What? They don't like cookies? Well, let them eat PIE!
What? An artist do something "gay"? Unthinkable!
If you mangle your English enough with metallic puns, are you in fact actually speaking manganese?
So when is Ocelot coming out? And how many big cats are left? Lion, lynx... lynx is overused and probably won't be picked... Any other names?
OK, I'll give you the one on the military technology. That one was pretty much sucked. However, wasn't that one of the few backup speakers?
That's the thing. I didn't go there to see that speaker. That's what I ended up seeing, because something else that I DID want to see wasn't happening when it was supposed to.
You were there 5 or 6 hours... huh... it sounds like you gave it a really fair shot.
At that point, I'd seen enough. I couldn't tell when anything was supposed to happen, and all indications were that whoever put this together had zero experience with organizing an event. Why should I continue to waste my time putting up with that kind of bullshit?
And the threats of physical abuse? Talk about unprofessional.
I don't like to mix business with pleasure, and punching the organizers would have definitely been pleasure. So OF COURSE I'm unprofessional. Charging people $50 for admission and then giving them SHIT is also unprofessional.
If you expect to be given then the world on a silver platter for FIVE BUCKS, you are sadly, sadly mistaken my friend. Heck, I don't know how I'd put on something like it for 5 bucks a head.
Well, you start by stripping your bedsheets and using them as projection screens for your presenters, most of whom were selected by walking down the hall of your dorm at college and saying, "Hey anyone want to give a talk on some kind of technology that they know something about?" Then you put up a web site that makes it look like you're professional, competent, maybe even cutting edge. Rent out a convention room at a Holiday Inn, and sell enough tickets to cover expenses. Seriously, I would have been disappointed if my ticket HAD cost $5, but I wouldn't have been pissed off. But for 10x that much, I feel robbed. Wanting to punch someone who robs you is understandable, isn't it?
But, the rest of it, I mean, come on. A/V problems are endemic to any event such as this.
Not if the people putting it together plan, prepare, and do some basic testing. If you go to a professionally produced presentation, it's fucking slick. If you go to some half-assed amateur bullshit hour, you get endemic problems. A/V tech is easy enough, if you're a supposed 1337 haxor you shouldn't be having problems getting a laptop to talk to a DLP.
I expected, for the $50 or so I paid to get in:
- Competent, knowledgable speakers. There might have been a few, but most of what I saw was amateur. The self-professed "military technology history expert" who maybe was 14 years old and obviously had no actual military service record takes the boobie prize.
- Presentations that didn't suck. (Maybe you should test whether your laptop can talk to the projector BEFORE the presentation begins!)
- A published, printed schedule that was accurate. And if they had to change the schedule, quit disseminating the outdated schedule!
After about 5-6 hours of this lameness, I got fed up and walked out. I wish I knew the person who organized it so I could punch him. For $5, it might have been an OK time, but for $50 I felt like I got conned by NotACon.
Just don't RTFA. If you never click the links for a RP story, he won't see any ad revenue from it.
I went to NotACon last year, and was very much unimpressed with it. It was small, obviously operating on a shoestring budget, and generally unprofessional. Last year I felt ripped off for paying to get in. The speakers they had presenting weren't all that knowledgable about their topics in most cases, had no polish or presentation skills, and their equipment setup as often as not wasn't working as intended, and the printed schedule of events was completely wrong. I'd go in to hear someone talk about a topic that I was interested in, and something completely different would be going on in the room, and then I'd ask someone and find out that the speaker I wanted to hear either canceled or was rescheduled for an earlier time and I'd missed them. I hope they've improved things for this year, but I won't be going to find out.
Making it line up neatly with copyright? Life of the owner, plus 75 years? That way, when copyright expires, the media will just self-destruct, and there will be nothing to fall back into the public domain. Of course, as we simply keep extending copyright, it'll mean that media will never self-destruct.
I don't get viruses, because my body runs on OS X and everyone knows there's no viruses that affect OS X.