Yeah, I do that too. Just hack together the most basic answer to the problem without worrying about the details, document heavily, send in the analysts and make corrections, rinse and repeat.
These are pretty obvious, but documentation and planning are something you need to stress.
Documentation is the most important, from business rules and operating procedures (this code gets backed up at this time every night) to the code itself. As a project manager, your job is to build a little box for the developers to work in. You want to make sure that all the important stuff is just a simple list of stuff to follow so they can concentrate on coding. Programmers are generally not good at scheduling or remembering to do mundane daily tasks. Get that stuff straight and you'll solve 50% of your day to day problems.
Planning is important. Make sure that there's a good plan that everyone's following. Plan naming conventions and folder/file systems for your code. Then, everyone knows where to look if they need to find something. Simple organization is important. As far as actual development, you need to have a broad plan for the goal of the project, what general steps need to be taken (initial planning, module coding, testing, beta, release, maintain) and do them in that order. You don't need to get crazy with project planning software either; what you want is results, not to dictate how the results occur.
To that line, this box you're building has to be open enough that your developers aren't too constrained to innovate. This means you have to make it kindof a fun challenge to document the code, plan the project, etc. Don't make it seem like it's some chore to document. Force them to pass their code around for a few weeks to work out the bugs; don't wait until you have to. Or start with some dumb easy project that is a small part of the larger problem, and make everyone do one little piece of the planning, then pass it to the other people.
Anyway, this stuff is pretty obvious management stuff. I can tell you that in my 6+ years of business experience with coding and coders, the most important thing is having naming conventions for your files and folders. It seems obvious but when you get a new developer in, he's not going to understand Module3.CreditWidget.x3.1211.c when it could just say "NumberVerifier.CreditCard.c".
The military logistics people have good ideas for that sort of stuff:
-A data element name consists of a prime word, a class word, and modifiers. -A prime word is the noun designation given to an entity identified in a data model. For example, a company may need to maintain information about customers, so an entity "Customer" could exist. The prime word for this entity would be called "Customer." The prime word identifies the object to which the data element refers. -Prime Word Modifier. Prime word modifiers are adjectives that further refine and categorize the prime word. They designate the name of a data subentity in the data model and distinguish it from other subentities of the same data entity. They are needed to distinguish that data subcategory from other subcategories of data represented by the data entity. For example, a company may be interested in information about two distinct groups of customers, "Retail Customers" and "Wholesale Customers." The prime word modifiers "Retail" and "Wholesale" are used to distinguish between these two types of customers - class word is a noun that prescribes a definition for a general category of data. A class word designates the category of data into which a data element fits. Examples of class words are: "Code," "Name," and "Quantity."
Yeah, it's a good idea. It could be like George L's for data. Really, there should be 1 standard fiber connector and you could use the same cables for your stereo, computer, peripherals, phone, data, etc. Then they could use a similar connector in a George L's type way for your electrics.
Wow, the world would be a lot simpler. It would be like communism or something.
Perhaps they are referring to old films and stuff that people have just started archiving with the advent of affordable telecine, etc. Or it could be that they are about to offically close the hole in digital using some ingenious new system and they want to remove the analog option completely first.
Soon, you won't be able to buy a new DVD or CD player, reciever, etc. that has analog inputs and outputs, since they won't be "certified". Another reason is that they (the big studios and publishing companies) really want to move over into video on demand style stuff as an industry and cut out the retailers and wholesalers and distributers who have acted as middlemen.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to control all information, entertainment or otherwise, for monetary and political gain.
And furthermore, Microsoft already has fast components in the OS for doing all the MS Office stuff. When you buy MS office, it just enables a lot of stuff and adds stuff like clipart, etc. Word is basically an extended Wordpad, which is an extended Notepad.
I don't know if you've used Outlook Web Access but it pretty much functions like Outlook only over the web. This has been in use since Exchange 2000, and really got good when 2003 came out.
There's also stuff like sharepoint which is Network office file sharing/workflow stuff. They are also integrating a lot of that stuff into exchange/outlook with stuff like Activities and Journal.
I wouldn't write off MSFT. Google might be everyone's baby, but Microsoft is running on 95% of the desktops out there and they have a monopoly on new PC installs. Speed is a big deal for most users and Staroffice won't be able to keep up with native office support built into the OS. At least for now.
Do it anyway: if you're running around with your head chopped off, the department will be expanded soon. Get your stuff documented and it will save you time later. I don't know how many times I've had to go out on the internet and spend 5 mintues downloading a common driver that I should have had on the network already. With proper planning and documentation, you can have everything you need at your fingertips, stuff you wouldn't have thought of in the first place. So work harder now, don't worry so much about the day to day stuff, and you'll build yourself a great little position in the company where you can solve just about any problem so quickly that you hardly have to work at all.
If you are running around with your head chopped off, your system is not set up correctly. Computers are supposed to make life easier!
Now, I know what you're about to say; "users", "managers" etc. Don't worry about them. Close out the help desk calls without talking to the user. You can do about 1 in 10 without risking retribution. Ignore stupid management requests. Blame miscommunication. Buy time where you can to get your system set up correctly and don't sweat the details. Don't read slashdot for a few weeks.
This development represents a step backwards. Think about WWII-era dossiers and secret police and stuff like that. Information is powerful for a government who wishes to utilize it. It can be a powerful force of good but the potential for misuse is very high.
Because if the wrong person gets into power, he/she can take this information, mine it, and then act swiftly to remove from society anyone who opposes the views of the government. The result of these purges would be to cement the leadership for a long time, increase public support (although it may forment revolution underneath) and create a society of fear.
Such things have already been happening in America, what with the "Homoland Security" department and credit bureaus, etc. To see this development in Europe should not be surprising.
The funny thing is that Europe has experienced this sort of thing in the past, with the rule of the Nazis and in eastern europe under the iron curtain (not to mention other fascists and going back in history even further, emperors). You'd think they'd see it coming and avoid it.
The problem is that programs like this always start with some benevolent idea and turn into some tool for a sick, powerhungry individual or group.
Look at the credit bureaus in America again: a file is kept on every individual in America and rates your history of employment, credit, etc. Banks use it to literally determine the price they charge you for their services (in this case, credit; although insurance companies, hospitals, and even _employers_ use this data to determine your eligibility). This system is horribly broken and keeps people who make mistakes early in life down while the upper class really are not participants in the system (having cash to pay for most things).
There are numerous other examples of systems such as educational transcripts, medical records, driving records, etc. that drastically affect our everyday lives.
These systems are all so very broken with old and outdated and incorrect data that a HUGE amount of lost productivity occurs everyday as people try to correct or update their data, etc. There is no legally prescribed process to appeal data in many of these systems. Even the system in place for credit is highly flawed because you are considered to be "guilty" of bad credit until you actively defend yourself to the credit bureaus and get them to correct your file.
To get children into this is simply sealing their fate from day one. If you are born in a lower class family, you will stay there. There is no possibility for advancement, even after you're an adult and you work to try to better yourself beyond what you were when you were your parent's children.
This is a very very bad thing, and I don't think the benefits will ever outweigh the possible risks. It's here, however, and everyone needs to know that you are being watched; every move you make, in ANY country, will be recorded.
What will you do? Will you bow down to the system, subjugate yourself to the increasingly oppressive laws? Or will you choose not to, and ruin your life and lives of your family members for generations to come?
You just need a nice easy API for the driver so people making applications can talk to it easily. And then have the standard shell stuff show up automatically also, like Alt-F4 in windows and stuff.
I have a thousand ideas, I just need to get my hands on one of them.
It's sort of like an inside-out touch screen. The key is the screen instead of the screen the key.
I have to admit that when I saw this, I saw the next big thing since the color inkjet for computing.
We could sit here for hours and not come up with all the clever uses for this thing... Are they a public company, becuase I'd like to get some stock before they license this thing to Apple;)
Turn your back on spam. Use the best protection you can, hit delete, change emails once in a while, don't post your primary to suspicious sites or public places. It's pretty each. I don't get a lot of spam.
It's a lot like weather, if you just live with it it's not that bad. I used to get all freaked out about those profiteering on the internet, because I was around a little before it really got commercial (when Mosaic came out and playboy.com started;))
It's symptomatic of our society--we're a marketing based economy. Almost everyone already has most of what they NEED here in America (food, shelter, medicine, etc.) therefore it's necessary to TEMPT us with things we just WANT and the essence of marketing is WANT. Need doesn't require extensive marketing to match up potential customers, they come looking for you.
Turn your back on spam and all marketing, don't buy into it if you want it to go away. But you should know just by looking at your friends and relatives that it's not going to go away. Everyone buys something because of a brand name or something like that. Nike shoes, Pepsi Cola, pft. We are all part of the problem so we can't really complain.
However, what I didn't like especially about your post was the comment about getting "lawmakers" involved. Ahem, what you are saying is taking the greatest invention furthering freedom of expression and thought and speech since the printing press and REGULATING it because you don't want to delete a few emails?! The price you pay for freedom is high isn't. You poor thing, having to suffer for like 2 or 3 minutes a day sorting through your email.
WE CAN'T WIN THIS WAR. Just like we can't "WIN" the "War on Fear" as I like to call the current stance of the U.S. Law Enforcement/Miltary/Political triumverate. This isn't a war on "Spam", this is a war on "Annoyance." You might as well start writing letters to your congressperson so maybe they can make it illegal for people to talk on a cell phone in a public place or, how about this, have a dog that barks or a rice burner with a loud stereo.
That's all annoying stuff but guess what, WE PUT UP WITH IT. We're ADULTS and it's just a part of life. If you let every little nitpicking thing get to you then you will die a nervous wreck!
Spam, as I see it, is just an annoyance.
What I DON'T like is Spyware. THAT'S a legitimate thing to declare war on. It invades your computer, sends your private information to others, makes a computer unusable, sends your web browser to it's own pages. That's an INVASION. Annoyances, well.. I can live with those.
Please don't get the law involved with annoyances. Or next thing you know, they'll take your dog away. Then your computer, so you can't annoy me with your silly wars.
"In the United States from 1980 through 1995, a total of 1318 deaths were attributed to lightning, (average: 82 deaths per year {range: 53-100 deaths})."
Do you go around all day worrying about being struck down by lightning? No? Then why, on earth, are you worrying about dying in a way that's just as unlikely?
Life's too short people. Don't throw it away living in fear. That's what they want you to do. Go out, keep going, have fun.
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Terabytes are about 400-500 bucks for cheap drives.... I don't think it's storage that's really the problem.
Stop buying Music and DVDS!! They are a money-powered machine, not any one person or group of people. If you take away the power that feeds the machine, it stops.
It's really quite simple. DON'T BUY CDs. DON'T BUY VIDEOS. DON'T GO TO THE MOVIE THEATER. And make all your friends do the same.
Then we'll have what's called a "movement". "We don't need your products enough to bow down to political pressure to restrict our freedoms."
It's not like you're DYING for something, you're just saying you're not willing to support an evil, corrupt industry any more. Very easy, think about it, think about what you're losing (crappy stuff), then do it.:)
Yeah, this stuff happens daily, probably hundreds of times. Yesterday Bank of America bought MBNA for $35 BILLION which is a really big deal and actually will have a large effect on the american economy.
What is money anyway? It's just a number in the bank's computer system! Hello, sir; money is not based on reality anymore. It's just a printed slip of paper that the bank prints (the fed, or the bank at "the top" of the pyramid) and you believe in.
Furthermore:
Your identity is not real. It's just a number in the IRS's system. A name, just a few letters that symbolize what? YOU? What is you? The only thing you have of inherent value is your ability to work and think and entertain.
I say OPEN up the id, I don't care. Use my ID for whatever you want. I want to see the whole thing crash down on itself. I never protect my identity.
Here's my info: Use as you will, if you want to risk it:
Richard G. Harrison 1104 S. Willson Ave, #C Bozeman, MT 59015
SSN: 567-39-2315 B-Day: 09-16-1974 Mother's Maiden Name: Whitacre The password I use at every site: pencil Where they require a number, it's 9pencil or pencil9, eight or more pencil99 or 99pencil.
(from the movie Wargames, heh, I get a kick out of it)
Go ahead, log into BofA and get into my account. Transfer ALL my money to your account (there's over $4000.00 in the account, plus my savings.)
I guarantee personally right now that that money will be replaced. IT COSTS THE BANK NOTHING TO REPLACE MONEY! Sure, they'll hunt down the target account, which was just opened with a fake ID in Arizona somewhere, or whatever you want to do to stay safe from the probing authorities.
Hey, how about a Visa card?! 4872890128142786 exp: 12/08 security number (CVN): 972
Use my address as the billing address! STEAL AWAY! Go for it, take my number and go buy something. Go to Amazon, go to Dell.com and get yourself a new computer! I WON'T PAY A DIME OUT OF MY POCKET! Why? Because the MONEY NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE! After the charge is made, the credit card company will send a promise to pay to the "merchant bank" of the company. Then they will run some sort of nightly batch on all the day's transactions and figure out how much money they need to cover the transactions. At this point, interest begins being charged to my account, but not added to the account because of grace period.. the bank doesn't actually pay anyone though, they just, after running the batch, subtract x dollars from their number and then add x dollars to the other guys number. But where did they get a number? Well, that's right folks, the borrowed it from the guys who PRINTED THE MONEY, the feds. Well, if they are a smaller bank they probably went thru a bigger bank which went thru a bigger bank which went thru the Fed. The fed says, sure, we'll print this money for you, but you have to "GIVE IT BACK" *nudge *nudge* "Sometime in the future" "plus interest". But really, it never gets paid back. Because the fed then goes and sells these things called "T BILLS" which are basically a stack of those promises the big bank made to pay the money the fed printed for them back. So, they sell these "notes" off and they don't have to worry about getting the money back. and it gets more interwoven and complicated until it's all just a mess of shit bought and sold a thousand times with money that hasn't and never will exist.
So anyway, it's all pretty much meaningless. So go ahead and "steal" my money, but really, the bank is going to give it back to me because it costs them nothing.
So who loses; well.. Dell Computer loses, but they have that factored into their "profit margin" (or "money printer" for the layman) so it's not a problem.
And you get a new computer.
So, you see, I have no reason to protect my identity, in fact, it would be better for the economy if NO ONE did, because money would be able to be bought and sold even more times with money that never has and never will exist, which is called "economic expansion".
WEE
Anyway, this was a work of fiction, that's not my name, SSN, or card and you shouldn't have read this far anyway.
(The antithesis of which are the Virtues which the sins are against (in parenthesis)).
"Sin creates [an inclination] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root."
Etc.
The idea is that you have to balance out your sins with good deeds. You talk about how "everyone is greedy". Maybe you've killed your boss so you can make more money. Maybe you've sold deadly drugs to make money easily. Somehow I doubt it.
You see, you place moral limits on your greed. Each and every person has their own idea about how much greed is too much, how much lust is too much, etc.
What the 60s did was shake everything up. Society, the government, television, churches, parents were all telling them what to do; they were being drafted for service in the military for a pointless political war, a president was assassinated, race relations were fuming. The 60's were a horrible time.
I think the hippies had some things right: Love is definitely better than Envy and Anger. I think they did too much of a lot of other things, too. But the hippies weren't everyone; they were the far edge of reason that helped pull society a little in their direction, a little away from the burning abyss of white christian oil power in this nation.
There are many ways to think, and a government which places restrictions on thinking limits societies' ability to naturally evolve into something greater.
Right now, the problem is that America is full of greed and lust and all of these things; much more than *I* am comfortable with. And it's about you and me. As I said earlier, we all have different Ideas. All I can do is do my best to share mine with others, and hopefully they understand what I mean and reciprocate so I can understand them.
That's not to ask, what difference does a name make anyway? What should be important to them is whether or not someone has a gun or a bomb and intends to use it. I don't think knowing someone's name will help fight terrorism. However, it will help the police link people together categorically. As in, this guy here goes to the same McDonald's as this guy here at the same time, so they must be up to something. The real problem is that this information will be farrrrrrr too useful for too many branches of the government and private sector. It will eventually just turn us into pure processors and consumers because they will know everything we want and need before we do and provide it. They will know every bad thing we will do before we even decide to do it and prevent it. The question isn't whether or not we will have an ID card, the question is: what are the rules? Society don't care about carrying an ID card but if there are rules involved that society don't agree with than society will circumvent the system in order to break those rules. The problem with this bill is that it was passed because it got slipped in some shit that no one bothered reading, which means the media didn't pick up on it until it was too late. When shit like that happens, you get scared because it seems like people aren't going to be held accountable for their actions, which means that those who make the law are above the law, which, in the eyes of history, equates to totalitarianism.
Luckly for us Americans, the framers of the great country wrote this thing called the constitution which provides a three way power regulation. One is the executive branch. One is the legistlative, which was responsible for the underhandedness in the first place. One is the judicial branch which unfortunately is going to be populated with the choices of the executive branch. So really, it's up to the executive branch, the president, GW Bush.
He used to be an alcoholic before he tried coke and then God told him to be president.
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What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?
Yeah, I do that too. Just hack together the most basic answer to the problem without worrying about the details, document heavily, send in the analysts and make corrections, rinse and repeat.
These are pretty obvious, but documentation and planning are something you need to stress.
Documentation is the most important, from business rules and operating procedures (this code gets backed up at this time every night) to the code itself. As a project manager, your job is to build a little box for the developers to work in. You want to make sure that all the important stuff is just a simple list of stuff to follow so they can concentrate on coding. Programmers are generally not good at scheduling or remembering to do mundane daily tasks. Get that stuff straight and you'll solve 50% of your day to day problems.
Planning is important. Make sure that there's a good plan that everyone's following. Plan naming conventions and folder/file systems for your code. Then, everyone knows where to look if they need to find something. Simple organization is important. As far as actual development, you need to have a broad plan for the goal of the project, what general steps need to be taken (initial planning, module coding, testing, beta, release, maintain) and do them in that order. You don't need to get crazy with project planning software either; what you want is results, not to dictate how the results occur.
To that line, this box you're building has to be open enough that your developers aren't too constrained to innovate. This means you have to make it kindof a fun challenge to document the code, plan the project, etc. Don't make it seem like it's some chore to document. Force them to pass their code around for a few weeks to work out the bugs; don't wait until you have to. Or start with some dumb easy project that is a small part of the larger problem, and make everyone do one little piece of the planning, then pass it to the other people.
Anyway, this stuff is pretty obvious management stuff. I can tell you that in my 6+ years of business experience with coding and coders, the most important thing is having naming conventions for your files and folders. It seems obvious but when you get a new developer in, he's not going to understand Module3.CreditWidget.x3.1211.c when it could just say "NumberVerifier.CreditCard.c".
The military logistics people have good ideas for that sort of stuff:
-A data element name consists of a prime word, a class word, and modifiers.
-A prime word is the noun designation given to an entity identified in a data model. For example,
a company may need to maintain information about customers, so an entity "Customer" could exist. The prime word for this entity would be called "Customer." The prime word identifies the object to which the data element refers.
-Prime Word Modifier. Prime word modifiers are adjectives that further refine and categorize the
prime word. They designate the name of a data subentity in the data model and distinguish it from other subentities of the same data entity. They are needed to distinguish that data subcategory from other subcategories of data represented by the data entity. For example, a company may be interested in information about two distinct groups of customers, "Retail Customers" and "Wholesale Customers." The prime word modifiers "Retail" and "Wholesale" are used to distinguish between these two types of customers
- class word is a noun that prescribes a definition for a general category of data. A class
word designates the category of data into which a data element fits. Examples of class words are: "Code," "Name," and "Quantity."
Etc.
Check out Department of Defense Data Element Standardization Procedures
Good luck.
Yeah, it's a good idea. It could be like George L's for data. Really, there should be 1 standard fiber connector and you could use the same cables for your stereo, computer, peripherals, phone, data, etc. Then they could use a similar connector in a George L's type way for your electrics.
Wow, the world would be a lot simpler. It would be like communism or something.
Perhaps they are referring to old films and stuff that people have just started archiving with the advent of affordable telecine, etc. Or it could be that they are about to offically close the hole in digital using some ingenious new system and they want to remove the analog option completely first.
Soon, you won't be able to buy a new DVD or CD player, reciever, etc. that has analog inputs and outputs, since they won't be "certified". Another reason is that they (the big studios and publishing companies) really want to move over into video on demand style stuff as an industry and cut out the retailers and wholesalers and distributers who have acted as middlemen.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to control all information, entertainment or otherwise, for monetary and political gain.
And furthermore, Microsoft already has fast components in the OS for doing all the MS Office stuff. When you buy MS office, it just enables a lot of stuff and adds stuff like clipart, etc. Word is basically an extended Wordpad, which is an extended Notepad.
I don't know if you've used Outlook Web Access but it pretty much functions like Outlook only over the web. This has been in use since Exchange 2000, and really got good when 2003 came out.
There's also stuff like sharepoint which is Network office file sharing/workflow stuff. They are also integrating a lot of that stuff into exchange/outlook with stuff like Activities and Journal.
I wouldn't write off MSFT. Google might be everyone's baby, but Microsoft is running on 95% of the desktops out there and they have a monopoly on new PC installs. Speed is a big deal for most users and Staroffice won't be able to keep up with native office support built into the OS. At least for now.
Sadly, that time is not always provided.
Do it anyway: if you're running around with your head chopped off, the department will be expanded soon. Get your stuff documented and it will save you time later. I don't know how many times I've had to go out on the internet and spend 5 mintues downloading a common driver that I should have had on the network already. With proper planning and documentation, you can have everything you need at your fingertips, stuff you wouldn't have thought of in the first place. So work harder now, don't worry so much about the day to day stuff, and you'll build yourself a great little position in the company where you can solve just about any problem so quickly that you hardly have to work at all.
If you are running around with your head chopped off, your system is not set up correctly. Computers are supposed to make life easier!
Now, I know what you're about to say; "users", "managers" etc. Don't worry about them. Close out the help desk calls without talking to the user. You can do about 1 in 10 without risking retribution. Ignore stupid management requests. Blame miscommunication. Buy time where you can to get your system set up correctly and don't sweat the details. Don't read slashdot for a few weeks.
You can do it.
...your file keeps you.
This development represents a step backwards. Think about WWII-era dossiers and secret police and stuff like that. Information is powerful for a government who wishes to utilize it. It can be a powerful force of good but the potential for misuse is very high.
Because if the wrong person gets into power, he/she can take this information, mine it, and then act swiftly to remove from society anyone who opposes the views of the government. The result of these purges would be to cement the leadership for a long time, increase public support (although it may forment revolution underneath) and create a society of fear.
Such things have already been happening in America, what with the "Homoland Security" department and credit bureaus, etc. To see this development in Europe should not be surprising.
The funny thing is that Europe has experienced this sort of thing in the past, with the rule of the Nazis and in eastern europe under the iron curtain (not to mention other fascists and going back in history even further, emperors). You'd think they'd see it coming and avoid it.
The problem is that programs like this always start with some benevolent idea and turn into some tool for a sick, powerhungry individual or group.
Look at the credit bureaus in America again: a file is kept on every individual in America and rates your history of employment, credit, etc. Banks use it to literally determine the price they charge you for their services (in this case, credit; although insurance companies, hospitals, and even _employers_ use this data to determine your eligibility). This system is horribly broken and keeps people who make mistakes early in life down while the upper class really are not participants in the system (having cash to pay for most things).
There are numerous other examples of systems such as educational transcripts, medical records, driving records, etc. that drastically affect our everyday lives.
These systems are all so very broken with old and outdated and incorrect data that a HUGE amount of lost productivity occurs everyday as people try to correct or update their data, etc. There is no legally prescribed process to appeal data in many of these systems. Even the system in place for credit is highly flawed because you are considered to be "guilty" of bad credit until you actively defend yourself to the credit bureaus and get them to correct your file.
To get children into this is simply sealing their fate from day one. If you are born in a lower class family, you will stay there. There is no possibility for advancement, even after you're an adult and you work to try to better yourself beyond what you were when you were your parent's children.
This is a very very bad thing, and I don't think the benefits will ever outweigh the possible risks. It's here, however, and everyone needs to know that you are being watched; every move you make, in ANY country, will be recorded.
What will you do? Will you bow down to the system, subjugate yourself to the increasingly oppressive laws? Or will you choose not to, and ruin your life and lives of your family members for generations to come?
Wow, this sounds a lot like Soviet Russia.
But they say we're free.
They can say whatever they want, and as long as people believe it it's truth.
It's the same classic thing over and over again.
What are you going to do about it?
Also a coral cache once it bogs down to nothing..
v forvendetta/V_trailer_640_reflect.mov
I love this thing
http://pdl.warnerbros.com.nyud.net:8090/wbmovies/
Wee
Yeah, I think they will find some new reasons to hate Apache in about 3 minutes...
Coral Cache of the PDF...
You just need a nice easy API for the driver so people making applications can talk to it easily. And then have the standard shell stuff show up automatically also, like Alt-F4 in windows and stuff.
I have a thousand ideas, I just need to get my hands on one of them.
It's sort of like an inside-out touch screen. The key is the screen instead of the screen the key.
;)
I have to admit that when I saw this, I saw the next big thing since the color inkjet for computing.
We could sit here for hours and not come up with all the clever uses for this thing... Are they a public company, becuase I'd like to get some stock before they license this thing to Apple
Turn your back on spam. Use the best protection you can, hit delete, change emails once in a while, don't post your primary to suspicious sites or public places. It's pretty each. I don't get a lot of spam.
;))
It's a lot like weather, if you just live with it it's not that bad. I used to get all freaked out about those profiteering on the internet, because I was around a little before it really got commercial (when Mosaic came out and playboy.com started
It's symptomatic of our society--we're a marketing based economy. Almost everyone already has most of what they NEED here in America (food, shelter, medicine, etc.) therefore it's necessary to TEMPT us with things we just WANT and the essence of marketing is WANT. Need doesn't require extensive marketing to match up potential customers, they come looking for you.
Turn your back on spam and all marketing, don't buy into it if you want it to go away. But you should know just by looking at your friends and relatives that it's not going to go away. Everyone buys something because of a brand name or something like that. Nike shoes, Pepsi Cola, pft. We are all part of the problem so we can't really complain.
However, what I didn't like especially about your post was the comment about getting "lawmakers" involved. Ahem, what you are saying is taking the greatest invention furthering freedom of expression and thought and speech since the printing press and REGULATING it because you don't want to delete a few emails?! The price you pay for freedom is high isn't. You poor thing, having to suffer for like 2 or 3 minutes a day sorting through your email.
WE CAN'T WIN THIS WAR. Just like we can't "WIN" the "War on Fear" as I like to call the current stance of the U.S. Law Enforcement/Miltary/Political triumverate. This isn't a war on "Spam", this is a war on "Annoyance." You might as well start writing letters to your congressperson so maybe they can make it illegal for people to talk on a cell phone in a public place or, how about this, have a dog that barks or a rice burner with a loud stereo.
That's all annoying stuff but guess what, WE PUT UP WITH IT. We're ADULTS and it's just a part of life. If you let every little nitpicking thing get to you then you will die a nervous wreck!
Spam, as I see it, is just an annoyance.
What I DON'T like is Spyware. THAT'S a legitimate thing to declare war on. It invades your computer, sends your private information to others, makes a computer unusable, sends your web browser to it's own pages. That's an INVASION.
Annoyances, well.. I can live with those.
Please don't get the law involved with annoyances. Or next thing you know, they'll take your dog away. Then your computer, so you can't annoy me with your silly wars.
"In the United States from 1980 through 1995, a total of 1318 deaths were attributed to lightning, (average: 82 deaths per year {range: 53-100 deaths})."
Do you go around all day worrying about being struck down by lightning? No? Then why, on earth, are you worrying about dying in a way that's just as unlikely?
Life's too short people. Don't throw it away living in fear. That's what they want you to do. Go out, keep going, have fun.
Terabytes are about 400-500 bucks for cheap drives.... I don't think it's storage that's really the problem.
Stop buying Music and DVDS!! They are a money-powered machine, not any one person or group of people. If you take away the power that feeds the machine, it stops.
:)
It's really quite simple. DON'T BUY CDs. DON'T BUY VIDEOS. DON'T GO TO THE MOVIE THEATER. And make all your friends do the same.
Then we'll have what's called a "movement". "We don't need your products enough to bow down to political pressure to restrict our freedoms."
It's not like you're DYING for something, you're just saying you're not willing to support an evil, corrupt industry any more. Very easy, think about it, think about what you're losing (crappy stuff), then do it.
Cheers.
Yeah, this stuff happens daily, probably hundreds of times. Yesterday Bank of America bought MBNA for $35 BILLION which is a really big deal and actually will have a large effect on the american economy.
There's definitely crack involved somewhere here..
Here's the Coral cache of the PDF, got just in time ;) :
i es/brickjournal1.pdf
http://www.bzpower.com.nyud.net:8090/Imaging/stor
What is money anyway? It's just a number in the bank's computer system! Hello, sir; money is not based on reality anymore. It's just a printed slip of paper that the bank prints (the fed, or the bank at "the top" of the pyramid) and you believe in.
Furthermore:
Your identity is not real. It's just a number in the IRS's system. A name, just a few letters that symbolize what? YOU? What is you? The only thing you have of inherent value is your ability to work and think and entertain.
I say OPEN up the id, I don't care. Use my ID for whatever you want. I want to see the whole thing crash down on itself. I never protect my identity.
Here's my info: Use as you will, if you want to risk it:
Richard G. Harrison
1104 S. Willson Ave, #C
Bozeman, MT 59015
SSN: 567-39-2315
B-Day: 09-16-1974
Mother's Maiden Name: Whitacre
The password I use at every site: pencil
Where they require a number, it's 9pencil or pencil9, eight or more pencil99 or 99pencil.
(from the movie Wargames, heh, I get a kick out of it)
Go ahead, log into BofA and get into my account. Transfer ALL my money to your account (there's over $4000.00 in the account, plus my savings.)
I guarantee personally right now that that money will be replaced. IT COSTS THE BANK NOTHING TO REPLACE MONEY! Sure, they'll hunt down the target account, which was just opened with a fake ID in Arizona somewhere, or whatever you want to do to stay safe from the probing authorities.
Hey, how about a Visa card?!
4872890128142786
exp: 12/08
security number (CVN): 972
Use my address as the billing address! STEAL AWAY! Go for it, take my number and go buy something. Go to Amazon, go to Dell.com and get yourself a new computer! I WON'T PAY A DIME OUT OF MY POCKET! Why? Because the MONEY NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE! After the charge is made, the credit card company will send a promise to pay to the "merchant bank" of the company. Then they will run some sort of nightly batch on all the day's transactions and figure out how much money they need to cover the transactions. At this point, interest begins being charged to my account, but not added to the account because of grace period.. the bank doesn't actually pay anyone though, they just, after running the batch, subtract x dollars from their number and then add x dollars to the other guys number. But where did they get a number? Well, that's right folks, the borrowed it from the guys who PRINTED THE MONEY, the feds. Well, if they are a smaller bank they probably went thru a bigger bank which went thru a bigger bank which went thru the Fed. The fed says, sure, we'll print this money for you, but you have to "GIVE IT BACK" *nudge *nudge* "Sometime in the future" "plus interest". But really, it never gets paid back. Because the fed then goes and sells these things called "T BILLS" which are basically a stack of those promises the big bank made to pay the money the fed printed for them back. So, they sell these "notes" off and they don't have to worry about getting the money back. and it gets more interwoven and complicated until it's all just a mess of shit bought and sold a thousand times with money that hasn't and never will exist.
So anyway, it's all pretty much meaningless. So go ahead and "steal" my money, but really, the bank is going to give it back to me because it costs them nothing.
So who loses; well.. Dell Computer loses, but they have that factored into their "profit margin" (or "money printer" for the layman) so it's not a problem.
And you get a new computer.
So, you see, I have no reason to protect my identity, in fact, it would be better for the economy if NO ONE did, because money would be able to be bought and sold even more times with money that never has and never will exist, which is called "economic expansion".
WEE
Anyway, this was a work of fiction, that's not my name, SSN, or card and you shouldn't have read this far anyway.
That's cool. Real cool. I love Yahoo.
...and will then evolve into a shiny plastic black ball with a window that says "My Sources Say Yes"
People are motivated by what I like to call the Seven Deadly Sins:
Greed (Generosity)
Lust (Self Control)
Sloth (Zeal)
Anger (Kindness)
Pride (Humility)
Envy (Love)
Gluttony (Temperance)
(The antithesis of which are the Virtues which the sins are against (in parenthesis)).
"Sin creates [an inclination] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root."
Etc.
The idea is that you have to balance out your sins with good deeds. You talk about how "everyone is greedy". Maybe you've killed your boss so you can make more money. Maybe you've sold deadly drugs to make money easily. Somehow I doubt it.
You see, you place moral limits on your greed. Each and every person has their own idea about how much greed is too much, how much lust is too much, etc.
What the 60s did was shake everything up. Society, the government, television, churches, parents were all telling them what to do; they were being drafted for service in the military for a pointless political war, a president was assassinated, race relations were fuming. The 60's were a horrible time.
I think the hippies had some things right: Love is definitely better than Envy and Anger. I think they did too much of a lot of other things, too. But the hippies weren't everyone; they were the far edge of reason that helped pull society a little in their direction, a little away from the burning abyss of white christian oil power in this nation.
There are many ways to think, and a government which places restrictions on thinking limits societies' ability to naturally evolve into something greater.
Right now, the problem is that America is full of greed and lust and all of these things; much more than *I* am comfortable with. And it's about you and me. As I said earlier, we all have different Ideas. All I can do is do my best to share mine with others, and hopefully they understand what I mean and reciprocate so I can understand them.
That's not to ask, what difference does a name make anyway? What should be important to them is whether or not someone has a gun or a bomb and intends to use it. I don't think knowing someone's name will help fight terrorism. However, it will help the police link people together categorically. As in, this guy here goes to the same McDonald's as this guy here at the same time, so they must be up to something. The real problem is that this information will be farrrrrrr too useful for too many branches of the government and private sector. It will eventually just turn us into pure processors and consumers because they will know everything we want and need before we do and provide it. They will know every bad thing we will do before we even decide to do it and prevent it. The question isn't whether or not we will have an ID card, the question is: what are the rules? Society don't care about carrying an ID card but if there are rules involved that society don't agree with than society will circumvent the system in order to break those rules. The problem with this bill is that it was passed because it got slipped in some shit that no one bothered reading, which means the media didn't pick up on it until it was too late. When shit like that happens, you get scared because it seems like people aren't going to be held accountable for their actions, which means that those who make the law are above the law, which, in the eyes of history, equates to totalitarianism.
Luckly for us Americans, the framers of the great country wrote this thing called the constitution which provides a three way power regulation. One is the executive branch. One is the legistlative, which was responsible for the underhandedness in the first place. One is the judicial branch which unfortunately is going to be populated with the choices of the executive branch. So really, it's up to the executive branch, the president, GW Bush.
He used to be an alcoholic before he tried coke and then God told him to be president.