In early 1994, I introduced the concept of the "Porn Barrier" as a way to measure bandwidth.
The Porn Barrier is breached when a home broadband connection can download porn faster than you consume it.
For many people, a simple broadband connection has already passed their Porn Barrier, and I congratulate them.
However, after years of caffiene, video games, and desensitation via usenet and other sources, my personal Porn Barrier is still well beyond current home bandwidth availability.
This article gives me hope that one day, I too shall know the joys of passing my own Porn Barrier in the privacy of my own home.
Maybe then I can finally put that regretful day in the campus computer lab behind me, aside from the fact that I'm legally required to register when I move so that the police can notify my neighbors.
Until you got to the part about code monkeys. What makes you think that American workers are smarter than Indian workers? I've met plenty of Indians that are very smart and better educated than I am.
GODDAMN IT.
Yes, Indians are just as smart as Americans. They have magic universities which are the best in the universe.
That doesn't mean that a great deal of the contracting companies out there aren't filled with lousy programmers. In fact, you may recall a lot of crappy IT school graduates passing themselves off as programmers when they had 2 weeks of Visual Basic training. You think the same thing hasn't happened in India? So when someone says "People are America are better engineers/aren't code monkeys/can design", its not a freaking comment on the genetic inferiority of the indian people, its because when you have a person in front of you, you know their skills and can communicate your requirements better.
Much more than someone on the phone saying "I have many MANY skilled people behind the curtain. Send me your EXTREMELY EXPLICIT requirements and I will code it." then later you find crap in the code like:
while (majuaba5) {//printf("baaba duba bababe majuba 5");
majuaba=majuaba+1; }
Those people are being exploited! Imagine, expecting those poor, pitiful people to work a job and earn money to support themselves! Quit taking advantage of them and let them starve to death as free, unexploited people!
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ONE GODDAMN SECOND.
Basicially, you're saying "Companies SHOULD be able to make them work 12 hour days, use child labor, use PRISON (aka slave) labor, etc, because otherwise, they wouldn't get any of our dollars!"
That is the arguement used to justify all worker mistreatment from slavery to pre-unionized factory labor. Happened a lot during the great depression.
"Why, they should work 16 hour days, 6 days a week in my factory, otherwise they'd be out on the street, or working on a farm for 1/5 the money! We're just trying to help them better themselves!"
The guy has no clue about D20 on PC, as exemplified by the comments he responded to in the article. That, and he has an affinity for twenty-five cent words, when a nickle word will do.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I started to write something similar, then saw your comment.
Because that's really important. If glazed, I think a documented and rigidly tested security model will quickly overcome user error. If creme-filled, then clearly the user experience must be restricted in favor of a secure system.
Surely its a trade-off deal. People aren't being sheep, they are accepting that the company collects their data in return for gaining reward points/discounts. And for most people (myself included), that is an acceptable deal.
Wrong, they don't give you a "discount" for information, they penalize you for not having a card. Unless you think that a 2 liter bottle of soda is a fair deal at 1.69. ("With your mega-value card, only $.99! A.70 savings that we'll print at the bottom of your receipt!")
This is an biggest outrage. The only thinging that these companies will accomplish is the suppression of the super legitimate business methods for 100% legal legitimate businesses. This is shameful.
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Last week, my 7 year old nephew stole a 1982 crown vic, ran over at least 5 people, threw a grenade at some cops, and after getting shot, healed himself by having sex with a prostitute.
Bad parenting? Perhaps, but I discovered later that my nephew had finished playing the copy of Grand Theft Auto III he had received for this birthday. Yes, it could be a coincidence, but this about this: How else could a 7 year old child have learned that banging a prostitute can heal wounds except through that video game?
Are we going to continue to allow these games to poison the minds of our children? I pray that we shall not.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
Jackson doesn't do crap like that. From the first movie, you knew that the theatrical version would come out 6 months later, and the extended was coming out after that.
Sure, there might be a bundled version in a year or two with all three versions, but Jackson won't add stuff to the film.
If it were lucas, we'd have staggered two month releases of:
LOTR - VHS version LOTR - VHS widescreen version LOTR - VHS "THX" widescreen version LOTR - DVD LOTR - VHS Special Edition LOTR - DVD Special Edition LOTR - DVD Movie of the Year version LOTR - VHS Extended Edition LOTR - DVD Extended Edition
All of them not announced until the previous version had been snatched up by burned fans.
Believe it or not, I think Windows 2000 / Windows XP is as stable as linux / Freebsd. I didn't say better, I didn't say more secure... but I think the stablish issue is mute.
I've always looked at it that releasing your software under a free license is a way to "pay" the community for your use of linux, your distributionm gcc, xfree, etc.
You can download and use those programs for no money, and the way you one day pay it back is to submit the code you're able to do.
I'd use the phrase "From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs", but that brings up scary images so I won't.
Try searching for that in google and then do it in yahoo. Looks like Yahoo has pulled ahead until the bastards figure out how to trick the crawler again.
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Generations pretty much voided any chance of a TNG prequel with the original crew.
Lets not forget that they're all 90 years old now.
sabotage
Just to slightly correct you, sabotage is not a non-violent protest. Sabotage is very violent indirectly.
In early 1994, I introduced the concept of the "Porn Barrier" as a way to measure bandwidth.
The Porn Barrier is breached when a home broadband connection can download porn faster than you consume it.
For many people, a simple broadband connection has already passed their Porn Barrier, and I congratulate them.
However, after years of caffiene, video games, and desensitation via usenet and other sources, my personal Porn Barrier is still well beyond current home bandwidth availability.
This article gives me hope that one day, I too shall know the joys of passing my own Porn Barrier in the privacy of my own home.
Maybe then I can finally put that regretful day in the campus computer lab behind me, aside from the fact that I'm legally required to register when I move so that the police can notify my neighbors.
The future is bright!
GODDAMN IT.
Yes, Indians are just as smart as Americans. They have magic universities which are the best in the universe.
That doesn't mean that a great deal of the contracting companies out there aren't filled with lousy programmers. In fact, you may recall a lot of crappy IT school graduates passing themselves off as programmers when they had 2 weeks of Visual Basic training. You think the same thing hasn't happened in India? So when someone says "People are America are better engineers/aren't code monkeys/can design", its not a freaking comment on the genetic inferiority of the indian people, its because when you have a person in front of you, you know their skills and can communicate your requirements better.
Much more than someone on the phone saying "I have many MANY skilled people behind the curtain. Send me your EXTREMELY EXPLICIT requirements and I will code it." then later you find crap in the code like:
while (majuaba5)
{
majuaba=majuaba+1;
}
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ONE GODDAMN SECOND.
Basicially, you're saying "Companies SHOULD be able to make them work 12 hour days, use child labor, use PRISON (aka slave) labor, etc, because otherwise, they wouldn't get any of our dollars!"
That is the arguement used to justify all worker mistreatment from slavery to pre-unionized factory labor. Happened a lot during the great depression.
"Why, they should work 16 hour days, 6 days a week in my factory, otherwise they'd be out on the street, or working on a farm for 1/5 the money! We're just trying to help them better themselves!"
The guy has no clue about D20 on PC, as exemplified by the comments he responded to in the article. That, and he has an affinity for twenty-five cent words, when a nickle word will do.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I started to write something similar, then saw your comment.
Because that's really important. If glazed, I think a documented and rigidly tested security model will quickly overcome user error. If creme-filled, then clearly the user experience must be restricted in favor of a secure system.
because it will take away money from cities. They love speeders. Someone going 70 in a 55 zone is a nice, victimless $200 cash cow for a city.
Thats why its been called "A race to the bottom". Once your competitors start hiring offshore, you're forced to do it to compete on price.
Surely its a trade-off deal. People aren't being sheep, they are accepting that the company collects their data in return for gaining reward points/discounts. And for most people (myself included), that is an acceptable deal.
.70 savings that we'll print at the bottom of your receipt!")
Wrong, they don't give you a "discount" for information, they penalize you for not having a card. Unless you think that a 2 liter bottle of soda is a fair deal at 1.69. ("With your mega-value card, only $.99! A
Perhaps it can be recycled well in theory, but it is rare for it to be recycled, especially when used for fast food containers.
I haven't seen fast food served in styrofoam in over 10 years.
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Gannoc (210256) on Thursday March 11, @10:59AM (#8532136)
With Bush in office, you don't have to worry about the communists keeping microsoft from making money.
This isn't flamebait, it is bitter, pessimistic political commentary. I have plenty of Karma to burn...
With Bush in office, you don't have to worry about the communists keeping microsoft from making money.
They're just being proactive instead of waiting for Microsoft to "innovate" them off the map.
This is an biggest outrage. The only thinging that these companies will accomplish is the suppression of the super legitimate business methods for 100% legal legitimate businesses. This is shameful.
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Now i'm going to never get out of debt long enough to afford that penis enlargement.
"Its not working!"
"You must not have cut right down the middle. Buy a dremel."
Bad parenting? Perhaps, but I discovered later that my nephew had finished playing the copy of Grand Theft Auto III he had received for this birthday. Yes, it could be a coincidence, but this about this: How else could a 7 year old child have learned that banging a prostitute can heal wounds except through that video game?
Are we going to continue to allow these games to poison the minds of our children? I pray that we shall not.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
Jackson doesn't do crap like that. From the first movie, you knew that the theatrical version would come out 6 months later, and the extended was coming out after that.
Sure, there might be a bundled version in a year or two with all three versions, but Jackson won't add stuff to the film.
If it were lucas, we'd have staggered two month releases of:
LOTR - VHS version
LOTR - VHS widescreen version
LOTR - VHS "THX" widescreen version
LOTR - DVD
LOTR - VHS Special Edition
LOTR - DVD Special Edition
LOTR - DVD Movie of the Year version
LOTR - VHS Extended Edition
LOTR - DVD Extended Edition
All of them not announced until the previous version had been snatched up by burned fans.
Believe it or not, I think Windows 2000 / Windows XP is as stable as linux / Freebsd. I didn't say better, I didn't say more secure... but I think the stablish issue is mute.
1) Thats "moot" not "mute"
2) You're incorrect.
If someone wanted to give me $86 million dollars, i'd sue my freaking grandmother if I had to.
Can anyone else here believe that IB-freaking-M is the hero of the open source movement right now?
I've always looked at it that releasing your software under a free license is a way to "pay" the community for your use of linux, your distributionm gcc, xfree, etc.
You can download and use those programs for no money, and the way you one day pay it back is to submit the code you're able to do.
I'd use the phrase "From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs", but that brings up scary images so I won't.
Its about time someone finally wrote an article discussing what went wrong with the
Try searching for that in google and then do it in yahoo. Looks like Yahoo has pulled ahead until the bastards figure out how to trick the crawler again.