When's the last time that you used one? I did about a year ago, and after say ten years of push buttons I had to actually think about what I was doing.
... and laugh and laugh...
Oh, we're Mac users - we don't need stuff like virus and malware checkers!
Now, let the explanations begin about how this is a wonderful intuitive "feature" and not a flaw.
God. Can we please "disincentivize" with extreme prejudice anyone who uses bizarre words like "disincentivize?"
And I am trying desperately to ignore "Others fear this may lead to 'cruel and unusual punishments' as Internet and cell phone providers often use proxies without users' knowledge to reroute Internet traffic."
There have been charges and convictions on this one in the past. Disney polices their IP very stringently.
As one Grandmother told me, "You don't fuck with the mouse."
Assuming that the problem is reading the images in the future as opposed to the media itself, why not just drop in a complete but simple digital camera (no moving parts), an AC adaptor, and leave the pictures on a big SD card?
Will the media survive 25 years? Likely.
Will they have a machine that can read the media? Yes.
Will they be able to power the machine? Surely AC power will still be around.
And if that doesn't work turn them all into Viewmaster slides.... those things never die.
First of all, many of the people mentioned already kept blogs, except on paper with a pencil or pen - you know, journals or diaries.
A good expample, now being distributed by RSS is George Orwell's journal. Admittedly the content posted thus far is at least as lame as many of those "three months then abandoned" personal blogs, but still it's cool.
The barley from the 22-acre field is not stacked yet, but the wheat is stacked & makes two stacks measuring so far as I can judge it 30' by 18' x 24' (high) & 18' x 15' x 20 (high). If these estimates are correct, this works out at 14, 040 cubic feet of stack for about 14 acres of ground. Allowing 1 ton per acre, it seems 1000 cubic feet of stack represent a ton of grain. NB. To check when the whole field is stacked.
Second, there have been a few people who have lanched blogs using the personae of famous people - Chaucer comes to mind - and have done it well.
Us old-timers will recall the glory days of "copyright law doesn't apply to the Internet" and "Libel and slander laws don't apply on the Internet." Tee hee - we were soooo NaÃve.
Of course a list of contacts developed while in someone's employ belongs to the company. That has been the law in just about every jurisdiction for decades. Just because that list is on the shiny new Intarweb doesn't change anything.
As with blog posts, comments, YouTube, and Facebook, the onus is on you to keep a clear line between work developed information and personal information, and to think these things through well in advance.
And to realize that trying to poach you employer's clients will almost always get you in trouble.
Lord knows that it seems like seven out of ten Powerpoint or video presentations run into technical problems. Somehow the combination of laptop + video projector + audio system + software is prone to disaster.
I'd say buy him a low end but light laptop with a minimum of software, Windows XP and MS Office, and a nice VGA out port. Something simple, reliable, and when he walks into a presentation all that he needs to do is plug in the VGA cable, and maybe an audio cable for sound.
All of these PDA and iPhone suggestions just feel a recipe for disaster.
It seems like most of these stories involve some boob carrying data away on a laptop or USB key then losing it or having it stolen. Sure you want to acknowledge and deal with boobishness, but you also really need to address why the boob found it necessary to carry data away from the workplace in the first place, and why management encouraged and/or endorsed that action.
If employees can complete work during a regular work day then there is no reason to take it home with them.
If management insists that data security matters, it is possible to set up systems so that it's not possible for employees to copy of chunks of data and remove them.
The solution likely is to nail these companies to the wall, and make it more expensive to let data out of the workplace that it is to hire more or better employees and develop secure internal systems to protect data.
As it stands now a company can usually get by with firing one employee and saying "Oh my God! We promise this will never ever happen again!"
For a start, how about a penalty of $10,000 for every SSN or credit card number released to the wild, no matter what the reason or excuse? Suddenly losing a laptop with 100,000 customer files will become a VERY big deal.
Although I tend to think that Dan East summed it up best, I feel the need to point out that 95% of bad YouTube audio is the result of lousy recording quality, not subsequent processing.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
The mics and electronics on most consumer camcorders (or that most people use with their Macs and PCs) are just plain crappy, and shouldn't be relied on for anything that you hope to distribute. And of course, some actual audio recording skills help too.
"I have a pair of Apple Airport routers, and the only time they get rebooted is when I change settings and restart them. That happens whenever I want to let another computer use my network"
You need to reboot your router to let another computer access the network??
...but is the amount of lead in solder really dangerous?
The risk is likely more to people repairing and building electronics than to the consumer. The last transmitter tech that I worked with was adamant about handwashing and always had a high wattage light positioned over solder work so that rising hot air would draw lead fumes up and away from his face.
People who hand load ammunition face a similar long term but real risk of lead exposure.
Lordy.... hikers, snowmobilers, and others enjoying the outdoors have dealt with these issues for decades. Usually if you respect fences and signs (well, notwithstanding Woody's advice), and ask permission where neccesary, a lot of landowners will accomodate you.
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When's the last time that you used one? I did about a year ago, and after say ten years of push buttons I had to actually think about what I was doing.
This has all the earmarks of a CrimethInc creation. I love those folks! Anarchist AND fun loving!
British Columbia's Tyee.ca just ran a fundraising appeal to bring in dollars for additional election coverage. They asked for $5,000 and got $20,000.
People will pay for good journalism, at least if they feel that the conventional outlets aren't doing the job.
... and laugh and laugh... Oh, we're Mac users - we don't need stuff like virus and malware checkers! Now, let the explanations begin about how this is a wonderful intuitive "feature" and not a flaw.
God. Can we please "disincentivize" with extreme prejudice anyone who uses bizarre words like "disincentivize?"
And I am trying desperately to ignore "Others fear this may lead to 'cruel and unusual punishments' as Internet and cell phone providers often use proxies without users' knowledge to reroute Internet traffic."
Say what???
There have been charges and convictions on this one in the past. Disney polices their IP very stringently. As one Grandmother told me, "You don't fuck with the mouse."
Whoa, I only now remembered these from my old Bulletin Board days... was that really 20+ years ago, when I could type faster than my 300 baud modem?
Seems unlikely to me. What that game does to otherwise respected tracks is truly degenerate.
Sigh - Picasa is the one app that I really missed when I moved to a Mac. I loved it. And years later it's still Windows only...
Assuming that the problem is reading the images in the future as opposed to the media itself, why not just drop in a complete but simple digital camera (no moving parts), an AC adaptor, and leave the pictures on a big SD card?
Will the media survive 25 years? Likely.
Will they have a machine that can read the media? Yes.
Will they be able to power the machine? Surely AC power will still be around.
And if that doesn't work turn them all into Viewmaster slides.... those things never die.
Hell no! - that's about the most insightful summary of the Mac experience that I've ever seen!
A good expample, now being distributed by RSS is George Orwell's journal. Admittedly the content posted thus far is at least as lame as many of those "three months then abandoned" personal blogs, but still it's cool.
Second, there have been a few people who have lanched blogs using the personae of famous people - Chaucer comes to mind - and have done it well.
That's "naive" since slashdot seemed to not like the proper spelling I pasted in...
Us old-timers will recall the glory days of "copyright law doesn't apply to the Internet" and "Libel and slander laws don't apply on the Internet." Tee hee - we were soooo NaÃve.
Of course a list of contacts developed while in someone's employ belongs to the company. That has been the law in just about every jurisdiction for decades. Just because that list is on the shiny new Intarweb doesn't change anything.
As with blog posts, comments, YouTube, and Facebook, the onus is on you to keep a clear line between work developed information and personal information, and to think these things through well in advance.
And to realize that trying to poach you employer's clients will almost always get you in trouble.
Lord knows that it seems like seven out of ten Powerpoint or video presentations run into technical problems. Somehow the combination of laptop + video projector + audio system + software is prone to disaster.
I'd say buy him a low end but light laptop with a minimum of software, Windows XP and MS Office, and a nice VGA out port. Something simple, reliable, and when he walks into a presentation all that he needs to do is plug in the VGA cable, and maybe an audio cable for sound.
All of these PDA and iPhone suggestions just feel a recipe for disaster.
It seems like most of these stories involve some boob carrying data away on a laptop or USB key then losing it or having it stolen. Sure you want to acknowledge and deal with boobishness, but you also really need to address why the boob found it necessary to carry data away from the workplace in the first place, and why management encouraged and/or endorsed that action.
If employees can complete work during a regular work day then there is no reason to take it home with them.
If management insists that data security matters, it is possible to set up systems so that it's not possible for employees to copy of chunks of data and remove them.
The solution likely is to nail these companies to the wall, and make it more expensive to let data out of the workplace that it is to hire more or better employees and develop secure internal systems to protect data.
As it stands now a company can usually get by with firing one employee and saying "Oh my God! We promise this will never ever happen again!"
For a start, how about a penalty of $10,000 for every SSN or credit card number released to the wild, no matter what the reason or excuse? Suddenly losing a laptop with 100,000 customer files will become a VERY big deal.
Although I tend to think that Dan East summed it up best, I feel the need to point out that 95% of bad YouTube audio is the result of lousy recording quality, not subsequent processing.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
The mics and electronics on most consumer camcorders (or that most people use with their Macs and PCs) are just plain crappy, and shouldn't be relied on for anything that you hope to distribute. And of course, some actual audio recording skills help too.
Despite some people's half-baked concepts of "Freedom of Speech" you are not obliged to let anyone post anything that you don't like.
It's your site, not his. If he feels moved to flame your work he can go start his own site and do it there.
Delete him, delete his posts, and if he comes back delete him again. He'll give up fast enough.
Yeah, because the parts you replace when upgrading are notoriously biodegradable!
Well, technically everything is biodegradeable if you wait long enough.... lead... computers... dioxin... granite.... barbie dolls...
It may not be quick, and may not degrade into something you like, but it will degrade...
"I have a pair of Apple Airport routers, and the only time they get rebooted is when I change settings and restart them. That happens whenever I want to let another computer use my network"
You need to reboot your router to let another computer access the network??
Ooooh! Job titles like that have TRUST written all over them!
Keee-rist! There's stupid, then there's corporate stupid. There had to be a committee in this somewhere.
My ISP is at a loss as to how to fix this but it is causing me a lot of grief. Many of the ads I get shown on Yahoo! for instance are in French!
Ah, you're complaining about the utility of ads that you see on Yahoo...? This must be a first.
...but is the amount of lead in solder really dangerous?
The risk is likely more to people repairing and building electronics than to the consumer. The last transmitter tech that I worked with was adamant about handwashing and always had a high wattage light positioned over solder work so that rising hot air would draw lead fumes up and away from his face.
People who hand load ammunition face a similar long term but real risk of lead exposure.
Lordy.... hikers, snowmobilers, and others enjoying the outdoors have dealt with these issues for decades. Usually if you respect fences and signs (well, notwithstanding Woody's advice), and ask permission where neccesary, a lot of landowners will accomodate you.
And if they don't, well, go somewhere else.