Face it, you're trying to network 2 MS OSes with 3 non-MS OSes. You want to fileshare between them without "giving in" but you're keeping the non-MS OSes.
Samba is nothing to be ashamed of. I know plenty of folks who use it with no MS OSes in the mix at all.
You seem to know it is probably going to be the simplest solution... yet you exclude it off-hand? Sounds like an exercise in frustration to me.
If you weren't spending your spare time in the years 99-00 downloading MP3s like a champ, it's likely you were still in diapers or dancing with wolves.
Or maybe you were just a conscientious person who instead of ripping off your favorite artists (yes, they do get SOME of that money, just not much) were buying their discs and ripping them from legitimately purchased media and thereby also helping make sure that the labels saw how much they were selling.
You're right, I wasn't considering the current profit. However my main point with the money is:
1) If Sun wanted to they could afford to purchase MUCH more than they have warrants for, never make a dime, and still not put a serious dent in this quarter.
2) No matter how much money Sun makes, the money SCO gets from the deal is trivial. It is not going to make or break them, the only thing it might do is finance a couple more weeks of lawyers and letters.
First off, though I think it was clear from the original post, I'm speaking on my behalf and not Sun's.
Second... I know who's side Sun is on. Sun's side. Period.
Beyond that, Sun has always been torn on Linux. Right down the middle.
If Sun was truly against Linux they would stop working day in and day out trying to get contracts to redistribute various Linux vendor's software. Remember when the community said "Sun Linux? Sun is trying to fork Linux into a proprietary system". Well, we listened and now the plan is to support major Linux distributions on our commodity x86 systems.
At the same time, the Solaris folks have a responsibility to customers and to shareholders to make the most out of Solaris' advantages over Linux and not being involved in the SCO mess is one heck of a benefit in todays market.
Further, the financial departments have a responsibility to make money and keep Sun involved in the various parts of the market that are significant to its business.
Remember that Sun has only done the following:
* Pointed out that Sun is not involved in the SCO matter because there was already a -well- paid for Unix license.
* Further strengthened that contract
* Retained the -option- to buy 210,000 shares of stock.
Note that:
1) Sun hasn't purchased those shares, so SCO has not benefitted except by people making a big deal of it and giving them further press *hint*
2) Even if Sun does purchase those shares, does ANYONE think that $384,000 is going to help SCO if they get into financial straights?
Do I think this was a bit of foot-in-mouth? Sure. But I'm not involved at the top and my allegiance to Linux as a movement biases me. If I were in charge of making this kind of decision (I'm nowhere close and don't want to be) I quite probably would have done this, too (though I would like to think I would be making equal gestures to Linux companies).
While x86 and Linux are a small part of Sun's lineup, there is still alot of focus being put on it. And I can virtually guarantee that McNealy is not in bed with MSFT. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" definitly does NOT apply in this business as there are more than just 2 sides in this mess of a market.
Yeah because that much money (210,000 shares * $2 share = $384,300) is really going to make or break Sun. Uh-huh.
Look, even if shares of SCO went up by -one thousand times- their current value, Sun would only make $384,300,000. That is 2.3% of Sun's current market capitalization. As it is now, even if they buy and lose that money it is barely a dent in their quarterly operating budget.
Yes, I work for Sun. Yes, I think this stock deal is a tiny bit of a black mark in terms of supporting the Linux community (but not in a financial sense... if SCO wins then their stock will go up though not near 1,000x what it is now... and if they lose Sun doesn't have to buy the shares).
But seriously, the math is simple and available to anyone looking at it. This should not be a big deal. If Sun has options to buy 12,900,000 more shares of SCOX (the total outstanding), -then- I would worry about Sun's intent here.
I listened to Bill Joy talk at a conference in Aspen where he went into fair detail about the 900MHz system they had installed there long before 802.11b came about (if anyone remembers seeing a story about an Aspen cabby with a totally connected neon taxi cab, he was using this system for his net access).
Anyway... for long distance penetration through anything other than air, 2.4GHz plain sucks (I'm using a WISP now and occasionally when strong winds hit I have to give up working for awhile... shame). Mr. Joy did mention that they weren't able to get more than a few hundred Kb/s out of their system, but that was acceptable for a few dozen people sharing a single T1 and the system sounds like it was rock solid stable.
If you only have one choice (or if you consider a normal dialup line a choice maybe 2) then that is definitely not a bad one. I think I would actually prefer my 2.4GHz ISP to offer 900MHz as an option. Instead they're switching to 5GHz for high-end use... though since their 5GHz access point doesn't have trees between it and myself and it is far less war driven I will probably switch to that anyway.
Except that if you and 1,000,000 friends buy the box but no software and cost the company $200, they're bound to make more and lose more. If no one buys it, sure, they lose $700 on the first round but they don't make any more.
Does my argument have holes? Sure. So does yours.
1) Any company with the financing to pull off a successful game console probably isn't going to notice the damage done by either method.
2) Both methods hurt the distribution channels at least as much as they hurt the manufacturer.
If you want the machine, buy it. If you don't, don't. Economics will sort it out in the end.
Hah:) To the moderator... if this was offtopic to you you're not getting the post.
To spoonfeed... err... translate the sarcasm from the parent post...
Just because we want digital media does not mean we DON'T want traditional media, especially if the digital media you are forcing on us is not in multiple formats or worse is DRM filled. At best you are isolating your target markets.
In an unusual move, Apple has aquired the rights to LXG2. The movie will not be available in theaters but instead viewers will be required to download it from the new iMovie web store.
Nothing... I think that's the point... that was the first evidence of stagnation. Compare NS4.5 navigation to Mozilla 1.4 navigation to MSIE 3 navigation to MSIE 6 navigation and you're stuck with essentially the same model for all this time.
And before people jump up and down about CSS and XHTML, remember that Andreesen was talking about browser navigation not layout technologies or other areas that are dominated by W3C.org.
I will mention that I think tab based browsing and the suppression of pop-ups have been two major boons to my browsing. However, I saw browsers with tabs back before IE 2.0 had come out (back when non-Netscape/IE/Opera/KHTML browsers were often integrated with your Winsock communications stack... damn I am trying to remember the earliest and I can't... it started with a "D" or "Q" and was developed by the folks who made a very popular BBS terminal program... humbug, sorry, I usually like to have my facts in line but the memory is fading) so while it is VERY nice, it's not truly new. And pop-up suppression isn't an aid to navigation, but a method to sanitize the code from the remote site.
Well color me lucky, my wife understood it without a pause.
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But the premise in this thread was scanners on every shelf. I know when I'm in a Walmart I'm never more than 4 foot from a shelf with my cart and often is within 2 feet at any given time. The carpeting is already done at that point.
I agree, it's a big waste... but why should the retailers care when they'll be passing the cost along to us anyway.
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If RFID were implemented ubiquitously throughout the store, then the game would still register on the various other scanners even in your cart unless you had put it in a shielded bag, which would not be normal.
Other than the random areas (which in moderation in "dungeons" would be good, but outside would is not the place for this) this sounds EXACTLY like how Anarchy Online launched and for the most part still is today. Especially the broken/incomplete classes and lack of reason to go out except for Exp.
Hopefully it doesn't have serious engine mistakes like AO's maps not lining up with each other properly, but I doubt I'll be investigating any time soon.
Thanks for the review. Guess I'll wait until the expansion pack next year to see if they fix the missing bits. Star Wars without space battles... well, you're right, it ain't SW... and I got tired of shooting "diseased" spacesquirrels a couple of years ago in AO.
I would REALLY like to see someone invent a game that combined the avatar richness of "There" with the role playing fun of The Sims (don't know about the Sims Online, haven't tried that one) and the size of Everquest. Damn... I wish I had a ton of cash to start one up... but until the "get on the bandwagon" phase is over and the innovation starts up again we're just going to be rehashing things.
Just -one- more monolithic version, please?
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I really hope there is a Mozilla 1.5... the roaming code finally is about done and it would be really nice to have a final version of the monolithic Mozilla that includes roaming. It is one of the biggest corporate (and geek for those of us who implemented it at home) features that never got recoded into Mozilla from Netscape 4.x
if you're interested in the feature. I didn't hyperlink it since their Bugzilla doesn't like requests referred from/.... copy and paste the link to see the item. It looks like it will go into Beonex and hopefully the standalone Mozilla browser, but alot of companies have adopted the monolithic Mozilla and it will be some time after the change to standalone versions before they switch again.
First off, it would make you seem more credible if you would learn how to -discuss- something rather than just blaring out your opinion as if you need everyone to listen to it.
1) Woolworth never got CLOSE to the scale of Walmart.
2) Even if Woolworth -had- gotten close, would that make it any more right that Walmart was following along? No, it would just make it that much worse.
3) How can you possibly be acting like you're fighting for small business in 1 post? I find that quite amazing.
4) Pizza Hut would have gotten shot down for trying to patent home delivery due to TONS of prior art... chinese, small mom and pop pizza stores, etc. If they did manage to get such a patent it would have been negated afterwards.
5) Just FYI, Pizza Hut loved the delivery idea from day one. It took them a long time to roll it out to all of their markets, which allowed Dominos to dominate alot of areas. Part of the problem was with the various Pizza Hut franchises... if you'll notice, Pizza Hut started revoking franchises about the same time they went all-out with delivery. I know, since I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut in Wichita (the home office for PH, at least until they were bought by Tricon... the same parent company as Taco Bell and KFC... technically I think PH is still based in Wichita but the real power is with Tricon) during the time that delivery was made a nation-wide priority rather than just an on again off again idea... one of my regular delivery stops was the (now previous) owners of the chain (lowsy cheapskates never tipped).
6) In this example, assuming no prior art, then it would be Dominos that equates to Netflix and Pizza Hut to Walmart. If you're going to make analogies, be logical about them, mkay?
7) By this point in time, the patent would have expired ANYWAY... that is what patents do... they give the inventor a leg up in which to establish themselves, then they expire so that everyone has a chance to use them.
8) Show me a mom and pop store that is ever going to try and get into the national DVD rent-by-mail business? Not gonna happen. Netflix was as close to "mom and pop" as this business is going to get.
9) If a mom and pop store DOES invent something that is new to the market place, do you want to deny them the ability to protect themselves from Walmart or similar companies?
10) Businesses -are- free to innovate. Patents like this protect that innovation. Innovating does not equate to copying someone else's success. Do you think Walmart is innovating by copying Netflix?
You obviously haven't seen what a large Walmart can do in a rural town. Look at the studies. A large percentage of the small businesses go down the toilet and often their employees end up at Walmart making less and with less chance of promotion.
So while you can't patent a brick-and-mortar, I have no issues with Netflix patenting their method to protect their business.
I guarrantee that Walmart is going to get the word out about their rental business to FAR more people than Netflix. Walmart wouldn't have gotten into the business if Netflix hadn't proved it was a viable model. Therefor Walmart does not deserve to be able to stamp Netflix out of business just because they have a couple of orders of magnitude more advertising power.
Oh yeah, and those folks who want to go to the site who DIDN'T see it on slashdot.
Nevermind, screw 'em....
Pheh... have a conscience. To the folks who post articles in the slashdot forum... more power to you. You are doing a favor to that site and often to the readers here. If you do it as an AC, even more respect since you're obviously not karma-whoring, which would be the only complaint remaining from the people who want to complain.
Can it be a bit of a pain to scroll through? Yeah... but it is better than the alternatives.
Speaking of tatts at least, as long as it is tasteful (ie, not plastered across your forehead) you probably won't have any issues.
I have a full armband, but I got it below the elbow rather than on the bicep, which means most times it is visible at work. I've -never- had a person give me a hard time about it. Even my grandparents (who are much more anti-tattoo than any boss I've met), once they saw that it was well done and not obscene, said they didn't mind and sort of liked it.
That actually is often the key... not just placement, but that the design itself is artful. I don't mean you have to custom design your own welsh zoomorph (which is what my band is... it matches our wedding bands... I hate wearing jewelry except at formal functions). But don't just walk in and point at the latest fad design or skulls or whatnot. A number of folks I've met have remarked that they normally dislike tattoos and were surprised that they liked it, but that being a good design made all the difference.
I brew Mead (yes, honey based alcoholic drink... more similar to wine than beer). Nothing is quite as neat as watching the airlock bubble while it is fermenting and knowing that that the CO2 and alcohol are the waster byproduct of millions of tiny yeast beasts.
Otherwise I ride motorcycles (I have a 1985 V65 Magna and my wife has a 1986 V45 Magna... early superbike cruisers), work on repairing our house, fish, occasionally we ride our recumbent bicycles (Vision-X), I used to collect Bionicles but I just can't keep up. Hmmm... ummm... and I play video games *laugh*.
Our 7 cats might be called a hobby, too, but the parts of that relationship that are "hobby"-ish are much more of a chore. Love the cats, but 7 was about 2 cats past critical mass for 2 people to keep up with.
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Face it, you're trying to network 2 MS OSes with 3 non-MS OSes. You want to fileshare between them without "giving in" but you're keeping the non-MS OSes.
... yet you exclude it off-hand? Sounds like an exercise in frustration to me.
Samba is nothing to be ashamed of. I know plenty of folks who use it with no MS OSes in the mix at all.
You seem to know it is probably going to be the simplest solution
It was sarcasm and a bad pun. I left out the smiley so that it wasn't TOO obvious.
Or maybe you were just a conscientious person who instead of ripping off your favorite artists (yes, they do get SOME of that money, just not much) were buying their discs and ripping them from legitimately purchased media and thereby also helping make sure that the labels saw how much they were selling.
Now porn on the other hand
You're right, I wasn't considering the current profit. However my main point with the money is:
1) If Sun wanted to they could afford to purchase MUCH more than they have warrants for, never make a dime, and still not put a serious dent in this quarter.
2) No matter how much money Sun makes, the money SCO gets from the deal is trivial. It is not going to make or break them, the only thing it might do is finance a couple more weeks of lawyers and letters.
*sigh*
... I know who's side Sun is on. Sun's side. Period.
First off, though I think it was clear from the original post, I'm speaking on my behalf and not Sun's.
Second
Beyond that, Sun has always been torn on Linux. Right down the middle.
If Sun was truly against Linux they would stop working day in and day out trying to get contracts to redistribute various Linux vendor's software. Remember when the community said "Sun Linux? Sun is trying to fork Linux into a proprietary system". Well, we listened and now the plan is to support major Linux distributions on our commodity x86 systems.
At the same time, the Solaris folks have a responsibility to customers and to shareholders to make the most out of Solaris' advantages over Linux and not being involved in the SCO mess is one heck of a benefit in todays market.
Further, the financial departments have a responsibility to make money and keep Sun involved in the various parts of the market that are significant to its business.
Remember that Sun has only done the following:
* Pointed out that Sun is not involved in the SCO matter because there was already a -well- paid for Unix license.
* Further strengthened that contract
* Retained the -option- to buy 210,000 shares of stock.
Note that:
1) Sun hasn't purchased those shares, so SCO has not benefitted except by people making a big deal of it and giving them further press *hint*
2) Even if Sun does purchase those shares, does ANYONE think that $384,000 is going to help SCO if they get into financial straights?
Do I think this was a bit of foot-in-mouth? Sure. But I'm not involved at the top and my allegiance to Linux as a movement biases me. If I were in charge of making this kind of decision (I'm nowhere close and don't want to be) I quite probably would have done this, too (though I would like to think I would be making equal gestures to Linux companies).
While x86 and Linux are a small part of Sun's lineup, there is still alot of focus being put on it. And I can virtually guarantee that McNealy is not in bed with MSFT. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" definitly does NOT apply in this business as there are more than just 2 sides in this mess of a market.
Yeah because that much money (210,000 shares * $2 share = $384,300) is really going to make or break Sun. Uh-huh.
... if SCO wins then their stock will go up though not near 1,000x what it is now ... and if they lose Sun doesn't have to buy the shares).
Look, even if shares of SCO went up by -one thousand times- their current value, Sun would only make $384,300,000. That is 2.3% of Sun's current market capitalization. As it is now, even if they buy and lose that money it is barely a dent in their quarterly operating budget.
Yes, I work for Sun. Yes, I think this stock deal is a tiny bit of a black mark in terms of supporting the Linux community (but not in a financial sense
But seriously, the math is simple and available to anyone looking at it. This should not be a big deal. If Sun has options to buy 12,900,000 more shares of SCOX (the total outstanding), -then- I would worry about Sun's intent here.
I listened to Bill Joy talk at a conference in Aspen where he went into fair detail about the 900MHz system they had installed there long before 802.11b came about (if anyone remembers seeing a story about an Aspen cabby with a totally connected neon taxi cab, he was using this system for his net access).
... for long distance penetration through anything other than air, 2.4GHz plain sucks (I'm using a WISP now and occasionally when strong winds hit I have to give up working for awhile ... shame). Mr. Joy did mention that they weren't able to get more than a few hundred Kb/s out of their system, but that was acceptable for a few dozen people sharing a single T1 and the system sounds like it was rock solid stable.
... though since their 5GHz access point doesn't have trees between it and myself and it is far less war driven I will probably switch to that anyway.
Anyway
If you only have one choice (or if you consider a normal dialup line a choice maybe 2) then that is definitely not a bad one. I think I would actually prefer my 2.4GHz ISP to offer 900MHz as an option. Instead they're switching to 5GHz for high-end use
Except that if you and 1,000,000 friends buy the box but no software and cost the company $200, they're bound to make more and lose more. If no one buys it, sure, they lose $700 on the first round but they don't make any more.
Does my argument have holes? Sure. So does yours.
1) Any company with the financing to pull off a successful game console probably isn't going to notice the damage done by either method.
2) Both methods hurt the distribution channels at least as much as they hurt the manufacturer.
If you want the machine, buy it. If you don't, don't. Economics will sort it out in the end.
Why do you guys even leave the house?
;)
Telecommuting is a wonderful thing
Hah :) To the moderator ... if this was offtopic to you you're not getting the post.
... err ... translate the sarcasm from the parent post ...
To spoonfeed
Just because we want digital media does not mean we DON'T want traditional media, especially if the digital media you are forcing on us is not in multiple formats or worse is DRM filled. At best you are isolating your target markets.
In an unusual move, Apple has aquired the rights to LXG2. The movie will not be available in theaters but instead viewers will be required to download it from the new iMovie web store.
Humbug.
Nothing ... I think that's the point ... that was the first evidence of stagnation. Compare NS4.5 navigation to Mozilla 1.4 navigation to MSIE 3 navigation to MSIE 6 navigation and you're stuck with essentially the same model for all this time.
... damn I am trying to remember the earliest and I can't ... it started with a "D" or "Q" and was developed by the folks who made a very popular BBS terminal program ... humbug, sorry, I usually like to have my facts in line but the memory is fading) so while it is VERY nice, it's not truly new. And pop-up suppression isn't an aid to navigation, but a method to sanitize the code from the remote site.
And before people jump up and down about CSS and XHTML, remember that Andreesen was talking about browser navigation not layout technologies or other areas that are dominated by W3C.org.
I will mention that I think tab based browsing and the suppression of pop-ups have been two major boons to my browsing. However, I saw browsers with tabs back before IE 2.0 had come out (back when non-Netscape/IE/Opera/KHTML browsers were often integrated with your Winsock communications stack
Well color me lucky, my wife understood it without a pause.
But the premise in this thread was scanners on every shelf. I know when I'm in a Walmart I'm never more than 4 foot from a shelf with my cart and often is within 2 feet at any given time. The carpeting is already done at that point.
... but why should the retailers care when they'll be passing the cost along to us anyway.
I agree, it's a big waste
If RFID were implemented ubiquitously throughout the store, then the game would still register on the various other scanners even in your cart unless you had put it in a shielded bag, which would not be normal.
Then you bought the wrong hard drive.
Other than the random areas (which in moderation in "dungeons" would be good, but outside would is not the place for this) this sounds EXACTLY like how Anarchy Online launched and for the most part still is today. Especially the broken/incomplete classes and lack of reason to go out except for Exp.
... well, you're right, it ain't SW ... and I got tired of shooting "diseased" spacesquirrels a couple of years ago in AO.
... I wish I had a ton of cash to start one up ... but until the "get on the bandwagon" phase is over and the innovation starts up again we're just going to be rehashing things.
Hopefully it doesn't have serious engine mistakes like AO's maps not lining up with each other properly, but I doubt I'll be investigating any time soon.
Thanks for the review. Guess I'll wait until the expansion pack next year to see if they fix the missing bits. Star Wars without space battles
I would REALLY like to see someone invent a game that combined the avatar richness of "There" with the role playing fun of The Sims (don't know about the Sims Online, haven't tried that one) and the size of Everquest. Damn
I really hope there is a Mozilla 1.5 ... the roaming code finally is about done and it would be really nice to have a final version of the monolithic Mozilla that includes roaming. It is one of the biggest corporate (and geek for those of us who implemented it at home) features that never got recoded into Mozilla from Netscape 4.x
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/. ... copy and paste the link to see the item. It looks like it will go into Beonex and hopefully the standalone Mozilla browser, but alot of companies have adopted the monolithic Mozilla and it will be some time after the change to standalone versions before they switch again.
See this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124
if you're interested in the feature. I didn't hyperlink it since their Bugzilla doesn't like requests referred from
First off, it would make you seem more credible if you would learn how to -discuss- something rather than just blaring out your opinion as if you need everyone to listen to it.
... chinese, small mom and pop pizza stores, etc. If they did manage to get such a patent it would have been negated afterwards.
... if you'll notice, Pizza Hut started revoking franchises about the same time they went all-out with delivery. I know, since I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut in Wichita (the home office for PH, at least until they were bought by Tricon ... the same parent company as Taco Bell and KFC ... technically I think PH is still based in Wichita but the real power is with Tricon) during the time that delivery was made a nation-wide priority rather than just an on again off again idea ... one of my regular delivery stops was the (now previous) owners of the chain (lowsy cheapskates never tipped).
... that is what patents do ... they give the inventor a leg up in which to establish themselves, then they expire so that everyone has a chance to use them.
1) Woolworth never got CLOSE to the scale of Walmart.
2) Even if Woolworth -had- gotten close, would that make it any more right that Walmart was following along? No, it would just make it that much worse.
3) How can you possibly be acting like you're fighting for small business in 1 post? I find that quite amazing.
4) Pizza Hut would have gotten shot down for trying to patent home delivery due to TONS of prior art
5) Just FYI, Pizza Hut loved the delivery idea from day one. It took them a long time to roll it out to all of their markets, which allowed Dominos to dominate alot of areas. Part of the problem was with the various Pizza Hut franchises
6) In this example, assuming no prior art, then it would be Dominos that equates to Netflix and Pizza Hut to Walmart. If you're going to make analogies, be logical about them, mkay?
7) By this point in time, the patent would have expired ANYWAY
8) Show me a mom and pop store that is ever going to try and get into the national DVD rent-by-mail business? Not gonna happen. Netflix was as close to "mom and pop" as this business is going to get.
9) If a mom and pop store DOES invent something that is new to the market place, do you want to deny them the ability to protect themselves from Walmart or similar companies?
10) Businesses -are- free to innovate. Patents like this protect that innovation. Innovating does not equate to copying someone else's success. Do you think Walmart is innovating by copying Netflix?
Get real.
You obviously haven't seen what a large Walmart can do in a rural town. Look at the studies. A large percentage of the small businesses go down the toilet and often their employees end up at Walmart making less and with less chance of promotion.
So while you can't patent a brick-and-mortar, I have no issues with Netflix patenting their method to protect their business.
I guarrantee that Walmart is going to get the word out about their rental business to FAR more people than Netflix. Walmart wouldn't have gotten into the business if Netflix hadn't proved it was a viable model. Therefor Walmart does not deserve to be able to stamp Netflix out of business just because they have a couple of orders of magnitude more advertising power.
BTW, I meant "mod the parent up", not my post.
Thank you!
Mod this up.
This is a great illustration of what patents were created for. Walmart is a classic example of why patents are needed.
Yeah, because slashdotting doesn't hurt anyone.
... except the site that gets slashdotted.
...
... have a conscience. To the folks who post articles in the slashdot forum ... more power to you. You are doing a favor to that site and often to the readers here. If you do it as an AC, even more respect since you're obviously not karma-whoring, which would be the only complaint remaining from the people who want to complain.
... but it is better than the alternatives.
Oh wait
Oh yeah, and those folks who want to go to the site who DIDN'T see it on slashdot.
Nevermind, screw 'em.
Pheh
Can it be a bit of a pain to scroll through? Yeah
Speaking of tatts at least, as long as it is tasteful (ie, not plastered across your forehead) you probably won't have any issues.
... not just placement, but that the design itself is artful. I don't mean you have to custom design your own welsh zoomorph (which is what my band is ... it matches our wedding bands ... I hate wearing jewelry except at formal functions). But don't just walk in and point at the latest fad design or skulls or whatnot. A number of folks I've met have remarked that they normally dislike tattoos and were surprised that they liked it, but that being a good design made all the difference.
I have a full armband, but I got it below the elbow rather than on the bicep, which means most times it is visible at work. I've -never- had a person give me a hard time about it. Even my grandparents (who are much more anti-tattoo than any boss I've met), once they saw that it was well done and not obscene, said they didn't mind and sort of liked it.
That actually is often the key
I brew Mead (yes, honey based alcoholic drink ... more similar to wine than beer). Nothing is quite as neat as watching the airlock bubble while it is fermenting and knowing that that the CO2 and alcohol are the waster byproduct of millions of tiny yeast beasts.
... early superbike cruisers), work on repairing our house, fish, occasionally we ride our recumbent bicycles (Vision-X), I used to collect Bionicles but I just can't keep up. Hmmm ... ummm ... and I play video games *laugh*.
Otherwise I ride motorcycles (I have a 1985 V65 Magna and my wife has a 1986 V45 Magna
Our 7 cats might be called a hobby, too, but the parts of that relationship that are "hobby"-ish are much more of a chore. Love the cats, but 7 was about 2 cats past critical mass for 2 people to keep up with.