I've driven around on camping trips and stuff with a chillybin full of dry ice to keep our frozen foods frozen on long trips. Yeah, I suppose it could be dangerous, but it's not that dangerous. I've also used it for sepcial effects on stage productions - bucket of hot water, bucket of dry ice and a fan pointing to the stage - simple but effective.
Here's a fun game - next time your wife/girlfriend is doing the dishes, drop a glovefull of dry ice in the sink. Foams up nicely:-)
Don't keep the chillybin full of dry ice in the tent with you. Keep it outside.
Absofuckinlutely! The chlamydian/midiclorian thing really pissed me off too. So did Highlander 2 when they brought in that whole stupid alien thing to explain the immortals. Blegh!
I'm sure the majority of people don't have anything on their websites worth paying a ridiculous amount of money to keep online anyway. I know I don't.
The majority of people don't get these threats. People whose incomes rely on online transactions have something worth keeping online, and might pay if the extorted amount is less than what they would lose if their site went down. Did you even read the article?
And leaving out God disappearing in a puff of logic? WTF?!
I really love the fact that the dude who proved God does not exist then went on to prove that black is white and promptly got run over at a zebra crossing. (For a Christian that should mitigate the puff thing).
At the time Windows was registered windowing operating systems certainly existed, but no one marketed/sold them as that until Microsoft did. Calling your operating system "Windows" was a unique idea.
Did the X Window System come before or after MS Windows? What about W, the system that X was supposed to improve on - didn't the W stand for Windows?
Okay then. We're doomed. This is one area where I agree with Bill Gates - the high school system is broken. Not just in America, but in my country too.
A friend of mine is an IT teacher at a high school. IT at her school is part of commerce rather than technology. As a junior teacher she is hamstrung in what she can do - she tries to teach principles rather than specific mouse clicks but she has to stick to a curriculum dictated from on high. *sigh*
Yes, I could opt to not buy the DVD. However, where would I go?
Worse than that, you could buy the DVD without knowing about the 10 minutes of unskippable ads, and find out the first time you want to watch it. If this is unacceptable, they won't take it back at the store because you opened it.
Corporations do not have a right to make a profit at any cost to the customer.
I wish more people understood this. Corporations don't have a right to make a profit. They have a right to try to make a profit. If they try and fail, then any artificial means to prop up their business model through legislation, subsidies (corporate welfare) or other artificial means is like keeping a braindead person on life support (no flames re recent events, just an example). At some point you have to decide whether to pull the plug, and I feel less remorse pulling the plug on a braindead business model than a braindead person. In the United Corporations of America it seems like it's the other way round - business is sacrosanct.
If it has promotions for other books at the back, you aren't forced to read those before you can start reading (or resuming) your book.
Better still, you can take some scissors and carefully remove those promo pages if you want. There's no inherent licence to stop you from doing anything other than distribute copies - that's why it's called "copyright".
Everyone please take a moment to re-read Stallman's "Right to Read" essay. I don't agree with everything RMS says, but he's on the button with that essay.
This is wisdom. I wish I had mod points. I'm 32 with no degree. I went from highschool to university with no focus and eventually dropped out. If I were to go back now I'd go with the maturity of a 32 year old, which in my case is just a smidgen more than when I was 19. Not much more, but enough hopefully to be more focused.
wouldn't you also want to have control over your car? This is like ths speed limiter, Law makers put it in place.
Skipping parts of a DVD that you don't want to watch won't endanger any lives. Laws that save real human lives should not be used to justify laws that are bought by corporations to artificially keep their business models alive.
You would think so, wouldn't you? The most succesful companies train their customers to accept whatever business model is most profitable to that company. Success for these guys is making the customer want what they have, rather than making what the customer wants.
the goal of spread spectrum isn't just to keep people from listening in. It's also trying to make the signal difficult to jam.
Quite right. I interpreted the original Ask Slashdot question, where the asker said "I want to stop unauthorized people from broadcasting" as meaning he wants to prevent jamming, since you can't really stop people from transmitting a radio signal.
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Can't you just print the section or chapter you need on a JIT basis?
I've driven around on camping trips and stuff with a chillybin full of dry ice to keep our frozen foods frozen on long trips. Yeah, I suppose it could be dangerous, but it's not that dangerous. I've also used it for sepcial effects on stage productions - bucket of hot water, bucket of dry ice and a fan pointing to the stage - simple but effective.
:-)
Here's a fun game - next time your wife/girlfriend is doing the dishes, drop a glovefull of dry ice in the sink. Foams up nicely
Don't keep the chillybin full of dry ice in the tent with you. Keep it outside.
On combining Light Sabers and Gummie Berry Juice(tm) a patent Yoda has.
Gummi Berries
Water
Sugar optional
Procedure:
Squeeze gummi berries - you may use a juicer for this.
Add water and sugar to taste.
Absofuckinlutely!
The chlamydian/midiclorian thing really pissed me off too.
So did Highlander 2 when they brought in that whole stupid alien thing to explain the immortals. Blegh!
thine enemies.
"thy" before a consonent.
"thine" before a vowel.
Just like "a" and "an".
I'm sure the majority of people don't have anything on their websites worth paying a ridiculous amount of money to keep online anyway. I know I don't.
The majority of people don't get these threats. People whose incomes rely on online transactions have something worth keeping online, and might pay if the extorted amount is less than what they would lose if their site went down. Did you even read the article?
I would be interesting to know what percentage of the zombie machines were windows...
:-)
Actually, it would be quite boring and predictable
and since when is inserting large objects in ones' rectum ever a good idea?
:-)
when it's a suppository needed to relieve some medical condition.
There aren't many absolutes
No. Nothing's as hott as a girl fight. :-)
It came close though
And leaving out God disappearing in a puff of logic? WTF?!
I really love the fact that the dude who proved God does not exist then went on to prove that black is white and promptly got run over at a zebra crossing. (For a Christian that should mitigate the puff thing).
At the time Windows was registered windowing operating systems certainly existed, but no one marketed/sold them as that until Microsoft did. Calling your operating system "Windows" was a unique idea.
Did the X Window System come before or after MS Windows?
What about W, the system that X was supposed to improve on - didn't the W stand for Windows?
To make linux support multiple screen/keyboard/mouse sets does not require an expensive product. There are plenty of projects out there to do this.
Most teachers do not want to see a bunch of fancy formatted reports that are completely different from student to student.
Well in that case, the school should have a standard document class and give the students LyX.
Do you have any idea how common that is in public school districts?
Yes, I do *sigh*.
And it's just as bad here in New Zealand as it is in America.
Okay then. We're doomed.
This is one area where I agree with Bill Gates - the high school system is broken. Not just in America, but in my country too.
A friend of mine is an IT teacher at a high school. IT at her school is part of commerce rather than technology. As a junior teacher she is hamstrung in what she can do - she tries to teach principles rather than specific mouse clicks but she has to stick to a curriculum dictated from on high. *sigh*
Yes, I could opt to not buy the DVD. However, where would I go?
Worse than that, you could buy the DVD without knowing about the 10 minutes of unskippable ads, and find out the first time you want to watch it. If this is unacceptable, they won't take it back at the store because you opened it.
Corporations do not have a right to make a profit at any cost to the customer.
I wish more people understood this. Corporations don't have a right to make a profit. They have a right to try to make a profit. If they try and fail, then any artificial means to prop up their business model through legislation, subsidies (corporate welfare) or other artificial means is like keeping a braindead person on life support (no flames re recent events, just an example). At some point you have to decide whether to pull the plug, and I feel less remorse pulling the plug on a braindead business model than a braindead person. In the United Corporations of America it seems like it's the other way round - business is sacrosanct.
In may ways I was an asshole at 16.
I hope at 32 I'm a better person.
If it has promotions for other books at the back, you aren't forced to read those before you can start reading (or resuming) your book.
Better still, you can take some scissors and carefully remove those promo pages if you want. There's no inherent licence to stop you from doing anything other than distribute copies - that's why it's called "copyright".
Everyone please take a moment to re-read Stallman's "Right to Read" essay. I don't agree with everything RMS says, but he's on the button with that essay.
This is wisdom. I wish I had mod points.
I'm 32 with no degree. I went from highschool to university with no focus and eventually dropped out. If I were to go back now I'd go with the maturity of a 32 year old, which in my case is just a smidgen more than when I was 19. Not much more, but enough hopefully to be more focused.
wouldn't you also want to have control over your car? This is like ths speed limiter, Law makers put it in place.
Skipping parts of a DVD that you don't want to watch won't endanger any lives. Laws that save real human lives should not be used to justify laws that are bought by corporations to artificially keep their business models alive.
Pleaseing customers is part of making money.
You would think so, wouldn't you?
The most succesful companies train their customers to accept whatever business model is most profitable to that company. Success for these guys is making the customer want what they have, rather than making what the customer wants.
Still sticking to prescriptive rather than descriptive linguistic models are we? Languages evolve. Deal.
the goal of spread spectrum isn't just to keep people from listening in. It's also trying to make the signal difficult to jam.
Quite right. I interpreted the original Ask Slashdot question, where the asker said "I want to stop unauthorized people from broadcasting" as meaning he wants to prevent jamming, since you can't really stop people from transmitting a radio signal.