You could go back in time. Oh, sorry, did you say "reasonable"? In San Francisco, in the Nihonmachi area, there are video shops where you can rent/buy Japanese videos taped from Japanese TV. (I pursued a don't-ask-don't-tell piracy policy back when I visited such a place.) They had soap operas and cartoons. Maybe they have Iron Chef, now. Maybe there's a similar shop near where you live.
Anyhow, the place I remember in San Francisco was called Tokyo Video.
> How can the future-fiction business hope > to compete against our reality of humanoids > who wear life-altering computers and > elongate their lives with superdrugs and > genetic mutation?
How hard can it be? Just write your story. Then do some research: do you describe something that hasn't been invented yet? Okay, send your story to Amazing. Otherwise, send it to the New Yorker.
In fact, this could be an opportunity. If your sci-fi story doesn't sell to the sci-fi magazines, just wait until reality catches up to your story's "future". Then you can submit it to mainstream publications.
If you want people to carefully look over your code, make sure that you put an error in it, one that generates a really obvious error. I've been using this technique for a long time now, and it's worked wonders.
Those PGP people are too competent for their own good. If outsiders trust PGP too much to check it, everybody loses.
On a related note, my own incompetence has saved me from this bug--because I've never memorized the command-line options to PGP, I have to use it interactively.
When those scientific types want to impress me with the gravitational scariness of a Black Hole, they always stress that not even light can escape.
How do we know that these so-called "Photonic" scientists aren't actually creating black holes with the intention of destroying the world? Has anyone checked to make sure that they aren't under alien mind-control?
As a result of a very widely distributed attack, people can't visit my website. Hundreds of thousands of people have conspired to create web sites more interesting than mine, and so no-one's heard of it, and so no-one can find it.
I'd like to see those DDoS dorkuses try that strategy against/.
I don't understand why you feel like you have to type in all the code instead of just upgrading your machine with a new peripheral?
Obviously, you could save lots of typing time by installing a flatbed scanner and some simple OCR software. Scan in the pages. The compiler should catch most OCR errors.
Technology is about making things easy, right? Heck, I bet you can find other uses for that scanner, too.
The MIT Museum sells a book, "(The Journal of the) Institute For Hacks TomFoolery & Pranks (at MIT)". It's about 150 pages, lots of photos. It doesn't list all the pranks you might find at other sources but is still pretty amusing.
It didn't seem that obvious back when the idea was first developed. At GEOS developer training sessions, students seemed kind of confused by the whole idea of "hints". They liked the idea of putting a button at coordinates (24, 38). They didn't really like the idea of telling the button to look for a dialog-reply-bar and try to insert itself therein.
Of course, back then, object-oriented programming was pretty cutting-edge. The idea of "classes" that defined behavior--and could inherit behavior from other classes--well, it might have been a lot for those students to take in at the time.
I don't see so many old vehicles speeding around. I am guessing that most people would continue to buy new cars rather than insisting on controllable old cars. I am guessing that inside of five years, the roads would be slower--and arguably safer.
If there's a high-priced market for older cars, that's fine by me. It would be nice to see rich people re-using used cars rather than insisting on new ones. Heck, rich people can afford better insurance.
Suppose that X is the number of scary situations I avoid in a world with many fewer speeders. Suppose that Y is the number of scary situations I avoid by speeding away from them. I am guessing that X is much greater than Y.
It doesn't solve the problem, but I think it would reduce it considerably.
Mind you, you'd have an easier time avoiding that truck because it would being going at a reasonable speed. Similarly, crazy drivers under this scheme would be going slower than the maniacs you're used to.
I, like you, thought that I hadn't received any Christmas presents before. I stumbled around my apartment, blearily fixing breakfast. Suddenly, my doorbell rang.
I hurried down to the front door, opened it, and found myself facing an overnight courier. She had a package for me. I signed for it, eagerly accepted it. According to its label, it had been shipped from the North Pole. Wow.
Back in my apartment, I gently set the package down. With trembling hands, I unwrapped it. Inside, there was a lump of coal.
Which just goes to show something. I'm not sure what, though.
I agree. Me, I like bribery. I like it a lot. As I become more responsible for purchasing decisions at my current organization, I hope that we can foster an environment in which more of these decisions can be made through bribery.
While some might say that the US Department of Labor, as a branch of government, should make purchasing decisions based upon product quality and price, I think it's time that government takes a lesson from industry. I'll tell you how we make these decisions in industry. These decisions are made on the basis of "gifts". You open-source people understand the "gift culture", right? If MicroSoft sales agents are willing to give me a gift, perhaps a night on the town in the company of women of loose morals, I think that's a good thing. I will give them a gift: I will add clauses to the Product Selection Guidelines: "There must be an animatronic paperclip constantly bouncing in the lower-right hand corner."
As a result of this, everyone is happy: I am happy--I have received a gift worth thousands of dollars. MicroSoft is happy--they will receive a contract worth millions of dollars. My organization is happy--they have a set of Product Selection Guidelines which will make the purchasing decision a snap--because there is only one product on the market that matches those guidelines.
Everyone gets what they like. (Except, maybe, the poor shmoes who actually have to use the software.) Those Corel people are just a bunch of spoilsports.
Perhaps it's juvenile, but often when I send off to some company for catalogs, I give a false name. These false names get traded to other companies. Also, there are a few misspellings of my name which seem to have been passed along from company to company.
If Acxiom thinks it's got info on 95% of Americans, I wonder if their figure is inflated by people like me with multiple mail personalities. Judging from the number of names on my junkmail, I could count for about 1% of the USA population all by my lonesome.
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Anyhow, the place I remember in San Francisco was called Tokyo Video.
(nb: I'm kidding)
> to compete against our reality of humanoids
> who wear life-altering computers and
> elongate their lives with superdrugs and
> genetic mutation?
How hard can it be? Just write your story. Then do some research: do you describe something that hasn't been invented yet? Okay, send your story to Amazing. Otherwise, send it to the New Yorker.
In fact, this could be an opportunity. If your sci-fi story doesn't sell to the sci-fi magazines, just wait until reality catches up to your story's "future". Then you can submit it to mainstream publications.
If you want people to carefully look over your code, make sure that you put an error in it, one that generates a really obvious error. I've been using this technique for a long time now, and it's worked wonders.
Those PGP people are too competent for their own good. If outsiders trust PGP too much to check it, everybody loses.
On a related note, my own incompetence has saved me from this bug--because I've never memorized the command-line options to PGP, I have to use it interactively.
When those scientific types want to impress me with the gravitational scariness of a Black Hole, they always stress that not even light can escape.
How do we know that these so-called "Photonic" scientists aren't actually creating black holes with the intention of destroying the world? Has anyone checked to make sure that they aren't under alien mind-control?
As a result of a very widely distributed attack, people can't visit my website. Hundreds of thousands of people have conspired to create web sites more interesting than mine, and so no-one's heard of it, and so no-one can find it.
/.
I'd like to see those DDoS dorkuses try that strategy against
I don't understand why you feel like you have to type in all the code instead of just upgrading your machine with a new peripheral?
Obviously, you could save lots of typing time by installing a flatbed scanner and some simple OCR software. Scan in the pages. The compiler should catch most OCR errors.
Technology is about making things easy, right? Heck, I bet you can find other uses for that scanner, too.
The MIT Museum sells a book, "(The Journal of the) Institute For Hacks TomFoolery & Pranks (at MIT)". It's about 150 pages, lots of photos. It doesn't list all the pranks you might find at other sources but is still pretty amusing.
It's a big book. You could use it as a mousepad.
It didn't seem that obvious back when the idea was first developed. At GEOS developer training sessions, students seemed kind of confused by the whole idea of "hints". They liked the idea of putting a button at coordinates (24, 38). They didn't really like the idea of telling the button to look for a dialog-reply-bar and try to insert itself therein.
Of course, back then, object-oriented programming was pretty cutting-edge. The idea of "classes" that defined behavior--and could inherit behavior from other classes--well, it might have been a lot for those students to take in at the time.
I don't see so many old vehicles speeding around. I am guessing that most people would continue to buy new cars rather than insisting on controllable old cars. I am guessing that inside of five years, the roads would be slower--and arguably safer.
If there's a high-priced market for older cars, that's fine by me. It would be nice to see rich people re-using used cars rather than insisting on new ones. Heck, rich people can afford better insurance.
Suppose that X is the number of scary situations I avoid in a world with many fewer speeders. Suppose that Y is the number of scary situations I avoid by speeding away from them. I am guessing that X is much greater than Y.
It doesn't solve the problem, but I think it would reduce it considerably.
Mind you, you'd have an easier time avoiding that truck because it would being going at a reasonable speed. Similarly, crazy drivers under this scheme would be going slower than the maniacs you're used to.
I, like you, thought that I hadn't received any Christmas presents before. I stumbled around my apartment, blearily fixing breakfast. Suddenly, my doorbell rang.
I hurried down to the front door, opened it, and found myself facing an overnight courier. She had a package for me. I signed for it, eagerly accepted it. According to its label, it had been shipped from the North Pole. Wow.
Back in my apartment, I gently set the package down. With trembling hands, I unwrapped it. Inside, there was a lump of coal.
Which just goes to show something. I'm not sure what, though.
After the Y2K consulting business has dried up, perhaps the next big time bug to go after will be Lunar-fourth-quarter.
> How can you sue someone over what they like?
I agree. Me, I like bribery. I like it a lot. As I become more responsible for purchasing decisions at my current organization, I hope that we can foster an environment in which more of these decisions can be made through bribery.
While some might say that the US Department of Labor, as a branch of government, should make purchasing decisions based upon product quality and price, I think it's time that government takes a lesson from industry. I'll tell you how we make these decisions in industry. These decisions are made on the basis of "gifts". You open-source people understand the "gift culture", right? If MicroSoft sales agents are willing to give me a gift, perhaps a night on the town in the company of women of loose morals, I think that's a good thing. I will give them a gift: I will add clauses to the Product Selection Guidelines: "There must be an animatronic paperclip constantly bouncing in the lower-right hand corner."
As a result of this, everyone is happy:
I am happy--I have received a gift worth thousands of dollars.
MicroSoft is happy--they will receive a contract worth millions of dollars.
My organization is happy--they have a set of Product Selection Guidelines which will make the purchasing decision a snap--because there is only one product on the market that matches those guidelines.
Everyone gets what they like. (Except, maybe, the poor shmoes who actually have to use the software.) Those Corel people are just a bunch of spoilsports.
Perhaps it's juvenile, but often when I send off to some company for catalogs, I give a false name. These false names get traded to other companies. Also, there are a few misspellings of my name which seem to have been passed along from company to company.
If Acxiom thinks it's got info on 95% of Americans, I wonder if their figure is inflated by people like me with multiple mail personalities. Judging from the number of names on my junkmail, I could count for about 1% of the USA population all by my lonesome.
> Do you mean parody?
No, I meant paroddy.
Why is this article under "It's Funny."?
Is it supposed to be a parity?