It's rather odd to compare this to "Dilbert" and other current nerd comics, since those have some wit to them. This reads rather more like a prolonged advertisement for the TRS-80 computer. A little subtlety would have been nice, that's all.
Unfortunately, due to the current moratorium on the performance, creation, and distribution of silence, white noise, or their subsidiares, this song may not be transfered, coppied, or played before an audience without first contacting both the estates of Paul Simon, and, more recently, that of John Cage. Thank you for your co-operation.
It seems just a bit odd, though, that a government that spent roughtly 45 years in a hostle stalemate with the forces of communism (more if you count minor US intervention during the Russian Civil War) should go about nationalizing any sort of independant business. Now, change can be good, but given the age of some of the senators, it still seems unnervingly like doublethink.
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At some point, the RIAA is going to have to look at the expense of legal action, DRM helmets, etc., and when they do, will the amount they have supposedly saved by preventing unlicenced content distribution balance out the amount they've spent to save that money? If so, to what extent, and how fast are they approaching breaking even? And if not, by how much? (This is, of course, working with their assumption, that their profit margins are being damaged by such services as Napster.)
those confounded X-10 pop-under ads seem slightly less annoying now, especially since they aren't thirty seconds long. And, on the whole, if it were a matter of having to close another X-10 add every half-hour or watching a nauseating thirty second comercial, I'll take the X-10 add.
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
- Douglas Adams,
Mostly Harmless
Well, if you're good there's the pay, the intelectual stimulation, variety, satisfaction of a good solution to a hard problem... There's the practice for problem soving which can be applied elsewhere. Why not become a programmer, or at least learn to do it? It's at least something you can put on your resume.
And one more thing: you sound like you're preaching against programming in any way, shape or form. Please don't argue for ignorance.
First, they can determine that it's me on the computer, and not somebody else. Second, they will be able to determine that I never click on their ads. Since the goal of this software is to determine what sort of ads I will respond to and send me those sorts of ads, will they eventually stop sending them? It would be nice if somebody would block the pop-ups for me...
Sometime, once a graphics designer has gotten one of these:
1. Selects object to move, turns head to move it.
2. Turns head to move it; is no longer looking at screen.
3. Asks: Is it moved far enough?
4. Turns his head back; picture moves back.
5. Repeat from step 2.
Do the creatures pass the Turing Test, being able to carry on an extended conversation of at least human ability? As far as I know, that's the only true test of consiousness. There's a great deal of difference between writing a program to simulate the movement of an ameoba and their actions and writing a program to simulate human thought. When I can have a conversation with one of these things, I'll accept them as alive, and not before.
You realize, of course, that if Blizzard wins, Sesame Street will never have to pay for funding. All of their episodes are brought to you by various letters, you know, and those letters might be trademarked. Just think of the cumulative profit on a novel, if they charge a cent a letter.
This could be a good thing from a structural point of view. Spider silk has a higher tensile strength than any known man-made cable, so a manufacturer could concievably replace a steel cable with a smaller load of spider silk cable. And since it would come out of goats, it wouldn't be as hard to manufacture, as all you have to do is feed the goats and occassionaly collect the threads.
...perhaps including some kind of halucinogen with the movie would make it more enjoyable. The plot's almost impossible to follow, but I'm sure that all the flashes of strange color would give an interesting back drop to a halucination.
That middle part looked pretty empty, probably so you could see the monitor. So, instead of putting the monitor behind the thing and having to look through it, why not just put it in that blank spot, and end up with a few more square inches of desk space?
About that comment that "nobody brings a cassirole," it seems like somebody would bring a plate of cookies or natchos or something. After all, you've got a whole bunch of guys testing code for hours on end. This leads me to doubt that nobody ever brought a cassirole, or any other sort of food item.
Assume that new user is getting a computer and is considering trying Linux, but isn't sure about it. Getting a Macintosh based on Linux would probably make a good jumping off point for that, and once you've got some of the more complex concepts down, Linux for PPC could be installed. All told, I'd rather have a Mac/Linux dual boot system than a Win/Linux dual boot system.
In the next month or two, the following will probably come out:
6 articles saying "I told you so."
5 articles claiming this study was flawed.
4 studies claiming that cell phones are harmless.
3 studies claiming that this study is accurate.
2 major cell phone companies releasing statements to the effect that their products are safe.
1 person trying to sue a cell phone maker for assumed dammages.
Well, something to sense my mood when I get home and dispense advil, drinks, or softer lighting as needed would be good, or bring 'round coffee if it notices that I'm still awake at 2 in the morning.
They do have one advantage- they can do more processess at once. Rather than trying to do one process really fast and then another process really fast, a Mac does have the advantage of being able to do more processess at the same time, though not quite as fast. It's not that bad a trade-off in some ways.
Last I heard, Russia was facing severe unimployment, economic trouble, a suffering economy, and so on. One way to solve these problems is to get some really huge project that will need massive ammounts of manpower, and this tunnel seems like it will fit the bill. Some thoughts as to what it would need:
Basic Labor (digging, hammering)
Skilled Labor (Rivitting, welders, engineers, masons)
Surveyors
Logistics People
Mess Crews (since we can assume they'll work on site)
Tents and houskeeping
Drivers
Heavy Machinery Operators
The people back at farms or foundries to provide materials
As you can see, the list is enormous, and everybody's being paid, boosting their economy. In principle, it would be like the public works projects of the Great Depressions.
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It's rather odd to compare this to "Dilbert" and other current nerd comics, since those have some wit to them. This reads rather more like a prolonged advertisement for the TRS-80 computer. A little subtlety would have been nice, that's all.
Not only intimidating, it also fully validates the presence of a smoke detector on it. So that after it's just set half the house ablaze, you know it.
Elvis already got that one.
Unfortunately, due to the current moratorium on the performance, creation, and distribution of silence, white noise, or their subsidiares, this song may not be transfered, coppied, or played before an audience without first contacting both the estates of Paul Simon, and, more recently, that of John Cage. Thank you for your co-operation.
It seems just a bit odd, though, that a government that spent roughtly 45 years in a hostle stalemate with the forces of communism (more if you count minor US intervention during the Russian Civil War) should go about nationalizing any sort of independant business. Now, change can be good, but given the age of some of the senators, it still seems unnervingly like doublethink.
At some point, the RIAA is going to have to look at the expense of legal action, DRM helmets, etc., and when they do, will the amount they have supposedly saved by preventing unlicenced content distribution balance out the amount they've spent to save that money? If so, to what extent, and how fast are they approaching breaking even? And if not, by how much? (This is, of course, working with their assumption, that their profit margins are being damaged by such services as Napster.)
This, I fear, is what happens when people take being fragged in Forsaken far, far too literally.
those confounded X-10 pop-under ads seem slightly less annoying now, especially since they aren't thirty seconds long. And, on the whole, if it were a matter of having to close another X-10 add every half-hour or watching a nauseating thirty second comercial, I'll take the X-10 add.
Compare to UserFriendly, Dec. 29.
Well, if you're good there's the pay, the intelectual stimulation, variety, satisfaction of a good solution to a hard problem... There's the practice for problem soving which can be applied elsewhere. Why not become a programmer, or at least learn to do it? It's at least something you can put on your resume.
And one more thing: you sound like you're preaching against programming in any way, shape or form. Please don't argue for ignorance.
First, they can determine that it's me on the computer, and not somebody else. Second, they will be able to determine that I never click on their ads. Since the goal of this software is to determine what sort of ads I will respond to and send me those sorts of ads, will they eventually stop sending them? It would be nice if somebody would block the pop-ups for me...
Sometime, once a graphics designer has gotten one of these:
1. Selects object to move, turns head to move it.
2. Turns head to move it; is no longer looking at screen.
3. Asks: Is it moved far enough?
4. Turns his head back; picture moves back.
5. Repeat from step 2.
Do the creatures pass the Turing Test, being able to carry on an extended conversation of at least human ability? As far as I know, that's the only true test of consiousness. There's a great deal of difference between writing a program to simulate the movement of an ameoba and their actions and writing a program to simulate human thought. When I can have a conversation with one of these things, I'll accept them as alive, and not before.
You realize, of course, that if Blizzard wins, Sesame Street will never have to pay for funding. All of their episodes are brought to you by various letters, you know, and those letters might be trademarked. Just think of the cumulative profit on a novel, if they charge a cent a letter.
Day One:
Kid: Teacher! Timmy won't share the crayons!
Teacher: Timmy! Hand over the crayons and stay after. Share next time.
Day Two:
Kid: Teacher! Timmy's hogging the milk!
Teacher: Timmy! Stay after again!
Day Three:
Kid: Look! Source code!
Teacher: Timmy, is that freely distributed code? Straight to the office, young man!
This could be a good thing from a structural point of view. Spider silk has a higher tensile strength than any known man-made cable, so a manufacturer could concievably replace a steel cable with a smaller load of spider silk cable. And since it would come out of goats, it wouldn't be as hard to manufacture, as all you have to do is feed the goats and occassionaly collect the threads.
...perhaps including some kind of halucinogen with the movie would make it more enjoyable. The plot's almost impossible to follow, but I'm sure that all the flashes of strange color would give an interesting back drop to a halucination.
That middle part looked pretty empty, probably so you could see the monitor. So, instead of putting the monitor behind the thing and having to look through it, why not just put it in that blank spot, and end up with a few more square inches of desk space?
About that comment that "nobody brings a cassirole," it seems like somebody would bring a plate of cookies or natchos or something. After all, you've got a whole bunch of guys testing code for hours on end. This leads me to doubt that nobody ever brought a cassirole, or any other sort of food item.
Assume that new user is getting a computer and is considering trying Linux, but isn't sure about it. Getting a Macintosh based on Linux would probably make a good jumping off point for that, and once you've got some of the more complex concepts down, Linux for PPC could be installed. All told, I'd rather have a Mac/Linux dual boot system than a Win/Linux dual boot system.
In the next month or two, the following will probably come out:
6 articles saying "I told you so."
5 articles claiming this study was flawed.
4 studies claiming that cell phones are harmless.
3 studies claiming that this study is accurate.
2 major cell phone companies releasing statements to the effect that their products are safe.
1 person trying to sue a cell phone maker for assumed dammages.
Well, something to sense my mood when I get home and dispense advil, drinks, or softer lighting as needed would be good, or bring 'round coffee if it notices that I'm still awake at 2 in the morning.
They do have one advantage- they can do more processess at once. Rather than trying to do one process really fast and then another process really fast, a Mac does have the advantage of being able to do more processess at the same time, though not quite as fast. It's not that bad a trade-off in some ways.
Last I heard, Russia was facing severe unimployment, economic trouble, a suffering economy, and so on. One way to solve these problems is to get some really huge project that will need massive ammounts of manpower, and this tunnel seems like it will fit the bill. Some thoughts as to what it would need: Basic Labor (digging, hammering) Skilled Labor (Rivitting, welders, engineers, masons) Surveyors Logistics People Mess Crews (since we can assume they'll work on site) Tents and houskeeping Drivers Heavy Machinery Operators The people back at farms or foundries to provide materials As you can see, the list is enormous, and everybody's being paid, boosting their economy. In principle, it would be like the public works projects of the Great Depressions.