> I get the impression that if I was in Iraq I could just go around calling myself the Grand Ayatollah Mujahadeen Leader of the Bridages of Al-Sayadr Mahamazujin and nobody would give a fuck.
I'd think this funny if I didn't know you meant it...
You're just describing task specialisation here. An HCI expert doesn't need to know about procedure pre-conditions, just like a coder doesn't need to know about "recognition not recall". This is why we have analysis people, design people and construction people.
At our university, the Ethics Committee will not allow research to be conducted where the subject may divulge self-incriminating information. I'm not sure how this would sit in that context.
> Meat based sentients are severely limited in their perfectability and are significantly and possibly irredeemiably polluted by evolution based programming inconsistent with civilized being and any but limited progress.
> If a lecturer at my university had even tried to exceed the standard 50 minutes...and if students had tried that at any place I was lecturing, I would have let them leave, then put that material into the exam.
I suppose this is a little funny, but the important thing to remember is that it takes just a few moments to reply to someone's email bluff, or get someone off the street to pose with a silly sign. The cost to them of doing all of this is minimal.
For the amount of money they might make, why wouldn't they do it? Why do they care if it's a rude word? Or if it's the real William Shatner they're replying to? The money they might make would be just as sweet.
We're doing research like this at the Ecommerce Research Group at the Australian National University. We're focusing on software piracy, trying to work out why people do it if they don't then sell their cracked software (and could be using their coding skills in the workforce).
Our biggest problem has been getting crackers to participate. Most are so skeptical and wary that they are reluctant to take the survey (which we designed specifically so respondents don't have to admit to doing anything illegal).
Our second biggest problem has been getting the people who have elected to participate to take it seriously. It seems many respondents just treat it as a joke.
1. There's nothing wrong with going to court 2. Going to court is the best way of getting your profit back. 3. There is nothing wrong with going to court to get your profit back.
Your argument is *circular* and *flawed*. There are other ways of resolving such disputes, and going to court need not take place. I wonder..are you a lawyer? To a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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> I get the impression that if I was in Iraq I could just go around calling myself the Grand Ayatollah Mujahadeen Leader of the Bridages of Al-Sayadr Mahamazujin and nobody would give a fuck.
I'd think this funny if I didn't know you meant it...
You're just describing task specialisation here. An HCI expert doesn't need to know about procedure pre-conditions, just like a coder doesn't need to know about "recognition not recall". This is why we have analysis people, design people and construction people.
> This is BS.
Is it? In the US, at how many garages do you see the employees *saluting the cars as they leave*?
> I refurbish and recycle. And when I say recycle [...] I mean refurbish and put back into service....
Doesn't that mean you refurbish and refurbish?
I think you mean you refurbish and reuse!
That guy's going to win it instead of me! Time to submit this to Slashdot...
I think the idea of hiring a girlfriend has major problems. Let's say everything goes to hell at work - who will you go to for consolation?
"Babe, everything at work has really hit the fan, sometimes I just want to throw it all in...and by the way do you have those TPS reports?"
> Simple rule: If your car is built anywhere between 13 (the Skoda factory) and 144 (Japan) degrees of longitude, don't buy it.
Cool! More Nissan Skyline GTRs for me then!
> but really should have triple redundant systems.
I laugh at your puny triple redundant systems!! They should have QUADRUPLE redundant systems!!!
Whoops, you're right! The join occurs right after the exhaust unit rolls off the screen...
> There's one join in the middle
Snopes doesn't agree with you - "it's all one long take"...
At our university, the Ethics Committee will not allow research to be conducted where the subject may divulge self-incriminating information. I'm not sure how this would sit in that context.
> Meat based sentients are severely limited in their perfectability and are significantly and possibly irredeemiably polluted by evolution based programming inconsistent with civilized being and any but limited progress.
Hey, it's the architect!!
> I can think of nothing worse.
What about cholera?
> If a lecturer at my university had even tried to exceed the standard 50 minutes ...and if students had tried that at any place I was lecturing, I would have let them leave, then put that material into the exam.
Why are you here? To learn or not?
> No. Smith was taking over the system and was killed by sacrafice.
No yourself - he was clearly talking about the first Matrix film. And in any case, even if he wasn't, we all knew what he meant.
I suppose this is a little funny, but the important thing to remember is that it takes just a few moments to reply to someone's email bluff, or get someone off the street to pose with a silly sign. The cost to them of doing all of this is minimal.
For the amount of money they might make, why wouldn't they do it? Why do they care if it's a rude word? Or if it's the real William Shatner they're replying to? The money they might make would be just as sweet.
...a Linux Training Centre opens you!
We're doing research like this at the Ecommerce Research Group at the Australian National University. We're focusing on software piracy, trying to work out why people do it if they don't then sell their cracked software (and could be using their coding skills in the workforce).
Our biggest problem has been getting crackers to participate. Most are so skeptical and wary that they are reluctant to take the survey (which we designed specifically so respondents don't have to admit to doing anything illegal).
Our second biggest problem has been getting the people who have elected to participate to take it seriously. It seems many respondents just treat it as a joke.
It's an interesting problem.
> you have an excuse: you're an ignorant customer - they don't.
What if they're ignorant customers too?
Your argument goes like this:
1. There's nothing wrong with going to court
2. Going to court is the best way of getting your profit back.
3. There is nothing wrong with going to court to get your profit back.
Your argument is *circular* and *flawed*. There are other ways of resolving such disputes, and going to court need not take place. I wonder..are you a lawyer? To a hammer everything looks like a nail.
From Carter, C. J., "U.S. Leads Richest Nations In Gun Deaths", Associated Press, Friday, April 17, 1998:
(selected figures for) gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in 1994:
United States 14.24;
Northern Ireland 6.63;
Canada 4.31;
Israel 2.91;
Australia 2.65;
England and Wales 0.41;
Japan 0.05
God, this is the funniest thing I've read all week!!!
> It also describes RMS writing Emacs
OMG!!!! RMS wrote blaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
> I can't ever beat this new game I have, called 'pong'.
Did you read the novel that came with it?
> I also would try to concentrate on the Fortune 5000 types of corporations
"Fortune 500"...