exposes ordinary people to ever more scrutiny by authorities while skirting legal protections designed to limit the government's collection and use of personal data
Eh, what’s wrong with an end run around the safeguards protecting our freedom and liberty? They act like that’s a bad thing or something.
I guess when the “strict constructionists” say that the Constitution isn’t a “living document,” that must imply that it’s just some smelly old corpse to be kicked out of the way by the guy with the biggest boots.
If only this story also touched on the NSA trying to use their unconstitutionally acquired data to find recreational drug users, I’d have the most on-topic.sig EVAR!
Vista is not crippled against running on macs or under virtual systems.
How would it “know?”
it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista
How?
it means you can do comparisons of Vista and mac osx.
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of development time running XP on 10.4 via VPC, no, it really, really doesn’t mean that, anymore than viewing screen shots of the operating systems side by side in a magazine gives you a feel for how responsive the GUI might be if a train left Chicago on Tuesday carrying three apples and an angry Lithuanian bookkeeper.
Like the other dude said, you can get a lot of helpful feedback from photographers of varying ability, all the way from some chick snapping pictures of her cats with a camera phone to professionals doing National Geographic quality landscapes. That and the fact that just as Slashdot’s moderation system has a tendency to shape people’s comments to conform with the groupthink, Flickr’s system tends to encourage posting of photographs that conform to the accepted rules of effective composition. In other words, just as Slashbots often say what other Slashbots wanna hear, us FlickrWhores tend to try and shoot stuff that gets a “wow” from our fellow FlickrWhores.
Flickr is an amazing piece of technology. Not only is it a remarkable demonstration of the much-maligned (in these parts) Web 2.0, but it has without a doubt made me a better photographer. (Well, that and doing enough overtime to afford a dSLR.) And any technology that can improve your skills rather than just compensate for your shortcomings is all-fucking-right in my book.
I was under the impression that the PDF file format was an open standard and that Adobe Acrobat was proprietary software that could create and manipulate PDF files. In other words, if you would like for your software to work with PDF files you can either license code from them (some form of Acrobat) or roll your own.
One of the single best ways to fuck yourself up is to have your keyboard and mouse right up at the edge of the work surface. Get them as far back as you can so your forearms are on the desk instead of hanging off it. If you’re stuck with a vacuum tube on your desk, pull the desk out from the wall so that the pivot base of your monitor is at the back edge and the monitor’s ass is hanging out in space. Then push your input devices as far back as you can. Spend a few hours like that and see how it feels. You’ll probably be pleasantly surprised.
Fortunately, the shift to LCDs should free up another foot or more of space on people’s desks. And hopefully their reduced size and weight will cause more people start mounting them on walls or articulated arms. Oddly enough, bringing your focal point up to eye level does wonders for the neck (and probably the eyes as well).
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He’s got another one (currently in Teh Misteereeus Fyoocher), this time with his name linked to yet another domain. I wonder what that service costs.
I used to have a standing workstation, but once I started doing long hours (as in 10+) of work at home, that was no longer practical. But for as much as 4-6 hours a day, it’s awesome, especially for gaming. (This is the only point on which I agree with Rummy.)
I’ve long envisioned a system where the armband I wear at the gym has sensors woven into it that connect to the iPod. It would take my pulse and blood pressure and have the iPod speak the important numbers and stats to me over the headphones.
Claims of Al Queda’s synthetic nature may not be entirely baseless, although the tendency among many is to conflate Mr. Bush with the movement he currently figureheads, which muddles things considerably. Look for the word ‘database’ on this page. There is much more info out there, that was the first decent hit of a quick search. Look into Tim Osman as well. I don’t know how accurate information about him is, but it’s an interesting tale regardless.
Oh jeebus, I hadn’t heard that. I haven’t seen the service manual myself, nor will I bother as I can’t really blow the money on a new iBook at the moment. But that certainly would be pretty boneheaded.
I guess we can hope that most of the assembly workers and repair techs know to read the instructions printed on the side of the tube? Or maybe the tube is just solid white with an off-white Apple logo and part number, and no instructions to distract from the task of squoozing?
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Eh, what’s wrong with an end run around the safeguards protecting our freedom and liberty? They act like that’s a bad thing or something.
I guess when the “strict constructionists” say that the Constitution isn’t a “living document,” that must imply that it’s just some smelly old corpse to be kicked out of the way by the guy with the biggest boots.
Grammar School. Slashdot.
They just about write themselves these days, don’t they?
We used to use an app called LanChat at a previous office. Dead simple, does what the name says.
If only this story also touched on the NSA trying to use their unconstitutionally acquired data to find recreational drug users, I’d have the most on-topic .sig EVAR!
Yeah, well, that’s public education for ya.
How?
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of development time running XP on 10.4 via VPC, no, it really, really doesn’t mean that, anymore than viewing screen shots of the operating systems side by side in a magazine gives you a feel for how responsive the GUI might be if a train left Chicago on Tuesday carrying three apples and an angry Lithuanian bookkeeper.
If you could get paid twice for the same thing, wouldn’t you?
if I were in possession of photos of the president getting head from Dick Cheney... and I am not
And that’s the difference between you and me, bub: an 800mm zoom lens.
Well, that and a very strong stomach.
Perhaps.
But I, for one, dub thee Backwash Boy.
Like the other dude said, you can get a lot of helpful feedback from photographers of varying ability, all the way from some chick snapping pictures of her cats with a camera phone to professionals doing National Geographic quality landscapes. That and the fact that just as Slashdot’s moderation system has a tendency to shape people’s comments to conform with the groupthink, Flickr’s system tends to encourage posting of photographs that conform to the accepted rules of effective composition. In other words, just as Slashbots often say what other Slashbots wanna hear, us FlickrWhores tend to try and shoot stuff that gets a “wow” from our fellow FlickrWhores.
Yes to both.
Flickr is an amazing piece of technology. Not only is it a remarkable demonstration of the much-maligned (in these parts) Web 2.0, but it has without a doubt made me a better photographer. (Well, that and doing enough overtime to afford a dSLR.) And any technology that can improve your skills rather than just compensate for your shortcomings is all-fucking-right in my book.
Some of us fiscally conservative liberals see that as a false dichotomy.
I was under the impression that the PDF file format was an open standard and that Adobe Acrobat was proprietary software that could create and manipulate PDF files. In other words, if you would like for your software to work with PDF files you can either license code from them (some form of Acrobat) or roll your own.
I guess I was misunderinformed?
You back up the files you’d least like to do without after the event. Not your spyware.
One of the single best ways to fuck yourself up is to have your keyboard and mouse right up at the edge of the work surface. Get them as far back as you can so your forearms are on the desk instead of hanging off it. If you’re stuck with a vacuum tube on your desk, pull the desk out from the wall so that the pivot base of your monitor is at the back edge and the monitor’s ass is hanging out in space. Then push your input devices as far back as you can. Spend a few hours like that and see how it feels. You’ll probably be pleasantly surprised.
Fortunately, the shift to LCDs should free up another foot or more of space on people’s desks. And hopefully their reduced size and weight will cause more people start mounting them on walls or articulated arms. Oddly enough, bringing your focal point up to eye level does wonders for the neck (and probably the eyes as well).
He’s got another one (currently in Teh Misteereeus Fyoocher), this time with his name linked to yet another domain. I wonder what that service costs.
The two things that have saved my spine (aside from Dr. LaBreque, my chiropractor) are a really good chair and an articulated monitor arm.
I used to have a standing workstation, but once I started doing long hours (as in 10+) of work at home, that was no longer practical. But for as much as 4-6 hours a day, it’s awesome, especially for gaming. (This is the only point on which I agree with Rummy.)
Because the other constitutional rights are not under constant assault.
Wow.
I’ve long envisioned a system where the armband I wear at the gym has sensors woven into it that connect to the iPod. It would take my pulse and blood pressure and have the iPod speak the important numbers and stats to me over the headphones.
Claims of Al Queda’s synthetic nature may not be entirely baseless, although the tendency among many is to conflate Mr. Bush with the movement he currently figureheads, which muddles things considerably. Look for the word ‘database’ on this page. There is much more info out there, that was the first decent hit of a quick search. Look into Tim Osman as well. I don’t know how accurate information about him is, but it’s an interesting tale regardless.
Comments like that are why you see a blue dot next to my username.
With everything that’s come to light about Nick Berg since then, maybe he’s not such a great example in this context.
Huh. Swap out the proper nouns and he sounds like this dude from Connec--, err, Texas, that took ov--
Oh, now I get it. Nevermind.
Oh jeebus, I hadn’t heard that. I haven’t seen the service manual myself, nor will I bother as I can’t really blow the money on a new iBook at the moment. But that certainly would be pretty boneheaded.
I guess we can hope that most of the assembly workers and repair techs know to read the instructions printed on the side of the tube? Or maybe the tube is just solid white with an off-white Apple logo and part number, and no instructions to distract from the task of squoozing?