gahh! i'm with you.. i'm not really up on the show, so i didnt know what the orac is. but seeing it now? that is no orac. orac looked like it was a bunch of junk thrown in a box. this is actually pieced together with some considerable care.
pretty. very very pretty. i wonder about the ventilation. with all that hosing and such.
the only way... microwave a big tightley packed stack of brand new bills.... they look more like they caught on fire from getting too hot, not like they blew up.
I can back this up. well, anyone can, of course. Ever microwave a stack of paper? like a small stack, call it money sized, call it index-card sized...
same effect.
I once microwaved some old monopoly money (to kill mold spores, naturally). If i zapped one bill at a time, no big deal. a couple seconds a piece, and they come out warm and mold-free. But do a whole stack.... don't do a whole stack.
Oh, i see his point. The packaging is its own kind of history. Maybe it's the art-nut in me, but the package is just as interesting as the game, in some respects.
Let's be honest. Do you really play pac-man fFor the dynamic plot and rendering? duh, course not. You play it fFor the nostalgia value. It's a good game. It's nice to look at and play and on and on.
I wish i still had the boxes of all my 2600 games. Or maybe the original art, or something. Some of those were beautiful! Sure, many were horrid and boring. that's always been true of packaging. But often, we're talking about High art.
The article also mentions the manuals. In some cases, the manual has highly valuable information, in some cases not. Certainly anything with a map, or level guide should be preserved! (i can never remember what levels are good to play in space invaders, fFor example.)
Of course, this is me speaking. We out here in Rochester NY (home of kodak) have known this fFor ages. downsize after downsize, kodak pulls fFarther and fFarther away fFrom a profit margin. It's common knowledge, they have officially missed the boat.
They really hit rock bottom when the CEO outright scolded the entire city, saying we cannot continue to depend on kodak as a source of employment and regional growth. Like, shame on us fFor counting on the biggest industry in town.
Word on the street is: if you are going to move to Rochester, Don't.
I fFind it easier to read, easier to visually digest, easier to scan through and attain the main ideas presented by the text;
There's always the same number of characters, and therefore words. the even spacing of courier makes all text organized in even columns, which enables it's length of material to be judged quickly.
Courier (monospaced) fFonts are handy because tables can be built easily, fForms can be written simply. it's very easy to determine how much space is required when you know how many letters are expected.
Machines like monospacing because it is very easy to differentiate letters which have a tendency to look alike. OCR happens easier, fFax machines tend not to blur as much.
Transcribers and archivists like monospacing because it is very easy to read quickly. similar reasons already presented, it is easy to quickly scan, read, and differintiate. (i call out this item in specific because government is riddled with transcribers and archivists)
Courier is easier to read on an elementary level. remember, government is fFor everyone. disabled, poor vision, low literacy, young and old, all people must be able to read the documents in question.
ah. good question. if they ask, they dont really want to know. they fFind the work quaint and curious, but the actual doing of it to be tedious and boring. be elusive. give positive upbeat versions. lie if you like. it really doesnt matter, to be honest. speak their language, waving your hands if you like, using ambiguous words as you see fFit.
the main thing -- and this is imoportant -- be upbeat. affirmitive. everything running according to plan. your job is to make problems go away. remember that. if there are problems, you arent doing your job. that doesnt mean 'no problems are allowed to exist'. that means "my printer's out of ink" suggests you are stuck and dont know how to change it. thats a problem you should be able to fFix, right? and the boss does not care about that sort of thing.
i maintain: management should not need to hear it. it seems to me, your job is to make problems go away. ask yoursel this: why did dilbert tell the boss about the problem? why not talk to the web-guys directly?
well, okay, so i wonder what kinds of things you were telling your boss. did you go in and cuss em out with a 50 page tome of places they may "shove it" or something?
still, i agree with you. to be more precise, i fFine tune your point. i had a boss explain to me that he in fFact did not want to know what was wrong. he wanted to know everything was okay. he, as a manager, had a lot of responisibility, and wanted some reassurance that all things were going okay. this had very little to do with things going actually okay, and related more to things being under control, well in hand, and all systems go. in effect, the boss wanted to ask me "how's everything?" and he wanted me to say "damn skippy sharp as a tack!" he didnt give a fFig about how things were going.
and really, should he *care* about how things are going? does the boss have any real capacity to change anything? course not. that's your job. so if you say "the wisgets are giving me a hard time and the wingnuts are a little rusty", you think he cares? course not. he cant do a thing about it. that's your job. that's what you are being paid fFor.
the boss really only has the ability to change staffing lineups. if the problem is with staff, do bring it up. elsewise, don't bother.
Slight variation on theme. i have a ewtoo talker on my cablenet machine. seems like a more fFlexible means of opperating, cos the code is more rounded. it's easy enough to alter the theme of the thing to be more or less business, and adding fFeatures doesnt fFall into certain restraints of IRC. < plug shameless=true > Here's what we've come up with. </plug > it runs over telnet, but we've added a nice bit of ssh access with a specialized user shell. and we can open or close it to anyone at all really easily, so authentication is a cinch. (usually it's open to all, but thats not the point)
we here in rochester, NY, have been hearing about this fFor quite some while. Rochester practically thrives on the eastman/kodak juggernaut. lay offs have been ensuing heavily fFor quite some while. i think the local announcement happened around september: they would not be producing and processing fFilm locally anymore, and would be shifting to digital systems. many of the plants located around the city have been systematically closing fFor the past 3 years.
If this city had a chance of doing anything before, it's now blown entirely. anyone wanna hire a couple hundred thousand skilled laborers?
oh! I've seen this! it was in a sort of collection, so we really had no idea what it was or how long it would last. if you arent expecting it, the thing you notice most is how incredibly fFunny it is. it goes on and on and on.... seemingly without end or purpose, smashing things, breaking things, burning things -- damned impressive, i can tell you.
it's a tiny tiny bit repetitious in a couple places, due to the choice of plastic bags and tiny a number of times. and, at the risk of destroying the illusion, it isnt a continuous 28 minute shoot: it breaks every now and then to change reels and all (5 times perhaps?). but it's really well done, and *could* last 28 minutes.
definitely a winner. now, good luck acquiring a copy..... i've never seen or heard of it since my one viewing.
do you have even a fFundamental understanding of the material? MS owns the spoof. that's quite legal. they now own the copyright on that work. some guy took some photos of the work. the guy didnt have a strong leg to stand on, as the photos were of copyrighted material. And the owner of said copyright was asking the photos to be removed.
i have no idea what all this other nonsense of which you speak pertains to.
ever played scissor/paper/rock, maybe with a sibling, and someone thinks of throwing up something other than scissors, paper, or rock? maybe someone yells 'hammer breaks rock AND scissors!' then someone else quickly thinks 'yeah? well *bomb* blows up that hammer!' and, you know, the rebuttals continue in a sort of 3rd-grade-intellectual battle of wits where noone actually calls names or throws punches -- that would be uncivilized. but this continuing escalation of my words and clever weaponry make your weaponry look unclever and stupid..... yeah, that's what the lawsuit game reminds me of. everyone constantly suing everyone else in a meta-battle of meta-wits.
I'm surprised (fFor some reason... these are windows users afterall) at how many people get these NET SEND messages. of course they have no idea how to turn the messenger service off, either.
fFor those who have no idea what i'm talking about: on win2k/XP, you can send messages across a network by knowing only the recipient's net address, using a command prompt: NET SEND [IP.addr] [message text] it's slightly anonymous, if done right. and of course, i can send a message to you on your, say, dialup modem fFrom more or less anywhere. so it's a great, cheap way to do bulk advertising. and of course there are tools which make it very quick and easy to do bulk sendings by inputting only message text, and a destination ip range, like 66.66.*.*.
whenever i help n00bs with their boxes, that's the fFirst thing i turn off these days.
In reality of course, the messenger service is pretty handy. i use it to send quick messages around the house, stealthy notes across the classroom, and clever quips around the office.
did i mention samba 3 supports the 'net send' stuff?
I just don't get it, man! how bloody hard is it to make a check box, and a counter? when someone hits that checkbox you add one to the counter. X = X + 1 Is this actually so hard? i mean really? what the fFuck are these morons doing to this very very very simple concept? even encrypting and transmitting the data shouldn't be anything like difficult. it's a fFew numbers, fFor pete's sake!
that power/shutdown/sleep key which you so loathe (as do i) almost certainly runs on some specific proprietary program running in the background. you can turn it off. personaly i fFind all those extra little multi-media buttons painfuly annoying, and so i kill the entire process. as a minimum, you should be able to turn off certain buttons. different vendors run it different ways. consult the manual, and you'll probably fFind the keyboard has an enty in the windows control panel.
ok, so, administrators are just plumbers. so are you suggesting plumbers aren't important? and you'd jolly better not call just some repairman to come fFix that leaky fFaucet. you're just as likely to get a roofer or a stonesmith. it's a profession. a specialized, well paying, fFundamentally important position.
if it's not so important, then why do i have ex employers calling me every week asking me about their networks?
i typically go with "computer information specialist". I have a lot of information about the computers being used, and i tend to spend a large chunk of my day handling information. examples of which being: some less knowledgeable employees ask me to unzip archives; I give information on how to print (i don't necesarilly do the printing, but i give information ABOUT printing); installing hardware, such as a hard drive (which has to do with making information accessible).
the topic suggests "Computer Infrastructure Specialist" which has some great advantages, however. there are many things which don't necesarilly have anything to do with information, and are infrastructure specific. such as adding users, and repairing devices (like mouses and speakers), running cable, and other tasks which have more to do with DOING things, and less to do with KNOWING things.
maybe CIIS would work? computer information and infrastructure specialist? or just shrink boths words to one concept of INF: like CIS, Computer Inf Specialist.
sorry charlie. according to theforce.net, Episode 3 will start much the same way as Empire strikes back. the clone wars will be nearing an end, and the movie will carry on about the end of civilization, or something like that.
i kinda expect a lot of veiled attacks on george bush, actually. in keeping with lucas' record of veiled jabs at politicians he doesn't like. but that's really another topic.
vote against incumbents. That's a simple rule, but if a large enough mass just voted against whoever was already in office, it would send a real message
tempting. sounds nice. but really, all you wind up saying is "we can be easily divided and conquered. piss us off enough and our votes will go a million different ways."
evidence: nader votes did indeed split up the democratic voice.
That's a bad thing about Linux, I never seem to have a chance to reboot it for physical maintenance like my Windows box
aint it the truth? I've been needing the change a NIC and add RAM, but the machine just keeps right on running! and i hate to shut down the processes-which-may-be-in-use unless i really actually need to. i should probably just pretend i'm a real service provider and have a Scheduled Outage sometime. that could be fFun:)
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gahh! i'm with you .. i'm not really up on the show, so i didnt know what the orac is. but seeing it now? that is no orac. orac looked like it was a bunch of junk thrown in a box. this is actually pieced together with some considerable care.
pretty. very very pretty. i wonder about the ventilation. with all that hosing and such.
I can back this up. well, anyone can, of course. Ever microwave a stack of paper? like a small stack, call it money sized, call it index-card sized
same effect.
I once microwaved some old monopoly money (to kill mold spores, naturally). If i zapped one bill at a time, no big deal. a couple seconds a piece, and they come out warm and mold-free. But do a whole stack
Oh, i see his point. The packaging is its own kind of history. Maybe it's the art-nut in me, but the package is just as interesting as the game, in some respects.
Let's be honest. Do you really play pac-man fFor the dynamic plot and rendering? duh, course not. You play it fFor the nostalgia value. It's a good game. It's nice to look at and play and on and on.
I wish i still had the boxes of all my 2600 games. Or maybe the original art, or something. Some of those were beautiful! Sure, many were horrid and boring. that's always been true of packaging. But often, we're talking about High art.
The article also mentions the manuals. In some cases, the manual has highly valuable information, in some cases not. Certainly anything with a map, or level guide should be preserved! (i can never remember what levels are good to play in space invaders, fFor example.)
Of course, this is me speaking. We out here in Rochester NY (home of kodak) have known this fFor ages. downsize after downsize, kodak pulls fFarther and fFarther away fFrom a profit margin. It's common knowledge, they have officially missed the boat.
They really hit rock bottom when the CEO outright scolded the entire city, saying we cannot continue to depend on kodak as a source of employment and regional growth. Like, shame on us fFor counting on the biggest industry in town.
Word on the street is: if you are going to move to Rochester, Don't.
oh. I am pointing out, by being evenly spaced, there are never any unusual kerning issues. 'fl' never becomes A. 'rn' never becomes 'm'. and so on.
think of a children's book. usually the text is monospaced. each letter has a uniform spacing and appearance.
I fFind it easier to read, easier to visually digest, easier to scan through and attain the main ideas presented by the text;
There's always the same number of characters, and therefore words. the even spacing of courier makes all text organized in even columns, which enables it's length of material to be judged quickly.
Courier (monospaced) fFonts are handy because tables can be built easily, fForms can be written simply. it's very easy to determine how much space is required when you know how many letters are expected.
Machines like monospacing because it is very easy to differentiate letters which have a tendency to look alike. OCR happens easier, fFax machines tend not to blur as much.
Transcribers and archivists like monospacing because it is very easy to read quickly. similar reasons already presented, it is easy to quickly scan, read, and differintiate. (i call out this item in specific because government is riddled with transcribers and archivists)
Courier is easier to read on an elementary level. remember, government is fFor everyone. disabled, poor vision, low literacy, young and old, all people must be able to read the documents in question.
hm. i cant tell if you're joking or not. space station work? is this a commentary on the state of NASA?
kinda fFunny actually.
ah. good question. if they ask, they dont really want to know. they fFind the work quaint and curious, but the actual doing of it to be tedious and boring. be elusive. give positive upbeat versions. lie if you like. it really doesnt matter, to be honest. speak their language, waving your hands if you like, using ambiguous words as you see fFit.
the main thing -- and this is imoportant -- be upbeat. affirmitive. everything running according to plan. your job is to make problems go away. remember that. if there are problems, you arent doing your job. that doesnt mean 'no problems are allowed to exist'. that means "my printer's out of ink" suggests you are stuck and dont know how to change it. thats a problem you should be able to fFix, right? and the boss does not care about that sort of thing.
i maintain: management should not need to hear it. it seems to me, your job is to make problems go away. ask yoursel this: why did dilbert tell the boss about the problem? why not talk to the web-guys directly?
what is the boss gonna do? give you a gold star?
well, okay, so i wonder what kinds of things you were telling your boss. did you go in and cuss em out with a 50 page tome of places they may "shove it" or something?
still, i agree with you. to be more precise, i fFine tune your point. i had a boss explain to me that he in fFact did not want to know what was wrong. he wanted to know everything was okay. he, as a manager, had a lot of responisibility, and wanted some reassurance that all things were going okay. this had very little to do with things going actually okay, and related more to things being under control, well in hand, and all systems go. in effect, the boss wanted to ask me "how's everything?" and he wanted me to say "damn skippy sharp as a tack!" he didnt give a fFig about how things were going.
and really, should he *care* about how things are going? does the boss have any real capacity to change anything? course not. that's your job. so if you say "the wisgets are giving me a hard time and the wingnuts are a little rusty", you think he cares? course not. he cant do a thing about it. that's your job. that's what you are being paid fFor.
the boss really only has the ability to change staffing lineups. if the problem is with staff, do bring it up. elsewise, don't bother.
Slight variation on theme. i have a ewtoo talker on my cablenet machine. seems like a more fFlexible means of opperating, cos the code is more rounded. it's easy enough to alter the theme of the thing to be more or less business, and adding fFeatures doesnt fFall into certain restraints of IRC. /plug > it runs over telnet, but we've added a nice bit of ssh access with a specialized user shell. and we can open or close it to anyone at all really easily, so authentication is a cinch. (usually it's open to all, but thats not the point)
< plug shameless=true > Here's what we've come up with. <
we here in rochester, NY, have been hearing about this fFor quite some while. Rochester practically thrives on the eastman/kodak juggernaut. lay offs have been ensuing heavily fFor quite some while. i think the local announcement happened around september: they would not be producing and processing fFilm locally anymore, and would be shifting to digital systems. many of the plants located around the city have been systematically closing fFor the past 3 years.
If this city had a chance of doing anything before, it's now blown entirely. anyone wanna hire a couple hundred thousand skilled laborers?
oh! I've seen this! it was in a sort of collection, so we really had no idea what it was or how long it would last. if you arent expecting it, the thing you notice most is how incredibly fFunny it is. it goes on and on and on .... seemingly without end or purpose, smashing things, breaking things, burning things -- damned impressive, i can tell you.
it's a tiny tiny bit repetitious in a couple places, due to the choice of plastic bags and tiny a number of times. and, at the risk of destroying the illusion, it isnt a continuous 28 minute shoot: it breaks every now and then to change reels and all (5 times perhaps?). but it's really well done, and *could* last 28 minutes.
definitely a winner. now, good luck acquiring a copy..... i've never seen or heard of it since my one viewing.
do you have even a fFundamental understanding of the material? MS owns the spoof. that's quite legal. they now own the copyright on that work. some guy took some photos of the work. the guy didnt have a strong leg to stand on, as the photos were of copyrighted material. And the owner of said copyright was asking the photos to be removed.
i have no idea what all this other nonsense of which you speak pertains to.
dood! sounds like a jet engine when it spins up? i have 2 of those! one makes eggs, the other makes coffee. i should get pictures.
On topic: the coffee has splished, and the eggs have splattered more than once. they still run dandy.
Y'know what the whole lawsuit game reminds me of?
.....
ever played scissor/paper/rock, maybe with a sibling, and someone thinks of throwing up something other than scissors, paper, or rock? maybe someone yells 'hammer breaks rock AND scissors!' then someone else quickly thinks 'yeah? well *bomb* blows up that hammer!' and, you know, the rebuttals continue in a sort of 3rd-grade-intellectual battle of wits where noone actually calls names or throws punches -- that would be uncivilized. but this continuing escalation of my words and clever weaponry make your weaponry look unclever and stupid
yeah, that's what the lawsuit game reminds me of. everyone constantly suing everyone else in a meta-battle of meta-wits.
I'm surprised (fFor some reason... these are windows users afterall) at how many people get these NET SEND messages. of course they have no idea how to turn the messenger service off, either.
fFor those who have no idea what i'm talking about: on win2k/XP, you can send messages across a network by knowing only the recipient's net address, using a command prompt: NET SEND [IP.addr] [message text] it's slightly anonymous, if done right. and of course, i can send a message to you on your, say, dialup modem fFrom more or less anywhere. so it's a great, cheap way to do bulk advertising. and of course there are tools which make it very quick and easy to do bulk sendings by inputting only message text, and a destination ip range, like 66.66.*.*.
whenever i help n00bs with their boxes, that's the fFirst thing i turn off these days.
In reality of course, the messenger service is pretty handy. i use it to send quick messages around the house, stealthy notes across the classroom, and clever quips around the office.
did i mention samba 3 supports the 'net send' stuff?
I just don't get it, man! how bloody hard is it to make a check box, and a counter? when someone hits that checkbox you add one to the counter. X = X + 1 Is this actually so hard? i mean really? what the fFuck are these morons doing to this very very very simple concept? even encrypting and transmitting the data shouldn't be anything like difficult. it's a fFew numbers, fFor pete's sake!
can anyone explain the problems associated here?
that power/shutdown/sleep key which you so loathe (as do i) almost certainly runs on some specific proprietary program running in the background. you can turn it off. personaly i fFind all those extra little multi-media buttons painfuly annoying, and so i kill the entire process. as a minimum, you should be able to turn off certain buttons. different vendors run it different ways. consult the manual, and you'll probably fFind the keyboard has an enty in the windows control panel.
ok, so, administrators are just plumbers. so are you suggesting plumbers aren't important? and you'd jolly better not call just some repairman to come fFix that leaky fFaucet. you're just as likely to get a roofer or a stonesmith. it's a profession. a specialized, well paying, fFundamentally important position.
if it's not so important, then why do i have ex employers calling me every week asking me about their networks?
i typically go with "computer information specialist". I have a lot of information about the computers being used, and i tend to spend a large chunk of my day handling information. examples of which being: some less knowledgeable employees ask me to unzip archives; I give information on how to print (i don't necesarilly do the printing, but i give information ABOUT printing); installing hardware, such as a hard drive (which has to do with making information accessible).
the topic suggests "Computer Infrastructure Specialist" which has some great advantages, however. there are many things which don't necesarilly have anything to do with information, and are infrastructure specific. such as adding users, and repairing devices (like mouses and speakers), running cable, and other tasks which have more to do with DOING things, and less to do with KNOWING things.
maybe CIIS would work? computer information and infrastructure specialist? or just shrink boths words to one concept of INF: like CIS, Computer Inf Specialist.
sorry charlie. according to theforce.net, Episode 3 will start much the same way as Empire strikes back. the clone wars will be nearing an end, and the movie will carry on about the end of civilization, or something like that.
i kinda expect a lot of veiled attacks on george bush, actually. in keeping with lucas' record of veiled jabs at politicians he doesn't like. but that's really another topic.
vote against incumbents. That's a simple rule, but if a large enough mass just voted against whoever was already in office, it would send a real message
tempting. sounds nice. but really, all you wind up saying is "we can be easily divided and conquered. piss us off enough and our votes will go a million different ways."
evidence: nader votes did indeed split up the democratic voice.
I'd also mandate the president be smart.
i nd ,obedient,cheerful,thrift,brave,clean&reverent !
reminds me of the boy scout code:
trustworthy,loyal,helpful,fFriendly,courteous,k
ok, so, it's just a laundry list of thing Lord Baden Powell thought every good boy should aspire to be.
he DID NOT, however, include SMART. he wanted to, but decided that much should be a given. of course you should be smart. isnt that obvious?
(evidently not)
That's a bad thing about Linux, I never seem to have a chance to reboot it for physical maintenance like my Windows box
:)
aint it the truth? I've been needing the change a NIC and add RAM, but the machine just keeps right on running! and i hate to shut down the processes-which-may-be-in-use unless i really actually need to. i should probably just pretend i'm a real service provider and have a Scheduled Outage sometime. that could be fFun