I didn't ignore the problems the author had with his iBook.
I have the same iBook as the author - and have no problems doing what he claims he can't do. I didn't ignore his problem - i simply believe he is incompetent - like i said in my article post.
as for "The problem with lacklustre third party development has prompted Apple to create its own browser, which it calls Safari. Some industry watchers feel the development and release of Safari is an indication that Apple is being forced to become more actively involved in software development." - i'm not finding any comments from 1994 when Microsoft introduced their own browser, IE. I wonder if that was also because he thinks that Microsoft felt forced to make it. Asshat.
As for the lock-ups and crashes - i'm not Apple tech support, but i'm not about to tell anyone how rock solid Mac OS X is.. that's old news - so this guy either is a doorknob, or his machine is physically broken.
as for "In its latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%. At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month."
he says these things as if they matter. they don't.
its the profitability, stupid. He ignored Apple's profits for the last 4 years because out of the last 18 quarters - Apple has been the most consistent performer outside of Dell - batting 16/18 in the last 4+ years for profitable quarters and even the two losers were just recent, and a couple of millions. Apple has 4.3B in the bank. I'm also not a financial analyst... but waaah.
And the author seems to be saying that computers are commodity items like soybeans... because, again, he's got an iBook with all the great software and ease of use built in, and he totally ignored all of that. Apple has innovated (USB, 802.11b built-in, first flatpanel consumer all-in-one, 1" thick laptops, complete consumer video DVD burning solution out-of-the-box, Rendezvous, Easy to use 1U.7TB server, 2.7TB 3U FC RAID with $500 FC cards, Firwire 800, and built-in 802.11g) their way thru the post-dot.com era...
Dell gave us... preloaded Windows XP machines and that asshat "dude" that isn't smart enough to hide his chronic. Gateway gave us... uh....uh.... umm.. oh... uh.... Compaq/HP gave us... fugly monitors.
The the author wants to get a windows laptop - great - i don't care. One less whiny coputer user that will obvious be much happier running XP.
But his complaints are all sophormoric - and i did address them in a couple of words.
i posted this article because i thought it was hiralious that his article is a cut and paste job from any number of thousands of articles from the past
I posted this article because it almost feels "like home" to see one of these cookie-cutter "Apple's dead" articles... almost like a good gritty first post in soviet russia where ??? profits natalie portman.
so, i posted it because i thought it was funny that this guys seems to be at least 5 years behind the curve, and still has nothing new to whine about.
NO ONE likes to lock a "softcopy" file down so that you can't suck data from it. If i want a document that i can't cut/paste data from, i print the fscking thing. The ONLY thing most people want 99% of the itme is to prevent someone from making changes to a document (such as a resume). In that case, we make PDFs... because few know how to modify them.
The esoteric nature of this scheme - much like some of the advanced features of Outlook/Exchange will be mostly if not totally lost on all but a few ubergeeks in your typical business... Those geeks will send out emails/Word docs which are IRM'd, and then will just frustrate the hell out of the normal users who will email back asking for a "non-fscked up" version.
Its kinda like being the first guy to install a Service Pack from Microsoft the first day it comes out... you only do that once and have a horrible experience before you relize you better wait, only this will be much more powerful....
the first time Joe Businessman brings a file with him on the reoad that he can't modify or can't copy data from - he'll swear to Jesus and never EVER use this "feature" again.
In short - there are two kinds of people - people who will "get" this, and those that won't. Those that get it are either PHB's or geeks - most geeks won't want to use it or will use it to piss off the other kind of people - the normal people that won't understand how this helps them do their work.
for most people - security is a PITA - this will only make their lives more difficult, and will have them finding work arounds if it is "mandated".
like it or not - when you get on a plane, you are sometimes less than 10 feet away from having enough power to kill tens of thousands of people.
flying is not a right.... and it is the responsibility of those that operate such powerful equpiment to ensure that no one can get their hands on such power.
not only that.. but Kamen is so dense that he doesn't even offer a battery-in-the-side-saddles options to actually make the Segway usefull for longer distances.
what an idiot. I can't believe such a "smart" guy couldn't figure out something this basic to help out his own invention...
the term "asshat" was invented by the guys on the Kevin and Bean show on KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles who are ACTUALLY funny and entertaining - unlike Mark and Brian who are still doing Elvis jokes.. still...
I believe, iirc, that the term "asshat" was actually conceived for the obvious asshat, Rick Dees.
When you learn the origin of asshat - its obvious but also insightful at the same time... kinda like making a laptop keyboard glow from below.
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>>As the parent of a first grader and a kindergartener I dread the day I'm must do this. I'm as clueless about how to handle it now as I was then. Have you any ideas?
number one, and everything else will be automatic......
LISTEN and believe your KID! let the kid cry his/her freaking eyes out, let them let out the anger that they have welling inside them - let them let it out. If thye don't - they'll go Columbine. But more than that - they'll know that you love them
My parents did this, but even back then, the litigious society we have now wasn't around then.. if it was, they probably could have gottena lawyer to harass the school. My parents did the best that they could.
2 - Go to the school in real life and face the administration. Bring names, bring times (as in number of). As much as it sucks - document what's going on... ask the administration "would you like it if you smacked you in the head 4 times a day between classes? If not, then why are you letting Kid X do it to my kid") Threaten to go and talk to the bully in one of his classes *that he's not in the same class as your kid*. They won't let you... but the threat of doing something yourself could be the most effective way to get the overpaid useless school administrators off their asses to do something.
3 - if you can find the parents - simply send them a letter informing them that your gathering evidence to seek criminal charges of assault against their kid.
bear in mind - this is not evey kid. Not even every little kid. It must really be a case, like mine, where i was just way beyond small, and was an easy target because i was a nerd with thick glasses. If your kid actually has the ability to defend themselves - you should start with that route first.
Having your kid fight off the bullies will be MUCH more effective than getting litigious.. but if the fights would end up like Andy Dick vs. The Rock - then don't bother.. your kid will only be more humiliated.
be sure to let you kid know that if they do fight back, and get supended:***let your kid know that they won't be in trouble with you.***
you'll probably do something like take them to Disneyland or something the day that they are suspended (don't tell them that ahead of time). But let them know that if they have to defend themselves, and the school can't see that, and they mindlessly punish your little kid for standing up for him/herself, they are okay.. its just a lame government system that doesn't know how to effectively run their own business because they don't have to.
the school is (more than likely) a government institution.. never forget that. Middle school and high schools are run by people that are also run the DMV.... do don't expect a whole lot of brains going on there (i'm not talking about teachers) [/gets off of political soapbox]
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omg - t0quer and i lived the same life.
Most of the time, when i was under 5 foot tall thru my freshman year of HS, but even worse in Jr High (7-8th grades) i was mercilessly picked on.
The most typical things for the normal kids to do to me - the kid in the highest math and science clases - as well as in the band were...
-pushing me into the uniral while using it.. and i don't mean a shove on the shoulder - i mean pushed in full force as i pissed on myself with my feet off the ground -throwing wet toilet paper (dirty, sometimes) at me when using the urinal -flattening my tires on my bike -stealing my bike and putting it in a tree or on top of a storage shed -p.e., as you can imagine, was the best. generally pushing me into trees, down hills (lot oa hills on the runs) and i would have to do my best to outrun the jocks when we'd do the long runs in the "hidden" areas - where the teacher couldn't see us from where he was.
but the most common were name calling and slapping me on the back of the head... all.. the... time...
teachers didn't care. Even when i finally got permission to keep my bike in the school's office, they still didn't listen when i told them.
In high school, it wasn't AS bad... but it was still there, but that was mostly because i holed up in the band room every minute i wasn't in class.... that really helped a lot.
but there were the times that big guys would come to band practice on the field, waiting for a break and the teacher gone... i had to hit one guy once with my trumpet to get him away from me.
but i can honestly say that i OFTEN thought about shooting the bullies. I wanted to, but didn't, because i knew i'd be in trouble. I spent a lot of time daydreaming in easy classes about it, though.
Like t0quer, i am now married to a wondeful woman, who's not only hot, but very athletic (but 5'2"... so she never got too far in sports seriously) and really wonderful.
i no longer dream of shooting them... i do wish that there was a way i could help these kids out tho, today... i'm concidering setting up a free service for kids like this to give them hidden cameras, hidden mikes... and then setting them up with lawyers to sue the fucking losers that do this to kids like i was... and have the proof...
if you weren't one of these kids - you have no fscking idea what its like to be one.. the daily mental. but oftentimes, the constant physical beatings or abuse (almost never enough to cause serious injury, unfortunately) is something to really behold.
I also feel for and i really really do understand and don't blame kids like Kip Kinkle... that shot the kids that were constantly harassing him, both physically and mentally. I don't blame him even a little because i can see his life.. i lived it...
no one helps you no one believes you everyone gives you fucking useless advice like "just ignore them" or "just avoid them"
if that's all the help you give a kid like this - then no shit - of COURSE he's going to go around shooting his bullies! He SHOULD! He has no other recourse.
if you've ever told a kid this about a bully - you're part of the fucking problem... because YOU didn't help... these kids don't need advice.. they need to know that they aren't going to get their asses kicked at school by the inbred loser kids tomorrow. They need to know that school isn't just where they get beat up every day.
If you're an adult - you have to DO... ACT... PERFORM MECHANICAL action to fix the hell that this little geek is living in.
i do know that my life duing those 4-5 years really did shape me.. i joined the military because i wanted to help people that couldn't help themselves, even though i'm not big enough to do it as a soldier - i did it as a nerd (engineer on classified space programs).
Now, i'm hoping to help kids like me.. by actually helping them. Today... where they are now.
don't EVER take lightly what a small kid tells you about what's going on in school. You really really don't understand unless you've been one.
I once heard this guy on Howard Stern who recorded his sessions with telemarketers and he'd jerk them around.
One was a call from a carpet cleaning telemarketer. He told them that he had a _lot_ of blood all over the carpet, and the he wanted to know if they could come over in an hour... or sooner.
i'm a German-American aerospace engineer - so apparently, so they ob-fscking-ously don't want me.
I'm going to put this one up on my wall of fame...right next to the time i had a black 4-star general tell me that the Air Force still has a problem with diversity.
Jesus tapdancing Christ - GET OVER YOUR SKIN COLOR.
(before you think i'm totally nuts - i do live in Los Angeles... the race-baiting capital of the world... and where lighter-skin-colored-European-Americans are by far becoming the smallest minority)
Those of us in dumb-ass Southern California are staring down the barrel of 9.5 sales tax, 11% income tax, 3x our yearly car tax...
if i wanted to live in fscking Europe, and have half of my money stolen from me to pay for record unemployment - i'd be a motherfscking Frenchman.. at least i woouldn't have to shower, so that would save time in the morning.
Instead, i'm living here, getting ripped off to pay for millions of Mexico's children to be educated here on my dime.... and now, you're going to pound me in the ass for sales tax when i buy my iPod from smalldog.com?
that does it. Screw you guys... i'm going to Sealand.
I think there was some kind of tea party regarding this taxation without representation... maybe its time for another one.
Call BSA pretending to be a "disgruntled ex-employee"...
have them come out a few times... make them waste their time and money...
finally, when they seemed really really frothed, let them in....laugh hysterically at them.... then show them the door.
at least, that's what i'm planning to do here in the near future when i start my business. I'll tape/record everything and let you all know how it goes.... because i'm an a-hole....
no. but it sure is a clear sign that its the end of the G3. When the iBook is updated with a G4 later this year - that will be the end of non-AltiVec Macs.
I wonder how much longer apps/Mac OS X will support non-G4 machines.
i'm glad i concidered my iBook basically a "use, abuse, throw away" machine when i bought it...
>>or those that can't get 3.0.1 to work - just delete the app, and delete whatever permissions you have under ~/Library/Preferences that have
the word "iMovie" in them. Then reinstall iMovie from the CD's that came with your machine/from your Jagwire CD
#2/AdditionalApplications.pkg. It won't overwrite iPhoto 2 - do you'll be okay.
damnit. should read...
delete whatever *preferences* you have under ~/library/preference... not permissions.
i was running permission conjunctifyer (Disk Utility) and had the word "permissions" on the brain.
this is exactly the same thing i was getting which prompted me to post.
I'm making my own Scrubs DVD collection (John C. McGinley positively makes me piss my pants and double over) and i couldn't even pretend to watch my previous captures - i record the shows onto DV tape from my DirecTiVo, and then transfer them to my iBook 800 - then put the iDVD-ready.mov files onto my G4 with SuperDrive (which is also my server, so i don't like to mess with it doing the capture)
I was thinking it was me, but then that's when i noticed the complaint stream starting to build out there.
Surprized at the total choadability of watching older iMovie projects, i tried importing last weeks episode - and i was MAYBE getting 15 fps capture. Plus getting random splitting of clips... it was totally unusable.
I understand that newer software sometimes doesn't run all that great on old hardware - but please - iMovie 2.1.2 (running now in the background) is a absolutely fine. A little slow with the UI, but the things that must work - capture, playback - never a single issue.
Im getting the drift in here that iMovie 3 seems to be okay on most 1Ghz and better DP machines. And if that's the case - maybe Apple's phasing out iBook (read: G3) users. I can deal with that. I didn't buy my iBook for its video editing prowess.. but at least i thought it would run iMovie okay as long as it ran. (iDVD does not run on G3s - i can accept that totally)
So maybe i'll have to get off my but and get the 12" PowerBook.. okay. I can handle the truth - and it might be that Apple is now building to the G4 - fine - i even understand that.
Just let us know that you're phasing out G3 machines when making new apps, Apple. Most of us can deal with that.
I'll try doing all the steps mentioned in that othat +5 post - permission repair, daily junk file cleanup, etc. I'll see how it goes.
for those that can't get 3.0.1 to work - just delete the app, and delete whatever permissions you have under ~/Library/Preferences that have the word "iMovie" in them. Then reinstall iMovie from the CD's that came with your machine/from your Jagwire CD #2/AdditionalApplications.pkg. It won't overwrite iPhoto 2 - do you'll be okay.
by Opera's logic, we should hear the following press release... "Microsoft has just announced its own web browser, dubbed "Internet Explorer", and in a fit of childishness, we no longer see a point in developing Opera for Windows." because if we don't.. then its obvious that they are basically just pussies.
(Note to opera guys - you make a browser for Windows, and so does Microsoft. A little consistency with your whining would be nice)
if its not as obvious as the dead-squirrel on Congressman Trafficant's (D) head - the real issue is that Apple, in about 5 minutes during Steve's demo at MWSF, proved to the world that they can flat-out out code Opera and beat the bajezzuz out of them at their own game of "lightweight, small, fast, easy to use broswers".
They are pissed that they got so soundly defeated by a "hardware" company.
Life's tough, get a fscking helmet. - Dennis Leary
And damnit, that goes for everyone else who's whining about Apple making applications for Mac OS X and are complaining that Apple is "killing" the "small developers.
Good God... they GAVE you developers tools free with every copy of the OS, and have a website that guides you by the hand for FREE on how to make apps.
There are tons of tiny apps - PageSender, Watson, Interarchy, VueScan jump to mind - that are small, cheap, and GOOD!
At least guys like Waston have sack. They admitted that they were on their laurels, and - and this is the most important thing....
Watson is the BETTER thanks to Sherlock 3!
Its called competition. At all levels. As soon as someone makes a better video editor than iMovie - then bully for them.. i'll use it.
I might have paid "twice as much for my Mac as what i could get for a Windows box" but you know what?
i don't think or feel like i did, and things like Safari are the reason why.
that give Congress the mandate to regulate the sale of video games to minors.
I'm looking at it, and i'm not seeing it.
"so what"? you ask?
The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
That means that unless there is a state law regarding the sale of video games, then, Constitutionally, there is no way the federal gov. has any jurisdiction in this area.
the constitution outlines the complete set of rights of the federal government, not YOUR rights. Any rights not enumerated to the federal government are therefore transferred to you, the citizen (or illegal alien, or terror cell).
The Constitution is a LIMITNG document to the government, not to the people. it maximizes people's rights and limits governments.
why don't the editors try doing something.. like "EDITING" the site?
when there is a dup story, whack the dup. This isn't fscking rocket science.. or even bad coding.
are they afraid of committing a "Winston Smith in the Ministry of Slashdot" evil that would make whacking dups a "Bad Idea"? If there is, i'm missing it.
(/me paypals $10 to Dr. Evil and Mini Me for the overuse of quotation marks in this post, so stop bitching)
By the various definitions of what TCPA and Palladuim calim to be and what they claim to be able to deliver to "customers" - the hardware and the software must validate each other.
If either the software or the hardware was "untrusted" in a TCPA and Palladium world, then by definition, neither can actually do any of what they claim to be able to do.
If i can run "untrusted" software on a TCPA - then TCPA couldn't be very effective.. and if i could run "untrusted" hardware with Palladium - then Palladium would be just as ineffective.
Rouge hardware and rouge software are not allowable - by the definition of trusted software and trusted hardware.
I guarantee you - much software and much hardware will never be trusted. Either because of who made it (w4r3z d00d, Apple, etc.) or who didn't make it (Intel, Micro Soft, etc.).
This is why these concerns arise.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it - according to the article.
And that is the problem with Windows. By the time i had gotten most of my servers to NT4, they were shoving Win2k down my throat. After i had gotten everyone onto Windows NT 4.0 workstation, i couldn't get it any more - i was forced to have W2k and NT4 Wkstn running side by side.
Windows, unless you just refuse to be able to run certain software, requires you to change everything every 2 years. Its a nightmare.
Mac OS X and FreeBSD wouldn't have required me to change so much stuff over the last two, years, and i don't see a big deal with the next few either.. while windows admins will HAVE to incorporate XP into the networks, because they will have no choice.
"After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law. Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said. "
i don't read the word "wilfull" in the DMCA, so i have no idea of how this case could have come out this way.
The DMCA was written to prevent ALL forms of copyright breaking devices (with the well known supposed caveats of research, etc.) This judge's jury instructions seem to fly in the face of the DMCA's whole point... that any device which circumvents copyright protection is illegal.
This judge has effectively rewritten the law from the bench... the law now reads - providing this is what he actually instructed the jury to do..
"Any device which circumvents copyright protections for the use of w4r3z d00dz and pirates (arrgh, me maties) is illegal, but if its not intended to do that and only perform those acts which constitute normal fair use, then it is okay, and you are not criminally liable of any offense."
i'm sorry.. but what the fsck?
(scum sucking hellbound) Lawyers, please help us to understand this....this appears to make no logical legal sense to me.
i'm not arguing with the judge's decision.. i'm questioning his legal position.. please don't get me wrong
from the website: >Since VA has not released the source in over one year, despite their promises to the contrary, a fork was necessary to ensure a viable open source version of the codebase. > so i went over to the site in question (sourceforge.net) and was unable to determine anything about the software which is used to run SF.
So... does Tim have a legit beef? I do not know the history of SF.net enough to know. Is the sf.net code open? Is it VA or OSDN owned? Is it proprietary?
just curious.
It just seemed out of the norm since they've been pretty good about slashcode and all....
More Guns, Less Crime is a book by a liberal that takes unbiased FBI numbers regarding what happened when concealed carry laws were passed, and other very controversial subjects..
and he found that the more law-abiding people that had guns there were, the lower the crime rate because of the fear factor.... that is, the criminals were fearful of the well armed citizens that were ready to defend themselves.
its not politics, its logic.
If it were legal to carry a gun here in LA, maybe that guy wouldn't have tried to carjack me in the Tace Bell drive-thru. He saw a small, white guy in an expensive sports car. I was an obvious and easy target.
I got away - thankfully - by hitting him with my car.
but fsck that. I just carry a small auto now. I'm not going to hope to get lucky next time.
bad guys.. there are a LOT of us nerds carrying now.. and we're growing in numbers. Just so you know.
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I didn't ignore the problems the author had with his iBook.
.7TB server, 2.7TB 3U FC RAID with $500 FC cards, Firwire 800, and built-in 802.11g) their way thru the post-dot.com era...
I have the same iBook as the author - and have no problems doing what he claims he can't do. I didn't ignore his problem - i simply believe he is incompetent - like i said in my article post.
as for "The problem with lacklustre third party development has prompted Apple to create its own browser, which it calls Safari. Some industry watchers feel the development and release of Safari is an indication that Apple is being forced to become more actively involved in software development." - i'm not finding any comments from 1994 when Microsoft introduced their own browser, IE. I wonder if that was also because he thinks that Microsoft felt forced to make it. Asshat.
As for the lock-ups and crashes - i'm not Apple tech support, but i'm not about to tell anyone how rock solid Mac OS X is.. that's old news - so this guy either is a doorknob, or his machine is physically broken.
as for "In its latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%. At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month."
he says these things as if they matter. they don't.
its the profitability, stupid. He ignored Apple's profits for the last 4 years because out of the last 18 quarters - Apple has been the most consistent performer outside of Dell - batting 16/18 in the last 4+ years for profitable quarters and even the two losers were just recent, and a couple of millions. Apple has 4.3B in the bank. I'm also not a financial analyst... but waaah.
And the author seems to be saying that computers are commodity items like soybeans... because, again, he's got an iBook with all the great software and ease of use built in, and he totally ignored all of that. Apple has innovated (USB, 802.11b built-in, first flatpanel consumer all-in-one, 1" thick laptops, complete consumer video DVD burning solution out-of-the-box, Rendezvous, Easy to use 1U
Dell gave us... preloaded Windows XP machines and that asshat "dude" that isn't smart enough to hide his chronic.
Gateway gave us... uh....uh.... umm.. oh... uh....
Compaq/HP gave us... fugly monitors.
The the author wants to get a windows laptop - great - i don't care. One less whiny coputer user that will obvious be much happier running XP.
But his complaints are all sophormoric - and i did address them in a couple of words.
i posted this article because i thought it was hiralious that his article is a cut and paste job from any number of thousands of articles from the past
I posted this article because it almost feels "like home" to see one of these cookie-cutter "Apple's dead" articles... almost like a good gritty first post in soviet russia where ??? profits natalie portman.
so, i posted it because i thought it was funny that this guys seems to be at least 5 years behind the curve, and still has nothing new to whine about.
NO ONE likes to lock a "softcopy" file down so that you can't suck data from it. If i want a document that i can't cut/paste data from, i print the fscking thing. The ONLY thing most people want 99% of the itme is to prevent someone from making changes to a document (such as a resume). In that case, we make PDFs... because few know how to modify them.
... Those geeks will send out emails/Word docs which are IRM'd, and then will just frustrate the hell out of the normal users who will email back asking for a "non-fscked up" version.
The esoteric nature of this scheme - much like some of the advanced features of Outlook/Exchange will be mostly if not totally lost on all but a few ubergeeks in your typical business
Its kinda like being the first guy to install a Service Pack from Microsoft the first day it comes out... you only do that once and have a horrible experience before you relize you better wait, only this will be much more powerful....
the first time Joe Businessman brings a file with him on the reoad that he can't modify or can't copy data from - he'll swear to Jesus and never EVER use this "feature" again.
In short - there are two kinds of people - people who will "get" this, and those that won't. Those that get it are either PHB's or geeks - most geeks won't want to use it or will use it to piss off the other kind of people - the normal people that won't understand how this helps them do their work.
for most people - security is a PITA - this will only make their lives more difficult, and will have them finding work arounds if it is "mandated".
your video game systems, your C-64 and drives or your Star Wars toys.
because nothing says "i kick ass" like a "skinny-head" Han Solo on top of a Vectrex and Racing Construction Set running on original equipment.
oh yeah, and don't be a wuss, go get contact leses sooner.
El Al.
never been hijacked.
like it or not - when you get on a plane, you are sometimes less than 10 feet away from having enough power to kill tens of thousands of people.
flying is not a right.... and it is the responsibility of those that operate such powerful equpiment to ensure that no one can get their hands on such power.
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just doing my part...
not only that.. but Kamen is so dense that he doesn't even offer a battery-in-the-side-saddles options to actually make the Segway usefull for longer distances.
what an idiot. I can't believe such a "smart" guy couldn't figure out something this basic to help out his own invention...
>"asshat" - AC
the term "asshat" was invented by the guys on the Kevin and Bean show on KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles who are ACTUALLY funny and entertaining - unlike Mark and Brian who are still doing Elvis jokes.. still...
I believe, iirc, that the term "asshat" was actually conceived for the obvious asshat, Rick Dees.
When you learn the origin of asshat - its obvious but also insightful at the same time... kinda like making a laptop keyboard glow from below.
>>As the parent of a first grader and a kindergartener I dread the day I'm must do this. I'm as clueless about how to handle it now as I was then. Have you any ideas?
number one, and everything else will be automatic......
LISTEN and believe your KID! let the kid cry his/her freaking eyes out, let them let out the anger that they have welling inside them - let them let it out. If thye don't - they'll go Columbine. But more than that - they'll know that you love them
My parents did this, but even back then, the litigious society we have now wasn't around then.. if it was, they probably could have gottena lawyer to harass the school. My parents did the best that they could.
2 - Go to the school in real life and face the administration. Bring names, bring times (as in number of). As much as it sucks - document what's going on... ask the administration "would you like it if you smacked you in the head 4 times a day between classes? If not, then why are you letting Kid X do it to my kid") Threaten to go and talk to the bully in one of his classes *that he's not in the same class as your kid*. They won't let you... but the threat of doing something yourself could be the most effective way to get the overpaid useless school administrators off their asses to do something.
3 - if you can find the parents - simply send them a letter informing them that your gathering evidence to seek criminal charges of assault against their kid.
bear in mind - this is not evey kid. Not even every little kid. It must really be a case, like mine, where i was just way beyond small, and was an easy target because i was a nerd with thick glasses. If your kid actually has the ability to defend themselves - you should start with that route first.
Having your kid fight off the bullies will be MUCH more effective than getting litigious.. but if the fights would end up like Andy Dick vs. The Rock - then don't bother.. your kid will only be more humiliated.
be sure to let you kid know that if they do fight back, and get supended:***let your kid know that they won't be in trouble with you.***
you'll probably do something like take them to Disneyland or something the day that they are suspended (don't tell them that ahead of time). But let them know that if they have to defend themselves, and the school can't see that, and they mindlessly punish your little kid for standing up for him/herself, they are okay.. its just a lame government system that doesn't know how to effectively run their own business because they don't have to.
the school is (more than likely) a government institution.. never forget that. Middle school and high schools are run by people that are also run the DMV.... do don't expect a whole lot of brains going on there (i'm not talking about teachers) [/gets off of political soapbox]
omg - t0quer and i lived the same life.
.. the... time...
Most of the time, when i was under 5 foot tall thru my freshman year of HS, but even worse in Jr High (7-8th grades) i was mercilessly picked on.
The most typical things for the normal kids to do to me - the kid in the highest math and science clases - as well as in the band were...
-pushing me into the uniral while using it.. and i don't mean a shove on the shoulder - i mean pushed in full force as i pissed on myself with my feet off the ground
-throwing wet toilet paper (dirty, sometimes) at me when using the urinal
-flattening my tires on my bike
-stealing my bike and putting it in a tree or on top of a storage shed
-p.e., as you can imagine, was the best. generally pushing me into trees, down hills (lot oa hills on the runs) and i would have to do my best to outrun the jocks when we'd do the long runs in the "hidden" areas - where the teacher couldn't see us from where he was.
but the most common were name calling and slapping me on the back of the head... all
teachers didn't care. Even when i finally got permission to keep my bike in the school's office, they still didn't listen when i told them.
In high school, it wasn't AS bad... but it was still there, but that was mostly because i holed up in the band room every minute i wasn't in class.... that really helped a lot.
but there were the times that big guys would come to band practice on the field, waiting for a break and the teacher gone... i had to hit one guy once with my trumpet to get him away from me.
but i can honestly say that i OFTEN thought about shooting the bullies. I wanted to, but didn't, because i knew i'd be in trouble. I spent a lot of time daydreaming in easy classes about it, though.
Like t0quer, i am now married to a wondeful woman, who's not only hot, but very athletic (but 5'2"... so she never got too far in sports seriously) and really wonderful.
i no longer dream of shooting them... i do wish that there was a way i could help these kids out tho, today... i'm concidering setting up a free service for kids like this to give them hidden cameras, hidden mikes... and then setting them up with lawyers to sue the fucking losers that do this to kids like i was... and have the proof...
if you weren't one of these kids - you have no fscking idea what its like to be one.. the daily mental. but oftentimes, the constant physical beatings or abuse (almost never enough to cause serious injury, unfortunately) is something to really behold.
I also feel for and i really really do understand and don't blame kids like Kip Kinkle... that shot the kids that were constantly harassing him, both physically and mentally. I don't blame him even a little because i can see his life.. i lived it...
no one helps you
no one believes you
everyone gives you fucking useless advice like "just ignore them" or "just avoid them"
if that's all the help you give a kid like this - then no shit - of COURSE he's going to go around shooting his bullies! He SHOULD! He has no other recourse.
if you've ever told a kid this about a bully - you're part of the fucking problem... because YOU didn't help... these kids don't need advice.. they need to know that they aren't going to get their asses kicked at school by the inbred loser kids tomorrow. They need to know that school isn't just where they get beat up every day.
If you're an adult - you have to DO... ACT... PERFORM MECHANICAL action to fix the hell that this little geek is living in.
i do know that my life duing those 4-5 years really did shape me.. i joined the military because i wanted to help people that couldn't help themselves, even though i'm not big enough to do it as a soldier - i did it as a nerd (engineer on classified space programs).
Now, i'm hoping to help kids like me.. by actually helping them. Today... where they are now.
don't EVER take lightly what a small kid tells you about what's going on in school. You really really don't understand unless you've been one.
I once heard this guy on Howard Stern who recorded his sessions with telemarketers and he'd jerk them around.
One was a call from a carpet cleaning telemarketer. He told them that he had a _lot_ of blood all over the carpet, and the he wanted to know if they could come over in an hour... or sooner.
Howard said that it was a CD on sale.
i swear, i googled for it. Can't find it.
i'm a German-American aerospace engineer - so apparently, so they ob-fscking-ously don't want me.
I'm going to put this one up on my wall of fame...right next to the time i had a black 4-star general tell me that the Air Force still has a problem with diversity.
Jesus tapdancing Christ - GET OVER YOUR SKIN COLOR.
(before you think i'm totally nuts - i do live in Los Angeles... the race-baiting capital of the world... and where lighter-skin-colored-European-Americans are by far becoming the smallest minority)
Those of us in dumb-ass Southern California are staring down the barrel of 9.5 sales tax, 11% income tax, 3x our yearly car tax...
if i wanted to live in fscking Europe, and have half of my money stolen from me to pay for record unemployment - i'd be a motherfscking Frenchman.. at least i woouldn't have to shower, so that would save time in the morning.
Instead, i'm living here, getting ripped off to pay for millions of Mexico's children to be educated here on my dime.... and now, you're going to pound me in the ass for sales tax when i buy my iPod from smalldog.com?
that does it. Screw you guys... i'm going to Sealand.
I think there was some kind of tea party regarding this taxation without representation... maybe its time for another one.
run a site with nothing but OSS/freeware/Mac OS.
... because i'm an a-hole....
Call BSA pretending to be a "disgruntled ex-employee"...
have them come out a few times... make them waste their time and money...
finally, when they seemed really really frothed, let them in....laugh hysterically at them.... then show them the door.
at least, that's what i'm planning to do here in the near future when i start my business. I'll tape/record everything and let you all know how it goes.
no. but it sure is a clear sign that its the end of the G3. When the iBook is updated with a G4 later this year - that will be the end of non-AltiVec Macs.
I wonder how much longer apps/Mac OS X will support non-G4 machines.
i'm glad i concidered my iBook basically a "use, abuse, throw away" machine when i bought it...
>>or those that can't get 3.0.1 to work - just delete the app, and delete whatever permissions you have under ~/Library/Preferences that have
the word "iMovie" in them. Then reinstall iMovie from the CD's that came with your machine/from your Jagwire CD
#2/AdditionalApplications.pkg. It won't overwrite iPhoto 2 - do you'll be okay.
damnit. should read...
delete whatever *preferences* you have under ~/library/preference... not permissions.
i was running permission conjunctifyer (Disk Utility) and had the word "permissions" on the brain.
this is exactly the same thing i was getting which prompted me to post.
.mov files onto my G4 with SuperDrive (which is also my server, so i don't like to mess with it doing the capture)
I'm making my own Scrubs DVD collection (John C. McGinley positively makes me piss my pants and double over) and i couldn't even pretend to watch my previous captures - i record the shows onto DV tape from my DirecTiVo, and then transfer them to my iBook 800 - then put the iDVD-ready
I was thinking it was me, but then that's when i noticed the complaint stream starting to build out there.
Surprized at the total choadability of watching older iMovie projects, i tried importing last weeks episode - and i was MAYBE getting 15 fps capture. Plus getting random splitting of clips... it was totally unusable.
I understand that newer software sometimes doesn't run all that great on old hardware - but please - iMovie 2.1.2 (running now in the background) is a absolutely fine. A little slow with the UI, but the things that must work - capture, playback - never a single issue.
Im getting the drift in here that iMovie 3 seems to be okay on most 1Ghz and better DP machines. And if that's the case - maybe Apple's phasing out iBook (read: G3) users. I can deal with that. I didn't buy my iBook for its video editing prowess.. but at least i thought it would run iMovie okay as long as it ran. (iDVD does not run on G3s - i can accept that totally)
So maybe i'll have to get off my but and get the 12" PowerBook.. okay. I can handle the truth - and it might be that Apple is now building to the G4 - fine - i even understand that.
Just let us know that you're phasing out G3 machines when making new apps, Apple. Most of us can deal with that.
I'll try doing all the steps mentioned in that othat +5 post - permission repair, daily junk file cleanup, etc. I'll see how it goes.
for those that can't get 3.0.1 to work - just delete the app, and delete whatever permissions you have under ~/Library/Preferences that have the word "iMovie" in them. Then reinstall iMovie from the CD's that came with your machine/from your Jagwire CD #2/AdditionalApplications.pkg. It won't overwrite iPhoto 2 - do you'll be okay.
by Opera's logic, we should hear the following press release... "Microsoft has just announced its own web browser, dubbed "Internet Explorer", and in a fit of childishness, we no longer see a point in developing Opera for Windows." because if we don't.. then its obvious that they are basically just pussies.
(Note to opera guys - you make a browser for Windows, and so does Microsoft. A little consistency with your whining would be nice)
if its not as obvious as the dead-squirrel on Congressman Trafficant's (D) head - the real issue is that Apple, in about 5 minutes during Steve's demo at MWSF, proved to the world that they can flat-out out code Opera and beat the bajezzuz out of them at their own game of "lightweight, small, fast, easy to use broswers".
They are pissed that they got so soundly defeated by a "hardware" company.
Life's tough, get a fscking helmet. - Dennis Leary
And damnit, that goes for everyone else who's whining about Apple making applications for Mac OS X and are complaining that Apple is "killing" the "small developers.
Good God... they GAVE you developers tools free with every copy of the OS, and have a website that guides you by the hand for FREE on how to make apps.
There are tons of tiny apps - PageSender, Watson, Interarchy, VueScan jump to mind - that are small, cheap, and GOOD!
At least guys like Waston have sack. They admitted that they were on their laurels, and - and this is the most important thing....
Watson is the BETTER thanks to Sherlock 3!
Its called competition. At all levels. As soon as someone makes a better video editor than iMovie - then bully for them.. i'll use it.
I might have paid "twice as much for my Mac as what i could get for a Windows box" but you know what?
i don't think or feel like i did, and things like Safari are the reason why.
> you might find that she agrees with much of what the RIAA's critics have to say.
well, she does own an iPod.. this may be more true than you may think.
i'd give you a link to the picture of her in the latest release of Wired Magazine, listening to an iPod and smiling.
if she had gotten her way - according to what she was being paid to say - then the iPod would be outlaw hardware.
Maybe that iPod pict was her first public finger in the face of the RIAA? If she didn't mean it to be - it was all the same.
that give Congress the mandate to regulate the sale of video games to minors.
I'm looking at it, and i'm not seeing it.
"so what"? you ask?
The 10th Amendment states:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
That means that unless there is a state law regarding the sale of video games, then, Constitutionally, there is no way the federal gov. has any jurisdiction in this area.
the constitution outlines the complete set of rights of the federal government, not YOUR rights. Any rights not enumerated to the federal government are therefore transferred to you, the citizen (or illegal alien, or terror cell).
The Constitution is a LIMITNG document to the government, not to the people. it maximizes people's rights and limits governments.
-US Civics 101.
why don't the editors try doing something.. like "EDITING" the site?
when there is a dup story, whack the dup. This isn't fscking rocket science.. or even bad coding.
are they afraid of committing a "Winston Smith in the Ministry of Slashdot" evil that would make whacking dups a "Bad Idea"? If there is, i'm missing it.
(/me paypals $10 to Dr. Evil and Mini Me for the overuse of quotation marks in this post, so stop bitching)
How could TCPA and Palladium NOT be intertwined?
By the various definitions of what TCPA and Palladuim calim to be and what they claim to be able to deliver to "customers" - the hardware and the software must validate each other.
If either the software or the hardware was "untrusted" in a TCPA and Palladium world, then by definition, neither can actually do any of what they claim to be able to do.
If i can run "untrusted" software on a TCPA - then TCPA couldn't be very effective.. and if i could run "untrusted" hardware with Palladium - then Palladium would be just as ineffective.
Rouge hardware and rouge software are not allowable - by the definition of trusted software and trusted hardware.
I guarantee you - much software and much hardware will never be trusted. Either because of who made it (w4r3z d00d, Apple, etc.) or who didn't make it (Intel, Micro Soft, etc.).
This is why these concerns arise.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it - according to the article.
And that is the problem with Windows. By the time i had gotten most of my servers to NT4, they were shoving Win2k down my throat. After i had gotten everyone onto Windows NT 4.0 workstation, i couldn't get it any more - i was forced to have W2k and NT4 Wkstn running side by side.
Windows, unless you just refuse to be able to run certain software, requires you to change everything every 2 years. Its a nightmare.
Mac OS X and FreeBSD wouldn't have required me to change so much stuff over the last two, years, and i don't see a big deal with the next few either.. while windows admins will HAVE to incorporate XP into the networks, because they will have no choice.
"After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law. Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said. "
.this appears to make no logical legal sense to me.
i don't read the word "wilfull" in the DMCA, so i have no idea of how this case could have come out this way.
The DMCA was written to prevent ALL forms of copyright breaking devices (with the well known supposed caveats of research, etc.) This judge's jury instructions seem to fly in the face of the DMCA's whole point... that any device which circumvents copyright protection is illegal.
This judge has effectively rewritten the law from the bench... the law now reads - providing this is what he actually instructed the jury to do..
"Any device which circumvents copyright protections for the use of w4r3z d00dz and pirates (arrgh, me maties) is illegal, but if its not intended to do that and only perform those acts which constitute normal fair use, then it is okay, and you are not criminally liable of any offense."
i'm sorry.. but what the fsck?
(scum sucking hellbound) Lawyers, please help us to understand this...
i'm not arguing with the judge's decision.. i'm questioning his legal position.. please don't get me wrong
from the website:
>Since VA has not released the source in over one year, despite their promises to the contrary, a fork was necessary to ensure a viable open source version of the codebase.
>
so i went over to the site in question (sourceforge.net) and was unable to determine anything about the software which is used to run SF.
So... does Tim have a legit beef? I do not know the history of SF.net enough to know. Is the sf.net code open? Is it VA or OSDN owned? Is it proprietary?
just curious.
It just seemed out of the norm since they've been pretty good about slashcode and all....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226 493644/qid=1039469029/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-891185 5-5319946?v=glance&s=books
More Guns, Less Crime is a book by a liberal that takes unbiased FBI numbers regarding what happened when concealed carry laws were passed, and other very controversial subjects..
and he found that the more law-abiding people that had guns there were, the lower the crime rate because of the fear factor.... that is, the criminals were fearful of the well armed citizens that were ready to defend themselves.
its not politics, its logic.
If it were legal to carry a gun here in LA, maybe that guy wouldn't have tried to carjack me in the Tace Bell drive-thru. He saw a small, white guy in an expensive sports car. I was an obvious and easy target.
I got away - thankfully - by hitting him with my car.
but fsck that. I just carry a small auto now. I'm not going to hope to get lucky next time.
bad guys.. there are a LOT of us nerds carrying now.. and we're growing in numbers. Just so you know.