There are probably a hundred different ways that 74B's get deployed, and each one will need a different skill-set in their posting, one best taught by the people you're replacing during the hand-over period. AIT in that kind of situation would simply be a matter of weeding out the total morons and entry-level familiarization.
As for losing your rights, well, welcome to the Army, dumbass. What? You thought it was going to be like College?
Personally, I had a blast at AIT (back in the '80s) because every other weekend we got a pass, and we bolted for the beach in bunches and spent two days getting drunk and laid (that body they gave you in Basic is a bikini-magnet; or was, before high-school kids started taking GHB and dianabol).
Or maybe you didn't check your geekdom at the Reception Station.
You try setting up a moon colony in 15 years with $200 million, develop all those new technologies, safety test everything, and somehow keep your engineers hired on substandard wages. I bet you can't even begin to budget for it.
Let me give it a stab:
$100 million: budgeting, planning, and management $50 million: training $10 million: rocket scientists $40 million: lobbying for the other $4.8 Billion we need to buy fuel and $100 bolts and shit
In the early '70s, science fiction was discarded as a reactionary cultural trope, in the same way that short haircuts and baseball had been denigrated.
So when George Lucas was shopping around his space opera, and nobody would buy it, he finally found someone who had at least enough temerity to share the risk with him. And in the process ceded him the rights. But assuming that risk forced him to trim the story to the leanest and most forceful form he could manage, creating one of the best-crafted stories ever told.
Its purity resonated in our hearts, and we of course went off on creative tangents, thinking that the movie's value was in its special effects, or the space stuff, or sci-fi in general. But it also created a new era of basic storytelling in film.
The sad part is, Lucas himself thought the attributes of his creation were more significant than the spine, and the 4 (5?) following episodes exist as eye candy, movie-star exploitations, and merchandising platforms.
But what I hope will happen is that the constraint of unpopularity of science fiction in this era of formulaic junk-movies will again breed creativity, and will bear us a new era of quality. Jackson's effort to bring LOTR to the screen may be consuming some of that. Nobody said it had to be Science Fiction to be good.
I hate to say it, but Vint never really did understand the Internet.
Yes, VoIP is a distinctive service, and regardless of the fact that it's married to packet media, it should be regulated the same as landline or cellular service.
However, that means that the regulations need to be modified to understand that some "carriers" will be individuals running their own connection service from their own houses and various switching services will be operated without the switch operator having any idea whether the traffic is TCP or VoIP.
CM (Carrier Modulation: turning the signal on and off manually) is the most basic mode of radio communication.
When you're sinking at sea and the boiler explosion has thrown your microphone and keyboard over the side, you'll still be able to call for help, give your position, and ask for clean drawers by plugging and unplugging the antenna lead.
If the FCC wants to create a new class of licenses for selfish, aloof operators who "just don't want to get involved", well, that's what the Radiotelephone licenses are for.
We've educated a generation of journalists who are basically mentally retarded, and they're passing that cultural ethic on to our children.
In the process of revolutionizing our government every 4 years, we ought to do the same for the 4th Estate.
FLASH BASED ONLINE COMICS STINK!!!
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In general, voice talent for online content is grotesque. But for comics it's positively criminal.
Why?
Because when comic artists use their own, untrained voices to act out the lines they write, you can hear every bit of their insecurity, apprehension, false bravado, delusion, and contempt.
And if they use their friends', you can hear their inability to understand the material, as well, which is a failure of both acting and directing.
(This problem extends to Pam Anderson's "performance" in Striperella on the actual television, so don't expect it to get better online just because a few people pro-up.)
(Okay, Homestar Runner isn't too bad, but after six or eight characters, they hit their limit, and now it's undeniably The Strongbad Show featuring Homestar Runner.)
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I never looked at a computer that way in the first place, l4m3r.
I have 1.5 billion nodes in my head.
Try again, Apple l4m3rz.
Useless. If I wanted to actually talk to slashdotters, I'd run for office.
Now they can get on with the other million feet of Jar-Jar binks saving the galaxy.
Beengo.
They were right.
There are probably a hundred different ways that 74B's get deployed, and each one will need a different skill-set in their posting, one best taught by the people you're replacing during the hand-over period. AIT in that kind of situation would simply be a matter of weeding out the total morons and entry-level familiarization.
As for losing your rights, well, welcome to the Army, dumbass. What? You thought it was going to be like College?
Personally, I had a blast at AIT (back in the '80s) because every other weekend we got a pass, and we bolted for the beach in bunches and spent two days getting drunk and laid (that body they gave you in Basic is a bikini-magnet; or was, before high-school kids started taking GHB and dianabol).
Or maybe you didn't check your geekdom at the Reception Station.
I don't know how they do it, but the only users on Yahoo who use email addresses as nicks are "foo@sbcwhatever.com".
I don't know where the "offtopic" mods come from. Must be SBC employees.
forces all of its users signing up for Yahoo! accounts to use their full email address as their Yahoo nick?
I can hear the first call to the Service Station
Bill Gates: Hey! Bruce! My 959 just died. Get over here!
Bruce Canepa: You'll have to reinstall the windows and see if that fixes it, first.
Let's see if any of you wannabes can figure out what's wrong with this picture.
Hints to follow.
You try setting up a moon colony in 15 years with $200 million, develop all those new technologies, safety test everything, and somehow keep your engineers hired on substandard wages. I bet you can't even begin to budget for it.
Let me give it a stab:
$100 million: budgeting, planning, and management
$50 million: training
$10 million: rocket scientists
$40 million: lobbying for the other $4.8 Billion we need to buy fuel and $100 bolts and shit
Exactly.
Semantics is a dead science.
The point really is that the service of vocal telecommunication can be regulated without reference to the medium the carrier provides.
Regulate the business rather than focussing on the technology, and you'll get it right.
In the early '70s, science fiction was discarded as a reactionary cultural trope, in the same way that short haircuts and baseball had been denigrated.
So when George Lucas was shopping around his space opera, and nobody would buy it, he finally found someone who had at least enough temerity to share the risk with him. And in the process ceded him the rights. But assuming that risk forced him to trim the story to the leanest and most forceful form he could manage, creating one of the best-crafted stories ever told.
Its purity resonated in our hearts, and we of course went off on creative tangents, thinking that the movie's value was in its special effects, or the space stuff, or sci-fi in general. But it also created a new era of basic storytelling in film.
The sad part is, Lucas himself thought the attributes of his creation were more significant than the spine, and the 4 (5?) following episodes exist as eye candy, movie-star exploitations, and merchandising platforms.
But what I hope will happen is that the constraint of unpopularity of science fiction in this era of formulaic junk-movies will again breed creativity, and will bear us a new era of quality. Jackson's effort to bring LOTR to the screen may be consuming some of that. Nobody said it had to be Science Fiction to be good.
I hate to say it, but Vint never really did understand the Internet.
Yes, VoIP is a distinctive service, and regardless of the fact that it's married to packet media, it should be regulated the same as landline or cellular service.
However, that means that the regulations need to be modified to understand that some "carriers" will be individuals running their own connection service from their own houses and various switching services will be operated without the switch operator having any idea whether the traffic is TCP or VoIP.
This world never learns that vandalism is not art.
Design a Robot that can drive alone from Barstow to Las Vegas without dying of boredom.
The kids were punished, the parents are punished, and the people who created the incredibly stupid game trope will be punished.
Responsibility is not a zero-sum game.
CM (Carrier Modulation: turning the signal on and off manually) is the most basic mode of radio communication.
When you're sinking at sea and the boiler explosion has thrown your microphone and keyboard over the side, you'll still be able to call for help, give your position, and ask for clean drawers by plugging and unplugging the antenna lead.
If the FCC wants to create a new class of licenses for selfish, aloof operators who "just don't want to get involved", well, that's what the Radiotelephone licenses are for.
> "TOO MANY CASTERS" (referring to how they wheeled the servers out?)
Yes!
You win the prize, a decrypted 8-bit character!
Here you go: @
And everyone's right about the moderators. They screwed the pooch on this one. Metamods, go remove their mouse fingers.
"CESTA ASTRONOMY"
These Diebold morons put *ZERO* effort into security.
I'm ashamed of my government, or anyone's government, allowing this sort of selfish bullshittery to become the technical basis for democracy.
More education, less marketing. It's the Democratic Way.
when you run out of beer, coke, hooker, and penthouse-apartment money.
Save your stock options, script-kiddies, they'll come in handy when the tax man comes.
Reports that include results like
10 * 10 * 10 * 100 = 200000
are never welcome.
We've educated a generation of journalists who are basically mentally retarded, and they're passing that cultural ethic on to our children.
In the process of revolutionizing our government every 4 years, we ought to do the same for the 4th Estate.
In general, voice talent for online content is grotesque. But for comics it's positively criminal.
Why?
Because when comic artists use their own, untrained voices to act out the lines they write, you can hear every bit of their insecurity, apprehension, false bravado, delusion, and contempt.
And if they use their friends', you can hear their inability to understand the material, as well, which is a failure of both acting and directing.
(This problem extends to Pam Anderson's "performance" in Striperella on the actual television, so don't expect it to get better online just because a few people pro-up.)
(Okay, Homestar Runner isn't too bad, but after six or eight characters, they hit their limit, and now it's undeniably The Strongbad Show featuring Homestar Runner.)