1. About ten years ago we sold a customer an SVGA monitor. He wanted to inspect it and so he pulled it out of the box. He looked at the pin connector and became very angry when he saw that the connector was missing pins(they're all like that). Even after we reassured him that the monitor was designed like that he was still angry.
2. Back in high school we had a rather clueless computer teacher. We were running Windows 3.1 I think. Some of my classmates designed a program that looked exactly like the login screen and then complained to the teacher that they could not login. He came over and entered his administrator password and username which was promptly saved to a text file. He was the administrator for the school. I cringe at what they could have done to our school network.
I had a co-worker tell me this story about ten years ago. They built a nice top of the line system for the secretary of one their best customers. They wanted to make sure they made this customer happy so they burned the system in for 48 hours and ran every conceivable test. Sent the system to the user and hoped for the best. Sadly they received a tech support call from the customer saying the system was behaving very eratically and running very slowly. They tried their best over the phone but it was determined that they should send the system back. They got it back and tested it but could not find any problems with the system. Again, they sent it back and again the same problems were reported. This time they took it to the client's business and set it up and then watched in horror as the secretary placed several large fridge magnets on the side of the case.
What they really needed to do was to get some people really drunk, not just slightly intoxicated. Lets face it, the legal limit is a legal limit because law enforcement and society as a whole recognizes that one white russian isn't going to impair the dude's driving. They need to give them a case of Molson Ultra(now you know I'm Canadian) or a bottle of gin and see what they can do in that simulator. Can I volunteer for the next test?
I doubt if the air outside 'any' major city can significantly increase anyone's chance of getting lung cancer. That said, there are already laws that limit the amount of pollutants that a company can release. Many states have laws that limit the emissions of cars. People live their entire lives in large cities. I challenge you to find someone with lung cancer or any of the other harmful side effects of second hand smoke who wasn't directly exposed to cigarette smoke, cigar smoke or some other pollutant. If McDonalds was selling food that caused cancer I would sure as hell want that to be illegal. Asbestos causes cancer, you want people to be allowed to build homes out of it?
Cops rarely show up when someone is fighting a speeding ticket. If the cop doesn't show up, the ticket is thrown out unless there is some really compelling reason not to. The cop doesn't have time to show up to enforce the ticket. Imagine if everyone fought their tickets, the police would spend most of their time in court trying to enforce traffic tickets. Nope, their out on the road, giving someone else a ticket. Someone who probably won't fight the ticket, because most people don't bother or don't know that you can. My uncle use to never pay his tickets, he'd go to court, the cop wouldn't show and the judge would be forced to throw it out. It really depends on whether you want to go to court and sit your ass in a smelly court room with a bunch of assholes for a few hours.
So if I want to never be able to go out to a restaurant or a bar without increasing my chances of lung cancer I should move to NH. If the restaurant owner wants to allow people to pump carbon monoxide into his restaurant thats ok too? If McDonalds wants to let other customers spit in my food, thats their right, because it's their private property.
That only applies if the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. When standing on someone else's private property with a sign that reads "You are being recorded by surveillance", or whatever the sign said, you have no expectation of privacy.
The PS3 will be marketed as a kind of all in one home theater device. It already has the gaming aspect, that is obvious, and the built in blu-ray support. They have also said that it will have many aspects that a home computer is now used for.
I don't know how this seems to elude people but if you give your kid a tool like a computer you should at least know as much about it as they do. Further, you shouldn't let them go online unsupervised. There's plenty of software out there that can keep kids from visiting whatever sites you make off limits. Myspace is not responsible for how people use their site. If they really cracked down and required proof of identity then no one under 18 would be allowed to use it anyway. Perhaps thats a better alternative. Hear I am, preaching to the choir.
I can only repeat the same argument against their piracy statistics so many times before I become bored with my own points. I think I'll try something new. Lets see, how about this one. Your piracy statistics are wrong because elevator vacuum cleaner torque wrench. It's not like someone at some point hasn't pointed out to these people how stupid their arguments are, it's just that they don't care. The man is not my friend. Why do I even bother to post this crap?
It's simple, they make software that isn't supported(doesn't work at all) on Windows XP or that requires a patch. Then you have to upgrade to their new DRMed OS. Tried using Windows 98 lately? I bet there's a buttload of new software that doesn't work on it at all.
I do like a game to have a certain degree of challenge. Otherwise there's no fun in it. But it's better to allow the player to have more control over the pace at which he experiences the game. This use to be accomplished with difficulty ratings. Unfortunately most games with these ratings don't allow you to adjust the difficulty mid play, meaning if you get part way through and find it to be too hard or too easy you have to start over. Then there's the mmog genre which don't have difficulty ratings and which require hours and hours of gaming to get to the 'fun' part, which rarely ends up actually being fun. In the early days of gaming the game was the fun part. What happened to that? It might be nice if MMOG makers created different servers with their own difficulty ratings and/or servers for the casual gamers with a limit to how many hours per week and per day that you can play.
I'm a Canadian living in California and I'll tell you. It's all fucked up down here. Oh, and also, I say fuck all governments(except the INS, you know I love you).
Aside from the fact that humans need to take breaks to continue to be productive I find it hard to blame anyone who slacks at a job with fixed pay who are never going to make more than they are now while the CEO of the company is stripping away their benefits and giving themselves a raise while they jet around the world on company money. Anyone who is paying attention to the economy(or watching Oprah) knows that the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. That can only lead to bad things.
I had a shitty credit rating but I already had a bank account...I'm not sure how you can go without a bank account and get a shitty credit rating. Don't you need a bank account to even get credit? Anyhow, I'd much rather have a shitty credit rating than have the IRS on my ass telling me I owe $20000 in back taxes on income I never had.
It seems obvious that you need one number that only the government and your employer knows and another unique number that can be given to banks, your land lord, credit companies etc. At least that way if your public number is stolen they can only affect your credit rating and not your income taxes. What they really need is a website where you can generate new keys to give to different agencies. That way you know where the leak came from and police can identify companies that are selling your number, have employees that are stealing numbers or have weak network security. In Canada it is suppose to be illegal for anyone but a government agency to ask for your Social Security Number(Canada's version of the SSN). Banks still ask for it though.
If I remember correctly Stephen Hawking gives this very theory in his book 'A Brief History of Time'. I believe he also states that it would be impossible to prove such a theory since all the particles are destroyed in every crunch/bang.
I think the Guardian's phrasing was confusing. The theory goes there is a big bang which sends matter flying in all directions at a very high velocity. Because of gravity eventually the velocity decreases to zero and then reverses, pulling everything in the universe back together, rinse, repeat.
I miss the meeting entirely and so never have the chance to be a yes man.
On a separate note, I don't think many people are watching television while they drink their morning coffee. More likely they are reading a magazine, a newspaper or at work. So I don't think television advertising could benefit from this. Perhaps we'll see the price of newspaper advertising increase as a result of this study. But most likely not.
Let's face it, when have you ever seen preview trailers or screenshots that ever really represented what you saw on your own PC?
Hehe, well, considering I'm running an Athlon XP 1700 and a Geforce FX 5200, I've never been able to run a game at its highest settings, so I have no idea if the games look as good as the screen shots.
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1. About ten years ago we sold a customer an SVGA monitor. He wanted to inspect it and so he pulled it out of the box. He looked at the pin connector and became very angry when he saw that the connector was missing pins(they're all like that). Even after we reassured him that the monitor was designed like that he was still angry.
2. Back in high school we had a rather clueless computer teacher. We were running Windows 3.1 I think. Some of my classmates designed a program that looked exactly like the login screen and then complained to the teacher that they could not login. He came over and entered his administrator password and username which was promptly saved to a text file. He was the administrator for the school. I cringe at what they could have done to our school network.
I had a co-worker tell me this story about ten years ago. They built a nice top of the line system for the secretary of one their best customers. They wanted to make sure they made this customer happy so they burned the system in for 48 hours and ran every conceivable test. Sent the system to the user and hoped for the best. Sadly they received a tech support call from the customer saying the system was behaving very eratically and running very slowly. They tried their best over the phone but it was determined that they should send the system back. They got it back and tested it but could not find any problems with the system. Again, they sent it back and again the same problems were reported. This time they took it to the client's business and set it up and then watched in horror as the secretary placed several large fridge magnets on the side of the case.
What they really needed to do was to get some people really drunk, not just slightly intoxicated. Lets face it, the legal limit is a legal limit because law enforcement and society as a whole recognizes that one white russian isn't going to impair the dude's driving. They need to give them a case of Molson Ultra(now you know I'm Canadian) or a bottle of gin and see what they can do in that simulator. Can I volunteer for the next test?
I doubt if the air outside 'any' major city can significantly increase anyone's chance of getting lung cancer. That said, there are already laws that limit the amount of pollutants that a company can release. Many states have laws that limit the emissions of cars. People live their entire lives in large cities. I challenge you to find someone with lung cancer or any of the other harmful side effects of second hand smoke who wasn't directly exposed to cigarette smoke, cigar smoke or some other pollutant. If McDonalds was selling food that caused cancer I would sure as hell want that to be illegal. Asbestos causes cancer, you want people to be allowed to build homes out of it?
Cops rarely show up when someone is fighting a speeding ticket. If the cop doesn't show up, the ticket is thrown out unless there is some really compelling reason not to. The cop doesn't have time to show up to enforce the ticket. Imagine if everyone fought their tickets, the police would spend most of their time in court trying to enforce traffic tickets. Nope, their out on the road, giving someone else a ticket. Someone who probably won't fight the ticket, because most people don't bother or don't know that you can. My uncle use to never pay his tickets, he'd go to court, the cop wouldn't show and the judge would be forced to throw it out. It really depends on whether you want to go to court and sit your ass in a smelly court room with a bunch of assholes for a few hours.
So if I want to never be able to go out to a restaurant or a bar without increasing my chances of lung cancer I should move to NH. If the restaurant owner wants to allow people to pump carbon monoxide into his restaurant thats ok too? If McDonalds wants to let other customers spit in my food, thats their right, because it's their private property.
That only applies if the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. When standing on someone else's private property with a sign that reads "You are being recorded by surveillance", or whatever the sign said, you have no expectation of privacy.
Well there's the web browser and movie downloader. Thanks for trolling.
The PS3 will be marketed as a kind of all in one home theater device. It already has the gaming aspect, that is obvious, and the built in blu-ray support. They have also said that it will have many aspects that a home computer is now used for.
That is all. Not to say that it isn't better. It is, much. I just mean that that is all I have to say about Vinyl.
It seems to be their fallback position. Oh we're losing money? It's because of piracy.
I don't know how this seems to elude people but if you give your kid a tool like a computer you should at least know as much about it as they do. Further, you shouldn't let them go online unsupervised. There's plenty of software out there that can keep kids from visiting whatever sites you make off limits. Myspace is not responsible for how people use their site. If they really cracked down and required proof of identity then no one under 18 would be allowed to use it anyway. Perhaps thats a better alternative. Hear I am, preaching to the choir.
I can only repeat the same argument against their piracy statistics so many times before I become bored with my own points. I think I'll try something new. Lets see, how about this one. Your piracy statistics are wrong because elevator vacuum cleaner torque wrench. It's not like someone at some point hasn't pointed out to these people how stupid their arguments are, it's just that they don't care. The man is not my friend. Why do I even bother to post this crap?
It's simple, they make software that isn't supported(doesn't work at all) on Windows XP or that requires a patch. Then you have to upgrade to their new DRMed OS. Tried using Windows 98 lately? I bet there's a buttload of new software that doesn't work on it at all.
I do like a game to have a certain degree of challenge. Otherwise there's no fun in it. But it's better to allow the player to have more control over the pace at which he experiences the game. This use to be accomplished with difficulty ratings. Unfortunately most games with these ratings don't allow you to adjust the difficulty mid play, meaning if you get part way through and find it to be too hard or too easy you have to start over. Then there's the mmog genre which don't have difficulty ratings and which require hours and hours of gaming to get to the 'fun' part, which rarely ends up actually being fun. In the early days of gaming the game was the fun part. What happened to that? It might be nice if MMOG makers created different servers with their own difficulty ratings and/or servers for the casual gamers with a limit to how many hours per week and per day that you can play.
I'm a Canadian living in California and I'll tell you. It's all fucked up down here. Oh, and also, I say fuck all governments(except the INS, you know I love you).
Aside from the fact that humans need to take breaks to continue to be productive I find it hard to blame anyone who slacks at a job with fixed pay who are never going to make more than they are now while the CEO of the company is stripping away their benefits and giving themselves a raise while they jet around the world on company money. Anyone who is paying attention to the economy(or watching Oprah) knows that the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. That can only lead to bad things.
I had a shitty credit rating but I already had a bank account...I'm not sure how you can go without a bank account and get a shitty credit rating. Don't you need a bank account to even get credit? Anyhow, I'd much rather have a shitty credit rating than have the IRS on my ass telling me I owe $20000 in back taxes on income I never had.
That full tang movie replica of Glamdring that's hanging on my wall isn't just for looks.
It seems obvious that you need one number that only the government and your employer knows and another unique number that can be given to banks, your land lord, credit companies etc. At least that way if your public number is stolen they can only affect your credit rating and not your income taxes. What they really need is a website where you can generate new keys to give to different agencies. That way you know where the leak came from and police can identify companies that are selling your number, have employees that are stealing numbers or have weak network security. In Canada it is suppose to be illegal for anyone but a government agency to ask for your Social Security Number(Canada's version of the SSN). Banks still ask for it though.
If I remember correctly Stephen Hawking gives this very theory in his book 'A Brief History of Time'. I believe he also states that it would be impossible to prove such a theory since all the particles are destroyed in every crunch/bang.
I think the Guardian's phrasing was confusing. The theory goes there is a big bang which sends matter flying in all directions at a very high velocity. Because of gravity eventually the velocity decreases to zero and then reverses, pulling everything in the universe back together, rinse, repeat.
I miss the meeting entirely and so never have the chance to be a yes man.
On a separate note, I don't think many people are watching television while they drink their morning coffee. More likely they are reading a magazine, a newspaper or at work. So I don't think television advertising could benefit from this. Perhaps we'll see the price of newspaper advertising increase as a result of this study. But most likely not.
...has watched that video way too many times. Seriously.
Let's face it, when have you ever seen preview trailers or screenshots that ever really represented what you saw on your own PC?
Hehe, well, considering I'm running an Athlon XP 1700 and a Geforce FX 5200, I've never been able to run a game at its highest settings, so I have no idea if the games look as good as the screen shots.
Ok, then I take it back, this could be a good idea. I wonder what ATI will come up with to compete with it.