Yeah, but you could say that your NTP server syncs off of an image capture of the face of a grandfather clock built entirely of lego. In my book that's nerdier than the accuracy of an atomic clock, unless you built that atomic clock yourself...OUT OF LEGO.
If he were a *real* nerd he'd have a web cam pointing at it with recognition software to read the time off the face and sync his ntp server off of it. I know that's what I'd do if I could figure out how the FUCK to build a goddamn working clock out of lego. Maybe I'll start on that after my Mindstorm beer bottle opener is finished...
OS X 10.3.6 with Moz 1.7.3. I tried following the instructions and many of the helpful hints from slashdotters, to no avail. Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but if that's the case, I don't really think I need to worry about it.
I couldn't agree more. Even if you never "make it" you've always got the hobby (I spend almost all of my free time with a guitar in my hands, even if I'm not on stage or in the studio) and, if you're looking for that side job, you could be like the guitarist in my band who teaches music on the side (he teaches guitar, bass, and drums) as well as running a small studio.
As long as the teachers and all other staff are held to the same rules, then it's fine. Kids *should* be at school anyways. This to me looks like a use of technology to make it easier for the teachers to take attendance, and to keep track of what kids are in school on any given day. And if the principal and the janitor are willing to abide by the rules and let the police know where they are too (in case the art teacher decides to go hit the bong behind the maintenance shed at lunch) then I don't see a problem.
Please don't recommend gradients to the artistically blind. Nothing says "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, but I can try, goddammit" like a gradient fill on a badly drawn, 2d image. In the same vein are the ones who think they're done after they apply the "crackle" texture in Photoshop. There's no shame in admitting your weaknesses. Why ruin a perfectly good custom app with shitty art? Figure the cost of a halfway decent artist into your bill next time. Even if the customer doesn't know that you paid someone else for the graphics, it makes you look like more of a professional when the whole package is presentable. And looking professional is much more likely to get you more work than being able to say "See that stick man icon with the lens flare? Drew it myself!"
I'd sit around and agree with you, except I'm currently designing stationery for one of these customers you speak of. No artistic eye at all, but more than willing to tell me exactly how this pile of crap should look. In the end, there's only so much you can do, and if your customer has their mind set on something ugly, you can either give it to them or not get paid.
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He's got the best reasoning ever. How could any patriotic American jury convict this man of a crime if he's doing it to keep the terrorists from destroying the American culture and economy?! He's a good patriot! The RIAA has plugged away at their lawsuits through bad publicity like "RIAA sues grandmother and 12 yr old girl" but would they be so stupid as to sue this guy and invite headlines like "Recording Industry helps terrorists destroy American culture"?
Hey now, don't go putting words in my mouth. I never called anything bad. I just said that alcohol is technically a drug. I love "you people" who want to blindly follow the government's edicts that tobacco and alcohol are just fine (and heavily taxed) but marijuana is a terrible drug and the cause of many social ills. How can you say with a straight face that teenagers will be teenagers and it's natural to drink so that's ok, but "drugs" are bad? Most studies on the matter will show you that alcohol does more damage to the body, is more intoxicating, and more prone to addiction and abuse than marijuana and even many other illicit drugs. Personally I'd prefer that my kids trust me enough to talk to me about drugs and alcohol and sex so that they can get the REAL information they need rather than whatever bullshit their school chums feed them and they can make informed decisions on their own. Thankfully I have many years until I need to deal with that.
I saw something not too long ago on Discovery (or possibly TLC if it happened to fall into the half hour time slot a day not filled with home decorating challenges...) about a guy who was rebuilding stonehenge in his back yard by himself with no machinery. It involved raising the blocks a bit at a time by shimming the ends up ever higher with small pieces of wood, then when the horizontal slab was high enough, pull all the wood out from under one end and let it drop into a hole, then finish righting it with ropes. The guy made it look simple to move these concrete pillars weighting thousands of pounds.
So you intentionally skimmed over "drugs" because you don't think teenagers should be doing them...but you think alcohol is ok. I'm not entirely certain you understand the concept of a "drug".
It's a very slick looking device with loads of cool features (Japanese and US cube games, all-region dvd player, vcd, mp3, plays burned discs...) but at almost $500 USD it's a little steep. I'll stick to my cube and $50 dvd player that handles mp3, wma/wmv, etc. Sure looks damn cool though.
Hmmm...let's call "robots.txt" a "copyright control device" in that it states who may and may not have access to my copyrighted images directory. I'd bet a DMCA suit or two for circumventing your copyright control device would get them to pay attention...
Well they claim it can give a precise location of the offender, so from there it's a simple matter of a high intensity spotlight and some servos hooked up to the system, with a booming voice on the PA system. "The person now being brightly lit is the one responsible for ruining your viewing of tonight's feature presentation".
You may be shocked to learn this, but there are actually people in the world who have tastes in entertainment that vastly differ from yours. Not only do they like television, but I bet some of them don't care what OS their computer runs, and maybe a few of them even leave their parents basements to co-mingle with members of the opposite sex!
Or if you care about the sound, drop a hundred bucks on something like an M-Audio 2496 that has rca outs and run that into your tuner. I have a similar setup with the outs going to a Sony receiver that I bought at a garage sale for five dollars, and a half-way decent set of home theatre speakers which I plan to replace with a set of entry level studio monitors at some point. But for the money I spent on the receiver (garage sale), speakers and soundcard (ebay) you can't beat the performance. It gets loud, and it stays clear. It amazes me how many gamers spend four or five bills on a video card and that amount again on a monitor, but they run tiny little pc speakers out of the onboard audio from the motherboard.
If you're the type of person (like me) who enjoys reading articles like the one this thread is based on, check out this. It's a nice little story about the ease of growing poppies, and a break down of the US DEA misinformation tactics, claiming that poppies are difficult to grow and that you need very bright scientists to extract opium from the plants. Good read.
I was down by the park on North Shore Blvd. in Burlington, ON visiting a friend when they were filming the first X-Men movie. It was pretty damn weird to see the Statue of Liberty's head on the shores of Lake Ontario.
The best part of that smoking gun link you provided is the first letter. The pun about setting "a stern example" of harpo is funny enough, but the topper is definitely the remark about "Citizens against Unclean Network Trash". Goddamn priceless.
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Yeah, but you could say that your NTP server syncs off of an image capture of the face of a grandfather clock built entirely of lego. In my book that's nerdier than the accuracy of an atomic clock, unless you built that atomic clock yourself...OUT OF LEGO.
If he were a *real* nerd he'd have a web cam pointing at it with recognition software to read the time off the face and sync his ntp server off of it. I know that's what I'd do if I could figure out how the FUCK to build a goddamn working clock out of lego. Maybe I'll start on that after my Mindstorm beer bottle opener is finished...
OS X 10.3.6 with Moz 1.7.3. I tried following the instructions and many of the helpful hints from slashdotters, to no avail. Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but if that's the case, I don't really think I need to worry about it.
Mesh? Feasible? Synergy?! Higher than 10% buzzword-to-intelligence ratio. Post ignored.
I couldn't agree more. Even if you never "make it" you've always got the hobby (I spend almost all of my free time with a guitar in my hands, even if I'm not on stage or in the studio) and, if you're looking for that side job, you could be like the guitarist in my band who teaches music on the side (he teaches guitar, bass, and drums) as well as running a small studio.
That, and guitars are potent pussy magnets...
Fuck! I wish I was on the fucking blacklist goddamnit!
As long as the teachers and all other staff are held to the same rules, then it's fine. Kids *should* be at school anyways. This to me looks like a use of technology to make it easier for the teachers to take attendance, and to keep track of what kids are in school on any given day. And if the principal and the janitor are willing to abide by the rules and let the police know where they are too (in case the art teacher decides to go hit the bong behind the maintenance shed at lunch) then I don't see a problem.
Male Corporate Shill: of course, I have Trojan brand.
Husband: Honey, I'm home...WTF?!
Female Corporate Shill: It's not what it looks like! I can explain!
Female Corporate Shill: NO!
Male Corporate Shill: Say, is that a Smith & Wesson 396?...
Please don't recommend gradients to the artistically blind. Nothing says "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, but I can try, goddammit" like a gradient fill on a badly drawn, 2d image. In the same vein are the ones who think they're done after they apply the "crackle" texture in Photoshop. There's no shame in admitting your weaknesses. Why ruin a perfectly good custom app with shitty art? Figure the cost of a halfway decent artist into your bill next time. Even if the customer doesn't know that you paid someone else for the graphics, it makes you look like more of a professional when the whole package is presentable. And looking professional is much more likely to get you more work than being able to say "See that stick man icon with the lens flare? Drew it myself!"
I'd sit around and agree with you, except I'm currently designing stationery for one of these customers you speak of. No artistic eye at all, but more than willing to tell me exactly how this pile of crap should look. In the end, there's only so much you can do, and if your customer has their mind set on something ugly, you can either give it to them or not get paid.
He's got the best reasoning ever. How could any patriotic American jury convict this man of a crime if he's doing it to keep the terrorists from destroying the American culture and economy?! He's a good patriot! The RIAA has plugged away at their lawsuits through bad publicity like "RIAA sues grandmother and 12 yr old girl" but would they be so stupid as to sue this guy and invite headlines like "Recording Industry helps terrorists destroy American culture"?
Hey now, don't go putting words in my mouth. I never called anything bad. I just said that alcohol is technically a drug. I love "you people" who want to blindly follow the government's edicts that tobacco and alcohol are just fine (and heavily taxed) but marijuana is a terrible drug and the cause of many social ills. How can you say with a straight face that teenagers will be teenagers and it's natural to drink so that's ok, but "drugs" are bad? Most studies on the matter will show you that alcohol does more damage to the body, is more intoxicating, and more prone to addiction and abuse than marijuana and even many other illicit drugs. Personally I'd prefer that my kids trust me enough to talk to me about drugs and alcohol and sex so that they can get the REAL information they need rather than whatever bullshit their school chums feed them and they can make informed decisions on their own. Thankfully I have many years until I need to deal with that.
I saw something not too long ago on Discovery (or possibly TLC if it happened to fall into the half hour time slot a day not filled with home decorating challenges...) about a guy who was rebuilding stonehenge in his back yard by himself with no machinery. It involved raising the blocks a bit at a time by shimming the ends up ever higher with small pieces of wood, then when the horizontal slab was high enough, pull all the wood out from under one end and let it drop into a hole, then finish righting it with ropes. The guy made it look simple to move these concrete pillars weighting thousands of pounds.
So you intentionally skimmed over "drugs" because you don't think teenagers should be doing them...but you think alcohol is ok. I'm not entirely certain you understand the concept of a "drug".
It's a very slick looking device with loads of cool features (Japanese and US cube games, all-region dvd player, vcd, mp3, plays burned discs...) but at almost $500 USD it's a little steep. I'll stick to my cube and $50 dvd player that handles mp3, wma/wmv, etc. Sure looks damn cool though.
Hmmm...let's call "robots.txt" a "copyright control device" in that it states who may and may not have access to my copyrighted images directory. I'd bet a DMCA suit or two for circumventing your copyright control device would get them to pay attention...
Will the update system be called "EyePatch"?
Well they claim it can give a precise location of the offender, so from there it's a simple matter of a high intensity spotlight and some servos hooked up to the system, with a booming voice on the PA system. "The person now being brightly lit is the one responsible for ruining your viewing of tonight's feature presentation".
WHAT?! You mean there's PORN on the INTERNET?! Get the fuck out!!! I know it's against the rules around here, but I'm off to read the article!
You may be shocked to learn this, but there are actually people in the world who have tastes in entertainment that vastly differ from yours. Not only do they like television, but I bet some of them don't care what OS their computer runs, and maybe a few of them even leave their parents basements to co-mingle with members of the opposite sex!
Am I the only one who finds it odd that we're debating the merits of software named Zope, Drupal, and Plone? Just checking...
Or if you care about the sound, drop a hundred bucks on something like an M-Audio 2496 that has rca outs and run that into your tuner. I have a similar setup with the outs going to a Sony receiver that I bought at a garage sale for five dollars, and a half-way decent set of home theatre speakers which I plan to replace with a set of entry level studio monitors at some point. But for the money I spent on the receiver (garage sale), speakers and soundcard (ebay) you can't beat the performance. It gets loud, and it stays clear. It amazes me how many gamers spend four or five bills on a video card and that amount again on a monitor, but they run tiny little pc speakers out of the onboard audio from the motherboard.
If you're the type of person (like me) who enjoys reading articles like the one this thread is based on, check out this. It's a nice little story about the ease of growing poppies, and a break down of the US DEA misinformation tactics, claiming that poppies are difficult to grow and that you need very bright scientists to extract opium from the plants. Good read.
I was down by the park on North Shore Blvd. in Burlington, ON visiting a friend when they were filming the first X-Men movie. It was pretty damn weird to see the Statue of Liberty's head on the shores of Lake Ontario.
The best part of that smoking gun link you provided is the first letter. The pun about setting "a stern example" of harpo is funny enough, but the topper is definitely the remark about "Citizens against Unclean Network Trash". Goddamn priceless.