I see myself hacking a cue cat and affixing it to a palm pilot. A downloadble database, built and moderated by an internet community, with a bar code, a short blurb about the product and company in question, and a couple ratings - say, 0-5 stars for the product, based only on it's function as a product, and another 0-5 stars for the company, based on the environmental issues, labour practices, etc. The only concern is making sure nobody's poisoning the database.
If it was a male-dominated design, I'd like to think it would "slip into" venus, *not* mercury. The fact that it's beating around the bush so much before it finally gets to where it's going speaks more for a design by the fairer sex.
Granted, if it's not standards-compliant, it doesn't matter how efficient it is. But knowing that the code could be more elegant and more efficient, all while following open standards (thus supporting one of the founding notions of oss) AND saving you that kind of money, what self respecting geek could turn that down? Plus, it looks like somebody's already done most of the leg work.
The "editors" here are supposed to be geeks. Every geek I know is all about doing their preferred geeky thing in the most efficient way possible. You'd think they'd want to do it just to say "yeah, we rewrote the site and saved 14GB of transfer PER DAY". Not only does it save them money, it saves the users load times. Besides, it's not like they have any actual editing to do.
They're not taking away your license to continue using the binary or the source, or even to use future *production* releases. It's like the tiny kitten version of an NDA. You releasing *my* pre-release betas to the world at large could harm my product's reputation if people see unpolished or broken features. But since *I* can't enforce an NDA on GPL software that I'm distributing, this is the next best (legal) thing. At least that's how I'd feel if I were in the Sveasoft guy's place.
Well who the fuck came up with the brilliant idea of releasing Deus Ex 2 in japanese? I can't be the only one who noticed how much it sucked in english...
Yup, it sure is good heroin is illegal (because it can kill you), just like cigarettes and alcohol are illegal. In my ideal world, the government would keep their noses out of anything I do on my own time to my own person. Wanna smoke pot? Knock yourself out! Do a few rails, shoot some tar, whatever man! Just like alcohol, stay the fuck out of the driver's seat. Why should I not be allowed to put whatever I want into my own body? There are plenty of warning labels on bleach, but it's sure not *illegal* for me to drink it, even though it'll pretty surely kill me. If everyone else is allowed to drink their vodka, why can't I smoke dope?
Well then I guess maybe the parents of these minors ought to try parenting them instead of letting the state decide what's best for their children. I remember playing Doom and Wolfenstein when I was younger and my mom telling me I could only play them if I was done all my homework, took breaks every now and then, and understood that violence wasn't the way to solve problems, nor was it acceptable, and that if I started getting into fights at school or my grades started dropping, no more video games. (fighting was, however, still allowed in hockey...gotta love Canadian hockey moms!)
And if you use Comcast there's a real good chance you're talking to tech support and billing people in St. Catharines, ON. The same company is apparently now handline Time Warner from their branch in Brockville, ON (near Ottawa). Convergys has a centre in Welland, ON that handles AT&T Wireless. You'd be surprised how many friends of mine have spent summers home from school working at call centres in Canada that handle large American accounts.
Or radio stations? They INDUCE copyright infringement by letting me hear and like the music, and broadcasting it for free over public airwaves, enabling me to record it for later listening. I can't wait for the RIAA vs. ClearChannel courtroom war!
True musicians, no matter what their weapon of choice, are geeks. To dismiss a musician as not having to worry about "technical aspects" just because they don't surround themselves with blinking lights and shiny dials is pretty narrow minded. Watch a drummer playing with hi hats and a double kick pedal, and keeping perfect time. Watch that drummer alternate between playing the skin on the snare and the rim, or hitting different spots on the drum heads to get different tones. Watch a guitarist make strange contortions with his hand to play jazz chords, or tap the fingerboard with his strumming hand while playing scales with his fretting hand. Watch a bass guitarist slap and pop while they play triplets up the neck. Anyone who devotes that much time and practice to an art is a geek in my book.
You're not entitled to television without commercials, but unless a network exec is planning to stand in my living room and watch me watch them, there's not a lot they can do about me fast forwarding or skipping them...or changing the channel, or going for a snack. And while I'm sure that in the marketeer's mind it would be great if we all had to wear government mandated glasses that assured we saw the ads, it's not gonna happen. The point is, just because they have the technology to push ads in front of our faces, doesn't mean they should do it *especially* when I've gone out of my way to NOT watch the ads in the first place. If they want to go to micropayments, or not serve content to people who block popups, that's fine. But forcing half a dozen popups onto the viewer so that you can collect ad revenues from something that probably got ignored or closed in half a second is a pretty shady business model to begin with, and not one I'm too keen on wasting my time to defend.
Well thank you AC, but the point is why the fuck should we deal with people bitching about how we spend our free time? I don't berate the original poster for all the time he spends in his mom's basement jerking off to ST:TNG reruns, so why should he care that I spent some time building something useful out of a PC instead of hooking five components to my TV / stereo to try to accomplish the same thing.
I don't know where you are, but my local NPR station plays some of the most interesting music I've found on radio. And yes, it does seem weird to me to be typing "local NPR"...
If you're going to type it in caps (TWICE!) make sure you're spelling it properly, so you don't draw attention to the fact that you're definately a moran.
So instead of configuring MythTV or Freevo or whatever on a spare pc, I get to configure JavaHMO on a spare pc AND buy a Tivo AND configure that to use the JavaHMO as well. I won't have any free time left for emulated games.
Point me to the manual for setting up the tivo to play mp3/ogg through my stereo, download and play video off the internet, burn audio cds, vcds, and dvds, and play roms for all my favourite arcade and nes games right on my tv. Otherwise stfu about your ideas on what I should be doing with my free time.
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I see myself hacking a cue cat and affixing it to a palm pilot. A downloadble database, built and moderated by an internet community, with a bar code, a short blurb about the product and company in question, and a couple ratings - say, 0-5 stars for the product, based only on it's function as a product, and another 0-5 stars for the company, based on the environmental issues, labour practices, etc. The only concern is making sure nobody's poisoning the database.
It is actually possible that Vince was lying to the reporter to fuck over Sal. Just because he's a business man, doesn't mean he's not a crook
If it was a male-dominated design, I'd like to think it would "slip into" venus, *not* mercury. The fact that it's beating around the bush so much before it finally gets to where it's going speaks more for a design by the fairer sex.
What, like the back seat of a Volkswagen?
...when they pry it from my limp, cheetoh-orange-encrusted fingers while I sleep.
Granted, if it's not standards-compliant, it doesn't matter how efficient it is. But knowing that the code could be more elegant and more efficient, all while following open standards (thus supporting one of the founding notions of oss) AND saving you that kind of money, what self respecting geek could turn that down? Plus, it looks like somebody's already done most of the leg work.
The "editors" here are supposed to be geeks. Every geek I know is all about doing their preferred geeky thing in the most efficient way possible. You'd think they'd want to do it just to say "yeah, we rewrote the site and saved 14GB of transfer PER DAY". Not only does it save them money, it saves the users load times. Besides, it's not like they have any actual editing to do.
They're not taking away your license to continue using the binary or the source, or even to use future *production* releases. It's like the tiny kitten version of an NDA. You releasing *my* pre-release betas to the world at large could harm my product's reputation if people see unpolished or broken features. But since *I* can't enforce an NDA on GPL software that I'm distributing, this is the next best (legal) thing. At least that's how I'd feel if I were in the Sveasoft guy's place.
Well who the fuck came up with the brilliant idea of releasing Deus Ex 2 in japanese? I can't be the only one who noticed how much it sucked in english...
Yup, it sure is good heroin is illegal (because it can kill you), just like cigarettes and alcohol are illegal. In my ideal world, the government would keep their noses out of anything I do on my own time to my own person. Wanna smoke pot? Knock yourself out! Do a few rails, shoot some tar, whatever man! Just like alcohol, stay the fuck out of the driver's seat. Why should I not be allowed to put whatever I want into my own body? There are plenty of warning labels on bleach, but it's sure not *illegal* for me to drink it, even though it'll pretty surely kill me. If everyone else is allowed to drink their vodka, why can't I smoke dope?
Well then I guess maybe the parents of these minors ought to try parenting them instead of letting the state decide what's best for their children. I remember playing Doom and Wolfenstein when I was younger and my mom telling me I could only play them if I was done all my homework, took breaks every now and then, and understood that violence wasn't the way to solve problems, nor was it acceptable, and that if I started getting into fights at school or my grades started dropping, no more video games. (fighting was, however, still allowed in hockey...gotta love Canadian hockey moms!)
And if you use Comcast there's a real good chance you're talking to tech support and billing people in St. Catharines, ON. The same company is apparently now handline Time Warner from their branch in Brockville, ON (near Ottawa). Convergys has a centre in Welland, ON that handles AT&T Wireless. You'd be surprised how many friends of mine have spent summers home from school working at call centres in Canada that handle large American accounts.
Or radio stations? They INDUCE copyright infringement by letting me hear and like the music, and broadcasting it for free over public airwaves, enabling me to record it for later listening. I can't wait for the RIAA vs. ClearChannel courtroom war!
True musicians, no matter what their weapon of choice, are geeks. To dismiss a musician as not having to worry about "technical aspects" just because they don't surround themselves with blinking lights and shiny dials is pretty narrow minded. Watch a drummer playing with hi hats and a double kick pedal, and keeping perfect time. Watch that drummer alternate between playing the skin on the snare and the rim, or hitting different spots on the drum heads to get different tones. Watch a guitarist make strange contortions with his hand to play jazz chords, or tap the fingerboard with his strumming hand while playing scales with his fretting hand. Watch a bass guitarist slap and pop while they play triplets up the neck. Anyone who devotes that much time and practice to an art is a geek in my book.
You're not entitled to television without commercials, but unless a network exec is planning to stand in my living room and watch me watch them, there's not a lot they can do about me fast forwarding or skipping them...or changing the channel, or going for a snack. And while I'm sure that in the marketeer's mind it would be great if we all had to wear government mandated glasses that assured we saw the ads, it's not gonna happen. The point is, just because they have the technology to push ads in front of our faces, doesn't mean they should do it *especially* when I've gone out of my way to NOT watch the ads in the first place. If they want to go to micropayments, or not serve content to people who block popups, that's fine. But forcing half a dozen popups onto the viewer so that you can collect ad revenues from something that probably got ignored or closed in half a second is a pretty shady business model to begin with, and not one I'm too keen on wasting my time to defend.
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>uname -sr
Bad command or file name
hmmm...
Well thank you AC, but the point is why the fuck should we deal with people bitching about how we spend our free time? I don't berate the original poster for all the time he spends in his mom's basement jerking off to ST:TNG reruns, so why should he care that I spent some time building something useful out of a PC instead of hooking five components to my TV / stereo to try to accomplish the same thing.
Maybe we could give Darl four asses and lock him in a cell with the guy with two cocks...
I don't know where you are, but my local NPR station plays some of the most interesting music I've found on radio. And yes, it does seem weird to me to be typing "local NPR"...
So it's, like, a word that has something to do with the internet? Man, those greeks have a term for everything!
More comedy for those keeping score:
definitely
If you're going to type it in caps (TWICE!) make sure you're spelling it properly, so you don't draw attention to the fact that you're definately a moran.
So instead of configuring MythTV or Freevo or whatever on a spare pc, I get to configure JavaHMO on a spare pc AND buy a Tivo AND configure that to use the JavaHMO as well. I won't have any free time left for emulated games.
Point me to the manual for setting up the tivo to play mp3/ogg through my stereo, download and play video off the internet, burn audio cds, vcds, and dvds, and play roms for all my favourite arcade and nes games right on my tv. Otherwise stfu about your ideas on what I should be doing with my free time.
They'll never shut down my super secret GOPHER piracy ring!