What if, what if, what if? Who fucking cares. They don't have your SSN, your credit cards, etc. At best they have your name, IP and email address plus browsing habits and maybe interests.
So MAYBE in 10 years (when everything has completely changed, BTW) when the founders leave and the Big Evil Board of Directors does something... Evil... you will get some MORE spam. Boohoo!
Here are the facts: google doesn't spam you. They haven't spammed you. There's no goddamned obvious fact that you WILL be spammed or your information sold. However, when you shop at discounts-r-us.com or freeipod.com or every OTHER place...yes, they will fucking spam you! So go bitch up a storm about those places and give google a rest.:P
While I like having standalone apps that will run off a keychain USB drive, just having small, easily-installed apps available is also a big, big deal for me. It's usually more of a problem of having to download every app I'd like when I'm over at XYZ's and they need ABC123 and it's going to take ages to find it, download it, etc.
http://exocet.ca/phpwiki/BradsTools
Almost all of what's at that wiki I keep on my 256MB USB drive.
PS: I'm tired of paying for WinRAR/WinZip. 7-zip works fine, supports zip, rar, bz2, etc. I don't need fancy options, just be able to open the archive or make an archive.
This is one of the nicest things I've seen for a browser in quite awhile. I hate having two sets of bookmarks - one at home, one at work. A nice plugin and the ability to easily import...awesome.
For a cuts anything - and will last a lifetime - I suggest Benchmade's 556S or 555S. Yes, a switchblade or butterfly knife will raise eyebrows - and occasionally hands. Not around my office, of course.:)
PS: Butterfly's are probably illegal in Canada and California. Switchblades are probably illegal everywhere - except Oregon. The exception is if you can prove you're law enforcement or active duty military. Benchmade only sells where we are sure our knives are legal or to whom we are sure can legally own one of our knives.
Just as in Linux, the best tool is not always a "does-everything" tool.
I have a Leatherman Micra that has the bare essentials: scissors, small and big flatheads. There's also a "philips" (flathead with tapered head). Plus it has a bottle opener. The knife blade on it sucks.
I have a couple of dedicated knives, however - Benchmade Knife Company's 3550SBK (switchblade) and the 42S (butterfly). Sure, they're expensive, but buying cheap crap is stupid.:)
PS: I work for Benchmade, but I owned their product long before I ever got a job there.:)
In all sincerity - why reject something as "ugly"...and do, seemingly, nothing at all? That's my perception, anyway. It's not like patching the kernel requires that you use the OW patch stuff. But for everyone that cares about "more" security... wouldn't this be a good idea?
I, too, have "SEE ID" written on the back. Whenever someone asks for my ID, I sincerely thank them for asking to see it.
I have ran into people who, after being thanked, gush about how other people have gotten really pissed when they were asked to show ID. Even when it said "SEE ID" on their card! This is the height of stupidity.
Sometimes I pull out my card and ID at the same time. Most of the time they don't bother looking at the ID. Never really understood that, seeing as how businesses take it in the ass when credit card fraud happens...but get really pissy about someone being two minutes late or something that impacts profit at a miniscule level.
The company I work for has several HL-1440's. They're usually pretty good, no jams or toner-related issues. Less issues than our other printers.
I picked up a HP Laserjet 4MV w/ a Jetdirect card for $20 last year from another company I worked for. Best money I've ever spent. When I picked up that printer it had printed on to over 150,000 pages. No problems since I've had it.
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. A show called Cop Department is on TV.]
Cop Department Announcer [voice-over; on TV]: Cop Department is real. The people you see are not actors. Most of them aren't even people.
[Fry, Bender and Leela sit slumped on the couch. The coffee table is filled with dishes, uneaten burgers and boxes of Chinese food. On the TV is a dazed centipede-like alien with a blurred face.]
Alien [on TV]: C'mon man, I didn't fire off no laser.
Smitty [on TV]: Then why is there a smoking hole in your ceiling sir?
[The camera points to the ceiling.]
Alien [on TV]: What? Crazy upstairs lady must've been shooting down.
URL [on TV]: Sir, you're on the top floor of this particular domicile.
[snip!]
Alien [on TV]: OK. OK, I'm co-operating.
Smitty [on TV]: That's it, now put up your hands.
[The alien puts it's 20 hands in the air and URL moves towards him, cuffs at the ready.]
URL [on TV]: Nice and slow. Aww yeah!
Smitty [on TV]: And while you're at it, unblur your face.
Didn't Intelsat just recently lose a satellite? Like, just the other day? I saw some slashdot'ers speculating on various causes (metal whiskers were my favourite) but perhaps sunspot activity had something to do with it?
Admittedly, they lost it on the 14th, so perhaps this is a tenuous grasp at best.
Full of data that was out of date by the time the magazine was originally delivered, not to even speak of when you're reading it. That's assuming you want to read People or Time or any of that crap.
Waiting - and waiting areas - blow. Bring some headphones, a book, PDA or laptop. Take some control over how your time is going to be pissed away.
I have mod points right now, but the parent was already at +4.
I was going to mod this as insightful because IT IS.
I bother to pick up the local rag when I'm in the lunchroom for one reason: to find the comics section.
If I wanna read the damn news, that's what news.bbc.co.uk is for. If I want the classifieds, well, that's what craigslist is for. If I want local news, that's what a local news web site is for.
The newspaper, though, has all the comics in one spot. Of course, they're all really tiny so they basically suck. And half of them on the comics page are HIDEOUSLY lame, like Family Circus. So. I turn where I turn to replace everything else that the newspaper used to do well.
Goats, Penny Arcade, Achewood, online versions of comics, etc.
What you said...and I believe oriented for the Win32 platform. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
The reasoning?
"These programs on this CD are free. They're often as good as - or better - than their non-free counterparts. Almost always not ad-ridden like their non-free counterparts. Oh and, if you were so inclinded, you could modify the source code of the software and customize it for your business or something."
What's it meant to do? The same thing any free thing is meant to do. Draw customers/users into the fold. Spread the good word. Generate goodwill towards the FOSS community. Educate. Help people take back their computers and the web.
BTW: While I love open source stuff for Win32, I live in reality. Sometimes it ain't there or sucks. I maintain a fairly diverse wiki page of useful tools and apps. If you're interested, email me (slash041210@exocet.ca) and I'll email you the link. You might find something there you didn't know was free (but not necessarily OS).
Some of us work crappy jobs with "punch clocks" or the equivalent. One minute late = 15 minutes late. A bunch of those and your ass is fired.
I try, personally, to leave with enough time so that I'll get to work a few minutes early. Sometimes that doesn't work out. Of course, almost all of my commute is on 50MPH+ roads or interstate, at 0600, and the entire commute is only 15 minutes long...So if I'm late it's almost always my fault. Doesn't change the fact that I really "can't" be late and, if I think I am, I'm probably going to be going 10+ over, especially on the 55MPH interstate we have around here.
I've never replaced the laptop screen - that's about the next thing. Right now it seems to take awhile to "warm up" and has several dark patches on it.
I'm getting ready to put in a DVD burner, new HD and more RAM. The T20 is a good laptop, just needs a few upgrades. Otherwise I'd get a new T43, but at $2200+ with all the options I'd want...too expensive.
Perhaps you are not a native English speaker or are unfamiliar with how age is sometimes noted in news articles.
If the article submitter wanted to say that Hubbard was 23, he or she would have written, "The event offered a keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard, 23, with ## talks organized in two tracks"
I thought it was clear that the submitter was making a list of items separated by commas:
- Keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard
- 23 talks organized into two tracks
- a social event inside Luigi Colani's exhibition
- multiple coffee breaks to socialize
I've personally been looking around for Speedvision/Speed channel's coverage of World Rally Championship events. They're very hard to find.
In fact, I'm ordering fancy cable just so I can watch WRC events next year (maybe some hockey games, too). I'm trying to figure out if getting a TiVo or something so I can rip stuff and give it back to the community is worth it. My time is money and my money is also money and I don't wanna dick around with some homebrew Linux DVR/PVR unless it's going to work without too much effort.
Same reason cars are so hard to work on - because the marketing department likes to give everything exciting new lines at least once a year and that changes the space that you've got to work with.
Plus, with computers - and laptops in specific - there are a variety of needs. Some people want a built-in CF reader. Some people want a super-slim laptop with no CDROM. Stuff like that.
I think it's the nature of the beast. Best you can do is look over the laptop before you buy it and take in to consideration how hard it's going to be to work on it.
I can state that, through direct observation that the women in the office I'm in like their heat. In fact, they almost all have space heaters under their desks. It's hell working on their computers; I always get way too hot.
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$9.95. He's a dollar naughtier than most.
Poland has about 38,6 million citizens. 1 million broadband lines. That's about 2,6% of the population.
,904 million broadband lines. 11% of their population.
,459 million broadband lines. 4,6% of their population.
Contrast that with:
US: 295,7 million citizens, 36,5 million broadband lines. 12,3% of their population.
Some "big" countries in Europe:
Switzerland: 7,5 million citizens, 1,4 million broadband lines. 18,6% of their population.
Italy: 58,1 million citizens, 5,25 million broadband lines. 9% of their population.
UK: 60,4 million citizens, 7,1 million broadband lines. 11,75% of their population.
Austria: 8,2 million citizens,
France: 60,6 million citizens, 7,66 million broadband lines. 12,6% of their population.
Hungary: 10 million citizens,
Germany: 82,4 million citizens, 7,5 million broadband lines. 9,1% of their population.
This is not to imply anything, especially because economic data hasn't been included. However, it is interesting information.
From an old user to a new user:
...yes, they will fucking spam you! So go bitch up a storm about those places and give google a rest. :P
What if, what if, what if? Who fucking cares. They don't have your SSN, your credit cards, etc. At best they have your name, IP and email address plus browsing habits and maybe interests.
So MAYBE in 10 years (when everything has completely changed, BTW) when the founders leave and the Big Evil Board of Directors does something... Evil... you will get some MORE spam. Boohoo!
Here are the facts: google doesn't spam you. They haven't spammed you. There's no goddamned obvious fact that you WILL be spammed or your information sold. However, when you shop at discounts-r-us.com or freeipod.com or every OTHER place
Oh well. There are lots of beers, as long as you aren't drinking cheap shit ...whatever floats your boat. :)
I'm like you - I prefer not to be able to see through my beers. Even better if light appears to bend into the the beer's event horizon.
That being said, I love Red Stripe beer. If you hate most lagers you might like Red Stripe.
PS: For dark beers, Deschutes Brewery makes Black Butte Porter. Their Obsidian Stout sucks, IMO, but the Black Butte is awesome.
If there were no other reason why Google rocked ...this would be enough.
While I like having standalone apps that will run off a keychain USB drive, just having small, easily-installed apps available is also a big, big deal for me. It's usually more of a problem of having to download every app I'd like when I'm over at XYZ's and they need ABC123 and it's going to take ages to find it, download it, etc.
http://exocet.ca/phpwiki/BradsTools
Almost all of what's at that wiki I keep on my 256MB USB drive.
PS: I'm tired of paying for WinRAR/WinZip. 7-zip works fine, supports zip, rar, bz2, etc. I don't need fancy options, just be able to open the archive or make an archive.
This is one of the nicest things I've seen for a browser in quite awhile. I hate having two sets of bookmarks - one at home, one at work. A nice plugin and the ability to easily import ...awesome.
For a cuts anything - and will last a lifetime - I suggest Benchmade's 556S or 555S. Yes, a switchblade or butterfly knife will raise eyebrows - and occasionally hands. Not around my office, of course. :)
PS: Butterfly's are probably illegal in Canada and California. Switchblades are probably illegal everywhere - except Oregon. The exception is if you can prove you're law enforcement or active duty military. Benchmade only sells where we are sure our knives are legal or to whom we are sure can legally own one of our knives.
Just as in Linux, the best tool is not always a "does-everything" tool.
:)
:)
I have a Leatherman Micra that has the bare essentials: scissors, small and big flatheads. There's also a "philips" (flathead with tapered head). Plus it has a bottle opener. The knife blade on it sucks.
I have a couple of dedicated knives, however - Benchmade Knife Company's 3550SBK (switchblade) and the 42S (butterfly). Sure, they're expensive, but buying cheap crap is stupid.
PS: I work for Benchmade, but I owned their product long before I ever got a job there.
Bruce,
...and do, seemingly, nothing at all? That's my perception, anyway. It's not like patching the kernel requires that you use the OW patch stuff. But for everyone that cares about "more" security... wouldn't this be a good idea?
In all sincerity - why reject something as "ugly"
I, too, have "SEE ID" written on the back. Whenever someone asks for my ID, I sincerely thank them for asking to see it.
...but get really pissy about someone being two minutes late or something that impacts profit at a miniscule level.
I have ran into people who, after being thanked, gush about how other people have gotten really pissed when they were asked to show ID. Even when it said "SEE ID" on their card! This is the height of stupidity.
Sometimes I pull out my card and ID at the same time. Most of the time they don't bother looking at the ID. Never really understood that, seeing as how businesses take it in the ass when credit card fraud happens
The company I work for has several HL-1440's. They're usually pretty good, no jams or toner-related issues. Less issues than our other printers.
I picked up a HP Laserjet 4MV w/ a Jetdirect card for $20 last year from another company I worked for. Best money I've ever spent. When I picked up that printer it had printed on to over 150,000 pages. No problems since I've had it.
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. A show called Cop Department is on TV.]
Cop Department Announcer [voice-over; on TV]: Cop Department is real. The people you see are not actors. Most of them aren't even people.
[Fry, Bender and Leela sit slumped on the couch. The coffee table is filled with dishes, uneaten burgers and boxes of Chinese food. On the TV is a dazed centipede-like alien with a blurred face.]
Alien [on TV]: C'mon man, I didn't fire off no laser.
Smitty [on TV]: Then why is there a smoking hole in your ceiling sir?
[The camera points to the ceiling.]
Alien [on TV]: What? Crazy upstairs lady must've been shooting down.
URL [on TV]: Sir, you're on the top floor of this particular domicile.
[snip!]
Alien [on TV]: OK. OK, I'm co-operating.
Smitty [on TV]: That's it, now put up your hands.
[The alien puts it's 20 hands in the air and URL moves towards him, cuffs at the ready.]
URL [on TV]: Nice and slow. Aww yeah!
Smitty [on TV]: And while you're at it, unblur your face.
Alien [on TV]: Aw man.
[He unblurs his face. It wasn't a TV effect!]
--Futurama, "The Lesser of Two Evils"
Didn't Intelsat just recently lose a satellite? Like, just the other day? I saw some slashdot'ers speculating on various causes (metal whiskers were my favourite) but perhaps sunspot activity had something to do with it?
Admittedly, they lost it on the 14th, so perhaps this is a tenuous grasp at best.
Intelsat Loses Another Satellite
Full of data that was out of date by the time the magazine was originally delivered, not to even speak of when you're reading it. That's assuming you want to read People or Time or any of that crap.
Waiting - and waiting areas - blow. Bring some headphones, a book, PDA or laptop. Take some control over how your time is going to be pissed away.
I have mod points right now, but the parent was already at +4.
I was going to mod this as insightful because IT IS.
I bother to pick up the local rag when I'm in the lunchroom for one reason: to find the comics section.
If I wanna read the damn news, that's what news.bbc.co.uk is for. If I want the classifieds, well, that's what craigslist is for. If I want local news, that's what a local news web site is for.
The newspaper, though, has all the comics in one spot. Of course, they're all really tiny so they basically suck. And half of them on the comics page are HIDEOUSLY lame, like Family Circus. So. I turn where I turn to replace everything else that the newspaper used to do well.
Goats, Penny Arcade, Achewood, online versions of comics, etc.
Newspapers: piss on you.
Lig Lury, Jr. - is that you?
[It's a HHGTTG reference, in case you missed it.]
What you said ...and I believe oriented for the Win32 platform. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
The reasoning?
"These programs on this CD are free. They're often as good as - or better - than their non-free counterparts. Almost always not ad-ridden like their non-free counterparts. Oh and, if you were so inclinded, you could modify the source code of the software and customize it for your business or something."
What's it meant to do? The same thing any free thing is meant to do. Draw customers/users into the fold. Spread the good word. Generate goodwill towards the FOSS community. Educate. Help people take back their computers and the web.
BTW: While I love open source stuff for Win32, I live in reality. Sometimes it ain't there or sucks. I maintain a fairly diverse wiki page of useful tools and apps. If you're interested, email me (slash041210@exocet.ca) and I'll email you the link. You might find something there you didn't know was free (but not necessarily OS).
Some of us work crappy jobs with "punch clocks" or the equivalent. One minute late = 15 minutes late. A bunch of those and your ass is fired.
...So if I'm late it's almost always my fault. Doesn't change the fact that I really "can't" be late and, if I think I am, I'm probably going to be going 10+ over, especially on the 55MPH interstate we have around here.
I try, personally, to leave with enough time so that I'll get to work a few minutes early. Sometimes that doesn't work out. Of course, almost all of my commute is on 50MPH+ roads or interstate, at 0600, and the entire commute is only 15 minutes long
I've never replaced the laptop screen - that's about the next thing. Right now it seems to take awhile to "warm up" and has several dark patches on it.
...too expensive.
I'm getting ready to put in a DVD burner, new HD and more RAM. The T20 is a good laptop, just needs a few upgrades. Otherwise I'd get a new T43, but at $2200+ with all the options I'd want
Perhaps you are not a native English speaker or are unfamiliar with how age is sometimes noted in news articles.
If the article submitter wanted to say that Hubbard was 23, he or she would have written, "The event offered a keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard, 23, with ## talks organized in two tracks"
I thought it was clear that the submitter was making a list of items separated by commas:
- Keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard
- 23 talks organized into two tracks
- a social event inside Luigi Colani's exhibition
- multiple coffee breaks to socialize
I've personally been looking around for Speedvision/Speed channel's coverage of World Rally Championship events. They're very hard to find.
In fact, I'm ordering fancy cable just so I can watch WRC events next year (maybe some hockey games, too). I'm trying to figure out if getting a TiVo or something so I can rip stuff and give it back to the community is worth it. My time is money and my money is also money and I don't wanna dick around with some homebrew Linux DVR/PVR unless it's going to work without too much effort.
Same reason cars are so hard to work on - because the marketing department likes to give everything exciting new lines at least once a year and that changes the space that you've got to work with.
Plus, with computers - and laptops in specific - there are a variety of needs. Some people want a built-in CF reader. Some people want a super-slim laptop with no CDROM. Stuff like that.
I think it's the nature of the beast. Best you can do is look over the laptop before you buy it and take in to consideration how hard it's going to be to work on it.
I can state that, through direct observation that the women in the office I'm in like their heat. In fact, they almost all have space heaters under their desks. It's hell working on their computers; I always get way too hot.