Hmm, think of all the code IBM would have access to if companies did this. They could have a team of hack programmers pouring through all the source code that gets uploaded to their system, all the while coming out with new revolutionary advances in various programming methods. Sneaky.
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One man's wasted life is another man's utopia. Not everyone likes the same things, not everyone places the same values on the same things.
One man works 80 hours a week, amasses a fortune, retires at 70 with more money than he knows what to do with. He's on his third wife, has several kids he doesn't recognize (but put through college), and a yacht that could sink an iceberg.
Another man works 40 hours a week, makes a living, retires at 70 with just enough money to maintain his household. He has a loving wife, several kids (that put themselves through college), and a 1997 Buick with 70k miles on it.
Yet another man works just enough to eat and buys clothes. He followed the Greatful Dead for ten years selling buttons and T-shirts. He's 70 now, living in a little shack on some land owned by one of his buddies from "back in the day". No wife, probably lots of kids, and he has a 1965 Chevy pickup with more miles on it than there are roads in the county he lives in.
I can listen to 128kbps rips just fine. It might have something to do with the fact that 90% of my listening is done on cheap computer speakers with enough ambient noise around me to dull out any sound source. Not everyone listens to music in quiet rooms, or while wearing ear covering headphones. I like music in the background while I work, but I'm not going to go nuts about the quality.
As far as something that sounds better than a CD? I sure as hell don't care. CDs sounds just fine to me.
That might work when you're writing a two page term paper in 7th grade, dumbass. I like to keep copies of some of the research material I use on a paper, it comes in handy when you want to go back and check something in your notes.
For anyone out there that watches TV more than 1 hour per week. Get a TIVO or a Replay TV. They are so worth it. It will forever change your viewing habits (for the better), you will never look back. My wife is pretty close to being a technophobe, but she absolutely loves our ReplayTV. Its easy to use, there is always something on that she wants to watch now.
The only downside to having one is that you completely lose track of when stuff is on. Makes it a little hard to participate in the watercooler discussions about certain shows. Not a big deal, but it does happen.
I personally really enjoy sitting down and watch 2 or 3 episodes of the same show in a row. Plus, pausing live TV is about the most useful feature for the parent of a small child that I could imagine.
Anyway, buy one, you won't regret it.
No, I don't work for TIVO or ReplayTV or any other company along those lines.
Hell yes. Active sonar is a wonderful thing. Destroy a missile fired at it? Good luck getting close enough to fire one to begin with.
How could it be defended from someone who doesn't care whether he lives or dies as long as the target is destroyed?
I think we could make it reasonably difficult for even the most determined nut to be able to harm this thing. Hell, just make everyone who gets near it have to go through an MRI first, just to pick out the people with 5lbs of explosives packed where the sun doesn't shine.
If we can build it, we should build it. If you aren't moving forward, then you're moving backwards.
You build it in the middle of the ocean on an old oil platform. You create a military-like death zone around the platform, say going out 50 miles in all directions. It might be hard to protect something like this built in a city, but in the vast expanses of the ocean, not a problem.
I have to disagree with both you and Mr.Vanderheiden in this context. Some circumstances and some implementations may be equally useful when designed to allow for people with various limitations to use. In this case we are talking about a user interface design for a computer. There is no way you could create a computer that I could use equally efficiently without the use of sight for all of the tasks that I need to perform.
There is a reason that fighter pilots use sight/sound/touch. We might be able to ease the restrictions on who can be a pilot if the controls were designed by Vanderheiden, but I wouldn't count on them lasting long in the crosshairs of the enemy.
Would you prefer all innovations are geared for the lowest common denominator?
I want an interface that is designed to be the most efficient/powerful for use, with all of my relevant senses taken into consideration.
If someone else needs an interface with the restriction that the sense of sight cannot be a factor, then make one for him/her that is the most efficient/powerful with those restrictions accounted for.
I don't think the two will be the same, and I don't see why one should suffer with a lesser interface based on limitations he/she doesn't have.
Information security is really all about risk management.
I suppose that depends on if you consider CYA to be a form of risk management. Unfortunately, many managers look at security as an expensive pain in the ass, that does nothing but cause them problems. There is no glory in having a tight secure system, but plenty of shit hits the fan if something goes wrong and a system is breached. For this reason, I think many managers are happy to take a security document from a consulting company, meet their recommendations, and then hide behind it.
1.A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. 2.A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race. 3.A genealogical line; a lineage. 4.Humans considered as a group.
So, there are many sides to race, one of them being skin color, another ethnicity. In light of this, I think Jackson fails on both accounts. Aside from the obvious skin color bit, he is so far removed from 99.999% of the U.S. population, it is difficult to imagine that he has anything in common with other African Americans at this point.
Corporate Board Meeting _______________________ Mean Boss: What the hell is wrong with our email system? Why do we keep getting virii and trojans on our network filesystems?
Burned out IT worker: Because we were told to buy software that was known to have many exploits and a number of design flaws, against our better judgement.
Mean Boss: Whoever told you to do that should be fired, I wanna know their names!
Burned out IT worker: Sir, it was you...
Mean Bosses Meaner Boss: Well Bob, hope you've polished up that resume'. __________________________ AP news story: Someone fired for buying Microsoft!
As bad as exchange is, the entire FAA has been in the process of switching over their email system to Lotus Notes from CCMail. You folks using Exchange have no idea how good you have it.
I wonder what security devices they will use on the things. It would kind of suck to have someone stop by and toss your $3000 dollar lawn mower in their trunk, and drive off, while you watch helplessly from the Internet.
There are so many issues involved in this industry, and the other similar entertainment industries, it is almost overwhelming. No single plan or argument is correct, or can fix the problems that exist and are coming.
One of the things that will have a very dramatic effect is that it will only get cheaper and easier for individuals to produce movies and music. The recording media is getting cheaper by the minute (hard drive space and so on), the recording devices are getting cheaper (cameras and computers), and the methods of distribution are radically changing. Twenty years ago, it was pretty much impossible for a single person with limited resources to get a movie or video out to more than a few hundred people at best. Now, anyone with the talent can get it out to potentially millions of people (if it is interesting enough). Marketing is dirt cheap, production is dirt cheap, and distribution is nearing dirt cheap. MPAA is going to lose a lot, and they are going to fight it like there is no tomorrow.
I think what we will have in the near future will be commercial free subscription channels, and commercial free subscription shows. You might get some product placement, but the viewer has the ultimate power over what they watch. What you will end up with is a distribution method that brokers getting independant shows to the viewer, essentially, like a for profit PBS.
Too bad if they have their way you won't actually own the DVD anymore, you'll just have a license to watch it. If they want to, they will be able to revoke that license, and your (their) DVD won't play in your (their) player anymore.
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Hmm, think of all the code IBM would have access to if companies did this. They could have a team of hack programmers pouring through all the source code that gets uploaded to their system, all the while coming out with new revolutionary advances in various programming methods. Sneaky.
too restrictive in their licensing terms
Thats pretty damn funny considering the source.
Danger Mouse would clearly own them all...
One man's wasted life is another man's utopia. Not everyone likes the same things, not everyone places the same values on the same things.
One man works 80 hours a week, amasses a fortune, retires at 70 with more money than he knows what to do with. He's on his third wife, has several kids he doesn't recognize (but put through college), and a yacht that could sink an iceberg.
Another man works 40 hours a week, makes a living, retires at 70 with just enough money to maintain his household. He has a loving wife, several kids (that put themselves through college), and a 1997 Buick with 70k miles on it.
Yet another man works just enough to eat and buys clothes. He followed the Greatful Dead for ten years selling buttons and T-shirts. He's 70 now, living in a little shack on some land owned by one of his buddies from "back in the day". No wife, probably lots of kids, and he has a 1965 Chevy pickup with more miles on it than there are roads in the county he lives in.
Whos to say which one of them wasted their life?
Jeez Steev.
I can listen to 128kbps rips just fine. It might have something to do with the fact that 90% of my listening is done on cheap computer speakers with enough ambient noise around me to dull out any sound source. Not everyone listens to music in quiet rooms, or while wearing ear covering headphones. I like music in the background while I work, but I'm not going to go nuts about the quality.
As far as something that sounds better than a CD? I sure as hell don't care. CDs sounds just fine to me.
Hmm. You seem awefully fixated on fur. I'd have to wonder if a fur loving female doesn't have more in commen with men as far as gaming goes...
That might work when you're writing a two page term paper in 7th grade, dumbass. I like to keep copies of some of the research material I use on a paper, it comes in handy when you want to go back and check something in your notes.
Jesus you really are a twit realmolo.
For anyone out there that watches TV more than 1 hour per week. Get a TIVO or a Replay TV. They are so worth it. It will forever change your viewing habits (for the better), you will never look back. My wife is pretty close to being a technophobe, but she absolutely loves our ReplayTV. Its easy to use, there is always something on that she wants to watch now.
The only downside to having one is that you completely lose track of when stuff is on. Makes it a little hard to participate in the watercooler discussions about certain shows. Not a big deal, but it does happen.
I personally really enjoy sitting down and watch 2 or 3 episodes of the same show in a row. Plus, pausing live TV is about the most useful feature for the parent of a small child that I could imagine.
Anyway, buy one, you won't regret it.
No, I don't work for TIVO or ReplayTV or any other company along those lines.
Hell yes. Active sonar is a wonderful thing. Destroy a missile fired at it? Good luck getting close enough to fire one to begin with.
How could it be defended from someone who doesn't care whether he lives or dies as long as the target is destroyed?
I think we could make it reasonably difficult for even the most determined nut to be able to harm this thing. Hell, just make everyone who gets near it have to go through an MRI first, just to pick out the people with 5lbs of explosives packed where the sun doesn't shine.
If we can build it, we should build it. If you aren't moving forward, then you're moving backwards.
You build it in the middle of the ocean on an old oil platform. You create a military-like death zone around the platform, say going out 50 miles in all directions. It might be hard to protect something like this built in a city, but in the vast expanses of the ocean, not a problem.
I have to disagree with both you and Mr.Vanderheiden in this context. Some circumstances and some implementations may be equally useful when designed to allow for people with various limitations to use. In this case we are talking about a user interface design for a computer. There is no way you could create a computer that I could use equally efficiently without the use of sight for all of the tasks that I need to perform.
There is a reason that fighter pilots use sight/sound/touch. We might be able to ease the restrictions on who can be a pilot if the controls were designed by Vanderheiden, but I wouldn't count on them lasting long in the crosshairs of the enemy.
Would you prefer all innovations are geared for the lowest common denominator?
I want an interface that is designed to be the most efficient/powerful for use, with all of my relevant senses taken into consideration.
If someone else needs an interface with the restriction that the sense of sight cannot be a factor, then make one for him/her that is the most efficient/powerful with those restrictions accounted for.
I don't think the two will be the same, and I don't see why one should suffer with a lesser interface based on limitations he/she doesn't have.
Information security is really all about risk management.
I suppose that depends on if you consider CYA to be a form of risk management. Unfortunately, many managers look at security as an expensive pain in the ass, that does nothing but cause them problems. There is no glory in having a tight secure system, but plenty of shit hits the fan if something goes wrong and a system is breached. For this reason, I think many managers are happy to take a security document from a consulting company, meet their recommendations, and then hide behind it.
Race is not a skin color but an ethnicity.
Here is the usage note from
1.A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2.A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3.A genealogical line; a lineage.
4.Humans considered as a group.
So, there are many sides to race, one of them being skin color, another ethnicity. In light of this, I think Jackson fails on both accounts. Aside from the obvious skin color bit, he is so far removed from 99.999% of the U.S. population, it is difficult to imagine that he has anything in common with other African Americans at this point.
What makes you think the female Perl developers out there don't like getting "the big knob"?
Wouldn't that make a great story?
Corporate Board Meeting
_______________________
Mean Boss: What the hell is wrong with our email system? Why do we keep getting virii and trojans on our network filesystems?
Burned out IT worker: Because we were told to buy software that was known to have many exploits and a number of design flaws, against our better judgement.
Mean Boss: Whoever told you to do that should be fired, I wanna know their names!
Burned out IT worker: Sir, it was you...
Mean Bosses Meaner Boss: Well Bob, hope you've polished up that resume'.
__________________________
AP news story: Someone fired for buying Microsoft!
As bad as exchange is, the entire FAA has been in the process of switching over their email system to Lotus Notes from CCMail. You folks using Exchange have no idea how good you have it.
Interviewer: Who won the superbowl last year?
Programmer:
Interviewer: What do you do for fun outside of work?
Programmer:
Interviewer: Hmm. What do you look for in a woman?
Programmer:
Interviewer: Great then, one last thing we need to check...
Programmer:
Interviewer: Ok then, see you Monday.
My english teacher
Finally vindicated
Haiku has a use
I wonder what security devices they will use on the things. It would kind of suck to have someone stop by and toss your $3000 dollar lawn mower in their trunk, and drive off, while you watch helplessly from the Internet.
It's a little more difficult than that if the phone system is digital. I'm not talking VoIP, just digital.
You forgot the part where the board members voted to not have to pay back the loans... Thats the story.
Racing gasoline? Ah fuck, that explains it.
There are so many issues involved in this industry, and the other similar entertainment industries, it is almost overwhelming. No single plan or argument is correct, or can fix the problems that exist and are coming.
One of the things that will have a very dramatic effect is that it will only get cheaper and easier for individuals to produce movies and music. The recording media is getting cheaper by the minute (hard drive space and so on), the recording devices are getting cheaper (cameras and computers), and the methods of distribution are radically changing. Twenty years ago, it was pretty much impossible for a single person with limited resources to get a movie or video out to more than a few hundred people at best. Now, anyone with the talent can get it out to potentially millions of people (if it is interesting enough). Marketing is dirt cheap, production is dirt cheap, and distribution is nearing dirt cheap. MPAA is going to lose a lot, and they are going to fight it like there is no tomorrow.
I think what we will have in the near future will be commercial free subscription channels, and commercial free subscription shows. You might get some product placement, but the viewer has the ultimate power over what they watch. What you will end up with is a distribution method that brokers getting independant shows to the viewer, essentially, like a for profit PBS.
Thats my opinion, I could be wrong.
Too bad if they have their way you won't actually own the DVD anymore, you'll just have a license to watch it. If they want to, they will be able to revoke that license, and your (their) DVD won't play in your (their) player anymore.