I would like to apologize for my behavior. It was wrong and immoral. I suppose, because of my youth, that I thought it would be justifiable to learn. I now see otherwise, and hope to discontinue this behavior for the rest of my career.
I thought that it might be a good dodge to spend some of my time in first year learning, and that it might be an investment towards my GPA for me to acquire knowledge from other human beings. Oh well, I guess we all learn our lessons of life somehow. I understand that in discussing in an academic forum setting is wrong and I promise that for the endurement of my University career, I will absolve any attempt at communicating with my peers, as it seems to only decrement my academic standpoint and tarnish the reputation of the University, as well as compromising the institution of Education on the whole.
I promise I will avoid learning for the rest of my college career and rely only on myself and my own experiences with the natural environment to do so. Furthermore, I resolve to lock myself in my room for the remainder of the semester in hopes that social interaction will not tempt me into deteriorating my Computer Studies goals. As well, I will avoid going to lectures and tutorials, as well as any open labs, since the professors and TAs may accidentally teach me something, in which case I will compromise the goals the University seems to have set forth.
Sincerely,
****
Glad to know open academic forums (What Universities are intended to be) are still just that.
Wow... I love how everybody's jumped on the "Hollywood sucks" bandwagon.
While I grant that yes, Hollywood does have a formula and on the most part it's stupid, this movie I had hopes for...
First of all, it's David Fincher, someone who's been known to avoid Hollywood cliche's and use high-quality scripts *coughSevencoughFightClubcough*.
Actually, well, that was the only thing this movie had going for it for me... But I guess I'll have to go see it and just try and enjoy it... After all, I haven't seen a Fincher movie I haven't liked thus far... first time for everything maybe?
*Psssst. Adrenalyn is psychologically addictive. Not chemically*
plus, Adrenalyn is a naturally produced hormone.
I'll tell you something else that's chemically addictive by your logic: Testosterone. While we're at it, why don't we add the infamous DHMO or even worse, Glucose!
Please, people, educate yourselves about drugs before you go spouting off what is a chemical dependency and what isn't. Even a chemical drug isn't necessarily physiologically addictive.
One of the most addictive substances (quite possibly _the_ most addictive substance) on the planet is Crystal Methamphetamine. It has a worse relapse rate than even Heroin. But it is zero physiological addiction. Just because rats get addicted to it doesn't mean that humans will nor does it mean that it is a physiological addiction. You can't prove to me or anybody that rats have no capability for psychological addiction. In fact, I'd be willing to bet money that rats are more susceptible to psychological addiction than humans are.
If fluids in the ear are what help us for balance and orientation, why _wouldn't_ it be able to compensate for gravity? Once the nausea has been overcome for lack of gravity, all of your other orientation skills (ie gravitational compensation for prediction of a ball) should follow suit. The nausea stage is where you're body is trying to adjust, I'd assume that the mind is doing the same.
Gates getting up and preaching about how now "The Enemy is using our own weapons against us" or some other Operation-Enduring-Monopoly-esque response to something like this.
Heh... how are they going to respond to this? I'm willing to bet something like a "Department of Obfuscation" to make their apps more Windows-reliant to counter the GPL's general desire of universal compatability. Ministry of Truth, anyone?
Oh well. The more Orwellian that M$ becomes, the more I can call up my mother and say "See? I told you so!"
what kind of education does this guy (and his finance minister) have?
One that his parents paid for and that he wants to ensure that his kids are able to get (why? Because he _can_ pay for it...)
I'm fortunate considering I'm in University at the moment courtesy my parents' generous checkbook. But the thing is that if it weren't for that, i'd be forced to pay up the yin-yang, especially now that Campbell's lifted the tuition freeze, and that banks are starting to lobby to get rid of Student Loans.
Some other upper/middle class students are complaining that the freeze was hurting their education and making it more difficult for them to get into their departments. My reaction: GOOD ON THEM. If lower tuition fees means that you need a 3.6GPA to get into your faculty, GOOD. Maybe finally we'll be issuing degrees based on actual academic capability rather than who can afford to get one. But again, that would make too much sense given the money-driven people who seem to think that the government is a corporation who are running our country/province.
Come the next federal, I'm voting for Svend again. Come the next provincial, I'm voting for the Rhinos again. Seems like I don't have much other options.
*smirk* Like that'll happen. Out here in BC our Premier is already doing countless things that are being objected to across the board.
Furthermore, if this is Federal, the Premiers have shit-all to do with it. You'd have to mail your Members of Parliament.
And even furthermore, because currently the Liberal government is running a majority government, any bill that's set forth in front of parliament will basically go through. Why? because Canada's political system is almost as much of a democratic smokescreen as the States.
Alright. I don't call Hacker Otakus "Otakus". I call them "l33t Hax0rz". I don't call Otaku Ravers "Otakus". I call them "candyravers". I don't call Renn Faire Otakus "Otakus". I call them "Fucking annoying SCA people".
Primarily in English-speaking culture, "Otaku" came from and tends to stick in the domain of anime. The only people that tend to use the word, in North America at least, use it in a reference to Anime fanatics. And anybody who overextends the name understands that its bridge into this culture is from the Anime fans. As a result, on the most part, the only people who complain about Otaku only being used with reference to Anime fans are, in fact, anime otakus.
I'm a Rocky Horror Picture Show Otaku. But I never really refer to myself as that (Usually I stick to "Rocky Horror Freak").
And yes, I realize how ethnocentric that attitude is, but the fact that this board is in the English Language kinda limits the jargon in this case. In the english language, the jargon term "Otaku" refers to a hardcore Anime fanatic.
Except to Otakus.
*runs to see if this is actually in the jargon file anywhere*
"this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school"
So I was in my Calculus class about four months ago, hanging around, being relatively bored, so I started singing the "dada Da dada da, da..." and charged into the entire Super Mario Brothers song. My friends sitting next to me start chiming in and joining up. Now this would have been fine and all, If I hadn't then broken into the end bit with the flagpole and the fireworks... and then continued on to level 1-2 (Dada da dada da, da... Dooo! Dooo! Dooo! Dananananana.... Dananananana...). My friend sitting next to me collapsed over in laughter... I think I broke her.
Actually, another big portion of the movie is him playing a lot of controversial banned music... another reason the FCC is trying to track him down.
But moreso, the point here is that the reaction is the same... the more that they try to clamp down on something that is inevitable, the more it's going to sift right through their fingers.
They can't clamp down on webcasts on the sole basis that they're too many and they're too small to be able to get them all. In an informational and technical sense, it's like trying to impose regulation on web pages. The point is that the more they use conventional means to find these sights, the more unconventional means the webcasters will use, and the less they'll be able to control.
When they attack something that isn't centralised (like filesharing) all they serve is decentralisation of whatever it is they think they know. Look at Napster. Right after its uselessness was shown, there were a least half a dozen clones ready to take its place (Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, Limewire, Hotline, Kazaa, Morpheous, etc.)
What happens when they clamp down on these ones?
The thing is if they try to do it the same with webcasts, they're going to be insane if they think they can control them. All they'll result in shutting down major free webcasts is in spawning a lot more minor free webcasts that will be harder to combat.
I think in 1990, Christian Slater starred in a movie called Pump Up The Volume, in which he portrayed "Happy Hardon Harry", an introverted geek-boy by day, but a sexually charged authority-fighting anarchistic pirate Radio personality by night.
*SPOILER WARNING*
The FCC was called in after Harry got a letter from a kid who claimed he wanted to commit suicide. Harry calls up the kid, and talks with him, but doesn't do anything to push the kid away from killing himself. So, immediately after the phone call, the kid puts a gun against his head and pulls the trigger.
So parents of this small suburban community get in an uproar about this Hardon Harry character as he begins to expose the plots of a principal who is attempting to make her school the number one school by expelling all students with too low grades. The more he discovers, the more intent that the principal and faculty, as well as the parents and FCC, are on shutting down this pirate radio show and putting Harry in jail.
Once he is caught though, he announces to the kids (who have decided that the suburban repression of will they've been filtered through isn't necessary and have revolted against it) to keep the air alive, and make it theirs. The final shot is with the sound of dozens upon dozens of kids with their own pirate radio stations, reclaiming the "air" as theirs, just as he is thrown into the paddy-wagon and taken away by the FCC-charged police.
See the similarities? A friend of mine sets up a webcast so that we can listen to him spin some records from time to time, occasionally, when he has friends over, they have "geek-out music" sessions, where we get a whole bunch of music and just play around with it, and let our friends listen to it. Why? Why not!
So where do we draw the line? This isn't at all publicly advertised, so how in god's name do they intend on regulating this? It's going to simply blow up into a couple billion people setting up their own webcasts... it's like me setting up an ftp server off my cable connection so that my friends can get ahold of my MP3s.
Next thing you know, the companies will be forcing people to sign release forms every time they buy a CD making them promise they will never play these CDs for their friends, or loan out your tapes, DJs will have to pay royalties every time they play a club or whatever. I'll have to be charged a $5 cover every time I want to go over to a friend's house and play with his records. Soon, police will be handing out Copywrite-infringement violation tickets at house parties because the people throwing the party didn't secure the rights to the CDs.
The companies are burying themselves. It's going to get to the point that you're going to buy a CD and you won't be able to listen to it anyways because you don't own the rights to the CD. Soon it's going to get to a point where nobody is going to buy CDs ever again because they can't do anything with it. So the music companies are looking at their own elimination. Good job. Keep up the good work.
If you go by the 27 stories as opposed to 27 episodes, then we've already got 24... (opener + Hallowe'en + 11 2-part episodes), which means three more... however, the official confirmation I've heard is that we're supposed to get at least 6 more full episodes, so it's most likely not that option.
So, the other idea is that we've got 13 episodes, which means we get another 14, which is a good deal more than we were initially promised.
So, I'm guessing that Nick is just reverting the idea that "We're done with it. It's over. Kaput" and they're going to release the next season and see how it does... At least, that's how I see it.
HOPEFULLY they're doing that... but what that means is that it's upon the loyal viewers (@#$%ing Canadian television doesn't have it, so I'm gonna be watching my episodes off the net) to keep watching the new episodes next fall and hopefully keep the show on the air!
Jhonen Vasquez (the creative genius behind Zim and Johnny etc.) had no hand in Lenore... It's a common misconception since Lenore is (arguably) the second-most-popular comic from Slave Labour, the people who distribute Johnny and all of Jhonen's other work...
The geek sympathy card goes to BeOS on the simple reasoning that they're not Microsoft... When in reality, any failing company could probably find one simple tiny little thing Microsoft may not have even known what they were doing, blow it out of proportion and use it to reason why their business failed.
Conclusion? If you told your local l33t hax0r a way to break into Bill Gates' computer, they would do it, right? Simply because they'd believe in the purpose enough and they probably wouldn't face too much discrimination amongst their peers, because Microsoft bad.
Without actually knowing the clear evidence presented, it's quite possible that this is just a last-ditch effort to save BeOS by picking everybody's favorite enemy and slinging a little bit of mud in their direction. Embellish a few details, and you've got a case on your hands. And nobody will object, because, once again, Microsoft Bad.
So, Macintosh finally creates a new GUI OS that appeals to not only the general sheep-herd user base but also to the Linux geeks, thus making many people reconsider their usage of PCs and possibly port over to the ever-struggling Mac Hardware, and now they're gonna make it so that it's not exclusive to Mac hardware?
Wouldn't be a smart move unless Apple decided it wanted to move out of the Home Desktop business and simply make their machines for professional use... which they're bordering close to, but this would render all the iFruit campaigns obsolete, and this kind of intrudes of Apple's whole originating philosophy of doing something different than what all the other business-class computer companies (IBM, HP, Xerox, etc.) were doing...
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If I were this guy it wouldn't, considering I wrote it. =)
Heh.
Yup.
I would send the following mail:
To whom it may concern,
I would like to apologize for my behavior. It was wrong and immoral. I suppose, because of my youth, that I thought it would be justifiable to learn. I now see otherwise, and hope to discontinue this behavior for the rest of my career.
I thought that it might be a good dodge to spend some of my time in first year learning, and that it might be an investment towards my GPA for me to acquire knowledge from other human beings. Oh well, I guess we all learn our lessons of life somehow. I understand that in discussing in an academic forum setting is wrong and I promise that for the endurement of my University career, I will absolve any attempt at communicating with my peers, as it seems to only decrement my academic standpoint and tarnish the reputation of the University, as well as compromising the institution of Education on the whole.
I promise I will avoid learning for the rest of my college career and rely only on myself and my own experiences with the natural environment to do so. Furthermore, I resolve to lock myself in my room for the remainder of the semester in hopes that social interaction will not tempt me into deteriorating my Computer Studies goals. As well, I will avoid going to lectures and tutorials, as well as any open labs, since the professors and TAs may accidentally teach me something, in which case I will compromise the goals the University seems to have set forth.
Sincerely,
****
Glad to know open academic forums (What Universities are intended to be) are still just that.
"It's an action movie, they are all like that."
Wow... I love how everybody's jumped on the "Hollywood sucks" bandwagon.
While I grant that yes, Hollywood does have a formula and on the most part it's stupid, this movie I had hopes for...
First of all, it's David Fincher, someone who's been known to avoid Hollywood cliche's and use high-quality scripts *coughSevencoughFightClubcough*.
Actually, well, that was the only thing this movie had going for it for me... But I guess I'll have to go see it and just try and enjoy it... After all, I haven't seen a Fincher movie I haven't liked thus far... first time for everything maybe?
You don't say...
*sigh*
"I understand that you think that under Communism man exploits man. And I agree! Under capitalism, it is exactly the reverse!" - Mike Nugent
If you don't want someone screwing with your code, don't write open source software. That's a real simple solution.
*Psssst. Adrenalyn is psychologically addictive. Not chemically*
plus, Adrenalyn is a naturally produced hormone.
I'll tell you something else that's chemically addictive by your logic: Testosterone. While we're at it, why don't we add the infamous DHMO or even worse, Glucose!
Please, people, educate yourselves about drugs before you go spouting off what is a chemical dependency and what isn't. Even a chemical drug isn't necessarily physiologically addictive.
One of the most addictive substances (quite possibly _the_ most addictive substance) on the planet is Crystal Methamphetamine. It has a worse relapse rate than even Heroin. But it is zero physiological addiction. Just because rats get addicted to it doesn't mean that humans will nor does it mean that it is a physiological addiction. You can't prove to me or anybody that rats have no capability for psychological addiction. In fact, I'd be willing to bet money that rats are more susceptible to psychological addiction than humans are.
"All your april fool are belong to us!"
All your funny are belong to a year ago!
Someone set up us the dead horse!
You have no chance to be funny make your time!
If fluids in the ear are what help us for balance and orientation, why _wouldn't_ it be able to compensate for gravity? Once the nausea has been overcome for lack of gravity, all of your other orientation skills (ie gravitational compensation for prediction of a ball) should follow suit. The nausea stage is where you're body is trying to adjust, I'd assume that the mind is doing the same.
Hitler was in WWI. I don't see why he wouldn't have killed anybody.
Gates getting up and preaching about how now "The Enemy is using our own weapons against us" or some other Operation-Enduring-Monopoly-esque response to something like this.
Heh... how are they going to respond to this? I'm willing to bet something like a "Department of Obfuscation" to make their apps more Windows-reliant to counter the GPL's general desire of universal compatability. Ministry of Truth, anyone?
Oh well. The more Orwellian that M$ becomes, the more I can call up my mother and say "See? I told you so!"
what kind of education does this guy (and his finance minister) have?
One that his parents paid for and that he wants to ensure that his kids are able to get (why? Because he _can_ pay for it...)
I'm fortunate considering I'm in University at the moment courtesy my parents' generous checkbook. But the thing is that if it weren't for that, i'd be forced to pay up the yin-yang, especially now that Campbell's lifted the tuition freeze, and that banks are starting to lobby to get rid of Student Loans.
Some other upper/middle class students are complaining that the freeze was hurting their education and making it more difficult for them to get into their departments. My reaction: GOOD ON THEM. If lower tuition fees means that you need a 3.6GPA to get into your faculty, GOOD. Maybe finally we'll be issuing degrees based on actual academic capability rather than who can afford to get one. But again, that would make too much sense given the money-driven people who seem to think that the government is a corporation who are running our country/province.
Come the next federal, I'm voting for Svend again. Come the next provincial, I'm voting for the Rhinos again. Seems like I don't have much other options.
*smirk* Like that'll happen. Out here in BC our Premier is already doing countless things that are being objected to across the board.
Furthermore, if this is Federal, the Premiers have shit-all to do with it. You'd have to mail your Members of Parliament.
And even furthermore, because currently the Liberal government is running a majority government, any bill that's set forth in front of parliament will basically go through. Why? because Canada's political system is almost as much of a democratic smokescreen as the States.
Considering this week's poll... Possibly a better header would have just been "Geeks in Space not totally gone..."
Sorry. It's 4 in the morning and I'm all out of American Dew...
Alright. I don't call Hacker Otakus "Otakus". I call them "l33t Hax0rz". I don't call Otaku Ravers "Otakus". I call them "candyravers". I don't call Renn Faire Otakus "Otakus". I call them "Fucking annoying SCA people".
Primarily in English-speaking culture, "Otaku" came from and tends to stick in the domain of anime. The only people that tend to use the word, in North America at least, use it in a reference to Anime fanatics. And anybody who overextends the name understands that its bridge into this culture is from the Anime fans. As a result, on the most part, the only people who complain about Otaku only being used with reference to Anime fans are, in fact, anime otakus.
I'm a Rocky Horror Picture Show Otaku. But I never really refer to myself as that (Usually I stick to "Rocky Horror Freak").
And yes, I realize how ethnocentric that attitude is, but the fact that this board is in the English Language kinda limits the jargon in this case. In the english language, the jargon term "Otaku" refers to a hardcore Anime fanatic.
Except to Otakus.
*runs to see if this is actually in the jargon file anywhere*
Crap. Someone wanna bug ESR about this?
"this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school"
So I was in my Calculus class about four months ago, hanging around, being relatively bored, so I started singing the "dada Da dada da, da..." and charged into the entire Super Mario Brothers song. My friends sitting next to me start chiming in and joining up. Now this would have been fine and all, If I hadn't then broken into the end bit with the flagpole and the fireworks... and then continued on to level 1-2 (Dada da dada da, da... Dooo! Dooo! Dooo! Dananananana.... Dananananana...). My friend sitting next to me collapsed over in laughter... I think I broke her.
The end.
Actually, another big portion of the movie is him playing a lot of controversial banned music... another reason the FCC is trying to track him down.
But moreso, the point here is that the reaction is the same... the more that they try to clamp down on something that is inevitable, the more it's going to sift right through their fingers.
They can't clamp down on webcasts on the sole basis that they're too many and they're too small to be able to get them all. In an informational and technical sense, it's like trying to impose regulation on web pages. The point is that the more they use conventional means to find these sights, the more unconventional means the webcasters will use, and the less they'll be able to control.
When they attack something that isn't centralised (like filesharing) all they serve is decentralisation of whatever it is they think they know. Look at Napster. Right after its uselessness was shown, there were a least half a dozen clones ready to take its place (Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, Limewire, Hotline, Kazaa, Morpheous, etc.)
What happens when they clamp down on these ones?
The thing is if they try to do it the same with webcasts, they're going to be insane if they think they can control them. All they'll result in shutting down major free webcasts is in spawning a lot more minor free webcasts that will be harder to combat.
I think in 1990, Christian Slater starred in a movie called Pump Up The Volume, in which he portrayed "Happy Hardon Harry", an introverted geek-boy by day, but a sexually charged authority-fighting anarchistic pirate Radio personality by night.
*SPOILER WARNING*
The FCC was called in after Harry got a letter from a kid who claimed he wanted to commit suicide. Harry calls up the kid, and talks with him, but doesn't do anything to push the kid away from killing himself. So, immediately after the phone call, the kid puts a gun against his head and pulls the trigger.
So parents of this small suburban community get in an uproar about this Hardon Harry character as he begins to expose the plots of a principal who is attempting to make her school the number one school by expelling all students with too low grades. The more he discovers, the more intent that the principal and faculty, as well as the parents and FCC, are on shutting down this pirate radio show and putting Harry in jail.
Once he is caught though, he announces to the kids (who have decided that the suburban repression of will they've been filtered through isn't necessary and have revolted against it) to keep the air alive, and make it theirs. The final shot is with the sound of dozens upon dozens of kids with their own pirate radio stations, reclaiming the "air" as theirs, just as he is thrown into the paddy-wagon and taken away by the FCC-charged police.
See the similarities? A friend of mine sets up a webcast so that we can listen to him spin some records from time to time, occasionally, when he has friends over, they have "geek-out music" sessions, where we get a whole bunch of music and just play around with it, and let our friends listen to it. Why? Why not!
So where do we draw the line? This isn't at all publicly advertised, so how in god's name do they intend on regulating this? It's going to simply blow up into a couple billion people setting up their own webcasts... it's like me setting up an ftp server off my cable connection so that my friends can get ahold of my MP3s.
Next thing you know, the companies will be forcing people to sign release forms every time they buy a CD making them promise they will never play these CDs for their friends, or loan out your tapes, DJs will have to pay royalties every time they play a club or whatever. I'll have to be charged a $5 cover every time I want to go over to a friend's house and play with his records. Soon, police will be handing out Copywrite-infringement violation tickets at house parties because the people throwing the party didn't secure the rights to the CDs.
The companies are burying themselves. It's going to get to the point that you're going to buy a CD and you won't be able to listen to it anyways because you don't own the rights to the CD. Soon it's going to get to a point where nobody is going to buy CDs ever again because they can't do anything with it. So the music companies are looking at their own elimination. Good job. Keep up the good work.
I mean, it's perfectly legal to own/sell crackpipes in BC but I don't see any substantial legal use for it.
He said 27 in total, right?
If you go by the 27 stories as opposed to 27 episodes, then we've already got 24... (opener + Hallowe'en + 11 2-part episodes), which means three more... however, the official confirmation I've heard is that we're supposed to get at least 6 more full episodes, so it's most likely not that option.
So, the other idea is that we've got 13 episodes, which means we get another 14, which is a good deal more than we were initially promised.
So, I'm guessing that Nick is just reverting the idea that "We're done with it. It's over. Kaput" and they're going to release the next season and see how it does... At least, that's how I see it.
HOPEFULLY they're doing that... but what that means is that it's upon the loyal viewers (@#$%ing Canadian television doesn't have it, so I'm gonna be watching my episodes off the net) to keep watching the new episodes next fall and hopefully keep the show on the air!
Viva La Revolutionne!
Jhonen Vasquez (the creative genius behind Zim and Johnny etc.) had no hand in Lenore... It's a common misconception since Lenore is (arguably) the second-most-popular comic from Slave Labour, the people who distribute Johnny and all of Jhonen's other work...
What he _did_ do was I Feel Sick...
Microsoft Bad. Anybody else good.
The geek sympathy card goes to BeOS on the simple reasoning that they're not Microsoft... When in reality, any failing company could probably find one simple tiny little thing Microsoft may not have even known what they were doing, blow it out of proportion and use it to reason why their business failed.
Conclusion? If you told your local l33t hax0r a way to break into Bill Gates' computer, they would do it, right? Simply because they'd believe in the purpose enough and they probably wouldn't face too much discrimination amongst their peers, because Microsoft bad.
Without actually knowing the clear evidence presented, it's quite possible that this is just a last-ditch effort to save BeOS by picking everybody's favorite enemy and slinging a little bit of mud in their direction. Embellish a few details, and you've got a case on your hands. And nobody will object, because, once again, Microsoft Bad.
So, Macintosh finally creates a new GUI OS that appeals to not only the general sheep-herd user base but also to the Linux geeks, thus making many people reconsider their usage of PCs and possibly port over to the ever-struggling Mac Hardware, and now they're gonna make it so that it's not exclusive to Mac hardware?
Wouldn't be a smart move unless Apple decided it wanted to move out of the Home Desktop business and simply make their machines for professional use... which they're bordering close to, but this would render all the iFruit campaigns obsolete, and this kind of intrudes of Apple's whole originating philosophy of doing something different than what all the other business-class computer companies (IBM, HP, Xerox, etc.) were doing...