One ideal place would be the gps sat constellation. It's, like, hidden in plain view. And people INSIST they have to be on 24/7/365.24. And that they are changed to new ones whenever one fails.
"Better at last than precarious work conditions where you can be sacked within the hour, where most of the unemployment slack is taken up by tertiary industry for misery wages, and where the countries biggest employer is known for paying its employees BELOW POVERTY LIMITS, and its considered normal."
I raise the ante, show your hand. Where I am extraordinary ignorant of the US in the precedent sentence ? (as long as you consider a private employer, not a public one, as pertaining to the aforementioned sentence... )
Quite good for a country that absorbed East Germany less than 20 years ago, massively invested in it and is now seeing the end of the ordeal with massive exports of luxury goods and Highly Technological projects...I'm not a big fan of Herz 2, but hey, who said Germany was perfect ?
Better at last than precarious work conditions where you can be sacked within the hour, where most of the unemployment slack is taken up by tertiary industry for misery wages, and where the countries biggest employer is known for paying its employees BELOW POVERTY LIMITS, and its considered normal.
Any other question ? Enjoy it while I'm in the mood...
From what I see, ALL first world countries try to move production to countries costing less. Nowadays you see a movement from China (second world) to Thailand and Vietnam (third world), where salaries are even lower. Also these movements happen in industries where the manufacturing process is mostly manual, and where it is the cost of labor that is targeted (Basic IT tasks, phone centers, textiles, basic manufacturing)
It is something I watch with much interest, as in the long term those companies are lowering the buying power of their own customer...and losing their manufacturing process to their future competitor. Few things are more pleasurable than seeing the peoples making your life more miserable shoot themselves in the foot. And then I can always expatriate myself to these new developing countries and live a Nabab life implementing the solutions to the "new" problems those expatriated industries create in their new homes, like Recycling, power management and everything that has been forced down their throats to protect environment and health...
Hmmm... Lets get a look at Germany Unions instead, IG-Metal to be particular.
It's the union that covers all metallurgic works, including car-making.
They actually have a war chest that covers salaries while on strike, so it can go-on for a longer time to FORCE the Bosses to give-in before it cost them their own bonuses.
=> Ig-Metal affiliates are among the best paid in their work line in Europe.
Please remember Capitalism is "rule of the strongest", and that as a worker you have to make it work for you, the lowest link in the pyramid.
"When everything else has failed, give it a kick. It will satisfy a deep urge and sometime even make it work" (Me) - works also quite well for the non-physical world.
No need for wikipedia. It immediatly evoked a mindless swarm of robotised warriors sharing a hive mind that contro...
Sorry. There might have been something in what you said about the editor. The proper sentence should have been "MTV: 2007 Borged the Music Industry"
Lol, I bought the Sony ebook reader
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Sony isn't any better than the rest when it comes to DRM/keep the customer tight/buy, it's all we care.
Of course I have no GSM in the reader, but I don't need it, do I ?
and you have a plethora of tools working under linux to make your books and mangas compatible.
300US $. and then you take the books wherever you want, even on Sony's book library (bastards offer you "free" books from their "classical collection", everything you can get for free on Gutemberg...).
So, Kindle was a miss for me. I don't need a gadget that makes me pay through the nose AGAIN for everything.
(btw, if you have way more money than me, have a look at Irex second iteration of their epaper. A4 format, tablet functions, wifi..700 or 800 US$)
Lol, I take the situation from the other side of the point of view.
"u have that kind of knowledge, the time you spend "tinkering" probably costs more than purchasing "the other pieces of the kit". For example, I make about $100 an hour. It would probably take me about a couple hours to properly mod an Xbox. That's a couple hundred dollars I *could* spend on better hardware."
Alas, the time I would spend otherwise entertaining myself or buying new kit would be much more expensive : I would have to pay to go to the cinema, or pay for some hardware,...
As it is, I have the free time, I use it on hardware I already have, and without anymore capital investment I have both an enjoyable moment (the tiny microsecond where you succeed) and improved kit.And I get to keep the money after I got the functionality I needed/wanted. I now have the money to do yet again something else (pay my taxes, invite gf to nice restaurant,...) AND the improved hardware, AND I didn't spend my afternoon seated passively in front of the tv.
From my point of view I am saving money, as it is only my free time that is concerned....
Your device is in direct copyright infrigement with the Blind Dragon Technique developped by the Shaolin Monastery. Please cease and desist from your studies, as we can already offer you the same sensitivity with just 15 years of hard training.
As you probably know, following the recent joint venture between the Shaolin Monastery(TM) and the Ninja School of Japan(R), we recently sacked all of our lawers after we incorporated as the Ninja Shaolin Monastery of Japan Inc. Do not think that you won't have to agree with our cease and desist demands, as we now send a Ninja warrior and a Shaolin Monk to each offender.
Hoping to hear from you, even if your last scream, your faithfull designated executioner, Master King-Lu Yakamoto, Ninja 5th Dan Shaolin Master of the Blind Dragon Technique,
the Xbox has been my media center for about 4 years. I bought it the day it was easily moddable/hackable. It now plays the anime and movies from my server and also plays my dvds along with the games and imports. I really like the option to pay imports. I do speak and understand english, so there really is no reason I should wait 1-2 years for a game. Or movie...
After maybe 2.5 years the dvd reader died and I couldn't read discs anymore. I bought a replacement dvd player for the xbox and installed it myself, voiding my already dead warranty.
Morale of the story :
1 / I used my xbox in a "creative" way, exceeding by much what MS previewed/allowed me to do with it. I had fun with it, and I didn't have to build or buy a pre-made media center.
2 / When it got broken I just had to buy a small, cheap part. not a full xbox, as a "no user servicable parts inside" box concept would have made me.
Episode 2, the WII
Take story from ep.1, make hardware standard pc stuff as in xbox, rinse, repeat.
Guess I, too, am just old fashioned in some ways. I'm too cheap to have every piece of kit I want, so I like to tinker with consoles to give them all the bells and whistles I cannot afford otherwise...
I was browsing a bit into our files and reports and I happened upon a funny browser history forwarded to me by ehh... someone in my team.
You know what ? When thinking about the term "Dwarf Tossing" i would think of dimly illuminated pubs with a midget in a footbal gear. I had to turn my monitor 90 to really understand what the pictures wer...
Ah, yes, yes, I understand, it is late and you have a judgement to overturn early tomorrow, yes, better I let you work now, sorry for disturbing. Bye"
But for everyone else out there, remember : Every time you call a glossy Mac a Unix Server, a geek somewhere dies. Or he is kept in isolation in a high security prison with a pristine, never installed Dual 4 Cores Xeon 32 Go RAM 10 Gb Ethernet card with a Ginormous(TM) 34" LCD screen Quad Nvidia 8800 GTX SLI and only a WinME cd with no Internet access and VGA drivers. Well, to keep things short he suffers. A lot.
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One ideal place would be the gps sat constellation. It's, like, hidden in plain view. And people INSIST they have to be on 24/7/365.24. And that they are changed to new ones whenever one fails.
Here goes my Data allowance.
U.N.
Largest body of countries, International.
Now, if you grew wary of the american policies concerning ICAAN, get ready for bitchslapping at a worldwide level.
"Better at last than precarious work conditions where you can be sacked within the hour, where most of the unemployment slack is taken up by tertiary industry for misery wages, and where the countries biggest employer is known for paying its employees BELOW POVERTY LIMITS, and its considered normal."
I raise the ante, show your hand.
Where I am extraordinary ignorant of the US in the precedent sentence ? (as long as you consider a private employer, not a public one, as pertaining to the aforementioned sentence... )
Quite good for a country that absorbed East Germany less than 20 years ago, massively invested in it and is now seeing the end of the ordeal with massive exports of luxury goods and Highly Technological projects...I'm not a big fan of Herz 2, but hey, who said Germany was perfect ?
Better at last than precarious work conditions where you can be sacked within the hour, where most of the unemployment slack is taken up by tertiary industry for misery wages, and where the countries biggest employer is known for paying its employees BELOW POVERTY LIMITS, and its considered normal.
Any other question ? Enjoy it while I'm in the mood...
From what I see, ALL first world countries try to move production to countries costing less.
Nowadays you see a movement from China (second world) to Thailand and Vietnam (third world), where salaries are even lower.
Also these movements happen in industries where the manufacturing process is mostly manual, and where it is the cost of labor that is targeted (Basic IT tasks, phone centers, textiles, basic manufacturing)
It is something I watch with much interest, as in the long term those companies are lowering the buying power of their own customer...and losing their manufacturing process to their future competitor.
Few things are more pleasurable than seeing the peoples making your life more miserable shoot themselves in the foot.
And then I can always expatriate myself to these new developing countries and live a Nabab life implementing the solutions to the "new" problems those expatriated industries create in their new homes, like Recycling, power management and everything that has been forced down their throats to protect environment and health...
Hmmm... Lets get a look at Germany Unions instead, IG-Metal to be particular.
It's the union that covers all metallurgic works, including car-making.
They actually have a war chest that covers salaries while on strike, so it can go-on for a longer time to FORCE the Bosses to give-in before it cost them their own bonuses.
=> Ig-Metal affiliates are among the best paid in their work line in Europe.
Please remember Capitalism is "rule of the strongest", and that as a worker you have to make it work for you, the lowest link in the pyramid.
"When everything else has failed, give it a kick. It will satisfy a deep urge and sometime even make it work" (Me) - works also quite well for the non-physical world.
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=529
....nothing.
Now that is a teaser... you see
And here I was hoping that the latest TOR node was an HPC ranked 17 in the "biggerz clusterz" list...
One can dream...
No need for wikipedia. It immediatly evoked a mindless swarm of robotised warriors sharing a hive mind that contro...
Sorry. There might have been something in what you said about the editor.
The proper sentence should have been
"MTV: 2007 Borged the Music Industry"
Sony isn't any better than the rest when it comes to DRM/keep the customer tight/buy, it's all we care.
Of course I have no GSM in the reader, but I don't need it, do I ?
and you have a plethora of tools working under linux to make your books and mangas compatible.
300US $. and then you take the books wherever you want, even on Sony's book library (bastards offer you "free" books from their "classical collection", everything you can get for free on Gutemberg...).
So, Kindle was a miss for me. I don't need a gadget that makes me pay through the nose AGAIN for everything.
(btw, if you have way more money than me, have a look at Irex second iteration of their epaper. A4 format, tablet functions, wifi..700 or 800 US$)
Moderator can be dense. Do not forget "/funny" tag next time.
Usage Cap : 20 Mb/hour
Additional costs : 20$ / Kb (including 10% RIAA preventive fee)
it's a lot more work, but you can download all the updates manually, too...
Lol, I take the situation from the other side of the point of view.
...) AND the improved hardware, AND I didn't spend my afternoon seated passively in front of the tv.
"u have that kind of knowledge, the time you spend "tinkering" probably costs more than purchasing "the other pieces of the kit". For example, I make about $100 an hour. It would probably take me about a couple hours to properly mod an Xbox. That's a couple hundred dollars I *could* spend on better hardware."
Alas, the time I would spend otherwise entertaining myself or buying new kit would be much more expensive : I would have to pay to go to the cinema, or pay for some hardware,...
As it is, I have the free time, I use it on hardware I already have, and without anymore capital investment I have both an enjoyable moment (the tiny microsecond where you succeed) and improved kit.And I get to keep the money after I got the functionality I needed/wanted. I now have the money to do yet again something else (pay my taxes, invite gf to nice restaurant,
From my point of view I am saving money, as it is only my free time that is concerned....
Dear Sir, Madam,
Your device is in direct copyright infrigement with the Blind Dragon Technique developped by the Shaolin Monastery.
Please cease and desist from your studies, as we can already offer you the same sensitivity with just 15 years of hard training.
As you probably know, following the recent joint venture between the Shaolin Monastery(TM) and the Ninja School of Japan(R), we recently sacked all of our lawers after we incorporated as the Ninja Shaolin Monastery of Japan Inc. Do not think that you won't have to agree with our cease and desist demands, as we now send a Ninja warrior and a Shaolin Monk to each offender.
Hoping to hear from you, even if your last scream,
your faithfull designated executioner,
Master King-Lu Yakamoto,
Ninja 5th Dan
Shaolin Master of the Blind Dragon Technique,
or 99,9997824% of that Ubuntu dvd....
I happen to have a modded Xbox and a modded Wii
the Xbox has been my media center for about 4 years. I bought it the day it was easily moddable/hackable. It now plays the anime and movies from my server and also plays my dvds along with the games and imports. I really like the option to pay imports. I do speak and understand english, so there really is no reason I should wait 1-2 years for a game. Or movie...
After maybe 2.5 years the dvd reader died and I couldn't read discs anymore. I bought a replacement dvd player for the xbox and installed it myself, voiding my already dead warranty.
Morale of the story :
1 / I used my xbox in a "creative" way, exceeding by much what MS previewed/allowed me to do with it. I had fun with it, and I didn't have to build or buy a pre-made media center.
2 / When it got broken I just had to buy a small, cheap part. not a full xbox, as a "no user servicable parts inside" box concept would have made me.
Episode 2, the WII
Take story from ep.1, make hardware standard pc stuff as in xbox, rinse, repeat.
Guess I, too, am just old fashioned in some ways. I'm too cheap to have every piece of kit I want, so I like to tinker with consoles to give them all the bells and whistles I cannot afford otherwise...
"Hello, Judge Rudi Brewster ? Good Evening.
This Bill G. calling, yes, that Bill G.
I was browsing a bit into our files and reports and I happened upon a funny browser history forwarded to me by ehh... someone in my team.
You know what ? When thinking about the term "Dwarf Tossing" i would think of dimly illuminated pubs with a midget in a footbal gear. I had to turn my monitor 90 to really understand what the pictures wer...
Ah, yes, yes, I understand, it is late and you have a judgement to overturn early tomorrow, yes, better I let you work now, sorry for disturbing. Bye"
But for everyone else out there, remember : Every time you call a glossy Mac a Unix Server, a geek somewhere dies.
Or he is kept in isolation in a high security prison with a pristine, never installed Dual 4 Cores Xeon 32 Go RAM 10 Gb Ethernet card with a Ginormous(TM) 34" LCD screen Quad Nvidia 8800 GTX SLI and only a WinME cd with no Internet access and VGA drivers.
Well, to keep things short he suffers. A lot.
19 millions $ for the toilets, + a special, separate 20m$ contract for the special, compatible toilet paper (shipping not included)
"By blowing up my modem with a hand grenade"
I hereby defy you in a game of Worms ! you seem to be in the proper mindframe 8)
Automated male geek/female slang translator engaged :
"Segmentation fault - core dumped" => "We're breaking up ! I'm fed up with this load of crap !"
man woe man ?
That explains it, I guess...
I didn't (yet) read the Fine Article, but I did envision an 80 cores "Intel Hasty Style" :
(Warning, this vision's description could definetly damage a Hardware Geek's brain, or cause him to get an erection, depending)
80 centimeters of stacked Very Expensives Interconnected Xeons (tm) with a 2 cubic meters deep freezed radiator enclosing them.