I have no idea how Sam Goody would be hemorrhaging money when they inflate their shipping costs by 875%.
I bought the GBA game Advance Wars from them and paid $14 US for shipping. It took well over a week to arrive, and when it did the postage mark was for $1.60 US.
I let them have it in an email, but they claimed it was all part of the "third party shipping".
Whether it's games or music, if they're going to practice business like that, I hope they fold sooner than later.
What really burns me about this sort of thing is that if it were approved in the US, countries that wouldn't think of approving such a law will still be affected.
For past examples see the law that allows US law enforcement to kidnap people in foreign countries to bring them to trial in the US (without extradition). The US government says it has the right, but other countries don't have the same right to take criminals from US soil.
Or the current attempt to make US soldiers exempt from war crimes for at least a year, and possibly permanently.
The belief still seems to persist in media and politics that Internet==American, but every day more people from around the world are coming online.
The Internet should be treatied within the UN, which might frustrate corporations with the lag time that UN actions have, but the Internet is for the people, right?
"Wearing or not wearing a SEATBELT is a matter of personal safety."
So if you don't wear your seatbelt and are seriously injured in what would have been a minor fender bender, the government (and taxpayers) should pay for your medical treatment and recovery?
"You are not endangering anyone else by not wearing one. But government will go out of it's way to avoid paying out on a medical bill. Fuckers."
You don't want a father figure government, but you think it's wrong of them to go out of their way to avoid having to pay for your own carelessness. Why should they pay?
It will be interesting to see the legal fight that occurs when they try implementing this in handguns. Smartguns with shooting logs, including timestamps and biometric reading indicating the shooter. You can bet the NRA will fight that with everything they've got, even though it will have no significant impact on legitimate gun use.
If you think you've got the ear of the team you're working with (and they're loyal, not backstabbing assholes) you might want to try going ahead with the project, while quietly organizing your co-workers.
If you move too early, management may be able to easily replace people, but halfway to three-quarters of the way through a project an entire team opting to have a sit-down with management over where the project is going may be worth some leverage. The thought of them trying to bring in a new team that far into the project might put the fear into them and earn you some decent returns.
But it's a big risk to take. A few years back my mother tried to organize her co-workers to take a stand against the way the management at her Royal Bank branch were treating the employees. She had the support of all her co-workers, or so she thought. They all backed out at the last minute leaving her to hang in front of some very vindictive management types.
Some companies just care that you have "experience" with the task. Others, on the other hand, require that any experience you list on your resume be on-the-job. Not hobbyist stuff, school internships, etc., but real working environment experience where you have to be part of an organization. Because it's not just whether or not you can put the ball in the net, but whether you play well with others.
I just noticed in the linked Simpson's clip that the life preserver ring in the background has stripes on it in one shot, and none in the other, the camera man's hair changes color from brown to black, and the level of detail drawn on the camera changes between shots. All in less than 10 seconds.:)
Photoshop isn't designed with newspaper production in mind. A decade ago, when I interned at a small newspaper, the staff all used antiquated terminals to save their files while Sue imported it all into Quark on the one Mac in the office and did the entire newspaper layout in a matter of a couple of hours. Pretty impressive how quickly it allowed the job to be done.
The glasses weren't so you could see the visitors real appearance... Visitors wore the sunglasses to protect their eyes or cover up the reptilian appearance when they didn't have the artificial ones in place.
So it was a visual cue as to who was a visitor. Just like the PCs vs. Macs theme in 24 discussed last fall:)
It hit us with email showing a fake error response from our Wiki. Only a couple of people got infected, which is typical for our office. Most people have learned not to open attachments they don't recognize.
The scary thing is how much it looked like a valid bug report, combining an infected users previous submission with falsified info that fit the context.
Freakish.
The antivirus software accompanying MDaemon (Win32) didn't catch it, so if you're running that try doing an independent scan with something else.
Slashdot Mirror
So then you're not a thief, just a cheap asshole?
Was there not a recent article about how Hotmail spammers are exploiting something on the servers to spam users without knowing their addresses?
But it does buy boob jobs.
I have no idea how Sam Goody would be hemorrhaging money when they inflate their shipping costs by 875%.
I bought the GBA game Advance Wars from them and paid $14 US for shipping. It took well over a week to arrive, and when it did the postage mark was for $1.60 US.
I let them have it in an email, but they claimed it was all part of the "third party shipping".
Whether it's games or music, if they're going to practice business like that, I hope they fold sooner than later.
What he said :)
Plus you might want to read The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling as well.
Both Stoll's book and Sterling's are informative and fun reading.
Don't forget, he's his "own best friend." :)
Well, first you form a committee....
Then that committee hires consultants...
and so on, and so on...
And by the time they're all done getting paid, there isn't any money, so don't worry about it.
What really burns me about this sort of thing is that if it were approved in the US, countries that wouldn't think of approving such a law will still be affected.
For past examples see the law that allows US law enforcement to kidnap people in foreign countries to bring them to trial in the US (without extradition). The US government says it has the right, but other countries don't have the same right to take criminals from US soil.
Or the current attempt to make US soldiers exempt from war crimes for at least a year, and possibly permanently.
The belief still seems to persist in media and politics that Internet==American, but every day more people from around the world are coming online.
The Internet should be treatied within the UN, which might frustrate corporations with the lag time that UN actions have, but the Internet is for the people, right?
"Wearing or not wearing a SEATBELT is a matter of personal safety."
So if you don't wear your seatbelt and are seriously injured in what would have been a minor fender bender, the government (and taxpayers) should pay for your medical treatment and recovery?
"You are not endangering anyone else by not wearing one. But government will go out of it's way to avoid paying out on a medical bill. Fuckers."
You don't want a father figure government, but you think it's wrong of them to go out of their way to avoid having to pay for your own carelessness.
Why should they pay?
It will be interesting to see the legal fight that occurs when they try implementing this in handguns. Smartguns with shooting logs, including timestamps and biometric reading indicating the shooter. You can bet the NRA will fight that with everything they've got, even though it will have no significant impact on legitimate gun use.
If you think you've got the ear of the team you're working with (and they're loyal, not backstabbing assholes) you might want to try going ahead with the project, while quietly organizing your co-workers.
If you move too early, management may be able to easily replace people, but halfway to three-quarters of the way through a project an entire team opting to have a sit-down with management over where the project is going may be worth some leverage. The thought of them trying to bring in a new team that far into the project might put the fear into them and earn you some decent returns.
But it's a big risk to take. A few years back my mother tried to organize her co-workers to take a stand against the way the management at her Royal Bank branch were treating the employees. She had the support of all her co-workers, or so she thought. They all backed out at the last minute leaving her to hang in front of some very vindictive management types.
Good luck, whichever avenue you take.
Kind of like when American's wear Canadian flag patches in Europe so the locals are more polite to them :)
:P
"I used to be an American, but now I'm on the patch"
Some companies just care that you have "experience" with the task. Others, on the other hand, require that any experience you list on your resume be on-the-job. Not hobbyist stuff, school internships, etc., but real working environment experience where you have to be part of an organization. Because it's not just whether or not you can put the ball in the net, but whether you play well with others.
I just noticed in the linked Simpson's clip that the life preserver ring in the background has stripes on it in one shot, and none in the other, the camera man's hair changes color from brown to black, and the level of detail drawn on the camera changes between shots. All in less than 10 seconds. :)
"...And since it's my birthday we'll party extra hard!"
beep! beep! beep!
"No! Not yet! I'm only 25!"
(obligatory Simpsons/Logan's Run reference)
Could it be that TF2 will be integrated as multiplayer into HL2? That would be a very pleasant surprise :)
Looks like we get to Slashdot Slashnet! :)
Photoshop isn't designed with newspaper production in mind. A decade ago, when I interned at a small newspaper, the staff all used antiquated terminals to save their files while Sue imported it all into Quark on the one Mac in the office and did the entire newspaper layout in a matter of a couple of hours.
Pretty impressive how quickly it allowed the job to be done.
The glasses weren't so you could see the visitors real appearance... Visitors wore the sunglasses to protect their eyes or cover up the reptilian appearance when they didn't have the artificial ones in place.
:)
So it was a visual cue as to who was a visitor.
Just like the PCs vs. Macs theme in 24 discussed last fall
Just as long as it's not called a skelwank device. ;)
EB had a trade-in offer to upgrade to the GBA-SP. You won't get anywhere near full value but then you won't have to pay full price for the upgrade.
It hit us with email showing a fake error response from our Wiki. Only a couple of people got infected, which is typical for our office. Most people have learned not to open attachments they don't recognize.
The scary thing is how much it looked like a valid bug report, combining an infected users previous submission with falsified info that fit the context.
Freakish.
The antivirus software accompanying MDaemon (Win32) didn't catch it, so if you're running that try doing an independent scan with something else.
And if they shot out of order it would be like watching Britney's Breasts.
Hey, what are you guys talking about?
:)
Dice have 5 sides with 2 spots on them...
Nobody said only 2 spots
Yeah, but where's God going to find a dollar? As George Carlin points out, he's terrible with money.