I have been to Barstow, a hot hot hot overgrown truck stop in the middle of California's central valley. This genius found a way to escape to australia for a bit, kudos to him.
As someone that experiences back pain if I don't exercise regularly, I will tell you this. You have to make time for the things that are important to you: exercise, spending time with your children, spending time with your spouse, etc. If I let my job work me during every second of the day, that is my own fault. I am entitled legally to x amount of minutes for lunch and breaks and I use those to exercise at a gym during my lunch hour. The more I exercise, the better I feel, so it is always worth it to make time. My company offers these benefits, and I would be a fool to not take advantage of them.
Welcome to the Brave new world, where the year is 1984. The government is an Animal Farm, and they just passed bill Fahrenheit 451. It will surely take a clockwork orange to make people realize how messed up things are.
Offtopic aside: It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment What the fuck? Slashdot, making sure that only the slowest thinkers may post comments at their natural pace. This place is participating in a serious fucking race to the bottom... And is only a few paces behind Digg.
Not really, half of digg is "funny pictures" and more immature stuff. The comments that get dugg up are usually clever short jokes, no real discussion of any sort really goes on there, it is mostly a race to see who gets the most diggs, who can refer to memes cleverly, and being the first to post an obvious joke related to the story. I have been pretty pleased that slashdot hasn't degenerated into a succession of "MOAR, EPIC WIN, EPIC FAIL" posts (an emulation of the chans, not even original to digg).
Take a deep breath drinkypoo ! It will be alright!
Anyhow back in my TDM days I used to run PABXs for a large corporation. A few years before I started the EXACT SAME THING happened to us - someone phreaked the PIN code to the disa number - and was then selling calling cards in the phillipines that rerouted using one of our PABX's DISA lol.
back before hacking vs cracking (cracking was what you did to apple ][ games), phreaking was very popular as a teenage sport. PBX's and voicemail systems were popular targets, of course. I had access to a local PBX belonging to LCC (LARGE COMPUTER CORPORATION) via brute force. It had unlimited outbound, and the password famously spelled "Rock". We kept it to ourselves and it worked for 4 or 5 years for our little team. I have seen a few large scale operations to monetize stolen telephone networks, this is nothing new. In New York City, there are so many foreign people that want to call home that there is a cottage industry catering to them. There are even long distance "stores" where you go to a booth and call the Dominican Republic or whatever. Back when calling cards were more popular, it was known that there were spotters at JFK airport that would try to look at your fingers as you entered your code. Still, it is a pretty ambitious plan that these guys undertook.... and terrorists omglol
If Apple locks out all devices except "genuine" Apple devices, doesn't that leave them open for antitrust / anti competitive lawsuits? IA definitely Not AL
Early computers blended their cooling system with the heating system of the surrounding building. They were sometimes designed together that way.
You know, one day a couple of years ago I saw something that really blew my mind. Our huge server room had an AC outage, and slowly things were starting to overheat. The server team dragged out fans and portable AC's and started shutting servers down, basically helpless. Meanwhile, less than 20 feet from the server room was a window that could not be opened, and the temperature outside that day was 20 degrees Fahrenheit. If only someone had thought to run a duct to the outside to use natures AC, they could have saved a lot of money and headache.
This speed boost that you are referring to is of course one of the best things about apple updates. You call it faster, we (the hive mind of apple fandom) call it "SNAPPIER".
Seems that Dashboard is the recipient of some of Apples secret snappy sauce (ASSS) this time.
Quite right, I am selling a powerbook g4 with a bad optical drive fror $225 today. THATS ALL IT IS WORTH. Yet I see the same computer on Craigslist / ebay for much much more. Lots of people try to pump the value with illegit software installs (CS4, FINAL CUT PRO!, etc.....), but we all know how much those are worth.
I always found ebay completed auctions are a good measurement for market value (a tiny bit inflated but pretty accurate). I sell my stuff locally instead for cash, no shipping, no paypal fees, no ebay fees (they really fckin rape you nowdays).
And, unless your seller can provide original receipt, you should assume it is a stolen machine.
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I have been to Barstow, a hot hot hot overgrown truck stop in the middle of California's central valley.
This genius found a way to escape to australia for a bit, kudos to him.
Ok this is a total thread-jack, but what is a good responsive player than can handle terabyte plus libraries.
Wait... The internet has ads on it?
Now that we have unlocked this, it is only a matter of time until someone beats the Final Boss !
As someone that experiences back pain if I don't exercise regularly, I will tell you this.
You have to make time for the things that are important to you: exercise, spending time with your children,
spending time with your spouse, etc. If I let my job work me during every second of the day, that is my own fault.
I am entitled legally to x amount of minutes for lunch and breaks and I use those to exercise at a gym during
my lunch hour. The more I exercise, the better I feel, so it is always worth it to make time. My company offers
these benefits, and I would be a fool to not take advantage of them.
Your post says more about your own insecurities than anything else. Your worldview is very depressing and negative. I hope you get better soon.
Idiotic meta discussion about hilarious post. No thanks. It was funny. I am an iphone owner and its f**(n funny.
Welcome to the Brave new world, where the year is 1984. The government is an Animal Farm, and they just passed bill Fahrenheit 451.
It will surely take a clockwork orange to make people realize how messed up things are.
Offtopic aside: It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment What the fuck? Slashdot, making sure that only the slowest thinkers may post comments at their natural pace. This place is participating in a serious fucking race to the bottom... And is only a few paces behind Digg.
Not really, half of digg is "funny pictures" and more immature stuff. The comments that get dugg up are usually clever short jokes, no real discussion of any sort really goes on there, it is mostly a race to see who gets the most diggs, who can refer to memes cleverly, and being the
first to post an obvious joke related to the story. I have been pretty pleased that slashdot hasn't degenerated into a succession of "MOAR, EPIC WIN, EPIC FAIL" posts (an emulation of the chans, not even original to digg).
Take a deep breath drinkypoo ! It will be alright!
When does "play pump" end and "child labor" begin?
When they are about to "die of starvation" or "die of thirst".
chain them together to achieve a net benefit.
Throw linux and a toaster into that chain and we're on board.
They are total SCUMM
Let me buy this man a beer!
He prefers to drop a shot....
WTF are those links?
What does that have to do with SORBS?
MY EYES MY EYES. THEY BURN!
...subject comment trolls then if it bothers you. Your bother is troll food.
Anyhow back in my TDM days I used to run PABXs for a large corporation. A few years before I started the EXACT SAME THING happened to us - someone phreaked the PIN code to the disa number - and was then selling calling cards in the phillipines that rerouted using one of our PABX's DISA lol.
back before hacking vs cracking (cracking was what you did to apple ][ games), phreaking was very popular as a teenage sport. PBX's and voicemail systems were popular targets, of course. I had access to a local PBX belonging to LCC (LARGE COMPUTER CORPORATION) via brute force. It had unlimited outbound, and the password famously spelled "Rock". We kept it to ourselves and it worked for 4 or 5 years for our little team. I have seen a few large scale operations to monetize stolen telephone networks, this is nothing new. In New York City, there are so many foreign people that want to call home that there
is a cottage industry catering to them. There are even long distance "stores" where you go to a booth and call the Dominican Republic or whatever. Back when calling cards were more popular, it was known that there were spotters at JFK airport that would try to look at your fingers as you entered your code.
Still, it is a pretty ambitious plan that these guys undertook.... and terrorists omglol
Sure you can hedge on the bet that eventually enough old people will die off
There is always some young power hungry hateful bastard waiting to take the old asshole's spot, though.
If Apple locks out all devices except "genuine" Apple devices, doesn't that leave them open for antitrust / anti competitive lawsuits?
IA definitely Not AL
Early computers blended their cooling system with the heating system of the surrounding building. They were sometimes designed together that way.
You know, one day a couple of years ago I saw something that really blew my mind. Our huge server room had an AC outage, and slowly things were starting to overheat.
The server team dragged out fans and portable AC's and started shutting servers down, basically helpless. Meanwhile, less than 20 feet from the server room was a window
that could not be opened, and the temperature outside that day was 20 degrees Fahrenheit. If only someone had thought to run a duct to the outside to use natures AC, they could have
saved a lot of money and headache.
I hate it when reality gets in the way of Sci-Fi too !!
This speed boost that you are referring to is of course one of the best things about apple updates.
You call it faster, we (the hive mind of apple fandom) call it "SNAPPIER".
Seems that Dashboard is the recipient of some of Apples secret snappy sauce (ASSS) this time.
Quite right, I am selling a powerbook g4 with a bad optical drive fror $225 today.
THATS ALL IT IS WORTH. Yet I see the same computer on Craigslist / ebay for much
much more. Lots of people try to pump the value with illegit software installs
(CS4, FINAL CUT PRO!, etc.....), but we all know how much those are worth.
I always found ebay completed auctions are a good measurement for market
value (a tiny bit inflated but pretty accurate). I sell my stuff locally instead
for cash, no shipping, no paypal fees, no ebay fees (they really fckin rape you nowdays).
And, unless your seller can provide original receipt, you should assume it is
a stolen machine.
and lastly : ALIENWARE ?????
cmon now.....
Holy crap, a bunch of poor people crammed together in tiny ass apartments in a shitty locale?
In america we call them housing projects.
The "project" was an abject failure by all accounts.
I'm pretty sure this will turn into a seedy ghetto in india as well. What do they call crack there, khat?
2:00 Meeting
3:00 Meeting
4:00 Meeting
5:00 BEATING
Wait until they find out that was a Starbucks I was cracking from !
"rap" 75% of the word "crap".
"classical" 100% of the word "ass".
Seriously, how long have you been quoting that stupid cliche......