No, but you can buy them on eBay or find them at Apple resellers who still have some sitting around. I found mine in a drawer full of old software manuals and diskettes when I was packing up to move.
On my old car, I used to have a static sticker from the Contemporary Christian radio station I listened to at the time. Whenever I got really mad in traffic and wanted to do something jerky, I'd remember that sticker was there and think, "I don't want to look like a hypocrite. Better cool off."
The car I'm driving now has an Apple static sticker on it (one of the cool old rainbow ones). It hasn't worked as well to help quash my road rage, though.
If the Internet is your livelyhood, then the threat of being shutdown or defaced (thereby damaging your company's reputation) is very real.
The internet is my livelihood, and I've experienced this sort of "terrorism" firsthand recently. I work at a large university, and the students all came back last week. That means 100's of unpatched Windows boxes plugged into the network combined with a huge uptick in demand for bandwidth. As a result, the network slowed to a crawl and internet connectivity was spotty on some days. I know several university web sites were unreachable at times, and we had problems not being able to send or recieve external email.
As happens every year, things have been set right again and we're not experiencing any problems right now. But honestly, if someone managed to pull the sort of stunt those articles are talking about, we'd probably assume it was just another day on the university LAN.
After an undesired auto format occurs in your document just hit back space, it will only undo the undesired auto format without touching what you typed.
Plus, the newer versions of Office (2003, XP) have this lightning bolt icon that pops up whenever it's trying to auto-format something. Most of the time it's just in my way so I hit ESC to make it disappear, but sometimes it's a helpful notice that the Office app is doing something it shouldn't.
People are better grokked in person, and this virtual hooey is way overrated and ultimately unsatisfactory.
I'd say that depends on where you hang out online. There's a forum I frequent where members make an effort to periodically get together in real life. I've met some really neat people that way, and made friends in places that I might not normally visit. Now if I ever have to go to Greenville or Newfoundland or Israel, I know I've got friends there.
Of course, the purpose of this forum is to discuss a common interest, not to meet people. I think it makes it easier for online relationships to translate to offline when you already know that you've got a few things in common.
I still recommend everyone try and watch it. Until you see it, your meter for bad, nay all movies isn't properly calibrated.
My brother had a movie like this that my aunt sent him from Japan. We called it simply "The Japanese Train Video." Somebody put a camera in the front of a train which supposedly takes a scenic route as it runs through Japan.
And that's it. The train goes along the tracks. Sometimes it stops at podunk train stations, but you never see anyone get on or off because the camera is in front, focused on the tracks and scenery. Sometimes the train goes through tunnels, during which time the camera keeps running and all you see is a black screen. No, nobody bothered to edit those bits out. Occasionally, it gets really exciting when the engineer mumbles something.
We watched the whole thing through once, waiting to see what was going to happen, and then at the end realized that was forty minutes of our lives we would never get back. Compared to the Japanese Train Video, Darkest Knight sounds like a summer blockbuster.
I used to build PowerPoint presentations for clients at a previous job, and I think one of the best we ever did had no words. It was for the international division of a beverage company, and it was just a series of pictures of people around the world enjoying their products. It brought a little humanity to a dry message about marketing product Y in X country, and added to rather than detracted from the presentation.
So I guess what I'm saying is, yes, bullet points can be an inferior way to try and get information across.
What we need to counter this is a way to teach kids (and adults) to look for the Creative Commons "copyleft" symbol so they'll know that whatever they're using is contributing to the progress of arts & science, etc.
How about a Creative Commons Mascot? (OK, so maybe they're not any less mockable than a ferret/weasel, but that was all I could come up with on short notice.)
Back when I started college in the early 90's, we had this IM program called Broadcast on our university network. Today's typical IM abbreviations hadn't entered the vernacular yet, so I typed all messages as I'd type anything else.
Holding three or more simultaneous Broadcast conversations really helped improve my typing skills (I think my record at one time was six). It also taught me that it's possible to type coherently and quickly at the same time. You don't have to have perfect spelling and grammar in an IM conversation, but the medium doesn't require you to type like a low-functioning illiterate.
Interesting. My husband is a nuclear physics grad student and one of the experiments he's worked with actually took place deep underground in an old salt mine in order to reduce the amount of background radiation.
Because I'm going 80 in a 70 zone and I'm a) too nice of a person to let you go 110 and get a ticket. b) driving a car too tall to fit underneath the truck in the lane next to me. c) pretending I'm in NASCAR by letting you draft 3 inches from my bumper. d) secretly amused by your obvious frustration.
arent there plenty of annoying people in any given profession?
Exactly. For example, this quote reminded me of some of the salespeople at a company where I used to work:
Bent concurs. "You're always communicating with other people, and if you're annoying them, it reduces the likelihood your message will get across," he says.
Annoying salespeople can really hurt a company, especially if they're paid a salary in addition to commission, which is money down the tubes if they can't make sales or are driving away clients.
Whether there's any need for passenger transport that's dual mode is another question entirely.
It would be useful to extend the reach of rail as a means of travel without building more stations and laying more track, sort of like the airport shuttles that take you from LAX to Santa Barbara, for example. (Of course, passenger rail in the US is so screwed up I don't know if anything can fix it.)
There are still a few non-fee ATMs in the US, as well. The credit unions around where I live have no-fee ATMs for everyone with a bank card that's in the network they use.
So true. I remember reading about when Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue had talk shows on at the same time competing for the same audience. At that point, VCRs had gotten common enough that people just taped one and watched the other later, apparently surprising the TV execs. You'd think that, all these years later, Nielsen would've found a way to account for that in their ratings system.
Fox insisted on showing the episodes out of order in a timeslot that many other shows had already died in.
Not to mention that it was on at the same time as Farscape, the only other decent sci-fi show on TV at the time, IMO (sorry, Enterprise fans). How's that for splitting your audience? If it had been just one hour later I wonder how much better it would've done.
I wonder how they're going to explain this? I thought part of the whole point of Reavers were that they lived in the middle of nowhere for so long that they went crazy. They're sort of the spiders of the galaxy, waiting for prey to get close enough for them to nab instead of going out and seeking it.
Then again, Reavers are crazy, and insanity may be a good enough reason to explain the change in their modus operandi.
I have a friend who pays this much, so I always keep my emails to him short, and don't attach a sig.
This reminds me of an incident back in '95 or so when a friend of mine sent out one of those chain emails, "Can you guess what 80s song these lyrics are from?" to a group of about 10 of us. The email got replied to and attached to and sent to the whole group several times as people tried to answer the quiz.
Finally, one guy sent an email to the group asking everyone to please remove his email address from future replies. At the government facility where he worked, people didn't have their own computers so all email received was printed out on a communal dot-matrix printer. People were getting angry with him as page after page of the 80s song lyric quiz printed out at dot-matrix speed, tying up the queue.
This is why I love reading old science fiction short stories from the 40's-60's. Some of the ideas about how things will be done in the future are risible nowadays (one of my favorites is people travelling in spaceships reading microfilm, I see that a lot) and some are amazingly spot-on, like one I read about a future where the consumer culture results in a future where poor people are fat and live in homes cluttered with crap they're compelled to buy, and rich people are thin and live simple lives (can't remember the title or author).
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If I had mod points, you'd get all of them. The reason I put so much time and effort into the Edwards campaign this year was partly because I was still pissed off about McCain's loss in 2000. Talking to other volunteers, I wasn't the only one. When Edwards won SC, it felt like proof that sometimes hard work can beat gutter politics.
But the hubris of his followers was off-putting. After being around and reading the blogs of "Deaniacs," I finally understood how those of us who worked at dot-coms in the late '90s must have been perceived by those who didn't.
It's not that I wanted Dean to fail - he was one of the candidates I liked most from the beginning. I just wanted those loud, arrogant kids to be taken down a notch.
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So someone must still be making them.
No, but you can buy them on eBay or find them at Apple resellers who still have some sitting around. I found mine in a drawer full of old software manuals and diskettes when I was packing up to move.
On my old car, I used to have a static sticker from the Contemporary Christian radio station I listened to at the time. Whenever I got really mad in traffic and wanted to do something jerky, I'd remember that sticker was there and think, "I don't want to look like a hypocrite. Better cool off."
The car I'm driving now has an Apple static sticker on it (one of the cool old rainbow ones). It hasn't worked as well to help quash my road rage, though.
If the Internet is your livelyhood, then the threat of being shutdown or defaced (thereby damaging your company's reputation) is very real.
The internet is my livelihood, and I've experienced this sort of "terrorism" firsthand recently. I work at a large university, and the students all came back last week. That means 100's of unpatched Windows boxes plugged into the network combined with a huge uptick in demand for bandwidth. As a result, the network slowed to a crawl and internet connectivity was spotty on some days. I know several university web sites were unreachable at times, and we had problems not being able to send or recieve external email.
As happens every year, things have been set right again and we're not experiencing any problems right now. But honestly, if someone managed to pull the sort of stunt those articles are talking about, we'd probably assume it was just another day on the university LAN.
After an undesired auto format occurs in your document just hit back space, it will only undo the undesired auto format without touching what you typed.
Plus, the newer versions of Office (2003, XP) have this lightning bolt icon that pops up whenever it's trying to auto-format something. Most of the time it's just in my way so I hit ESC to make it disappear, but sometimes it's a helpful notice that the Office app is doing something it shouldn't.
According to the creator of VG there's no sex, none of this voyeuristic stuff ...until someone figures out how to hack it.
People are better grokked in person, and this virtual hooey is way overrated and ultimately unsatisfactory.
I'd say that depends on where you hang out online. There's a forum I frequent where members make an effort to periodically get together in real life. I've met some really neat people that way, and made friends in places that I might not normally visit. Now if I ever have to go to Greenville or Newfoundland or Israel, I know I've got friends there.
Of course, the purpose of this forum is to discuss a common interest, not to meet people. I think it makes it easier for online relationships to translate to offline when you already know that you've got a few things in common.
I still recommend everyone try and watch it. Until you see it, your meter for bad, nay all movies isn't properly calibrated.
My brother had a movie like this that my aunt sent him from Japan. We called it simply "The Japanese Train Video." Somebody put a camera in the front of a train which supposedly takes a scenic route as it runs through Japan.
And that's it. The train goes along the tracks. Sometimes it stops at podunk train stations, but you never see anyone get on or off because the camera is in front, focused on the tracks and scenery. Sometimes the train goes through tunnels, during which time the camera keeps running and all you see is a black screen. No, nobody bothered to edit those bits out. Occasionally, it gets really exciting when the engineer mumbles something.
We watched the whole thing through once, waiting to see what was going to happen, and then at the end realized that was forty minutes of our lives we would never get back. Compared to the Japanese Train Video, Darkest Knight sounds like a summer blockbuster.
I used to build PowerPoint presentations for clients at a previous job, and I think one of the best we ever did had no words. It was for the international division of a beverage company, and it was just a series of pictures of people around the world enjoying their products. It brought a little humanity to a dry message about marketing product Y in X country, and added to rather than detracted from the presentation.
So I guess what I'm saying is, yes, bullet points can be an inferior way to try and get information across.
What we need to counter this is a way to teach kids (and adults) to look for the Creative Commons "copyleft" symbol so they'll know that whatever they're using is contributing to the progress of arts & science, etc.
How about a Creative Commons Mascot? (OK, so maybe they're not any less mockable than a ferret/weasel, but that was all I could come up with on short notice.)
Back when I started college in the early 90's, we had this IM program called Broadcast on our university network. Today's typical IM abbreviations hadn't entered the vernacular yet, so I typed all messages as I'd type anything else.
Holding three or more simultaneous Broadcast conversations really helped improve my typing skills (I think my record at one time was six). It also taught me that it's possible to type coherently and quickly at the same time. You don't have to have perfect spelling and grammar in an IM conversation, but the medium doesn't require you to type like a low-functioning illiterate.
Whaddya know! It's always nice to a fellow Superfan on /.
Interesting. My husband is a nuclear physics grad student and one of the experiments he's worked with actually took place deep underground in an old salt mine in order to reduce the amount of background radiation.
700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine
Are you a nuclear physicist?
Because I'm going 80 in a 70 zone and I'm
a) too nice of a person to let you go 110 and get a ticket.
b) driving a car too tall to fit underneath the truck in the lane next to me.
c) pretending I'm in NASCAR by letting you draft 3 inches from my bumper.
d) secretly amused by your obvious frustration.
Exactly. For example, this quote reminded me of some of the salespeople at a company where I used to work:
Annoying salespeople can really hurt a company, especially if they're paid a salary in addition to commission, which is money down the tubes if they can't make sales or are driving away clients.
Whether there's any need for passenger transport that's dual mode is another question entirely.
It would be useful to extend the reach of rail as a means of travel without building more stations and laying more track, sort of like the airport shuttles that take you from LAX to Santa Barbara, for example. (Of course, passenger rail in the US is so screwed up I don't know if anything can fix it.)
reavers attacked his town and apparently killed everybody.
:)
I'd forgotten this tidbit. Clearly, I need to watch that episode again. It's been at least a month since I last saw it.
There are still a few non-fee ATMs in the US, as well. The credit unions around where I live have no-fee ATMs for everyone with a bank card that's in the network they use.
So true. I remember reading about when Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue had talk shows on at the same time competing for the same audience. At that point, VCRs had gotten common enough that people just taped one and watched the other later, apparently surprising the TV execs. You'd think that, all these years later, Nielsen would've found a way to account for that in their ratings system.
Fox insisted on showing the episodes out of order in a timeslot that many other shows had already died in.
Not to mention that it was on at the same time as Farscape, the only other decent sci-fi show on TV at the time, IMO (sorry, Enterprise fans). How's that for splitting your audience? If it had been just one hour later I wonder how much better it would've done.
a reaver attack on a planet
I wonder how they're going to explain this? I thought part of the whole point of Reavers were that they lived in the middle of nowhere for so long that they went crazy. They're sort of the spiders of the galaxy, waiting for prey to get close enough for them to nab instead of going out and seeking it.
Then again, Reavers are crazy, and insanity may be a good enough reason to explain the change in their modus operandi.
(Yes, I am a geek who is overthinking this.)
I have a friend who pays this much, so I always keep my emails to him short, and don't attach a sig.
This reminds me of an incident back in '95 or so when a friend of mine sent out one of those chain emails, "Can you guess what 80s song these lyrics are from?" to a group of about 10 of us. The email got replied to and attached to and sent to the whole group several times as people tried to answer the quiz.
Finally, one guy sent an email to the group asking everyone to please remove his email address from future replies. At the government facility where he worked, people didn't have their own computers so all email received was printed out on a communal dot-matrix printer. People were getting angry with him as page after page of the 80s song lyric quiz printed out at dot-matrix speed, tying up the queue.
This is why I love reading old science fiction short stories from the 40's-60's. Some of the ideas about how things will be done in the future are risible nowadays (one of my favorites is people travelling in spaceships reading microfilm, I see that a lot) and some are amazingly spot-on, like one I read about a future where the consumer culture results in a future where poor people are fat and live in homes cluttered with crap they're compelled to buy, and rich people are thin and live simple lives (can't remember the title or author).
If I had mod points, you'd get all of them. The reason I put so much time and effort into the Edwards campaign this year was partly because I was still pissed off about McCain's loss in 2000. Talking to other volunteers, I wasn't the only one. When Edwards won SC, it felt like proof that sometimes hard work can beat gutter politics.
Dean's direct, logical approach was refreshing.
But the hubris of his followers was off-putting. After being around and reading the blogs of "Deaniacs," I finally understood how those of us who worked at dot-coms in the late '90s must have been perceived by those who didn't.
It's not that I wanted Dean to fail - he was one of the candidates I liked most from the beginning. I just wanted those loud, arrogant kids to be taken down a notch.