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No kidding, this is actually serious./. probably had a *loooot* more to do with the.com busts than most people imagine. In every major company I've consulted for, for the last 4 or so years, there has been a/. reading geek in the midst...
... or ask stupid questions, does not make me an instant elitist.
Moron.
Stupid questions are simply defined as those questions for which answers are *easily* found without any degree of effort required, yet they are asked anyway out of pure laziness. Most stupid people are lazy, and vice verse.
What defines whether or something is easy is easily is dependent on just exactly how much of a clueless dufus you are. Also, most lazy people find even the easiest things difficult, because they're too lazy.
Insults - particularly in your case - are required as a means of indicating stupidity on the laziness scale, and are intended to goad the recipient into actually getting off their lazy asses, thinking about it, and then doing it themselves.
That satisfy your craving for valuable information, Atzanteol, you big dufus?!!
This is one of those articles where/. eats itself.
There will no longer be "Ask Slashdot?" articles of any value (the last 10 or so have been of no value, other than the pure 'there-are-some-dumb-shits-around' laugh out loud factor), since the only possible *valid* response to Ask Slashdot is:
Bringing in all sorts of high tech crap to make your boat/car go faster is one thing.
Sailing using your hands, eyes and ears instead, is something entirely different.
Given the choice between watching a bunch of Rich Borgs re-compile their trim calculation program in between tacks, and watching real men sale real boats, I'd take the real boats.
And I come from Perth (near Fremantle). We were *proud* to have made a technological dent in the history of the America's Cup, but frankly I think it was a bad, bad day when technology trumped the Americans. It just gave them fodder they needed to destroy the true spirit of sports like this.
Americas Cup = Formula One = Robo Wars. Same thing, different toys.
$750 million over five years to [...] the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
Seems more like he bought a ticket with the Trilateral Commission, more than anything else.
Betcha any money ol' Billy Boy has some strange, Egyptian-like architecture in his big cityhouse. Stuff that looks surprisingly like a big floating eye over a pyramid.
Damned cult members. Taking over the world, and not letting anyone else play along...
... from ThinkGeek (I'd get the camera option, I think I can afford that), stick little fluffy penguins on top, and march the whole affair into Redmond during rush hour. I'm thinking about 400,000 of them.
Okay, there'd be a lot of casualties, but for a billion bucks, I think I could afford a fleet sizable enough that eventually, one of my little robot warriors will plant themselves on Bills ass^H^H^Hdesk.
Failing that, I'd just get an island in Thailand, a whole bunch of hot chicks, some serious nuclear technology, and I'd spend the rest of my life batting away hero types.
When I faced this question a few decades ago, I did what a few thousand other young musicians with good math grades did: I went into computers. In particular, I got mixed up with communications software. We've spent the past quarter century building the recording industry's coffin.
Hey, I'm in a similar position - only instead of communication (well, I did do a lot of Internet work in the 90's...) I now work for Access Music, making: musical instruments.
(See www.access-music.de for details...)
I can guarantee you, my industry (musical instruments) has no desire whatsoever to see DMCA implemented in our devices, anywhere. The moment the RIAA starts coming onto our turf, there will be some *serious* upheavals, thats for sure...
As a hardcore geek, I've been running from the RIAA for the last 3 years. I have no interest whatsoever in pandering to their will, and neither do any of the musical instrument mfr's I know of... well, maybe the soft-synth guys like the RIAA ideas, but only because they're being raped by piracy... something we don't have to contend with, with the Virus series...
So, why are we making these changes? First off, the desktop is one piece of a larger Red Hat Linux product. Other components range from our configuration tools, to the applications we include, to our website, to the
box that Red Hat Linux comes in. We believe that all of these components should look and behave consistently.
Umm... yeah right.
So, where's my little 'x' thingy for clicking when I wanna close that box and put it on the shelf (where it will collect dust for a year).
Do I go through a login prompt to get to the cardboard insert?
If you're going to get your pants all twisted about a 'mac.com' address (yes, I paid for it), you might wanna note the exceptionally high-quality SID on my account, fuckface. #458, and it ain't getting any bigger.
And, actually, living in Germany, I quite enjoy scat flicks. Terribly high-quality stuff!
I've been on/. a loooong time, and this *always* happens to me.
I'll be thinking about some sort of technology thing, or I'll make a note to myself to look something up on the web, and sure enough whenever I get to/. in the morning, there'll be a story about it.
Freaky!
But I've just learned to live with it now. It's no big deal.
(And no, I can't think of any examples right now to back this up. That's also weird. But really, it does happen!)
... involving extremely cunning linguists creating *brand new* languages, completely from scratch, for corporate clients who need to communicate freely and yet still keep something relatively secure.
A per-transaction language, in other words, with a complete new lexicon for each speaker. Of course, the individuals would have to learn the language quite quickly, so this would also be another service realm in this plan.
Sort of like Kings of old, who used to use language differences to obfuscate and control various parts of court, only in this case it would be a commercial service, and available to all.
Something like this would be a good tool in the modern corporate environment, I think.
On one condition: as long as the protocols for implementing the restrictions remain *OPEN*, *DOCUMENTED*, and *WELL DEFINED*.
So, what? It's not easy to do it and still actually engineer a restriction plan? Yeah?
Bugger it, who said it has to be easy to do this properly, and not end up with the complete social nightmare like what the good ol' U$ofA is currently happily building?
As an independent musician, as a technology freak (I work for Access Music, I make synthesizers for a living, and I use Linux extensively), and as a renegade from the New World Odor, I think it's good to have a system like this that works so that *ANYONE* - any musician, signed or not, represented by RIAA or not - can actually make their work available and get rewarded for doing so.
But it's gotta stay open, folks. Secrecy behind a corporate stigma is not the way this is going to be done...
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No kidding, this is actually serious. /. probably had a *loooot* more to do with the .com busts than most people imagine. In every major company I've consulted for, for the last 4 or so years, there has been a /. reading geek in the midst...
Conspiracy? I think not.
They don't promise salvation in the afterlife, they promise salvation in the forelife.
Makes a difference, you know...
... as long as they don't try to bring their sheep on board.
...
*bah-dumpsh*
Thank you, thank you very much! I think we've about exhausted the subject, so she's now free to go
... or ask stupid questions, does not make me an instant elitist.
Moron.
Stupid questions are simply defined as those questions for which answers are *easily* found without any degree of effort required, yet they are asked anyway out of pure laziness. Most stupid people are lazy, and vice verse.
What defines whether or something is easy is easily is dependent on just exactly how much of a clueless dufus you are. Also, most lazy people find even the easiest things difficult, because they're too lazy.
Insults - particularly in your case - are required as a means of indicating stupidity on the laziness scale, and are intended to goad the recipient into actually getting off their lazy asses, thinking about it, and then doing it themselves.
That satisfy your craving for valuable information, Atzanteol, you big dufus?!!
This is one of those articles where /. eats itself.
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There will no longer be "Ask Slashdot?" articles of any value (the last 10 or so have been of no value, other than the pure 'there-are-some-dumb-shits-around' laugh out loud factor), since the only possible *valid* response to Ask Slashdot is:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17
Okay, so, yeah, technology is required in any sport.
...
What I mean, though, is electronic technology.
As soon as computers enter into a sport, its game over.
I can't think of a single sport that got *better* as a result of computer involvement - can you?
If so, I'd love to know.
At this rate, we're going to have to teach our kids how to throw dwarves
So, I was in a hurry and didn't double-check, so sue me...
Still stand by my point: The use of technology in sports kills the sport every time.
... and I mean that: Formula One is boring.
Bringing in all sorts of high tech crap to make your boat/car go faster is one thing.
Sailing using your hands, eyes and ears instead, is something entirely different.
Given the choice between watching a bunch of Rich Borgs re-compile their trim calculation program in between tacks, and watching real men sale real boats, I'd take the real boats.
And I come from Perth (near Fremantle). We were *proud* to have made a technological dent in the history of the America's Cup, but frankly I think it was a bad, bad day when technology trumped the Americans. It just gave them fodder they needed to destroy the true spirit of sports like this.
Americas Cup = Formula One = Robo Wars. Same thing, different toys.
Yawn.
This investment strategy:
...
$750 million over five years to [...] the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
Seems more like he bought a ticket with the Trilateral Commission, more than anything else.
Betcha any money ol' Billy Boy has some strange, Egyptian-like architecture in his big cityhouse. Stuff that looks surprisingly like a big floating eye over a pyramid.
Damned cult members. Taking over the world, and not letting anyone else play along
Yeah, well, sure. He would do that.
...
But I bet any money he's got one of those little tanks with the extra camera attachment from ThinkGeek
... from ThinkGeek (I'd get the camera option, I think I can afford that), stick little fluffy penguins on top, and march the whole affair into Redmond during rush hour. I'm thinking about 400,000 of them.
Okay, there'd be a lot of casualties, but for a billion bucks, I think I could afford a fleet sizable enough that eventually, one of my little robot warriors will plant themselves on Bills ass^H^H^Hdesk.
Failing that, I'd just get an island in Thailand, a whole bunch of hot chicks, some serious nuclear technology, and I'd spend the rest of my life batting away hero types.
Nobody touches my bitches.
Nobody.
... what's behind the *other* door?
ANOTHER DOOR! AND ANOTHER!! AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER!!!!
I'm sure of it.
We've finally discovered the hole in the universe that will revolutionize our perception of reality: behind every opened door is another door!
When I faced this question a few decades ago, I did what a few thousand other young musicians with good math grades did: I went into computers. In particular, I got mixed up with communications software. We've spent the past quarter century building the recording industry's coffin.
... well, maybe the soft-synth guys like the RIAA ideas, but only because they're being raped by piracy... something we don't have to contend with, with the Virus series...
Hey, I'm in a similar position - only instead of communication (well, I did do a lot of Internet work in the 90's...) I now work for Access Music, making: musical instruments.
(See www.access-music.de for details...)
I can guarantee you, my industry (musical instruments) has no desire whatsoever to see DMCA implemented in our devices, anywhere. The moment the RIAA starts coming onto our turf, there will be some *serious* upheavals, thats for sure...
As a hardcore geek, I've been running from the RIAA for the last 3 years. I have no interest whatsoever in pandering to their will, and neither do any of the musical instrument mfr's I know of
Umm... yeah right.
So, where's my little 'x' thingy for clicking when I wanna close that box and put it on the shelf (where it will collect dust for a year).
Do I go through a login prompt to get to the cardboard insert?
Sorry, I thought it was funny.
And as we all know, there's no such thing as scruples and honesty when "Big" is involved.
Actually, I think its the other way around: your jab missed me.
And no, I'm not German. I'm Australian. I live in Germany.
I don't give a crap for car elitism, either.
Fuck, as far as I know, those mushrooms have been radioactive for centuries.
When *aren't* mushrooms radioactive, eh?
As for cars, well I fucking *HATE* the ML320, but only because my boss drives one.
Go fuck yourself.
If you're going to get your pants all twisted about a 'mac.com' address (yes, I paid for it), you might wanna note the exceptionally high-quality SID on my account, fuckface. #458, and it ain't getting any bigger.
And, actually, living in Germany, I quite enjoy scat flicks. Terribly high-quality stuff!
They definitely rock.
Russian Babushka's collecting mushrooms to sell at market ... that just plain rocks.
Grandma driving a fat SUV two blocks to the 7-11 for some jerky does not rock.
See America? SEE!!?!? This is why you suck.
Name names.
Its called Quake3, etc.
Sheesh. How hard was that? Next!
It'll blue-screen before he gets to Hawaii...
I've been on /. a loooong time, and this *always* happens to me.
/. in the morning, there'll be a story about it.
I'll be thinking about some sort of technology thing, or I'll make a note to myself to look something up on the web, and sure enough whenever I get to
Freaky!
But I've just learned to live with it now. It's no big deal.
(And no, I can't think of any examples right now to back this up. That's also weird. But really, it does happen!)
... involving extremely cunning linguists creating *brand new* languages, completely from scratch, for corporate clients who need to communicate freely and yet still keep something relatively secure.
A per-transaction language, in other words, with a complete new lexicon for each speaker. Of course, the individuals would have to learn the language quite quickly, so this would also be another service realm in this plan.
Sort of like Kings of old, who used to use language differences to obfuscate and control various parts of court, only in this case it would be a commercial service, and available to all.
Something like this would be a good tool in the modern corporate environment, I think.
Well, I'm off to register Babylon, Inc...
Oh, D'oh!
On one condition: as long as the protocols for implementing the restrictions remain *OPEN*, *DOCUMENTED*, and *WELL DEFINED*.
...
So, what? It's not easy to do it and still actually engineer a restriction plan? Yeah?
Bugger it, who said it has to be easy to do this properly, and not end up with the complete social nightmare like what the good ol' U$ofA is currently happily building?
As an independent musician, as a technology freak (I work for Access Music, I make synthesizers for a living, and I use Linux extensively), and as a renegade from the New World Odor, I think it's good to have a system like this that works so that *ANYONE* - any musician, signed or not, represented by RIAA or not - can actually make their work available and get rewarded for doing so.
But it's gotta stay open, folks. Secrecy behind a corporate stigma is not the way this is going to be done